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Writer, 'The Decade In Tory', 'Four Chancellors and a Funeral' and 'Tories: The End of an Error' (expected soon after the election).

Cheshire, UK

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Russ Jones

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4 years

Brexit Trade Talks: UK: We don’t like our deal EU: Why not? UK: We only get 95% of what we want EU: It only gives us 95% too. That's how negotiating goes UK: We want a new deal that gives us everything we can think of EU: But you signed a deal UK: Don't care, we hate you

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Confession. With a bit of freelance work and my basic, I just about scrape into the tax zone Corbyn will hit (sorry). I calculate his policies will cost me £16.77 per month. I just spent £22 on a bottle of wine. I'll be fine. Tax away. Tax me twice. Fuck it: three times.

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Well: 7 hours of surgery 9 months off work 3 years of chemo 4 years of drug trials 10 years of post-cancer treatment and monitoring Just got the all-clear. I'm done. Might have a drink tonight.

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Today a priceless gold hat with a 317-carat diamond and 400 other jewels was driven in a custom-made Rolls Royce to a £2.5 billion palace, where it was placed next to a gold chair in which sat one of the world's richest men, who told 2 million hungry Britons there's no money.

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Boris Johnson is to hold a news conference at 8pm, where he will announce all the things Nicola Sturgeon announced today, and all the things Keir Starmer told him to announce days ago, and all the things the scientific community told him to announce weeks ago Isn't he great?

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I keep reading "if police investigated every reported sex offence, they'd be overwhelmed" So be overwhelmed. Then policymakers might suddenly discover they have to do something about it, rather than sending the message "assaulted women is a price we have to pay" End this shit

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While his wife was having cancer treatment, he had an affair, wrongly handed public funds to mistress, falsely said he was visiting her for IT lessons, lied about the affair, lied about the money, and then lied about lying about all of it. And there will be no consequences

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2 years

The Queen is this nation's last constant. She - not the monarchy, she personally - is the last national institution that hasn't fallen into disrepair, disregard or distrust. I don't think we're remotely ready for her loss.

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3 years

How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down a country?

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4 years

The week in Tory (Cummings special): 1. Dominic Cummings, one of the few men to have ever been found in contempt of Parliament, moved onto contempt for everything 2. When the story broke, and he was accused of doing things that look bad, he said he didn't care how things looked

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The PM has announced restrictions on flying into the country, only [ checks notes ] 371 days and 87,000 deaths after the WHO recommended it.

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The week in Tory, a thread: 1 Accidentally made it illegal to drive to Wales 2 Made it easier to see other people's parents than your own 3 Issued new advice that was officially ignored by Scotland, Wales, NI, and the councils of Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle.

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3 years

You know what's patriotic? Loving your country enough to care for its poor, fund its institutions, unite its communities, educate its children, restore its environment, plan for its future, build its alliances, and tell it the truth. You know what's not patriotic? Flags.

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1 year

If you're about to be made redundant from the Daily Mail, don't worry: I saw in your paper that people on benefits get £50,000 a year, a flat screen TV, and a free iPhone.

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Daily Mail announces redundancy plans as print readership declines

Editor Ted Verity said newspaper, sister title Mail on Sunday and MailOnline would be brought ‘much closer together’

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2 years

#TheWeekInTory 1. We begin with our new leader, Margarine Thatcher, who in only 3 weeks has become PM, finished off The Queen, taken 2 weeks away from work, ruined our relations with the US, crashed the economy, and started backbench rebellion to remove her from office

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Be too poor to eat healthily, but remain fit enough to work until 70. Save money we don't pay you for a home we haven't built, and if you get sick, we'll charge you for a GP you're already funding though record tax, which we avoid paying. Remember: Tories are on YOUR side.

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MEGA-THREAD (sorry) Boris Johnson was born in USA, and lived there using the name "Al" until he went to Eton, at which point contemporaries said he invented "the eccentric English persona" we know now. His family calls him Al in private. "Boris" is just a marketing brand.

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4 years

There are 195 countries in the world, all with leaders facing this task. 193 of them are doing better than Johnson. The only one doing worse is an insane, orange racist, who literally suggested we inject bleach.

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3 years

Leavers: Won the referendum Won the subsequent election Led the negotiations Chose the PM Are 100% of the cabinet Won another election Wrote the Withdrawal Agreement Led more negotiations And now say its all Remainers' fault. Fuck - and I can't stress this enough - off.

