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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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To be continued... twitter.com/MarieAnnUK/sta…
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As with Johnson, they queue up to defend the indefensible then feel a little bit more of their soul slip away when the policy is abandoned anyway.
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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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And in an absolute ocean of nonsense, dishonesty & weapons grade incompetence, Jacob Rees-Mogg's claim that reaction to the mini-budget has nothing to do with the mini-budget is bobbing about like a top-hatted turd.
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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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The calculation must surely be that releasing the OBR report would have a *worse* effect on the pound & the markets than continuing with the secrecy & obfuscation. When you look at what the secrecy & obfuscation did to the pound & the markets last week, this truly beggars belief.
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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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Jacob Rees-Mogg is accusing other people of being Luddites. Satire is dead.
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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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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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Better late than never, lads. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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Never forget that members of the current Cabinet & various well-known right-wing British journalists knew *exactly* what Trump was, even as they praised & defended him. The abuse they directed at those of us who understood & explained Trump’s depravity was dangerous & deliberate. twitter.com/DeanObeidallah…
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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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I think we’re in one of those historically, constitutionally *and* politically significant periods where Parliament must act to protect the population from government. The problem is that the population’s depending on politicians who waved through Boris Johnson’s myriad offences.
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I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you… twitter.com/MassiveAttackU…
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No words to express how fantastic I feel about this despicable, unemployed fuck’s ongoing obsession with me. @kelvmackenzie’s tortuous & epic mental anguish comes from the knowledge that he will be remembered for his disgusting lies about #Hillsborough & absolutely nothing else.
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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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The peerless @BBCFarmingToday reported on social care workers (current vacancies in the sector: 105,000) quitting in rural areas because fuel costs have pushed them well below the minimum wage. Think of them every time a Tory tells you our system has been too ‘redistributive’.
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This is brilliant & incredibly relevant to the now. On a much less serious note, I wonder whether a few modern day racist bigots with newspaper columns & TV slots have been deliberately aping Enoch Powell's appearance... twitter.com/SardonicPill/s…
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Do you remember when people who voted for & claimed to welcome all of this national & generational damage insisted that they loved it all because it upset people like us? Do you remember how they relished 'Remainer tears' even as the country crumbled? I do. And I *always* will.
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One of the most enduring legacies of Brexit is the licence it gave to imbeciles to spout gibberish without consequence. twitter.com/AdamBienkov/st…
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First word of his Twitter bio is 'Christian'. He's in for a big shock if he ever reads the Bible. twitter.com/The_TUC/status…
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The team of public figures taking on the Daily Mail highlights the fact that unless you possess enormous financial & emotional resources, you cannot even contemplate challenging a national newspaper. It is a massive flaw in our democratic framework.
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