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Gavin Esler

8 months

I’m delighted that the first copies of Britain Is Better Than This are arriving in bookshops now. Big thanks to ⁦ @HoZ_Books ⁩ and also to ⁦ @williamnhutton ⁩ ⁦ @LordRickettsP ⁩ ⁦ @steverichards14 ⁩ ⁦and many others for their kind words about the book

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

It’s worth remembering that if Conservative MPs now get rid of Boris Johnson it will not be because he has done profound damage to the United Kingdom, to parliament, to truth or to the UK’s reputation abroad. It will be because he has done damage to them.

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@gavinesler

4 years

If Boris Johnson ever finds out that it was Boris Johnson who struck the deal that Boris Johnson says is unfair then Boris Johnson will be in big trouble with Boris Johnson.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

3 years

Just checked with friends in Germany - they have no fuel shortages, no acute HGV driver shortages, no empty supermarket shelves, no gas crisis, no panic buying. “But we also have no Brexit,” as one of them pointed out.

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@gavinesler

2 years

Thanks for confirming the story Mr Fabricant. By the way he had a different wife at that time, but thanks anyway.

Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦

@Mike_Fabricant

2 years

#Boris enquired whether a highly qualified person, his wife Carrie, could be Chief of Staff at the FCDO as she had held a similar post elsewhere. He was told No. So she wasn’t appointed. Errrrrr. That’s it.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Man who spoke of black people as “piccaninnies” now instructs us about his achievements in race relations. Utterly without shame.

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

4 years

Let us work peacefully and lawfully to defeat racism and discrimination wherever we find it, and let us continue to work together as we put Britain back on its feet.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Is there anyone else who is beginning to suspect that the more people see of Boris Johnson the more they clock him as an out of his depth phoney?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Mogg’s father was editor of the Times. He had a nanny. He went to Eton. If that’s your definition of a “self made man” perhaps you need to sit down and have a long think about British society.

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@gavinesler

4 years

Man whose chief adviser drove from London to Durham with Covid19 tells off British people who took “liberties with the guidance.”

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

4 years

People "are taking too many liberties with the guidance" to ease lockdowns in some parts of the world, says Boris Johnson "It's crucial" that lockdown restrictions are lifted "in a balanced way"

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@gavinesler

3 years

It's not an insult to Britain. It's a recognition that talking to a shambolic, badly prepared, arrogant and bloviating British prime minister is a waste of time for leaders who actually know what they are doing. The insult is having Johnson represent our country.

Imran Ahmad Khan

@imranahmadkhan

3 years

I stand with millions of Britons that are deeply insulted at the shocking news that the German Chancellor has refused the British Prime Minister’s request for a telephone call. This is an insult to every Briton, whether they support our PM or not.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

For the same reason they don’t talk of the “opportunity” of cholera.

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@christopherhope

5 years

A friend sends me a text asking: “Why does the BBC say the ‘risk’ of no deal instead of the ‘opportunity’ of no deal?” Anyone got an answer for him? #Brexit

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@gavinesler

5 years

Man who wanted an election and who campaigned for an election and who voted for an election and whose party voted for an election says he didn’t want an election. Is there anything Boris Johnson says which is actually true? Anything?

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

5 years

"I don't want an early election... but we've got to the stage where we have no choice, because our Parliament is paralysed" Boris Johnson kicks off the Conservatives' election campaign, saying MPs are "stuck in a rut" over Brexit

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

It would be a great improvement if TV current affairs shows took Juergen Klopp’s advice and didn’t book people to speak about things they have no knowledge about, merely an uninformed opinion

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

6 years

By resigning as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson made himself “intentionally homeless” and there is no reason why taxpayers should provide him with social housing.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

What do Sir Kim Darroch, Sir Mark Sedwill and Sir Simon McDonald have in common? They were three top British civil servants purged by Dominic Cummings and his assistant Boris Johnson because they dared let facts and reality get in the way of political obsessions. Who’s next?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Absolutely extraordinary interview from former Chancellor @PhilipHammondUK utterly destroying the idea that Boris Johnson is seriously negotiating with the EU. If Hammond is correct then the Prime Minister is lying to the British people @BBCRadio4

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

3 years

I think this clip bears repeating, daily.

