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Cognitive Psychologist, cat lover, Ultra-Remainer & Extreme Centrist, watch & fountain pen collector 

Inverkip, Scotland
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Carrie Johnson escapes £50 fine for her ABBA party. A reminder that a teenager was fined over £2000 for meeting OUTSIDE in a group of more than two people, and named & shamed.
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If P&O is not a British company and doesn't have to respect British law, why did British taxpayers give it massive amounts of money during the pandemic?
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Gavin Williamson meets r2d2.
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Why is Carrie Johnson in Rwanda with the PM, and who’s paying for it? We don’t have a First Lady in the UK.
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Imagine Nicola Sturgeon having an affair, during which her lover received a large amount of taxpayers' money. The BBC would maintain a discreet silence about that. Wouldn't they?
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Chris Whitty is now openly challenging Johnson's decisions. What's coming must be really bad.
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25-yr-old Ali Harbi Ali is consistently described as a British citizen of Somali heritage. His parents fled war in the 1990s. We refer to Patel and Zahawi as British citizens, without adding 'of Ugandan-Indian heritage', or 'born in Iraq'. Let's keep the xenophobia out of it.
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Anyone getting the impression that Biden really, really doesn’t like Johnson?
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"What did you do at work today, Daddy?" "I bet £1000 I could make asylum seekers' lives even more miserable."
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"What did you do at work today, Daddy?" "I can't remember."
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Bank of England confirms Brexit will cost £80bn. A lot of money for a small island with 31m taxpayers, an ageing population, and a govt reluctant to tax the rich. We’ve punched above our weight in the past, but we have to accept the Tories have diminished us. Time to get real.
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Does anyone else get the impression that Boris Johnson is nearing the end of his short, unhappy occupancy of number 10? Will he be remembered mainly for plunging us into Brexit chaos for personal gain, or for horribly mismanaging the COVID-19 crisis?
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If Brexit can’t be cancelled because it was in the manifesto, why can foreign aid, enshrined in law and the subject of another manifesto pledge, be tampered with?
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Anyone else beginning to feel more like a hostage than a citizen of the UK?
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My wife & I, triple-vaxxed and adhering carefully to Scottish guidance, have tested positive for COVID. Early symptoms: heavy cold & flu-like exhaustion. God knows what's next. PLEASE give loved ones the best New Year gift: don't infect them. Anti-maskers: go fuck yourselves.
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How did we get from Blitz Spirit to “I’m scared to wear a flimsy little mask while I’m shopping”?
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Why isn't the Prime Minister required to answer under oath at PMQs?
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Patel: don't help migrants in peril in the Channel Braverman: don't supply tents to the homeless Johnson: old people must accept dying of COVID Hancock: I get to choose who live and die Sunak: no money for vulnerable people to shield Jenrick: no cartoons in migrant centre
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Is anyone else feeling offended by Liz Truss's exploitation of the invasion of Ukraine for her self-aggrandisement? The endless photographs are bad enough, but her little videos starring herself, now with background music, have crossed a line.
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Why are the Tories so desperate to privatise the NHS, but so reluctant to admit it? If they really thought it was the right thing to do, we’d never hear the end of it.
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BBC Question Time worked hard to make Farage's far-right policies seem like part of the mainstream, with dozens of appearances. Now GB News seems to have a season ticket for the panel, despite being notionally a rival broadcaster. What's the motivation?
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Now Sunak is attacking SAGE. They had too much power, it seems, and were too 'gloomy'. How many people did the Tories want to die? Weren't 200,000 enough?
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"Fed up with the 8am rush to get a doctor's appointment? Just go private, like us."
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You're just showing off now, Penny.
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How desperate do you have to be to see this as the saviour of your party?
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Tamworth Tory candidate: "Poor people can fuck off" Jonathan Gullis: Constituency is full of “scumbags”, “scrotes” and “savages” 30p Lee: "Asylum seekers can fuck off back to France" Dame Andrea Jenkyns:
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"What did you do at work today, Daddy?" "I hid in a fridge from a Greek man who wants some stolen goods back."
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4 years
How can a government after only six months seem so tired, morally bankrupt, bereft of ideas, and discredited?
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Leavers: which aspect of 1950s’ life are you most looking forward to returning to?
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I think that the Saudis executing three people while Johnson was actually there tells us all we need to know about their attitude to him.
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This character runs Britain: Braverman's puppet-master John Hayes. Brexit fanatic; wants the government to re-introduce hanging; describes people taking precautions against heatwaves as 'cowards and snowflakes'; linked to the American far right.
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Tories who bizarrely try to smear Starmer by association with his former party leader should reflect on the fact that they are harbouring an alleged rapist.
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I knew that Boris Johnson would be a disastrous Prime Minister, but I'm surprised at how evil a regime he has manufactured in such a short time. There's not a liberal bone in his body.
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Mark Francois MP seems to have 'gone dark'. Is politics the only profession in which you can disappear without trace for weeks but still keep your job?
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If the Tories throw you a few quid in the Budget tomorrow, and get an aircraft full of wretched asylum seekers off to an unsafe country, will you forgive them for 14 years of hell and give them your vote? Because that's 'the plan'.
