Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12

  • Advice for @vodafone – difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is traditionally a few years inside… #mademesmile #
  • Re. Contact being made between Camilla and protester – it's ok – protester was fine after trauma counselling… #demo2010 #
  • RT @robkelsall: RT @tertiary: Probably the most important wikileaks document, to date: http://tinyurl.com/2vw9f2g #
  • #Labour – perhaps you could also reach out to those of us on the left you dumped a decade and a half ago? http://is.gd/iBpTP #
  • #Labour must start providing coherent, firm and reasoned opposition. No more sound bites, hand-ringing or platitudes. We're watching. #
  • RT @agnt_orange: RT @Charlesm186: #labour now decides it opposes #hs2 – it is a party of cynical protest not real opposition #
  • Met Chief offered to resign over royal car damage. Guess that means he thought that beating up folks was part of the job? #demo2010 #
  • Police release pictures of people they want to interview re. #demo2010 can I ask that they ID their bad eggs as well, please? #
  • RT @madeinsheffmag: Venue in Sheffield? Send us your upcoming events so we can make sure we list them! Please Retweet (C) #
  • RT @StevieWise: Wow. A student in a Sheffield co-op just greeted Nick Clegg with "hello you cunt" according to reliable sources. Brilliant. #
  • Bigots from Westboro Baptist Church protest at Elizabeth Edwards Funeral – http://is.gd/izlAv – must read a different Bible than I do… #
  • RT @PennyRed: Also, for all who didn't see it, here's my writeup of Thursday's kettle. Please RT and disseminate. http://bit.ly/flIPPl #
  • RT @PennyRed: Charlie Gilmour is nothing to do with the student movement. He turned up for a party and caused trouble from the start. Twat. #
  • So…Chuck and Cam end up in #demo2010 after either being sent there or after security failure. Conspiracy or cock-up? You choose…. #
  • re. Royal Wedding. It's a Bank Holiday…we could all take the day off and go and cheer…and stuff….and…more stuff… #
  • Bugger….a domain I registered has fallen through the cracks! #
  • Eeek…really need to check my Twitter account for spammers, etc. today – been ages since I did that! #
  • Insurance companies charge more if you fit winter tyres…sigh…why bother? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11969958 #
  • Strange days. A postal delivery before I get up in the morning? Not had one of those for years! #
  • The term kettle comes from 'kessel' – German for Cauldron. In other words you're chucking folks in a pot to boil…. #demo10 #demo2010 #
  • Not good with follow Fridays, but today – #ff @StarSparkle_UK, @PennyRed, @tonycarroll in reply to tonycarroll #
  • RT @CllrBenCurran: Petition to protect Sheffield Children's Hospital from LibDem/Tory cuts? You can do it here: http://tiny.cc/b18v3 #
  • A view of #demo10 / #demo2010 from a Marxist perspective… http://www.marxist.com/britain-the-student-revolt.htm #
  • From local sources…There are about 10 students outside nick cleggs office and about as many vans of riot police. tv too. #
  • RT @MediaActivist: RT @emmawass: Want to talk to any #sheffield students who went to the protest yesterday #demo2010 #
  • Photographs of #demo10 #demo2010 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/london_tuition_fee_protest.html #
  • RT @PennyRed: My report from yesterday is up now: http://bit.ly/flIPPl #
  • Beautiful sky this evening….new weather forecast saying 'Red sky at night, Whitehall's alight…' #demo2010 #
  • We've now hit the punchline of the old joke – Whoever you vote for, the Government always gets in. None fit for purpose. #
  • #Coulson case – quelle surprise…no charges. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11930168 #
  • Useful alternative viewpoint of the protests from The Guardian. http://is.gd/iv34x #fb #
  • RT @PennyRed: One of the injured students who came back to @ucloccupation last night. Baton wounds visible http://twitpic.com/3emrgv #
  • RT @PennyRed: Have woken up ill. Am going to push through and finish this article, the story needs to be told. Don't believe the news. #
  • After #demo2010 shows the ability of the police to control protest, perhaps just as well we didn't get World Cup…. #
  • Student trying to leave demo whacked with truncheon, awaiting brain surgery. http://is.gd/iudKk #demo2010 #
  • Maybe rioting is the NEW Politics?? RT @Paulscriven: Ha ha just stood down from @tobyfostershow as they want to do rioting not politics!!!! #