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

3 years

‘If somebody asks you (to fill in a form) you tell them to ring up the Prime Minister & I will direct them to throw that form in the bin’ @BorisJohnson Why is this barefaced lie not being shown on every UK news channel?!

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

I signed because if we let the people who lied and cheated to bring us into this mess win - they will lie and cheat even more in the future. And I do not want to live in Trumpland where lies are rewarded. Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. - Petitions

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Woman who writes for The Mail characterises a million or more peacefully protesting fellow citizens as a lynch mob. She is also married to Michael Gove. These are not the kind of people who make me proud of our country. Bitter and twisted.

Sarah Vine

@WestminsterWAG

5 years

@Peston There are no leavers there because they would be lynched. These people are so convinced of their righteousness they cannot see anyone who disagrees with them as anything other than a monster. The rhetoric against people who voted to Leave characterises them as sub-human.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

I’n just surprised that the Brexit party so shamelessly copied the Nazi party in turning its back in an elected assembly. At least we now know what we are up against.

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

5 years

The Brexit Party has already made its presence felt.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Maybe I should re-name our dog “Farage” because he barks a lot but won’t go for a walk in the rain.

Jon Stone

@joncstone

5 years

France’s EU minister names her cat 'Brexit' because ‘he meows loudly to be let out but just stands there when I open the door’

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Whatever your politics I think Keir Starmer spoke for the country today when he eviscerated the prime minister for his shameless lies at Prime Minister’s Questions.

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@gavinesler

3 years

Brexit supporting newspaper with Brexit supporting readers announces that one of the consequences of Brexit is surprisingly that the United Kingdom has lost the benefits of being in the European Union.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Member of government which prorogued parliament for weeks after long summer holiday criticises children for “bunking off.”

BBC East Midlands

@bbcemt

5 years

Gavin Williamson: Children should not 'bunk off' for climate protest #climatestrike

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

6 years

We also “survived for centuries” without mobile phones. Or the NHS. Or electicity. This is about as stupid an argument as anyone can make.

Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

6 years

What about those of us who don’t understand how Britain ever survived so successfully for CENTURIES before it became a member of the EU just 45yrs ago...?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

This is incredible. Thank you, Berliners. Thank you, Germany. And hello @pritipatel ?? Hello @ukhomeoffice ?? @BorisJohnson ?? You’re not leading. You’re not even following. You’re invisible.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

3 months

New Brexit stamps

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

1 year

Personally I think Rishi Sunak’s “Windsor framework” is so good it should be extended to Windsor and indeed the entire UK. We could call it something catchy like “membership of the Single Market and Customs Union.”

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@gavinesler

5 years

Gosh. Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to VOTE AGAIN because ... wait for it ... he has changed his mind about the best way forward. But it's only 650 politicians who are allowed to change their minds. Not 65 million other British people. #GrandWizard #RevokeArticle50

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Is everyone ok with this? Revealed: Key Cummings and Gove ally given COVID-19 contract without open tender | openDemocracy

Revealed: Key Cummings and Gove ally given COVID-19 contract without open tender

Cabinet Office accused of breaching rules after handing £840,000 contract to PR firm run by co-author of the 2019 Tory manifesto for focus groups initially listed as 'EU Exit Comms'.

www.opendemocracy.net

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

The people who voted for Boris Johnson as prime minister at their annual meeting

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@artymesia

5 years

#ConservativePartyConference in full swing!

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@gavinesler

5 years

Spoiler Alert: the Johnson Plan is to make the EU an offer they cannot accept and then blame the EU. He next offers No Deal which Parliament won’t accept - so he can blame MPs. A General Election follows in which he blames everyone except himself. And some will believe him.

