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An invaluable corrective to the profound dereliction of journalistic duty on display when BBC presenters talk of ‘moving on’ or not wanting to ‘relitigate’ Brexit. Their job, more than anyone’s, is to report the facts & few do it better than @BBCRosAtkins & team. Thank goodness. twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/s…
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When the governing party completely trashes accountability, transparency & integrity, it stays trashed until the governing party is completely replaced. twitter.com/mikeysmith/sta…
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To get caught leaking one sensitive document may be regarded as a misjudgement... etc etc twitter.com/thejonnyreilly…
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For the umpteenth time, Johnson's depravity corrupts *everybody* he comes into contact with. Case surely can't survive this. Ditto Braverman & her latest leak. Truss has already gone. But last weekend the dregs of the post-Brexit Tory party wanted to give Johnson another chance! twitter.com/TLDRNewsUK/sta…
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One reason why Johnson might have found it difficult to read Truss the riot act about security matters & phones… bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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This is harrowing & horrible. And given Braverman’s ‘dream’ of deporting refugees, you have to wonder whether she also derives some sort of sick pleasure from treating these desperate & vulnerable people so appallingly. It’s all so very, very sad.
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Braverman’s defence - and now Gove’s defence of her - is that she accidentally sent a sensitive document to someone who was not permitted to see it it while trying to *deliberately* send it to someone else who was also not permitted to see it. Ridiculous. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
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If you like brilliant television & haven't watched Professor T yet, watch it asap & thank me later. Just caught up with the final episode of series 2 & am once again absolutely gobsmacked by the brilliance of the scripts, the acting & the unfolding characterisations.
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Bittersweet but the new genre of absolutely batshit Brexit columns adds enormously to the gaiety of the nation. Today's winners: 'Britain's economic problems have little to do with Brexit' in the Mail & an absolute doozy in the Telegraph comparing it all to the French revolution!
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Hard to argue with this. Not just a media, either. A government too. twitter.com/brokenbottlebo…
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Oof. It's not as immediately damning as the lettuce comparison - but it will have a much longer shelf-life. twitter.com/Gilesyb/status…
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It's been a while since I did a tweet about how, every time you think you've reached the bottom of the barrel another utterly appalling Tory MP pops up on the telly to lower standards still further. So cheers for that, Mark Spencer.
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The day after a migrant processing centre was fire-bombed, the BBC gets Farage out of the crypt. How very, very stupid.
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This deliberate & inciteful hatred of humans, in this case refugees, is all they've got. It's all they've ever had. It's how Brexit happened. It's how Gullis ended up in Parliament & Braverman in the Cabinet. It's disgusting & wrong & the next shameful chapter has barely started.
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They used Farage's base racism to get Brexit over the line. Some of them quite happily, some of them holding their noses. Then Brexit made *everything* worse so they're resurrecting Farage's base racism to distract from the absolute mess they've made. No 'patriot' would let them.
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Somebody very high up at the BBC should be asking very serious questions about why this simple statement of facts would have been impossible for @maitlis to make if she was still on their staff. Everyone still there should stop dancing around reality. The country deserves better. twitter.com/maitlis/status…
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While Braverman’s deliberately & performatively vile comments deliberately focused on ‘bogus’ asylum seekers, her complete silence about genuine ones is even more despicable.
And expecting France to do ‘more’ while there are no safe routes into the U.K. is surely pie in the sky.
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Big story, this. twitter.com/charlotterlync…
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Dover migrant centre attacker had a history of far-right views hopenothate.org.uk/2022/11/01/dov…
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Is there any precedent at all for a government dedicated to undoing damage done a few weeks ago by a nominally different government from the same party and containing almost all of the same people? twitter.com/The_TUC/status…
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If broadcasters really can't find the courage to show these secretly-funded, utterly discredited shills the door then it falls to fellow guests to do it for them. It really shouldn't. It puts them in an uncomfortable & unfair position but @angelaeagle provides a masterclass here. twitter.com/BrexitFails/st…
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The inability of dishonest people to tell the truth about Brexit makes honest conversations about asylum-seekers impossible. The people now inciting terrorism & making political capital are *precisely* the same people who promised that leaving the EU would solve these 'problems'.
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There is literal & unapologetic terrorist apologism all over Twitter & in the comments sections of national newspapers. I fear it's only a matter of time before it pops up in parliament, columns & op-eds. Suella Braverman's words yesterday provided an enormous green light for it.
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