Ben Brittain @BenABrittain Twitter profile

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4 years

As an Englishman abroad I’ll never stop being like: “whoa, double-decker trains. So cool.”

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This is how it’s done - phenomenal parliamentary speech by Boris

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History and indeed the public will look way more fondly on Theresa May than most ex-Prime Ministers

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What a fab pic

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God, I miss the Hitch. His response here to Shirley Williams and the question whether Salman Rushdie should’ve got a knighthood is a class act that no other pundit or thinker have managed or ever will manage to reach.

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2 years

Boris removing the whip from Ellwood quicker than he did for Chris Pincher is a good example of why Boris is an outgoing Prime Minister.

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1 year

Nothing winds me up more than a bunch of millionaire celebrities lecturing the British public on how dumb and wicked they are. The lot of them can sod off.

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I couldn’t loathe them more even if you paid me good solid hard cash

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4 years

A decision was made here

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4 years

‘It is ludicrous and slanderous to think that Russia tried to meddle in the Scottish independence referendum,’ says Alex Salmond on his Russian state-funded show.

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10 months

The only outcome we want from all this, if we’re really honest, is the restoration of the Romanov dynasty.

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3 months

This was built in Stanford, Lincolnshire in 2005. We *can* create beauty in our towns and cities and build the homes we need, we just need the courage to do it.

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4 years

My beautiful Nan has passed away with Covid-19. I am glad she had my Mum and my Dad cradling her when she passed away. She had Dementia and would always hum songs to herself to get to sleep. When she passed she was humming Nat King Cole’s ‘Goodnight Irene‘ in the arms of my Mum.

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6 months

This photo has utterly and throughly depressed me

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6 months

The RBL look exasperated.

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2 years

The conversation between that Ukrainian guy in Kyiv and Boris is really very moving. We should be unashamedly proud of what Britain has done in helping Ukraine.

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3 years

Broadcasters should make a new year's resolution to stop being relentlessly negative about brexit. @Fox_Claire was spot on the other night when she called them out for it. 👇

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4 years

I see the left are losing their minds about police brutality in the US but were silent when French cops were battering the crap out of teenagers and pensioners.

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4 years

Just a reminder that when Macron got to power he renovated the Elysée and wrecked it. He made beauty ugly.

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5 years

This is very good from Curtis. Brits have never felt European, Brussels is ‘other’.

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2 years

Kemi Badenoch is all over the media in Nigeria. One article says: “How Kemi Badenoch, 42, grew up ‘with no running water’ in Nigeria to become top contender for British prime minister.” And that is the strength of Britain and the Conservative Party.

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5 years

This is the beauty of about British politics. One minute you’re at the G7 telling the President of the US to wind his neck in, the next on the phone to the local council reporting potholes

Simon Dudley

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5 years

With @theresa_may reporting her first potholes in Alexandra Road in Belmont ward in #Maidenhead under the new 24 hour working repair scheme from @RBWM . Reference number HIG013365

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1 year

Beyoncé’s text is worth more to her than standing by your family however difficult that sometimes may be. She’s everything that is wrong about a generation borne of entitlement: narcissistic, driven by grievance and victimhood and a disdain for quiet loyalty and duty to family.

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2 years

Big Ben looks fitttt now she’s had her big glow up.

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4 months

📍 Milano

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5 years

Prediction: this photo will haunt the political career of every single politician on stage

Tom Brake

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5 years

. @BorisJohnson you have done this. You've united the parties in the #PeoplesParliament , against your plans to shut the people, and our historic Parliament, out of one of the most critical decisions our country will take; crashing out of the EU without a deal You won't succeed!

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5 years

HM is a phenomenal woman, phenomenally

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3 months

Irish nationalists begging the British government for money then crying about it when they say no. Losers.

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3 months

Kneecap : Belfast rap group blocked from £15k grant by UK government

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5 years

This makes me uncomfortable. I could never use a child, let alone my own son, for a political stunt whilst I flaunted myself before cameras.

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5 years

"The government has a responsibility to be looking after our children for at least five days a week" - Jess Phillips explains why she has left her son at 10 Downing Street to protest schools shutting early

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2 years

There’s a national security issue with all these leaks from No 10. If you’re a foreign leader would you speak with much honesty or openness knowing they could be leaked by some anti-Tory civil servant at any time?

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6 months

She also said she was beaten with sticks and went through a living hell, but Sky hasn’t clipped that bit to post. Gutter agenda-driven reporting. And again by the British media.

Sky News

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6 months

"Each person had a guard watching him or her. They took care of all the needs. They talked about all kinds of things, they were very friendly." Yocheved Lifshitz details what it was like while being held hostage by Hamas. 🔗 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

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1 year

Another way is possible

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3 years

How it started How it’s going

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10 months

Being an Uncle is the greatest privilege of my life 🥰

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4 years

You and your wife catch virus. Your 4 year old son is hospitalised after showing similar symptoms. Your boss is hospitalised in ICU with the virus. Your uncle dies of the same virus. Not sure Cummings has been darting down the A1 lip-syncing to Heart FM, despite what media depict

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5 months

Uber snow at 2am this morning

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Sturgeon isn’t a ‘world leader’. She’s the leader of a large county council.