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

5 years

Today I have set out a fair and reasonable compromise for replacing the backstop so we can get Brexit done by 31 October.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Boris Johnson won the Brexit vote, an 80 seat majority, disgraced the office of prime minister and now his legacy is the destruction of the Conservative party and the UKs reputation for competence. His part in this mess should never be forgotten when he plots his come back

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

6 years

This investigation means Brexit must be put on hold until we find out whether the vote was financed illegally. We need the truth before plunging in to the most disruptive political event of our lifetimes. Arron Banks referred to National Crime Agency

Arron Banks faces Brexit referendum spending probe

Leave campaigner Arron Banks is referred to the National Crime Agency by the Electoral Commission.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

You know that car I sold you that won’t start? Yes. I’ve polished it.

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

5 years

"Now is the time to come together, to back this improved Brexit deal, and to deliver on the instruction of the British people." – PM @Theresa_May

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

I wish Boris Johnson well - but my goodness, how sad that The Daily Telegraph has ended up publishing sub-Stalinist drivel like this. Very embarrassing for the good journalists who work there.

Mike Galsworthy

@mikegalsworthy

4 years

Fidel Castro & Mussolini would cringe at this.

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@gavinesler

4 years

New health secretary Matt Hancock received £32,000 in donations from chair of think tank that wants NHS 'abolished' | The Independent

New health secretary received £32,000 in donations from chair of think tank that wants NHS 'aboli...

Matt Hancock received nine donations between £2,000 and £4,000 from businessman who heads board of free market group, the Institute of Economic Affairs

www.independent.co.uk

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

The prime minister who promised a Garden Bridge, a bridge from Scotland to N Ireland and other Titanic successes now promises 40 new hospitals. And some people will believe him. Meanwhile in the real world we are 40,000 nurses short.

Dr Rachel Clarke

@doctor_oxford

5 years

Hello, hello. The NHS is short of 40k nurses and 10k doctors. Who will staff your shiny new real estate? Unicorns?🦄

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Rule Britannia was written in 1740 at the peak of the slave trade when British vessels transported a total of 3 million Africans to the New World as slaves. To suggest it condemns “slavery and tyranny” is quite the stupidest comment in the stupidest row of 2020.

John Redwood

@johnredwood

4 years

Typical of the BBC to refuse to sing Britons never never never shall be slaves. They do not even agree with the rest of us that we can unite in a song condemning slavery and tyranny.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Nobody trusts any of you now on anything. It really is that simple.

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

@grantshapps

2 years

The Prime Minister has apologised and, as Sue Gray's report confirms, is already making the necessary changes in No10 to ensure these mistakes cannot happen again. Now it's time to get on with the job and deliver on the issues that matter most to the British people.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

6 years

I don’t know about you but I suspect the biggest problem we face appears to be our inability to end low skilled government

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@gavinesler

5 years

Completely false. Shamelessly delivered and untrue.

Bloomberg UK

@BloombergUK

5 years

Polls suggest "the vast majority want to get out now, even if they voted Remain" and most people would be happy with a no-deal Brexit, Iain Duncan Smith says

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2 years

Given the dire situation in Ukraine it would be good to have a British prime minister who is not regarded around the world as a liar and buffoon.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Why do we believe the prime minister has resigned when he is still in the job? In what sense is staying in Downing Street and appointing ministers a resignation? Can anyone else do this kind of thing? Anyone?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

To be called arrogant by an old Etonian of great inherited wealth who led a racially divisive campaign for London mayor and lost is a badge of great honour. Thank you Zac Goldsmith. I’m sure Brexit will be fine for you.

Zac Goldsmith

@ZacGoldsmith

5 years

Voters can smell the arrogance of the Remain zealots

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

6 years

Unfortunately “bad weather” did not cancel the slaughter on the Somme, at Verdun, Loos, Passchendaele.... The Commander in Chief appears to be a wimp.

Sky News

@SkyNews

6 years

. @realDonaldTrump has cancelled his visit to a US war cemetery due to "bad weather" as world leaders mark #armistice100

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Man who described some Muslim women as being like “letterboxes” now lectures us about hatred. Can someone please show Boris Johnson what a mirror looks like?

