Anyone planning to stay up all night listening to Nick Robinson on R4? #bbcpm #bbcwt #localelections

We were told earlier that the #SNP definitely doesn't want #KateForbes to stand. I hope this powermongering male hierarchical stance makes her more determined to stand. #wato #bbcpm

That's the world at 1.45.... actually the BBC's narrow version of it. #wato

When did Tories start entering politics for self-aggrandizement and pocket lining rather than helping people? Much worse with Johnson but rot probably started with Cameron or before. #wato #bbcpm #r4today #c4news

Why was the suspect flanked by 4 custody officers? Two would do. What a waste of resources. #wato #HainaultAttack #bbcpm

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A few minutes ago Scottish editor James Cook must have been pleased that (unlike the other day) Chris wasn't brought on afterwards to masonsplain what James had just said.

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Scottish politicians resorting to that emotive cliche 'the people of Scotland' should be immediately banned from public office. #wato

Please stop this endless speculation on BBC Radio 4 about Scottish politics - boring and pointless. #wato #bbcpm

'In this new UK, refugees are just clickbait. Torture porn. Something to excite Richard Tice and Lee Anderson. Hell, why not give us a bit of tasering action for the director’s cut?' #wato #bbcpm
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'Electile dysfunction'! #wato #bbcpm #c4news
'There’s a hint of desperation in everything the government is doing. The absurd publicity stunt of a volunteer offering to have himself returned to Rwanda..Just to be able to say the flights have begun when they obviously haven’t'.

Quite. It's yet another attempt to justify their existence. #wato #AbolishTheMonarchy

Given the prevalence of government narrative and collusion of #MSM . we need to constantly fight the normalisation of the Tories' evil performative cruelty. #LocalElections2024 #wato #bbcpm #r4today #c4news

Being snapped with Johnny Mercer won't do Andy Street any favours. #wato #

#r4today editors should have known this. 08.10 piece perpetuates the biomedical narrative of #mentalhealth , only addressing symptoms. #wato #bbcpm

'Rather than an honest assessment of their own failures, all the Tories can do is blame sufferers. It is a grotesque distortion that callously sacrifices vulnerable people for political gain'. #mentalhealth #LocalElections #wato #bbcpm
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'This govt's “moral mission” to reform welfare is an attempt to blame on individuals a problem that can only be explained systemically. The rising disability bill is not down to duplicitous claimants, but widespread and disastrous cuts...' #r4today #PIP
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'Stride sells us a story where people just rock up at their GP surgery and offer up a few symptoms they’ve Googled. Then, with their diagnosis in hand, they are given £000 a month. This couldn’t be more of a misrepresentation of how hellish the process of claiming Pip often is'.

'those diagnoses are the speakable ways of labelling the very real impact on body and psyche resulting from hardship, a pandemic and a lack of opportunity. It is then made all the worse by the Tories’ demolition of the #mentalhealth infrastructure needed to recover'.
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#r4today #wato #mentalhealth #PIP
'I speak from experience when I say politicians propagating these obscenely simplistic and false narratives have the potential to drive vulnerable patients to self-harm and increased suicidal tendencies'.
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Vile election dog whistle. #r4today #mentalhealth #wato #bbcpm
'Targeting people who need support for depression and anxiety will only make these growing problems worse'.
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