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Political commentary. Likes a cuppa & a good sit down.

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When my dad popped up on the telly. 🤣
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Why did Eton College invite prominent racist and Putin apologist Nigel Farage to speak to a bunch of schoolchildren? #r4today
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You know that French farmers would be dumping those pig carcasses outside number 10.
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Get planning...
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Natalie Elphicke voted against school holiday meals for low income kids and for scrapping the Universal Credit uplift.
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Today I visited the Dover Food Bank with Scarlett Smith, where we put together parcels for people this Christmas time. Scarlett also handed in donations of food and toys for Christmas that she has been collecting. I was so impressed with the vital work of the Dover Food Bank
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What sort of person votes to allow water companies to pump raw sewage into our water?
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Nick Leeson was imprisoned for racking up £1bn in trading losses in 1992, driving Barings Bank to insolvency. Kwasi Kwarteng blew a £50bn hole in the public finances and he gets a guest slot on #r4today .
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@Peston @RMTunion Would it be outrageous to suggest that you treat him with respect and listen to what he has to say, rather than trying to paint him as a Marxist firebrand and turning the rail strike into a wedge issue?
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Let's be clear: the Tories have destroyed peace in Northern Ireland. #C4News
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Does anyone believe Johnson when he says we will take hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees?
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Suddenly reservoirs are "under construction" everywhere. Just like the 40 new hospitals. #r4today
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Why doesn't #bbcaq ever have any guests from Byline Times, New European, Morning Star or New Statesman?
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If Brexit was such a success, why are we preparing for another round of austerity? #r4today
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How stupid must you be to give up freedom of movement? Still can't believe it.
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Why is that when a banker gets a bonus it's capitalism, but when a rail worker wants a pay rise it's socialism? #r4today #BBCBreakfast
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Why are massive amounts of untreated raw sewage still being regularly discharged into our rivers and sea? #r4today
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Office Brexit guy says food shortages will build national character. Suggestions?
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You can tell Johnson is absolutely loving the prospect of war. Not only does it distract from his domestic troubles, it gives him the opportunity to act out his biggest Churchill fantasy. #r4today
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Oh, so it's OK for the Conservatives to borrow £45bn to give to rich people but it's not OK for Labour to borrow half of that to invest in public services? Got it. #r4today
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Please will the EU take military action and free us from this populist fascist govt? #C4News
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The people of Scotland welcome Boris Johnson. #r4today
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The PM hates it being called the #JohnsonVariant . You know what to do. 😉
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I still can't believe Tory MPs oppose onshore wind farms - the one thing that would immediately bring down our bills and CO2 levels - because they "spoil the view". 🤦😤 #ClimateCrisis #r4today
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Just heard a Tory MP describing Sunak as having "the biggest brain I've ever seen". Aside from the ridiculousness of such a claim, why is it that so many Tories speak like primary school children? #BBCLauraK
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How will the government protect older people from unaffordable energy bills and hypothermia this winter? #r4today
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@SkyNews If you don't like being compared to Nazis, maybe don't support legislation that endorses the racist scapegoating of people.
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Just a few weeks ago, financial genius Chris Philp was in the car that drove the British economy off the cliff. Now he's back doing the media rounds, being treated like a credible commentator. #r4today
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Who's next? Therese Coffey? Or that young firebrand John Redwood? #wato
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I don't recall being asked if we should leave the single market. I believe that was a unilateral decision taken by Johnson. #r4today
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Did I just hear Nick imply that accusing MPs of corruption undermines trust in politics? #r4today
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There are simply too many Tories to integrate into society. They don't share British values. We should deport the lot of them to somewhere like Russia or Belarus where they can enjoy life without the protection of international laws. #r4today
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439 deaths recorded today. 💔 And Johnson's allies are out claiming he called everything right. 🤢😤
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Can't believe it snowed last night. #r4today #JohnsonOut #CostOfLivingCrisis
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Brexit extremist Daniel Hannan blaming Britain's poor economic performance on lockdown. Funny how other countries that had a lockdown have emerged stronger... #r4today 🤦🤡
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Why are these photos of canvassing Conservatives always so disturbing?
