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Retired lawyer. Cooking & good food, books, conversation, dancing, music. Forever European. Mastodon:

South West, England
Joined April 2011
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Can my followers give this QCode a go and see if it works?
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Professor Whitty, a consultant physician at UCL Hospital, was spotted working on the north London hospitalโ€™s respiratory ward over the weekend and bank holiday Monday. He worked the shifts in his capacity as a practising doctor and not in his role as CMO
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Waste not want not. Must be his โ€œluckyโ€ tie.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Who would YOU rather have This Afghan refugee or Farage?
@IFazilaBaloch
Fazila Baloch๐ŸŒบโ˜€๏ธ
3 years
Meet Nadia Nadeem, Father killed by Taliban in #Afghanistan ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ซ when she was 11, fled to Denmark. Scored 200 goals & represented the Danish national team 98 times. studying to be a surgeon. Speaks 11 languages, on the Forbes list of Powerful Women.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Hahahaha. Look at the signpost. Perfect.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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A postmistress, Fiona McGowan, from Edinburgh, falsely accused of stealing ยฃ30,000 from the PO, died at the age of 47 in 2009 - penniless and alone in a homeless hostel after she lost her family, her home, and her job.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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The front cover of the Lancet ๐Ÿ’ฅ
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
4 years
With some considerable generosity in the face of all those insults the EU has confirmed we will be treated as a member state when it comes to access to these equipment
@vonderleyen
Ursula von der Leyen
4 years
European response to the #coronavirus : Protecting peopleโ€˜s health and ensuring that goods flow in the internal market
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Blimey. Booed even louder on the way out.
@LibyanWalker
Mjaugnar the Brave News โš”๏ธ
2 years
UK prime minister Boris Johnson booed relentlessly as he left St Paul's cathedral following the jubilee Thanksgiving this lunchtime ๐Ÿ‘€
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
8 months
That doctor is very very good!
@gnickodonnell
Nick O'Donnell
8 months
Itโ€™s not often that one of Jo Coburnโ€™s questions blows up in her face. This one did! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Doctor who spent months away from family treating Covid patients dies of Covid :- Admitted to Swindon Hospital on Sept 10th & spent 9 weeks in ICU before dying, leaving his wife & 4 young children under the age of 12 yrs old. Slim Non smoker. Non drinker.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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So the accusation that the Nat West CEO, Alison Rose, breached data protection laws was false and closing his Coutts banks account was also proper. I think weโ€™d better spread the message given the Farage protests and the lies zipped around the networks at high speed.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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This is like putting a condom on when the baby is 5 months old.
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
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UK 'to bring in 14-day quarantine for air passengers'
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Filth. Utterly corroded heart, soul and mind.
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Ashford residents (68% voted for Brexit) call for Eurostar trains to be brought back to stop town centre decline, saying their town has โ€œlost its vibrancyโ€, investment has plummeted & the high street has declined since Eurostar were ripped away.
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Absolutely pitch perfect. Who is this decent, down to earth woman @PoliticsJOE_UK We need more of her
@PoliticsJOE_UK
PoliticsJOE
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"How would you feel if something suddenly happened here and we had to flee somewhere?" "We should be embarrassed. It's an atrocity." This woman takes less than a minute to completely destroy the Tory government's archaic anti-refugee policies.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Bloody hell. Meat products shipped into ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ no longer face Salmonella testing prior to leaving Brazil and after arrival in Britain. Thatโ€™s what the likes of Rees Mogg meant when he talked about cheaper food for the masses.
@SaveBritishFood
Save British Farming ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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The UKโ€™s erosion of food standards continues as DEFRA ends additional inspections of meat products imported from Brazil. Meat products shipped into ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ no longer face Salmonella testing prior to leaving Brazil and after arrival in Britain.
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โ€˜Weโ€™re on the edgeโ€™: I earn ยฃ60k, and ยฃ20k goes on private school for my son Their family income is โ€œin the low ยฃ100ksโ€. His wife is a solicitor earning c ยฃ40k. โ€œOn the edgeโ€ my arse.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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@LeaveHQ Sorry. You voted for it. You put your faith in liars and cheats. You own it because you helped create the conditions where this shit show can occur. Remainers had nothing to do with it. Didnโ€™t vote for it and kept pointing to the dangers, the liars and cheats.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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I cannot believe this. The U.K. is lost entirely. How can people be this dim?
