Twitter Bitch Fight of the Week: The Met and Just Stop Oil

Twitter bitch fight of the week goes to the Met Police and Just Stop Oil, as the gloves came off over a dispute on who was to blame for blocking the road on Waterloo Bridge. After Just Stop Oil protesters brought traffic to a halt, including an ambulance with a patient on board, the Met announced on X that arrests had been made as activists refused to get off the road. Ding ding…

Just Stop Oil fought back in their usual righteous fashion, protesting that it was the Met officers that were blocking the ambulance, not them. The Met snapped back at JSO, writing that the bridge was blocked thanks to “your activists…If [they] got up and moved to the pavement we could have reopened the road to release the traffic“. An unusual display of animation from the Met…


Good to see the Met sticking it to them online, now how about on the streets… 

mdi-timer 8 November 2023 @ 17:00 8 Nov 2023 @ 17:00 mdi-twitter mdi-facebook mdi-whatsapp mdi-telegram mdi-linkedin mdi-email mdi-comment View Comments
With Books to Publicise, Nadine Dorries & Chris Bryant Clash

Chairman of the Commons Standards Committee, Chris Bryant, has told the FT that he wants to see the restoration of a parliamentary rule from 1801 stating that “no member do presume to go out of town without leave of this House”, in an effort to force Nadine Dorries to follow through on her tweet saying she would immediately resign.

Nadine tweeted on June 9 that she would step downwith immediate effect in protest at not being given a peerage in Boris’s resignation honours list. Nadine subsequently said she was delaying her exit from the Commons while she seeks more information about the process regarding her peerage nomination. This morning she accused Bryant of being attention seeking:

Nadine also has her book “The Plot” coming out in time for Conservative Party conference in Manchester. Would Guido be too cynical in thinking that resigning her seat to coincide with the book launch would be handy publicity-wise?

mdi-timer 8 August 2023 @ 17:55 8 Aug 2023 @ 17:55 mdi-twitter mdi-facebook mdi-whatsapp mdi-telegram mdi-linkedin mdi-email mdi-comment View Comments
Twitter Bitch Fight of the Week: Jesse Norman vs Jolyon Maugham

This morning Jolyon Maugham decided to test his mettle once again in the Twitter Bitch Fight arena, as he laced up his gloves to face Transport Minister Jesse Norman. Ding ding…

Round one kicked off when Jolyon replied to Jesse’s tweet regarding sewage pollution, with the Kimono King jabbing Norman over the “disgraceful situation” in the River Wye:

Jesse immediately swung back, claiming Jolyon was “not well placed to call anything disgraceful” after his treatment of Norman’s wife… one Kate Bingham. Now it’s personal…

Jesse is, of course, referring to Jolyon’s accusation that Bingham had a “brazen conflict of interest” and “leaked confidential information to investors” as vaccine tsar in 2020. The same accusations that Jesse later printed onto a tea towel for Bingham’s birthday…

Tea towel drama aside, Jolyon stood his ground. The foxbeater wasn’t going down without a fight…

On the counterattack, Jesse replied:

On the ropes, Jolyon then claimed Norman was dodging his questions because he’s “afraid to criticise the powerful right wing newspapers that uncovered [Bingham’s abuses”:

At the end of the round, Norman hit the final haymaker by again sharing the decorative tea towel that still sits in the family kitchen. And pointing out that Jolyon had to withdraw legal action after realising it wouldn’t quite pan out…

Usually Guido leaves it to co-conspirators to decide the winner. In this case, there can be only one loser…

 

mdi-timer 16 February 2023 @ 10:54 16 Feb 2023 @ 10:54 mdi-twitter mdi-facebook mdi-whatsapp mdi-telegram mdi-linkedin mdi-email mdi-comment View Comments
Steve Bray Calls Owen Jones “An Insignificant Tw*t”

It’s the final Twitter bitch fight of the year, and who better to lace up their gloves one last time than two veterans of the ring: Steve Bray and Owen Jones. They’re back for round 2. 

