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James O'Brien

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#HowTheyBrokeBritain

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James O'Brien

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6 years

My youngest has had my old phone for a couple of years. Just for games, which I download for her before disconnecting the internet. Still has my old contacts though & it turns out she’s been messaging my dad, who died 5 years ago. I may have something in my eye.

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James O'Brien

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If this was Meghan’s kid the Mail & co would have wanted him in the Tower by teatime.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

I don’t want to jump the gun or anything but Boris Johnson isn’t a very good Prime Minister, is he?

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James O'Brien

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6 years

Brexit latest: Outrage as people who voted to abolish free movement discover that abolishing free movement means movement will no longer be free.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

There’s something rather significant about Boris Johnson speaking up for statues of dead white supremacists while Marcus Rashford speaks up for 1.3 million hungry British children of every creed & colour.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

*people*

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At least 30 migrants have died while heading for the UK, after their boat sank, Head of Port of Calais Jean-Marc Puissesseau says

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Until last week, Russian oligarchs could buy a British passport, no questions asked. Today, there is no ‘legal’ route to the U.K. for Ukrainians fleeing Russian war crimes. Both are deliberate Conservative government policies.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

If they served cheese & wine at COBRA meetings, maybe the Prime Minister would turn up.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

This Sainsbury’s social media chap has a better grasp of reality than the best-paid columnists in the country. Kudos to Chris.

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James O'Brien

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1 year

I am aware of a vile and obvious libel against me made on here last night and am taking legal advice accordingly. Thank you for all your expressions of concern.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

If you think these lies are bad, wait until you hear about Brexit.

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James O'Brien

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1 year

The police have arrested what appear to be peaceful republican protesters in Trafalgar Square. It’s in everybody’s interests, especially the Met’s, that they explain exactly why as soon as possible. No matter what you think about monarchy, this is a deeply disturbing moment.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

My favourite politicians are the ones who vote to close libraries but claim that statues of slavers are of immense educational importance.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Children of immigrants who despise other immigrants probably shouldn’t be in charge of immigration policy. They often seem to be dealing with personal issues that shouldn’t be anywhere near the political space. People who protected & defended their parents might do a better job.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

It’s very hard to escape the conclusion that Cressida Dick prioritises keeping her job over doing it.

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James O'Brien

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3 years

Just opened a packet of paracetamol. Or ‘a new hospital’ as Sajid Javid would call it.

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James O'Brien

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1 year

If you’re cross about being compared to Nazis, then calling for your critics to be silenced & sacked probably isn’t the best way to prove them wrong.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Fancy an early night tonight. But I’m worried that thirty of my closest colleagues might have an illegal party downstairs without me noticing.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

I would say - and for once I'm actually vaguely qualified to comment - that BBC managers, already bruised by lack of access to ministers, have bowed to pressure from the government & let Emily Maitlis down very badly.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

I've read the Mail on Sunday 'story' twice so that you don't have to. Keir Starmer bought a field behind his parents' house in 1996 so his late mother could care for rescue donkeys. That's it. That's the story. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so emblematic of our broken media.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

Why are we demanding footballers hand over their money and not, say, Jacob Rees Mogg? Or the Queen?

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James O'Brien

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2 years

A lot of Tories seem shocked that Boris Johnson turned out to be Boris Johnson. There were quite a few clues.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

There are two types of people in the world: 1) People who look at Marcus Rashford's timeline & feel a combination of warmth, concern & gratitude. 2) People who look at Marcus Rashford's timeline & feel compelled to sneer about 'virtue signalling'. We're governed by the latter.

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James O'Brien

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3 years

The Mash Report, a comedy program critical of the government has been axed by the state broadcaster, reportedly for political reasons, and at the behest of a director general appointed by the government. Finally, a stone cold example of what 'cancel culture' looks like.

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James O'Brien

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6 years

Dropping bombs on a country but voting against allowing refugee children fleeing the conflict to come here. That’s got to be worse than running through a wheat field.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

He. Didn't. Get. Any. Childcare.

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James O'Brien

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6 months

How can calling for a ceasefire be controversial? It’s literally asking people killing civilians to stop. You can ignore the calls, disagree with them or try to explain why the killing ‘must’ continue, but trying to silence calls to end this carnage goes against all our values.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

If you’re in Leicester & you think you’ve got Covid-19 you’re still allowed to drive to Durham with your family, right?

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James O'Brien

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4 years

Our Prime Minister has been publicly owned by a beef burger.

