Ian Jones @ian4downton Twitter profile

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

Not a particular fan of Keir Starmer it's fair to say, but the way that guy has been smeared, without evidence, over last few days is a disgrace. The upper echelons of Tory Party really are constitutional perverts.

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Ian Jones

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4 months

Considering re-activating my Labour membership. No one is perfect, but the smearing of a fundamentally good family man, in Starmer, is beyond the pale. Tory Party is a toxic entity and needs a spell in Opposition.

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12 days

It's always sound advice from Harold Wilson

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2 years

Amazing how an @RMTunion leader earning 84k per annum attracts such vitriol when a fair few Tory MPs wouldn't get out of bed for that salary as a second job.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

3 months

Emotive I know, but this #Panorama is a tough watch. How can we be contemplating tax cuts when disabled kids are being stopped from getting to school and families are housed in grotty hotels? I don't even consider this left / right. Just basic stuff not done.

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Ian Jones

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1 year

Unsure Johnson being turfed out will play out as many expect. He still commands a lot of underlying popular support. The voters may take revenge in unintended ways.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

So how do you explain your payrise then ?

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@johnredwood

2 years

After three days of strikes the railways have even less money to pay the staff. In a business if you want higher pay you need to offer better service to more customers to be able to afford it.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

7 months

Pitch black at 5pm. Disaster for Starmer.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

Surely by definition working on a rest day should always be voluntary? Party of the Workhouse strikes again!

Rt Hon Grant Shapps

@grantshapps

2 years

📢 UNOFFICIAL STRIKES: Passengers using Avanti West services should expect disruption today. Archaic rules from 1919 mean working on rest days is voluntary. Unions now stopping drivers volunteering - causing misery for public & staff who won't get paid. We MUST modernise rail.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

Wes Streeting deeply impressive on NHS. Just gets it.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

The way some people talk about 'values' it's as though Labour membership is some kind of purity test. Labour should be a pragmatic mass movement welcoming of diverse views - but primarily there to win elections & improve lives. If you're not motivated by winning what's the point?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

5 months

Someone with the influence and insight of @EdwardJDavey could decide to reflect & recognise his Ministerial shortcomings in #PostOfficeScandal . Rather than obfuscation & 'not me guv' deflection, he could devote himself to getting justice for those failed. Do the right thing.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

11 days

Corbyn standing as an indy is a gift to Starmer in so many ways. Notably, it validates that Labour has changed , and Corbyn's comrades can congregate and campaign in one seat. If the price is Corbyn retaining his seat, then so be it.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

MPs should be able to travel Business class on flights and First on the trains. The poundshop critics have clearly never tried to do any serious work in economy. No wonder we struggle to attract high calibre individuals into politics.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

3 months

The hounding of @AngelaRayner by well-heeled right-wing 'journalists' explains why so few ordinary folk go into politics. Providing activity isn't criminal then private lives should be, and remain, private.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

28 days

The Cambridge educated Miriam Cates means your kids don't get to go to Uni, but her kind can.

Miriam Cates

@miriam_cates

29 days

The Blairite aspiration to send half of all young people to university has backfired spectacularly. Spending three years detached from the real world spending someone else’s money is not always the best start to adult life. Academic learning & common sense are not the same thing.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

3 years

@JohnLewisRetail Give up the woke nonsense and get back to good value, honest retailing. You currently sneer at your core customers. If you can't even sustain a store in Birmingham, our second city, you have massive problems.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

6 months

Labour now need to get on with selections asap. Just parachute in sensible people. Bring back some former MPs from Blair years. This isn't a time for members to do their knitting while pontificating the rights of Venezuelan porcupines etc.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

8 months

@TfL Do you support Central Line tube drivers engaging in Palestinian protests whilst at work?

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2 years

@RupertMyers He's an expert in shipping law. Like seeing a podiatrist for an eye test.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

Brilliant Freudian slip from Southern Water on @BBCBreakfast just now. "We have a permit for how much money we can take er how much water we can take from a particular river or source". Well quite. @Feargal_Sharkey

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 months

The 'Smoking Ban' is one most absurd pieces of legislation ever. Grown adults in their 40s needing ID. Nanny State madness.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

10 months

Astonishing assault on lawyers from @RishiSunak . An intellectual thug and unworthy of his Office.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

@TonyRCox I think it's all the Conservatives have left. Poison and negativity.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

@BenPBradshaw Absolute disgrace the way you treated @RosieDuffield1 . Simply appalling.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 month

@ringwodian Has Andy Street become Andy Cul-de-sac ?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 months

No offence to the OP whatsoever, but we really need to start tackling the general ignorance in UK populace on how State Pension is funded. Our NI is paying her pension right now.

