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Relive the maddest day in U.K. politics since the last one, before it gets overtaken by the next one…
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To think that these unutterable scumbags dared to call those of us sounding the alarm ‘unpatriotic’…
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Four years ago, Chapter 6 of this bestselling book, ‘Nanny States and Classic Liberals’, predicted, warned against & explained the events of the last four weeks with unerring precision. Chapters on Brexit, Trump, & more have proved similarly accurate… amzn.eu/d/6jv3sAP
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Boris Johnson’s ‘honours’ list rewards stupid and/or dishonest people for helping to sell Brexit to the population. Even as its inevitable consequences continue to tear apart his party & our country.
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When you have no conscience it is easy to act without shame. twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mog…
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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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‘The Mail believes Miss Truss is able, willing and ready for the task.’
Daily Mail editorial, August 2nd 2022.
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Whose turn is it to be Chancellor of the Exchequer today?
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Here’s a whole hour of Miriam Margolyes being magnificent. l-bc.co/3uxIJn2
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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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Being too furiously stupid to understand how dangerous & damaging your furious stupidity has been is, I suppose, a blessing of sorts. twitter.com/NadineDorries/…
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Like a preacher who swore the world would end on Tuesday delivering a sermon on Wednesday morning… twitter.com/trussliz/statu…
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Millions of people were persuaded by xenophobic, stupid and/or dishonest public figures that they wanted Brexit, austerity & twelve years of Tory rule. Largely because it upset ‘Remainers’ & ‘Libs’. They have a long way to climb down but the process seems to have started at last.
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Parklife. twitter.com/BrugesGroup/st…
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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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This is very good. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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When you see base, unapologetic racism like this, you *never* have to go far into the timeline to find Nigel Farage. Funny that. twitter.com/SangitaMyska/s…
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Yup. The vampire economics of Tufton Street have next to no traction in the ‘real world’ but in Westminster & the media they are omnipresent & absurdly over-represented. (This hasn’t happened by accident.) twitter.com/DuncanWeldon/s…
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Hunt is now undoing all of the promises that Truss made to become leader *and then kept*. Her position is completely & obviously unsustainable.
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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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See also: right-wing punditry. twitter.com/BarristerSecre…
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I wonder what Truss could have done if Mordaunt flat out refused to stand in for her this afternoon. I’m thinking not much. Would have been nice to see the theory tested.
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