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Children’s first day at school, wearing the new uniform. Today’s lesson: basic structural repair techniques.
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Was this ever resolved? I haven't noticed any big blue police tents outside CCHQ, or high-profile arrests.
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Truss hides from Andrew Neil and Nick Robinson, but pretends she can stand up to the likes of Putin and Xi.
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If Rees-Mogg can't take his job seriously, he should f*ck right off. The country's in no mood for his music-hall schtick.
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What could Sue Gray possibly discover that would exonerate Johnson?
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The more you stare at this picture, the more it looks like a Cold War Steve creation. They all seem two-dimensional.
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@AdamBienkov At least it is now explicit that the cost of living crisis is a CHOICE made by this government. Let's tolerate no more crocodile tears from them. Shareholders' interests will always come first.
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@Greenfleeves If she were a working class woman in an NHS ward, she'd be considered a bed blocker and would have already been sent home if she had been judged 'capable'. The story that the Princess of Wales's home is 'unsuitable' is an insult to all the patients who can't even heat theirs.
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@MrHarryCole @TheSun This used to be called Project Fear. It’s too late for the Sun to deny the role it played in landing us in this mess.
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@alanferrier It seems like Johnson is actually trolling us. A Russian company chosen to install comms equipment at the building that is the heart of our government. I can't imagine Putin commissioning a British company to kit out the Kremlin.
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I'd love to see a plane containing the entire Cabinet taking off for Rwanda. They've assured us that Rwanda is one of the safest places on Earth, and a land of opportunity. They'll have a great time.
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@harry_horton He's just a regular guy. He wears jeans, owns 12 properties, is married to a zillionaire, and "was part of a small team of hedge fund bosses who shared nearly £100m after an audacious stock market bet that lit the touchpaper on the 2008 financial crisis" (The Times).
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@Mike_Fabricant Oh no. It's Raynergate. A member of the Opposition front benches didn't join in the fun when we abolished human rights.
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@kruger4devizes It says something for the Tories that it's not immediately obvious that this is a parody.
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@AndyGJBurge If only you'd been PM for seven weeks and cost the country £60bn, you'd be entitled to £115K a year.
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@Marsh4LL1 If a group of black people were rampaging through a hotel terrorising the residents, would the police intervene? Racists in Britain are being given the message that they can do and say what they please, and the government is complicit.
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We haven't forgotten what you did.
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@Baddiel @RC_Garrioch Some of the victims of the Nazis were Jewish babies who were thrown into the air and machine-gunned. In front of their mothers. And these c*nts think that having to wear a flimsy mask in public places, during a pandemic, is somehow equivalent?
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@Otto_English It's almost as if France has control of its borders AND remains a member of the EU. How is that possible?
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Johnson’s had a haircut. Something’s afoot.
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@IsabelOakeshott Why are you so bothered by other people wearing masks? Why do you have a right to deny them their freedom? The government may have removed the protections, but the virus didn’t get the memo. There are 300,000 cases per day, and a record number of hospitalisations.
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He looks like the area manager of a small chain of carpet warehouses.
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Where's Kemi?
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Will the Lavatories Tsar be part of the Privy Council?
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I can't help feeling The Sunday Telegraph has buried the lede a bit here. Surely the top line is that Britain is to become the first country in the world to appoint a dedicated 'lavatories tsar'. I bet you didn't have that on your Tory summer fightback bingo card.
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Truss is reported to be in a bad place. Does anyone know where it is?
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The Spanish flu pandemic lasted Jan 1918-Dec 1920. We won't have a COVID-19 vaccine for at least 18 months. We're heading for a no-deal Brexit in 10 months. Our society can survive one of these threats (with difficulty) but not both. THE BREXIT MADNESS MUST END.
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'Help are own first' is now trending. Depressing on so many levels.
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@Direthoughts @SamCoatesSky Which illustrates neatly why Johnson's position is untenable. If he can't appear in Parliament during a crisis in case he is called to account over his law-breaking, he simply cannot continue as PM.
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A lot of people who voted Labour in the past seem to have switched to the Tories, because they could imagine having a pint with 'Boris' down the pub. Don't they realise how much he despises them?
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@ShippersUnbound Is there any member of this patriotic Cabinet who's always been exclusively a British citizen, always paid full UK tax, never received money from Putin's Russia, and has not obtained an Irish passport to retain freedom of movement?
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"Reform voters, Sir. Several of them. And they're all armed with Zimmer frames."
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Are we paying for the MP for Uxbridge to live a sort of fantasy life? In what capacity is he acting?
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It was great to see you again @speakermccarthy . I valued our discussion and our shared commitment to face down the threats we face 🇬🇧🇺🇸 #ukrainemustwin
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@WhistleblowingT So Eton pays a member of the far right to spew out his poison, as the over-privileged oiks in the audience bray at state school pupils whose parents' taxes subsidise this 'charity'. A perfect vignette of Tory Britain in the 2020s.
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Where can I download the 'plan' that Sunak keeps referring to?
