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Socialist. Ex-Labour. Just published ‘Colwyn Bay the West Indies and Me - Reminiscences of a Boy.’ ISBN 9780953 787562

Brighton, England
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Martin Hamer
1 year
#ReesMogg says the chief benefit of #Brexit is that it has saved us £191 billion. So where the f**k is it? #C4News
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2 years
Mick Lynch says RMT are not affiliated to the #LabourParty nor is he a member. His advice to Starmer’s party? Get some policies together rather than waiting for the Daily Mail to tell you what to do. #C4News
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Martin Hamer
11 months
Why can’t UK governments build prefabs as a temporary, cheap & speedy answer to the housing crisis? Not for sale, council rent only. Insulated homes for the environment, construction businesses would benefit, councils would have an income, waiting lists reduced, families housed
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Martin Hamer
3 years
Ken Clarke claims #r4today that there is no need for an enquiry into the government’s handling of #covid as it will only seek to apportion blame with ‘the benefit of #hindsight .’ So why enquire into anything? Why have court cases? Why have judges and juries?
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4 months
Nick Robinson introduced his guest thus: ‘Louise Ellman who quit the party over Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to tackle antisemitism.’ It’s the sort of seemingly casual comment that could go unnoticed but it is a falsehood that needs calling out. #r4today
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1 year
Liz Kendall is not fit to be in the same room as Jeremy Corbyn never mind trying to lecture him. Disgusting woman. #peston
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3 years
Kwarteng tells #c4news the elderly have always been the Tories’ focus during a crisis. Hence all the care home deaths and the ending of the #TripleLock on pensions.
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2 years
We saw you laughing @RachelReevesMP @angelarayner @Ed_Miliband when #Starmer insulted Jeremy Corbyn #pmqs . Do you really believe that you can expect decent people to vote for you after that exhibition of gang bullying?
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2 years
Looking bad for #Johnson . I hear Wes Streeting has put his letter into the #1922Committee .
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4 years
I’m leaving Labour this afternoon. We need a mass exodus. The time for wait and see has gone. #rebeccalongbailey
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2 years
Anybody else switch channels when #bbcnews get to the #Ukraine propaganda piece?
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7 months
I intend writing to #LindsayHoyle to say this at-work bullying and attempted public humiliation of #JeremyCorbyn by Sunak and now by Jeremy Hunt, with Starmer laughing along, must not go unchallenged by the Speaker. It is disgraceful. #PMQs #AutumnStatement #PoliticsLive
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Martin Hamer
3 years
Keir Starmer has not spoken to Jeremy Corbyn for 13 months. How grown up is that? #r4today
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3 years
Justin Webb thinks he has a cunning question up his sleeve for Mark Drakeford. ‘When someone is travelling by train from England to Wales they’ll have to put on a mask at the Welsh Border wil they?’ Drakeford: ‘Yes. It’s the law in Wales.’ #r4today
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3 years
Did I hear correctly on #r4roday that Starmer says he has the charisma to win a GE? One cannot attribute charisma to oneself. It is a quality that others detect in a person. Nobody can claim to be charismatic especially not Starmer.
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1 year
Liz Kendall has only a 4000 odd majority in #Leicester . No independent socialist stood in 2019. It shouldn’t be difficult to get her out of that seat. #Peston
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3 years
Diane Abbott was very supportive of Starmer’s Labour after the poor showing in #BatleyAndSpen . Imagine how the likes of Jess Phillips or Wes Streeting would have reacted if Jeremy Corbyn had scraped home by 300 votes. #r4today
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Martin Hamer
2 years
@joebloggsuk1 Hospital authorities need a quiet word. It probably isn’t the first time.
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Martin Hamer
6 years
Crowd singing ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’ at #Everton #Man City game. Are you listening #BBC ? Your vitriol is poured on waste ground.
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2 years
@PhilipProudfoot @SaveTheNHS4U @nadhimzahawi Oh God I hope Jeremy sues him. This would be a great, high-profile opportunity to put this matter to bed.
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3 months
News on #r4today says that Starmer intends to bring an end to traditional cabinet government and, with two or three selected front benchers, will make the decisions before seeking cabinet approval [rubber-stamping.] He obviously doesn’t trust his MPs. I certainly don’t trust him.
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3 years
If @BBC had the slightest interest in #ChildreninNeed they would not have campaigned so hard to get a Tory government.
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3 years
How cursed are we British that #Covid #Johnson and #Starmer should all arrive at the same time?
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6 years
Can’t believe what I am hearing on @BBCNews . 7 million are living in poverty in UK. On the BBC!! The actual state controlled broadcaster has gone rogue.