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Alexa, show me a Russian collaborator. #r4today
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Only the Conservative Party could take away £50 billion and give you £2bn and claim they're doing you a favour.
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So it turns out we can't do without migrant workers after all. 🤦 #r4today
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Let's be clear: Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party are destroying the NHS. #r4today #C4News #ToryCriminals #Omicron #nhsprivatisation #nhscrisis #NHSheroes
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Will a future government be able to de-privatise the NHS after the Tories have privatised it? #r4today #NHSprivatisation #NHSBill
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Never forget. #C4News
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We could reduce spending by £35bn, or DIDO HARDING COULD GIVE US OUR F****** MONEY BACK! #r4today
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@Conservatives Cut your populist crap. You don't speak for everyone, Ms Braverman. I am British and I oppose your bill.
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@FBAwayDays Don't be such a snowflake. It's just a bit of banter.
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Braverman's shamelessly far-right rhetoric is revolting and utterly immoral. You can see it's just a political game to her, but what she says will have dire consequences in the real world. We should take a much harder line against intolerance in public office. #c4news
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🚨 Voters in Esher and Walton should vote for the @LibDems candidate to remove Dominic Raab at the next election. ✅ #r4today
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Can you believe the Mekon is criticising GPs who easily work +50 hours a week while the PM is on a watercolor painting holiday in the midst of a cost of living crisis? #r4today
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Can't MPs focus on being MPs? I used to be a teacher. I didn't have a second job as a postman. #C4News
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Turns out "sovereignty" just means the right of a handful of Brexit extremists to scrap laws without any scrutiny or oversight, and strong-arm the prime minister into proposing legislation which they favour.
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Why is it that xenophobic wingnuts care more about the cost of temporarily housing asylum seekers than, say, the eye-watering sums of money spaffed away on cronyism and reckless financial mismanagement by the Tories? #r4today
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Will the BBC let the NHS be privatised with nary a mention? #r4today #NHSBill #bbcnews #NHSPrivatisation
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Will water companies stop pumping shit into our water for the Queen's funeral? #C4News
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People can't afford to put their heating on. Should we really be subsidising the lavish lifestyle of the royal family? #r4today
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The Conservative Party has destroyed this country. Under Thatcher they broke the post-war consensus of social democracy. And with Brexit they finished the job. Their goal, whether conscious or not, is fascism. #ToryCriminals #DontVoteConservative #BrexitBritain #r4today
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Don't forget who the real criminals are. #r4today
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🇪🇺 Good morning #FBPE friends - it’s #FollowBackFriday again. Anyone fancy a follow back? 🇪🇺 #r4today #goodmorning #BBCBreakfast
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Good morning friends! 👋 Happy #followbackfriday . 🎉 Have a great weekend. 🍻✨😈 #r4today #ToryCriminals #gtto #ToryCorruption #BrexitReality
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@KwasiKwarteng If you really listened, you'd all resign.
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Everyone knows the government is only selling Channel 4 because its news programme tries to hold them and other authoritarian govts to account. It's a spiteful and profoundly undemocratic move. Another step towards fascism in this country. #r4today
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We are the only country in the world to privatise water. Other countries understand it's too important to leave in the hands of capitalists who neglect infrastructure and pollute waterways. #r4today
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Why is #r4today still banging on about the "small boats" crisis? This isn't an issue that affects most voters. It's being used by the government to distract from their own failures and to drum up support among their knuckle-dragging base. *Turns the 📻 off again* @BBCr4today
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The better question is, how do we get Fiona Bruce off our screens? #r4today
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So far, Fiona Bruce has asked “how do we stop them coming?” 4 times in 10 minutes - fuck this racist shit. It is NOT illegal to seek asylum. #bbcqt
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Brexit took 4.5% off GDP. Remind me who's anti-growth? #r4today
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It's the most wonderful time of the year. ❄️ #r4today
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I support Insulate Britain blocking non-essential infrastructure like printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch. #r4today
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The problem, Mr Gove, is not that this country isn't generous. It's that the Conservative Party/Home Office and their supporters in the xenophobic right-wing press aren't generous. #c4news #r4today
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Liz Truss has effectively told everyone except the rich to f*ck off. No doubt Britons will suck it up with customary servility. #c4news
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Which Conservative MP would you most like to see deported to Rwanda for Christmas?