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This poor woman, who drowned in the Channel crossing tragedy, perhaps doesn't fit the stereotype that Johnson, Patel and Farage are trying to create ("men of fighting age" and other slurs). RIP.
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@PeterBoneUK Yes, he got us through Brexit and we pay the price every day. And 180K died of COVID--the carnage continues but isn't reported. Have no constituents contacted you to demand you submit a letter to the 1922 Committee? I suspect the chap you happened to meet is in the minority.
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The Conservatives’ message is essentially one of hate, isn’t it?
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This woman is an existential threat to our country. Forget all the "I had to do my own hair" nonsense. Her political views are dangerous, and she's consorting with the likes of lunatics such as Steve Bannon.
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@christopherhope This is a local data protection system for local people. It won't be as protective as GDPR, it'll be more expensive, and of course it won't be recognised as valid elsewhere. But it'll be BRITISH.
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@SarahForshaw1 She’s 77. She retired as President of the Supreme Court a couple of years ago. Just another far-right attack on the judiciary.
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Wouldn't it be amusing if Hugo Keith confronted Sunak with loads of his 'lost' WhatsApp messages, recovered from the recipients who made them openly available to the inquiry?
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@RossWHarrington They sent the asparagus-picking people packing. If they try to return, they'll be sent to Rwanda. Good news for Peru, though.
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@PoliticsJOE_UK Most Ukrainians don't want to settle in the UK; they just want to survive and then to return to their own country, which they clearly love as much as the Brexit flag-shaggers love theirs. Britain's humanitarian response: "we've done our bit".
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As letters of no confidence are sent to Brady, Braverman is named as a leading contender for Sunak's job. Vote Johnson, get de facto PM Cummings, Truss, Sunak... Braverman? Surely there MUST be an election.
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Johnson’s world The real world
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OK, own up. Who's nicked our country? Honestly, you can't leave anything lying around these days.
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Is Laura Kuenssberg auditioning for a gig on GB News?
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@thequentinletts Johnson has been kicked out in disgrace by his own party. Why should the Leader of the Opposition sing his praises? The man is a scoundrel. I can't remember any instances in which you have been 'generous' to anyone.
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@AdamBienkov She wants GB News to be her version of Trump's Fox News. Murdoch may have something to say about that. What a disgusting woman. She criticises her schools for not giving her a chance to make something of herself, but in reality they've propelled her far beyond her ability.
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No matter how much the far right piles in on her, we will #IStandWithNicola . She has worked tirelessly to lead Scotland through the pandemic, taking hostile and sneering media questions—while Kuenssberg tosses soft balls to Johnson. Salmond will not derail independence.
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Johnson: “There are forces at work that simply don’t want Brexit delivered at all.” That’ll be the 55% of the country.
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Is Dan Hodges OK? This disputed thousand quid historical tax liability seems to have become an obsession. Perhaps a neighbour could pop in to see how he's doing. Oddly, he coped quite well with Zahawi's £5m tax underpayment.
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@ZacGoldsmith He didn't lift us out of the Covid nightmare. He capitulated to right-wingers who objected to even basic protections. In doing so, he condemned many people to death: we're currently running at over 50K deaths a year. The virus is everywhere. That doesn't seem to worry him.
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Corbyn confirming on Sky News that he wants to negotiate a deal with the EU, i.e. he wants Brexit. No mention of a second referendum or even a general election. Labour is a Brexit-supporting party, no matter how they try to misrepresent their position.
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@Conservatives Wow! Out of the job for six whole days after endangering national security. You guys really are tough on offenders.
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@YouGov How can 43% of the voters be thinking "The country's in great shape after a decade of the Tories. Let's have another five years of that, only much more extreme"?
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@a60countryman Ironically, they'll find that their services were sought only BECAUSE they were MPs. They perhaps haven't thought this through.
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The Conservatives will almost certainly lose the election. But will they have enough seats to be the Official Opposition?
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@timmartindale @BorisJohnson_MP @mrjamesob How to spot a parody account: the Tories apologise.
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@KHarveyProctor Far more people are angered by your reaction to EU flags than by your sexuality. Brexit was a bad decision, and it has done untold damage to our country. The people waving the EU flags are the patriots, heartbroken by a referendum won by Leave because Boris Johnson craved power.
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3 years
Has the phrase ‘morally bankrupt’ ever been more apt? We can’t survive another three and a half years of this government.
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@Mike_Fabricant Beth Rigby was punished far more severely than Johnson's derisory 50 quid fine. If Johnson is suspended by the standards committee for as long as Rigby was suspended by her employer, there will have to be a by-election.
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@PippaCrerar Why don't the Brexiters all relocate to the Isle of Wight, where they can live in an imaginary 1955 forever? I can't really blame them for wanting to escape from the reality of Tory Brexit hell.
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@markjenkinsonmp @Jo_Coburn @nadhimzahawi @BorisJohnson @BBC The issue was his being at a party (one of several he attended) when the rest of us were locked down and couldn't even see dying relatives. Trying to trivialise this will just alienate the voters even more.
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@NadineDorries @BorisJohnson The House of Commons, with its huge Tory majority, voted for this enquiry. You really must learn to respect parliamentary processes, even those that you find inconvenient.
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