“[A] survey found 37 per cent of voters said building more social housing is their top demand.
This was joint with tackling homelessness.
This compares to the 29 per cent who want No10 to prioritise homeownership schemes like right to buy.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10014275/boris-johnson-council-houses-right-to-buy/
...”During debate on a bill designed to force Mr Johnson to seek an extension to Brexit talks if he cannot get a deal, Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh said: “The difficulty we face is that most laws are relatively easy of interpretation, because they prevent you doing something, rather than make you do something.
“They prevent you murdering your wife, they don’t make you love your wife.” …”
“Man ‘arrested trying to get into Labour MP Jess Phillips’ office in Birmingham’ ”
“MP Jess Phillips has said a man has been arrested after trying to get into her constituency office while reportedly shouting that she was a “fascist”.
Ms Phillips, who represents Birmingham Yardley, said her staff had to be locked in the office while the man allegedly tried to “smash the windows” and “kick the door”.
She told LBC Radio: “I’ve only just heard about it myself, but my staff had to be locked into my office while the man tried to smash the windows and kick the door, I believe.
“I don’t know what I can say because the man has been arrested. But he was shouting that I was a fascist, apparently.”
And just watch – this girl WILL get trolled.
“I rarely actually tweet, especially about politics – am more of the silent retweeter – but after the chilling scenes in Parliament last night I just don’t think I can stay quiet anymore. There’s a group of young people and children that need to be spoken for. (A thread.)
The language used by our Prime Minister – not a far-right populist or provocative journalist, but our Prime Minister – is just beyond words.
The fact that the head of our government is actually using language that helps incite violence toward MPs is so beyond dangerous I can’t even comprehend it in a modern society.
This isn’t funny any more. Whatever egotistical game Boris Johnson has been playing since he was at Eton, this isn’t entitled teenagers standing blindly by their positions in an attempt to one-up their friends anymore.
This of rising hatred is costing people their lives.
I was 17 when Jo Cox was murdered. I just rang my mum, who is Yvette Cooper, on my way home from school to complain about the usual things and I distinctly remember her interrupting me to say “An MP’s been shot.”
I can honestly say my perspective of the world completely changed that day. Before then, my mum’s job was something that kept her working later then bedtime when I was a kid, the source of embarrassing conversations at school, the reason we travelled to and fro between Yorkshire and London every week for the first two thirds of my life.
It was never something that could get her killed.
I am scared.
I am scared when I scroll through the replies to her tweets calling her a liar and a traitor.
I am scared when our house gets fitted with panic buttons, industrial-locking doors and explosive bags to catch the mail.
I am scared because on the 16th of June 2016, two children said goodbye to their mother before she left for her constituency to sit in surgeries and help people all day, and never saw her again. I am scared every single day that the same will happen to mine.
Because she is trying her best to help people. To make their lives better. Even if we disagree with our politicians, when was this something we actively wanted to hurt them for?
Of course Brexit is contentious. Of course people have strong opinions, opinions that will inevitably come into conflict when trying to work out how best to deliver an outcome that split our country in two.
But what we need now is a Prime Minister who can stand up and
say “Yes I want to deliver Brexit, but regardless of my position, this inflammatory and aggressive language needs to stop. We need to treat each other with humanity and respect.”
Boris Johnson, take a stand. It’s your job to unite the country.
Or you will be responsible for putting other people’s lives at risk.
Surely you can raise your head out of the sand enough to see that much?
This whole thing has gone too far. When people start getting hurt is the moment that we should step back and ask if any of this is even worth it. All the anger and the screaming and the taking sides. The traitors and the liars and the surrendering.
Why has this become a matter of life and death? Does someone have to die for us all to realise that we have gotten in far too deep and far too aggressively?
The thing is, someone already has died. Do we not have the decency and compassion to see that? Can we not all just treat each other like people again?
Because I’m terrified if we don’t that something awful is going to happen again. At this rate, that seems like the only thing that could stop us in our tracks. We need to change the way we act towards our MPs before it goes too far because if not I have no doubt it will.”
Lucky Labour and Lib Dems – getting their conferences in during the prorogation-that-never-was!
“James Cleverly, the chairman, has already said it is not going to be cancelled. Political parties make a huge amount of money from their party conferences, because members and lobbyists have to pay to attend (you can read the Tory charges here – pdf) and so it was always going to go ahead, regardless of what the supreme court decided on prorogation. …”
If you found the language and behaviour used by Boris Johnson and his cronies objectionable, how do you object? How do you change things?
You can’t write to MPs Swire (retiring) or Parish as they will stick up for him.
You can’t write to most local, regional or national newspapers because they are his sycophantic mouthpieces. And the people who need to know it is objectionable and why don’t read newspapers critical of him.
You can demonstrate, but those demonstrations will be ignored or misrepresented.
Just one thing left – get a decent (and I mean decent) candidate to oppose him, make it a STRAIGHT fight between him and that candidate in his constituency and make every effort to persuade the voters there to
VOTE HIM OUT
Use the democratic processes he scorns and despises to oust him.
The same way a Tory candidate should be in a straight fight with Claire Wright in East Devon and even (hope beyond hope here) against Parish in Tiverton and Honiton.
