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Trying to make the world a better place, one tweet at a time. former Green Party PPC, Trustee Dunfield House.

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Richard Barrington

1 year

Beloved. If it’s OK with you, I’ll try to love my neighbour, walk the extra mile, turn the other cheek, feed the hungry, care for the vulnerable, be awake to injustice, love the planet & ask for nothing in return, in humble gratitude for gods love. Any other response is hubris.

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2 years

sell off continues -National Grid has sold 60% of our gas transmission business to Macquarie & British Columbia Investment Man. in a deal worth more than £4 billion - because ‘taking back control’ has always meant “flog the family silver” @DeborahMeaden

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@BrianPaton14 @DanielJHannan Now now, Not quite accurate! Stuff workers, the environment, public services, welfare, care of the vulnerable...

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£10,000,000,000 of PPE written off and 500 lorry loads a week being incinerated… Tories rubbish on the economy, environment and the NHS - wouldn’t trust Tories to run a village fete! @DeborahMeaden @campbellclaret @Simon4NDorset

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@thefishytaste @mlindesay @campbellclaret He wasn’t being doorstepped before he ran away infecting as he went...

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6 years

@SuzanneEvans1 I’m not sure calling for people to ‘rage’ against anything in Parliament Sq this afternoon is appropriate @metpoliceuk @MetPoliceEvents and seems to be inflammatory language to incite violence... @campbellclaret

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3 years

@Dr2NisreenAlwan @cash_marilyn Shame we’re not France… all being offered citizenship 10% pay rise, special package for the families of those who died fighting C19 - treated with respect! - UK? Here’s a pay cut

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2 years

@chesterwriter @Anna_Soubry Oh Phil, 48,000,000 voted against, abstained, were refused the right, or didn’t vote… given the absolute shitshow Brexit has proven to be, maybe an apology is in order rather than rant at remainders…

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@DeborahMeaden France seems to be doing things right with fraction of covid cases, massive pay increase for health workers ( and citizenship for migrants in healthcare ) Triple the pension and benefits and 10x more refugees settled... so much for British exceptionalism

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@giles_fraser Agreed! last thing we want is people lifted out of poverty, aspiring for better for their family & themselves, lock'm into the class system & keep them within 5 miles of birth, serfs to debt & the state... send them all back to where they came from especially northerners /s

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6 years

@RolandRudd Roland she’s fallen ‘on her sword’ to protect the worst PM this country has ever known. That is the shame.

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11 months

@AndyGJBurge @LiamFox @PeterBoneUK Is that the disgraced ex minister Fox?

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2 years

Why do the Tories want to curb the powers of the Courts that have ruled: ✅ illegal appointment of Dido Harding ✅ illegal discharge of untested people to care homes ✅ illegal VIP PPE channel ✅ illegal proroguing of parliament Big Calls my arse..

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7 years

@Reuven60 @mariuskwint @MarkWWhite1960 @BrexitBin Eurozone outperforming USA even Greece 2.7% vs UK's 2% GDP growth, Wilders spanked, Austria president goes to Greens... failing how?

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2 years

@RestoreTrustNT @nationaltrust Tufnell street has done enough damage to our country, don’t let them do the same to the NT

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5 years

So To survive Thomas Cook needed the amount paid out to people betting against them surviving...aint Capitalism great? @MollyMEP @thatginamiller @DeborahMeaden @JMPSimor @jon_bartley

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Hedge Funds in Line for $250 Million on Thomas Cook CDS Payout

Not everyone lost out with the collapse of 178-year-old Thomas Cook Group Plc that put 21,000 jobs at risk and left travelers around the world stranded.

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6 years

@Strett81 @MarkFromhold @SuzanneEvans1 Not true. A50 was triggered, 2 years of negotiations many votes in the house, Fox flying all over the world etc etc etc it’s been moving but cannot be delivered in a way that satisfies most of those who voted for it and given the majority are now remain....

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9 months

@PastorMark Quick question - how could Zechariah & Elizabeth be Christians, when Jesus hadn’t been born?

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8 months

@TedUrchin @VicPoncho1948 Now now Ted, you cannot use facts, that’s not fair!

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6 years

@manversengineer @thatginamiller Don’t be silly 1) ‘we’ did not 2) it’s not a democracy if cannot change mind 3) you didn’t have a clue what you were voting for ( impacts )

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3 years

@Dominic2306 @DavidGauke Yet Ireland has hoovered up thousands of well paid jobs and developed supply chains bypassing Blighty altogether - it’s called the ‘law of unintended consequences’ and something the Civil Service could have taught you if you hadn’t undermined them from day 101…

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@SimonClarkeMP Quite! Selling £140,000,000 of land for £100 spending £400,000,000 of taxpayer’s money to clean the site & letting them sell the scrap for £M’s without proper oversight, transparency etc is not corruption just Business as Usual for Tories..

