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Socialist. BSc (Hons) #FreePalestine #NHS I was blocked by @mrjamesob Views are my own.

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@MccarthyFintan
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2 years
"People like yourself are obsessed with Train Drivers' wages, but you don't seem to be interested in cleaners' wages, caterers' wages and people despatching the trains" Mick Lynch tells @afneil #RMT
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"Britain is the most unequal country in .. Europe.. the idea that ..we need to..become even more unequal by rewarding people who have more money than they know how to spend .. [is not] a plan that will survive contact with reality" Mark Drakeford #C4News #CostOfGreedCrisis
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That's a lie, a direct lie, he's lying,that's a lie,that's a lie, that is a lie, a direct lie,direct lie,that is a lie, he's lying. You've also lied that we left negotiations on Saturday.. You are a liar, You're lying You are a liar, and you're a liar You're a liar #RailStrikes
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"Keir Starmer needs to sort out his values. He needs to decide if he's on the side of the super-rich..or on the side of working people. At the moment he's trying to triangulate around this problem as if it was some kind of bad smell." Mick Lynch of . @RMTunion tells #C4News
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Mick Lynch says he doesn't want Truss or Sunak to be PM as they are both hard right. "Really?" says @ChrisMasonBBC "They are on the edge of saying tax is abhorrent.. those of us on PAYE have no choice.. many people are avoiding tax like it's some kind of disease." #bbcnewscast
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"It's like suspending funding for the #NHS because Lucy Letby killed some babies" Chris Gunness former UNWRA spokesperson tells #C4News #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
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10 months
You can tell when someone is talking sense on #bbcqt because Fiona Bruce interupts them "I can't just give you an unlimited platform " she tells Dale Vince. Don't recall her saying that to Kate Andrews from IEA.
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10 months
Make a note of the name. She'll be popping up regularly on #PoliticsLive #bbcqt and #Newsnight as the new face of the Institute of Economic Affairs now that they can't use Kate Andrews anymore because we've thoroughly exposed her. #TuftonStreet
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2 years
Mick Lynch tells @AlexForsythBBC that it's not wages causing inflation - it was there before the payround and during #austerity "Most of our members haven't had a pay rise for 2 or 3 years..it needs to be resolved through the paypacket " #rmtstrikes @RMTunion #bbcnewscast
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"Pay rises in the public sector do not cause inflation..what they do is help fight the looming recession, because a public sector worker with a payrise does not put it in the Cayman Islands they spend it in the local economy." Mark Serwtka of @pcs_union tells #C4News
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"It's a very strange supposition that you can't win an election because you promised to try and do something about child poverty. Poor people have votes as well, you know" @jeremycorbyn tells #Peston
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Surely she's not going to let Steve Barclay get away with the '40 New Hospitals' lie is she? Oh seems like she is #BBCLaurak
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Mick Lynch "This govt... would not hesitate to jump on a bit of jingoism and nationalism and anti-migrant feeling.. and ride that waves.. What Starmer and the front bench have to do is ride ..a solidarity wave and have a #SummerOfSolidarity #rmtstrikes @RMTunion #bbcnewscast
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So Mick Lynch is right they are extremists "Will you ban strikes in essential public services like the railways?" Sunak "Yes, it's a manifesto promise and we need to deliver on it" Truss "I'll do it" @RMTunion #RMTstrikes
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Mick Whelan "privatised companies in the past 23 years..haven't bought any trains.. haven't built any infrastructure it's all been centrally purchased by govt. All they've done is take money and dividends out of the industry." #railstrikes @ASLEFunion
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"I made a statement when the EHRC report came out, which I stand by, and I have to say that everything that has happened since then including ..the #FordeReport and the Al Jazeera documentary, shows that everything I said was borne out by the facts" @jeremycorbyn tells #Peston
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Michelle Donelan should resign. If Ministers can simply use government cash to pay damages and face no personal consequences what is to stop them making libelous statements about individuals. #Newsnight
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Michael Rosen speaking at the London launch of #EnoughlsEnough "This is a dream, this is wonderful we're seeing something incredibly special."
