I'm Pete, I'm lumpy. I don't do followers, too much babysitting. If you follow me I'll block you.
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I see you're respecting the tiger man's families wishes Vine, gutter program, you should be ashamed. #JeremyVine
When you tick all the diversity boxes this is the dross you end up with, not one of them can make bread, and didn't even know what a flatbread should look like! One guy actually admitted he didn't bake bread and had to watch 3 ticktock videos. Unbelievable.
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#GBBO
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The competent applicants that were turned down because they didn't tick the right boxes must be watching, feeling baffled they were rejected. #GBBO
FFS Naga, what sort of question was that? Straight in with "what's it like writing a book without Dave?"
#bbcbreakfast
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Yasmin having a go at someone for being tetchy and having no sense of humour!
Zero self awareness.
#JeremyVine
Lumpy Pete retweeted
Just a few years ago, if anyone had suggested the entire British population would need to show a government ID to use the internet, they’d be laughed at and reminded that the UK is not a totalitarian state.
Yet here we are….
Exclusive:
Social media companies will be required to implement “hard checks” on people’s ages such as demanding passports or driving licences under plans to stop children from using their platforms
The government is due to announce plans for a social media ban for under-16s in the coming weeks amid concerns that children are being exposed to harmful content
Ministers want to take a harder line on age verification to ensure that children are not using the platforms after concerns that a similar social media ban in Australia has had little impact
Under plans being considered by ministers, those using the sites will be required to submit their passports or driving licences or undergo credit checks to verify their age
The Australian government admitted this year that more than 70 per cent of under-16s still had “some access” to platforms three months after the law changed in December 2025
Children reported that it was “easy” to circumvent the ban. They are only required to undergo basic screening — where users take a selfie and artificial intelligence estimates their age — to access platforms if they do not wish to upload official documents. In the most brazen cases, children were able to bypass the restrictions by drawing beards onto their faces
Others have resorted to using virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass checks by pretending they are based in another country, or pointing their phone’s camera at a screen showing an adult-looking face
thetimes.com/article/9a7f374…
God I wish she'd drop the godawful waffle at the beginning. It's not funny. #onlyconnect
Lumpy Pete retweeted
Interesting history lesson, Mayor. You left out one rather awkward detail:
Oswald Mosley was not some creature who appeared fully formed from the "political right". He had been a Labour MP, sat on Labour’s NEC and was a member of the Fabian Society before founding the British Union of Fascists.
Even George Bernard Shaw, one of the great Fabian luminaries, was still publicly praising Mosley in 1932, after the BUF had been founded.
Which does rather spoil the neat little morality tale in which fascism belonged exclusively to “the other side”.
History is considerably more inconvenient than a mayoral tweet.
We see you.
90 years ago today, Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts attempted to march through and intimidate a predominantly Jewish area of the East End.
Men, women and children, alongside local residents, trade unionists and anti-fascist protesters, came together to defend the community in what became known as the Battle of Cable Street.
They taught us an important lesson: communities can resist fascism by joining together.
Hate and antisemitism had no place in London then, and it has no place here now.
Lumpy Pete retweeted
🇯🇵 No, BBC. We are not "struggling with our identity" in Japan. It is you who is struggling with your identity.
We know who we are. We are Japanese. We are not Muslims. We have temples and shrines. We do not have mosques.
We will never forget who we are even if you do.
Lumpy Pete retweeted
Imagine a country that imports unknown men from unknown places with unknown pasts, then quietly disperses them so no one notices.
Imagine a government that builds the system to make it happen. Imagine jailing people for objecting.
Now open your eyes. It’s not you’re imagination..
Lumpy Pete retweeted
I really miss Dimbleby. Bruce is an awful presenter of #bbcqt. Constantly cuts people short in the middle of putting their valid points forward and regularly stops the debate just when pinch points are brought up. Get her off and stick to antiques.
Lumpy Pete retweeted
A blanket social media ban for under 16s was NOT in Labour’s manifesto.
For me, this goes far too far.
YouTube alone can be an incredible educational resource for children. My child will continue to use it because I believe that decision should ultimately sit with parents, not politicians in Westminster.
We are moving from protecting children from genuinely harmful content to the state deciding which major online platforms children are allowed to use at all.
I think that is a deeply worrying direction for this country.
Lumpy Pete retweeted
🚨🚨 SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR UNDER 16s
It has now been confirmed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy, that the social media ban for under-16s will come into force in March 2027.
We know this ban will not work. In Australia, from where the UK has taken its lead, children have circumvented the ban by using VPNs.
The UK Government also considered announcing a VPN ban, only to later perform a U-turn and put the idea on ice. If it does go ahead, the UK would join the same league as North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Turkmenistan.
Increasingly, children are using social media sites and YouTube to access news and educational material. The Government is also pushing through plans in the Representation of the People Bill to give 16-year-olds the vote.
How can we realistically expect a 16-year-old to make an informed decision at the ballot box if they do not have access to journalistic content and material of democratic importance online?
The Government has failed to explain how its proposal can be reconciled with its duties under the Online Safety Act to protect content of democratic importance and journalistic content.
At the Free Speech Union, we warned when these plans were unveiled earlier this year that a selective ban would leave Ofcom tasked with enforcing the political preferences of whichever Government is in power.
At its most basic, a left-wing Government could target X while protecting Bluesky, while a right-wing Government could protect X and turn its sights on Bluesky.
While we all want to ensure that children are protected online, the Government must not stray beyond its intended aim. Given its track record and the scope creep of the Online Safety Act, we have very little hope that it will.
Lumpy Pete retweeted
Tbh @BorisJohnson deal was better. It covered personal care at home, care fees in care home (excluding hotel fees for food & lodging) and capped max contribution at £86k lifetime. Those without funds covered in full. And all for 1.5p NI levy.
It was opposed by Labour and scrapped by Reeves. It was a BETTER deal.
Lumpy Pete retweeted
How very clever you think you are, sweetheart. One almost hates to switch on the lamp.
They are British nationals. So were the 7/7 bombers. So were the men in the Birmingham mass bomb plot. So was Axel Rudakubana.
Every time the country flinches, the same lullaby comes out of the machine: British nationals, nothing to see, now what folks?
A passport is not a character reference. It is the part of the story you treat as a punchline.
Five men from London, arrested near an airbase on suspicion of explosives and preparing a terrorist act, and your contribution is a smirk about mental gymnastics.
The gymnastics are yours. You heard the word national and stopped listening.
