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I’m not always having a go at this Govt…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Podcaster | @jeremyvineon5 | @skynews | @lbc | @thetrawlpodcast

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Don’t think Ann Widdecombe enjoyed me telling her what video game she might like…
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What he said… Kudos @simonpegg
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At least Hancock wasn’t lying when he said he was hard at work
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I remember seeing news footage of Nigel Farage’s Brexit march consisting of about 30 bellends and a whippet… But no British news coverage of this incredible strike action from yesterday:
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Can someone explain why letting energy companies charge us 80% more doesn’t cause inflation …but asking for a pay rise does?
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Lots of people saying I was rude to Rees-Mogg tonight… I’m confused I thought these people were all for “direct critical feedback” and robustly telling people if they’re no good at their job. Make your minds up, snowflakes.
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I’ve just given birth to my second child… I’m up to my eyeballs on drugs that make me love everyone …and I still detest the Tory government.
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If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around Priti Patel
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Sunak didn’t just cancel HS2… He authorised the sale of the land that would form part of the cancelled route So no other leader could reverse his decision. This major decision One he took unilaterally Without consulting parliament …without anyone having voted for him.
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If you’re anti-lifeboat but pro royal yacht, you’ve failed at being a decent human
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One man can’t use a Coutts bank Millions now using food banks Which gets the most coverage? Which gets most Govt intervention? Which gets the speediest action? This country is broken.
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Hancock has been out “saving lives” today In the same way that Jeff Bezos has been out delivering parcels
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We’re almost in 2024 FFS… When are we going to end all this nonsense?
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Met with Rees-Mogg Did the best I could in 9 minutes…
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Don’t want to watch GB News? Don’t worry, you can watch @MarinaPurkiss destroy Jacob Rees Mogg here 👇🏼 This is actually the closest I’ve ever come to pitying him. Ps: Wonder if he supports fracking due to his alleged financial interests in the fossil fuel industry via Odey?
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If a Rwanda flight does take off… Your bills will still be as expensive Your wait for a GP/hospital bed will still be as long Your court date will still be as delayed Your taxes will still be as high …but we will all be more more morally & financially bankrupt as a nation
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Here she is… The woman who doesn’t give a single shit that she doubled your mortgage payments Lamenting how her “mandate” wasn’t respected Get in the bin, you utter bellend.
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Anyone else woken up wanting to absolutely annihilate the Tories at the next election?
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Have you noticed this? It’s “NHS Test, Track and Trace” Yet it’s “ the Government vaccine roll-out” That’s not by accident
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Imagine having to publicly decry your own dad… Kudos to Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter, Emily for posting this on her Insta.
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So @Ofcom won’t investigate GB News on the basis that it’s not a news channel… It’s literally called GB News And Govt regards it as enough of a news channel to bring its reporters to Rwanda And to send the Chancellor on it to give a budget exclusive Smells like corruption…
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Morning! Your reminder… That election rigging doesn’t come more obvious than this:
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Your child brings home their new partner You learn they: - Got sacked TWICE for lying - Had a reputation for being an adulterer - Conspired to have someone beaten up - Wouldn’t admit how many kids they had You wouldn’t be a fan And yet you’d vote for him to lead your country
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If you’re ever in doubt of the idiocy of this Govt… Remember they shut our borders to trade But left them open for viruses
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Well, well, well, Have a watch of this… Govt voted to relax laws on letting water firms pump sewage into our waters Why? Because water firms could no longer get the chemicals needed to treat the water Why? …BREXIT
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Lying little prick… Sunak tells LBC listeners that the NHS waiting lists are caused by doctors striking. So you know… The waiting list was at 4 million pre-pandemic It’s now at 7 million And yet he’s blaming this on fewer than 10 days of strike action. Unreal.
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I can totally understand why some people are terrified of a Labour Govt… Listen to the state of this …bloody awful.