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2 months

I think you'll find that my 40 years of paying NI paid for my state pension

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

So glad I left @Conservatives and the reasons just get more persuasive every day. The lack of compassion and integrity seems limitless.

Kevin Edger

@KEdge23

2 years

Yet you can buy a big bag of dried pasta, that would feed a family, for about £0.50p…. If you shop and cook properly, you can eat healthy meals really cheaply. I would love to see how she spends her salary…

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

7 months

@MelJStride @Conservatives Absolutely disgusting to target vulnerable people in this way. What a shameful rabble you are.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

Interesting to note Tory Ministers respect their own right to withdraw their labour to influence events at work.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

6 months

Why can't this man just build council houses, schools and hospitals? Instead he's obsessed with penalising kids having fun and banning 45 year old blokes from having a fag.

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@PolitlcsUK

6 months

🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak is considering banning the use of social media by under-16s [ @business ]

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

3 months

God, Roman Kemp is embarrassing. Is this the cream of presenting crop? Completely lacks gravitas. #BRITs

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

3 years

Just to be clear this would end valuable accounts like @BarristerSecret . Another step to a police state by stealth.

Guido Fawkes

@GuidoFawkes

3 years

Patel Floats Ban on Online Anonymity to Improve Civility in Politics

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

The problem with the Mail's attack on Starmer is it goes against the settled perception the public have of him. They may, unfairly perhaps, see him as boring & lacking charisma but the portrayal of being casual about sticking by the rules just doesn't wash.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

@Yorkistlal @RMTunion Found out from a staff member the other day that Underground ticket machines do not give network railcard discount on all zone travelcards when it is available. The ticket offices, now closed, used to do it.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

Always struck me how selfless Prince Phillip must have been. Played second fiddle for much of his life which for a man of his generation and given his military career, just couldn't have been easy. #TheUnseenQueen

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

@GaryQuittenton @HeinzUK @CMAgovUK - are you monitoring or just standing by and watching regarding price gouging?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

8 months

@CityWestminster Did you grant permission for #cenotaph protest?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

9 months

@Bren4Bassetlaw So what are *you* doing then? Other than being on twitter that is.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

Speaking as a Brexit voter there nothing controversial in @SadiqKhan comments. Prior to 2016 mainstream Brexit circles were quite content with SM membership. Only a headbanger would rule it out without analysis of our recent experience since 2016.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 month

God, this is tiresome. Political leaders should travel in comfort, well rested etc etc. All MPs should travel First on rail and Business on flights. Political careers are being made so unattractive right now. Look at who is being selected. Dire.

Emily Thornberry

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1 month

I get that David Cameron may need to charter a plane when travelling to multiple countries in one week, but that does not justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds at taxpayers' expense to hire one of the most luxurious private jets on the market.

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Ian Jones

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1 year

If I was a defeated Tory candidate I'd be fuming with Sunak. Literally done nothing to support his candidates- has he even campaigned? A cheesy grin & recording scripted videos is about his limit.

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@ian4downton

1 year

@AndyGJBurge @ParisDaguerre @Bec2043 Surely you're not both under the impression that Oxbridge admission is on merit alone?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

The Tories have unwittingly snookered themselves on Durham. Think about it. A hand possibly overplayed.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

8 months

@metpoliceuk How do we complain about the approval given to hold a formal protest at the cenotaph?

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@ian4downton

11 months

@Bren4Bassetlaw Donated to @RNLI instead. Kind offer though.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

3 months

I don't vape and unlikely I ever will. But millions get pleasure from it and far less harmful than smoking. Anything working people enjoy to escape the daily misery he inflicts on us, just gets penalised by Sunak.

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3 months

It is being reported that Jeremy Hunt is planning the stupidest tax grab imaginable. "The duty will be levied on the liquid in vapes, with higher levels of tax for products with more nicotine."

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

24 days

Didn't have Labour banning new 24 yr old drivers from travelling at night or transporting their own children, on my election winning bingo card. With Labour's backbenchers, there is always a flicker of light for Sunak. Do some of them actually engage their political antennae?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

Boring fact: I stood for @uklabour last year in the Wilts Unitary Council ward that includes Boscombe Down. An area desperate for investment & with many folks struggling to make ends meet. Yet we're spending well over a million on this ridiculous circus. Truly shameful.