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

5 years

All our thoughts and prayers are today with the people of New Zealand. We already know in our hearts what this was: a sickening and cowardly terrorist attack that was driven by nothing but hatred. We will always stand together against those who are intent on terror and hate

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

This aged well

Daniel Hannan

@DanielJHannan

8 years

It's irresponsible to scare EU nationals in the UK by hinting that their status might change after Brexit. No one's suggesting such a thing.

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3 years

I’ve just watched free food being handed out by a “non judgemental” soup kitchen in north London, in one of the richest countries in the world. I am grateful to and proud of those who are feeding hungry people. But is this what we have become? (There was a queue.)

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Gavin Esler

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4 years

The Johnson government which sent an RAF plane to Turkey to pick up PPE - without checking if it was fit for purpose - is being ridiculed from Australia to Europe. What a cavalcade of incompetents.

‘Complacent’ UK draws global criticism for Covid-19 response

Opinion writers from Italy to Australia attack ‘stupidity’ and label Boris Johnson incompetent

www.theguardian.com

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@gavinesler

5 years

Former tabloid editor sacked for publishing fake pictures of British soldiers doesn’t read the story before commenting on it. I’m talking about lack of expert opinions and facts on TV @piersmorgan - don’t misrepresent me as you did our soldiers. Thanks.

Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

5 years

Former BBC news star calls for censorship of any ‘village idiot’ opinion he doesn’t agree with...so staggeringly patronising & arrogant.

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Gavin Esler

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1 year

Kent, this morning. I can only imagine the degree of fear and despair which leads people to risk crossing the Channel on this in December. And I cannot begin to imagine the lack of empathy required to be Suella Braverman.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

If you ask me, the entire country needs a new prime minister.

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@RobDotHutton

2 years

If you ask me, the prime minister needs new advisers.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

You were lied to - it’s perfectly reasonable for you now to name the liars

Robert Peston

@Peston

4 years

It is completely clear from video footage that @MattHancock 's adviser was not whacked by a protestor, as I was told by senior Tories, but that he inadvertently walked into a protestor's hand. I apologise for getting this wrong.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

The Conservative party took a decision in 2016 to elect Theresa May as leader. Some have changed their minds so they are having a second vote. British people have also changed their minds since 2016. We need our Peoples Vote. Or is it only Tory MPs allowed to change their minds?

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@gavinesler

5 years

EU agrees deal with South American trade bloc Mercosur - it took 20 years to negotiate. Anyone who thinks Brexit will be “done” if we leave on 31 October is delusional. That’s when the process starts. And it will take years, probably decades. Fun times.

EU and Mercosur agree huge trade deal after 20-year talks

EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker says it is the biggest deal the EU has ever concluded.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Boris Johnson is the worst prime minister of my lifetime. By a long way.

Laura Hughes

@Laura_K_Hughes

4 years

This is a real moment. Professor Neil Ferguson: "The epidemic was doubling every three to four days before lockdown interventions were introduced. So had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have then reduced the final death toll by at least a half."

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Just to be clear - Brexit means implementing a policy based on an advisory vote in which the “winning” side cheated and broke the law. Is everyone OK with that?

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@carolecadwalla

5 years

Hahahahahaha!!! Omg. The TIMING! On the day Britain was set to leave European Union, the official campaign finally admits it broke the law. Deliberately. Massively. And overseen by Theresa May’s closest advisor & one of her ministers. Incredible

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@gavinesler

2 years

Unfit - in every sense of the word

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@KarlTurnerMP

2 years

Why lie even about going for a jog?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Maybe it’s because Britain also suffers from cronyvirus

Deirdre Heenan

@deirdreheenan

4 years

Cost of track and trace system: Ireland £773,000 UK £12,000,000,000 Guess which one works? Where did the money go? Go figure. #marr #ridge

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@gavinesler

3 years

Woman penalised for telling the truth about a man who lies repeatedly.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

3 years

The moment Labour MP Dawn Butler asked to leave House of Commons after refusing to withdraw claims PM Boris Johnson "lied to the House and the country over and over again"

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@gavinesler

5 years

Does the idea of having a serial liar in Downing Street for the next five years not fill you with dread?

