In September 2022, climate change - as predicted decades ago - intensified and increased the number of extreme weather events, such as
29 Sep Cameroon ā Floods Affect Almost 40,000 in Far North Region floodlist.com/africa/camerooā¦
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29 Sep Ian strengthens to hurricane again, threatening more US states aje.io/4e8glu
28 Sep Flooding, power cuts as Hurricane Ian crashes ashore in Florida aje.io/h434bp
28 Sep Cubaās electrical grid collapses after Hurricane āIanā watchers.news/2022/09/28/cubā¦
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Jul 14, 2022 ā¢ 13 tweets ā¢ 5 min read
Tory leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt is a disaster already happening
Her campaign video was a fiasco
Paralympian Jonnie Peacock asks to be removed from Penny Mordaunt campaign video theguardian.com/politics/2022/ā¦
But this wasn't her first offence against disabled people
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As Disabilities Minister, Ms Mordaunt oversaw the DWP rewriting the law, to stop 220,000 people getting Ā£3.7bn higher disability benefits
A decision reversed by the courts
Victory! Thousands will get higher disabled benefits after a massive Tory U-turn mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ā¦
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Jul 13, 2022 ā¢ 14 tweets ā¢ 7 min read
#ToryLeadership candidate Liz Truss co-authored an article saying
āBritish workers are among the worst idlers in the worldā bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politiā¦
Meanwhile for her own leisure, she has accepted free gifts from English National Opera, Lawn Tennis Association, and Jockey Club
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Liz Truss used to work for Shell foei.org/these-eight-scā¦
As Environment Sec she cut taxpayer subsidies for solar panels on agricultural land
And in 2019 was a paid speaker to AEI climate denier think tank, trustees incl Iraqi war criminal Dick Cheney, sgq.io/ezwbALU
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Jul 7, 2022 ā¢ 6 tweets ā¢ 3 min read
Front runner as next Tory Prime Minister is Ben Wallace who last year claimed Ā£194,387.77 in last MPs expenses
His voting record:
16X to reduce Housing Benefit, 45X to cut welfare benefits
But 22X to reduce corporation tax, 12X against bankers bonus tax
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Ben Wallace continued
Voted - Against equal gay rights, promoting equality & human rights, measures preventing climate change
For mass surveillance, secret court sessions, less local government funding, selling UK forests, more trade union restrictions, increasing VAT
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Jul 7, 2022 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
Just a reminder that escalating climate change and the extreme weather it inevitably brings doesn't care who is Prime Minister
6th July Derecho hits the Northern Plains and Midwest, turning the sky green and leaving extensive damage, U.S. watchers.news/2022/07/06/derā¦
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5th July Tropical Storm āAereā makes landfall over Kyushu, bringing record-breaking rainfall, Japan watchers.news/2022/07/05/troā¦
5th July Severe floods force more than 50 000 to evacuate, inundate several food-producing regions, Australia watchers.news/2022/07/05/sevā¦
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Dec 3, 2020 ā¢ 9 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
Keir Starmer's New Leadership Labour progress 1/8
- authorises out-of-court settlements to Labour traitors, contrary to legal advice, inviting unlimited claims against the Labour Party
- kicks Labour Leaks report into the long grass allowing racist HQ members to go unchallenged
Keir Starmer's progress 2/8
- hires David Evans, well-known for his views to remove Labourās democratic decision making processes
- publicly interferes in Labour disciplinary processes in defiance of EHRC report and rules
Dec 3, 2020 ā¢ 5 tweets ā¢ 1 min read
Tory Covid 1
Outsourced Test & Trace at Ā£12billion, has 60% success rate (80% needed)
Local public health teams reached 97.7% of contacts, asking them to self-isolate
Tory response? Give Ā£7billion more to failing companies, so 000s more people die, while shareholders get v rich
Tory Covid 2
Innova rapid lateral flow tests, ensuring only uninfected students travel home, costs Ā£millions
But PHE found people self-testing have 42.4% false negative rate
Thousands of students will think they're Covid-free, while infecting passengers, family & friends at Xmas
Mar 27, 2020 ā¢ 15 tweets ā¢ 3 min read
The Boris Johnson step-by-step guide to turning a coronavirus crisis into a disaster
1 While other countries prepared for the worst, tear up previous government's emergency plans, and take two months off dithering before taking any action
2 While other countries promote the message of washing not shaking hands, have the PM publicly boast about shaking hands with everyone in a coronavirus hospital
3 Promote policy of developing herd immunity - when its exposed as pseudo-science, deny such a policy ever existing
Nov 2, 2018 ā¢ 9 tweets ā¢ 10 min read
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Evidence of antisemitism in the @Conservatives Party the police may wish to investigate
Young Toriesā night of shame: Students sport āf*** the NHSā slogan, Hitler moustache and make dodgy hand gesture mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ā¦
