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Jonathan Lis

5 years

OK, everyone. I think it’s time I told my Boris Johnson story. It’s a story about the time as foreign secretary where Johnson committed a straightforward resigning offence, got caught out, then got away with it. Thread.

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2 years

One of the most extraordinary videos I’ve ever seen. The first woman is holding up a sign that says ‘two words’.

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Say what you like about Bercow, the guy can land a punch

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Always remember that in 2020 a science adviser had to resign for having sex, Scotland’s chief medical officer had to resign for visiting her second home (as Johnson did), and a Labour whip had to resign for taking an illegal walk. 16 parties took place in Johnson’s fucking house

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The rise of Suella Braverman is one of the genuine mysteries of modern politics. She has no discernible charm, intellect or talent and projects cruelty like toxic radiation. Shame on any leader who puts her within a mile of power.

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The fact Boris Johnson is on holiday in the Caribbean while parliament is sitting, at a time of national crisis, after spending most of the last two months of his premiership on holiday, confirms everything you need to know and already knew. He deserves nothing but disgrace.

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4 years

I still can’t get over the fact that a man who went to private school then Oxford, whose parents’ estate includes its own woods, and whose father-in-law is called Sir Humphry Wakefield and owns an actual castle, can build a career on the idea he’s not part of the establishment

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2 years

Awful lot of people who’ve spent three years in a sewer suddenly taking issue with the smell

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It will get almost no publicity, but the government just won a vote to take control of the Electoral Commission. That’s right: Johnson will now wield ultimate power over another of the bodies designed to hold executive power in check. This is not a functioning democracy.

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2 years

Reminder for next 48 hours: Javid, Sunak and whoever else is about to follow them knew exactly who and what Johnson was three years ago and indeed long before that. They went along for the ride for the same reason they’re now fleeing the wreck: because it suited their interests.

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4 years

‘He made those who struggled to keep to the rules feel like fools and has allowed many more to assume they can now flout them. The prime minister knows all this and has chosen to ignore it.’ Savage brilliance from @maitlis #newsnight

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To whomever it may concern: after the Farah story, please don’t start saying ‘think how many other future heroes we might be deporting to Rwanda’. This policy isn’t disgusting because they may be exceptional people. It’s disgusting because they’re people.

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3 years

Please today spare a thought for all the people bullied at school or in the workplace who have yet again watched a bully smirk and get away with it

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4 years

Imagine a country where a politician’s think tank calls for abolition of a major public health body, it gets broken up during a pandemic, its replacement is established in a few days, and the politician’s wife, with no public health experience, is appointed to run it. That’s us.

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3 years

Your reminder that the government forced London boroughs to keep schools open against their will five days ago

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3 years

Nice to know the police take Jaffa Cakes more seriously than the safety of women

BBC News (UK)

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Police constable who took two packets of Jaffa Cakes from a charity stall, paying just 10p instead of £1, sacked

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2 years

Angela Rayner represents everything they hate: a left-wing, working-class woman with ambition. There has never been a better moment to defeat them.

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I don’t think we pay enough attention to the fact the prime minister’s own brother resigned from his government saying his leadership wasn’t in the national interest

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3 years

Spoiler alert: the deal isn’t going to be as good as staying in the European Union

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3 years

So the BBC’s political editor just published an investigation which revealed our prime minister literally said to ignore a once-in-a-century pandemic which then killed 130,000 of us and counting, and the collective national response is... a shrug?

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2 years

There is emphatically no reason why a mainstream media happy to call Giorgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen and Jair Bolsonaro far-right should not be appending the label to Suella Braverman

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3 years

A serious country does not put Nadine Dorries in high office. The end.

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3 years

Five years on, Britain is less happy, less prosperous, less united, less at ease with itself and less respected in the world. Everything that was promised was a lie. And not one person will take responsibility.

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3 years

Johnson wants you to think 100,000 deaths were an act of God - a sad inevitability. It’s the greatest lie a British prime minister has ever told.

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4 years

I know the story’s a day old now but I still can’t believe the government claimed to have missed an email asking them to join the EU ventilator procurement when a cabinet minister literally confirmed receipt of that invitation on primetime TV a week earlier

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3 years

Who knew 150,000 avoidable deaths could be so popular?

