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Prime Minister’s Questions with Mrs Mike

Dominic Raab: If he had heard some of the things Mrs Mike said about him while he was standing in for Boris Johnson at PMQs today, his ears may well have turned blue and fallen off.

Mrs Mike swears at politicians.

Admittedly, she only swears at them on the TV – she would never be so rude to their faces (except in certain extreme cases, or the case of certain extremists) – and mostly during Prime Minister’s Questions.

I’ve been looking for a way to share this with you for a considerable period of time – partly because I think the reaction of someone who isn’t a professional pundit may be informative – and finally wore her down with a promise to ‘bleep’ out some of the words she uses with appropriate sound effects.

Thus was born PMQs with Mrs Mike.

This is a pilot project; a first effort to see how it goes, if you like. It happened on a day when Boris Johnson was dodging the bullets, having arranged to make his speech to the Conservative conference at the same time like the coward he is.

Instead, Dominic Raab took the flak from my significant other. What follows is a selection of her output, taken from questions by backbenchers.

Here’s the clip:

Constructive criticism will be welcomed as I’m hoping to make this a regular occurrence.

Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.

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This reader’s video of support for Mike’s libel fight against Rachel Riley is humbling

I haven’t been keeping up with Twitter as much as I should recently. I know, it’s remiss of me, but when one is under attack by people who are constantly lying, it can be a little wearing.

Sadly, it means I may have been missing some incredibly strong messages of support as well.

I’ve never met Cornish Damo, except online, where I have enjoyed his contributions to This Site and to Twitter. I had no idea of the effect my articles have had on him until I saw what follows. See for yourself:

That’s the kind of response that makes me proud – not just of my stand against bullies like Rachel Riley, but all of it – the site, the people who read it, and the effect I have had – inasmuch as it is possible to have an effect with a low-readership politics web page.

It also humbles me to be part of something that now seems much larger.

Are there any more such contributions that I should see? Perhaps I could show them in court, to show the judge how right-thinking people have responded to my articles.

I won’t go through all the usual rigmarole about contributing to the crowdfunding campaign. If what you’ve just seen has encouraged you to donate, please visit https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/mike-sivier-libel-fight/

Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.

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Little things can make a huge difference – especially in Mike’s libel case

The CrowdJustice campaign raising funds to fight libel claims against me (Mike Sivier) by Rachel Riley and Tracy Ann Oberman has reached – and passed – its stretch target of £25,000. Thanks and well done, everyone!​

Sadly Ms Riley has filed court proceedings individually and this means I need at least £10,000 more, in order to mount a successful initial defence. I may need much more later, if this celebrity persists in trying to prove that she has enough money to silence me.

(Because, let’s face it, she doesn’t have a case. She did what I said she did, and it had the consequences I described. Her entire strategy is to price me out of justice with expensive proceedings.)

That’s why I am so grateful that more than 1,000 people have stood up to support me, with average donations of around £25.

But I wanted to say that the smaller donations are just as important as the larger ones. They show that justice has popular support.

That’s why I have been dismayed to read some of the self-deprecating comments attached to the smaller donations: “Sorry I can’t pledge more”, “Wish I could give more”, “It’s all I can afford”.

Those donations are just as valuable to me as the large amounts. Those of you who are digging deep to find something to give clearly value what I’m doing very much – and that is hugely important to me, and to this case.​

It has been said that good journalism isn’t writing what those in power want people to read – that’s public relations. Good journalism is publishing what they don’t want you to know.

It is hugely important to be able to demonstrate that people of all walks of life – especially those who don’t have much to spare – value this.

If you can’t afford more than a fiver – so what? If I had 1,000 such donations, I’d be halfway towards the sum I need to mount a successful defence against Ms Riley at the forthcoming preliminary hearing.

I would hate to think people were being put off because they don’t think they can give enough.

So now I have to take you all back to the usual instructions:

If you haven’t done so already, please email five of your friends, asking them to pledge to this case. If you have, please email five more.

You could also post a link to Facebook, asking your friends to pledge. Again, the address is https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/mike-sivier-libel-fight/

If you’re on Twitter, you could tweet in support, quoting the address of the appeal.

And if you can afford it, please consider pledging some more cash yourself.

Super-rich Rachel Riley wants more than £100,000 from me – despite the fact that I’m a carer with hardly two beans to rub together – not for justice but because she thinks she can. You are helping prove her wrong with your donations – no matter what the amount may be.

Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.

