@politicgem

life long Boro fan who is exiled in the south east. mum of 2 disabled young people &who is also disabled. Interested in politics, disability, environment, home.

Surrey UK
Joined August 2009
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
The world KNEW @Keir_Starmer KNEW @YvetteCooperMP KNEW @HFalconerMP KNEW @BBCNews KNEW They are all COMPLICIT
Replying to @tparsi
“I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen?” - Drk. Nick Maynard theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
This is extremely shameful. 🇦🇺Australian filmmaker Juliet said: "I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla. They also used water torture and beatings." The matter is even more shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this 😭
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'. Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.
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I'm a British person, Brexit is a pile of shite. It doesn't work, it can't work its ability to function effectively within the framework of the modern world exists only in the minds of those who continue to support it. It's as much of a fantasy as the idea that I will one day become the captain of the starship Enterprise.
Labour MPs always want to ignore the views of the British people. That’s why they are cancelling elections. Now Wes Streeting says he wants to see Brexit undone in a pitch to left-wing Labour members. Labour need to stop blaming Brexit for their total incompetence.
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Watch this.
The story of Farage and Putin, told on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner (@olddog100ua)
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
"That is so far on the wrong side of what is acceptable." Fresh reports claim Prince Andrew obtained Virginia Giuffre's social security number and attempted to hire social media trolls to tarnish her name after she accused him of sexual assault. @maitlis | @jonsopel
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
When you strip away the royal titles and spin, one thing’s clear: If Andrew were anyone else, he wouldn’t be in a 30-room lodge, he’d be behind bars. That’s the real scandal. Not just one man’s privilege, but a system built to protect it. No true democracy would tolerate this
"Ultimately the headline still reads: Privileged man becomes slightly less privileged." Satirist and comedian Munya Chawawa says Prince Andrew giving up his royal titles is “symptomatic of the class divide in Britain”. #Newsnight
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
And now #Reform are in trouble with #HMRC for failing to pay tax and VAT on tickets and merchandise from events. £400,000. (Times) Unusually, for Reform, this is not tax fraud, avoidance or evasion. It’s just incompetence. They literally didn’t realise they had to.
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Naomi Smith, "For the last ten years we've had successive governments tell us what a great thing Brexit is, how its going to supercharge the economy, how we're going to get it done and everybody will feel the benefit of it" "Well our polling shows that nearly 2/3 of people think Brexit has been more of a failure than a success" "Consumers are paying more at the checkout, more to heat their homes, and finding it more difficult to travel" *Conservative Alex Burghart pompously interrupts, then arrogantly says he'll 'let' her speak* "Nobody is saying that all of our economic ills are a consequence of Brexit, but anyone with any sense knows that Brexit has compounded things" "Finally, the political discourse is catching up with the economic reality that everybody knows"
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Spot on. And not just the Beeb - @Nigel_Farage gets a very easy ride because he is treated as fellow commentator and fellow mainstream media critic of main parties. Never gets challenged on his Brexit role. Rarely on actual policy. Well said @EdwardJDavey
Watch @EdwardJDavey call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Gosh. What times. An extract from my High Court judgment has just been rediscovered & is going viral.
🇷🇺 FARAGE’s Biggest Donor 🚨 Aaron Banks held FOUR undisclosed meetings with Russian officials during the Brexit campaign. 🔁 Retweet if you want a full investigation into Russian interference in Brexit. #Brexit @10DowningStreet @Nigel_Farage
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Summary of Reform UK news: 🤦 Kent Councilors sacked after leaked 'bringing Reform into disrepute' 🤦Reform UK underpaid VAT on merchandise + conference (Tax Dodgers!) 🤦On-going questions around Caerphilly candidates link to Russia via Nathan Gill 🤦Farage's partner in Brussels court case for Fraud 🤦 Farage's Clacton House still has unanswered questions RE tax, fraud and Russia 🤦 Farage's mysogony on TV "Listen Love..."
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Unless I blinked and missed it there was no mention of Starmer’s trade agreement between the UK and India on the BBC Six O’clock news but they did manage to cover the death at 71 of some American wrestler who I suspect few people in the UK have ever heard of.
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RT @PaulKohlerSW19: The Thick Of It pt 94! A new party proclaiming to have all the answers that doesn’t even know its own name! You real…
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
I welcome the announcement by President Macron that 🇫🇷 will recognise 🇵🇸 in September. This is an important contribution towards implementing the two State solution, which offers the only lasting basis for peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine. J’en ferai l’annonce solennelle à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, au mois de septembre prochain. L’urgence est aujourd’hui que cesse la guerre à Gaza et que la population civile soit secourue. La paix est possible. Il faut immédiatement un cessez-le-feu, la libération de tous les otages et une aide humanitaire massive à la population de Gaza. Il faut aussi garantir la démilitarisation du Hamas, sécuriser et reconstruire Gaza. Il faut enfin bâtir l’État de Palestine, assurer sa viabilité et permettre qu’en acceptant sa démilitarisation et en reconnaissant pleinement Israël, il participe à la sécurité de tous au Proche-Orient. Il n’y a pas d’alternative. Les Français veulent la paix au Proche-Orient. Il nous appartient, à nous Français, avec les Israéliens, les Palestiniens, nos partenaires européens et internationaux, de démontrer que c’est possible. À la lumière des engagements que le président de l’Autorité palestinienne a pris auprès de moi, je lui ai donc écrit ma détermination à avancer. Confiance, clarté et engagement. Nous gagnerons la paix.
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
Netanyahu's war in Gaza "now has no military logic." Israel's inadequate aid to civilians in land effectively "under occupation is a war crime." The far-right plan "to corral Gazans into a permanent 'humanitarian city' would amount to ethnic cleansing." economist.com/leaders/2025/0…
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
It is pretty sickening, especially after the events of last year, to see politicians on the right, and their fanzine newspapers, positively willing others to bring about their predictions of social unrest. People in politics tend either to want to solve problems or exploit them to fuel hate and anger. That is the current dividing line. And the papers who want to make it happen will be the first to condemn when it does.
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
If the men draped in flags outside hotels are concerned citizens, protecting “our women”, rather than racist opportunists… Where were they during the Wayne Couzens protests? Protests that were almost exclusively attended by women. There wasn’t a St George’s flag in sight.
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Gemma Roulston #FBPE ❄️🔶🇺🇦 retweeted
I call again for Keir Starmer to stop standing to one side & to use the naval resources UK has in the Middle East to send aid ships directly to Gaza. Let’s see if Israel will fire on us. “State of child famine' - Gaza's deepening hunger crisis channel4.com/news/a-state-of… via @jrug
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