Ben McKenna @benmckenna Twitter profile

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Ben McKenna

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4 years

Imagine having a leader like this.

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4 years

The problem with Thatcherism is that the state ends up needing to bail out the sacred free-market every decade.

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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I might have missed it, but have we heard anything from The Taxpayer's Alliance on the £4.79bn the government literally wrote off as bad debts? This seems like the sort of thing an actual alliance of taxpayers would be angry about.

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Love the fact this guy’s just a retired Civil Engineer from Surrey worried about his grandkids. Good on you, son.

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6 years

Some people have pointed out that we might not have footed the bill for the dress. Can I retract that part of the statement and insert the £50m for grammar schools instead, or the £3.5bn Parliament refurb, or the £167bn for Trident? Thank you for your interest in our affairs

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@MrsMThatcher

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1 year

This is quite a weird thing for the CEO of the Holocaust Educational Trust to say, isn’t it?

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4 years

@BeardedGenius Massive Corrigan energy.

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4 years

@sovietvisuals Even someone as boringly straight as me has to say “wow”.

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4 years

@TheNorthCurve Highbury 1951.

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3 years

@Arsenal

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Ben McKenna

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4 years

Churchill was so impressed by Eleanor Roosevelt’s work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that he beseeched the European Council to adopt it, and they did. Now his party want to remove it from British subjects because they’ve made a mess of brexit. Unbelievably sad.

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4 years

IT IS HAPPENING. The Government are moving towards leaving the European Convention on Human Rights

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2 years

@CouncillorPaul_ Wait a minute, didnt you claim to be hacked, and then later that friends did it, and then later on than that, that some big boys did it?

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5 years

There’s fifteen million people in the North of England, but apparently there’s only one stock photo.

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1 year

Huge moment for Harry Kane as he meets someone who remembers spurs’ last league title.

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3 years

@montie You want to hear how people in the North talk about her. Or Wales. Or Scottish people. And the gays. Chileans too. Actually, do you ever get the feeling she was just a terrible, terrible person?

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@MrsMThatcher

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@cjparry I believe they’re symbolic of the concept of inherited wealth, privelage and inequality that characterises the country. And surely even the most committed royalist couldn’t disagree that their estates and properties could, if not should, be put to better and greater use.

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4 years

Disappointingly siventeen-sivinty is only about nine quid.

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1 year

Nobody looked as cool when trying to waste time. Nobody.

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3 years

I’ve never once chopped garlic without thinking about this shot.

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Ben McKenna

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3 years

Honestly though, this bloody country.

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5 years

Andrew Bridgen is what happens when you leave Marc Francois on a radiator.

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2 years

@CPhilpOfficial Hi Chris, are you a Socialist? Because you appear to love being publicly owned.

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2 years

That feeling when you see a really long food bank line and you think ‘I did that’

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6 years

@cjparry I don’t doubt I would also be a net contributor to the economy were I to be given two duchies and twelve palaces. Not to mention a veto on legislation deemed conflict with my business interests.

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3 years

@90min_Football Behave, this is the last time spurs won the league.

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3 years

@Telegraph He’s probably also landed several directorships at PPE suppliers and vaccine logistics companies too. That’s how the UK works now, isn’t it?

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3 years

@theethicaldairy Have you tried just throwing the paperwork in the bin?

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6 years

@CarrollVSCancer I'm a veritable riot. I was there the last time spurs won a trophy, as a ball boy.

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7 years

Well it looks like the end for Robert Mugabe. I told him the haircut was pushing it and the earrings would be the straw that broke the camel's back but he didn't listen

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4 years

@adicarter I can’t allow myself that level of fantasy, the journey back is too harsh a comedown.

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3 years

@LanceForman @Sillyshib @butwhatifitsall @jriekemann This is bang out of order, and you should apologise.

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4 months

@emmaroc33249448 @Telegraph Sorry, you say you skimp and scrape for everything, and yet you pay for twitter blue?

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4 years

This remains one of the most pleasing shot/camera-angle combos ever.

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6 years

@RationalLUFC Literally? Link me to the report, please. Personally I’d like to be part of a grown-up, modern democracy where we looked after the people in it, and not at the expense of a wedding dress. But that’s just me, I guess.

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Ben McKenna

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10 months

@markswife "crime" 😂 Have a word with yourself.

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3 years

@kelvmackenzie Hmmm, no outrage over this though. I wonder what the difference is.

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3 years

EXC: A former Tory councillor won £120m emergency contract for PPE whose quality was so doubtful none was used last year To date, 0.26% of 120m items ordered have been sent to the NHS Yet Steve Dechan was still able to buy a majestic Cotswolds estate

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@racingspoon Yeah, that was a flex.

