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Small business owner since 2006. Interested in History and politics. 200/214 Wainwrights

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@NoContextBrits The moment when the sticker came off...
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Colourised photo in WW2 of the SAS
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@jeremycorbyn @GaryLineker @IanWright0 £7 million daily hotel drain what about deprived areas in the Uk.
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@LizKershawDJ Little Britain moment coming soon.
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@jonsopel Don't forget the additional complaints it's up to 7 the last I looked. He is not a Welsh messiah he is a very naughty boy.
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May 20th 1940 The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz was the biggest extermination camp during World War II. From 1940 to 1945, the Nazi regime murdered at least 1.1 million people here.
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@Nigel_Farage The teacher should be sacked ! Lose her pension at least. Filling young people's minds with tripe !
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@_HenryBolton This is embarrassing the Police have literally become clowns.
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@AndyPlumb4 These 3 are laughing all the way to the bank.
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@ThatTimWalker @RishiSunak My wife is a long suffering NHS worker that has to pay to park at her own work place. Meanwhile Hancock negotiates multi million pound deals in the pub.
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#Onthisday 18th Sept 1949 Mo Mowlam, former Northern Ireland Secretary and Labour MP was born. MP for Redcar 1987 to 2001 and her time as Northern Ireland Secretary saw the signing in 1998 of the Good Friday Peace Agreement. She died in 2005 aged 55 from a brain tumour. #Labour
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@elonmusk “football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” George Orwell, 1984
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@HairyBikers Watched your shows my dad died this week also only 62. The spring bulbs are coming through at the local church yard today in Poulton-le-Fylde. I followed his updates on his health. Both at least 20 years early very sad. My dad had motorbikes.
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20th June 1942 Kazimierz Piechowski and three others escape from Auschwitz concentration camp. In a feat of “exceptional courage and gallantry”, as stated by the Polish author Kazimierz Smoleń, the four prisoners left via the front gate in a stolen SS staff car, dressed as SS…
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@vicderbyshire The fact Donaldson was playing such a crucial role in NI makes this a bitter pill to swallow. We await the verdict of the case. But politics keeps on creating these sort of scandals, doesn't it. Whatever side of the NI debate you are on this isn't good for NI.
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@campbellclaret They have the classic sense of Entitlement. We are superior we can do what we want.
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Sept 10th 2014 First Invictus Games Held The international games bring together wounded armed forces personnel and veterans who compete in athletic competitions. The 2014 Invictus Games were held at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England. #InvictusGames #PrinceHarry
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@campbellclaret Sky news just made a mistake and said Alastair Campbell has died. Darling did a good job felt like a like for like substitute for Brown as chancellor. Scottish element prudence. 70 is young today
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@BBCBreaking Right this article explains more.
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12th May 1994 The Labour leader John Smith (aged 55) died in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks. John Smith was buried on the Scottish Island of Iona. The Abbey graveyard is the final resting place of John Smith, the former Labour Party leader, who loved Iona. He…
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@GBNEWS I feel the same infact I no longer watch football on TV because of this.
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@Iromg @mrjamesob Is Obrien employed by Labour?
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Iconic scene from Dirty Harry 1983 Sudden Impact. Clint Eastwood playing San Francisco cop Dirty Harry stops a robbery. "Go ahead make my day"
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#Onthisday 18th Sept 1949 Mo Mowlam, former Northern Ireland Secretary and Labour MP was born. MP for Redcar 1987 to 2001 and her time as Northern Ireland Secretary saw the signing in 1998 of the Good Friday Peace Agreement. She died in 2005 aged 55 from a brain tumour. #Labour
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@paulmasonnews Johnson and Farage created a political system that was attractive to Russian investors seeking to weaken the EU.
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#OnThisDay 23rd January 1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC. #ATeam
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@NoContextBrits Chip butty no nonsense. No silly southern names 🤪
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@OwsWills Welsh man feeling let down by Huw. Blame the Sun to lessen the pain.
