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3 months

@Tweets_of_Oscar I’ve solved the housing crisis. It turns out there are swathes of this island where you can buy a really nice house and garden for less than £225k. They’re just not in London and counties like Cambs.

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2 months

@h_rryy9 Good work! Was Johnny Mercer nicer in person than he comes across on the telly?

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@jackfifield @northernassist You should drive next time Jack

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@liveraldemocrat Definitely. Labour attack leaflets write themselves. When Caroline Lucas was selected she moved her home, family and MEP's office to Brighton. Berry running again for the London Assembly looks like hedging her bets. Compare Carla Denyer, who has even stepped down from Bristol CC.

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@LabBeyondCities He is talking a lot of sense. Why does it matter if he is personally wealthy? Why does it matter what school his parents sent him to? Attlee and Blair were privately educated.

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@_hxrrybxtt “Your bunk or mine?”

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@LabBeyondCities But why does that mean James Schneider’s views are invalid? He is a commentator, not an MP. Surely he is making a fair point? It’s not crazily left wing to say that a Starmer government is going to run into trouble in its first term if it just promises “growth” with no framework.

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@suprememercian @deuxvingarian Really strange comment

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@marcusjdl It’s certainly a nice house but £1.9 million would buy you a landed estate in Scotland or Wales.

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@NinianMod The difference is, the elected UK government isn’t selling weapons to Russia and refusing to condemn the invasion. So a protest feels rather less urgent.

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@ClippedHussar Course it is. £91k, no fixed duties, prestige, four staff members you can hire and fire at will, subsidised food, free travel and accommodation in London, a chance at political power. Just don’t get “greedy” and tell an undercover journalist you will lobby ministers for a bribe.

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2 months

@lewis_goodall Three weeks before polling day - a police investigation that will go nowhere. Is this the rather lame British equivalent of the October surprise?

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@cjsnowdon No, he was arrested for assault.

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2 months

@samueljenkinson Top security advice for MPs: insist that you will only share images or videos of your willy on snapchat instead. Can only be viewed once and much harder to fake. Suggest Sir Lindsay Hoyle makes immediate statement to the House to this effect @CommonsSpeaker

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@robertc77438249 Palestinians living outside Palestine: 🇯🇴 Jordan 3,240,000 🇸🇾 Syria 630,000 🇱🇧 Lebanon 402,582 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 280,245 🇪🇬 Egypt 270,245 The reason the population of Gaza fear to cross the border into Sinai is because we all know Israel won’t let them back in. Ethnic cleansing.

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@_DylanHamilton_ They managed okay when it was ten days before Christmas, they’ll be fine this time.

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@samofsamshire Why not build the housing and relax about population? Only 2% of this island is developed.

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@realhansard No government in a liberal democracy can start forcibly deporting people because of the colour of their skin, their faith or where they were born. Europe kind of got over that with the liberation of Buchenwald.

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@Liv_Lever What is an “alleged rumour”? Something you’ve just invented because a Tory MP has crossed the floor?

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3 months

@LabBeyondCities Clever, telegenic and not dull. Formerly a top figure in Momentum. Worked for the Leader of the Opposition for 4 years, went to Oxford. A comparison could be made with any number of conservative commentators never elected anywhere. Tim Montgomerie (okay, Exeter), Finkelstein, etc

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2 months

@MikeyCycling Good work Mikey

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@_DylanHamilton_ @shareen74uk Strange. When they hold general elections during term time, people complain that the schools have to close (though in practice, schools are rarely used as polling stations anyway). Some people just like to grumble.

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3 months

@sam_bidwell What’s it being replaced with Sam? Sounding a bit Lee Anderson now.

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1 month

@willglloyd I like him very much but who would swap being a Metro Mayor with a vast budget and a staff team, and the power to actually do stuff, to being an opposition front bencher for the next 10 years? Andy Burnham - and others - went the other way, with good reason.

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2 months

@jakelibdem Well done Jake. Ignore the bigots - they are in the minority.

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2 months

@CinziaYates Our future would be decided by the people living here. It would no longer be at the mercy of the Murdoch press and what wavering Tory/Labour voters in marginal seats in England choose to do.

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@MeBeardedWonder @implausibleblog Restrictions? Making them pay tax in the country they operate in? Making them pay the minimum wage to their staff so they don’t have to subsidise their income with benefits? These are generally called employment rights, not restrictions.