Co-conspirators would be forgiven for thinking their inaugural bout back in September would be their first and last encounter. After all, the final bell rang when Bray decided to block Jones entirely. Today, however, in the spirit of Christmas, the prizefighters have given the people what they really want, and picked up where they left off:

Far be it for the likes of Steve Bray to hurl an insult like that at anyone. Jones inevitably swung back:

As always, Guido leaves it to co-conspirators to determine the victor…

mdi-timer 21 December 2022 @ 16:55 21 Dec 2022 @ 16:55 mdi-twitter mdi-facebook mdi-whatsapp mdi-telegram mdi-linkedin mdi-email mdi-comment View Comments
Twitter Bitch Fight of the Week: Owen Jones vs Steve Bray

Owen Jones has laced up his gloves and returned to the Twitter Bitch Fight arena for another bout. This time, in the blue and gold corner, it’s professional nuisance Steve Bray. Let battle commence.

The opening bell rang when Owen claimed “none of the FBPE types” had intervened when he was being heckled by Tommy Robinson’s goons outside Millbank in 2019. Here’s Owen’s own footage from that day…

Bray, who’s not exactly known for keeping quiet, piped up to say the FBPE crew had actually come to Owen’s rescue. Steve himself apparently even offered a reassuring hand once it was over, like the hero he really is:

Jones remembers things slightly differently, though…

Rather than apologising, Bray switched gears. Now, instead of offering a supporting hand, he’s insisting his own encounters with protesters were far worse anyway…

Obviously that didn’t land well with Owen. The fight continues…

The back-and-forth parrying goes on for a while longer, until Bray eventually lands the final blow in suggesting Owen’s footage simply didn’t capture the FBPE-ers bravery, and rather than continuing the fight, he’s just going to block Jones instead.

As always, Guido leaves it to co-conspirators to determine the winner…

mdi-timer 1 September 2022 @ 14:12 1 Sep 2022 @ 14:12 mdi-twitter mdi-facebook mdi-whatsapp mdi-telegram mdi-linkedin mdi-email mdi-comment View Comments
BBC Bias Twitter Bitchfight: Henderson Versus Lineker

Forget the Tory Birmingham husting, Guido was privileged to have a ring-side seat at the internecine BBC-on-BBC bias row of the year last night. In the red corner, doing his job and defending BBC impartiality: Neil Henderson, Home and Foreign News Editor & Tomorrow’s Papers Today tweeter; in the blue corner, doing his damndest to undermine the entire BBC: crisp muncher Gary ‘overpaid’ Lineker. Ding ding…

The row started over a day-old tweet from Lineker, who put all his little grey cells towards political commentary to come up with the fair and not-at-all-oversimplified take: “As a politician how could you ever, under any circumstances, bring yourself to vote for pumping sewage into our seas? Unfathomable!” Obviously no politician could – and they haven’t – though the tweet did its job by getting 44,000 likes…

Guido remembers the new BBC director general Tim Davie coming in on a promise of cracking down on BBC stars flouting impartiality rules, such as taking them off TwitterFellow BBC employee Neil Henderson made this exact point to Gary, saying he’d be sacked if he tried tweeting such political propaganda:

Unfortunately, it seems Gary is blithely unaware of the fact BBC impartiality applies across all colleagues, not just those in news and current affairs. Guido would be happy to take a look at Lineker’s contract on his behalf…

Neil had one last bite before deleting his spat entirely, probably realising the row was just as bad a look for the BBC as Gary’s unbridled politicking. Henderson correctly asserted: 

Guido looks forward to hearing Tim Davie’s thoughts on all this the next time he’s up in front of the DCMS Select Committee. Usually Guido leaves it to co-conspirators to decide who wins a bitch fight, this time there’s only one answer…

mdi-timer 24 August 2022 @ 09:08 24 Aug 2022 @ 09:08 mdi-twitter mdi-facebook mdi-whatsapp mdi-telegram mdi-linkedin mdi-email mdi-comment View Comments
Previous Page Next Page