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A vote of no confidence should automatically trigger a general election. #r4today
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@pritipatel Shameful. Horribly reminiscent of Nazi Germany. There's clearly something very wrong with you as an individual.
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An end to LFTs and vaccinations? Seems we aren't dying quickly enough for the government's liking. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #marr
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If there's so much leftwing bias on the BBC, why have we had a Tory government for the past twelve years? #r4today #SaveOurBBC
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Particularly appropriate this morning. 💧💩 #TorySewageParty
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Higher energy bills and council tax mean we will have no disposable income to feed into the local economy. Goodbye cafes, restaurants, cinema etc.
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@LizWebsterSBF @KnittedKittie Every time I see Liz Truss I'm reminded that I now pay £1000 more on my mortgage thanks to her brief reign of fiscal terror.
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I've just written to my Conservative MP demanding Boris Johnson's resignation. 😊
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We have ceased to be a functioning democracy. #ToryLiars #ToryDictatorship #BorisJohnsonOut
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This was the moment Labour MP Dawn Butler was kicked out of the House of Commons for saying Boris Johnson has "lied to the House and the country over and over again"
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No one has done more to lower standards in public office and undermine trust in politics than Alexander Johnson. #BorisTheLiar
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Why are callers to phone-in shows usually xenophobic and mean-spirited?
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@Conservatives @Jeremy_Hunt Zero growth and the only G7 economy not to return to pre-pandemic levels. 😯
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@SkyNews Ah, yes, all those high-paid, high-skilled jobs just there for the taking. Especially for pensioners and disabled people who are unable to work.
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Daily cases back above 40,000. Number in hospital back above 7000. +100 deaths daily still normalised by government and media enablers. #C4News
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The social care system is utterly broken. How is it that we as a country haven't made proper provision for the elderly? It needs to be properly funded along the lines of the NHS. #r4today
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African countries are desperate for first vaccines while #COVIDIOTS in Europe refuse to be vaccinated at all. #r4today
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Isn't Nadine Dorries the one who wanted to sell an entire TV channel because she didn't like the way its news programme held her government to account? #bbcaq
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There's no point pretending you're the saviours of the NHS when you've spent the last 13 years deliberately bringing it to its knees. #r4today
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I'm finding the coverage about the Queen increasingly oppressive and alienating. The media and establishment are incapable of mature, measured reflection. #MournHub #bbcnews #C4News
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Why would you employ someone who's been fired by two of your predecessors? #r4today
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If a Labour MP had been accused of rape, the right-wing media would have identified him straight away. #ToryRapist
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George Osborne overseeing the theft of public assets... Where have I heard that before? #r4today
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I will stop spending money @BootsUK as long as they continue to advertise on GB News. Please like and retweet if you intend to do the same. #StopFundingHate
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If Zahawi couldn't manage his own tax affairs, why was he put in charge of the country's?
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What hasn't been raised is how outrageously expensive care homes are and how several Tory MPs have financial interests in groups of care homes. #r4today
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Johnson trying to bluster and charm his way out of answering questions. Thankfully Gary is a professional journalist and isn't being sidetracked. #C4News
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Yesterday the High Court found that Johnson's government acted unlawfully - again. Will #r4today mention it?
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Remainers made it clear that the Northern Ireland protocol wasn't workable, not least in Northern Ireland itself - which voted overwhelmingly against Brexit. Johnson and the right-wing media ignored them. #bbcaq
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