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Martin Hamer
2 years
#Starmer gets a laugh from his right wing Tory cronies on both Tory and Nu Labour benches by calling Johnson 'The Conservatives' Corbyn.' Don't ever tell me we former Labour members a have a duty to vote for this charlatan Starmer. #pmqs
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Martin Hamer
1 year
#Starmer ’s car crash on #LauraKuenssberg today should send shockwaves through his front bench. He hasn’t the slightest grasp of the dire state of underfunded #NHS & suggests people should be able to recognise & deal with symptoms of internal bleeding without bothering their GP.
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1 year
Kendall says Labour are back to where they were in 2001 (Nearly 11 million votes under Blair). She seems to have forgotten where they were in 2017 (Nearly 13 million votes under Corbyn) #BBCElections
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Martin Hamer
2 years
@CatharineHoey What do you do for a living Kate? Always wondered.
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2 years
Wonderful that the vile #Pincher who spent so many #PMQs bawling in Jeremy Corbyn’s face in an attempt to disconcert him, has ended up putting the final nail in Johnson’s coffin.
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Martin Hamer
1 year
Unless I have missed something, the silence from the few remaining left wingers in the #PLP regarding the shocking lies spat out by #LeicsterLiz to Jeremy #Corbyn last night is the end of all hope for #Labour . Have they totally capitulated to #Starmer & his acolytes #Peston ?
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Martin Hamer
2 years
Nadhim Zahawi has the haunted look of a man promoted way above his capabilities. #C4News
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Martin Hamer
4 months
How long before Nick Robinson and the rest of the #BBC warmongers realise that most of us do not share their obsession with the circumstances surrounding the death of #Navalny ? #R4Today
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Martin Hamer
6 years
Jess Phillips says she is a leftie. Yeah just left of Rupert Murdoch whose parties she attends. #PoliticsLive
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Martin Hamer
3 months
Remember the hope the entire media and political establisment sought to extinguish? The embers are still glowing. ✊
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Martin Hamer
4 months
Good to see #Jo_Coburn putting MP’s safety to the fore in the #CeasefireDebate . Remember how she used to go on and on and on expressing her fears for #JeremyCorby and his family when he was surrounded by baying hacks outside his home on a daily basis. #PoliticsLive . Thought not.
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Martin Hamer
2 years
@UKLabour Not on my side. I don’t support those who ushered in a Tory government in 2017/19 because they they were afraid of mild socialist policies.
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2 years
#Starmer kills all his #FBPE support with one fell swoop. Many joined the Labour Party to vote for Starmer as leader in the belief his PV stance would continue. It was just ploy to undermine Jeremy Corbyn. It was a career move, not a political conviction. #PoliticsLive
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Martin Hamer
1 year
@MiserySquid We did that when we first got our passes. We called it ‘bus roulette.’
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Martin Hamer
6 years
Brexiteers pissed off. Daily Mail pissed off. Farage pissed off. Happy Christmas everyone! #newsnight #bbcr4today #Bbcdp
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Martin Hamer
5 years
Just been looking at the list of speakers at Times Cheltenham Literature Festival: Emily Maitlis, David Cameron, Max Hastings, John Humphrys, Alan Johnson, James Naughtie, Sophie Raworth, Nick Robinson, Ed Stourton. They should all get along pretty well.
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Martin Hamer
4 years
Doctor on #r4today explains that the delays in testing come down to the fiddly problem of getting the swab out of the plastic container. Why doesn’t he give Frankfurt airport a call and ask them how they do 4000 a day with results in 24 hours?
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Martin Hamer
11 months
@JohnWake3 It won’t though John. They abandoned all social conscience with Thatcher.
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Martin Hamer
2 years
Thought we might give #bbcqt a try for the first time in months. Then saw the line up with Kate Andrews and Lisa Nandy. No thanks.
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Martin Hamer
7 months
With regard to the 8.5% increase next April @albieamankona says there are many pensioners with other sources of income who do not need to live on ‘state handouts.’ Does he not know that the state pension is paid for by the eventual recipients and is not a benefit? #PoliticsLive
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Martin Hamer
3 years
Any other ex-Labour Party members had an email today asking for funds for Keith. Remember he gave the last lot away to the Panorama lot. 'So can you chip in to boost our campaign before polling day?' Err.... no. I'll sit this one out. #TeamLabour
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Martin Hamer
2 years
Starmer wants to change the #NHS to a preventative model. So what’s he suggest we do with the people his masterly plan does not prevent from getting sick? #c4News
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Martin Hamer
2 years
@juliasuzanne76 @Keir_Starmer Roses are red Violets are blue Starmer's a Tory And so are you.