@YouGov
YouGov
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Latest Westminster voting intention (8-9 July) Con - 46% Lab - 36% Lib Dem - 6% SNP - 5% Green - 3% Brexit Party - 2%
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I may not share his politics but, for me, Grieve has been one of the heroes of Brexit. Intellectually rigorous. Clarity of thought & process. Very brave. Real moral courage here. A determination he will defend our right to choose harm or not I applaud him. And thank him
@Haggis_UK
Haggis_UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Dominic Grieve - We've come to Brussels because of our concerns about the #BennAct & how long any extension should be... as the government has a long track record of using the cliff edge as a means of coercing Parliament into shortcuts... #LetUsBeHeard #PeoplesVoteMarch
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โ€œAmong those who refused the briefing and walked out included the BBCโ€™s Laura Kuenssberg, ITVโ€™s Robert Peston and political journalists from the Daily Mail, Telegraph, the Sun, Financial Times, and Guardian.โ€ Well done and about time before you create a mirror image of Trumpland
@GuardianHeather
Heather Stewart
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Political journalists boycott No 10 briefing after PM's aide tries to ban selected reporters - live news
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Give that woman in green a massive round of applause โ€œThe gap between the panel and the audienceโ€ is enormous. Then she lists why. Pow ๐Ÿ’ฅ Biff ๐Ÿ‘Š Smack Knock out
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Nick O'Donnell
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This is the very definition of an iron fist wrapped in velvet. Polite. Passionate. Right. Devastating. Superb! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
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Liz Trussโ€™ massive in-flight food and booze bill revealed ๐Ÿ“Œ >ยฃ15,000 on in-flight catering for a single trip to Australia while she was running the Foreign Office. ยฃ1,400 per head for 12 officials โ€ผ๏ธ AND
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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@MattHancock Mary Wakefieldโ€™s brother lives in London you utter hypocrite. YOUR lockdown laws were there to stop the spread of CV19 to places like Durham which, as @jneill points out was soon badly hit by CV19, killing swathes if people trapped in infected care homes due to YOUR policies
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Brexit: Harry Hall Leave voter realises his fruit farm empire faces ruin without EU migrant workers โ€œI regret my vote in the face of the Government I'm given. โ€œThe reason I voted to leave was that I'm in favour of sovereigntyโ€. We already had it.
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@JulianSmithUK Not even 4 months since Amess was stabbed. Johnson has no shame. No instinct for decency. Too weak and too cowardly to apologise properly, publicly and in full.
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@juliamacfarlane Is it OK to compare us to Japan whose main International airport handles about 10 mill more passengers than Heathrow, whoโ€™s population is far larger than ours (125 million) and older demographic 5.5k deaths. Is THAT OK with the @BBC ?
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Just been sent thisโ€ฆ. it. Seems apt. Iโ€™m afraid I donโ€™t know who to credit for
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@grantshapps @GaryLineker Not going to be lectured by you 4-Names Schapps. You have UKRAINIAN refugees (as do I) who were able to get here via a safe route that IS NOT OPEN TO OTHERS. And that is the problem. NOONE has any time for the criminal gangs. Your Gov action will not only increase them BUT
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Moldova, population of 4 million has taken in 259k Ukrainian refugees. And it is one of the poorest countries in Europe. I feel so ashamed for the U.K.
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Leading scientist, prof Helen Ward, Imperial College, Dept Infectious Disease Epidemiology โ€œWe said lockdown earlier, we said test, trace, isolate. They decided they knew better. There will be a reckoning, and it will not be forgiving.โ€
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Hey @ElectoralCommUK Surely NO Political party should be doing this?
@markdpryan
mark ryan
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Why have the @Conservatives posted to me an application to vote by post and included a return envelope that is address to them and not the Returning Office at the council. Is this even legal?
