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AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Henry Lamb's picture is of the artist Darsie Japp and family from 1926. Lamb's notes say that the family were taught the 'proper' way to stir tea; place the spoon in the 12 o’clock position in the cup and softly fold the liquid back and forth 2-3 times to the 6 o’clock position.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
What a despicable, tasteless, crass, moronic thing to tweet.
How low can you go on Remembrance Sunday.
Horrible, twisted mind.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
This is just disgusting.
Farage is monetising Remembrance. 🤬
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
It takes real guts for an unelected member of the public to threaten to resign from a job he'll never have.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember to stage an attention-seeking photo opportunity.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
#PoliticsLive Vicky Young jumps in when Labour MP says Farage does absolute minimum as MP.
'He's not here to defend himself'
Most people criticised, including Andy Burnham, aren't there to 'defend themselves' but that doesn't seem to bother Gibb & McAndrew sidekick Vicky Young!
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
This is absolutely insane
We all knew it was biased towards Reform but to see it like this
And yet people accuse Question Time of being “A lefty show”
@bbcquestiontime this is embarrassing I’m afraid
Thanks Don 👍
I had a spare five mins, so I made a fun little chart which I will continue to update.
Top appearances on @bbcquestiontime since the 2024 election.
MPs:
Labour — 404
Conservatives — 118
Lib Dems — 71
Independent — 11
SNP — 8
Reform UK — 8
Greens — 5
Zia Yusuf — not an MP
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Dear the BBC Question Time
Zia Yusuf? Again.
The party of eight MPs puts up an unelected money man for the ninth time in two years.
Any chance you could find someone else?
Thanks in advance. The UK.
Tomorrow, join Question Time in Warwick
On the panel: Emma Reynolds, James Cartlidge, Daisy Cooper, Zia Yusuf, and Alastair Campbell
Apply now: eu.castitreach.com/ag/mentor…
Thurs 29th Oct, 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds, and the @BBCNews channel
#bbcqt
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
No one else has appeared as a guest on the show more than Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf since the last general election in 2024.
He is now set for his 8th appearance.
This man is a shadowless, unelected, loudmouth.
Why so much airtime?
#bbcqt
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Tomorrow, when you see the front pages of the right-wing press telling you how dreadful the budget was, remember their track record.
Also remember that right-wingers won’t ever be happy with any budget that doesn’t push down on those at the bottom to benefit those at the top.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Just a reminder to all Reform UK members to put your clocks back to 1936 tonight.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
'Request Stop, Hampstead.' (c1950) Stephen Bone painted a world full of charm. His style went out of fashion for some years but is again gaining popularity. If you are wondering about the colour of the bus sign, white bus signs with a red circle indicated 'compulsory' stops.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Nigel Farage says he will fix most of the country’s problems within 100 days of becoming Prime Minister so maybe he could tell us why he’s been unable to implement a decent vetting process for well over 2 years and counting.
#newsnight
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
The BBC is already giving Nigel Farage coverage for a speech he hasn’t even delivered. Report on what he says tomorrow, by all means.
But previewing it now gives him free publicity and lets him set the agenda before anyone can scrutinise his words.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Reform UK are apparently going to send out an 8 page flyer to £15 million homes. Not that I'm suggesting that you send them back, so they have to pay for the return postage. But if you are, you might find this useful.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
The 'Christmas' rage people appear to have forgotten that poppy rage comes first
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
Zia Yusuf wants to kill people in the Channel. Pete Hegseth is going to livestream an execution.
These two things have not just been randomly announced.
Political violence is a central tenet of fascism.
If we don't stop it now, it will be too late.
AndrewAshton 🌱🎨 retweeted
So Kemi Badenoch wants to pay for new prison cells by cutting £1bn from culture, media and sport?
That means youth clubs, leisure centres, sports pitches, arts projects and music venues, places that give young people somewhere to go and learn teamwork and self discipline, all of that: gone.
That’s not tough on crime, that’s building a pipeline into the very prisons you're promising! And this from a party that added fewer than 500 prison places in a decade, and left communities like mine fighting to keep leisure centres open in the first place.
Disgraceful.