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5 months

Deeply unfair on Pablo Escobar, who had a real global supply chain rather than an imaginary one.

The Times and The Sunday Times

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Baroness Mone has claimed she is being treated like the drug lord Pablo Escobar after having her bank accounts frozen by the National Crime Agency (NCA) ⬇️

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@KetamineMr @Guyhoneymoon @dreamboatslim @ntlflknr Is making life materially worse for other people whilst creating no real value something we should actually aspire to though?

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Ben McKenna

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3 years

Population Figures: US - 330m Brazil - 210m India - 1,380m Mexico - 130m UK - 67m Woeful by anyone's measure.

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3 years

Only the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded higher coronavirus death tolls than Britain. @nicucalcea on how the UK became the first country in Europe to reach the unwanted milestone of 50,000 total deaths:

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Ben McKenna

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4 years

@alex_christofi Mate, you're as bad as the bloke that decided to put a doorway in The Last Supper.

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3 years

@Independent Of course, this whole thing relies on nobody remembering what Thatcher did to the north in the eighties.

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3 years

@PascalR57 @LanceForman @AWH1955 @Sillyshib @butwhatifitsall @jriekemann Look, he might just be hanging out with them racists, producing all that racist content and be working for an organisation funded by shady racists. It doesn’t mean he’s a racist, he could just be racist adjacent.

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Sandy Tregent

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Let's see your pictures of the real England that luckily still exists. I'll go first. Wiltshire.

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6 years

@oioisue I grew up on a council estate, I still use my real name, have no fraud convictions, no assault convictions, no contempt of court convictions and am proudly not a massive racist bell.

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4 years

@robwhisman @ScanlanWithAnA “Ooooh it say police, I like police things!”

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5 years

@StateOfLinkedIn Scoff all you want, but that’s exactly how I got my job as a cardiovascular surgeon.

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1 year

@thetimes Lads, give it up, I'm not going to subscribe to a paper that voluntarily employ's nepotism's Giles Coren.

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1 year

Jordan Pickford is an unserious keeper

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4 years

I’m no political communications expert, but I’m not sure “I had no idea she was 16” is the ideal thing to appear in a headline, Phil.

"Had no idea she was 16" - Yorkshire MP defends calling girl 'intolerant virtue signaller'

Shipley MP Philip Davies has defended calling a 16-year-old constituent 'intolerant' and 'virtue signalling' on email

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11 months

@AyoCaesar @cooke_millie @Daily_Express Guess their picture editor was MIA

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7 years

All sat in the correct positions, I see. Say what you like about George Graham but that's impressive training ground work if it lasts 30yrs

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6 years

@oldlandafc @DannyyCarter #justracist

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4 years

Oh Chelsea, just when I thought my opinion of you couldn’t be lower. FIANK LAMP D’S Blue And e Army?

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6 years

@cjparry I’d be a pretty strange republican were my only objection to royalty a financial one, no?

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6 years

You have to hand it to Harry Cole’s wife, at least she has a type

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11 months

Also there’s nothing more early twentyfirst century English than angry men in blazers dragging someone off 👌🏼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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@sophielouisecc I think maybe the confusion comes out of the fact we paid reparations to the people who lost slaves, not the slaves themselves. Just another example of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor, and a reminder that we have more in common with slaves than the slavers.

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Douglas Murray, coming to a mass shooter's 4Chan manifesto soon. Seriously though, he gets away with this due to the plummy accent and the endorsement from The Spectator, The Beano for public school racists.

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Douglas talking about 'the war on white people' like an extremely normal non-extremist

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3 years

In fairness, most of Europe are a great bunch of lads.

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Ben McKenna

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5 years

Would it ruddy well kill Stormy or The Killers to be just a teensy bit more patriotic about brexit? Writes BobbyMoore66a from Madrid.

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3 years

@GuidoFawkes It’s weird, you guys seem more enthusiastic about voter suppression than you are in virus suppression.

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@paulhtfp @Peston Sorry Paul, you don’t get to chose. That’s kind of the whole royalty thing’s whole leitmotif

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5 years

This Bradford City concept kit is absolutely lovely. Not the easiest kit to make pretty, but working Lister Mills’ chimney into it is genius.