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๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ Ian Hislop.
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These IDs were refused yesterday at polling stations. Police Warrant cards, Council ID cards and NHS ID cards arenโ€™t secure enough to vote, yet are secure enough to arrest people, access schools and administer drugs in hospitals.
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@lucyallan The police were standing at the door of Number 10 when a crime was going on inside that they should have investigated, stopped and issued fixed penalty notices โ€ฆlike they did to those far poorer (like students) You are yet another Tory MP who think you are รฉlite..above the law
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Experts have warned that Boris Johnson's administration is more corrupt "than any UK government since WW2". Researchers at Sussex University's Centre for the Study of Corruption referred to the "absolute failure of integrity at No 10".
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@Bren4Bassetlaw @UKLabour How pathetic you look. Desperate stuff. These were laws MADE BY THIS GOVERNMENT to prevent mass deaths. But we all knew you are all too weak to take it like men. Keep digging your own grave. You just look out of touch.
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Penny, who lost her post office and her pub, was sent- anonymously- a brown envelope full of computer print outs. Analysis showed that transactions were occurring when the post office was closed and no one logged on to their Horizon system
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@itvpeston
Peston
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โ€œWhat an absolute load of rubbish... Did anyone elseโ€™s friends get contracts?โ€ Watch @JessPhillips and @MattHancock disagree over the handling of PPE contracts during the pandemic. #Peston
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How shameful that a German Green Party MEP spoke louder and more clearly on behalf of the British people than the Tory Party then and now.
@TerryReintke
Terry Reintke
11 months
I already said what I wanted to say to Boris Johnson some years ago. The people in the UK always deserved better than this.
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Fuck me but this is hypocricy on steroids with hundreds of buildings STILL clad with combustible materials. And the promised grants still not provided.
@10DowningStreet
UK Prime Minister
4 years
Tonight Downing Street is lit up green in memory of those who lost their lives in the Grenfell tragedy 3 years ago. We remain committed to uncovering the causes of this tragedy, and ensuring it is never repeated.
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@harrytlambert The problem is there are quite literally tens of thousands of grieving families all over the U.K. who have been unable to be with sick and dying, frightened loved ones, unable to go to funerals, unable to comfort one another in person. Tens of thousands.
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This is the @BBCNews website right now. Gina Lollobrigidaโ€™s death, going sober in your 20s, Auz woman breaks running record But ABSOLUTELY ZERO ABOUT OUR EX CHANCELLOR and a current Tory Minister Zahawi diddling the British public of ยฃmillions in tax for years
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Look at Nadine Dorries face! And the noise. Animals in Zoos behave better.
@bmay
Brendan May
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I canโ€™t stand these people. They arenโ€™t normal.
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U.K. Gov bluff called โ€œwe would now have supplied up to 15,000 ventilators with a further delivery of 10,000 within the next two weeks,โ€ said Andy Faulkner, owner of Topland The EU says the U.K. was present at meetings when procurements discussed
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@JimBethell What a massive plonker you are. This is about unequal treatment not whether a hereditary peer who went to Harrow had to hustle having failed to make the most of his enormous privilege @JimBethell
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@mikegoulden I am touched beyond my ability to express it. Know that many - millions - are shamed by what Brexit has brought this country to. And angry beyond measure about the @pritipatel dehumanising process. We shall NOT forget. Nor forgive. I am so very very sorry.
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Sunderland Brexit supporter jailed for inciting racial hatred. 21 months prison. That is quite a significant prison sentence. Why am I reading about this in the Irish Papers?
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Piers Morgan was aware of phone hacking at Mirror, Prince Harry's lawyer tells High Court - inews Now we know why Morgan has been trying to drag Meghan and Harryโ€™s reputation through the mud. Deflect! Deflect! Deflect!