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How mad is UK infrastructure (outside London)? I'll tell you. A friend lost her job before Xmas. She has no car - never needed one before. But now she does, cos there are no jobs nearby. She just landed a job. In a car, it's 12 mins away. By public transport, almost 3 hours.

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Beggars are known for their handy access to £1000

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BREAKING: Suella Braverman plans to announce new fines of up to £1000 for begging.

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I think I've finally got a grip on the govt's latest strategy.🧵 You have to earn £38,000 to move to this country. Which means 75% of British citizens are now officially too poor to be here.

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In 2017 a Tory minister told The Times, "We are in a bind. If we cancel Brexit we destroy ourselves, and if we go ahead we destroy the country" 5 years later, they've done both.

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I was going to do #TheWeekInTory , but try as I might, I can’t find a single thing they’ve done wrong this week. Only kidding. It’s been an absolute casserole. 91 items long, you poor fuckers. Drink heavily before, during and after. Here we go:

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UK had over 100,000 deaths, and for weeks had over 1000 deaths per day Taiwan just recorded its first death since May, and has had 7 deaths in total. Seven. 7 deaths. Both islands. They're 3x as densely populated. We are 1/3 richer. But they locked down hard, and we tinkered.

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It's been a while, but for the masochists amongst you, here's the return of #TheWeekInTory 1. The PM said he’d done nothing wrong, and had therefore apologised to the Queen for doing it 2. He claimed he hadn’t broken rules because nobody had told him the rules, which he wrote

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Fixing strikes is Labour's job Fixing Brexit is the EU's job Fixing inflation is Putin's job Fixing cost of living is workers' job Fixing housing is immigrants' job And fixing immigration is Rwanda's job But we have to keep Boris, cos he gets things done.

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1 year

We all think we're rational human beings. So let's put that to a test in a little thread, with sources. This is for those who are in a terrible tizz right now, and think Gary Lineker is actual Satan. 🧵

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3 years

It's been a year since this masterpiece

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Fascism didn't start with jackboots. Not even Hitler dressed up as Hitler when it began. It began by dehumanising foreigners, bypassing courts, ignoring laws, scrapping human rights, disenfranchising voters, and normalising the previously unthinkable. It started like this.

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Homosexuality is forbidden by the bible. So are poly/cotton socks. Leviticus 19:19: "You shall not... wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together." When they start protesting socks as much as they protest gays, I'll accept it's for religious reasons.

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30 days ago Boris Johnson said No Deal was "a million to one chance". 5 days ago he said it was "touch and go" 4 days ago he said proroguing parliament was "completely untrue" Today he did it. He's now promising to fund schools, police and the NHS. Believe him?

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Four years ago today I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life. Look at him on the first day at home. Absolutely irresistible. And that's how they get you, the utter bastards.🧵

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3 years

The Chinese are so clever: they invented a virus that specifically targets countries run by incompetent fuckwits.

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2 years

Talking to a pal, who said: Thatcher's Tories were just plain evil, Major's Tories were skanky and incompetent, and Cameron's were too posh to understand how the real world worked. Boris Johnson's Tories manage to be all of that at once. It's a good point. I wish I'd said it.

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I never really minded the royals. Didn't even think about them. They're a soap opera I don't watch. But if you wanna turn a "don't know" into a hardcore republican, spend £100m on a farcical party for a bored billionaire while people are starving, then arrest anyone who tuts.

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Imagine being totally obsessed with becoming PM your whole life. Sacrificing every relationship, every moral, your family, your reputation. Imagine trashing the influence, stability and wealth of your country ... all in pursuit of one thing. And then being THIS shit at it.

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During cancer, for all the surgeons, oncologists and radiologists, the person I'm most grateful for was a Malaysian nurse who silently sat by my bed and held my hand for an hour when I was having a bit of a cry at 3am. They're worth more than this #SupportTheStrikes

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Plan B was drawn up 5 months ago. That's how long they've had to plan for it. They gave the NHS 4 hours warning that they'd need to do 1 million tests a day, the booking website crashed cos nobody thought to upgrade it, and we ran out of lateral flow tests within 3 hours.