  • BBC reports 43 students in hospital, other reports 114 – what's the true figure? #demo2010 #dayx3 #
  • What a big, fat, freakin' surprise. RT @Daily_Telegraph: Andy Coulson phone-hacking investigation to be dropped http://tgr.ph/dKcchu #
  • RT @worldtreeman: the balance needs to be adressed here….yes, the violence was bad at protests, but the police WERE violent too! #
  • RT @davidallengreen: Only mere 'restraint' prevented shooting and killing students. Is that where we now are at? #R4Today #
  • RT @davidallengreen: Police Commissioner: cops showed 'restraint' in not killing students. Dear god. #R4Today #
  • RT @MaeveMckeown: Police still kettling ppl on westminster bridge. Reports of ppl passing out. Pls retweet. The media aren't reporting. #
  • RT @leashless: RT @losttourist: This will surely become an iconic photograph: http://goo.gl/tHE0V #dayx3 #demo2010 #
  • Sky can show picture of tw@t swinging from a flag on Cenotaph – TOTALLY out of order – but not of man hauled from wheelchair? #demo2010 #
  • Europhiles should be happy – we're embracing various European habits…like rioting….. 🙂 #
  • Top Shop windows trashed on Oxford Street – I wonder why…oh yes…TAX! #demo2010 #demo10 #
  • RT @edn1970: @JoePritchard @Wendy_Wells @omnivorist The protesters should photograph all the police on the way out… #
  • RT @StarSparkle_UK: RT @littlefishey: Charles and Camilla thought they'd been driven to a showing of 'Poor People-3D'. #
  • RT @LollapaloozaLol: A car was kicked. A car. A man was dragged out of a wheelchair earlier by a policeman and injured. Report on that. #
  • Someone kicks a car carrying a middle aged couple to the theatre – hardly an 'attack'. #demo2010 #
  • RT @Wendy_Wells: RT @omnivorist: Police seem to be insisting that everyone leaving Parliament Square is photographed #demo2010 #
  • Hmmm….demo#2010 – protesters have attached the Monarchy, Executive, Judiciary…almost a lesson in constitutional matters! #
  • RT @robkelsall: You know how they say "don't believe everything you read on wikipedia"? How about that applies with wikileaks? #
  • Guys, there is no point in breaking in to Treasury building…there's no money left in there after the last lot…. #
  • RT @Wendy_Wells: interesting map http://j.mp/dayx3 #
  • Might be entertaining if Police used CS Gas at the Treasury protest…if wind shifted we might get gassed politicians… #demo10 #demo2010 #
  • RT @VizTopTips: CONVINCE people that you're a Lib Dem MP by just leaving the room when asked to make an important decision. /via @Birdflaps #
  • Attacks on Government buildings do NOT help the protester's cause – pack it in, guys. #demo10 #demo2010 #
  • Apparently a group of 13 year olds caught in the kettle were turned back in to kettle by police. Damn tough, these kids. #demo2010 #demo10 #
  • RT @StarSparkle_UK: RT @crapital: just been dragged out by police, next to me they're dragging @pennyred. police extremely violent #demo2010 #
  • #VinceCable – why do you say you're going to listen to people AFTER you've voted? #
  • RT @PennyRed: They're crushing us on Whitehall. A woman behind me is screaming. #
  • The #libdem dictionary: Pledge – furniture polish. Principles – shop in High Street. Scruples – Russian currency. #
  • That probably puts the tin hat on AV as well…. #
  • The fuckwits with the fences need dealing with – they're not representative of most protesters at all. #demo2010 #demo10 #
  • RT @davidallengreen: RT @Markfergusonuk: Liberal Democrats – time of death, 17.41 – December 9th 2010 #
  • Government win by 21 votes – close enough to make the Government worried? #demo2010 #demo10 #
  • Hope folks don't lose it after the vote – kicking off would play right in to the Government's / Police's hands. #demo2010 #demo10 #
  • That woman from the Met is on TV again…I STILL don't believe a word she's saying… #demo2010 #demo10 #
  • Simon Hughes rushed to hospital with splinters in arse. 'That fence is bloody rough,' he complained. #demo2010 #demo10 #
  • ROFL!!!! RT @davidallengreen: Brilliant, in 200 years our protests have progressed from Peterloo to Portaloo. #demo2010 #
  • Just watched the female senior Met Officer give a statement. I am usually supportive of the Police; why don't I believe her? #demo2010 #
  • RT @StarSparkle_UK: RT @journodave: Think this may makes the papers. Police face off with man in Wheelchair http://twitpic.com/3ed5tq #dayx3 #
