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Taxes matter. They pay for the public services we all need. If your elected representatives don’t readily pay what they should, then I’d suggest not electing them to represent you again. twitter.com/AArmstrong_say…
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Joe Biden was 8 years old when the Queen first met a sitting US President.
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Big numbers can lose their meaning, especially if you haven’t been personally impacted by what they represent. More than 100,000 of the UK’s mums and dads, daughters and sons, aunties and uncles, friends and grandparents have died because of covid-19. We miss them.
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‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… ‘cos I’d eaten it. #MerryChristmas
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Hardly seems worth coming out of lockdown now...
bbc.in/3fmLU8F
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Notorious mob boss Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. Not sure what’s brought that to mind today.
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Only popular inhabitant around here these days… twitter.com/SwainITV/statu…
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A man is in the front room and his wife is in the kitchen. She says: “Smoked salmon or chicken?”
He says: “Oh, love, smoked salmon”
She says: “You’re having soup fatty, I was talking to the cat…”
RIP Barry Cryer
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@Keir_Starmer Do you like cats? Asking for a friend…
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There are two groups of people in this country:
- Those who think nurses deserve a fair pay increase
- The government twitter.com/BBCNews/status…
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For people asking, no I haven’t set up a Mastodon account. Any accounts on there claiming to be me are copy cats…
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One of the search dogs preparing to testify against Trump: “You’re going to jail Donald”
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Wishing my friends around the world a happy new year; 2023 has arrived in London and your favourite feline remains in charge x
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I thought it was suspicious when he combed his hair this morning... twitter.com/BBCNews/status…
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Has anyone seen Rishi Sunak? He said he was popping out “for a break” but that was nearly a week ago and nobody’s answering the phones and it feels like someone should be trying to fix the mess they’ve created…
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Haven’t see Johnson all day, so looking in the obvious place…
(Photo @PoliticalPics)
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So many happy memories. So many Prime Ministers trying to ruin them. twitter.com/TheAtlPhoto/st…
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It turns out it was all a misunderstanding; Sunak thought he was agreeing to let Suella Braverman work from her home office so he wouldn’t have to see her in person…
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It’s #PancakeDay and, having monitored him closely, I can reveal that Rishi Sunak is a tosser.
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The nation would genuinely be in a better place if cats could vote. An even better place if ONLY cats could vote. twitter.com/Coupey/status/…
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“You’re in the way”
“Sorry Larry”
(Photo Pippa Fowles)
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 15 year old tabby. Living with my fifth Prime Minister. Unofficial. A subpar odyssey.