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Enough said
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@MailOnline
Daily Mail Online
11 months
๐Ÿ“ฐ We are delighted to announce Boris Johnson as our new columnist Famed as one of the wittiest and most original writers in the business, Borisโ€™s column will appear in the Daily Mail every Saturday and youโ€™ll be able to get a preview on MailOnline and The Mail+ on Fridays
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A 44yr old, RAF airman, who served as the late Queenโ€™s personal footman and carried the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, died from hypothermia while homeless after a mix-up meant that he was not provided with an emergency bed. โฆ @antartica81 โฉ
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@metpoliceuk Imagine if someone had had the sense to 1/ agree terms for a peaceful, socially distanced vigil, and 2/. if police officer had attended, standing silently too, even with flowers, showing solidarity & sorrow? Imagine how that might have built trust instead of destroying it.
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BBC chairman Richard Sharp, who is facing calls to resign over the circumstances of his own appointment, helped a close friend become a paid adviser to the corporation on editorial standards and impartiality. You could not make this sh*t up
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The Tory party put pressure on the BBC not to describe a claim by Boris Johnson that Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile as โ€œfalseโ€ He knew it was false but went on to make it. Then pressured the BBC not to describe Johnsonโ€™s claim as false
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11 months
He hasnโ€™t got a f***ing clue, has he?
@implausibleblog
Farrukh
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Rishi Sunak, "One example of reform is in dentistry, where we can have people who are not dentists, like therapists, will do more dental work."
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Wowser! I missed that speech last night! POW ๐Ÿ’ฅ Biff ๐Ÿ’ฅ Knock out ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ
@MartinJDocherty
Martin Docherty-Hughes ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ•Š
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Last night they gave me the final word on the Privileges Report into Boris Johnson. I didn't hold back ๐Ÿ‘‡ #BorisTheLiar
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In Feb 2019, Braverman claimed ยฃ1,200 for the service charge on an apartment in Pimlico, London, for 6m, from March 25 to Sept 28. But the Commons Register of Membersโ€™ Financial Interests shows she moved out on June 6 โ€“& earned rent on it from July 20.
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@EmporersNewC @MPIainDS He also voted to reduce the time spent on debate to 3 days. Negligent once. Negligent twice. Negligent three times. And then he is daft enough to tell everyone that he has been negligent and not earned his pay.
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Wake up U.K. โ€œWe cannot wait until the fascists are in powerโ€
@TerryReintke
Terry Reintke
4 months
This is Berlin today. Calling for resistance against the Far Right. All around Germany, people took to the streets in the last days. History tells us: We cannot wait until it is too late and Fascists are in power. We have to stand up to them. NOW.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Matt Hancock loses press complaint over being called โ€˜corruptโ€™ and โ€˜failed health secretaryโ€™ - Evening Standard โ€œThe regulator said the articles werenโ€™t substantially inaccurate, and so did not breach the press code.โ€ Laughing out loud!
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
1 year
BAREFACED LIES The UK Statistics Authority has written to the government after 3 ministers including Mr Sunak claimed in December that the current backlog is half what it was when Labour was in office - whereas official figures show it is 150,000 higher
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
Boris Johnson 'booed' at Morito restaurant in Hackney where his son, Theo, works He was apparently faced a less-than-warm reaction upon his arrival from fellow diners and heckled during lunch, whereupon Johnson flipped a finger at the hecklers & fled
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Michel Roux: Brexit? Despondent: โ€œThings are going to get worse, I fear. Less food, worse quality & higher prices. Food inflation has slowed but prices are still going up and it really frustrates me because I donโ€™t just want to cook for the super-wealthyโ€
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
Weโ€™re abandoning them, the women and the girls.
@AlinejadMasih
Masih Alinejad ๐Ÿณ๏ธ
3 years
"We don't count because we're from Afghanistan. We'll die slowly in history" Tears of a hopeless Afghan girl whose future is getting shattered as the Taliban advance in the country. My heart breaks for women of Afghanistan. The world has failed them. History will write this.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
Is anyone else utterly cheesed off with Johnsonโ€™s visits to the dressing up box for interviews? Heโ€™s such a fake.
