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Deputy Mayor of London for Transport | Deputy Chair @TfL | Former MEP for London, Vice-Chair @ep_environment and Deputy Leader @labmeps | he/ him

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1Oct 2, '18Ending free movement. On the left: your current free zone. You can work, travel, study, love, retire across this area. No visas. Includes non-EU members. On the right: your future 15.3×032k19k154
2Jul 27, '19When you order in imperial from a tailor who works in metric.11.2×037k7.1k100
3May 14, '19My granny worked as a typist to the German Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Graf von Schulenberg. He was executed in 1944 for plotting against Hitler. Half her family were wiped out9.3×028k7k69
4Feb 1, '20I reckon the UK should join the EU. Just a thought.5.8×022k2.7k27
5Mar 28, '19The Brexiters blame Remainers. They blame the civil service. They blame the EU27. They blame so-called "elites". They blame everyone but themselves: the very people who cooked up B5.6×015k5.2k101
6Oct 24, '18The people who sold us Brexit. They insult the civil service. They insult our neighbours. They insult those of us who argued against it. They do everything *except* deliver what th5.1×013k4.7k39
7Oct 13, '21Imagine, for a second, a govt where pandemic infection rate is highest in western world, fuel pumps run dry, food costs soar, PM goes on holiday and there’s an admission the centra4.6×014k3.5k83
8Jan 16, '20Taking my seat in Strasbourg for the last time after five and a half wonderful years. One day British MEPS will get to sit here again and represent our interests and work with our 4.3×014k1.8k30
9May 18, '20Brits will be the only citizens of a Western European country unable to travel, work, study and retire freely across their own continent. The biggest retraction in freedoms in livi4.0×011k3.6k38
10Sep 7, '21Funding the NHS from Brexit was literally Vote Leave’s signature promise. Can everyone see now what complete horse 💩 that was?3.9×013k2.7k20
11May 16, '21Because you campaigned for it?3.8×014k1.9k37
12Oct 19, '19Donald Tusk isn’t interested in whether the PM has signed the letter or not because, unlike the PM, he’s a grown-up.3.4×012k2k5
13Oct 1, '19Tories cheer the biggest removal of *your* rights in living memory. If they get their way, it’s bye-bye 👋🏼 to the right to live, work, study, retire across our continent. We’ll b3.3×08.6k3.2k16
14Feb 1, '17Why I held up that sign:3.3×06.3k3.5k8
15Oct 8, '19This is much more like it! H/t @HowfenLeyther2.8×08.3k2.4k16
16Jan 24, '20This is the saddest moment in my political career. The WA will pass the EP of course b/c the member states want this agreement. But I cannot and will not support something I know t2.8×07.4k1.2k21
17Dec 30, '20Tomorrow the UK will be the only major European country outside the single market - its people the only ones without free movement. It will be at a permanent disadvantage compared 2.8×09.4k1.6k25
18Jun 26, '20Farage has done incalculable damage to the UK - its cohesion, its place in the world - through his constant bile and desperation to sow division and whip up hatred at every opportu2.7×09.2k1.8k22
19Jul 14, '20Been wearing a mask in the shops - and in any enclosed venue - for weeks. I don’t consider it an affront to my freedom. If anything it’s another outlet for my expression!2.5×08.5k78514
20Jan 6, '21When the dust settles we need to have a serious conversation about how we equip people with the critical analytical skills they need in an increasingly online world. Sifting fact f2.5×07.7k1.3k69
21Sep 25, '21We were told the HGV driver shortage is Europe-wide, but now the government is trying to recruit drivers from across Europe. We were told the crisis isn’t caused by Brexit, but the2.5×07.6k2k32
22Sep 4, '19Brexit: What was promised is undeliverable and what is deliverable is undesirable. There’s not much more to it. We all want to move on, but we can’t pretend anymore. The only way f2.5×07.1k2.2k36
23Jul 4, '19Ann Widdecombe is Brexit in human form. Outmoded, deluded, embarrassing and totally unaware of the damage she causes to the country she professes to care about.2.4×08k1.5k6
24Feb 6, '19Tusk is right. You don’t get to launch a project - whose success depends on bringing down a key western alliance - with lies, false promises and nationalism and expect no-one to ca2.3×07.2k1.9k9
25Dec 13, '19If you see a friend, neighbour, colleage who’s an EU27 citizen - say hello. Ask if they’re ok. Ditto any Brits in EU27. The last three years have been unimaginable for them and the2.3×06.6k1.9k19