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Mrs Mike’s emotional support for Vox Political writer against Riley lawsuit

Yes: It’s the “truth v money” clip-art again. Live with it. I have to.

Those of you who follow my Vox Political website will be aware that I am a carer for a person with a long term illness and disabilities – and I have to report that she isn’t happy.

I don’t think there’s much to say beyond her own words, so here she is:

“Woke up bad after Mike got his letter saying Rachel Riley is taking him to court for standing up for a teenage girl she bullied.

“All I was thinking was what if he loses, what’s going to happen to us, and it brought me down. It made me feel very anxious, on top of my own problems, and I just felt crap.

“I thought, I’ve been doing better every day lately, now I’ve come down again and it’s putting extra strain on things but I’m also angry about people calling Mike a liar.

“He always checks the facts and he always does what’s right so when I woke up I talked to him about it, and he asked if I wanted him to give up. NO!

“I’m too angry with her and the fact that she can’t see what she’s doing wrong.”

So there you have it.

Mrs Mike suffers with anxiety-related illnesses – so she sympathises with the teenager Ms Riley bullied for obvious reasons.

I was grateful when she said I must keep fighting – more so when she started getting responses like this:

“I’ve never known Mike to lie about anything ever + I’ve known him about 15-20yrs he’s a good + kind man luv to u both xx”

But I need funds, otherwise my fight will fall flat.

It’s only two days since Ms Riley filed court proceedings against me and already my appeal is nearly £5,000 richer – but libel cases are fantastically expensive.

I hate to ask for more because it seems too much to ask, but there’s nothing else for it. Get ready for the hard sell:

If you haven’t done so already, please email five of your friends, asking them to pledge to this case. If you have, please email five more.

You could also post a link to Facebook, asking your friends to pledge. Again, the address is https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/mike-sivier-libel-fight/

If you’re on Twitter, you could tweet in support, quoting the address of the appeal.

And if you can afford it, please consider pledging some more cash yourself.

You have already shown me that you want me to keep fighting.

I need to be able to take this fight to the finish.

Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.

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Tory NHS sniping fails to hit targets

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Heartfelt words: A short poem by Lorna (pictured) on YouTube has been more persuasive than any of the Tory smear tactics.

The Tories have been working very hard on their campaign against NHS Wales; shame they don’t have a brilliant health service in England to hold up in comparison.

Twitter lit up around teatime yesterday (Thursday) with allegation after allegation about the service in Wales – for example, that one in seven Welsh patients are on waiting lists, including more than a thousand (if memory serves) for more than a year.

Yr Obdt Srvt countered by pointing out that Mrs Mike had to go to NHS Wales-arranged hospital appointments twice last week; on both occasions she was seen promptly and received appropriate treatment immediately.

All right, came the response. What about the appalling record of the Welsh Ambulance Service, which remains unable to reach all of its emergency calls within the mandatory eight-minute deadline?

The response should be obvious: How many of those patients died? They didn’t have an answer for that. It seems that the health of the patient is of less concern to the statistic-keepers than the speed with which they are attended. The situation conjures up images of Mussolini’s (fabled) Italy in which the trains all ran on time and you can imagine a Tory-run NHS Wales report right now: “None of the patients survived the journey to the hospital but the ambulances were all punctual!”

In fact, even if the Tories had been able to dredge up an answer, they would have been trumped. Yr Obdt Srvt has friends who work in the ambulance service and it just happens that, only a few days ago, one of them told us proudly how they had been working in a team who had arrived too late to stop the patient’s death – and had then brought this person back to life.

(As an aside, it was pleasant to be addressed by members of Conservative Central Headquarters, by the Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies, and by the Welsh Conservatives’ official Twitter accounts while debating the above issues (and others). Either Vox Political is going up in the world or they had nothing better to do than argue the toss with a small blog site. If you’re a Tory, try to work out which of those alternatives is least embarrassing for you!)

So, before criticising hard-working ambulance crews who have to negotiate gridlocked city centres, miles of winding country roads, and sometimes both – and are still expected to do it all within eight minutes, just take a moment to thank them for the amazing feats they can perform when they do arrive.

Wales isn’t like England. The terrain is different and the service is intentionally under-funded by the Westminster government, which has been cutting its grant to the Welsh Assembly ever since the Conservative Party came into office on the back of Liberal Democrat collusion.

As for the service in England itself – well, you’ve seen the image of Lorna adorning the top of this article. Have a listen to the following YouTube clip; it’ll tell you all you need to know about public feeling on that account!

Follow me on Twitter: @MidWalesMike

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