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" We don't shout at each other, everyone thinks that people are banging tables and throwing chairs at each other, it's not like that at all...they're quite cordial and professional" Mick Lynch tells #bbcnewscast about #rmtstrike negotiations @RMTunion
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I can see why the #Tories don't like Dale Vince: "I think the staff in the #NHS have been treated terribly badly, they were heroes in the pandemic, within 18 months they were zeros when they wanted a fair rise ..and privatisation just doesn't work" #bbcqt
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"A year ago they said they had no plans to shut any ticket offices ..in the Transport select Cttee and now they're closin all of them. So I don't believe anything the train operators say" Mick Lynch tells #Peston
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Audience member "Even coming on to Question Time, all our Facebook, Twitter everything accounts was checked before coming on as an audience.." Fiona Bruce "Yes we do quite a bit of background checking on you all, yes" #bbcqt
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"You just get on with it, I have the @DailyMailUK outside my house. In the run up to the #rmtstrikes I had my own 'personal photographer' for about a week, following my kids to work, following my wife, phoning relatives in USA.. all sorts of shenanigans.. @RMTunion #bbcnewscast
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Matt Frei of @Channel4News asks Mick Lynch, of . @RMTunion , "Do you love the limelight?" "No, I've been put here by ciurcumstances not by my own choice...I just want to get on with my job and carry on running our union" #C4News
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"Starmer has set himself up as a leader who will not do anything that Jeremy Corbyn said or touched or even alluded to." #GMB #StarmerOut
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"How is the govt expected to fund public service pay rises?" asks Cathy Newman. See her incredulity when Andy Burnham suggests pay restraint for the highest paid. Twice she comes back at him. #C4News #EnoughIsEnough
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#NHS workers, nurses, teachers and other public sector workers must accept pay restraint to combat inflation says Rachel Reeves. @uklabour - NOT #OnYourSide
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"Anyone who thinks Keir Starmer is trying to end the war in #Gaza I've got a bridge in London I could sell them going cheap..If he really did he would have backed the @theSNP motion instead of trying to wreck it" @georgegalloway tells GBNews on winning the #RochdaleByElection
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"Boris Johnson was determined that Mr Lebedev should be Lord Lebedev" And yet Jonson and the #Tories have the brass neck to say @jeremycorbyn was a risk to national security. #Dispatches #C4Dispatches
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"I'd remind Mr. Tice that I have, on my telephone, a text from him inviting me to be a candidate for Reform UK in a byelection.. If he keeps telling lies about me I'll have to tell the truth about him" @georgegalloway tells @SkyNews #Rochdale #RochdaleByElection
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So it emerges that CAA put pressure on @VodafoneUK , who sponsor #glastonbury2023 , to have Glastonbury cancel the screening of "Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie" No doubt the threat of losing funding influenced Galastonbury's decision. #BoycottVodaphone
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You know @thecarolemalone has lost the argument over #rmtstrkes when she gets personal about Eddie Dempsey and Mick Lynch of @RMTunion , and their allegedly huge salaries, that she is clearly envious of. "That really burns you, but it's not true" says Eddie. @JeremyVineOn5
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"Apologies there was some bad language in the background, apologies to anyone who was offended" No need for apologies Douglas Ross is a 'F*ing w*nker #c4news
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2 years
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘He has created poverty, inequality and insecurity. That is his legacy’. #JohnsonOut175 #CorbynWasRight
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1 year
When asked if Keir Starmer is going to going to break HIS pledge on tuition fees Guardian columnist Rafael Behr instead turns it into an an attack on @jeremycorbyn #PoliticsLive
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"Let's be serious. The UK, the US, the West are part of this genocide. They have helped to create this situation, they have helped to create starvation in Gaza" Seyed Mohammad Marandi of University of Tehran tells #C4News
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"What we're all witnessing in Palestine is absolutely horrendous, it's heartbreaking, it's genocide and it needs to stop" Michelle O'Neill, N. Ireland First Minister, tells Patrick Kielty on #LateLateShow #GazaGenocide #CeasefireNOW
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"What you're doing, right now, is pushing a right wing, pro-boss agenda" Mick Lynch tells @Channel4News trainee reporter @RiaChatter
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Sunak "I welcome the Labour leader's new found support for our policy...[but] he's never actually kept a promise that he's made " (note Starmer's reaction) Stephen Flynn "...there's a shiver running along the Labour front bench looking for a spine.." @theSNP #SirKidStarver #PMQs
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. @CommonsSpeaker failed to admonish . @BorisJohnson for calling . @Keir_Starmer beer korma. Rules say MPs mustn't use names. Johnson should have said 'The Member for Holborn and St Pancras' - not as 'funny' but Speaker is supposed to be chairing debate not enabling standup comedy
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Ken Loach with a message that's still relevant today. #StarmerOut @jeremycorbyn
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Watch. Robert Wood, US Deputy representative to UN Security Council,lets the cat out of the bag when he calls Israelis 'Our people' #Gaza_Genocide
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@LinahAlsaafin Armed with a camera.Tom Hurndall was a UK photographer. On 11 April 2003 he was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier while attempting to rescue a child who had been pinned down by gunfire. He died 9 months later in hospital in London. He was 22.