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2 months

@philipbrenn A Tory MP of fourteen years’ standing who regularly speaks on health issues (the biggest single item of government expenditure) can be reasonable described as “senior” (or top in newspaper speak)

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@ClippedHussar I don’t think he does the actual drawings

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@adam_ldr The public don’t mind the political knockabout - that’s why PMQs is the most-watched half hour of parliament each week. The outgoing Lord Mayor behaved disgracefully - his job is to keep order, not try to shut down the Lib Dem leader because he disagrees with her!

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1 month

@CharliePDG @AlexanderBrewis The results on the Londonwide ballot suggest she had no impact at all. 2021 - Berry heads the List, 11.8% 2024 - Berry heads the List, 11.6% I am not even certain her name was printed on the ballot paper.

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3 months

@Brooksie17 @RedfieldWilton Because we’re not all as mental as you

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3 months

@BBCBreaking Benton delaying his announcement until today ensures that any by-election is held concurrent with local/PCC elections. Sunak will be grateful. Saves the taxpayer money but real motive must be to minimise the fallout from a catastrophic defeat in a key Red Wall seat @lewis_goodall

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@lewis_goodall @ben89661370 @maitlis Would have probably saved the Duke of York a bit of a PR headache too. Is this on today’s episode? Can’t wait

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1 month

@_hxrrybxtt Top or bottom bunk? I’m here all week.

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2 months

@Blah93997658 @marcusjdl Not many landed estates in the big cities, no

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2 months

@samueljenkinson Yes, there is a lot of unconscious (or am I being too kind?) homophobia going on here. No problem with him using Grindr - he's single, he's openly gay, he's also been open about his mental health issues. None of us know what we would have done in that situation.

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3 months

@CharlotteCGill Is this journalism? Rubbishing people’s work because you don’t understand it? Lay off the academics and ask when we’re going to get our £122 million back from Michelle Mone? Most people would rather we gave that cash to the universities and put Mone and her fat husband in prison.

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27 days

@LeftieStats @ElectionMapsUK again… the election will be fine without you making graphics on your laptop.

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1 month

@StephWilkins_ @AnnaMcMorrin They are the real nasty party. If you’d invited her she would have turned up for a photo and got her office to plaster it all over social media as “MP working hard in the community”

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2 months

@H_H_Gray That was two weeks into a national lockdown. People weren’t allowed to socialise, only exercise. Nobody was sure how contagious the virus was at that point, and there was no cure. Are you anti-lockdown now? Labour backed them all the way.

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3 months

@jacobmacocu @sam_bidwell You need to open the curtains and step outside my friend. This is all a fantasy inside your head. Social change isn’t a conspiracy - it’s all happening because liberalism has won the argument and people are getting more tolerant.

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2 months

Obsessed with Blackpool South and the Tees / West Mids mayoral elections, ignoring council results as they come in, basic errors of fact and no real analysis. I have never understood why, even just at this point in the night, they don't zoom in to look at individual ward results.

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@tomorrowsmps 11 promising seats for any young Starmer loyalists still in search of a berth. Suspect all will return Labour MPs on 4th July. Dudley is strange - echoes of the stitch up in Dudley North in 1997?

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3 months

@TheLastBeyonder @sam_bidwell Tin foil hat needed. It turns out that basically every channel yesterday was broadcasting Christian/Easter messages. I think you need to read your Bible again and see what Jesus says about loving thy neighbour.

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3 months

@leemartin8 @James_M_Yates @B_HQ 4. A nice person who earns a decent salary, worked hard at school, took a law degree and understands that his quality of life isn’t threatened by people of a different skin tone. Have a great Bank Holiday!

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2 months

@93vintagejones Total rubbish. They were just incorporated into UK law in 1998. How do you think corporal punishment ended in private schools?

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@StickyChappers @LabourBristol If Labour voters saw their councillors in action they would vote for the Greens. Everything in Labour is about winning the selection for a safe ward. When they get into office they vote the way they’re told by the Mayor and the whips. Any who think for themselves are deselected.

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3 months

@drjennings I remember when his book came out about UKIP (in 2013?£ and I thought “ah that’s refreshing, an academic studying the rise of the far right in Britain with a degree of objectivity.” Then I read it and realised it wasn’t an academic study at all, it was a Farage hagiography.

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@BounceBackSEND @carogucc @DanicaPriest @EllieFreemanBS3 Candidates for election often deliver 1000+ leaflets every day. You’re going to get caught out sometimes. Dog owners should fit a cage to their letterbox. Their post doesn’t get wrecked, and the person delivering it doesn’t get their finger bitten off.

