Brianstorm

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🎸 Punk, New Wave & Indie Rock enthusiast | 💙 Chelsea FC | ⚫🔴 Saracens RFC 🐾 Human to four unruly cats | 🌹 Centre-left Labour supporter Opinions my own, music always loud.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️

In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker. Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”. He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was handed a suspended sentence. It comes up when you Google him. He won in the council election. A vicious domestic abuser is now a Reform Councillor.

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Things I know. Keir Starmer would never take a £5m bung. Keir Starmer would never have had Parties during Covid. Keir Starmer would never crash the economy. Keir Starmer would never join an illegal war. And all of that is good enough for me. Today. And every day.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

GB News headline:
GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.