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As Lloyds Bank announces £3.9bn profits in the first half of this year, an increase of 23%, @RachelReevesMP says "I am not convinced by the evidence for a windfall tax on the banks." Isn't it time the banks started to pay back some of the money the govt pumped into them? #c4News
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The price of medicines to the #NHS has risen drastically, by around £136 million. Where is the protest from ministers and MPs about this being 'unaffordable'? Yet we are constantly being told pay rises for nurses are. #SupportTheStrikes #FairPayforNursing #EnoughlsEnough
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"I honestly believe that the Tory and Labour duopoly uni-party...are disliked by millions of people and if they get a chance to vote for someone who could win, well they might take it. They certainly did today" @georgegalloway tells @BBCNews #Rochdale #RochdaleByElection
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James Cusick, former Political Correspondent at the Independent,says there was a list of around 20-25 people that journalists were not allowed to write anything negative about. It included Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson. #c4Dispatches #Dispatches
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"MPs have shown everybody that they are defending and protecting their careers as opposed to defending and protecting children, our humanity and UK responsibility under International Law" Hussam Zomlot tells #C4News #GazaCeasefire #GazaDebate #CeasefireNOW
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Don't fall for #BorisJohnson 's lies. If the #BorisDeal is voted down it doesn't mean there can be no further #BrexitExtension #voteitdown #votedownthedeal
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#SirKidStarver makes it on to #Newsnight as @MayorJD says it's trending at number 1, but don't worry, Keith, @twitter isn't the 'real world'
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Sky interviewer "Is it revenge,then, for you?" George Galloway "No, it's much more important than that. #Rochdale #RochdaleByElection
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No, @JackieLongc4 David Lammy was not 'forced to leave the stage' during his speech. Many politicians face protestors getting up onstage but carry on whilst it is the protestors who are forced to leave. Lammy chose to leave. #C4News @Channel4News
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"Russia used to be an authoritarian regime, now it's turned into a totalitarian regime, it's like N Korea. You can't even hold up an empty sign, with nothing on it, without being arrested " Bill Browder tells @bbclaurak #BBCLauraK That could never happen here. @paulpowlesland
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I congratulate . @Channel4 for broadcasting the excellent series #Defiance - Fighting the Far Right but to then make no comment on racist comments by one of its star presenters is unforgivable. Rachel Riley must be sacked.
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Baroness Warsi tells #C4News . @conservatives are 'toxic' and don't have answers to the big issues such as the economy and healthcare and so have chosen to fight culture wars.
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"I was very proudly elected on a manifesto where we were going to scrap the 2 child limit" Beth Winter MP, lone Labour critic of Starmer on #Newsnight now that @MayorJD has left the party. We had McTernan, Ashcroft and Toynbee all wheeled out even @BenChu_ joined in.
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@BellDexyb99 @afneil tells Mick Lynch @RMTunion members should just be grateful they have kept their jobs and shouldn't be asking for a payrise. Hear Mick's response. #andrewneilshow
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He spent three months in intensive care. They removed his entire liver and part of his pancreas.The settler who shot him was using expanding bullets. The only consequences for the settler - he had his gun confiscated. #C4News #Israel not just targeting #Hamas and #Gaza .