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@GaryBri99293774 @ItsMatt_Again Can’t have been money well-spent if he now can’t afford to rent. On the bright side, you don’t pay anything back if your salary is below about 31k so he’s laughing

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2 months

@adamboultonTABB It must be true it’s on the front page of the Mail!

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1 month

@PolitlcsUK The Tories will win, at best, 3 seats in Salford. The Lib Dems will win, at best, 1. Labour will take at least other 16 (plus a by-election gain). That leaves: 1156 - Labour 522 - Lib Dem 516 - Tory There is no way the Tories can overtake the Lib Dems in share of seats won.

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@_DylanHamilton_ @shareen74uk You’re complaining about an election in the holidays. Others complain about elections in term time. Get off Twitter and go and deliver some leaflets if you want some pro-Indy MPs elected.

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If @SouthCotswoldLD and their colleagues in North Cotswold had got off their backsides and delivered some leaflets they would have won 900+ votes and Martin Surl would have become the @GlosPCC Cotswold result: 7814 Conservative 5577 Liberal Democrats 2046 Labour 1295 Independent

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BREAKING: Chris Nelson holds position as Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire.

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@Ali___Robinson @juliasuzanne76 yes, because the 2010 hung parliament was such a disaster for the Tories and they were quickly swept from power?

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@LibDemDavid “Convincing my wife to marry me” and “as I shave my head in the mirror” are just very odd things to say.

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@AlexGSeabrook How on earth did she and/or Labour’s local nominating officer not realise that? It makes you weep.

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@Dunadan9 @Jeffrey62093861 @bryn00 Jeffrey seems to think unwritten constitution means “I get to have a say on things that I disagree with” We have a sovereign Parliament in Britain. The buck stops with them. I’d rather it was otherwise and Wales had a version of the German Grundgesetz - but we don’t.

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@WalkerMarcus Annexation? What was the result of the 1918 general election in Ireland?

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@PushTheSutton I think Berry wildly overestimates how many extra votes the Green Party attracted because she was top of the Londonwide list. The fact their vote fell by 1% and they are stalled on 3 in the Assembly suggests any impact was minor and it has ruined her credibility in Brighton.

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@YuriABezmenov @LyndonRosser @samofsamshire Oh, so it's nothing to do with food supply now? You're admitting what it's really about: prejudice and racism. You don't want people with different skin colours or religions moving to Britain. That's a perfectly legitimate argument but try to be more honest about your views.

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@JeremyBrookman2 @TSovereigner Half of UN member states, for a start

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@PaulHindley_ The name of that ward is somewhat misleading. It resembles the Hull Road ward in York - the LD vote comes from residents who despise students.

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@On700Novotny @VicctorianChad and rebuilt by the Soviet regime

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@ShoaibMKhan “He was homeless only in the sense that he had no home”

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@calciferion Yes. You don’t get treated more harshly by the law of the land in England and Wales because you’ve got brown skin. Sorry to break it to you.

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@SCHITZ909 @suprememercian @deuxvingarian We’ve gone from “I wish there was more to explore” to “it’s not England if there are South Asians there” Australia and America are great places to explore, but they’re also full of white Europeans.

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@James_M_Yates @DazMaddison @B_HQ So what would happen if I moved to live in say, Camden? I’d be stabbed as soon as I left the house by some teenager from Syria?

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3 months

@James_M_Yates @admcollingwood @GoodwinMJ What’s the latest polling on that then? I agree that voters are pretty thick on some social issues. We wouldn’t have gay marriage if the government hadn’t been brave enough to push it through in the face of opposition from the right, and now look at people’s attitudes.

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@James_M_Yates @B_HQ Welsh technically.

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@DuncanStott @AbrialJerram On my experience councils take unpopular decisions all the time, regardless of the electoral calendar. No difference between those who elect by thirds and the all-ups. Would be interesting to know if there’s been any studies on this.

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@Samjc289 @implausibleblog She won a Tory seat with the biggest anti-Tory swing in the country in 2019, so she’s hardly a clown. Daisy is jotting stuff down so she can respond to the questioner’s points, esp. if there’s a long wait. All panellists do it - it’s just polite and shows you’re listening.

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@TomWill81295454 @ElectionMapsUK That's a positive abstention. She voted in both lobbies to register an abstention.

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@AndrewJVarney @BrisLibDems @josclark6 @BristolLibDems “Could we not just have something discreet we can hide behind the shrubbery?” said many long suffering Lib Dem spouses.

