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First time in his life he’s pulled out in time. twitter.com/Steven_Swinfor…
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Where are all the Tories explaining that worried parents can pay the VAT on their school fees by cancelling Netflix, eating fewer avocados or getting a better job? A job for 30p Lee if ever there was one...
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World-beating. twitter.com/BloombergUK/st…
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The fact that you've probably never seen this complete humiliation of Kelvin Mackenzie is a mark of just how craven most of the British media is. Please watch it all the way through. He literally runs away, squealing, from his own brand of 'journalism'. youtu.be/ErqQxlbNpUg
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"I believe his behaviour towards Boris Johnson, his disloyalty, means that I could not possibly support him."
Jacob Rees-Mogg, July 2022. twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mog…
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It’s hard to know what to say about this. But I can tell you that there’s absolutely no pleasure or sense of vindication in seeing the Telegraph admit that ‘Project Fear Was Right All Along’. Brexit’s senseless, entirely self-inflicted harms will hurt us all for years to come. twitter.com/Telegraph/stat…
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Downing Street has advised London commuters to work from home this week. Rees-Mogg is going to need a *lot* of those pissy post-it notes.
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“I’m a fighter not a quitter.”
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Truss's claim that companies untroubled by windfall taxes will instead invest heavily in infrastructure will comes as quite a shock to water companies.
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Have any letters of no confidence gone in yet?
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The second round of a con is always the most baffling to observers. Victims of scams send *more* money to scammers because they’re just not ready to admit the scale of their costly mistake. The offer to keep the ‘dream’ alive is irresistible. And so it is now with the Tory party.
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As the true depths of Donald Trump’s seditious depravity are finally confirmed, it’s amazing to remember how many U.K. pundits & politicians lionised & defended him. Most of them are simultaneously being proved catastrophically wrong about Brexit too. Don’t expect any apologies!
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Turns out nobody underestimated Liz Truss after all.
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If you think Boris Johnson’s decision to give Gavin Williamson a knighthood was outrageous, wait until you see who he’s put/putting in the Lords…
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While the speed of self-destruction is remarkable, Truss as PM isn't an aberration or accident. It's an inevitable & logical consequence of the trashing of truth & norms that the Conservative Party embraced for Brexit. And they're at least one more leader from acknowledging this.
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Johnson's brief but unprecedentedly corrupting tenure as Prime Minister subverted all known norms & traditions so much that we're actually struggling to appreciate just how batshit & unsustainable Truss's tenure is proving to be. It's as if his awfulness warped political reality.
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Under any logical analysis it has to be Sunak, but logic and the Tory party got divorced in June 2016.
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Listening to @MarkJCarney on @BBCr4today and wondering, for the ten millionth time, how we ended up dismissing the expert counsel of people like him in favour of Farage & Rees-Mogg’s verbal flatulence.
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I honestly can't begin to imagine what the right-wing media would do if someone said any of that stuff about Kate Middleton. And you wouldn't even have to be a big public figure. If a minor academic or a Labour councillor said it, there would be blood.
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Absolutely incredible. Completely busted for utter bullshit & she doesn’t even draw breath. twitter.com/PatrickSmyth/s…
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Sunak is absolutely awful. It's actually incredible how awful he is. And the worst of it is that he knows...
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What an asset @GaryLineker is to the BBC. A complete & consummate broadcaster who's been there & done everything. A golden boot winner who can control and contribute to studio discussions with epic expertise. Mad that right-wing media spend so much time trying to bring him down.
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The fundamental problem with post-Brexit politics is that Tory politicians now rely *entirely* on the support of angry people who don’t understand anything but believe the lie that they are somehow ‘winning’. It is obviously & eternally unsustainable. Hunt’s a mug for signing up.
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Johnson tried to disown nine years of Tory rule, Truss is trying to disown twelve. Remarkable how so many MPs can be committed to completely contradictory policy platforms & how many newspaper editors can keep insisting that the latest leader is the best thing since sliced bread.
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