I wonder whether the opposition parties will ever be grown up enough to collaborate in a proper electoral pact, reflecting the sizeable majority of the country that simply doesn’t want to be ruled by these mendacious alt right incompetent demagogues for the next decade. Well?
— Brendan May (@bmay) April 30, 2021
NEW: Survation poll for the Mail finds Tory lead down to one point over Labour (Con 39, Lab 38) as Boris Johnson’s popularity suffers in the wake of the Downing Street flat affair pic.twitter.com/uFeUQRa34z
— Daniel Martin (@Daniel_J_Martin) April 30, 2021
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— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) April 30, 2021
BORIS Johnson’s aides have been warned they face jail if they delete texts or emails about the “cash for curtains” row – and have a week to turn over their phones, report The Sun https://t.co/DgB4qKGWDZ
let's check in on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal and see how it's goi…https://t.co/gU7jZBsya8
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 Threads tobyontv (@TobyonTV) April 30, 2021
The UK & Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year.
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) April 30, 2021
Jane Sandell(CE, UK Fisheries) – It's a black day.. it's a total disgrace that @DefraGovUK haven't managed to retain the rights the UK has had for decades, never mind any brexit bonus… pic.twitter.com/GLURE81pU7
'Will you say sorry?'
— LBC (@LBC) April 30, 2021
James O'Brien plays back a former Brexit Party MEP's promise on fishing back to her three times in this heated exchange.@mrjamesob pic.twitter.com/lBsRVGYqEv
It just gets better.
— Sam Bright (@WritesBright) April 30, 2021
New BBC board member Sir Robbie Gibb wrote an article a few months ago for the website 'Conservatives in Communication', saying that Boris Johnson "has all too often been misunderstood and maligned".
Proper impartiality, that.https://t.co/2u8hd2Bjhv
Lying, betrayal, callousness: Boris Johnson is ruining lives. And the real scandal is that he keeps doing it. Latest column https://t.co/TFEmkNEXmp
— Jonathan Freedland (@Freedland) April 30, 2021
I think we would do better to remember the Covid dead locally and personally. Let's not reduce them to names on a slab, in a church to which only a fraction of them would have belonged. pic.twitter.com/nstCc5M2au
— Otto English (@Otto_English) April 30, 2021
Here's hoping the India variant didn't get an invite… https://t.co/SKzh2HBa4x
— Jos Bell (@Jos21Bell) April 30, 2021
Meanwhile…
A remarkable story by @BBCGarethG: Arlene Foster is going to walk away from the DUP entirely. It also seems like a tactical mistake to say it now – Foster & her allies don't want Poots as leader; this is unlikely to impress DUP members who decide that. https://t.co/sdbdRTz6BN
— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) April 30, 2021
Significant reporting on Arlene Foster leaving the DUP with reports from a source close to Foster saying "she believes this is not the party she joined…some people are seeking to drag the party back to 1972".
— Emma DeSouza (@EmmaCDeSouza) April 30, 2021
We won't be dragged back with them.