@SkyNews
Sky News
2 years
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the government is 'ramping up their campaign against the county lines network', adding 'we want everybody to grow up in safer streets'. Read more:
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
5 years
Confusion as NO ONE turns up for 'huge' pro Brexit demo in Doncaster | The Star. I kid you not. The event was called โ€œIgniteโ€
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
4 years
@tradegovuk How. It is already 0% tariff. PS It is SOY sauce. Get up to speed. This is YOUR department. Get it right.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
Right Said Fred star hospitalised with Covid but still refuses vaccine Apparently he is just fine with taking up a hospital bed and staff resources for 4 days rather than having a little vaccine and freeing those resources to help clear the NHS backlog
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
This is an absolute scorcher from John Ross Smoked Salmon company to Alok Sharma, pointing out that, hitherto, they have been a successful exporter to 36 countries and, despite careful prep for Brexit AND following Government advice โคต๏ธ @Joe_Mayes @faisalislam @ITVJoel @IanDunt
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
1 year
Zahawi to cough up โ€œseveral millionโ€ ยฃ in unpaid back tax re the off-shore family trust Balshore Investments. This is after denying liability, lying about his benefit, threatening lawyer @DanNeidle who has done a TOP JOB facing him & his lawyers down and calling them out
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
6 months
Suella Braverman pushes to restrict tents for rough sleepers & fine charities that give tents to rough sleepers. Does she lie in bed at night dreaming up the latest bit callous stupidity โ€ฆresulting from conditions these Tory Governments CAUSED via @ft
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
Truss resignation speech. Utterly without humility, apology or insight.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
11 months
Wowser. Who did this? On whose authority? Who owns the land? Looks as if the packaging is intact so should be traceable.
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@g_gosden
Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿ’™
11 months
'Mountain' of dumped PPE packs discovered on New Forest land. Unbelievable
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
1 year
Suella Braverman is milking the expenses system to get ยญtaxpayers to foot her energy bills. She has claimed nearly ยฃ25,000 in five years for her London house, while living rent-free with her parents when not there. What an utterly despicable sh*t
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
11 months
Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: โ€˜If Theyโ€™re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?โ€™ โ€“ โ€œDemocracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, and instead choose to get into bed with themโ€
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
@pritipatel Did you have any say at at as to whether the police worked to arrange a peaceful, socially distanced vigil or not? Of course you did What say did you have in fighting the case in court? And the decision to ban it? Because this is on you.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
1 year
Kate 'reluctantly missed final goodbye with the Queen so Meghan wouldn't come - on King... - LBC Neither Kate nor Charles comes out of this well. Utterly graceless and full of spite.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
Ouch. Perfect from Ben Jennings
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Regrettably @MattHancock is wrong and so are you. The power to deliver emergency approval in these circs stems from EU regulations. When lies are you best point you should know you are in trouble
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
I am proud of THIS version of British.
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
2 years
"A whole pack of lies." Dame Barbara Woodward tells the UN there is no credible evidence to support Russia's claims Ukraine has a biological weapons programme, adding Russia has brought "a series of wild, completely baseless and irresponsible conspiracy theories" to the UN.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
4 months
As Ian Hislop says @PrivateEyeNews had been writing about the Post Office/ Fujitsu/ Horizon cases for 8 years BEFORE this Gov gave Vennells her CBE ( & a job on the Cabinet Office Advisory Board) How mad is that?
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Caesium_star
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#Vennells says she is giving her CBE back. But why did she get this gong in the first place when for years people knew about the Post Office debacle? #DisreputableHonoursSystem #ReformCorruptParliament #ToryCorruption #PostOfficeScandal
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
9 months
Strange the way the money is there for some..
