Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @Rob_Merrick

Overview

Total number of tweets analysed

237

Earliest tweet was on

2023-03-17

Latest tweet was on

2023-03-26

Tweets covering

9 days

Average age of authors' accounts

8 years


Summarization

The UK government spent almost half a billion pounds on Brexit import check sites that were never used after a government U-turn, which some argue is a waste of money while others argue that the facilities were necessary for post-Brexit regulations. There are concerns about smuggling and the advantage given to EU exporters. Some suggest the contracts may have gone to Tory donors. The lack of inspections may lead to a smugglers utopia and may break WTO rules. The issue highlights concerns about UK food security and the government's fiscal responsibility.

Topic Modeling

  1. Waste of taxpayers' money on Brexit import check sites
  2. Importance of using the sites to prevent smuggling and breaking of rules
  3. Criticism of government's waste of money and priorities
  4. Mentions of individuals and organizations involved in the issue
  5. Concerns about food security and quality standards

Emotional Analysis

The tweets express a range of emotions including frustration, anger, disappointment, and disbelief towards the government's decision to spend almost half a billion pounds on Brexit import check facilities that were not introduced due to a U-turn. Many feel that the money could have been better spent on healthcare, education, and the environment, and criticize the government's handling of finances. Some also express concerns about the impact of the U-turn on food security and the possibility of a smuggling utopia. There is also speculation about the contracts and potential involvement of Tory donors.

Trend Analysis

  1. Government waste of taxpayers’ money
  2. Brexit import checks and related regulations
  3. Smuggling and breaking WTO rules as a result of government decisions
  4. Concerns about funding for healthcare, environment, and other public services
  5. Suspicions and criticisms of the Tory government and its donors

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Types of Tweets

Number of Retweets

47

Percentage of total tweets

19%

Number of Original tweets

4

Percentage of total tweets

1%

Number of tweets that contain Mentions

237

Percentage of total tweets

100%

Number of tweets that were Replies

185

Percentage of total tweets

78%

Number of tweets that were Quotes

27

Percentage of total tweets

11%

Number of tweets that contain Hashtags

14

Percentage of total tweets

5%


Top 5 devices used to tweet

Source Count
Twitter for Android 95
Twitter for iPhone 73
Twitter Web App 51
Twitter for iPad 17
Echobox 1

What devices were used to tweet


Top 10 accounts with highest followers count

Username Name Bio Followers count
theipaper i newspaper Your essential daily briefing. Follow us @ipaperviews🗣️ @ipapersport🏉 @ipapermoney📈 @iPaperTravel✈️ Sign up for exclusive journalism 📨 https://t.co/U5x0DplGeO 135,830
Sillyshib Siob, Princess of Yorkshire #FBPE #FBR Ain’t going to sugar coat it for you! Rearing a future man. Diamond hard Remainer. I'm a Trekkie. Labour voter #Facciamo Europa Republicans/ Tories are evil 46,318
POCX100 Paul O’Connor, #FBPE Activist Blob Parsons Jack Russell, #EU citizen, man of leisure #NAS #indyref2 #rejoin #FBPE #refugeeswelcome #FBPPR 28,026
vivamjm Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 - 21,758
singharj Arj Singh Deputy Political Editor @theipaper. LUFC. arj.singh@inews.co.uk. Got a story, tip or just fancy a chat? DMs open. 20,052
ChildOfAlba Child of Alba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙 Tweeting about what interests/amuses/annoys me. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Unsolicited DMs = instant block. 19,885
DoreJayne Councillor Jayne Phoenix #FBPE 🔶 #FBPPR Liberal Democrats Councillor for N. Bridlington. Campaigning for health equality for Brid. Save Brid Hospital Loving life by the sea. Love all things nautical.⛵ 12,262
RachelG21879460 Rachel harmony is possible3.5%💙🤝👍🇪🇺🌍🇦🇬 Ubuntu! let’s build a bigger table! sick of the criminal self serving that have taken over the country. Woke & proud No DM’s unless I know you #FBPR 11,225
Rob_Merrick Rob Merrick Political journalist, Lobby XI football team veteran skipper and parly pool champ. Welshman. 10,012
SusanChubb1 Susan Chubb#FBPA⚫️#RejoinEU 💙🌻🏴‍☠️ 🥀 cancer survivor, UK Govt response to Covid19UK breaks EUCHR Article 2 Failure to Protect. thoughts & opinions are my own.#GENow 9,771