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Oh my word… Kath called in to say she didn’t like what the Tories are doing But she’ll vote for them anyway to “keep Labour out” I had one question for her It got spicy…
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This Panorama is explosive… We are now the poorest country in N.Europe The av Brit is 60% poorer than av American We’re suffering a national pay cut that is years in the making Exacerbated by Brexit …& this lying Govt is blaming Putin and Covid.
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This is a Danish newspaper The deadline the day after the England defeat reads: "Let the English party. They have nothing else. And rejoice instead that you have woken up in Denmark” OUCH
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Just heard on LBC… Water firms are leaking 2.4bn litres of water EVERY DAY. Since privatisation Rather than repair pipes or build reservoirs They have given £72bn to shareholders And poured raw sewage into our water Yet, they’ll fine us up to £1k if we water our gardens.
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Last night our Gov had the opportunity to generate BILLIONS in tax revenue By supporting a global min tax on mega-rich multinationals THE TORIES VOTED AGAINST IT This is what happens when your Gov is funded by billionaires And you have a PM who won’t pay for his own Deliveroo
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We’ve gone from leaving the EU so we can give our NHS £350m per week instead… To making cuts to our NHS so we can give to our richest instead.
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Little reminder… This is Matt Hancock in May last year Telling Sky News that Professor Neil Ferguson was right to resign after breaking lockdown rules to have an affair
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This abomination makes me want independence …and I’m not even Scottish
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GB News It has the word ‘News’ in the name Its slogan is “Great Britain’s News Channel” It appears in the news section of my TV planner …and yet @Ofcom is saying it’s fine for Tory politicians to host their own shows on there because it’s not a news channel. Stitch-up.
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That feeling when you accidentally end up with £29m of taxpayers’ money in your bank account…
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A big shout out to all the Tory and Brexit voters that made this possible! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts biggest drop in living standards since 1950s Follow Autumn Statement reaction and analysis ⬇
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Dear UK press, Charlotte Owen Dan Wootton These stories aren’t just of interest to the public They are in the public’s interest Do your job and report on them.
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This is such a powerful video… So simple So much sense The Tories know this too But they also know that it’s the millionaires & billionaires who donate to them that keep them in power …and the sad truth is, that’s who they really work for.
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Quite astonishing… The first time I’ve ever been on a show and another panellist has simply refused to engage with me.
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Just in case you weren’t feeling entirely ashamed of being British… This also happened today.
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Side note… While at GB News, I went to the bathroom and it was …unisex! Meaning Wooten or Farage could have just walked in at any time Now, that is terrifying.
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The silence from @BBCNews on Nadhim Zahawi is deafening…
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So sick and tired of people in the media feeding the public with lies… I try to call it out on Twitter And today, I called it out with Andrew Pierce on @JeremyVineOn5
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Hey there MASSIVE conflict of interest… How YOU doing? 👀👀👀 Jacob Rees-Mogg… Our new Secretary of State for Energy is… “An investor in oil and coal mining through Somerset Capital Management, the fund management firm he co-founded and still benefits from financially”
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Went on live TV… Talked about Brexit being shite Talked about how we need a grown-up conversation about rejoining And yet somehow… Despite Brexit being an unmitigated disaster Nick Ferrari can’t quite believe his ears…
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Posting this in the hope that someone recognises and reports the violent prick who assaulted the paramedic…
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Absolutely disgusting 🤮
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Unlike Pinocchio… The more Sunak lies The shorter his trousers get.
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Sadly nurses and teachers can’t get any more money because that’ll cause inflation… Thankfully Shell fat cats and shareholders get that magic money that doesn’t cause inflation.
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Yesterday it was @simonpegg Today, @jameelajamil I’m so here for celebrities using their platforms to shine a light on this corrupt clown show of a Government…
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The Tories love to speak on behalf of the British people… So I will too… Where’s our money? Why isn’t she in prison? And of all the boats to stop, try this one:
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Many still hating on me for being “rude” to the guy who has made them poorer… The same guy who is keen to tear up the EU laws that give them their workers’ rights and consumer rights Make it make sense.
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A message… From me.