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"There are children.. that have been in Israeli detention for a long time. Those children also need to be back with their families, not just the children being released today, but a far. far greater number" James Elder @UNICEF #C4news #CeasefireNOW #CeaseFirelnGazaNOW
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Keir Starmer is useless. Even super centrists on #TheLastLeg #LastLeg are beginning to notice.
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5 years
Let's RT this everywhere to put an end to the myth that @UKLabour #Brexit position is too complicated to explain - they've just done it in a tweet.
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Jeremy Corbyn says "Labour trusts the people to decide" on Brexit He says "there's nothing complicated" about Labour's position, saying if the party won an election he would negotiate a "sensible" Brexit deal & put that against Remain in new referendum
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David Moore, founder and owner of Pied à Terre asks "Is it really fair that train drivers and union workers are allowed to strike? ...Sack the lot" Why doesn't the presenter point out that revenue strikes are illegal. #NewsNight . @RMTunion . @ASLEFunion #SupportTheStrikes
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"She has made the political choice to tax families instead of companies, to put profit over people. Instead of a windfall tax she's chosen a new #Tory tax - the #TrussTax #ianBlackford #CostOfLivingCrisis #energybills
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Chris Bryant could have said something like "Surely you're not suggesting that there's any equivalence between what @jeremycorbyn did and Nadim Zahawi did is ridiculous" when replying to @cathynewman on #C4News instead of his weak response.
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"Payouts to shareholders have risen 3 times faster than wages, something has gone wrong in Britain, it's broken.." Frances O'Grady "I agree with you it's about prioritising and working out what kind of country we want to live in." Prof Hannah Fry #BBCLauraK
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"The left is being purged... the left should be able to put their ideas forward.. Many of the ideas that John Mcdonnell put forward in the last couple of elections have come to fruition...Keir Starmer needs to be putting some of those ideas forward." Mick Lynch on #Peston
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Keir Starmer's priority for Housing is home ownership, not renters. Notice how he stumbles, and hastily corrects himself, over council house building. #BBCLauraK
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"Any private organisations within the #NHS cream off the low complex, high volume procedures, leaving the complex stuff for the NHS" Dr Amir Khan on #GMB
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"There's huge danger for the people of Britain ...if this war spreads .... So the smart thing to do is for the UK govt, the US govt and others to reign in their mad dog and to stop murdering children ." Seyed Mohammad Marandi of University of Tehran tells #c4news #IranAttack
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@simonmaginn I was forced to leave my home and go on a march for #Palestine because of the #GenocideinPalestine I simply couldn't stay at home and say nothing.
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"If he [Blair] is saying the level of expenditure on public services is too high and he doesn't want to say we're going to cut them..where does that lead, other than to contracting out and privatisation which in the end actually costs more" @jeremycorbyn tells #Peston
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"It just seems ungrateful" of the #RMT to go on strike opines @afneil "it amounted to £160,000 per railworker' Mick Lynch "Well if only our members got that.." "No, of course they didn't get it"
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A 2 month old baby, born the day after the war began, not even old enough to know that he is Palestinian, is wounded by Israeli bombs simply because he's Palestinian. His parents haven't even been able to register his birth yet. #C4News #GazaHolocaust
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I saw Joe Lycett was trending so I decided to see what it was all about. The best bit here is when he spits after saying "Europe" pretending to be some bloke called Richard Yewtree. #LateNightLycett
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John McTernan on #Newsnight if we lift the 2 child cap what next '... lift the total benefits cap?..do something about Local Housing Allowance, do something about Universal Credit itself?' So many things @UKLabour are not going to do to help those in poverty. #SirKidStarver
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"I feel very moved that so many people have come out at very short notice and it's given me a lot of strength after what has been a difficult week" Diane Abbott tells #C4News #IStandWithDiane @HackneyAbbott
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. @schneiderhome "It's another dismal day of Keir Starmer's leadership, when he repeats again , in case anyone hasn't heard, that he isn't Jeremy Corbyn" #c4news
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"I just came back from Westminster Sq., I saw thousands of British People, I saw your citizens,those are the actual representatives that believe this is about our humanity not just about politics" @hzomlot Palestinian Ambassador #C4News #CeasefireNOW #GazaDebate #GazaGenocide
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Should the govt look at helping people struggling with mortgage costs Cathy Newman asks Starmer, 3 times. And 3 times he refuses to answer. Evasive not persuasive. #C4News
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@mrsDugskullery I'm done with them. I got more involved when Corbyn became leader. But that whole period really opened my eyes to what some in the party were like. You can't unsee that. I will be voting Green or Independent Socialist candidate. Oh and they can't expel me, I resigned.
