Thursday’s @DailyMirror front page: Booze, nibbles and party games until the early hours…
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) December 2, 2021
The very next day Boris Johnson ‘cancelled’ Christmas for millions of people.https://t.co/Y6iqZ9Y2rS pic.twitter.com/fGtfajF3Tr
BTW – this Tory Christmas party thing, that twenty years ago would have finished a government, will have zero impact on them.
— IT'S YOUR DECISION, DANIEL (@MrKenShabby) December 2, 2021
Downing Street Christmas party claims: Playing by the rules? https://t.co/OlDt1sH8Hs
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 2, 2021
Keir Starmer urges PM to “look behind you” to Tory benches where a couple of dozen MPs still aren’t wearing face masks.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) December 1, 2021
“As ever it’s one rule for them, one rule for everybody else”. #PMQs
this is awkward for Matt Hancock https://t.co/vqjluV5gxA
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) December 1, 2021
The National Audit Office found that PPE suppliers with links to Conservative MPs were ten times more likely to be awarded contracts than those who applied to the Health Department.
— Anneliese Dodds 💙 (@AnnelieseDodds) November 30, 2021
Today Matt Hancock tried to argue with me about that fact. He lost. pic.twitter.com/ZDLNFFFDUG
Well, Matt Hancock has returned to Parliament to answer @AnnelieseDodds and he's now told a straight lie. He says "the Department of Health does not have a say in sub-contracting arrangements" but… pic.twitter.com/kwi8D8ds5a
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) December 1, 2021
“What an absolute load of rubbish… Did anyone else’s friends get contracts?”
— Peston (@itvpeston) December 1, 2021
Watch @JessPhillips and @MattHancock disagree over the handling of PPE contracts during the pandemic.
#Peston pic.twitter.com/RGQTvD2IPq
Johnson plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, pretending it's an EU law.
— A Very British Coup (@VBritishCoup) December 1, 2021
It's not.
It's a UK law which lets you defend your rights in UK courts and compels public organisations – including government and the police – to treat everyone equally, with fairness, dignity and respect.
Tory MP asks the PM when he will repeal the Human Rights Act. PM promises to certainly review it.
— Mhairi Black MP🏳️🌈 (@MhairiBlack) December 1, 2021
Any mention of corruption is drowned out by the jeers of a Government that thinks it’s untouchable.
If you’re not horrified, you’re not paying attention. #PMQs
Rosindell on his feet at PMQs calling for the abolition of the Human Rights Act. Here's a helpful guide to his view of who deserves to be treated like 'human beings'… https://t.co/OzVDlbh3tB
— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) December 1, 2021
And yet you were quiet about this in London the other day 🤔 pic.twitter.com/0z2yUmWWmq
— Ian Summer 🏴#FBSI (@iansummer1) December 2, 2021
Shouldn't you be covering the real dodgy prince?
— Gerry McK (@GMcK2012) December 2, 2021
EU frustration growing with U.K. not closing deal on medicines. Tactically, though, you can see the U.K. won’t want to hand EU a ‘Win’ in the magnanimity stakes until they’ve got more on customs/borders /1 https://t.co/TJLtB4s45H
— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) December 2, 2021
Polls open in Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election https://t.co/BY5neAsCaJ
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 2, 2021
Nervousness grows in CCHQ as Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election approaches.
— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) November 30, 2021
Chief whip has emailed Tory MPs urging them to join a “dawn raid” on polling day and calling for “as many hands as possible”.
One says: “They are shitting themselves.”
Anything less than 50% for the Conservatives would be very disappointing for them. Labour should be looking at 35% for a good result, Reform should keep their deposit (5%), no one else should keep their deposit or be in four figures.
— Yelling About Elections (@YellElections) December 2, 2021
By election eve
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 1, 2021
Reminder of the 11 candidates in Old Bexley and Sidcup- a seat which has been Conservative (in its various iterations) since 1950. pic.twitter.com/F86twEbKfD
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The grift never ends, the gall never ceases to amaze
NEW — Donald Trump knowingly put at risk the lives of Gold Star families, wealthy donors at a Minnesota fundraiser, then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden, White House staff, the crews of Air Force One, and others.https://t.co/NZjcPBfphx
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) December 2, 2021
In TV interviews last year, Trump implied that Gold Star families had infected him with COVID at a reception on Sept. 27.
— Will Saletan (@saletan) December 2, 2021
We now know that Trump, as he delivered that smear, was aware that he had tested positive on Sept. 26.