26Jun 15, '21As a former MEP I find it astonishing UK MPs get no vote on whether to approve trade deals. No EU trade deal can be passed without MEPs’ approval.2.2×06.9k1.6k19
27Apr 1, '19Of course the real reason Parliament cannot agree on a good, successful Brexit outcome is because *there isn’t one*. Every single Brexit option requires trade-offs that we’re not p2.2×06.7k1.9k5
28May 3, '19We do need to get on with Brexit. Get on with killing it. Before it kills us. It’s consuming all of our energy, time and resources whilst the country burns.2.2×07.2k1.5k5
29Mar 1, '20The European Convention on Human Rights predates the EU. It was born in the aftermath of the horrors of WW2. It was drafted by British human rights lawyers - who were leaders in th2.1×05.3k2.3k37
30Aug 11, '19According to Mail On Sunday The Brexit “War Cabinet” has accepted that food prices will rise in the case of No Deal, with the increased costs continuing into the next decade. That’2.1×05.4k2.1k10
31Jun 4, '20The point that is often lost when chlorinated chicken comes up is that it’s not just a food quality thing - it’s mostly about animal welfare. British farmers, scientists and animal2.1×06.1k1.9k22
32Apr 10, '19Steven Woolfe on @Channel4News saying the “Brexit Party” will cause real difficulties for the EU. Fat chance. If they’re anything like UKIP they’ll fart about in bars for most of t2.1×06.5k1.5k6
33May 27, '19The Brexit Party didn’t come from nowhere - they succeed UKIP. They didn’t inherit all of UKIP’s and the Tories’ seats. They managed to better UKIP’s 2014 total by only four. Given2.0×05.9k1.7k11
34Oct 18, '19The NI-only backstop was derided by Theresa May as something “no British PM could sign up to.” Johnson called it “a capitulation worse than Suez”. He humiliated & ousted her an2.0×05.8k1.9k24
35May 23, '20No honour, no dignity. The sight of ministers closing ranks to protect their own at the expense of public health discipline is appalling beyond words. It’s one thing to have everyd2.0×06.7k1.4k8
36Sep 18, '19Johnson’s first instinct was to lie. Without hesitation. This should be what we’re discussing - not the party affiliation of the father whose daughter is ill in the hospital.2.0×05.5k1.8k9
37Nov 19, '18There’s a kind of incredulity among EU27 colleagues here. None of them could ever imagine their countries willingly opting to make themselves poorer whilst subjecting themselves to1.9×05k1.9k11
38Dec 20, '19358 MPs vote to strip Brits of their rights to work, study, retire across their own continent; to put Britain on the path to global irrelevance and even break-up. Remain/ Leave may1.9×05.4k1.7k19
39Jul 2, '19UKIP did exactly the same five years ago: turned their backs on the young musicians of the Strasbourg Philharmonic. The Brexit Party is just the same old embarrassing waste of spac1.8×05.9k1.3k1
40Jun 17, '18There is no Brexit dividend.1.8×04.3k2.1k2
41Jan 21, '21“Siri, show me what *unsustainable* looks like”1.8×05.7k1.3k115
42Jul 10, '19I don’t want to live in a country led by the alt-right. It’s as simple as that. It’s why I fight Brexit and why I hope the scales will now fall from people’s eyes when they see wha1.8×05.9k1.2k5
43Mar 13, '19We currently have a government that will today offer its MPs a *free vote* on whether, in 17 days, we: - plunge into recession - lose access to food, medicine - cripple supply chai1.7×04.4k1.6k3
44Aug 28, '19May’s Government opposed a confirmatory referendum because they knew people wouldn’t back the deal. Now Liar Johnson’s Government shuts down Parliament because they know MPs won’t 1.7×04.8k1.6k7
45Oct 17, '19No, Juncker cannot rule out an extension. No, voting against this appalling deal does not mean you are actively supporting “no deal” Yes, the Benn Act still applies Yes, the EU27 w1.7×04.3k1.7k15
46Jun 1, '18Hi Digby 👋🏼 I’m elected. You’re not. PS - if we’re to be a modern economy we’ll have to adhere to European standards on a range of things. Your Brexit simply removes any British 1.6×04k1.4k1
47Oct 16, '19Every now and then you have to stop and remember this entire debacle is all about keeping the Tory Party together. It’s got zip to do with making the country a better place.1.6×04.9k1.3k2
48Jan 30, '19In EP chamber MEPs are discussing Brexit. Juncker states there must be no return to a hard border in Ireland. Shout of “why?!” from Tory/ UKIP benches. FFS. Given how central peace1.6×04.3k1.5k5
49Oct 27, '19His party sent a minister to lobby me personally to weaken the EU’s proposed *minimum* targets for waste recycling. The idea that this government wants to strengthen our environmen1.6×04k1.7k14