Top 10 accounts with highest friends count

Username Name Bio Followers count
Sillyshib Siob, Princess of Yorkshire #FBPE #FBR Ain’t going to sugar coat it for you! Rearing a future man. Diamond hard Remainer. I'm a Trekkie. Labour voter #Facciamo Europa Republicans/ Tories are evil 28,284
POCX100 Paul O’Connor, #FBPE Activist Blob Parsons Jack Russell, #EU citizen, man of leisure #NAS #indyref2 #rejoin #FBPE #refugeeswelcome #FBPPR 25,634
ChildOfAlba Child of Alba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙 Tweeting about what interests/amuses/annoys me. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Unsolicited DMs = instant block. 16,589
DoreJayne Councillor Jayne Phoenix #FBPE 🔶 #FBPPR Liberal Democrats Councillor for N. Bridlington. Campaigning for health equality for Brid. Save Brid Hospital Loving life by the sea. Love all things nautical.⛵ 12,306
vivamjm Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 - 11,944
RachelG21879460 Rachel harmony is possible3.5%💙🤝👍🇪🇺🌍🇦🇬 Ubuntu! let’s build a bigger table! sick of the criminal self serving that have taken over the country. Woke & proud No DM’s unless I know you #FBPR 11,228
SusanChubb1 Susan Chubb#FBPA⚫️#RejoinEU 💙🌻🏴‍☠️ 🥀 cancer survivor, UK Govt response to Covid19UK breaks EUCHR Article 2 Failure to Protect. thoughts & opinions are my own.#GENow 10,613
FirehorseP Lady#WeAreSoF**ked🇺🇦🌻💙😷🇪🇺⭐🕯️Fiery#RejoinEU I'm a conservationist. Nature, the Arts, Culture, History and Politics despite how infuriating it is! #FarCentrist #FuckCancer @FirehorseP@mastodon.online 9,328
KnittedKittie Dame KnittingCat 🕷#FBPE🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🧶🐟❄️💙💛3.5% - 8,146
BernieRandall8 Bernie Randall #FBPE Because I am me, and no-one will ever take that away FBPE/ #FBPA 7,290

Most active users

Username Bio Number of tweets
vivamjm - 26
JillWhisker - 7
brainburnnow Pebble fan! Cat lover. 5
morrislow123 - 5
RobJKnell Guitarist, Songwriter, and Tutor at RJK Music & Media 4
paulofthepool A rejoiner, so pro real democracy. Believe truthfulness is foundation of all human virtues. Work in OD/Biz Change across EU and world. Pro FoM & anti-racism. 3
Asparagus88 I am delicious with butter. Obsessive Brexit-Observer 3
Sillyshib Ain’t going to sugar coat it for you! Rearing a future man. Diamond hard Remainer. I'm a Trekkie. Labour voter #Facciamo Europa Republicans/ Tories are evil 3
rosepoet Adventure-prone:Survivor of degrees in Social Work/American Studies/Hurricane Katrina/The Arab Spring/an Ice Storm/Employment Discrimination Case/Uni Challenge. 3
IrishEUPassport The Irish passport is one of the world's strongest. Since 1 January 2021, it is unique in allowing free movement in both UK and EU/EFTA. 2