The National

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4 years

Tomorrow's front page: REVEALED: SNP agree on motion for a debate on Independence Plan B at the party conference

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Ben Brittain

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5 years

How can the public have respect for Parliament or Parliamentarians when they are seeking, at every opportunity, to overturn an instruction to Leave the European Union, given to them with a majority of 1,269,501? It is Parliament that is in contempt of the mandate by the people.

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2 years

Without UK military training and donations of NLAWs, when no other European nation would donate lethal weapons, many more Ukrainian cities would likely have fallen already. Twitter should try and remember that when they try and compare UK leadership on this to the EU.

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3 years

Kate Middleton looks phenomenal.

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4 years

Israel went for a two week ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown. That was a month ago and they’re still in lockdown. If you think it will be for two weeks then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

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1 year

His ancestors left in the early 1800’s. My grandad left in the 1950’s. Americans bleating about their tenuous Irish ancestry is really exhausting.

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1 year

“I don’t know why the hell my ancestors left,” President Biden tells a group of workers at a deli in Dundalk, Ireland. “It’s beautiful here.”

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1 year

Zelenskyy lands in France in a British government plane. Magnifique trolling.

BFMTV

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1 year

🔴 L'avion de Volodymyr Zelensky a atterri à l'aéroport d'Orly

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5 years

A lot of Tory volunteers that slog on the streets in the rain will feel such a sense of upset in the Prime Minister tonight. We believed her when she said no deal is better than a bad deal. But she is now asking us all to swallow a deal she said she would never accept.

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5 years

Bemoaning the lack of ‘grown-up politics’ from the lass wearing a Marx t-shirt is deliciously ironic.

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“Asking for grown-up politics from Boris Johnson is like asking a Labrador to deliver a treaty on Aristotle. It’s not in his nature, it’s not going to happen” – Novara Media’s Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar | #Newsnight

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5 years

Big question why British flagged tanker wasn’t escorted given #Iran threat. Hopefully many will now appreciate the need for a larger Royal Navy given the Royal Navy is at its smallest since 1683 and the UK has been stretching the Navy way too thin.

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1 year

I’ve got no money. Also me:

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2 years

The power of nuclear. UK relies on gas for 40% of its energy. France 16%.

Bradley Wall 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇬🇧🌍

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🇫🇷French energy bills will rise by 4%. 🇬🇧British energy bills will rise by 54%

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I think what set Hitch aside is he throughly enjoyed it. It was his sport. And he was a pro, an unrivalled athlete.

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1 year

Elon Musk challenging this BBC reporter is glorious

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5 months

Esther McVey’s first victory as Minister for Common Sense

KTLA

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6 months

Homer will continue to strangle Bart on ‘The Simpsons,’ co-creator says

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.⁦ @PennyMordaunt ⁩ outlines economic vision based on Four I’s: investment, infrastructure, incentives and innovation. This is what will drive growth. Combine that with tax simplification and targeted tax cuts and you have a bold formula for growth.

Tax cuts are important, but we need wider economic reform

As Prime Minister, my top priority will be to drive growth and competition, building an economy for the modern world

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4 years

The German Foreign Ministry website has replaced its flag of Taiwan with a white flag. Surely there could be no greater expression of German foreign policy on China than a white flag of surrender? Humiliating.

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2 years

@nytimes There’s few publications, if indeed any, as odious and hateful as the NYT. Shameful.

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6 months

Gerry Adams using AI images when there are real images of children fleeing his IRA bombs is quite the gaslight.

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4 years

I mean, this isn’t just ugly it’s an abomination

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3 years

Flabbergasted that after this whole debacle the EU has had the brass neck to ask AstraZeneca to divert supplies from the UK to the EU to make up the shortfall. The EU ordered 3 months after the UK and hasn’t even given approval for the vaccine.

Reuters | Breaking International News & Views

Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage.

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2 years

Let’s do this and rectify the wrong - last chance to restore trust with the public and unite the party.

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4 years

These two should be trialed in the Hague

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5 years

HRH Prince Harry did two tours of Afghan.

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5 years

Congrats to the Royal Family!

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Morning. Your regular reminder that the 1960’s was a crime and brutalism a stain. Before / after demolition / reconstruction in Birmingham, Stephenson Street, Exchange Building.

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4 years

This photo from Mark Drakeford’s Wales is horrific. Wales is now a nation that forbids the purchase of books. Miserable and depressing.

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5 months

Black tie season ⚫️

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1 year

I think we’re currently spending about £105bn on the state pension and with this budget it rises to £115.5bn. It’s a staggering amount of money. Should both political parties look at means testing pension benefits?

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5 years

Won’t accept faux outrage when for the last 3 years you’ve mocked Leavers as thick, racist and uneducated. You’ve called us nazis and fascists. Your refusal to accept the result and the subsequent way you’ve treated us has created a climate of despair and contempt.

