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Two counterfactuals for you in preparation for tomorrow’s show:
1.) Boris Johnson published the pro- Remain column he had already written.
2.) Nigel Farage had always been treated by the British media like the ignorant, racist tool he so clearly is.
How would the U.K. look now?
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And even now, neither the corrupter-in-chief nor the client journalists promoting his latest grift will list the supporters he claims to have…
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Boris Johnson is, by some distance, the worst thing ever to happen to British politics. A serial liar, a proven cheat, an enemy of common decency. If he has finally buckled under the weight of his own depravity, none of his supporters should be allowed to forget their complicity.
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First time in his life he’s pulled out in time. twitter.com/Steven_Swinfor…
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Imagine racking your brains to come up with reasons for supporting your guy & settling on 'he tucked his shirt in today'...
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If only there were some sort of record of Johnson’s honesty… twitter.com/theousherwood/…
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Once again, Nadine leaves us wondering whether she’s too ignorant to understand what’s going on (the committee is investigating lies *to the House of Commons*) or too sycophantic to care about the truth.
Or both, of course. twitter.com/NadineDorries/…
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Every decision Boris Johnson makes serves his own short term gratification. The lies, betrayals, deaths, moral degradation & denigration of public decency this spawns bother him not one jot. But I’m *still* surprised by how many other people are similarly blasé about the carnage.
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Brexit has created a country where Kemi Badenoch is, apparently, an important player in the selection of the next Prime Minister. Only slightly less ridiculously, Jonathan Gullis thinks he is too.
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Oh no! This @iealondon’s ‘Head of’ something or other has removed his *very impressive* & *very important* job title from his bio. Has he been demoted by the ‘Head of Heads’ or just buckled under the weight of the epic embarrassment? twitter.com/cjsnowdon/stat…
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If I prioritised my own political preferences & prejudices over the national interest, as most Tories & all Brexiters currently do, I’d want Johnson to have another go. I don’t because I care more about the country. It’s his colleagues who want *more* chaos, corruption & scandal
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I know it’s ‘fascinating’ to track every twist & turn of the Tories’ latest psychodrama but, when you step back from ringside, it’s all proof of how utterly screwed they/we are. The country is in deep crisis & most of their MPs are behaving like it’s an episode of Strictly. 1/2
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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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Yet another ‘Head of’ something or other at @iealondon! This one’s getting publicly owned by @OzKaterji… twitter.com/OzKaterji/stat…
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Yup. And this will be true for at least another leader or two. Amazing how obvious it is to everybody else… twitter.com/davidfrum/stat…
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Every word of this. twitter.com/thenitinsawhne…
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Absolutely bonkers. twitter.com/DailyMailUK/st…
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As we possibly prepare to start the clock on the next Boris Johnson scandal, here's one you may have missed... twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrun…
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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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Retweet the sh*t out of this one please. It's a message that many, many decent people struggle but need to hear. twitter.com/mrjamesob/stat…
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Not much of a silver lining, given the size of the cloud, but at least we now know that any producer or presenter using guests from @iealondon is either deliberately promoting their ridiculous, utterly discredited agenda or treating their audience with complete contempt. Or both.
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Truss resigned while still talking about 'the freedoms of Brexit'. That will entertain historians in years to come.
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He has a point but literally none of them are more revolting than Chope. twitter.com/camillahmturne…
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For the avoidance of doubt, a Boris Johnson return is the best case scenario for anyone hoping for a Labour landslide at the next election. Objections to the notion are born of genuine patriotism & concern for the national interest.
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Can we just ask that octopus that predicts football scores? twitter.com/BBCPolitics/st…
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