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I teach philosophy. 'To believe nothing without a reason . . . is as stupid a prejudice... as to believe everything without examination.'

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William Large
2 years
Labour MP. 'I actively campaigned against Corbyn to win the election and was very happy when he lost it.' Same Labour MP. 'It was Corbyn's fault he lost the election and he was unelectable.'
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William Large
4 months
Surely a manifesto that can't be be attacked by the Tories is a Tory manifesto.
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Labour ditches radical reforms as it prepares ‘bombproof’ election manifesto
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3 months
You have to admire MPs making up an angry mob that doesn't exist so they can deprive us of our political right to protest.
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2 months
Corbyn was doorstepped for years and physically assaulted. From what I remember everyone in the media thought it was fine and a bit of a laugh.
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William Large
1 year
I always thought the Labour antisemitism smear would end in a farce, but I never thought it would be a bunch of white middle class men telling a black woman, who has suffered outrageous levels of racist abuse, that she is in fact the real racist not them.
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2 years
@BowenBBC Yeah I remember you tweeting this about Gaza. Oh wait a minute, you didn't....
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William Large
2 years
Before Corbyn, I would have defended the BBC. I don't watch it now. I don't pay a licence fee, and I really don't care if it ceased to exist. #bbc
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4 years
My Labour CLP, Bristol South, has just voted for a motion in solidarity with @jeremycorbyn and demanded that he has the whip immediately reinstated. Will post the texts of the motions tomorrow if permitted.
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William Large
2 years
I remember when the Guardian was publishing 3 editorials a day on antisemitism in the Labour party. It has virtually been totally silent on the #FordeReport and when it did report on it, it was misleading. That tells you something doesn't it.
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William Large
1 year
Social media is a strange place, but who'd have thought Billy Bragg would be accusing Alexei Sayle (and other Jewish people, one of whom is a Holocaust survivor) of being an antisemite in a film he hasn't watched on Paul Mason's word.
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William Large
2 years
How bizarre that we know that it is Putin's oligarchs that fund the Tory party, but somehow it is the left that are 'pro-Putin'. This is absurd isn't it?
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2 years
Are Guardian opinion writers on strike? Labour leader accused of antisemitism by CAA but there doesn't seem to be an editorial or opinion piece in sight.
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5 years
Persons, I believe, associated with the account @GnasherJew , contacted my university yesterday, and attempted to get me sacked by making false accusations of antisemitism. This is the reality of the antisemitism witch-hunt against Labour. Share this, so people know.
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William Large
4 years
Labour manifesto costed at £80 billion. We are told this will lead to the end of the world, and how will it be funded. £100 billion 'Moonshot' nonsense, nobody bats an eyelid. No-one asks 'where will the money come from?'. Ever feel that you are being conned? #r4today #Moonshot
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William Large
2 years
I see that Starmer is lying about, and smearing Corbyn again. What is the difference between him and Johnson?
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William Large
2 years
@maitlis You smeared the alternative for 4 years and ushered this government into power. The rest of us saw it coming.
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1 year
Can anyone answer this question. Why was not voting Labour from 2015-19 not enabling the Tories, but mysteriously became so after 2019?
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2 years
Corbyn was held personally responsible for everything that happened in the Labour party right down to every tweet and every Facebook post by every member and voter since the beginning of time. So why shouldn't Starmer be responsible for what happened in his own office? #Saville
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William Large
1 year
James O'Brien called all Labour members Holocaust deniers. All of them. Why anyone takes him as the voice of reason is beyond me. He blocked me of course.
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William Large
4 years
It is nonsense to say that the furlough scheme is unsustainable. The Government can create as much money as it needs. QE cost over £375 billion and mostly ended up in the hands of the rich. Weird that it is always the workers who are the scroungers isn't it? #r4today
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@GeorgeMonbiot There are 5 academic peer reviewed papers on the content of the BBC news. Every one concludes that it is biased against the left and Labour in particular (unless of course it was New Labour). There is no research that I know of that concludes the opposite.
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3 years
'Corbyn promised massive government spending and borrowing'. What the hell is Nick Robinson talking about. The government borrowed £227.6 Billion more to December. The sky did not fall in. The cost of the 2017 manifesto was £48.6 Billion and 2019, £82.9. #r4today
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Why would you have a march against antisemitism and not against all racism?