  • RT @sheilascoular: Why have the police dragged a man out of his wheelchair and beaten him up? Don't they know their job is to protect public #
  • RT @PennyRed: Horses just charged on protesters who are jammed and can't go anywhere. Kids now throwing paint at horses. #
  • #demo2010 #demo10 – Met. Police has confirmed that kettle to be established around Parliament Square. #
  • RT @PennyRed: The crush is awful. I just got trampled, in lots of pain. Cops still beating ppl, kids going mental. #
  • #demo10 #demo2010 – media being asked by police to ensure they film the abuse they're experiencing. Awww…diddums. #
  • #demo10 #demo2010 – media definitely pushing the 'wounded policeman' angle and ignoring the injured protesters. #
  • #demo10 – can the paintbombs being thrown be used at all to mark police officers who're being heavy handed? #
  • Funny how I get the 'good natured' bloocks from the news and a whole different picture from people on the ground… #
  • RT @PennyRed: Guardian journalist @shivmalik just got beaten bloody by police baton #
  • Any helmet numbers here? RT @PennyRed: They're beating up a guy they just dragged out of a wheelchair! #
  • Micro companies invited to apply for innovation funding by UK Gov. http://is.gd/irrVV #
  • RT @davidallengreen: Let's stand up for the freedom of the internet by, er, closing down websites… #EndsJustifyMeansMyArse #
  • re. cages – maybe they could be used to keep the MPs in? Like a jail…… 😉 @PennyRed in reply to PennyRed #
  • #OperationPaybak – Twitter next?? So…freedom of speech is fine if you agree with what we say? #
  • Apparently the #Wikileaks hackers have warned Twitter – 'You're next' – I await the reaction of the hacker's supporters when that happens.. #
  • Where the Hell do we in the UK start? RT @anticorruption: Today is Anti-Corruption Day. Look out and let us know what you are doing. #
  • RT @ZiggyKinsella: The future of writing: stop being sel-published and become an indie http://fecklessgoblin.blogspot.com/ #
  • Red, Blue or nothing? OR – Community, Principles and Values vs Opportunism, Greed and Selfishness? @Art_Li @StarSparkle_UK #
  • Joe's Jotting post on Steven Neary case – http://is.gd/io4IW – detained without trial? #
  • Taking down sites to protest about #Wikileaks being taken down is like 'fighting for peace' or 'fucking for virginity' as folks used to say. #
  • Before wetting yourself with excitement at #Wikileaks – look closer to home at the case of Autism sufferer Steven Neary. http://is.gd/inDZY #
  • RT @stuffiwrote: "What's the capital of Ireland? About €5. That concludes today's budget announcement." @artied @aspoireland #collapsonomics #
  • #wikileaks / Assange. Calm down. the sky is not falling. Wikileaks will continue. Journalists get busted / killed EVERY DAY. #
  • RT @metofficeYorks: FLASH Warning of Heavy Snow for Yorkshire & Humber valid from 1300 Tue 07 Dec to 2359 Tue 07 Dec http://bit.ly/eh3onl #
  • According to BBC Breaking News, #wikileaks Assange has been nicked. #
  • RT @realchrisdowson: RT @thedailymash: TRAPPED SCOTTISH DRIVERS FORCED TO DEEP FRY EACH OTHER http://bit.ly/eLfSzi #
  • Any weather experts in #Sheffield – are we expecting more snow today or is the sky just bluffing right now? #
  • agreed – @davidallengreen @suzannemoore197 not at all convinced of his motives. More egotistical anarchy than open information. in reply to davidallengreen #
  • Via various! – version incorporating "coughs" http://bit.ly/go7laX #CuntGate #
  • RT @davidallengreen: And finally, #CuntGate on YouTube (though without the "coughing fit") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1G6osCnsbA #
  • I love the spam I get… 'A healthier way of smoking'…that's today's winner so far! #
  • Was cool to see Venus in the Southern sky when I got up this morning…actually, was COLD to see Venus…. #
  • RT @shanegreer: Wikileaks has gone 2 far with publication of facilities vital to US nat security. Assange is doing terrorists' work for them #
  • RT @Pierre_Paperon: Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. John Lennon #
  • RT @jamesgraham: Every time a Lib Dem goes on the radio and denies voting to raise fees breaks a promise, the baby Jesus cries. Stop it. … #
  • RT @davidallengreen: Whoopsie, Jim Naughtie has just said Jeremy Cunt (not Hunt) and affected to have a coughing fit… #r4 #today #
  • Temp. below zero, James Naughtie uses the bad 'c' word, I'm not leaving the house today and I have strong tea. Excellent start to week! #

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