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
9 months
Payments for MPs who lose their seats or step down at the next general election will be doubled
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
7 months
This person is paid ยฃ40-ยฃ45k a year by the tax payer (&, no doubt we also pay the 20% or so on costs & expenses) via her husband, a Tory MP. It trivialises and coarsens political engagement and I resent every single penny spentโ€ฆ.and the fact the Tory Party does zero to stop it
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
@BrandonLewis Turns out you were lying again Journalists were there watching civil servants direct lorries to actual border control posts. Perhaps if you got your idle arse out of bed and actually looked at your own area in your own ministry you would have seen it too.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
@KemiBadenoch Youโ€™re endorsed by Britain First which is not an endorsement anyone should want.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
1 year
Wetherspoonsโ€ฆ. Has 1,100 vacancies. What a massive own Brexit goal.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
4 years
The last 18 months have been a real struggle for me. Far too many days just trying to put one foot in front of the other. I am so grateful to so many of you on Twitter for providing so much engagement. Good values. Kindness. So much to capture attention and to focus.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
10 months
Johnson fails to hand over mobile 1 (up to May 2021) with Covid WhatsApps before inquiry deadline (surprised face) Johnson says he and his security specialist are trying to work out how to switch it on safely. And Iโ€™ve got a bridge to sell you
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
1 year
The Conservatives have accepted at least ยฃ243,000 from Russia-associated donors โ€“ inc. at least ยฃ61,000 flowing into Tory coffers in 2023 alone. Major donor, Chernukin, has donated ยฃ175k since Russia invaded Ukraine, & they take it That is disgraceful
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
Iโ€™m having quite a bad day. It feels as if the country is in a very very dangerous place. We are experiencing losses and damage across a number of metrics and there is insufficient will and courage for those who have to power to step up to ACTUALLY step up. Trust is nil.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
@BBradley_Mans @BBradley_Mans @Channel4 takes not a penny of taxpayer money It is self supporting through advertising revenues It is profitable It is successful It is award winning WHY IS THE TORY GOVERNMENT TRYING TO BREAK IT? Instead celebrate its success! Support it! Many Tory MPs do
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
Johnson jetted 400 miles on a private jet from the COP26, not for an urgent engagement, but to a private dinner at the Garrick Club attended by Conservative peer and self-confessed climate change sceptic and Telegraph Editor, Charles Moore.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
4 years
@JolyonMaugham So PESTFIX picks up a cool ยฃ100 million of OUR MONEY failing to provide the safe standard of PPE necessary to keep NHS staff safe and now plans to us OUR MONEY to try and strike down the action. Turns out their โ€œSorryโ€ turns out to be a โ€œNOT sorryโ€
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 months
Just watching #Breathtaking @ITV and that mixture of anguish, fear and grief just keeps coming back in waves. The abuse of doctors, nurses and front line staff The lying The lying. Oh God the lying.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
6 months
Heโ€™s really revealed himself to be an intolerable windbag, hasnโ€™t he?
@implausibleblog
Farrukh
6 months
Michael Gove speaks over Claire Mitchell (Scottish Covid Bereaved) repeatedly. A perfect demonstration of what Helen MacNamara was referring to in her evidence, that women were belittled, spoken over and dismissed #CovidInquiry
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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NOW Iโ€™VE BEEN FOUND OUT โ€œIโ€™ll transfer the funds to โ€œethical fundsโ€ ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„ He thinks we are mugs. They all think we are mugs. And maybe too many of us are.
@PaulLewis
Paul Lewis
6 months
NEW: King Charles is transferring more than ยฃ100m of his estateโ€™s investments, including funds collected from dead people under the archaic system of bona vacantia, into ethical funds after an investigation by the Guardian.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
5 years
Bloody hell. Remind me again. Was it the U.K. or the EU that gave notice without a plan? Leaving with NO deal is down to ALL MPs who voted to trigger A50 notice Jeremy Hunt warns Britons won't forgive EU for a generation if there is a no-deal Brexit
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
3 years
Am I the only one who thinks the journalists who doorstep Johnson only to shout โ€œWill we still have Christmas, Prime Ministerโ€ are part of the problem. I really grind my teeth at the way they frame it.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
4 years
Thatโ€™s what sorrow looks like
@ABC
ABC News
4 years
Spanish health official Verรณnica Casado, herself a family doctor, was unable to hold back tears as she read out the names of health care workers who have died from COVID-19.
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Fionna O'Leary, ๐Ÿ•ฏ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
2 years
@BorisJohnson Inadequate Utterly utterly inadequate YOU FUELLED THIS and you did it deliberately, knowingly, against specific advice to you spelling out why you should not do so. Like the parties your create a sense of permission AND YOU KNOW IT Not even 4m after Amess was stabbed to death
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