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
- Waste of taxpayers' money on Brexit import check sites
- Importance of using the sites to prevent smuggling and breaking of rules
- Criticism of government's waste of money and priorities
- Mentions of individuals and organizations involved in the issue
- 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
- Government waste of taxpayers’ money
- Brexit import checks and related regulations
- Smuggling and breaking WTO rules as a result of government decisions
- Concerns about funding for healthcare, environment, and other public services
- Suspicions and criticisms of the Tory government and its donors
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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#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 |
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🙄 | 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 |
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Smileys & Emotion | 14 |
People & Body | 2 |