Ruth Davidson

@RuthDavidsonPC

5 years

Does the idea of two referendums in the next 12 months fill you with dread? There's an easy way to help stop that happening - vote @ScotTories on December 12th.

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5 years

Man who used his newspaper column to talk of African people as “picanninies with watermelon smiles” and talked of some Muslim women as “letterboxes” takes a stand against racist Bulgarians. And some people think he is “authentic.”

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

5 years

The vile racism we saw and heard last night has no place in football or anywhere else. Fully support Gareth Southgate & the team for rising above it. Need to see strong swift action from UEFA.

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5 years

Gavin Esler: TV news must stop giving airtime to the 'village idiots' of Brexit - the dubious right wing supposed "think tanks" and pseudo-experts among ERG MPs who simply haven't a clue what the implications of Brexit truly are.

Gavin Esler: TV News Must Stop Giving Airtime To The 'Village Idiots' Of Brexit

BBC presenter turned Change UK MEP candidate tells HuffPost UK he wants 'fix Britain' – and explains why he would "happily" buy Farage a pint.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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@gavinesler

3 years

Just to be clear: the highly respected former official who conducted an inquiry into alleged wrong-doing has quit. The Home Secretary he found to have engaged in the wrongdoing is still in her job. And some Conservative MPs think this is okay. Britain 2020

Priti Patel: Bullying inquiry head quits as PM backs home secretary

The home secretary apologises for any upset - but says she was "not being supported" by her department.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Millionaire in party run by millionaires wants to scrap inheritance tax which will mostly benefit millionaires.

Richard Tice 🇬🇧

@TiceRichard

5 years

I'm pleased to announce today that the Brexit Party would finally scrap the hated inheritance tax. People pay tax their whole lives. It is immoral to hit grieving families when they are vulnerable. The Tories can copy this policy again if they want.

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Gavin Esler

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5 years

Doesn’t understand how a microwave works. Can’t use a mop. Doesn’t know the words to “The Wheels on the Bus.” Man of the people.

Otto English

@Otto_English

5 years

Boris Johnson - father of an indeterminate number of children - doesn't know the words to "the wheels on the bus." His John Redwood moment

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Yes and I notice that some Brexiters are now backtracking from the clear Nazi parallels and claiming they were protesting against the music. Beethoven. They were protesting against Beethoven. The Brexit Party really do think any old nonsense will do. Nasty Party.

Alan Roebuck

@AlanRoebuck1

5 years

@gavinesler Here is the comparison photo...very worrying.

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Gavin Esler

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3 years

Presumably Boris Johnson today will tell us how the “£350 million a week” we have saved by Brexit will “fund our NHS” instead?

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@gavinesler

5 years

Power corrupts

James Melville 🚜

@JamesMelville

5 years

September 2018: Nicky Morgan: “No. I would not serve in a Boris Johnson cabinet.” September 2019: Nicky Morgan....

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Fascinating to listen to Conservative party members on BBC Radio 4 at lunchtime saying how tough the task facing the next prime minister will be, without a glimmer of recognition about which political party has supposedly been governing for the past 12 wasted years.

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@gavinesler

3 years

“Nobody warned” him. Nobody.

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

3 years

Listen carefully. Boris Johnson just said nobody warned that a Brexit would cause border problems in Northern Ireland. You ******* wot, mate?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Just a few days after Juergen Klopp refused to answer questions on #covid19 because he is not an expert, we have this view from an eminent virologist ... (is that right?)