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@LBC @IanpayneLBC This is pathetic ! Stop this madness !
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@NoContextBrits Yes much better than US and Euro. More sturdy and secure.
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@DaleVince @jarvipa @DanBarker4GM @Councillorsuzie Dale "throw in the race card" Vince. All his green energy roads have failed.
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@campbellclaret Chelsea tractors, egos and social status play.
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@Kasparov63 Would you like fireworks on the beach ⛱️?
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@KayBurley @lucyfrazermp GB News does jump out here doesn't it ?
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@JuliaHB1 @Keir_Starmer The PM is in the gutter with Lee Anderson and Jim Davidson. Drinking pints of mild and smoking rizla roll ups.
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@TheNewsAgents @GlobalPlayer @maitlis @JoinMultiverse @Founders_Forum It's got nothing to do with degrees it's simply because of his dad. It's the equivalent of a national lottery winner.
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@amanpour @BarackObama Obama the Chamberlain of modern times ?
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4th June 1805 The first official Trooping The Colour took place at Horse Guards Parade in London.
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@montypython I remember his wife from the opening episode of 80 days around the world. Packing his suitcase. Sad to hear this. 😔
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@kelvmackenzie The system has failed this is sickening.
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@Nigel_Farage Coming soon to the Kent coast.
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@NoContextBrits Cup of tea.
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The Russian state is saying it is not killing civilians. That is a lie. This morning in Kyiv I saw it with my own eyes.
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@Kasparov63 I did a tour of Dresden last week and had a look down memory lane. The KGB HQ and his favourite bar AmThor. The barman told me Putin is barred and not welcome. I got a feel for the place across the river very GDR. Large blocks of apartments.
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@Channel4News @GaryLineker Mrs Warburton gets a new electric car. Meanwhile in China.
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@NoContextBrits Squeeze the bag.
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@thecarolemalone Yes it's great to see someone in showbiz being down to earth and honest. Good one Eamonn 👍
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My grandma Sheila's favourite. 4th February 1915 Norman Wisdom, actor & star of many comedy films, was born. In 1995 he was given the Freedom of the City of #London and also Tirana in #Albania where the population were devoted to him. He received an OBE and was knighted in 2000.
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@Channel4News Les Dawson comes to mind !
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@NoContextBrits I didn't even have Sky 😄
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@Patricia344130 Never before in football history has a footballer milked so much from a World Cup golden boot.
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23rd April 1982. The launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer. The entry level model had 16 kB RAM and an external tape recorder was needed to load the majority of software. It was 'a computer for the masses' and much cheaper than its rivals - the Commodore 64 and the BBC…
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@GBNEWS Politics has invaded football space. It is as simple as that it has become a vehicle to push a woke ideology.
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@NoContextBrits Ticket to Dubai.
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@nytimes Arnolds real life links with WW2 very important. You will struggle to find a more authentic and informed response on this situation.
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@GBNEWS I see a consistent trend with socialist MPs which comes across very disingenuous. Claiming to be on the side of the poor and working class but at the same time enriching their own back pockets to the tune of millions of pounds. When will we see honestly across the board in…
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On my travels this afternoon cycling on the front I bumped into the Bald Hiker Paul Steele @BaldHiker he has quite a large following online. #baldhiker
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@Iromg Woke fear won't allow it.
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On this day November 22nd 1995 "Toy Story", the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, is released.
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@vicderbyshire Another embarrassing episode comes to a close. Noted it seems the release in the press last week that he was still on the payroll speeded up his departure ?
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg It seems after the failed attempts over the past 2 years to stop this. We have to accept we are going to have a regular migrant flow. Do the Tories now need to hold their hands up and say yes we fell short on immigration ✋️? Our policy has failed.
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@chrisshipitv His Dad a Greek of course. Prince Philip born in Corfu.
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@Nigel_Farage You admitted yourself it has failed.
