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The UN estimates there are already 1.5m refugees from the Russian invasion. The UK has accommodated 0.003% of them. twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/sta…
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One of these things is not like the others…
(Photo @imageplotter)
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Despite appearances, the Prime Ministers of Canada and The Netherlands haven’t placed Boris Johnson in handcuffs. Yet.
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Out and about twitter.com/justin_ng/stat…
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Today is International Women’s Day. This year I want to use it to tell you more about four inspirational Ukrainians:
Kateryna Pavlova
Svitlana Zalishchuk
Lyubov Mala
Oksana Zubkovska
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2022
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You may recall that it was Kevin who said Ukrainian refugees could apply to pick crops in the UK. Now he’s referencing a Russian terrorist attack on the UK to excuse us only admitting a minuscule number of those fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. You pay him £113,612 twitter.com/carldinnen/sta…
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“We will not give up; we will not lose. We will fight to the end on sea, in the air, we will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost, we will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets”
Many try to sound like Churchill; Zelensky leads like him twitter.com/BBCPolitics/st…
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I *always* find the ham sandwich. twitter.com/justin_ng/stat…
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Congratulations to the government; only took over Chelsea this morning and they’ve already won their first game
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We’re the best in the world at falsely claiming we’re the best in the world at something… twitter.com/elrington1952/…
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I’m starting to see why he likes to be called Boris… twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrun…
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This article is from a year ago. Boris Johnson selected a Russian owned firm to install the multimillion pound Downing Street studio that they didn’t really need…
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Excellent news - according to government minister Michael Gove the UK has issued 300,000 visas to Ukrainian refugees…
Until he’s asked to confirm that number and it turns out it’s 3000 visas; 0.01% of what he’d just said.
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Given they’re fleeing a war zone, I’m sure they’d be willing to risk it… twitter.com/joncstone/stat…
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I know lots of my followers are keen to help those escaping the Russian invasion of Ukraine however they can. Here’s where you can register for the government’s new scheme; unfortunately it’s still up to you to name a specific Ukrainian you’ll host
homesforukraine.campaign.gov.uk
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This is journalist Marina Ovsyannikova protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine live on Russia-1 TV where she worked. She wanted to let the viewers know that they’re being lied to about what’s happening.
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it” - Nelson Mandela
Thank you Marina.
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Apologies @krisjaniskarins twitter.com/imageplotter/s…
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The Polish, Czech and Slovenian prime ministers are visiting Kyiv today to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Boris Johnson isn’t joining them; he’s going to Saudi Arabia.
amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
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“The UK government is totally unprepared to advise the public on how to best protect themselves” - we’ve already learned that lesson the hard way. It’s practically their slogan now. twitter.com/DavidParsley50…