Harry McCarthy

@HarryJMcCarthy

4 years

Why is Nigel Farage being interviewed about #COVID19 on #newsnight ? He’s not an expert. Deeply irresponsible from the BBC

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Watch to the end to see who funded this.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

No trade deal with EU. No trade deal with US. Brexit far from “done.” Flip flop on Huawei. No curiosity about Russia undermining our democracy. Abysmal performance on coronavirus. No shame. World leading only in incompetence

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

4 years

We’ve kept our promises. We have recruited thousands of nurses & police officers, and invested billions more in our NHS & schools. Of course there is much more to do. As we begin to recover from this pandemic, we will not lose sight of the country we have promised to build 🇬🇧

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Pro Brexit MP discovers that leaving the EU means the U.K. has no voice, no votes, no MEPs, no commissioner. It’s almost like leaving the EU means ... not being in the EU.

Islander

@PropertySpot

5 years

“The future of the country and our relationship with Europe is at stake. This deal gives us no voice, no votes, no MEPs, no commissioner.” #RemainerNow

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Help us out here @andrealeadsom - if you didn’t want a customs border in the Irish Sea, why did you vote for it?

Andrea Leadsom MP

@andrealeadsom

4 years

The integrity of the United Kingdom is vital. We want a free trade deal with the EU that is in all our interests. But we cannot accept them either keeping us under their rules, or putting a border down the Irish Sea.

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@gavinesler

5 years

Spoiler alert: he hasn’t. He has promised to create ... like the Garden Bridge. Please stop confusing a Johnson promise with a FACT @BBCNews They don’t happen in real life.

BBC Radio 5 Live

@bbc5live

5 years

Boris Johnson creates 10,000 new prison places and boosts stop and search powers #5livebreakfast

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

8 months

Hello @Ofcom - why is this okay?

Lee Anderson MP

@LeeAndersonMP_

8 months

Exclusive Scoop. Watch me tomorrow on @GBNEWS interview @SuellaBraverman in her first interview on British soil since her landmark speech this week in the US. 7pm tomorrow night 🖥📺

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Another Brexiter who tells us Brexit is going to be great - but decides he cannot stay in Britain to enjoy the greatness.

Ian Birrell

@ianbirrell

5 years

Britain's richest man is moving abroad to avoid tax. Needless to say, he was a prominent Brexiteer - like too many others, displaying gross hypocrisy and contempt for his fellow citizens

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Johnson “on the frontline?” Where? Oxfordshire? Do people really believe this nonsense?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

9 months

Slowly, slowly the daylight breaks through. It’s only taken 7 wasted years.

Best for Britain

@BestForBritain

10 months

Oliver Dowden says inflation is stickier in the UK, in part, because we are affected by a "tight labour market that Europe doesn't have". If only someone could have predicted that ending free movement would have that effect. ~AA

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Global Britain

Alan Ferrier

@alanferrier

2 years

The view from the Netherlands - cartoon published in NRC Handelsblad evening newspaper:

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Dear Mr Kawczynksi - since you are on Twitter you presumably have access to Google. In less than 30 seconds Google research you and your constituents could find out how embarrassing it is that as an MP you Tweet something so stupid.

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@gavinesler

4 years

I just had a world leading walk with the dog and a world beating coffee which was a fantastic success of New Deal Churchillian proportions while later I’ll be having a universally admired attempt at unloading our world leading dishwasher. How’s your day going? #borisBS

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

4 years

The show must go on. We’re introducing a world-leading £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions weather the impact of coronavirus.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 months

I wonder how long it will take Conservatives to realise their key problem isn’t a series of failed leaders. It’s a series of failed policies from austerity and Brexit to decayed public services. The problem with the Conservative Party is the Conservative Party

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

If people are non resident for tax purposes or are representatives of foreign countries - say of Belize - their lack of attachment to this country is such that they should be investigated by HMRC - don’t you agree?

Isabel Oakeshott

@IsabelOakeshott

5 years

If people can’t afford, or resent paying, £65 for the right to remain in this country, their attachment to the UK is pretty flimsy

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Advice: does anyone think it possible to get enough voters in his Uxbridge / Ruislip constituency to force a by-election and field a single Remain candidate to unseat Boris Johnson? Thoughts?