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William Large
3 years
A Labour MP makes allegations of threats of violence and intimidation in a national right wing newspaper. Claims she cannot attend conference. Presents no evidence of these threats. Nor can anyone find any evidence of these threats. Does that remind you of anything?
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William Large
2 years
Starmer will not be less right wing when he is elected. He will be more right wing. #StarmerOut
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William Large
2 years
I am assuming that after the media furore when Starmer was shouted at in the street that there is going to be full media coverage of the death threat against the Labour MP Zarah Sultana, and Starmer will show his unconditional support for her.
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William Large
2 years
@Erimus81 @YoungLabourUK I think the point about living in a democracy is that you can criticise NATO. I mean what is the point of NATO otherwise.
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William Large
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@helenhayes_ @Artistinagarret What is divisive about a ceasefire?
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William Large
4 years
Without Corbyn I wouldn't have joined the Labour party like hundreds of thousands of others. I wouldn't have canvassed for MPs, who despise us, in every kind of weather. He makes it possible for all of us to imagine a different kind world. #WeSupportCorbyn
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William Large
1 year
It is clear that Labour party are now not going to repeal The Tory Public Order bill that bans peaceful protest. I have no idea why anyone who thinks of themselves as progressive or left wing would vote for them.
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William Large
2 years
We know for a fact that Corbyn was undermined by his own party structure and his MPs. We now also know that he was undermined by YouGov. This doesn't even take into account the media smears and lies. Liberals and centrists? 'He was unelectable'.
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Diane Abbott writes a clumsy and badly expressed letter about the structural/institutional hierarchy of racism in UK, where the response to it better explains what the point is than anything she wrote.
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William Large
1 year
I see that now they can't prove Corbyn is an antisemite they are now going for he's an unconscious one. I can guarantee they won't have any credible evidence for that either.
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William Large
2 years
@jessicaelgot I wonder if he had conversation with Corbyn about the smears and slander he received from you and the Guardian?
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William Large
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Are Labour's membership figures accurate? Exhibit A. This turned up yesterday. I stopped being a member of the Labour party 2 years ago. Let me remind anyone who follows me. No-one who thinks they are progressive should be a member, campaign, or vote for Starmer's Labour party.
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@Keir_Starmer You mean this guy shaking hands with Corbyn?
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1 year
@Keir_Starmer These are facts about antisemitism in the Labour party. In the first NEC report, 0.06% of Labour members were accused of AS, in the second 0.24%. Of those 0.01% were found to be valid. Moreover if you really believed AS was rife,, what were you doing in the shadow cabinet?
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William Large
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@KateEMcCann @SamCoatesSky How is that intimidating? You lot camped outside of Corbyn's house for 4 years and shouted at him every time he opened the door.
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William Large
3 years
@wilsonj194 @dcnnanoble Because she is a symbol of the vast inequality in this society?
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@arusbridger @JewishChron If you someone had uttered this when Corbyn was leader they would have been labelled an antisemite and their name would have been dragged through the mud for weeks.
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William Large
1 year
This is an Incredible article on the current events in France, which could equally be about the UK. Don't let yourself be ruled by the stupid. Take choices for yourself. Read and share.
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William Large
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The Guardian writes a misleading headline and everyone falls for it. You'd think we'd have learnt by now. No Mike Lynch did not tell you to vote for Starmer.
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William Large
2 years
@YoungLabourUK These sounds rather Putinesque ironically. We will silence anyone who disagrees with us. I mean their statements was sanctions and diplomacy, which is pretty much the position of everyone.
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@BBCPolitics @bbcnickrobinson I think what is very odd is the BBC's complicity in the bullying, harassment and thuggery at the heart of the Labour party. Thank God Aljazeera can do actually journalism which the BBC has long given up.
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William Large
4 years
@ta_mills Weirdly this constant harassment of left wing Jews is not seen as antisemitic at all.
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3 years
@ta_mills I've taught in Oxbridge, Russell Group and post 92. In terms of academic quality there wasn't a great difference. Bullshit and overconfidence definitely. Like private schools, elite undergraduate unis are all about social inequality.