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Dear @ITV & @antanddec The man you’re paying £1.5m was happy to repeatedly appear on a far-right US show hosted by a conspiracy theorist who claims 7/7 terror attack & US school shootings were faked And you think he’s suitable for family entertainment Well done, bellends.
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Thank goodness he made it back from his holidays to deliver this gem…
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A few things I wish Labour would say… - We’ll investigate the fraud & corruption of this Tory Govt - We’ll ditch Rwanda plan - We’ll introduce PR - We’ll prioritise NHS - We’ll back the unions - We’ll tax the ultra rich - We’ll stop being such bellends about Brexit.
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@LozzaFox Not in your wildest dreams, bellend…
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I’ve never understood this about UK income tax… It’s a sliding scale But one that just stops abruptly at £150k So whether you earn £150k or £150m, you pay the same rate of tax Seems bananas to me…
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Looks like… Who’s OUT: Priti Patel Dominic Raab George Eustice Steve Barclay Grant Shapps Who’s IN? Lord Frost Suella Braverman James Cleverly Jacob Rees-Mogg Iain Duncan Smith Who’s F*CKED? …that’ll be us
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Yep… We’re stunned she’s not in prison.
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In the wake of Jeremy Clarkson’s depravity… In a climate where we see 1 woman killed ever 3 days in this country at the hands of a man… Piers Morgan has invited the world’s most famous misogynist onto his show. Utterly vile @piersmorgan
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Here is ex-Tory PM, John Major… Predicting exactly what would happen with our NHS Just another great, big, woke, lefty liberal…
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If you think Boris Johnson is the solution… Then you’ve completely misunderstood the problem.
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Vote Conservative for 11p off your pint at the pub… But lots more pence on your wine, gin, vodka & canned beer And £100s more on your monthly food shop And £1000s more on your energy bills And £10,000s more on your mortgage or rent It’s a no brainer …literally.
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We’ve lost it… Prince Andrew paid off the woman suing him for sexual abuse Up to £12m And was stripped of military titles as a result Both imply guilt And yet he walks free & will face no justice While a 22 year old who heckled him is charged with a breach of the peace…
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Something very odd happened… I got asked to go on the BBC No, not Question Time But on Have I Got News For You Surreal Airs tonight at 9pm.
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This Indian variant… Tell you what might have been handy Having a really focussed approach to those coming in from India We could have say…tested them …tracked them …perhaps traced them That reminds me What was it we spend that £37 BILLION on again?
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Sunak & Hunt scrambling to fill a £40bn black hole in treasury… So remember: £9bn wasted on unusable PPE £2.6bn on items not suitable for NHS £37bn on Test & Trace that made “no measurable difference" £42bn on Brexit divorce bill £32bn on lost taxes due to Brexit trade hit
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If you’re angry at Angela Rayner for selling her council house… But not angry at where this non-story came from i.e. from the billionaire Tory peer who got out of paying UK taxes by being a non-dom while sat in our House of Lords …then you’re part of the problem.
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Your man was literally touring the world making £4m doing speaking gigs He missed 187 Commons votes in the process ..and you’re all losing your shit over a 90-day suspension like it’s depriving the people who voted for Johnson, and him of his livelihood Embarrassed for you.
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Hello @thecarolemalone , On TV just now, you said: Brexit got us the fastest vaccine rollout I replied: Stop peddling that lie You said: What are you talking about? So… Here is the CEO of Govt’s own agency to explain why it’s a lie So, please stop
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These are the actions of a Govt that knows its time is up… - Full on raid of the public purse - Enrich their donors as much as possible in time left - Leave the treasury and national debt in the worst possible state for new Govt to sot out Criminal.
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Why do so many in the UK fawn at those born into privilege, yet scorn those born into poverty?
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So… It is not ok for Gary Lineker to be actively anti-government But it is ok for the BBC Chairman and the BBC Director General to be actively pro-government Because, as far as I’m aware, our license fees pay the wages of all of these people…
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Young people… If you don’t take an interest and vote for your future This lot will.