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OH MY GOD 🔥🔥🔥

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James O'Brien

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4 years

It's not Andy Burnham they've humiliated, it's themselves. It's not Andy Burnham they've insulted, it's the people of Greater Manchester.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Everywhere you look, there's a sense of a country teetering on the brink of something awful. I've been speaking to people about their concerns every day for 20 years & never known anything like it. The fundamental awfulness of the politicians in charge scares the sh*t out of me.

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Wow.

I'm A Celebrity...

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Good evening, Prime Minister! 👀🤭 @antanddec #ImACeleb

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Boris Johnson is, by some distance, the worst thing ever to happen to British politics. A serial liar, a proven cheat, an enemy of common decency. If he has finally buckled under the weight of his own depravity, none of his supporters should be allowed to forget their complicity.

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James O'Brien

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What an amazing coincidence that the right time for Boris Johnson to lift all covid restrictions just happens to be the precise moment that Boris Johnson is most desperate to appease bonkers backbench MPs who have always been inexplicably opposed to all covid restrictions.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Even I'm bored of pointing this out, but British politics broke when Brexit lies were presented by almost all of the British media as an equal & opposite counterpoint to reality, gravity, evidence & expertise. None of it can be fixed until the idiocy of Brexit is acknowledged.

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James O'Brien

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1 year

Thanks to @garylineker & @IanWright0 , somebody is currently trying to explain to Tory donor, Boris Johnson loan facilitator & Boris Johnson-nominated chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, what ‘integrity’, ‘honesty’ & ‘solidarity’ are.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

He should probably mention that the day of the wholly unjustified trip to Barnard Castle was his wife's birthday.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

If, God forbid, there is a second spike it will be because the government failed to provide clarity & leadership at every stage of the lockdown. Cummings was the final nail in the coffin. Everybody understands this. There’s little point arguing with anyone pretending not to.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

If the chairman of the Spectator ( @afneil ) really can’t get an interview with the ex-editor of the Spectator ( @BorisJohnson ), he could always ask the current deputy editor to have a word with her husband (Dominic Cummings). Barclay brothers permitting, of course. #bbcimpartiality

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James O'Brien

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4 years

The people arguing that hungry British children should be denied help in the school holidays seem to be *exactly the same people* that argue we should 'help our own' instead of sending money to countries suffering from famine. I'm beginning to think they're not very honest.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

It seems quite fitting that Boris Johnson’s final official speech as PM should involve barefaced lies about Gordon Brown & a suggestion that new kettles might somehow alleviate the impact of rocketing energy bills. Disgusting & ridiculous to the very end.

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James O'Brien

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1 year

Suella Braverman broke the ministerial code. Sunak put her back in the Cabinet a few days later. So did Priti Patel. Johnson promoted her. You can see why Zahawi thought he could style it out. Bunch of cocky chancers propelled to power on the turbo-charged bollocks of Brexit…

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James O'Brien

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2 years

A genuinely beautiful story about a little boy who grew up to support sending refugees to Rwanda.

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2 years

I’m standing to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and your Prime Minister. Let’s restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country. #Ready4Rishi Sign up 👉

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James O'Brien

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If the French are responsible for the mess in Dover, it rather rubbishes any claim that *we* have taken back control.

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James O'Brien

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When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time.

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If you've spent your entire adult life lying to wives, mistresses, employers, interviewers, colleagues & voters, lying to Parliament is unlikely to trouble your conscience.

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I don't want to speak too soon but leaving the European Union doesn't seem to have made any of the racists any happier...

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James O'Brien

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4 years

What exactly is Boris Johnson taking a holiday from? It's certainly not work.

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After thirteen years of Tory rule, an unprecedented number of people are sleeping in tents. The Tory response is to ban tents.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Sewage being pumped into our seas by businesses making enormous profits while Tories call for *less* regulation of business sums up the state of the nation.

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James O'Brien

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3 years

Trump supporters chanting ‘Count the votes!’ in Arizona and ‘Stop the count!’ in Michigan sums it all up perfectly. It’s the most obvious manifestation of his regime’s successful assault on objective truth, waved through by much of the media on both sides of the Atlantic.

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James O'Brien

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3 years

Can’t believe Priti Patel is a bully. She seems so nice.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

It took him *one day* to shift from ‘Clap for our carers’ to ‘Castigate our carers in a desperate, shameful bid to wash blood from my own hands.’ When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

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James O'Brien

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3 years

If they can turn you against doctors, firefighters & teachers, they can turn you against anyone.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

Good grief. I had no idea how much of this shit she’d put up with - and I have to follow the news for work.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

I almost envy people who can look at the death toll, the rule-breaking aide & the hopeless Prime Minister & think: “Yep. That Johnson is a class act. Great government this.” I get tribalism, obviously, but I think we’ve moved squarely into cult territory now. It’s utterly tragic.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

All roads lead to Barnard Castle. The sheer shamelessness of it, the epic sense of entitlement you would need even to contemplate lying so brazenly, the sickness at the heart of government that would allow it. Most of all, though, it showed the contempt in which they hold us all.