50Sep 23, '21Petrol⛽️ shortages. Last time that happened the Labour govt polled 📉below the Tories for the first and only time since 1992. This time it’s coupled with supermarket shortages, tax1.6×05.3k1k13
51Sep 20, '18The PM’s humiliation in Salzburg has been there for all to see for months. May refused to listen, and this is the inevitable result. The choice has *always* been: - retain trade; h1.5×04.5k1.3k4
52Nov 15, '18Astonishing that the lead “benefit” of Brexit Deal as given by PM in her bizarre non-press conference was to laud the end of the freedoms of British citizens to travel, work and pl1.5×03.9k1.6k9
53Sep 18, '19My speech this morning to ⁦@Europarl_EN⁩ The blame for this debacle doesn’t lie with “remoaners” or the civil service but with people who promoted a fantasy. The Withdrawal Agreeme1.5×04.2k1.3k34
54Sep 12, '19He’s lying to you1.5×04.1k1.4k4
55Sep 25, '19Geoffrey Cox booming like a pantomime act or Facebook ads decrying a “Remainer Parliament” - it all boils down to this: *What was promised is undeliverable. What’s deliverable is u1.5×04.2k1.3k21
56Dec 19, '20Johnson wants a deal. And he knows that it’s the bare minimum the country needs to prevent chaos in the new year. But whether we get one all hangs on whether he can sell it to the 1.5×05.2k78726
57Jul 17, '18Brexiters suddenly declaring that Vote Leave criminality would not invalidate the result are trying to make electoral cheating the new normal. They didn’t cheat for the sake of it,1.4×03.2k1.7k1
58Jun 10, '18Anyone on the left who thinks there are “more pressing issues than Brexit”; who claims to care about working people but thinks “the country’s main priority” isn’t the threat of a £1.4×03.5k1.4k2
59Nov 18, '18May to say: “EU citizens will no longer be allowed to jump the queue ahead of engineers from Sydney or software developers from Delhi”. But what do British citizens get? We’ll lose1.4×03.4k1.3k7
60Nov 9, '20It needs saying again and again. Brits will be the only people in a major western European country unable to travel, live, work and retire freely in their own continent. UK kids wi1.3×03.4k1.2k17
61Jan 26, '20Labour lost because of Jeremy Corbyn and his inability over 3 years to explain why Brexit is bad for Britain. The idea Labour should have embraced the decline of our country and co1.3×03.5k82517
62Jul 24, '19Theresa May was awful, but at least she came into office with warm (and hastily abandoned) words of unity. Johnson just stood there and told everyone who doesn’t believe in Brexit 1.3×04.4k7526
64Jul 23, '21Well done @DawnButlerBrent! Nothing wrong with calling out liars in Parliament!1.3×04.7k6829
65Apr 28, '21When the PM resorts to shouting lie after lie to cover his tracks you know he’s in trouble #PMQs1.3×04.8k6692
66Jul 12, '19Just sat through the horror of the @afneil interviews. As ever he was excellent, but I can’t escape the fact that *this* is the choice before us. A country of 65m where free debate1.3×04.5k7298
67Oct 2, '18Last week I met a “low-skilled” Romanian who came to London. Having worked in bars to make ends meet she now has a PhD, speaks perfect English and has a well-paid job. She doesn’t 1.3×03.6k1.1k7
69Jul 27, '19I’m genuinely interested to know how it is possible to have learnt absolutely nothing about the world around you in three excruciating years.1.2×04.2k77610
70Apr 13, '19Farage screams betrayal and the media lap it up. It’s so lazy, and easy. It writes itself. But nothing is thwarting Brexit more than the idea itself. The reality of it is not what 1.2×03.7k1k2
71Aug 21, '18There’s a very simple answer to this question: “No. There are no circumstances in which Britain would be better off outside the EU.”1.2×03.2k1.2k3
72Jul 2, '19Best thing about the new Parliament is Farage being up in the rafters near the pigeons. He didn’t succeed in forming a group, receives no additional funding and we aren’t subject t1.2×04.4k6629
73Dec 12, '20So they’ve had a go at the French. Now it’s the Germans. Nice. Classy. Instead of seeing consequences of what they campaigned for, the Daily Mail/ Mail on Sunday are acting like a 1.2×04.1k61517
74Jan 9, '21Wow. This government really is the absolute pits.1.2×04.1k81213
75Jan 10, '21By ending free movement, this govt has put UK citizens at a *huge* disadvantage compared to EU. Jobs and skills of the future will rely on networks. As the only citizens in W. Euro1.2×03.9k79414