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If a paper… Or a TV channel Or a politician Or a commentator …is happy to tell you the Govt has signed an £11tn trade deal When it’s actually worth £1.7bn Over ten years It’s because they’re relying on you being stupid enough to believe them Don’t be.
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Gavin Williamson: A bully - Wendy Morton texts An incompetent - Exam/schools fiasco A security risk - Sacked from May’s Govt for alleged security breeches Yet is: Reappointed to Govt Knighted A CBE An MP …tells you all you need to know about why GB is in the gutter.
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I don’t care that Sunak’s tax returns show he’s filthy rich… I care that our utterly rigged tax system means people like him pay a lower rate of tax than nurses And that it’s people in power like him who design it this way.
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Dear @ElectoralCommUK , Did you know...? A man who was in Johnson's Cabinet when the voter ID law was introduced, has publicly admitted that this was an attempt to gerrymander the election by suppressing votes His name is @Jacob_Rees_Mogg We eagerly await your next steps...
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Being told times are going to be tough… By those who won’t find them tough at all And who made them tough in the first place.
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Two things Brexiters say that really trigger me… 1) When they blame the EU for Brexit not working 2) When they say that leaving the EU means we can increase our standards This morning I got both of them…
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Are we all starting to understand why a man allegedly worth over £700m is doing a job for £164k?
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Love this from Ben Elton on the BBC… More of this please.
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People need to go to jail... £1.6BN given to a company without tender For 5 migrant ships over 2 years Which house less than 2k people between them Which had to be sent back to owners after finding nowhere to dock in UK This is where our money goes.
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If the Daily Mail doesn’t report on an alleged traitor to the country… And instead pays the alleged traitor £1m to write a column …can we all justly conclude that the Daily Mail is a traitorous shit rag?
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Why can we afford £7.3 billion for bank tax cuts… But not £1.6 billion to meet nurse demands for a real terms pay rise? That’s the question.
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Imagine your step mum throwing a party… And inviting two men that publicly and relentlessly slate the shit out of your wife.
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I agree we need a plan to stop the criminal gangs… Here’s one: Vote the bastards out at the next election.
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Isn’t it crazy how… The Govt’s new Elections Bill permits older person’s bus passes and Oyster 60+ cards to be used as ID But not student cards and young persons railcards And we’re just like… Yeah, it’s just the Tories doing some election-rigging Cool cool.
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Finally… Got the chance to drop some Brexit truth bombs on @GMB
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“Nobody else has that, no one…only you guys…” How is not one person in the crowd screaming: “We did have that before you took it away, you UTTER BELL”
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Are you ready for this? Our Govt paid £2.6bn for 5 migrant ships over 2 years And yet… The general cost to charter the most luxurious Royal Caribbean cruise ship for 2 years Inc fuel, food, staff, etc For 5614 people (double our migrant boats’ capacity) Is $832m Or £643m.
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There’s this kid… He has no toys And this other kid He has loads You have toys to give away Do you give them to the kid with none? Or give them to the one with loads in the hope he’ll eventually get bored and pass some on? It’s a toughie.
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Truss: Says on TV - I’ll raise £8.3bn by cutting regional public sector pay Then says: I never said that Sunak on video - I’ll take money from deprived urban areas to help wealthy towns Then says: I never said that This is what we get After Johnson Get these Tories TF OUT.
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It’s hard to know who and what to trust these days… But this incredible clip nails it Simply: Don’t trust idiots And how do you spot an idiot? Look for the people who are cruel…
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Shocked… That the Cabinet Secretary who led the investigation into the illegal Xmas party …who had to step down after it emerged it happened in his office …is the same man who covered for Truss …& the same man who decided Braverman’s breaches didn’t need investigating.
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And if you're cheering on his new job at GB News... After he lied to you endlessly After he partied while others suffered & died alone After he made you poorer And normalised corruption ...then congrats on being exactly the kind of mindless lemming they know will tune in.
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Liz Truss can change her mind on Brexit But the Scots can’t change their mind on independence Everyone got that?
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