His depravity is bottomless. https://t.co/GUUSXCtIZe
Mark Meadows could have revealed at any point in the last year that Trump tested positive for COVID three days before his first debate against Joe Biden. He chose to wait until now so that he could use that information to promote his book.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 2, 2021
Still mindblowing that Meadows wrote this book then RT'd Trump denying the claim in the book https://t.co/nk3VMEB9E7
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) December 1, 2021
The right hasn't just formed a cult around a *bad* person, they've formed a cult about what is arguably the single most reprehensible & repugnant human being alive. It's quite something. https://t.co/sl90vHeOKf
— David Roberts (@drvolts) December 1, 2021
Cheney:Trump has recently suggested that he wants to debate members of this committee. Any communications Mr. Trump has with this committee will be under oath and if he persists in lying then, he will accountable.. and subject to criminal penalties for every false word he speaks pic.twitter.com/fO169OS5lX
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2021
Today, Justice Sotomayor asked her fellow Justices to consider the stench of politics that would taint the Court if it reverses Roe & upholds a law explicitly passed by Mississippi legislators following Trump additions to the Court. Turns out, Mississippi isn’t the only one. https://t.co/HHdIGOVtbH
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) December 2, 2021
Y'all. Justice Sotomayor can count votes. She knows where this is headed… either viability is gone or Roe is gone.
— Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray) December 1, 2021
Her questions are for the public… to let us know that abortion isn't the end. It's just beginning of the unraveling of these other rights of intimate life.
They’re going to either gut Roe or overturn it. Turns out 2016 was a pretty consequential election.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 1, 2021
One by one, the Republican-appointed justices came before the Senate and promised they’d respect precedent. They’d respect settled law. Well, Roe v. Wade has been law for nearly 50 years. So let’s see that respect. But we can’t wait—we must #EndTheFilibuster so we can codify Roe.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) December 1, 2021
In regard to the Supreme Court, what is there to say? As long as women’s rights can be decided by a set of nine political appointees, we are not free. It is poor women, and/or women of color and/or rural women who will suffer the most if Roe is overturned.
— roxane gay (@rgay) December 1, 2021
Oh Jesus please help us. Here we go again. Is she troubled?? Anxious?? Concerned?? Perplexed?? Baffled?? Ready to write a strongly worded letter that goes straight into her draft file?? All the above?? 🤔#DejaVu#Facepalm pic.twitter.com/f7q2maEcFL
— Patriots Preserve Democracy (@KayKaty) December 1, 2021
how awesome is it that Roe v Wade is in the hands of the guy who was so blackout drunk all through prep school and college that he literally can't remember how many women he sexually assaulted. ace fucking job there, America, take a victory lap
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 1, 2021
Two of the five judges who are poised to overturn Roe v Wade have been credibly accused of sexual harassment or assault.
— Leah Greenberg (@Leahgreenb) December 1, 2021
Three of the five were appointed by a President who lost the popular vote.
It looks vile and illegitimate because it is.
Expand the court.
Six years ago this month, Hillary Clinton tweeted that "A Republican president could nominate as many as 4 Supreme Court justices" & linked a warning that it could lead to the end of Roe v. Wade.
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) December 1, 2021
Her replies were filled with left-wingers accusing her of "fear mongering." pic.twitter.com/0lCRJKoMsB
But don’t Democrats already control the White House, the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate? Shouldn’t they be acting now to protect abortion rights? https://t.co/vRPdWJN8X9
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) December 2, 2021
Sidney Powell is now facing disbarment for repeatedly adding plaintiffs and co-counsel to her failed election fraud lawsuits without their consent or knowledge, either to establish standing or to have a licensed attorney able to file in that state. https://t.co/7QMmBEBKyn
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 2, 2021
Trump’s “stop the steal” effort was a grift… Bannon’s “build the wall” effort was a grift… Powell’s election overturning effort was a grift… It’s all a grift. Never-ending. Grifters. 💰 https://t.co/ivISNVgL5E
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) November 30, 2021
Michael Cohen: Trump Pulled Off the ‘Greatest Grift in U.S. History’
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) November 28, 2021
Factcheck: Accurate https://t.co/2Jbajd2lZT
Cohen doesn't believe Trump will run in 2024, even though he keeps saying "I'm thinking about it." That's to "keep the grift going," he added. https://t.co/S6fVW3P0M3
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 29, 2021
"[Trump's] and extreme danger because of his propagation of the Big Lie… that's his only business success. All indications are the Trump brand does terribly in the market but it does well as a matter of political fundraising" – @harrylitman w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/5WJYyQeKsx
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) November 30, 2021
The Overnight Note 