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How we vote is mostly about our feelings, and then we hunt around for ways to rationalise those feelings. But look at the data, and if you voted Tory or Brexit... just think about this stuff. I'm not taking the piss. Just ... consider this thread. 🧵

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Liz Truss energy plan: 1. Borrow £130bn 2. Give it to energy giants who just got an unearned £170bn windfall 3. Energy bills still go up at least 80% 4. We then repay that £130bn loan from our tax 5. Meanwhile she cuts tax in a way that benefits the rich 235x more than the poor

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Look at this graph. We are the light blue line. See how Covid makes everyone's exports dip, then everyone (except us) recovers again? Can anyone tell me the one unique thing that Britain did at 11pm on 31 January 2020 that no other country did? Anyone? Any ideas?

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If Labour moves to the centre, we will be indistinguishable from Tories. I mean, there might be a few small differences, like how a centre-left Labour government lifted 600,000 children and 1 million pensioners out of poverty. But otherwise Tory. 1/13

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The previous record for the most resignations in 24 hours was set in the 1930s. It was 6 resignations. In the last 24 hours we have had 26 resignations.

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I'm not a professional journalist, but a few MPs talk to me. I won't reveal who. Today a Tory backbencher said they predict Truss will be "the last Tory leader of the UK in my lifetime". They explained "either the party is wiped out, or she'll finish off the union".

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Bong One firework goes off outside. Brief pause. Sound of somebody nearby opening their patio doors and screaming FUCK YOUUUUUUU at unbelievable volume. And that's my Brexit report from Sandbach.

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Britain's way of life is threatened by a culture with strange accents, wearing unusual clothing, who attended special schools and are part of a closed society that doesn't integrate with the rest of us.

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If Durham Police fine Starmer, they then have to explain why they didn't fine Cummings for a much larger breach. And then we're into "politically biased policing" territory, which is VERY dangerous for any country wishing to avoid accusations of fascism. Interesting times.

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You know what our problem is, in Britain? It's this little lot. Thread.

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My mum's stepdad (the only dad she ever knew) died in 2007. He assumed his house and assets would go to my mum automatically, so he left no will. So my mum got nothing. Instead, Prince Charles got the lot - about £400k. Scam. Glad it's being reported

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Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens

Exclusive: Assets of thousands of people in north-west England used to upgrade king’s property empire via archaic custom

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10m Britons have savings of less than £100. The poorest 25% of households have average savings of just £2000 (scraped together over entire lifetimes). And we're supposed to suddenly find £4000 a year for fuel? I doubt many politicians have yet grasped what's about to happen.

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Exit poll 386 Tory 191 Labour Tory majority of 81 So fuck it, I'm gonna risk this rant... it's been brewing for a while...

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Congratulations to Labour, LibDems and Greens. Next step: work together.

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There are 44000 towns in the UK 5000 refugees per year is one additional human being in every 4 towns. You reckon your town will break if it has a 1/4 chance of an extra person being in it? Pretty bloody fragile, isnt it, this Great Britain?

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It's absolutely awful that Jack Monroe has been hounded off Twitter. Nobody is perfect and I'm sure she's made mistakes - god knows I have! - but she spends her life helping the poor. The vilification and hate ... I simply don't understand it. It's entirely alien to me. Awful

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I am BEGGING the Tories to have a day off. Don't they realise I have to document all this? #TheWeekInTory

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My views on royalty were ambivalent until recently. I thought it was all irrational, but I didn't really care much either way. It was a soap opera I didn't watch. This mandatory, authoritarian force-feeding is turning me against it strongly. Judging from twitter, I'm not alone.

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#TheWeekInTory 1. The govt reduced the UK-wide coronavirus alert level on the advice of the “Joint Biosecurity Centre" 2. Matt Hancock revealed the “Joint Biosecurity Centre” doesn’t exist yet 3. Boris Johnson said he was “very proud” of the UK’s response

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So it took 3 prime ministers, 5 home secretaries, a £140m bung, £169,000 per asylum seeker, and £2m in legal fees to send absolutely nobody to Rwanda under a scheme that was always obviously illegal. The conservatives call themselves "The natural party of government".

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The Horny Honey Monster is on the ropes, so I think it's time to take a quick look at the runners and riders poised to take over from Boris Johnson. It's an inspiring list. 🧵

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It’s only a couple of days since I did #TheWeekInTory , and here I am again because – oh hell, you already know why. Anyway, here we go, you lucky, lucky bastards 1. Chris Pincher was accused of groping 2 men after getting indescribably pissed

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Boris Johnson found to have lied to parliament Johnson resigns with immediate effect Nadine Dorries quits with immediate effect Trump gets 37 additional charges, including over nuclear secrets And both his lawyers quit All in one day. What a time to be alive.

