#DeterrenceWatch - People crossing the English Channel by small boat up to yesterday's date in

2022: 6,691
2023: 5,799
2024: 6,808

If and when removals to Rwanda begin, I'm sure the government will provide the appropriate numbers to add to the spreadsheet.

#bbcpm

Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis
Exclusive: Ex-health minister Dan Poulter, who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

#bbcpm

Joe Walsh Y'all did a fantastic job of engineering a Republican base that is basically a doomsday machine with no 'off' switch.

It took decades and billions of dollars, but you got there!

A new arena not opening gets multiple slots on #r4today while the the 2,500+ food banks now needed to feed the working poor are ignored. The 'flagship news programme of the BBC' shows who it cares about.

Are you working-class and want to be patronised on a radio interview? Then contact #r4today and they will arrange Nick Robinson to talk down to you as though you were 4 years old.

A senior executive can be accused of being totally untrustworthy by a high court judge yet the organisation employing them decides that they are 'worthy' of a bonus. #PostOfficeInquiry

The headlines on #r4today continue to normalise poverty in the UK by the simple means of ignoring it. Well it doesn't affect friends of editors and presenters plus there is Raymond Briggs artwork to cover as well-Much more important than 2,500 food banks.

Why is Evan Davis surprised about the way carers are treated? It is pretty standard for the way poor people have been dealt with by the benefits system for years. #bbcpm

I suppose next Rishi Sunak will propose the 'It's Clean If We Say It Is Act' which will overnight declare all rivers free of of sewage by the simple act of the government saying so. #ToryBrokenBritain

If the senior executives on show at the #PostOfficeInquiry are examples of the 'brightest, best and most honest' then no wonder this country is in such a mess.

The senior people giving evidence at the #PostOfficeInquiry are indicative of the culture that has arisen in the UK over the last 50 years of power without responsibility. Expecting and getting rewarded for dereliction of duty. Shameful.

Apparently senior executives had to be instructed to tell the truth. #PostOfficeInquiry

Senior executives were happy to pick up huge salaries but not take responsibility for any of their actions. #PostOfficeInquiry

Devastating questioning at the #PostOfficeInquiry just now.

Music and art fluff dominate the 'flagship news programme of the BBC'. Can't be examining poverty/food banks/homelessness or other such unimportant stuff since #r4today has ceramics and The Pet Shop Boys to fit in. BBC Radio 4 Today

Since #r4today has lots of time to cover music, film and book reviews I presume that means that they consider the 50-fold increase in the number of food banks since 2010 to be some 'act of god' rather than a political/social issue to be addressed. BBC Radio 4 Today

Late to the headlines but see it is apparently mandatory now for the 'flagship news programme of the BBC' to include a fluff music piece every damn day. Oddly nothing about food banks #r4today

This from latest Private Eye about Fujitsu.

Is there anything we can do to utterly remove this awful company from our shores forever?

It's a greedy malevolent cancer.

#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

#PostOfficeInquiry Not waving but drowning.

Now we move on to the 'slapdash excuses' stage of the #PostOfficeInquiry