Matt Dathan

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2 years

NEW: Several migrants due for removal to Rwanda have arrived at Boscombe Down military base in Wiltshire, where the Boeing 767 flight bound for Kigali is parked. They've been arriving in separate vans with police escorts. Updates as we get them here:

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

@WelshOfTheWest What has Corbyn got to do with it?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

7 months

Memo to Palestinian protesters: if you think desecrating our statues and defacing monuments to our fallen servicemen advances your case, then you couldn't be further from the truth. Start showing some respect to the Country accommodating your freedom to express yourself.

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@ian4downton

1 year

Sorry, I lost Andrew Mitchell when he said in Hunt and Sunak we have two of the finest minds in charge of the situation. I mean, seriously, these people defy all credibility or sense of self-awareness. #Politicslive

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

10 months

@amandajplatell @toryboypierce Belmarsh is a mens prison? Aren't basic facts checked?

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

11 months

Brilliant result for Labour in Selby. Painful though failing to win Uxbridge is, it is best to learn lessons now rather than at a GE. It's a wake-up call that a silent majority of voters dislike the almost insatiable appetite for green taxes and levies - ULEZ just one example.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

@nickdearden75 Doesn't reflect well on Spain either @Spain_inUK that a Spanish airline is being used. Really disappointing.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 month

@SportsGeek2020 Self-righteous Brothers

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

8 months

I thought we were told @RishiSunak was a safe pair of hands? Instead, violent muggers and rapists won't see prison when they should. Absolute disgrace. Soft on crime, soft on causes of crime.

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@ian4downton

1 year

@runthinkwrite @UKLabour @BenPBradshaw @lloyd_rm @Keir_Starmer It's on days like these where I comprehend why the Tories keep winning. Labour can't help scoring own goals. Time and time again. Depressing.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

3 years

What did we expect when mask mandate was tossed to one side? In Asda in Bournemouth on Sunday I could count on one hand the number I saw wearing a mask. It's not difficult.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

11 months

@GillianKeegan Being able to communicate effectively is critical. No wonder you fear working people being able to articulate themselves.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

I get Starmer is on holiday but have the comms stopped? Where is the red meat to feed the press over the holiday period? The curve balls to throw? Are we giving the Tories blanket coverage all summer? What are the key themes we are pressing home?

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@ian4downton

1 year

Let's be clear: @RishiSunak is comfortable with someone's mother, wife or daughter being trafficked to UK for sexual gratification by multiple men - without any viable escape route from the misery when they're here. Unconscionable and a true mark of the man he is.

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@ian4downton

1 year

It's not just the fact that unelected Sunak has schemed his way to being PM, I also get niggled by the anti-Brexit brigade now doing the 'told you so' superiority shindig over Johnson. Fair chance Brexit voters will feel cheated by what has gone on - Labour must tread carefully.

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@ian4downton

1 year

@BenKentish @adrianhughes0 In fairness he's lucky to make it into a GP surgery. It's a privilege for the few these days.

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@ian4downton

1 year

@RishiSunak "We asked 100 people to name a form of public transport" "You said 'helicopter' " Our survey said...

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

Gullis made to look even more of a fool that might ordinarily be expected. The idea that Mick Lynch isn't interested in measures for safety on railways is just ludicrous. Tory MPs massively overplaying their hand on this. Starting to look vindictive against working people.

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@ian4downton

4 months

@SkyNews Hold a referendum on it and ask the public.

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@ian4downton

2 years

Definite whiff of the BNP in the 2019 Tory MP intake. The same suits and thinly veiled aggression. Chilling.

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@ian4downton

4 months

@JP_Biz @TeresaC123 Always felt this. You either needed full throat hard Brexit or much softer in EEA etc. Serious, long-term Brexiteers have always understood this. ERG Blowhards not so much.

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@ian4downton

5 months

Brexit isn't the problem. The problem is the utterly useless politicians charged with implementing it. Most of whom are seemingly incapable of comprehending what independent governance means.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

@metpoliceuk The penalties for knife crime not severe enough.