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Martin Hamer
4 years
@GillDurham I’ve got friends on Facebook who voted Tory. They won’t have anything said against Johnson’s disastrous handling of #COVID2019 and say he is doing a good job. Otherwise they’d have to admit they were stupid to vote for him.
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Martin Hamer
1 year
Surely by now it’s starting to dawn on even this sycophantic #Labour front bench that #Starmer is going to blow the 2024 General Election and needs replacing.
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Martin Hamer
4 months
@doctoriaindarcy @toptottycentral It would be terrible if #TelAvivKeith were to become in popular usage.
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Martin Hamer
3 years
For weeks @bbcsoutheast have shown #Covid infection rates on the decrease. Tonight they showed an increase in 8 towns. What’s changed? Schools have opened.
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3 years
@Normanjam671 Ken Loach is a national treasure for us on the left. Starmer could never recover an ounce of credibility if he goes through with this expulsion.
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3 months
#BBCNews has been plugging the same tiresome anti- #Putin stuff relentlessly over the past days. Steve Rosenberg files virtually the same report day after day with a vox pop thrown in for padding. They talk about state-controlled broadcasting as if we didn’t have our own version.
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Martin Hamer
1 year
#NadhimZahawi only a few months ago slandered Jeremy Corbyn by calling him a ‘dangerous antisemite.’ #Karma is a wonderful thing and much cheaper than litigation. We sometimes have to be patient. Who’s next I wonder?
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Martin Hamer
5 years
Melanie Phillips, "Boris is very popular.' Not in our house. #PMQs
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Martin Hamer
1 year
Wondering, when they review their guidelines, if BBC will visit cold cases like Alan Sugar’s racist tweet and his smearing of Jeremy Corbyn prior to the 2019 GE? Wonder too how much solidarity he will receive if suspended.
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Martin Hamer
3 months
Blackpool South by-election coming up. Who are we on the left going to smash the Starmer candidate with this time?
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Martin Hamer
2 years
@brianklaas Thanks for posting this interview. If only we had more peace loving politicians like Jeremy Corbyn to talk such moderation and sense to all he can reach through media worldwide. I remember Mo Mowlam congratulating him on the part he played in talking to the parties in the GFA.
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Martin Hamer
3 years
Starmer acted tough with his insistence that schools should be open, no ifs no buts. He is now hostage to that statement & daren’t change Labour’s policy to say schools should close in a national lockdown. He is more concerned with saving face than saving lives. #CloseTheSchools
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Martin Hamer
2 years
When you think, ‘Is that bunch of dangerous no-hopers the best the Tories can muster?’ you only need to look across to their #Labour counterparts to confirm that this nation is in dire straits indeed. #ToryLeadershipFarce
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Martin Hamer
2 years
Anyone else think the BBC are itching to blame Liverpool fans for Saturday’s chaos but daren’t after the way the media falsely reported #Hillsborough ? #r4today
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Martin Hamer
1 year
This Cultural Life on #BBC4 reviewing the films of #KenLoach is a must-watch. How could such a man be expelled from #LabourParty by a Philistine like #Starmer .
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Martin Hamer
3 years
Israeli ambassador obviously chosen for her conciliatory attitude and personal charm. #c4news
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Martin Hamer
4 years
S*n employees face losing their jobs. No problem. Thousands are needed to pick fruit on British farms. #HerdImmunity
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1 year
@BenWill1973 @UKLabour Starmer bankrupted the Labour Party after Corbyn left a massive surplus with the biggest political party membership in Europe. Reeves is a liar.
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1 year
Pity the #R4today didn’t devote as much time to the Ken Loach interview as they did to the competition as to who could best imitate the cry of a seagull.
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Martin Hamer
4 years
Starmer acknowledges that lockdown would have worked better when schools were closed at half term. Why then did he insist on them being opened again weeks ago? #PMQs
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2 years
@Sarah_M_Hall @BBCNWT @RMTunion @Maitlis asked Dennis Skinner if he would be serving in Jeremy Corbyn’s cabinet. He said no because he was too old & it was a younger person’s job. Later she spoke to camera and said, ‘Dennis Skinner says he will not serve under Corbyn.’ Skinner returned & gave her a bollocking.
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4 months
Nick Robinson #r4today resorts to a tabloid-style headline ‘Generation Sick Note’ instead of trying to assess why some young people are depressed. Why wouldn’t they be after years of Tory governments with house prices & rents out of reach & no prospect of change from #Starmer ?
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5 months
Had to switch #C4News off in the interview with #Zelensky . The little comedian is still pleading for money to fight a war already lost. Even USA have given up on it although Biden has not yet been told. Meanwhile schools fall down and children go hungry in UK.
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5 years
Isn’t it wonderful when @ChukaUmunna pops up on #PoliticsLive and you remember that he is no longer anything to do with @Labour and his political demise is only weeks or months away?
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4 years
Just had a recorded phone message purporting to come from #HMRC . Seems there is a warrant out for me and if I don’t press one to connect to an adviser I will be arrested shortly. Anyone got a spare attic I can hide in? 👮
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2 years
@MrHickmott @MHunt2021 @SkyNews #BBC twists itself in knots to defend the Tories’ cost of living & #NHS staffing crises: global shortages, Ukraine, HGV drivers retiring, #EU recalcitrance, Putin, doctors retiring, Covid, #EU red tape. All have some validity but the one thing in common to our problems is #Brexit
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2 years
@Thelma_DWalker Imagine being proud of ditching a manifesto that would have brought life improvements to millions.
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4 years
That creep Ashworth blames Jeremy Corbyn for electoral defeat. The very leader he spent so much time undermining. #c4news
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2 years
@JackieKane @FredMadagascar @rachaelwrd Rachael's bio professes a liking for Labour and Love Island. Don't waste your breath Jackie.
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@KerryBurgess @yipmann82 Top drawer Labour canvasser hand-picked by Starmer staffers.
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2 years
@Thelma_DWalker No doubt the Tories will claim they got #Nazanin released and will forget to mention Johnson got her prison sentence massively lengthened in the first place.
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2 years
@bbcnickrobinson BBC stages a lot of things.
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@JayJay08752584 Watch out Francois could kill us all with his bare hands.
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2 years
Labour spokeswoman says it was difficult for Labour to improve on the local election results of 2018. An unintended compliment to JC’s leadership after she had inferred the 2019 loss was down to him. #r4today
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Martin Hamer
1 year
Why do #bbcnews keep showing #Putin on the phone as if he had had an actual conversation about nuking the useless lying bastard Johnson?
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Martin Hamer
6 years
@StephaniePetri1 @joan32173631 @DianeJamesMEP Wasn’t Ms James a leader of this ultra right wing party for a day or two?
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4 years
@brianklaas His leadership will remembered fondly by millions as an honest man who tried to restore some fairness to a system loaded against the disadvantaged. People will look back on his time as leader in disbelief that he could have been so vilified by so many.
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Martin Hamer
2 years
It’s terrible that a Leader of the Opposition is being smeared. Has this ever happened before? #bbcnews #r4today
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3 years
@thepileus I’d like what I donated since 2015 back. Didn’t know then there were those in the party who didn’t want to win either GE.
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@RhonddaBryant And half the man JC is.
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1 year
@christi02455387 Bloody nerve of the liar Starmer.
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1 year
Filthy morning in Brighton. As we drove up one the terraced streets with basement flats on either side Mrs H reminded me of delivering leaflets for #LabourParty in 2017/19 on the risky wet steps, unaware at the time that #LabourPLP were plotting for a Tory win. #NeverAgain
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@PeterStefanovi2 @Keir_Starmer Thought Starmer was lame.
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@0Calamity Totally agree. They are both rattled by the Rochdale result and realise they can no longer be guaranteed to pass the austerity baton from one to the other. People are sick of the stitch-up of the last decades.
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@Peston Ably assisted by the war mongers in HoC. Tories on both sides of the house love a good war, especially one they don’t have to fight.
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@JulieEClarke We saw one a few years ago at St Fagan’s Museum just outside Cardiff. Built in 1947.
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Martin Hamer
6 years
@moodynotblue @Pingachoo @MichaelLCrick The @bbc rarely step outside of the studio these days. They are far too busy trawling through their instructions from Tory Central Office.
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1 year
@Politics_co_uk Starmer should not be denigrating another country’s achievements. Or is he just a racist?
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Martin Hamer
5 years
I wonder if the BBC have peaked too soon in their smearing of Jeremy Corbyn. It's certainly not a good look for @Jo_Coburn to be grinning at the prospect of a nuclear holocaust. #PoliticsLive
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11 months
@RegisteredHere Maybe Green led councils would. It would reduce waiting lists and generate income via rent and council tax. No chance with the Tory or Starmer parties of course.
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3 years
@LeftWingSociety Oh that’s interesting. Which party is he thinking of joining?
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Martin Hamer
1 year
@RickyThomasblog Sorry to hear you don’t want to improve the future of the system to recruit and retain teachers for years to come or to register your disgust at the current underfunding of schools. Your choice and very best wishes.
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2 years
@PoliticsPollss None of those. I’ll be looking for a socialist on the ballot paper.
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