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4 years

Jerusalem hasn’t been this butchered since the Romans sacked it in 70 CE. #lastnightoftheproms

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2 years

Still can’t get over this

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10 months

Damn…

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4 years

Love this

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5 years

How many times does Orwell have to be proved right when he said, “England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality?” 🙄

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5 years

MY BOOK HAS GONE TO PRINT I'M SO EXCITED If you like my stuff, I promise you'll love it. Guarantee you it's the only non-pornographic book you'll buy this year with multiple penises and a quote from James O'Brien on the front.

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5 years

Why are Scottish Nationalists kicking a football about in the House of Commons?! Such a lack of respect. Shameful.

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3 years

24/7 vaccine roll out. Vets, GPs, army corps, volunteers, the lot. Stadiums and village halls. Drive throughs and walk-ins. With 2 million doses of the Oxford jab a week there’s no excuse. So let’s end this nightmare so we can move on and restore our lives and liberty.

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4 years

Is this biggest political yolo in history? Disraeli accepted an amendment to his Second Reform Bill after hearing an amendment from unknown backbencher, without consulting anyone in his party or his cabinet. It enfranchised half a million men.

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10 months

Cameron was a class act and it comes to something when we look back to this as a more moral time in politics and British society.

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1 year

This portrait of HM The King is an absolute solid.

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11 months

Really disappointing “gotcha” tactics from Bryant here. The debate on China is going to dominate for years to come and this childish pettiness undermines what value Britain can have with her allies on competing and containing China

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There is a strong conservative argument for 15 minute cities as a return to freedom for movement in communities that foster belonging, familial life and a strong patriotic identity, both to the local area and the nation state.

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Hearing * vive le roi ! * shouted on the streets of Paris at an English monarch is incredible

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This friendship.

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5 years

People who make tea like this should be prosecuted

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1 year

Pride of the Nation 🇬🇧

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4 years

Fantastic news. UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor China transparency

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3 years

The UK's Space Force is surely going to be called the Royal Space Force? If not, why not, and how do we sack the person that decided against calling it that?

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My Dad received a cancer diagnosis today and amidst tears, frantic calls, rushing out of work and a panic dash to Tewkesbury, I found him at home, feet up with a cup of tea and digestive biscuits booking ‘one last holiday’.

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I like this photo as I look genuinely happy… which may be because of the wine tbh.

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1 year

Hugo has a clear message today: #VoteConservative 🌳 🗳️

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2 years

This is an unsurprisingly smart move by John Bew, but I do wish spads and civil servants had a better relationship with academia. It should be common for them to be reading journals and papers - one way we drive better understanding of policy and foster innovation in Whitehall.

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1 year

It’s too big tbh

Kris Pangilinan

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1 year

#BREAKING : Canada has unveiled a new design to the Canadian Passport. It will be rolled out this summer. It’s not red.

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This looks great. Incidentally Hull has a larger population than Odense, suggesting the UK really does need to be bigger, bolder and more localised in its transport planning. Imagine the productivity gains if towns across the UK that had a population of 200,000+ had a good metro.

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Odense 🇩🇰 joined the club of European towns and cities with light rail yesterday

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4 years

Last week they were clapping key workers now they’re slapping key workers.

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4 years

Dawn raid done ✅ Let’s get Brexit done! 🇬🇧 #VoteConservativesActually

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5 years

This just makes me sad, to think this was just torn down..

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Chamberlain Place - c.1900

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Hugo is nearly 3 years old. He was an emotional purchase in the middle of lockdown after my Nan passed and he has given me so much joy. Here he is an adorable puppy, rather than than the giant terrorist that he is now.

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Wetherspoons is such a great British company that deserves a lot of praise. Apart from the obvious cheap booze and food, that it takes rundown buildings and repurposes them giving them a new life for local community is great. It’s table app also shows how innovative it is!

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4 years

Is Keir Starmer a hypocrite?

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4 years

Hi all. Meet Hugo 🐶 💙

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3 years

Love this

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3 months

I highly suspect it’s not just our allies thinking this: UK generals likely do in private. But, the dumb declinists and penny pinchers in Whitehall and Parliament don’t give a sod - on the same day we announce termination of domestic steel production = Britain has just given up.

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Exclusive: European and American generals fear the UK is no longer a top-level fighting force, with new analysis from @thetimes revealing the army will have fewer than 70,000 soldiers within two years

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1 year

@nathan1harrison Enough to feed the whole world 5x over forever and end galactic poverty.

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1 year

Argentina MFA 🇦🇷

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1 year

The Malvinas question is an special colonial situation that must come to an end. The Res. takes note of the existence of a sovereignty dispute between Argentina and UK. It invites both governments to engage in negotiations in order to find a peaceful solution to the dispute.

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4 years

Hugo has come out as a Brexiteer. Proud Dad 🥰

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Big Ben ☀️

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