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

Perhaps @pritipatel you could have a word with the people who have been in charge of the British government for the past 11 years. They must be pretty useless if you now need a New Plan. 11. Years. 11 years.

Priti Patel MP

@pritipatel

2 years

It is why this Government’s New Plan for Immigration will overhaul our broken asylum system and address many of the long-standing pull factors encouraging migrants to make the perilous journey from France to the United Kingdom.

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@gavinesler

5 months

They are fully qualified doctors. Unlike our countless numbers of rotating Conservative Health Secretaries, “junior” doctors actually know what the job entails.

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

5 months

'Doctors in training as I prefer to call them walked out of our negotiations' Health Secretary Victoria Atkins spoke to #BBCBreakfast about the 72 hour junior doctors strike in England

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

It’s fascinating how the argument for Brexit has changed from “sunlit uplands” and “Brexit dividends” to “do Brexit or the neo Nazis will get angry.” Is that the best this brain dead government can come up with? Appeasement didn’t work before and won’t work now.

Green💚🌻🍉Molly

@GreenPartyMolly

5 years

#FailingGrayling threatens that ‘Blocking Brexit could cause far-right surge’ in the very rag that drove the far right surge through its xenophobic and hate-filled headlines We must and we will resist this intimidation #DailyFail #StopBrexit

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

This is how false equivalence and “balance” works. On the one hand the climate scientists of the UN panel on climate change - on the other hand Meatloaf. Meatloaf. Yep. And the problem is that some people will believe Meatloaf knows more about climate change

The Independent

@Independent

4 years

Meat Loaf says Greta Thunberg has been 'brainwashed' over climate change

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

6 years

My father was a Dunkirk veteran and he despised people who try to make cheap political capital out of a war they didn’t fight. He would call it despicable. And he would also think your cliched cartoon version of British history was idiotic. Have you no shame?

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@gavinesler

2 years

I wonder if anyone can guess why the problems are all on the English side of the Channel…. ?

ciaran the euro courier 🇪🇺🇮🇪

@vanmaneuro

2 years

This is the A16 in Calais - no trucks and no delays . Just to clear up the myth that it’s all the fault of P&O ..

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

2 years

I think it hilarious that Boris Johnson is promising Tory MPs jobs in government if they stick with him. What could possibly go wrong with a Boris Johnson promise? #gardenbridgesforall

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

If there is no Withdrawal Agreement there is no implementation period. We crash out. Ignore the fancy words. Either Boris Johnson hasn’t a clue what he is doing or he is being deliberately deceptive. Either way he is unfit to be prime minister.

BackBoris

@BackBoris2019

5 years

“You disaggregate the elements of the otherwise defunct Withdrawal Agreement.. You reserve the payment of the £39b.. That is in the context of the Free Trade Agreement, that we’ll negotiate in the implementation period, after we’ve come out on Oct 31st” @BorisJohnson #BackBoris

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

5 years

Man who disappeared to America after the Brexit vote and couldn’t organise a march to London needs your help to organise country. He’s been a career politician for 20 years as an MEP. Time for a change. End the Brain Dead politics of the past. Just say No to Nigel.

Reform UK

@reformparty_uk

5 years

Brexit is being betrayed. Join The Brexit Party launch from 11am tomorrow on our livestream for a chance to change politics for good.

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

6 years

How top Brexiteers are thinking about surviving Brexit. Mogg - invest in Ireland. Lord Ashcroft recommends Malta. Lord Lawson - French residency. Gove- become PM. Rupert Murdoch - doesn’t live here. These options probably not available to everyone ....

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

4 years

Sadly we are witnessing a prime minister who has gone through life with delusions of grandeur and is now daily exposed as having delusions of competence

Have I Got News For You

@haveigotnews

4 years

‘Brexit deal never made sense’ says man who negotiated it, signed it, prevented MPs from scrutinising it, campaigned for it and won a general election on the back of it: