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Former history teacher, counsellor. 20 years in recovery. No such thing as an illegal person. All tweets personal etc.

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Nick Shepley
4 years
I haven’t really promoted my podcast on Twitter before, I get slightly cringed about self promotion but after well over 1,000 episodes (some now lost in the mists of the internet) I thought why not? You can hear the full episode at #history #historyteacher
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I was wrong about these kids and admit it, they are totally on it and should be listened to.
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listen to her explain the Van Gogh soup protest. she’s got a point, no?
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Succinctly put by @Angry_Voice
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Call me naive, but I assumed this was his default setting when he got up in the morning. From the tone of this article I’m meant to impressed, but my reading is ‘man does thing he’s paid for and that everyone thought he’d actually been doing already’. #borisvoteofnoconfidence
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4 years
EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson is to take "direct control" of the Government's handling of the coronavirus crisis
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@GeorgeMonbiot Years ago I attended a triple murder scene as a reporter. A rather posh hack from the Evening Standard was doing the rounds and confirmed to his news desk the victims were ‘low lives’ (they were just ordinary people). That was my unforgettable x-ray moment.
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I remember Arudhati Roy after 9/11 saying that the mining of grief to further political ends was a brutal, savage thing to do. This is a brutal, savage man, proposing brutal, savage measures for brutal, savage reasons.
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@DuncanWeldon It just so happens that by crashing Sterling they have helped hedge funds who bankroll their party, have private dinners with them and who used to employ Kwarteng. Literally nothing more to it than that.
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@Otto_English I suppose the curse of being an aristocrat is that by definition you’re not very good at anything (you don’t have to be, your ancestors were and they left you the loot and the silly titles). That absence of ability or talent dissuaded her from holding forth on sewer TV.
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@GeorgeMonbiot It has had the quite extraordinary effect of turning myself, ordinarily a BBC defender, into someone who is apathetic at best about its continued existence. By feting Farage and his ilk endlessly (I presume they imagined that we oiks like it) they have lost their natural support
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2 years
Handy little info-blast to help with the forthcoming tsunami of stupidity re weights and measures.
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@GeorgeMonbiot There is this extraordinary idea among billionaires (no doubt the ones that own newspapers) that their wealth will save them. Their wealth is only a fiction based on the civilisation they’re working hard to destroy. Without food, wealth evaporates and security guards quit.
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@mafevema @olga_chyzh @GerardAraud Britain is still going through this process, it’s been about seventy years, and Brexit showed there is still no end in sight
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@JolyonMaugham @MattHancock @SophyRidgeSky It is simply staggering that a man responsible for a level of corruption we’d normally associate with gold plated Roll Royces in the Congo can swan into TV stations for petulant exchanges and isn’t currently on remand.
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@sarahchurchwell @fascinatorfun There was a period of time from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s where things vaguely worked in Britain and there was the tantalising suggestion that they might continue to improve. The county rebelled against this, fearing some essential part of its soul was at risk.
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In the coming election @UKLabour do not come to my door. You idiot, moronic, lowest common denominator, clueless lazy class traitor piece of shit party. Never fucking voting for you again.
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@agirlcalledlina Yes, incredibly the ‘throw Meghan under the bus to distract the public from an affair’ strategy has played very badly with large numbers of non white people. And to think they pay for advisors to think these things through for them.
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Richard Madeley was possessed by the ghost of John Pilger for about 50 seconds this morning.
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On #GMB Richard Madeley is clear - the Israelis executed the 7 aid workers in cold blood.
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@simon_schama Let’s hope it never becomes an apartheid state that regularly sees violent flag waving religious fanatics. Heaven forfend:
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@PippaCrerar Years ago, my wife’s grandmother, on learning I was a history teacher said: “It’s good that Michael Gove is putting history back on the syllabus isn’t it?” The job of right wing newspapers to confuse and enrage people has a direct political outcome…
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@GeorgeMonbiot Things ‘moderates’ have done in the past 20 years (a non exhaustive list): • Destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. • Sold arms to Saudi Arabia to facilitate a genocidal famine in Yemen • Voted for the mass impoverishment of Britain via austerity
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@IanDunt At some point Leave voters will realise that this applies to them, permanently. Some will shrug, others will be angry, lots will be surprised and others will realise that being British doesn’t exempt one from the rules. That bit will be a shock.
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@grahambsi @DominicRaab The Khmer-Bruge Group
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@helensclegel An organisation called ‘Eye on Antisemitism’ asking a Jewish woman to show her papers and reveal family heritage eh?
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@simon_schama Well they don’t appear to be marching for Hamas. Solidarity with the Palestinian people and support for Hamas are not one and the same thing. My feelings of Solidarity with Israeli people doesn’t make me a supporter of the corrupt and brutal Netanyahu.
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@danwootton His revolution so far has left me without freedom of movement, stuck on an impoverished island that is on its way to global nonentity status. He’ s also played a pivotal role in the covid deaths of 70k.
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@AkanKwaku It’s a tactic fascists have been employing for a while. Articulate some relatively left, anti imperialist positions and get follows from the slightly dopier ends of our movement, then gradually drip feed anti semitism (of the real, not confected variety) and Islamophobia too.
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@Peston And why? Because the entire print media and most broadcasters have declared war on Corbyn and Labour for the past three years while constantly giving Theresa May a free pass over the awkward matter of the 120k. To react with surprise that you’re not too welcome is disingenuous
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@Peston @jeremycorbyn Would it not be more apt to point out that the Telegraph has utterly misrepresented what has been said, ignored entirely workable ideas and spun some lazy class war narrative?
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@soapachu I would love to have been at the branding meeting. “Let’s call it Ring, it reminds people of functionality and it’s got a day-to-day familiarity to it, y’know doorbell ringing etc....also it’ll remind people wondering who’s at the door of that terrifying Japanese horror film.”
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@Otto_English Nadine Dorries career is a case study for future historians in the decline of Britain. That this absurd person became a government minister suggests a deep, possibly terminal malaise.
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@youwouldknow People who say “Sorry, I just speak my mind”. It’s now actually legal to grab them by the lapels and shout “well fucking don’t!” directly into their face.
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@alexbellars I always thought that it would be at this level that the penny would drop and people would directly experience life outside the EU. At least they’ve begun to notice they are receiving different treatment, it might take a while for them to join the dots.
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@nicktolhurst It’s a cover version of an older German hit ‘Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer’
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@Otto_English Spying on things that are happening in public. This country is not well.
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@KayBurley Kay, after many years in the business isn’t it about time you stopped asking ridiculous, reductive questions like this? A very well paid staff member should still walk out on strike to support the not very well paid ones because it’s called solidarity.
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@Hitchcockian Period house from the bucolic 1870s
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@AlexBuxton For what’s coming, absolutely. An entire region has been tricked into setting itself on fire in the interests of a pack of racist tax dodgers. Our only hope is to reach out to them, not to humiliate them even more and to welcome them back when they realise how much they’ll lose
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@PippaCrerar The endless drip feeding of anti EU madness, in this instance about weights and measurements has worked in the same way. Elderly people who imagine (wrongly as it happens) that the EU has made their lives more complex and confusing gain a deeper sense of certainty by returning…
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@GeorgeMonbiot Yes, it’s not actually a government in that regard (ie put there with the intention of governing) at all. Rather it’s a device for causing highly publicised anarchy while looting happens secretly. As a vehicle for oligarchs it’s been an amazing success.
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@Otto_English @Yeah_ThatBloke I’ve worked in state and private schools both good and not so good. The key advantage private ones have (the only distinguishing feature) is small class sizes. It’s basically what parents pay for and could be easily fixed in the state sector if the government ever chose to.
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@brokenbottleboy What marvellous fun you must be able to have with her: “Yeah Mary, there’s now a Megatron child who demands to be folded up, and apparently there’s a Fry’s Turkish Delight child, yep, that’s right, you write it down…yes, it lives it a foil package.”
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@MattTurner4L Challenging corruption, the nerve of the man.
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@PaulArkell12 @SiamGoorwich Because like me you probably wanted an end to the bulldozing of Palestinian homes.
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An absolute joke of a politician. Thin skinned, with the gravitas of a vindictive call centre team leader.
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BREAKING: We just disrupted @Keir_Starmer 's speech to say, 'No more u-turns, we need a Green New Deal now!' We need politicians who will take our futures seriously and tackle the climate and economic crisis facing us all. It's time for Labour to be bold.
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@PippaCrerar @boulezian About the only chance anyone will have to see him carrying the can.
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@soapachu @osymandus The same folks who let Hancock stand here:
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@Lowkey0nline @Keir_Starmer you know when you said you were an unequivocal Zionist - well guess what? This is what you’ll own.
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@fessdoc @jamabing I do hope they’ve helped fix that unfortunate sniff he seems to have acquired.
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@slpng_giants @coleyworld @TeamYouTube I’m no expert on American law, but I would be astounded if discussing publicly the shooting of a government official was legal
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@SaulStaniforth I suppose if you don’t see most of the people involved as human, you can’t have a humanitarian crisis.
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@RichardGyseman I’m starting to think that reshaping the country to suit fishermen isn’t working out. Can we put school dinner ladies in charge next time we do something big?
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@christopherhope @Jacob_Rees_Mogg I have absolutely no idea what’s meant to be happening here. Mogg communicates that he doesn’t operate in the 21st, or even the last third of the 20th Century, and the Telegraph reporting this like it’s an amazing coup. I’m guessing Telegraph readers love this sort of nonsense.
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@GeorgeMonbiot ERG said to be mounting an operation to save her. I have taken the liberty of code-naming it myself - Duncekirk
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@KatyFBrand @Winskillfull How did we reach a point where those of no discernible talent are empowered to torment those with so much talent we only ever get to glimpse a fraction of it. Points to a rot at the heart of our society.
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@GregHands I will mention this to my five year old son and hen he’s older and also explain how a pack of lying careerists hitched to a racist fantasy took the opportunity to live and work in 27 different countries from him and his friends. May they damn your party forever.
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@SaulStaniforth How surprisingly candid of him. Jeremy Hardy once described Labour as ‘supply Tories’, able to step in when needed.
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@Isaac_Ricca My socialism was found in Crown Court as a reporter. I generally saw wealthy people deciding the fate of poor, desperate, alienated people without judging the circumstances that had created their desperation. It was a way of bludgeoning them and everyone else to accept injustice
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@DavidLammy I notice that for the other 364 days of the year you say nothing about the assassinations, house demolitions and confiscations, the settler colonialism, the raids, bombings or the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people. Could that be part of a wider context here?
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@brokenbottleboy I interviewed him once about a book of daringly misanthropic views he’d banged out. Other than Bill Oddie, genuinely the rudest and most boorish person I’ve sat in front of with a notepad.
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@nicktolhurst An army officer trying to overthrow the government is normally slightly more than a resigning issue.
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@rtredgett24 @Peston When I retreat into fascist ethnic nationalism you can make that claim but until then it’s a nonsense. Trump’s attacks on the press are designed to keep him out of prison, Labour’s issue with the press is that it’s often owned by Trump’s billionaire friends. Think before posting.
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@TSubtext @GeorgeMonbiot Well yes. At the time as a naive 24 year old I was shocked. Then I understood that it was code for ‘if it didn’t happen to wealthy people it isn’t a story’, which speaks volumes about the rotten anti democratic nature of much of the press.
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@RichardBentall @sainsburys From their ‘Taste the indifference’ range
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@JeremyVineOn5 @AvaSantina @mikeparry8 @theJeremyVine Is an end to habeus corpus a step too far? Is internment a step too far? Is giving the Met powers of arbitrary arrest a step too far? Is putting our civil liberties in the hands of the most corrupt institution of the state a bit much? Ooh it’s a proper head scratcher today.
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@SoVeryBritish Getting your foot caught in an escalator even though it seems impossible. This fear was placed in the minds of the British people by the Sandman of micro worries - Esther Rantzen
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@TanyaGold1 I will say, as a recovering alcoholic, that nobody gets to walk away from the consequences of their drinking like that. I didn’t stay sober for 19 years by shrugging off past transgressions because I was drunk. He will have to own it like everyone else.
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@FlorenceHRScott I just wonder what school career evenings are like now that ‘arsehole’ is actually a financially sustainable career choice
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@SimonJonesNews And are they ok? It’s a really dangerous crossing. Oh and they almost never simply migrants, they’re asylum seekers, which is perfectly legal in international law. Do you choose the framing or is it an editorial line handed downwards?
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@Dominic2306 Thanks for making all of this possible
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@orridge_anna Thanks Anna, I am grateful for your words, it’s the intelligence and eloquence of the young woman being interviewed that made me think again
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@carryonkeith It says a lot about British exceptionalism that this isn’t already a thing. I imagine we assume that corruption happens to other people.
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@WillHayCardiff He is in the top five of the worst human beings I have ever met, and for context, I have met James Corden.
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@guardian Why? Why report this? ‘Self publicist who knows how to effectively market her own provocateur brand says thing she knows won’t ever happen but will make people angry’ - that’s the actual headline. It’s a non story with a person who periodically appears on Question Time.