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Bradford City AFC “Lister Mills Concept Kit” #bcafc #bradford #listermills #football #kit #footballkit #footballkitdesigns #footballkitdesign #conceptkit #claret #amber #valleyparade #efl #eflleagueone #bantams #westyorkshire #soccer #soccerkitdesign ❤️🧡❤️🧡

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@Keir_Starmer You know, you could actually propose a different way, give us something to all get behind as an alternative. Wealth tax? Property tax? Dividend tax? Raise Capital Gains? Give us an alternative, it’s all we ask.

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Ben McKenna

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@markjenkinsonmp Mate, you’re an MP for the tory party, the party of barons, earls and viscounts. Stop trying to pretend you’re on the side of working people, you’ve done nothing but screw us all for the last thirteen years. It’s pathetic.

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Ben McKenna

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9 months

Breaks my heart that some of you will never know the joy of Bradford.

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Ahead of tomorrow's budget, I would like to just remind everyone that if we taxed unearned income at the same levels which we taxed earned income then all of our problems would be solved in one fell swoop. Thank you.

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@toadmeister Real test as to whether the @FreeSpeechUnion is just a fig leaf for right-wing columnists or whether it’s actually interested in free speech, eh?

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6 years

@AzakFever49AFC No it’s not, never have and never will. Republic now!

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@NikkeAhlm @arseblog Emery / Arteta

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@BeardedGenius “He’s not that sort of robot” claimed Proper Chess Man on Sky shortly after.

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3 years

@tom_usher_ Still better than going out with your Mrs and people confusing you for a mother/daughter couple.

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5 years

Ten years to the day that I lost my Dad to suicide. Today we visited a place where he was happy and found a little peace. If you’re struggling with something similar, it does get better, I promise you. ✊🏼&❤️

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@SteveBakerHW @MarcusRashford He's got you bang to rights here. You have the power to change this situation, he doesn't. Your lot have been in power since he was twelve and we've seen food bank use sky rocket. Stop pretending you care when your voting record proves that you dont.

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2 years

Boris Johnson was booed loudly at St Paul’s, Keir Starmer turns up and nobody reacts at all. Both of these are their own sort of electoral problem.

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@IanDunt It's her whey or the highway.

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@BrexitFutureUK @darrengrimes_ Imagine being this patriotic but still not being able to write English.

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@londondanish Which kind of begs the question whether the tory desire for a state so small as to not burden the wealthy is something we should slavishly adhere to in the future.

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6 years

Remember, this is a Germany squad that apparently didn’t need Leroy Sané.

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I was a white, working class kid - single-parent family, council house, free school meals - and I'm still able to disentangle the idea of White Privilege from the structural inequalities of Britain's class-driven social immobility. Sorry.

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@brianwhelanhack It’s opposite Andover Estate, I literally got stabbed on his road ffs.

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@j_arthur_bloom

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@Mr_CallumWright @BeardedGenius Revenue isn't profit, he inherited his money and had he invested it in an index linked account he'd be better off.

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@KetamineMr @Guyhoneymoon @dreamboatslim @ntlflknr No, mate, you are driving up the cost of living for other people. Don’t try and dress it up as a service like you’re doing some kind of mitzvah. There’s no nobility in rentier capitalism, sorry.

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@JHBMK @AyoCaesar I think all normal people object to foxes being torn to pieces, don’t they?

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@ScottBentonMP Hard to make the claim that anyone who's a brexiter is a friend of britain given the harm it's done/doing to the country. I'll take no lessons on patriotism from gutless tories, thanks.

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Mad how Johnson manages to go from mocking trans people last night to pledging his full support to the tory MP who came out as trans just hours later. Gives you a real window into how much his support is worth, and how eager he is to throw anybody under his culture wars bus.

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@petticoatshang5 @VictoriaLIVE @labourlewis 240 characters is not enough to point out the many, many ways in which these situations are completely different.

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@MrsMThatcher

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@CaptainGas81 @wobski421 @avocado_mash @TPY52 @SpillerOfTea Imagine being emotionally invested this heavily in something you seem not to faintly understand. Well, I guess that’s how we got into this mess in the first place.

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@ChrisReeve_ @metpoliceuk Steady on Superman

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@SkippyOSINT @MoeTheSudani Agreed, I’ll even munch down on these bad boys.

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Ben McKenna

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2 years

Absolutely bang-on, every ‘don’t worry, the market will find a solution’ energy policy decision of the last 30-40 years has come back to massively haunt us.

Ash Sarkar

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The UK's vulnerability to the increase in energy and fuel prices is, in part, a result of policy decisions not taken. We could've insulated and retrofitted homes, transitioned to renewables, invested in public transport outside of London. We're paying for lost opportunities.

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@nately @quiffboy also The Running Man