Owl cannot verify this Twitter thread, but has Googled (as suggested) Boris Johnson, Boris Johnson, Milo Yiannopoulos & InnoTech and InnoTech and the information appears to be verified there. It is reprinted in good faith.
Milo Yiannopoulos, (Milo Andreas Wagner), is a British far-right political commentator, polemicist, public speaker, and writer. Yiannopoulos is a former editor for Breitbart News and describes himself as a “cultural libertarian”. He is currently banned from several countries. He is banned from Twitter and Facebook.
Wikipedia:
In [an] interview in a January 2016 episode of the podcast Drunken Peasants, Yiannopoulos stated that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can “happen perfectly consensually”, because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women.
He used his own experience as an example, saying he was mature enough to be capable of giving consent at a young age. He also stated that “paedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature” but rather that “paedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty.” Later in the interview, after his previous comments received some pushback from the hosts, he stated: “I think the age of consent law is probably about right, that is probably roughly the right age … but there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them.”
Here is the Twitter feed on the story:
“A thread on the Jennifer Arcuri & Boris Johnson story & why it’s a bigger scandal than you think.
Where to start?
The press are reporting that she is a “business woman” or a “model”.
Wrong. When she met Boris Johnson, Jennifer had just….
2/
Jennifer Arcuri was a waitress working a shift at an American restaurant after finishing college
After 4 years working at a restaurant she decided to go back to college & get a degree.
She decided to study in London & moved there in 2011.
3/
Arcuri moves into a flat in the East End, with pole dancing pole installed, Jennifer hit London’s social scene.
At this time to make money she also ran the flat as a hotel like place, also registering the flat on Airbnb to generate customers.
4/
In 2012 Arcuri signed up as a one of many volunteers to work on Boris Johnson’s mayoral election.
From 2012 onwards Arcuri then reinvents herself as a “Tech entrepreneur”.
Arcuri decided to specialize in “bridging the gap between legislation & business”, but needed funds…
5/
Funds were quickly supplied via UK govt agencies to launch the company in 2013.
But, at this point, no actual tech work seems to have been done. A lot of the activities were geared to meetings, travel & hosting public events.
And here’s where it gets stranger…
6/
Arcuri’s events were able to attract very “interesting” speakers. For a start Boris Johnson would lend his support by agreeing to be a keynote speaker ensuring publicity, sponsorship & attendees…but what other type of speakers do you think came….?
Have a guess…
7/
Very quickly these supposedly Tech events generated notorious speakers from the far right US scene – one example, now banned in most mainstream media, Milo Yiannopoulos, but then a key part of Brannon’s Breitbart network.
Now think about this…
8/
UK govt money was being siphoned off to a supposedly tech start up by a former waitress to sponsor events with US far right with sponsorship, attendance & participantion of the now Prime Minister.
The key scandal here is not his sexual relationship with Arcuri.
It’s Boris.
9/
Now you see what’s wrong here.
Boris Johnson’s sexual activities is not the most important thing.
Public money is symphoned off to support a foreign far right presence/network in UK by a blackmail vulnerable politician thru a “young friend”.
That man is now Prime Minister.
Edit:
I’ve now received 3 journalist inquiries about the Milo Yiannopoulos example.
How about typing in Boris Johnson, Milo Yiannopoulos & InnoTech into google. It’s all there there’s even an FT link.
Do your jobs journalists FGS.
Addendum:
Now received confirmation Boris Johnson’s active participation at Jennifer Arcuri’s events was larger than I originally thought.
It should be noted that Boris Johnson can earn six figure sums for public speaking – each time he spoke at Arcuri events he did for free.
12/ BREAKING
I have now received confirmation that the House of Commons helped to atleast partially support/subsidize Jennifer Arcuri event(s) at the Houses of Parliament in 2014.
Still trying to get clarity on the exact details.
13/
Arcuri was of course no stranger to other House of Commons MPs. If you look on conservative home website you can still find the article Arcuri supposedly wrote with Boris Johnson backing MP George Freeman to help support the HofC-Arcuri event.
BREAKING
I have now got further confirmation (thanks JaT!) that theres a further corruption element in that companies Boris Johnson was responsible for as Mayor were “encouraged” to subsidize Arcuri events both at Parliament and outside.
Thanks to all those sending info.
Addendum
10 people called out comment as sexist on thread.
Upon reflection I feel they have a point. As someone who’s worked in a pub, the comment on “ex waitress” wasn’t meant pejoratively but to illustrate Arcuri was not a tech entrepreneur.
I should have phrased it better.
So, so shocked at Johnson’s behaviour in Parliament this evening, particularly his disdain for the late Jo Cox, MP. Surely no-one can think he and his equally reprehensible cronies are fit to govern this country.
What we saw tonight was a sociopathic narcissist man-child, cornered. A deeply disturbing sight.
Waiting to see what Hugo Swire and East Devon Tories have to say.
There was a newspaper and an e-newspaper, now there seems only to be minimal Twitter and Facebook pages? Searching the Archant website produces nothing.
Is there a newspaper? If not when and why did it cease? Where do the people of Cranbrook get their local news now?
East Devon Watch 