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James O'Brien

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1 year

Several household name BBC journalists should be required to explain why, *for seven years*, they have failed to do what @MarinaPurkiss does here with consummate ease...

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Don’t want to watch GB News? Don’t worry, you can watch @MarinaPurkiss destroy Jacob Rees Mogg here 👇🏼 This is actually the closest I’ve ever come to pitying him. Ps: Wonder if he supports fracking due to his alleged financial interests in the fossil fuel industry via Odey?

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Why do you think he’s deleted this?

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James O'Brien

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1 year

Gary Lineker standing by his words because he has principles; Suella Braverman blaming her words on someone else because she doesn't.

Gary Lineker says he will 'keep speaking for those with no voice' after asylum row

The Match of the Day host was criticised for tweets he posted about the government's new asylum plan.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James O'Brien

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Thank you, @maitlis . Speaking the truth in a time of universal deceit is a revolutionary act…

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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James O'Brien

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1 year

That Jeremy Clarkson column is right down there with the Hopkins one about cockroaches. Gobsmacked that it got published at all and staggered that the editor of The Sun wasn't asked about it by @bbclaurak on BBC 1 this morning. What an absolute shower of shite.

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James O'Brien

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Imagine being reduced to pretending that you really believe Gavin Williamson deserves a knighthood, Priti Patel cares about Ukrainian refugees & Boris Johnson has led the world on sanctions. Seriously. Imagine just how hard you’d have to lie to yourself to pull that off. #Brexit

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James O'Brien

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I wonder whether the BBC has created a situation where anyone prepared to present MOTD tomorrow immediately becomes a de facto supporter of legislation currently being cheered to the rafters by overtly racist, far right leaders across the rest of Europe…

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James O'Brien

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2 years

You see those people being proved completely & catastrophically correct about Boris Johnson? Just wait until you hear what we said about Brexit.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

Big moment this. The Prime Minister is blatantly & demonstrably lying to the British people on live television. Some poor souls will tug their forelocks & welcome it, of course, but the gamble rests on all the previously supportive people who can see it for what it is.

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James O'Brien

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Her breakfast causes drought & murder, her wedding bouquet could have killed her niece, she rubs her baby bump because she’s vain or ‘acting’. And they published all this crap after that little boy we all saw walking behind his mother’s coffin finally found some proper happiness.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

I know a lot of people aren't ready to hear this yet - and I know there's still a massive majority of those people in Parliament and the media - but electing a Prime Minister on the back of the idea that Brexit was in any way a good idea was *always* going to lead to all of this.

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James O'Brien

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See what happens when you trust Boris Johnson? If only there'd be some clue in the way he's treated his wives, mistresses, children, employers, constituents, manifesto promises, party leaders and colleagues over the years...

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James O'Brien

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3 years

Priti Patel bullies people who work for her. None of the people trying to ‘defend’ her work for her. Funny that.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

He. Did. Not. Get. Any. Bloody. Childcare. In. Durham.

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James O'Brien

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5 years

I only started coming to work by tube because of Greta Thunberg. And now I run the risk of the train being hijacked by the lunatic fringe of Extinction Rebellion. Would they rather we all drove? Targeting commuters on public transport is a staggeringly stupid move.

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James O'Brien

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We’ve spent five years pointing out, sometimes calmly, sometimes kindly, sometimes neither, that whatever you think you voted for was & is never going to happen. It might be helpful if you started attacking the people who lied to you instead of the people who told you the truth.

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James O'Brien

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Presumably, former chief whip Gavin Williamson got his ridiculous knighthood for keeping schtum about the extra-marital blow job that is now public knowledge anyway. What an utterly appalling shambles our country has become.

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If committed Lib Dem Liz Truss had decided in her twenties to infiltrate the Conservative Party in order to become leader & screw it up from the inside, how exactly would she have behaved differently over the last month?

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James O'Brien

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4 years

This Tory tactic of being in power for ten years then complaining constantly about how shit everything is is nothing if not bold.

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Exactly 200 years after William Wilberforce founded the Anti-Slavery Society, here’s Suella Braverman at a facility to which she hopes to deport trafficked victims of modern slavery.