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@mrjamesob @FabBosco @tonygallagher I would like to report the editorial staff of the Sun over the last three decades for losing their collective shit over bendy bananas and imaginary fears that Eurocrats will ban fry ups and Cornish pasties
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@itvnews @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @PaulBrandITV And also ‘short the pound following a hard Brexit in a massive fraud perpetrated against the unsuspecting masses’.
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@GeorgeMonbiot When people ask ‘why are they soincompetent’ it’s by design. This is the first government ever that means to break things and intends to leave us poor and desperate. Toryism has reached the end of its road and this is about ensuring the perpetuation of class rule. #Brexiters
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@Otto_English She has that look that people get in about season four of Twin Peaks when the plot finally gets too confusing for anyone and we just start guessing.
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@BenKentish Speaking as an alcoholic many years in recovery, our Prime Minister’s determination to hang on to the drinking is eerily familiar.
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‘Going Human’ is a fascinating turn of phrase isn’t it? How can two words say so very much?
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Hancock to George Osborne on his affair/rule breaking: “I’m thinking of going human, apologising for letting people down and then the PM backs me hard.”
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@GeorgeMonbiot @ExtinctionR The idea that you can’t have progressive ideas until you’re so poor that you can’t engage in politics anyway because every day is a desperate battle for survival has a surprising longevity.
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@AyoCaesar There were clues
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@thetimes That if you come from inherited wealth and influence you can write anything you like and be paid for it, no matter how meaningless or banal.
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@LMalloy A friend had a can of Safeway tomato soup he’d bought in 1993 and never opened. He came to treasure it and gifted it to me in 2001, and I kept it until 2009. My girlfriend (now wife) moved in and got rid of it. I sometimes think about that can.
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@GeorgeMonbiot In my counselling work some of the most damaged dissociative clients that I have met have been survivors of boarding school.
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@Otto_English @OliverDowden Reginald Maudling left it as a note for Wilson’s incoming government in 1964 and it’s been a standing joke between Chancellors ever since and the reason everyone knows it’s a joke is that STATES WITH SOVEREIGN CURRENCIES DON’T RUN OUT OF MONEY!
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@brokenbottleboy Fucking hell. I don’t know why so am shocked by this twerp, but this is properly depraved. Some of the most damaged, lost, broken men I’ve done counselling work with have been former boarders.
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@Otto_English Being convinced to, or even worse willingly abandoning one’s own humanity is an immense act of self harm. Those who jeer when others drown strangle their own prospects for living the good life. Imagine being burdened by that much cruelty, imagine channeling one’s energy into that
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@bbclaurak It seems odd that Putin would have assisted the only party that proposed to flush his dirty money out of the City of London. I’m sure this has probably occurred to you too, but to discuss it would be straying into the mysterious realms of ‘journalism’.
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@KyleKnight609 @AndrewBartletta @UKLabour @Oscar__Harman You could do a thread. What are your positions on public ownership? Housing? The NHS? Supporting refugees? Press regulation/leveson? Climate breakdown? AI/automation?
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@CeliaRichards0n Are they advocating fraud? Sounds a bit fraudy.
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@matthaig1 Sixteen years ago I was an unemployable alcoholic. I’ve been privileged to help hundreds of people get well since 2004 and spend Saturday mornings playing Lego with my son, not in a bed sit hoping to die.
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@brokenbottleboy There’s a certain type of person who nicks other people’s jokes and recycles them with the funny bit missing. I suspect that’s what happened here, except somehow that was turned into a decades long lucrative media career.
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@SangitaMyska I mean Starmer only said it was ok to punish an entire civilian population by cutting off access to water and power against the Geneva Convention, and they went and did paint! Paint! Do they know how hard it is to get red out of the carpet?
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@PennyMordaunt Britain has a trade surplus with America. It is in the interests of American negotiators to reduce that surplus. There is NO agreement that America will enter into that will enable Britain to do better than it already is doing.
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@mattprescott That dream I have of John Thaw and Dennis Waterman slamming Johnson over the bonnet of a Ford Capri and cuffing him while saying: “shut it Bunter!”, has edged forward to reality a couple of steps this morning.
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@skiologist They’re unpleasant for sure, but it’s the decision to interview them that’s the real issue here. Lazy journalism again. What kind of decision is it to find two poorly educated reactionaries, feed them a line about ‘immygrayshun’ and watch them go? Anyone can do that...
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@TomTugendhat To the fifth of the population living in poverty, this is completely irrelevant. The biggest threat to their safety and security is your party.
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@MissAHaddow @EH_Stonehenge They did kinda walk into that joke, I am amazed they didn’t see it coming.
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