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2 years
Just a reminder that Russia isn't a communist country and does not have the support of some imaginary left you are fantasising about. Lots of rich Russian oligarchs do fund the Tory party however and the City is awash with their money.
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William Large
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@maitlis @WilliamJHague Corbyn didn't deny the extent of antisemitism in the Labour party. He said that the scale had been grossly exaggerated by people like you, which is objectively true. It doesn't surprise me that you are still lying about him, however.
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@paulmasonnews @Lovehasnowords1 Oh this is hard. On the one hand, Chomsky a world leading intellectual and activist. And on the other, Paul Mason.
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Someone phoned my work to falsely accuse me of antisemitism to get me sacked. This was happening to Labour members and supporters throughout the UK between 2015-19 because of the smears and lies. I don't remember Tory MPs and the commentariat being up in arms about it. Do you?
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@PhilipPullman You spent 4 years smearing the alternative and ushering this Tory government into power. Why wasn't this true then. Now that we don't have any real alternative, you are all for it.
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William Large
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@Peston How is it a war exactly. Gaza is not a country. It has been illegally blockaded by Israel for 16 years. Most of the people who live there have been expelled from their homes and are refugees.
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@paulmasonnews @DominicRaab People forget that the antisemitism smear against Corbyn began on the Guido Fawkes website and then was taken up by the Telegraph. The rest is history. The difference is that the liberal press will defend Starmer.
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@BBCPolitics I remember when he killed thousands of people through 'eat out to help out'. I also remember he was part of the 2008 financial crash. Funny what it you remember isn't it.
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William Large
3 years
'Equality is you get what you deserve' says Justin Webb, whose £250,000-£254,999 salary is paid for by poor people #r4today
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@mrjamesob Or you could just fund the NHS properly.
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2 years
@JackElsom It is an actual factual tweet isn't it? The real reason is an attempt by the Labour right to deselect her.
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William Large
5 years
Hey @BBCr4today care to explain why you are still reading out newspapers headlines during a general election when they are so clearly biased against one party as Loughborough university research shows? #r4today . How is this balanced and impartial?
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@SaulStaniforth The bombing of Dresden was a war crime. We set up international law after WW2 to prevent war crimes. The existence of the Nazis does not justify war crimes today.
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@jrc1921 They just make stuff up now. She's already had to retract a comment about Corbyn for lying.
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William Large
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@simonmontefiore @guardian Your letter is complete absent of any facts. Corbyn has no 'affection for murderous regimes'. There were 2 examples of harassment (both subject to Judicial Review) which Corbyn was not responsible for and happened under the GS Iain McNicol. Someone who you don't appear to blame.
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William Large
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I am only going to teach anti-capitalist classes from now on.
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@Stefan_Boscia How dare she stand up for the rule of law. We demand summary executions.
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@tom_belger Er, Labour got 40% in an actual general election in 2017. I know we have erased that from history, but come on.
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@paulmasonnews Corbyn was protesting against Putin before any of you had ever heard of him. This war will end in negotiations. Everyone knows it will.
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3 years
@helensclegel I am an expert in Jewish philosophy and have studied antisemitism for over 25 years. Not one of these tweets is an example of antisemitism whatsoever. You have my complete solidarity.
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That's weird. @BBCr4today thinks that Mark Serwotka comments are headline news, but that fact that Tory MEPs voted for an actual anti-Semite isn't. #r4today
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That's weird. A man who has never said anything racist, is a racist, whereas a man who has said many racist things often, isn't. #Corbyn #Boris
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@SaulStaniforth So the wrong kind of Jews then. Isn't this just antisemitism?
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Leaked Labour report shows sources for the @BBCPanorama hatchet job on the Labour party were liars, bullies, corrupt and cronies. You'd think it would be a item on #r4today , considering their obsession with Labour and A/S. Nothing. Third item on the news? Olives. #LabourLeaks
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@wesstreeting @PaulWilliamsLAB Dear God, Wes. I am a Labour member and Labour voter. Face the facts. In 2017, Labour increased the vote in Hartlepool by 16.9% after a downward trend of 16 years. This wasn't a century ago. It was 4 years ago. If you think the lesson from this is just carry on we are doomed.