Tweets per day


Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count

ID Text Retweet count
1638237817728823314 Almost half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ cash was spent on sites for Brexit import checks that were never introduced after a government U-turn @Rob_Merrick reports: https://t.co/62NHWtHU4M 1012
1638280259576508416 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick So many missing point in replies here. It's not a "waste of money".. These facilities needed to be built now GB is no longer part of same (EU inc NI) regulated territory. By not using them GB is a smuggling utopia, is asymetrically advantaging EU's exporters & breaking WTO rules 70
1638243129370214400 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick I was going to say it beggars belief; however, this government have previous of wasting money. How many hospitals, nurses, doctors and police officers, could be funded with this money? It could also provide funding for the environment agency to better police our polluted rivers. 15
1638530409951576064 @RobinPirates @theipaper @Rob_Merrick The reason for UKG exposing its population to smugglers utopia, unilaterally asymetrically favoured EU's exporters & thus also breaking WTO (MFN) rules, is because it fears the more widespread empty shelves (panic buying) & greater rocketing prices more so https://t.co/UjY86JPUTJ 13
1638277487581974532 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick That helps to explain where some of our money has gone. Record taxes and record debt and yet everything is falling apart. 11
1638303790901215234 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick The Nigel Farage Pan European Customs Clearance and Dogging Centre in Ashford should be preserved as a reminder of the damage those clowns have done to this once great country... 11
1638278081306677250 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick @WASPI_2018 @WaspiCastleford never let this Gov tell you they can’t afford to put right the mal administration for the 1950’s women! Almost half a billion £ wasted when they did a u-turn! WASTED! 10
1638279779941077012 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick the moral of this story is never put Jacob Rees-Mogg in charge of anything 9
1638266415370182656 @lexan71 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick The point is it was *always a choice* between widespread empty shelves & rocketing prices or smugglers utopia, asymetrically advantaged EU's exporters & breaking WTO rules. Been tweeting so since 2016. 9
1638278009491804163 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick I’ll wager the contracts to build these quite possibly went to #ToryDonors… 8

Top 10 tweets with highest Like count

ID Text Like count
1638237817728823314 Almost half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ cash was spent on sites for Brexit import checks that were never introduced after a government U-turn @Rob_Merrick reports: https://t.co/62NHWtHU4M 1245
1638280259576508416 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick So many missing point in replies here. It's not a "waste of money".. These facilities needed to be built now GB is no longer part of same (EU inc NI) regulated territory. By not using them GB is a smuggling utopia, is asymetrically advantaging EU's exporters & breaking WTO rules 255
1638243129370214400 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick I was going to say it beggars belief; however, this government have previous of wasting money. How many hospitals, nurses, doctors and police officers, could be funded with this money? It could also provide funding for the environment agency to better police our polluted rivers. 85
1638279779941077012 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick the moral of this story is never put Jacob Rees-Mogg in charge of anything 63
1638303790901215234 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick The Nigel Farage Pan European Customs Clearance and Dogging Centre in Ashford should be preserved as a reminder of the damage those clowns have done to this once great country... 52
1638278009491804163 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick I’ll wager the contracts to build these quite possibly went to #ToryDonors… 49
1638281797820731432 @Sillyshib @theipaper @Rob_Merrick A combination of being toothless and no doubt UKG assuring the other members the favouring EU policy is only "temporary"... The best of the Brexit disaster is yet to come. 46
1638277487581974532 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick That helps to explain where some of our money has gone. Record taxes and record debt and yet everything is falling apart. 39
1638277023234773020 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick Where is the tax payers (dodgers) alliance on this ?! 36
1638278081306677250 @theipaper @Rob_Merrick @WASPI_2018 @WaspiCastleford never let this Gov tell you they can’t afford to put right the mal administration for the 1950’s women! Almost half a billion £ wasted when they did a u-turn! WASTED! 32

Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets


Top 10 Hashtags used

Hashtag Count
#brexitlies 3
#brexithasfailed 3
#torydonors 2
#generalelectionnow 2
#toriesdestroyingourcountry 2
#strongandstable 1
#tory 1
#ibackboris 1
#iamoron 1
#pr 1

Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets

Top 10 mentions

Mention Count
@rob_merrick 237
@theipaper 216
@vivamjm 67
@sillyshib 20
@robinpirates 7
@ukiswitheu 7
@uklabour 7
@waspi_2018 6
@neilr40772524 6
@lexan71 6

Top 10 mentions

Wordcloud of Tweets


Emojis

Average number of emojis used per tweet

6

Emojis used in tweets

Emoji Count Emoji Text
🙄 2 face_with_rolling_eyes
🤨 2 face_with_raised_eyebrow
😴 1 sleeping_face
🥴 1 woozy_face
👁️ 1 eye
😤 1 face_with_steam_from_nose
🤣 1 rolling_on_the_floor_laughing
😂 1 face_with_tears_of_joy
🤬 1 face_with_symbols_on_mouth
😠 1 angry_face

Emojis groups

Emoji Group Count
Smileys & Emotion 14
People & Body 2