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James O'Brien

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I think I've worked it out. If Priti Patel is found guilty of doing something then it's no big deal & we should all move on. If Nicola Sturgeon or Meghan Markle are accused of doing *exactly the same thing* then it's an event of cataclysmic proportions & we should all stone them.

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James O'Brien

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Running out of tests *after* insisting that frequent tests would assuage any need for further restrictions barely raises an eyebrow now. We have become completely inured to epic shamelessness & weapons grade incompetence.

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James O'Brien

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This deliberate & inciteful hatred of humans, in this case refugees, is all they've got. It's all they've ever had. It's how Brexit happened. It's how Gullis ended up in Parliament & Braverman in the Cabinet. It's disgusting & wrong & the next shameful chapter has barely started.

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James O'Brien

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1 year

You’ve spelt bullshit wrong, lads.

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3 years

If you do find yourself affected by temporary shortages of certain foodstuffs, do remember that ‘sovereignty’ is a perfect substitute for most ingredients in most recipes.

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It's not difficult. He will say absolutely *anything* to get himself out of short term trouble. Whether he's talking to wives, mistresses, colleagues, the Commons or voters. The truth *never* has anything to do with any of it. He lies as easily as he breathes. And he always will.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

If anything does for Cummings, it will be the stories of other people's endurance. The unattended funerals. The unvisited parents. The struggles to look after our kids while we were sick. Every family in the land has paid a price. And he sees it all as being somehow beneath him.

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James O'Brien

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They can’t back down. Half of it’s Brexit, half of it’s the Johnson cult. They’ve inflicted immeasurable damage on our country & installed a leader so corrupt they have no choice but to join him in denying basic reality. Admit even an iota of truth & their whole lives fall apart.

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James O'Brien

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The Home Secretary deliberately incited hate & violence on Armistice Day at the actual Cenotaph. Household name journalists, editors & politicians gleefully joined in. This is not normal. They will be absolutely livid that the peace march proceeded peacefully. They are dangerous.

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James O'Brien

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Still trying to process a Chancellor who’s offered zero help to the country’s poorest during an unprecedented cost of living crisis trying to shrug off questions about his wife’s half a billion pound stake in a company still doing business under a sanctioned regime. Unbelievable.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

I don't want to jump the gun or anything but Dominic Cummings isn't that clever after all, is he?

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James O'Brien

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2 years

One day soon, our children & grandchildren will look at the last few years of British political history and wonder, more than anything else, why on earth people like Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Daniel Hannan, Zac Goldsmith & Digby Jones were ever taken seriously by anyone...

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James O'Brien

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3 years

What if all the people being proved completely right about Donald Trump & Boris Johnson were also right about Brexit?

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James O'Brien

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2 years

Beyond brilliant. These ludicrous discussions & pretty much all political panels dance around the fact that we’re governed by dissembling imbeciles propelled to power by the epic lies of Brexit. Presenters like @bbclaurak are complicit. @joelycett just found the antidote. Genius.

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Big fan of @joelycett refusing to take an unserious person seriously

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Rocco Forte on the radio. Voted for Brexit and now can’t find staff to work in his restaurants & hotels. Unhappy about how few of his workers are British. His father came here from Italy. I’m struggling to muster much sympathy.

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James O'Brien

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I see we’re already at the bit where we’re being urged to ‘come together’ by the people who lied & cheated to tear us apart in the first place - and who still can’t describe a single measurable improvement to our lives. It would be funny if it wasn’t so crass.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

After a week of Downing Street scandals & with more on the way, the front page of today's Daily Mail states that Sir Keir Starmer is "under mounting pressure to apologise". And that, boys and girls, is why many Tories dream of life with a diminished or even non-existent BBC.

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James O'Brien

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2 years

The Savile lie is the most Trumpish yet, I think. Every sentient Tory MP knows he's lying but they can't call it out without calling Johnson a liar & they can't do that without unhitching themselves from him. The ones who find the courage to do the right thing should be thanked.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

Nigel Farage is a particularly pungent skidmark on the underpants of Britain. Nobody can be genuinely surprised by his latest belches of base bigotry.

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James O'Brien

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3 years

Can't we just give the nurses the £350 million-a-week Brexit bonus?

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James O'Brien

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4 years

So they didn't investigate alleged Russian intereference in the referendum because they were worried that they might find proof of it. Does that sound right?

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James O'Brien

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4 years

The lack of Covid tests, more than six months after the crisis started, should be a resignation issue. It is an epic & unprecedented failure of political leadership. The rest is noise.

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James O'Brien

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4 years

My favourite right-wingers are the ones who don't want to help feed hungry children but love the idea of spending a million quid on painting a plane.

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