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3 years

What does it mean to say Labour should be ‘less woke’? Be more horrible to trans people, to black people, to immigrants? Say what you mean.

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2 years

Repeat: the problem with Dorries is nothing to do with her sex or class. It’s that she quite literally doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

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3 years

It’s worth taking a moment to recognise the enormity of seeing your sister murdered doing her job and then stepping up to replace her, in the service of your community, to stand up for what you believe in. There can be few braver or more inspirational people than Kim Leadbeater.

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4 years

I can’t speak for other Remainers, but it gives me no pleasure at all to see the consequences of Brexit panning out exactly as we warned, for which we were denounced as fools, liars and traitors

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2 years

Instantly iconic.

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2 years

So the King was forbidden to go, now the PM can’t even be arsed. This is the summit we hosted *checks notes* one year ago to assert ‘global leadership’ on the climate crisis. Beneath contempt.

Rishi Sunak criticised for skipping COP27 climate summit

The new PM will not attend the COP27 conference in Egypt due to pressing commitments, No 10 says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

The sharpest and most efficient demolition of Hancock I’ve ever seen. In other countries this man would be in court.

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2 years

If all the UK had to do to end Nazanin’s ordeal was pay a debt it legally owed Iran, it is completely obscene the government waited six whole years to do so.

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4 years

I am Jewish. The Nazis murdered four of my great-grandparents. The Labour Party has fucked up on antisemitism. But nothing, nothing offends or enrages me more than people who have spent their entire careers promoting racist exclusionary politics presuming to defend my interests.

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2 years

Whenever you think it’s impossible to feel more revulsion for Boris Johnson you suddenly do

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3 years

This ungrateful country should pray every single day that enough foreigners are willing to come over here to save our actual lives

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2 years

Every single fucking word.

Emily Maitlis says ‘active Tory party agent’ shaping BBC news output

Former Newsnight presenter says former No 10 communications chief Sir Robbie Gibb on board acting as ‘arbiter of impartiality’

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Kay Burley was suspended for six months for the same offence the prime minister was photographed committing

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2 years

Sometimes, very occasionally, your imposter syndrome may be valid

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2 years

I beg people not to fall into the 2010s trap of talking about public finances like household debt. There is no credit card, there are no books to balance. Governments can spend and they can tax the people with the broadest shoulders. Austerity is and always has been a choice.

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3 years

Good they’ve lowered No 10’s flag to honour Captain Tom. Hope it stays lowered for the next 100,000 days to honour everyone else and remind us who’s responsible.

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3 years

Turns out the people who didn’t believe black lives matter also don’t believe women’s lives do

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2 years

Your occasional reminder that until March 2021 Metropolitan Police officers were stopping people from sitting on park benches

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The reason Boris Johnson is taking successive holidays now during a generational emergency instead of in three weeks when he has no responsibilities is that he doesn’t give a fuck about you and never has, hope that helps

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3 years

Johnson asks the deeply disingenuous question ‘if we can’t reopen now, then when?’. Just a thought, but maybe when a variant you actively welcomed into the country isn’t surging through a population that isn’t fully vaccinated?

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2 years

The pound has lost 21% of its value in the last twelve months and 8% of its value in the last ten days

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3 years

You purged 21 colleagues from your party for daring to vote against you, had your ministers boycott the country’s main news shows for most of last year, and are now going to war with the National Trust for discussing the Empire. The only free speech you care about is your own.

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3 years

Freedom of speech is at the very core of our democracy. It is absolutely right that our great universities – the historic centres of free thinking and ideas – will now have this freedom protected and bolstered with stronger legal protections.

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4 years

Dido Harding encapsulates the Johnson culture. Failed as boss of TalkTalk, failed at track-and-trace, now promoted to oversee England’s public health with no experience or expertise. In this country there’s no limit to how high you can fail if you’re friends with the right people

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4 years

A BBC source tells me: ‘Faced with fact and fiction, the BBC has chosen to buckle to government pressure and choose fiction. What they’ve done to Emily is disgusting.’

