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And there it is. Treating the public purse like a piggy bank. I presume he did this instead of scrounging off another donor to make it look official. twitter.com/breeallegretti…
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The cull of experienced & relatively decent Tories in 2019 & the dismal calibre of that year’s intake massively limited Sunak’s Cabinet selection options. And Rees-Mogg & Dorries were the worst of the worst. But even so, what an absolute minefield of mediocrity.
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What grows faster, pies or concrete?
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Apropos that census, I wonder what it could possibly be about the English, Christian, goal-scoring hero Marcus Rashford that so upsets a certain type of 'patriot'...
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I think most of us would welcome a minimum level of government service. twitter.com/bbcbreaking/st…
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Surely there's no getting past the political decision to protect the epic, unprecedented profits of the energy companies & make voters pick up the bill? I confess I don't understand Truss's calculation here, even with client journalists preparing to cheer it to the rafters.
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I'm worried that people having dinner out with me for the first time are going to have unrealistic expectations of how exciting it will be...
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This is so, so true. We seem to have learned nothing from the carpet-slippered creep of fascism into the mainstream in recent years. The Home Secretary not only *dreams* of deporting refugees to Rwanda, she boasts about it in public. twitter.com/TerryReintke/s…
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I'm not sure the British media is successfully refuting Meghan's assertion that they want(ed) to destroy her.
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A lot of Tories go into politics because they really hate people. I worry that we over-complicate things sometimes. twitter.com/Haggis_UK/stat…
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No relationship's guaranteed to thrive, but it's pretty obvious that much of the hatred aimed at Harry & Meghan springs from the fact that they love each other so much. You could put as much effort into trying to be lovable as you do into hating. But you wouldn't get paid for it.
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They invented an entire ministry to help Rees-Mogg come up with ‘Brexit benefits’. He produced a factually incorrect analysis of signage in the Dartford Tunnel & nothing else… twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mog…
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Johnson’s latest con, endorsed & amplified by the worst kind of client journalism, is that while lawyers can’t be trusted on legal matters, they are somehow authorities on non-legal ones.
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It's all so embarrassing. And if your 'patriotism' involves loving your country as opposed to simply hating foreigners, it's utterly heartbreaking.
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“The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”
Tony Benn didn’t get everything right but he was spot on with this one… twitter.com/matt_dathan/st…
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I think I can feel a Brexit phone-in coming on for the first time in a long while...
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“On a more positive note, the good news is I’ve been promoted. So every cloud.”
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It’s politics built on belief. It has been since 2016. It will always fall apart when it encounters reality. The only question is how quickly.
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Perhaps one news editor will have the wit to understand that dedicated royal correspondents are the very last people who should be reporting on the Meghan & Harry documentaries. It's like asking the accused to report on their own trial.
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Good grief. twitter.com/electpoliticsu…
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Here’s a story that, in our ludicrously mafioso media, will receive approximately one twentieth of the attention it so obviously deserves. theguardian.com/media/2022/oct…
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Time to start wondering which campaign pledge Truss will abandon first.
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This is absolutely incredible. This @iealondon herbert seeks to defend the awful secrecy surrounding their funders by accusing @BylineTimes of being funded by a dead (but still identifiable) man. Good to see them so obviously rattled, though. More please. twitter.com/LBC/status/158…
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So we’ve finally reached the bit where that funny blonde bloke who took your mum’s life savings, and is still swearing blind that her huge jackpot will be delivered as soon as his temporary cash-flow problems are sorted, just got photographed on his mega-yacht. Laughing. At her.
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