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"The officers showed great restraint, they offered to take him to a crossing point, they offered to help him and the group who were with him filming to cross at a more appropriate place." Former Met Police Chief Supt Dal Babu on #bbcbreakfast #politicslive
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In this @Channel4 #Dispatches programme "MPs under Threat" it is revealed that "At one time MP Diane Abbott received nearly half of all abuse directed at female MPs" and the effect this has on her staff. @HackneyAbbott
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It's trending - #TelAvivKeith
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@_LFI Watch. You seem to be the only ones on here who haven't seen Tzipi Hotovely angrily and aggressively shouting at the @SkyNews interviewer that there is no possibility of a 2 state solution. "Why are you obsessed with that!" she screams.
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Shameless attempt at deflection from Oliver Dowden at #PMQs by smearing @jeremycorbyn as "one leader who let anti-semitism run wild" #ItWasAScam
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".. the public see massive profits.. energy companies out of control..shareholders, millionaires.. billionaires getting richer" Not Mick Lynch - Rob Rinder "I think #Starmer should keep to what he promised.. take them back into public ownership" 'Corbinista' Kevin Maguire #GMB
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Israeli drone strikes, like the one that killed Samer Abu Daqqa, are using weapons that are designed to throw out thousands of ball bearings and pieces of shrapnel at surface level killing and wounding indiscriminately. @AJEnglish #GazaMassacre #GazaHolocaust
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Yuli Edelstein calls British MP @LaylaMoran a liar, with questions to answer, and guilty of 'blood libel' against Jews. He says "It's a flat lie, no Israeli sniper ever purposely targeted any civilian" #C4news #IsraeliWarCrimes
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Why do some people seem to think they are above the law? As soon as . @Tracking_Power won his Industrial tribunal Lord Mann demands: ‘Parliament must act over ludicrous Miller judgment’
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1 year
"Steve Barclay and your government need to engage in talks with @theRCN " Nurse Maxine Wade tells @Helen_Whately #C4News #FairPayforNursing #RCNStrike
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
2 years
Did . @CommonsSpeaker really just allow a #Tory MP, . @AJRichardsonMP , to call the entire opposition Liars? Shouldn't she have been asked to withdraw the remark, and been threatened with being thrown out if she didn't, or is it ok to call each other liars now? #PMQs
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
5 months
Peter Hitchen on #bbcqt "If he (Starmer) becomes PM you'll get a very Left wing government" Hard to believe but there are some people in @uklabour who actually believe this stuff. We should call them Hitchenites from now on.
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
3 months
The Israeli document, which led to the suspension of funds to #UNRWA ,is only 6 pages long and contains no evidence of the claim that UNRWA staff were involved in terror attacks on Israel says #c4news
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
3 months
"Until we finish this war there is no need whatsoever for us to give them any kind of aid" "Obviously, we don't want the trucks coming through, supplying aid to the #Gazans " #Israeli extremists, who have set up a camp complete with barbed wire, explain to #c4news #GazaGenocide
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
2 years
Oh dear
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
10 months
Starmer's Labour may take Dale Vince's cash but they won't take his advice, when he tells them to tax the rich. #bbcqt
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
4 years
Has anyone else had a letter from . @UKLabour asking them to renew at an increased rate. I reckon it's about 6%.is this how they intend to recoup the money they spent settling in court? #LabourLeaks
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
2 years
What a nice birthday present for @jeremycorbyn to have the #Tories announcing a Windfall tax which he suggested in the @uklabour 2019 Manifesto. #CorbynWasRight #HappyBirthdayJeremyCorbyn
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Fintan McCarthy🍉
9 months
Baddiel " She wound up by naming,it seemed, every single one of these minorities, well...." Of course she didn't mention them all, how disingenuous to imply that she willfully left some out.
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