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#TheWeekInTory Armageddon Special covers events since Wednesday 1. A lucky (legal term) week for Jacob Rees-Mogg, the brain of a tapeworm trapped in the body of another tapeworm, who moved £44m of his money out of a Russian bank only days before he sanctioned it. Phew!

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Aged 40, healthy, non-smoker. Collapsed one day. Blood poured out of me. Hospital found a 17cm, 5kg kidney cancer. 7 weeks in hospital, 11 hours in surgery, 3 years of chemo, 10 years of after-care. Missing a kidney, but otherwise 100% cured. Never saw a bill.

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1: Brushed his hair with a toffee apple 2: Driving an imaginary tractor 3: Is in battery-saving mode

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If MPs need a second job to "remain in touch with the real world", might I suggest we need HGV drivers more than we need political advisors to the gambling industry.

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It’s been a challenge to find anything to write in the latest #TheWeekInTory . They’ve all been such well-behaved boys and girls. Only kidding: it’s absolute carnage. Don your biohazard suits, top up your breakfast absinthe, and let’s dive in🧵

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If stories are true, the next 72 hours could see the arrest of Donald Trump, and Boris Johnson being found guilty of lying to parliament and therefore banned from being an MP. I have bunting.

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This is a lie. Not spin. Not a difference of opinion. Not his own emphasis on events. It's a lie. This is the kind of thing politicians used to have to resign for. They still should. Mogg is utterly immoral. He has no shame. He is abject. And he is a liar.

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Enjoying @RoryStewartUK insight on this. He's a profoundly intelligent, moderate Tory with genuine ethics, who was cast aside cos he wasn't mad enough to back the lunacy of Brexit. I'm lifelong Labour and we wouldn't agree on much, but I respect him enormously.

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It looks like his brain has escaped, and forgot to close the door behind it

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The Brexit Paradox Any government with the competence to deliver Brexit wouldn't

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#TheWeekInTory is a misnomer: this just covers the last 5 days 1. Matt Hancock told Parliament lockdown started on 16th March, the day SAGE told them to, so all those unnecessary deaths didn’t happen 2. But lockdown started on 24th March, and all those unnecessary deaths did

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The Brexit Paradox Any government competent enough to deliver Brexit wouldn’t

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Thatcher's Tories were selfish and cruel. Major's were mired in sleaze and corruption. Cameron's were too posh to understand real life and too lazy to try, and May's were a flailing, incompetent, squabbling mob. Somehow, Johnson's have managed to be all of those things at once.

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Miners worked 12hr shifts, max 48 hours a week. So his dad couldn't work 7 days/week. I grew up in a council house. Tenants weren't allowed to keep chickens. So that's a lie too. And he didn't disable replies to annoy the lefties. He did it to avoid being called a bullshitter.

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In the 70s working 7 days a week down t'pit my dad grew veg and kept chickens in our garden. That was our foodbank. My dad voted Tory for the 1st time in 2019. He will again at the next election. A great man. Comments turned off to send the left in to meltdown. But u can like 🙂

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Brexit negotiations, to date: • Same regulations • Same open borders • Same European courts • Same single market • Same payments to EU But: • Lost all say in EU rules • Squandered 1000s of jobs • Knocked 18% off the pound • Risked the Union • Spent £50 billion

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If you're comfortably middle class, and all of a sudden you dread basic bills, and are furious at a govt doing nothing to help, please remember this is how the poorest have felt for a decade. Maybe now you understand their anger.

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I feel sorry for that poor fucker who does The Week In Tory.

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Currently down with Covid. My brother 4 neighbours 7 mates 13 of their kids 4 people in my mum's care home 7 staff in the home 3 doctors at my local GP surgery It's not over. Wear a mask.

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George Freeman MP says Penny Mordaunt "fought in the Navy" She became a reservist in 2010. She was made an honourary commander in 2019 after being Defence Secretary for 85 days before being sacked. Daniel Craig was made an honourary commander after playing James Bond. 🧵

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1. Nazanin wrongly jailed in Iran 2. Boris Johnson fucks up and lands her with an even longer sentence 3. Tories waste 6 years denying fuck-up and refusing to pay debt 4. A free Nazanin calmly points out facts 1-3 [ APPLY TORY PERCEPTION FILTER ] 5. Nazarin is the bad guy

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Waiting to hear Julia Hartley-Brewer call for the Fire Brigade to be scrapped because she, personally, hasn't had to be rescued from a burning building.