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2 years

There’s nothing wrong with Zelensky cultivating a relationship with the British prime minister at a time of crisis, but let’s be clear: one man is doing it for his country and the other one, himself alone.

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2 years

I repeat: today saw the same fall in sterling that happened on Black Wednesday 30 years ago. It was exceeded only by the fall the day we voted for Brexit. This wasn’t about external factors: the government chose it. Today should be known as Black Friday.

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2 years

The good news is that Braverman is finished and she’s taking Sunak’s reputation with her

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2 years

Ignore the next six hours’ headlines about Allegra Stratton. She is taking the flak for her boss who knew about parties, sanctioned parties, hosted parties - all of them breaches of the law he put in place. This is about Boris Johnson. Now he must go.

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2 years

Still angry about Sunak’s flippant remarks about ‘hard work’ getting him into Winchester and making his in-laws billionaires. The defining lie of conservatism is hard work is all you need. It’s never been true - and worse, it casts millions of hard-working people as failures.

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3 years

The most depressing thing is Cummings could present video evidence that Johnson actively tried to wipe out every one of us and his poll numbers wouldn’t even dip two points

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3 years

Of course Shamima Begum should be allowed back into the UK. She was a groomed child whose government left her stateless and allowed her baby, a British citizen, to die. If human rights only apply to people you like or approve of then they mean nothing.

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4 years

Not sure how many times this needs to be said, but if you’re on the left and would rather have a hard-right nationalist Tory government than an occasionally disappointing centrist Labour opposition, you may not care about poverty as much as you like to think

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10 months

Struggling to comprehend the sheer absence of dignity, shame or embarrassment that lets you walk into a seat in the legislature for life knowing you have no qualification for the role and got there through naked cronyism alone

Charlotte Owen: Ex-Boris Johnson adviser joins Lords as youngest peer

Charlotte Owen, 30, was included in the former prime minister's resignation honours list.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

When your loudest defenders are Nadine Dorries and Michael Fabricant it’s possible you’re shit and in the shit.

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To pre-empt the usual mouth-foaming bores, the ECHR has nothing to do with the EU or Brexit and was the brainchild of Winston Churchill

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2 years

Be absolutely clear. This isn’t about innovation or the arts or creative potential. A government of thin-skinned vandals is taking revenge on a critic by destroying it.

Government expected to sell Channel 4 as public ownership is 'holding it back'

Ministers have decided after a consultation to go ahead with a sale though the broadcaster said it was disappointed with the decision and Labour described the move as "vandalism".

news.sky.com

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3 years

Let’s not kid ourselves that the anti-German vileness we’ve seen tonight was somehow started or legitimised by Brexit. Brexit was a symptom of it. This country has problems.

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Brexit has happened. We’ve got a deal. We’re all going to live with it. But don’t ever ask us to like it, forget about it or say it wasn’t a historic mistake.

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2 years

None of this is complicated. If he knew it was a party he’s a liar. If he thought it wasn’t a party he’s an idiot. The fact he didn’t cancel it either way means he has no judgement. And any of the above makes him unfit to lead.

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3 years

Always remember: it’s not that the government is blaming the public, it’s that they want the public to blame each other.

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Strange that the law-and-order Home Secretary remains so quiet over the flagrant and demonstrable illegality at 10 Downing Street? I recall she was quite vocal when members of the public threw similar parties

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3 years

Tory MP on #newsnight says Johnson ‘nearly killed himself’ last year trying to save the country. Not sure how to break this to him but Johnson didn’t deliberately get Covid and didn’t initially care about it. He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very sleazy boy

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2 years

People who come to Britain to commit no other crime than seeking refuge or a better life are to be dumped elsewhere, for no other reason than the government wants to appease racists. I hate what this country has become and I will never forgive the people who poisoned it.

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4 years

No, no, no. We wish him well because he’s a human being. We don’t turn him into a national hero or wartime martyr.

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An extraordinary thing is happening right now. Twitter is full of people seething about Downing Street’s law-breaking and it’s BBC News’s most-watched video but, the Mirror aside, it is being studiously ignored by almost the entire print media

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They think it’s all over. It is now

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In which Newsnight Alan Partridge casually asks a British MP with Palestinian heritage whether her ‘family connections’ gave her advance warning of Hamas’s massacre. Call this what it is: racism. He should unreservedly apologise or be taken off air.