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@Thomas13792 It might be a local party myth but under her maiden name she was at the very least an activist when she lived in Chipping Campden in the 1990s. Ask @joeharrispark

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@jdpoc I wonder if they get many applicants from Antarctica

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@B_HQ The public are pro-immigration when they’re asked in terms of doctors, nurses, care staff, specialists, their dependents - not to mention refugees, asylum seekers, etc. I wonder what a “fractured society” means in your head? Living near people of a different skin colour?

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@AllisonPearson They’re going to end up where, sorry?

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@JudSawyer @JosephEmmett10 @herefordlabour @UKLabour @ElectoralCommUK Quick answer: no It’s nothing to do with the Electoral Commission in any case. It happens to be true but there is no law that says what you put in leaflets has to be, so long as you don’t make untrue comments about a candidate’s personal character (*not* their political views)

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@CurtisDaly_ Indeed. The government would not have asked her to author the report if they didn’t know what it was going to say.

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@pimlicat Hoyle surely can’t survive long now he’s lost *checks notes* Naomi Smith - daughter of a Lib Dem peer and achievements nil

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@admcollingwood If Britain is a democracy and monarchy protects us, why are MPs forbidden from raising the subject of the Royal Family in our parliament?

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@DevaPete @PositivFuturist Those Barbour jackets aren’t as warm as they look. I had to nip down to John Lewis to pick up a new jumper to wear under mine.

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@PaulTempleman6 @LozzaFox @londonelects Clearly Harrow is not what it used to be

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@heatherlinzee1 @samofsamshire That’s the English figure. It’s far lower for Scotland and Wales: “OS data suggests that all buildings… houses, shops, offices, factories, greenhouses - cover 1.4% of the total land surface. Looking at England alone, the figure still rises to only 2%.”

So you think you know what the UK looks like? - BBC News

New research reveals, in greater detail than ever, just how the UK's land is used.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@James_M_Yates @jacobmacocu Top ten university. Would you respect me more if I’d been to Bradford?

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@NemoSalus @CotswoldsGeezer I follow his work pretty closely and he always struck me as a reasonable, centrist, pro-European Tory of the old school. We could do with more of them in public life. I guess it takes all sorts in this life but if you don’t agree with his politics maybe it’s more triggering.

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@SussexTech22 @RedRosa91940184 Means this. £750 a head for fifty tickets. Not quite sure why an MP sitting on a majority of 30,520 needs to raise so much money by dining with the filthy rich but there you go.

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@bernherts @peoplemattershr @BarbaraSutton15 Note the date: 25th March. Regulated campaign period begins after the last date for publication of notice of election, i.e. 26th March. Very sneaky.

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@Rod__Mason @realhansard I once met a Greek chap who claimed to be a refugee fleeing political persecution. He became a British citizen in 1947. He was immediately given the best social housing in London and had four kids who continue to claim substantial state benefits. His name? Prince Philip.

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@sam_bidwell If they’re paying full-whack, plus contributing to the local economies of these cities, what’s the problem?

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@bryn00 @Jeffrey62093861 @Dunadan9 Exactly. Two thirds of MSs, elected by the people of Wales in the 2021 election. It’s kind of how democracy works. If we don’t like Welsh Labour (I can’t stand them) we can vote against them in 2026.

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@CharlotteCGill And what about Michelle Mone and her £122 million? Are you as angry about that? Or not fussed because she supports your fascist mates in the Tory party?

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@_britmonkey That line about the Lib Dems / Greens is slightly unfair :(

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@alanroyabraham By that logic, do you think the good folk of Brighton Pavilion would have done better to elect a Tory MP in 2010? A Green MP will be very high-profile compared to the *checks notes* Shadow Culture Secretary who will never vote against the Starmer whip.

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@PlasFron @stellacreasy @IsabelOakeshott That isn’t what Creasy is saying at all. All abortions are illegal in England & Wales, it’s just that the 1967 Act provides limited access (currently up to 24 weeks). What her amendment would do is legalise abortions up to 24 weeks and give the DPP more flexibility after 24 weeks

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@JoshSpears007 @ThoughtsAbStuff @realhansard Presumably that’s Rishi and most of his Cabinet - plus the millions of us with at least one Irish, French or German grandparent - on the way out then. Final nail in the coffin for London’s nighttime economy.

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@PositivFuturist I am a district councillor in the south of England and I am staggered that anyone who lives alone can manage on less than about £85k per annum. Apart from skiing, the last time I had a proper foreign holiday was before Covid.

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@ben2world @OliverKamm @DAaronovitch Complete myth.

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