76Oct 31, '19The country isn’t “exploding”. There aren’t riots. People are going about their business - just like they did on 29th March. Why? Because leaving the EU is a minority obsession tha1.2×03.7k9636
77Nov 5, '18There’s a fatal flaw in the “we didn’t want Brexit, but people voted for Brexit, so we have to do Brexit” line: how Brexit was sold. We now recognise the damage. But we forget it w1.2×03.5k9785
78Nov 7, '19Whatever your views on Labour how anyone in their right mind who cares about this country could look at this shitshow of a government and its Prime Minister - whose career has trad1.2×03.7k8756
79Aug 12, '20Ben & Jerry’s shows how thin-skinned the government and its cheerleaders are. No wonder so many businesses stay schtum about Brexit, preferring to just hope for the best. This 1.2×03.8k8425
80Jun 8, '21Lord Frost: “legal action won’t make it easier shoppers in Strabane or the small biz in Ballymena struggling to source from supplier in Birmingham.” Correct. Which is why Brexit (w1.2×04.1k7287
81Jan 21, '20The lack of discussion on the fact that every single one of the UK’s devolved assemblies (except London, which doesn’t get a vote on this and wld probably vote no) has voted to wit1.2×03.3k1.1k15
82Sep 6, '19It’s great that Parliament has rightly said no to no deal. So far it’s: ❌ no to no deal ❌ no to a bad deal So now is the time to give people of this country the chance to end this 1.2×04.1k7034
83Apr 24, '20When all is said and done, it’s fundamentally a really bad idea to turn our backs on our European neighbours in favour of a man who is “interested” in injecting disinfectant as a w1.2×03.7k8645
84Jun 2, '19If only science could produce an answer as to how someone so viscerally thick and unpleasant as Ann Widdecombe ends up in elected office.1.1×03.8k6931
85Jun 2, '18Hi Julia, In a democracy, being part of the 48% doesn’t deny me the *right* to continue to speak out. When Brexit is so clearly damaging to Britain’s place in the word and its pros1.1×03.4k9402
86Jun 13, '21What an absolute car crash of a summit. And all because we’re governed by weapons-grade charlatans and fantasists. Britain is so much better than this.1.1×04.1k5596
87Jun 5, '20Its *four* years on and it’s the same problem Johnson won’t admit. You cannot leave a club and demand the benefits of that club without following its rules. The remaining members o1.1×03.3k1k12
88Nov 1, '20There is not a single issue to which Farage is ever the right solution.1.1×04k4094
89Dec 20, '20This is about as bad a crisis as I’ve ever seen and about as incompetent a government as I could ever have imagined. Feel like we’re at the centre of a Venn diagram of epic 💩.1.1×04.1k46712
90Mar 1, '19In 20 years’ time we’ll either be like: “Why did MPs and large parts of civic society suspend their critical faculties and put what was then the UK on a path to sad decline followi1.1×03.3k8036
91Jan 21, '19Struck today by the madness at home. No-one outside UK I talk to thinks we’re doing a good thing. Earlier on TV I said UK should remain. Given it’s a position most polls say is now1.1×03.2k8381
92Jul 16, '19Some Brexit supporters asking gleefully when the confirmatory vote on the Commission President is. It’s in October. First the EP decides whether to accept the member states’ nomina1.0×03.4k7089
93Apr 18, '19Very honoured to have been reselected and placed second on @LondonLabour list for the probable European Elections in May. We are a brilliant team. We will make the unashamed case f1.0×03.3k5407
94Dec 20, '19I suspect we’re at “peak Brexit” where support in the public, media and Parliament is at its highest. But at some point very few will admit to ever having supported it. With that c1.0×03.5k6037
95Dec 12, '19We shouldn’t leave the EU, but clearly we will. I look forward to the campaign to re-join and I look forward to it being led by a passionate, committed pro-European, internationali1.0×03.6k5407
96Jan 12, '21The only reason Priti Patel is Home Secretary is because she is there to antagonise “the liberals”/ woke/ whatever nonsense label people get given in this ludicrous culture war. It1.0×03.6k54613
97Nov 17, '24Like lots and lots of others I’m now (for the time being, also) on here ⬇️1.0×10k702
98Oct 14, '20Brexiters: you did this.1.0×03.3k52911
99Sep 24, '19That was the most astonishing reading of the riot act I have ever heard. The PM must resign.0.9×03.3k6083
101Dec 31, '20Today marks an end. But also a beginning. The emperor is about to strut about the place completely naked. Ministers and tabloids will want to praise his tailors’ refinery. Make you0.9×03.2k4505

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