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EHRC report looked at 70 cases. There were only 2 they upheld. Both were subject to judicial review. So now there are zero. I imagine this outcome will be widely reported in the legacy media.
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Livingstone and Bromley offered settlement after challenging EHRC over anti-semitism allegations
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@jessicaelgot Wow that is powerful independent journalism Jessica. You must be proud.
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@sweatandlies @paulmasonnews I take it you haven't read the report then Leon and therefore have nothing remotely useful to add.
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3 years
Why does #r4today consistently describe Palestinians as 'militants'?
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A commission set up by someone who says institutional racism does not exist, chaired by someone who says that intuitional racism does not exist, concludes that institutional racism does not exist. #r4today #BLM
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@Siobhain_Mc Funny I don't remember you writing a letter when Corbyn was actually physically attacked rather than his office being spray painted.
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William Large
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@paulwaugh @chunkymark @SamCoatesSky Yes he did, but it shows the collusion between the CBI and the Tory party. The idea that the CBI is neutral and impartial when it comes to politics is absurd.
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That's weird. Tories lose 300 seats, Labour 70, in the local elections, but listening to @bbccr4today , you'd think it was the other way around. #r4today
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@paulmasonnews @Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @AnnelieseDodds John Curtice made it clear that outside London, Labour did worse than Corbyn in 2018. I think I'll take his word for it.
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@Keir_Starmer Wow that is a surprise. Who'd have thought that Starmer's New Labour 2.0 would be pro-war.
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So I hear that #r4today is spinning yesterday as a massive victory for Boris. Let's be clear the first vote, which was a second reading, was pretty meaningless. It's the second vote that was the important one and he lost that. #BrexitBill
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@Otto_English He publicly boasted that he campaigned against his own party and put Johnson into no 10. He is none of things you describe.
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How peculiar. Corbyn loses his whip by telling the truth. The only way that his factional accusers will allow him to regain it is by lying and erasing the truth.
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3 years
I am constantly reminded that when Labour suggested a modest government spending of £80 billion in 2019, the media acted as though the world were going to fall in. The current Tory deficit is £304.0 billion. Even with the latest budget, it will increase. Complete silence.
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@SaulStaniforth It is like Starmer of 2019 didn't exist. This guy has no principles or integrity whatsoever. People what this guy to be PM?
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Look who was right again. #CovidEnquiryUK
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"The government seems complacent" Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he has written a letter to the prime minister asking why advice on coronavirus "is different to that given in almost every other European country"
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I woke up this morning not realising that Starmer thinks I deserve a 'good kicking'. Who knew.
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@lukeakehurst Corbyn won the vote in every section of the party. Democratically and fairly. You are so unpopular that you have to gerrymander elections. Not quite the argument you think it is.
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And in one action Marcus Rashford shows Keir Starmer what a principled opposition can do, as opposed to focus groups and triangulation, and worrying about what Tory voters might think.
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Funny isn't it. The furlough scheme for workers, £80 billion, is unaffordable, but no-one bats an eyelid of QE of £300 billion, which goes to the banks and the rich. Ever thought you might be conned? #r4today
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@huwbbc @BBCNews I cancelled by licence fee today. I imagine many others will be following. 88% of Tory's ads on facebook were lies. Our public broadcaster did nothing. In fact it actively participated in these lies. The BBC dug its own grave in this election.
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@TulipSiddiq Do you think the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it?
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I wonder why Paul has turned off his replies?
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We're all targets in Russia's disinformation war. Here's how to counter it (4 May):
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Peter Mandelson questions the recommendations of the EHRC report. As far as I can tell that is now tantamount to antisemitism. I assume that Starmer will be suspending him today. #EHRC
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@KarenPollock100 @guardian As with all the people who have smeared him, you won't be able to come up with any facts, data or evidence to the contrary, even though you've had years to do so.
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@paulmasonnews Corbyn has repeatedly called out the actions of Hamas. What he didn't do was respond to the ridiculous bullying and haranguing of Piers.
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@VictoriaCoren He didn't write it. What is it with so called liberals and their defence of feudalism.
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