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@ian4downton

11 months

"The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.” Rt Hon Tony Blair

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@ian4downton

11 months

@CarmenGranddau1 @ClassicFM @AMinhall @GlobalPlayer There's literally a photo of him playing the flute in an orchestra right in front of your eyes 🙄

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

8 months

"Don't suppose you can buy me some fags bruv?" Says Mike, aged 36 to his brother Mick, aged 37.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

That look when you've been schooled by Wes Streeting on #bbcqt

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

4 months

Leftist conmentariat: Starmer isn't radical enough British public: elected Conservative Governments in last 4 General Elections. Get. A. Grip.

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@ian4downton

5 months

Why hasn't that Vennells character (ex Post Office CEO) had her CBE rescinded? #PostOfficeScandal

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

9 months

Dreadful GDP figures. Down 0.5% in July. We're on the wrong path with Sunak & Hunt.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

1 year

In all seriousness who gets a helicopter from London to Southampton? I mean it's literally season ticket commuter territory. Can't think of any credible defence.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

9 months

@LizWebsterSBF @robertshrimsley No To The Euro. We always knew this was the plan with Remain.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

2 years

Attacks on Kinnock & Ed M worked as they tapped into an existing & well established underlying perception. Starmer is a different beast - a far trickier customer than Tory strategists & right wing commentators may have expected.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

25 days

Pretty disgusting. An MP represents all - not just those who've voted for them. Just shows the scant regard these so called 'Conservatives' have for norms and conventions.

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I told Parliament that my office does not deal with so-called asylum seekers. I was met with shouts of “shameful” and “resign” by Labour MPs. I will NEVER be ashamed to put Dudley people first, in-fact I take great pride in doing so. Full article 👇

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@ian4downton

2 years

UNIVERSITY DEGREES ARE NOT JUST ABOUT EARNINGS POTENTIAL 🤨😬

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'

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Ian Jones

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2 years

Why does this Tory election need 'run offs'? I thought they believed in First Past The Post?

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@ian4downton

7 months

@ApsanaBegumMP You don't speak for me. Not one iota.

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@ian4downton

2 months

In my mind, Rayner just had the audacity as a working class woman who's broken through the glass ceiling, to make a few quid by selling a house. The outrage from richer and more powerful men is to be expected. Perhaps all MPs & journalists should publish their tax affairs?

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@ian4downton

4 months

@GoodwinMJ Huge housing issues in Winchester and plenty of working class too? What are you talking about?

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@ian4downton

9 months

I've been a euro sceptic for 30 years, even when it was a niche position. Most of these brexity types in the media don't have a clue what it's really about. They only diminish the cause with their seemingly limitless ignorance.

Amanda Platell

@amandajplatell

9 months

Keir Starmer’s back door deal to re-enter the EU. Blair brokered Starmer’s love-in with Macron on day secret plans unveiled for the UK to rejoin the EU by stealth as an ‘associate member’. Starmer believes reversing Brexit is an election winner for Labour. 17.4million people

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

11 months

£500million subsidy for a battery factory. That's just the start. Jaguar will keep coming back for more. A subsidy of 55 grand per expected job. Let that sink in.

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@ian4downton

3 months

We have no-go areas in rural shires too. No bus after 5pm or no bus at all. Street lighting switched off to save cash too. Get a grip.

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

3 months

🚨 NEW: No 10 distances itself from Tory MP Paul Scully's claim that there are "no-go" areas in parts of London and Birmingham with large Muslim populations

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

9 months

I have no issue with immigration - it's the uncontrolled entrants I dislike. Starmer's plan is a sound one to me. Better to know solid numbers that you can plan for then this endless stream of boats. We need immigration as it appears Brits won't work in jobs that are available.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

8 months

If you need to quit as a Labour Councillor because you can't stomach Starmer calling out Hamas for what they are, then good riddance. I doubt your services will be missed.

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Ian Jones

@ian4downton

9 months

This is the problem with modern education. Problem children & parents are indulged and take up disproportionate levels of staff resource. We need return of special schools to provide right support for tearaways and disruptive individuals. #helpingourteens

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@ian4downton

1 year

Slightly patronising. There is a perfectly honourable and intellectual argument for not being in EU. Remain lost due to a truly horrendous campaign. Leave had the better communicators.

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

1 year

“You were told that it would be pain-free. You were told that it would all be upsides, no downsides” Former No 10 Press Secretary Alastair Campbell claims the British public were “lied to” and calls for Boris Johnson to be held accountable #bbcqt