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3 years

Britain’s main problem with Brexit is that the EU was actually prepared to implement it.

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Not sure who needs to hear this but it was not illegal to eat during the pandemic

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It’s very misleading to tell people the pound has recovered. It is back to where it was against the dollar before the mini-budget - which was the lowest for 37 years, 10% lower than four months ago and 18% lower than twelve months ago

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3 years

I know we overuse the word ‘Orwellian’ but a government has just used the phrase ‘renew the integrity of elections’ to disenfranchise people who won’t vote for it

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Imagine for one second a country facing a chronic shortage of blood tests, affecting perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and it going almost completely without comment because the media’s no longer discussing the political decision which caused it

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3 years

The Cummings saga is very simple. One man hired him, enabled him, indulged him, and spared him at the expense of an entire public health strategy during a pandemic. This has never been about the ego of Cummings but the malignancy of Johnson.

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4 years

Looking at the no-deal scenarios, the job losses, the Kent border, the sea border, the complete collapse of our alliances and reputation, I wonder if a single leading Brexiter has considered for even a moment that maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t the rest of the world that was wrong?

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Can’t believe a man who lied through his teeth about the EU and then lied through his teeth about no-deal is now lying through his teeth about a pandemic #Gove

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2 years

Your occasional reminder that in 1994 Ukraine willingly surrendered its nuclear weapons in return for Russian, American and British guarantees of its security and territorial integrity.

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3 years

I still can’t believe that our death rate is higher and our economy worse hit than a United States led by Donald fucking Trump

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10 months

Sorry, I simply refuse to accept an ex-MEP’s banking arrangements are worthy of breaking news updates

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2 years

Arguing the police shouldn’t investigate the No 10 party because it was a year ago is the most disingenuous bullshit I’ve ever heard. This wasn’t some random student bash. What could be more in the public interest than holding to account the people who literally made the rules?

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If anyone else happens to be awake at 2am, the Tories have only fucking gone and lost Chesham and Amersham

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3 years

Like other oppressed peoples, Palestinians are caught in a perfect trap. If they fight, they’re condemned, with their actions used to justify Israeli aggression. If they turn other cheek, the world ignores them while that aggression continues. What, exactly, are they meant to do?

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The Downing Street party, and reports of subsequent Friday night gatherings through the third lockdown, are far more serious than anything Dominic Cummings ever did. It’s genuinely bizarre there isn’t, so far, greater traction, outrage or damage.

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Boris Johnson says we need to cancel the protocol because we couldn’t have anticipated all the shocks since it was negotiated. Perhaps by the same token we ought to cancel Brexit?

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Laura Kuenssberg makes the key point: Johnson has announced an investigation to discover whether something happened under his own roof while millions of us have seen a video of his staffers literally confirming it. In other words: he’s still bullshitting. Still laughing at us.

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3 years

Obvious point I know, but if the government is that furious with UNICEF for feeding British children it’s welcome to do so itself

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4 years

‘Unlike OTHER racist parties’ = genuinely howling Tate is at the top of her game here

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I just can’t get over the fact the government threw manufacturing and services under the bus to save the fishing industry and three weeks later it‘s collapsing

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3 years

The embarrassment of this just raised the earth’s temperature by another 0.5 degrees

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My sincere hope for the Queen is that she lives long enough not to have her death announced by Boris Johnson

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11 months

I guess I told LBC what I really think about Rishi Sunak

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5 years

Let’s be clear about this. Farage is an open racist who endorses fascist and neo-fascist candidates around the world. The fact he has now stood down for the Conservative Party tells us everything we need to know about them both.

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This whole thing is surreally absurd. Johnson didn’t need to be ‘warned’ or ‘told’ that a large drinks party in the garden was against the law after he’d spent the previous two months instructing the public every day not to meet anyone outdoors. It is beyond embarrassing. Resign

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The most extraordinary thing about the ‘I never saw her bully anyone’ is the direct gaslighting. She’s been found guilty of it. It’s not in question. It’s the equivalent of saying ‘well he never attacked me’ after he’s been convicted.

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I love her so much

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