Lib Dem campaigner and Christian. Software engineer, photographer, volunteer youth worker, cyclist. Do at least occasionally see my family and sleep. He/him
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Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
BREAKING 🚨: Bombshell analysis shows the distortion in the BBC's political TV shows.
We tallied up this month's guests on the two flagship shows, finding huge overrepresentation for the right. The Lib Dems receive barely a THIRD of what their seat share should entitle them to.
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Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters:
🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Favourable: 64%
Unfavourable: 16%
NET: +48%
🇺🇸 Donald Trump
Favourable: 22%
Unfavourable: 73%
NET: -51%
🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin
Favourable: 4%
Unfavourable: 89%
NET: -85%
Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
The numbers remain steady - around 60% of Britons would vote to rejoin the EU, 40% would vote to stay out. Brexit has lost.
If there was a referendum on returning to the EU, Britain would vote to rejoin the EU by 59% to 41%
In favour of joining the EU: 48%
Against joining the EU: 33%
Would not vote: 8%
Don’t know: 11%
Headline vote intention
In favour of joining the EU: 59%
Against joining the EU: 41%
yougov.co.uk/politics/articl…
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
The NHS may be broken, according to @UKLabour @wesstreeting, but here’s how to fix it.
Prevention, Prevention, Prevention, Prevention….
1. Prevent poverty. It’s the single biggest determinant of ill health, and health and social care demand, both now and in the future. Blair and Brown made good progress in reducing it. So it can be done.
2. Prevent illness, with a relentless focus on living well, self-care, mental health support and tackling the commercial determinants of illness. Dental disease is the commonest cause of childhood operations, and yet it’s almost 100% preventable.
3. Prevent existing risks and diseases getting worse, with evidence-based screening and a substantial shift in resources to primary, community and social care
4. Preventing waste and medical harm, by ensuring patients receive the right care, in the right place, from the right people at the right time. This is the toughest nut to crack, as it requires adequate numbers of well trained and well rested staff working in safe, clean environments with the right equipment. We currently spent three times as much litigating harms from maternity care than we do on maternity care. This is a permanent disaster and would be a very good place to start. Instead of repeating our mistakes, we need to learn from them.
For more detail see @PrivateEyeNews and come to the shows @edfringe @theSpaceUK Aug 2-17
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Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
The Cass review is well on its way to achieving the same status as Andrew Wakefield's work on vaccines: roundly dissected, debunked and discredited by actual scientists and professionals in the field, but stubbornly refusing to die because too many people like what it says.
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
Imagine the media treatment of Kamala if she had five children by three different men. Then add in having sex with a porn star.
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Our liberal team is growing.
Join the fight for a Fair Deal. 🔶
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If your postal vote has not arrived contact the council for another bit.ly/4cJUgmU
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
Aside from the moral and practical vacuity of the Rwanda policy, one thing it illustrates - as we have been saying for years - is that the delays and shortages in the justice system could be fixed if the government cared to.
When they want to spend money on courts, they find it.
‘We are ready, plans are in place’ says PM on Rwanda
• he says first flights deporting people will be in 10-12 wks - so towards end of July (he’d previously promised Spring)
•unnamed airfield ‘on standby’
•commercial charter planes with specific slots booked
• 25 courtrooms & 150 judges available to deal with legal challenges
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
Conservative member Mark Menzies
Rang up in the strangest of frenzies:
"Our slush fund must pay
Some bad guys 5K -
It won't be for keepsies, just lenzies".
#MarkMenzies
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Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
This is most probably the deliberate intention all along. The only outcome of the whole Rwanda policy has been to waste public money, break the whole of the asylum and immigration system and to cause a crisis in the hope that the fallout is politically advantageous.
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
Wow.
An article published on April 7 mistakenly claimed that the Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi had been supported by the Church of England, and that this enabled him to 'beat the system'. We accept that Mr Ezedi is not known to have had any connections with the Church of England and apologise for the error.
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
This is not an acceptable means of gathering or using peoples date. It is based on blatant lies and is deliberately designed to cause upset and panic and thus a response. It is political data phishing. The @ICOnews need to take action or we will see much more of this at the GE.
🚨The Information Commissioner's Office say they are now "considering" complaints about the Conservative party's leaflets.
The leaflets are labeled as "Driving Charge Notices" and demand voters' details to avoid a charge
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/09/c…
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
In 2020, Lee Anderson voted for the Recall of MPs (Change of Party Affiliation) Bill - which requires an MP to call a by-election if they defect.
Lee Anderson tells @ChrisMasonBBC he won't be calling a by-election - big difference with when Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless defected to Ukip in 2014
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
What’s interesting here is that this statement implies Lee Anderson MP would not have been suspended had he apologised.
But not even two weeks ago, the Tories were demanding (rightly) that Labour suspend Azhar Ali, despite a grovelling public apology…
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
What odds 30p Lee, who started as a Labour councillor before defecting to Cons, now finishes his career as a defector to ReformUK?
Lee Anderson stripped of Tory whip over Sadiq Khan comments theguardian.com/politics/202…
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
This is pure unabashed racism. It has somehow become an acceptable thing for Tory MPs to do with zero consequences.
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
This is just ridiculous. It would be more fiscally irresponsible than borrowing to invest because it means building in permanent tax cuts that are obviously unaffordable.
Greg Webb 🔶 retweeted
Estonia is next on Russia's menu.
theguardian.com/world/2024/f…