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It is extraordinary how badly the BBC have fucked this up. Best case: they back off, let Gary Lineker say what he wants on his personal twitter (cos it's his personal twitter), they look like idiots, some execs lose their jobs, and the Tories will gun for them forever. 1/2

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The Brexit Agreement is 2000 pages long, and Parliament has to read it, scrutinise it, and debate it - via Zoom - in one day. For reference, Lord Of The Rings is 1137 pages. And it probably contains fewer acts of fantasy and wholesale demolition.

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Don't care if he's fat Don't care if he's scruffy Don't care if he's camping Don't care. Doesn't matter. I care that he's a lazy, incompetent liar who can't foresee or avoid obvious problems, and in a major national crisis leads a govt of thick, corrupt, inept moral vacuums.

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I was gonna do another #TheWeekInTory but, try as I might, I could not find a thing they’d done wrong since Friday. No corruption. No ineptitude. No lies. No hypocrisy. Just a solid 96 hours of honest, decent and reliable governance. Only kidding: it’s an absolute shit-show...

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7 weeks in hospital 9 hours in surgery 11 months off work 3 years of chemotherapy 36cm scar 5kg tumour And 10 years to the day since my cancer surgery Extraordinarily lucky to be alive. Immeasurably grateful to the #NHS

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Brexit policy of "No entry unless you earn £30k" Junior doctor starting salary: £23k to £28k (Google it) 26% of NHS doctors are born overseas (Google it) So this policy means we lose, overnight, a quarter of NHS trainee doctors. How does this relieve pressure on the NHS?

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2 years

He lied to his parents, his school his newspaper bosses, his party leader, his readers, every journalist, all his wives, all his mistresses, his acknowledged kids, the unacknowledged ones, the police, parliament, and the Queen. But I never thought he'd lie to ME

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A single-tweet #TheWeekInTory 1. Tories sacked Johnson for being a liar 2. Tugendhat was cheered hugely by the public for being the only candidate to say Johnson is a liar 3. Tories cheered yet more Johnson lies in parliament today 4. And then the Tories eliminated Tugendhat

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2 years

Boris Johnson jeered by flag-waving crowds? Ok, NOW I can get behind the Jubilee.

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2 years

Today in freedom of speech, politicians are allowed to talk about Jesus, but archbishops aren't allowed to talk about politics.

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3 years

I used to work with 2 Germans. They were nice. We didn’t discuss the war, cos it ended 25 years before we were born, and we played no part in it. Nor did our parents. I didn't mind if they won at pool, chess or football. They didn't mind if I won. It was better then.

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I'm glad Johnson is out of ICU, but can we stop treating it as a victory, or him as a hero? The man rebuffed 100s of ventilators cos they might upset Brexiters, failed to order PPE, failed to isolate when WHO told him, lied, privarocated, obfuscated, mismanaged. He's a clown.

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I'm having a few days off, so here's an early #TheWeekInTory Don't worry. They've been busy. 1. The govt said “we will work around the clock to ensure nobody goes hungry as a result of this crisis” 2. Four days later the govt ended free meals for the poorest 1.3m children

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3 years

Have to admit, I'm not celebrating #Cummings as much as I expected. Sure, its nice when the arsonist goes away, but it doesn't matter much if he's already burned your village to the ground.

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2 years

I did a letter to my PM

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6 months

I don't know why Nick Robinson thinks this is extraordinary. We all knew. I was documenting this in weekly - often daily - in The Week In Tory at the time. The only extraordinary thing here is the utter failure of mainstream journalism to hold him to account when it mattered.

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Extraordinary. Truly extraordinary. The Cabinet Secretary on his then boss @BorisJohnson during the pandemic : "He cannot lead & we cannot support him...Government isn't actually that hard but this guy is really making it impossible."

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#TheWeekInTory (Wed to Sun) 1. Let’s start with the milder corruption: it was revealed Matt Hancock tried to block 400 homes and a primary school near Newmarket racecourse, after receiving at least £65,000 in donations from horseracing bigwigs who opposed the scheme

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