DUP reps talking about Arlene Foster is like listening to an Ulster form of man-splaining. You’d think dire Brexit policy was all her fault & no men were involved. Impression is of a woman done down by blokes certain they know better. She’s well out of it https://t.co/leUn8RpaOh
— Gail Walker (@GWalker9) April 29, 2021
Foster left the Ulster Unionists to join the DUP when it was anti-Good Friday Agreement and the most hardline unionist party in NI. What part of this is 'no longer the party I joined'? https://t.co/5XXFQ3SaB5
— Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack (@PeterKGeoghegan) April 30, 2021
"As you might expect, a political correspondent with The Irish News is always going to have a sometimes difficult relationship with the DUP leadership" #premium https://t.co/JUXlXhkinW
— The Irish News (@irish_news) April 30, 2021
According to Paul Givan, Poots wants to "build a shared society" & respects diversity. Must have missed that when Paul scrapped Liofa, Edwin's gay blood ban, a woman's first priority being in the home, climate crisis denial, supporting conversion therapy & this hot mess below🙄 pic.twitter.com/X8dMgOlA8y
— Sorcha Eastwood MLA (@SorchaEastwood) April 30, 2021
DUP councillor John Carson, whose past controversial comments have included claiming the Covid-19 pandemic was God's judgement on abortion and same-sex marriage, is backing Edwin Poots for leader and says Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill will be "put back in her kennel". pic.twitter.com/gIjxGJs3sY
— Brendan Hughes (@brendanhughes64) April 30, 2021
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LITERALLY, JESUS CHRIST…
Vaccine mistrust is tearing apart friends, families and congregations in communities that are overwhelmingly white, Republican and Christian, like Greenville, Tennessee. “It’s a muddy mess,” said a local healthcare worker. https://t.co/R5cARxWv7X
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 30, 2021
Breaking WSJ: Manhattan federal prosecutors are seeking to examine Rudy Giuliani's communications with an array of former Ukrainian officials, as investigators home in on whether Giuliani's push to remove Marie Yovanovitch violated foreign lobbying rules. https://t.co/itP8WiCVWC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 30, 2021
Update on Trump's inner circle:
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 30, 2021
-Jared Kushner's company broke consumer protection laws
-Rudy Giuliani's apartment was searched by FBI
-Matt Gaetz reportedly paid for sex with a 17 year old
-Roger Stone was reportedly involved in a cash-for-pardon scheme
Did we miss anyone?
Rep. Schiff on Rudy Giuliani: "I feel sad because we had an opportunity in that first impeachment to remove the danger … as a result of our investigation, we learned that Giuliani was working with these corrupt Ukrainians in an effort to smear Joe Biden" https://t.co/ctq9P7BZV0
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 30, 2021
Ron Johnson acted as a vessel for Russian intelligence while chairing a senate committee – and knew he was doing it. https://t.co/5C081UaIhu
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) April 30, 2021
.@MaddowBlog: The FBI warned Sen. Johnson last year that he was "a target of Russian disinformation." He thought the smart move would be to blow off the FBI's concerns.https://t.co/faZKckrA8x
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 30, 2021
Katie Hill had to resign for consensual sex with an adult, but Matt Gaetz is still a member of Congress who sits on the Judiciary Committee and oversees the DOJ while being investigated by the DOJ for child rape.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) April 30, 2021
Ever wondered what Republican white male privilege is? This is it.
I reopen Twitter after a morning of work and … WHAT? Roger Stone was soliciting payments to obtain Trump pardons? IN WRITING??? https://t.co/wjgGXgjeu2
— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 30, 2021
Once just once I would like him to consult experts before popping off thoughtlessly and painting himself in a corner. Once. https://t.co/aqPPo1qzVb
— Jennifer "A man is not a plan" Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) April 30, 2021
In a special election in Texas, one Republican @michaelwoodtx is standing up to Trump and calling bullshit on election conspiracy theories.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) April 30, 2021
w/@ckmarie @jmoorheadcnn https://t.co/eQfXYYcDhH pic.twitter.com/56ImiU18oY
Former President Trump said he would consider tapping Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as his running mate in 2024 https://t.co/6OALLDaKed pic.twitter.com/gcZ6Usmn1S
— The Hill (@thehill) April 30, 2021
This needs way more attention: Trump & DeSantis called Florida a model for election integrity but GOP passed new bill rolling back voting access after 680,000 more Dems than Rs voted by mail & Black share of mail voting doubled in 2020 https://t.co/nTzJVy9qRe
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 30, 2021
With Florida Bill, Republicans Continue Unrelenting Push to Restrict Voting https://t.co/94S1BdtXOI
— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) April 30, 2021
“I listened to too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake," a Delaware County man told a judge after admitting he cast an illegal ballot last fall for former President Donald Trump in his dead mother’s name. https://t.co/yGysjDlbcj
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) April 30, 2021
They should have been forced to say: We provided a megaphone for wild accusations that we never found any supporting evidence for and we don't really operate as a news organization and henceforth it would be a mistake to call us such. https://t.co/IZmoHqwETH
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) April 30, 2021
The Overnight Note 