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12th May 1994 The Labour leader John Smith (aged 55) died in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks. John Smith was buried on the Scottish Island of Iona. The Abbey graveyard is the final resting place of John Smith, the former Labour Party leader, who loved Iona. He…
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Culvert Burnley #twitterclarets
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@LeeAndersonMP_ The problem we have with Mick Lynch is he will say anything for the right deal. Lynch tries to cover up his own personal wealth I see in discussions in the media. Parading as a poor man's Lenin. Fake Lynch !
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@EmilyThornberry They have the classic sense of Entitlement. We are superior we can do what we want.
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@Gerashchenko_en Crimea returns to Ukraine and Putin sinks like Moskva.
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg If he did suggest we rejoin would he now activate well over the 50% support in favour needed to rejoin ? A lot of water has passed under the bridge since the referendum.
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@jensstoltenberg A flag-raising ceremony is expected at NATO headquarters in Brussels later this week, less than a year after fellow Nordic country Finland joined the alliance.
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@TheRustler83 Let's rewind to the point when they said Horizon was "Robust" the combination of Horizon and Vaccine safety in the same statement isn't doing him any favours.
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@NadineDorries Money talks ? Watching the interview today with those Glasweigian accents. I got flashbacks of Jim Taggart in his prime.
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@LozzaFox @CostaCoffee Normalising has begun. Trying to bring it on a par with getting botox.
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@EmilyThornberry What about Miliband on the private jets ?
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@campbellclaret Sunak lectures us all on democracy forgetting he hasn't won an election yet. It felt like someone forced him to say it the string pullers.
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@NoContextBrits The bridge on the river shite.
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@NoContextBrits Booths supermarket is the Northern equivalent of Waitrose I suppose.
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@tonymc42 A drone operated by Gary Linekers Production company ?
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Hulk Hogan Real American (official video) / Theme Song
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@jensstoltenberg @niinisto @TPKanslia @EstonianGovt I think we all know what is happening here.
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@Dominic2306 Allegra Stratton taking the hit for the PM.
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@sharrond62 I grew up in Rossendale, which isn't far from Rochdale. I can honestly say that whole area parts of Greater Manchester and East Lancashire are not great places to bring up a child.
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27th February 2002. Spike Milligan, Irish comedian and writer died, aged 83. After the death of his friend Harry Secombe from cancer, Milligan said "I'm glad he died before me, because I didn't want him to sing at my funeral." On his headstone is inscribed "I told you I was ill."
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@PoliticsMoments Why has Pizza Express been adopted by the toffs as an acceptable Pizza brand ?
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@campbellclaret Sad news working hard for years with Neil. She had a good run with the Euro millions I can't blame her looking at what goes on in politics. 79 same age as my grandma when she died. If only she had 10% of the wealth that Glenys had.
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@campbellclaret Watching the Michelle Mone interview. Given they are Glasweigians I cannot help but think about the 1990s crime show Taggart.
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18th August 2012 The death of Winnie Johnson, mother of Keith Bennett. He was murdered, along with three others, by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964. For decades she had fought tirelessly to find the location of the grave of her son on Saddleworth Moor. Experts suspected that…
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@landofthe80s Johnny 5 is alive.
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Burnley v Leyton Orient #twitterclarets
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@grantshapps @HMS_Forth Anyone would think Argentina had elected a Chainsaw wielding new President. It looks to be posturing only for his supporters.
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@theSNP Harry Kane is the most overrated player in English football. Well done Scotland from an Englishman you out played us you passed the ball better and showed up our so called big time players.
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Easily forgotten but East Lancashire has a proud Coal mining history. This is a miners lamp badge.
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@Nigel_Farage Why not ? Mine provides automatic meter reading updates every month. Displays when solar is powering the house. Exact costings it works well for me. What are your concerns on them ? Why not ?
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4th July 2014 Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson (who went on to become director of communications for Prime Minister David Cameron) was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones.
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