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@skisidjames @thatginamiller A few voted leave for genuine long held views & I respect that. The majority were miss-led, lied to & subjected to a litany of fraudulent & corrupt practices & I don't respect that. Democracy is a process not an event & as the truth has been revealed we need a #peoplesvote

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2 years

@JustSayNope @shag2908 @trussliz Economics 101: if the majority have disposable income - economy grows. If minority have disposable income the offshore it. You’d have to be daggers not to know that…

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7 years

Love this! @MollyMEP @Simon4NDorset @TheNewEuropean @Anna_Soubry @Carbon3IT @48PercentPlus @Scientists4EU @TomLondon6 @_charlesperry

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@IamLewisU The reason it was 6 was because majority died before adulthood. And given numbers US would be unable to feed its population in 1x generation

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2 years

@gstewartbxl @WCountryVoices @POLITlCSUK You missed “while we pay his salary, expenses and legal fees”

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6 years

@LeaveEUOfficial not met an actual WW2 vet, including my own 92YO in laws who think leave is a good idea....

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6 years

@GuitarMoog @giles_fraser @iHaethen Giles is right! Workhouses, debtors prison, permanent war, scurvy, scarlet fever, cholera whooping cough, TB, measles, typhoid, rickets, corporal punishment death penalty no emancipation -what’s not to love??

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3 years

@DeborahMeaden 1) we’re a distressed purchase - We outsourced to EU as larger community brought better deals... so complete nonentities like Frost & Truss don’t stand a chance - as someone once said they’d pay full price in carpetright

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2 years

@aaron_p_edwards I’ll pray you open your heart to the Holy Spirit for an outpouring of grace and love - god loves all he(r) children equally, unconditionally -even you, HALLELUJAH!

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2 years

@Eric_Conn Actually they’re looking for welcoming inclusive communities where the focus is the works of Jesus not sin shaming, repent ranting, bible bullying - and all that macho bollocks is a real turnoff

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Richard Barrington

3 years

Who’d have thought we needed sovereignty to make the rich richer & poor poorer?

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1 year

@RupaliChadhaMD I’m so sorry you’re sad and alone but don’t assume every woman is!

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Richard Barrington

3 years

@BarristerSecret What surprises me is how many sensible people listen to @BBCr4today . Gave up years ago as the poor journalism & obvious bias meant it wasn’t worth my time - suggest you all follow suit -

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@citizenj0urn0 There aren’t. Sensible people remember how during the last Labour administration life expectancy went up, homelessness & child poverty went down, literacy & numeracy up, wages up, NHS waiting times down.. Britain was cool, not the fetid cesspit it is today… hth

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10 months

@JuneMoultrie @Conservatives @BorisJohnson @reformparty_uk @TiceRichard @benhabib6 Yes!! Because nothing says British values like the far, far right!

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7 years

@falcomille @David_Tee @MissLauraMarcus @Anna_Soubry @Conservatives Bless...leave spokes continually stated we'd stay in the single market, extra dosh for the NHS, Turkey would join etc... Everything remain said has or is coming true..

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6 years

@manversengineer @thatginamiller ? Use tariffs to ‘set’ trade? 45% of our trade is with EU, next 40% ROW via EU trade deals. WTO will add tariffs across the board, price us out of markets. Have FREE trade with 74 countries under EU. Facts are hard to dispute...

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2 years

@RishiSunak @Simon4NDorset Keep Brexit safe? What the actual F? Keep our economy safe by rejoining the SM Keep our children safe put air filters in every class Keep our NHS safe reverse austerity stop privatising Keep refugees safe by not transporting them Brexit can do one…

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5 years

@darrylxxx @JuliaHB1 I know! Who wants a party that fights for social and environmental justice, doesn’t fiddle expenses or make personal fortunes on the back of public service - what kind of example is that?

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4 years

@JayJay08752584 @MattHancock @NHSCOVID19app If it’s working it’s not Serco...

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1 year

@MeghansMole @NickBuckleyMBE Yes dear, keep taking the meds….

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2 years

@DeborahMeaden This isn’t an energy crisis it’s a Tory botched privatisation crisis…

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4 years

@Simon4NDorset @piersmorgan Show off? is that the same as shaking hands with people infected with C-19? De Piffle was sacked for lying from Journalism and hides when the going gets tough.. Piers has finally grown a pair, we've given up on you doing so..

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2 years

@timbarclay_grab @ClaudiaWebbe When did peaceful protests = breaking the law? BTW in this country we still believe in the greater good - we’ll the sane ones do…

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7 years

@ronnewman55 @PrisonPlanet @DjinnThe Given Mary & Joseph were from the Middle East..

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9 months

@QprEver He was suspended from the Labour party not Parliament and has continued to sit as an independent - FACTS MATTER apart from For those who worship Bozo..

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6 years

@pete140960 @DeborahMeaden No, the first vote was illegal as confirmed by UK courts... BUT because it was advisory cannot be voided. Job losses directly attributable to Brexit now over 200,000

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@BenHouchen Yes! £120m of land for £100, using £400M of tax payers money to clean site poor governance transparency & oversight is just Business as Usual 4 the Tory Kleptocracy.. PS didn’t report stay it may not have all the facts as you got to pick & choose what evidence to share?

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2 years

@CrowMo99 @RachaelParkman Ohhh kkkkay, not sure that’s something to boast about but well done you for being honest!!!

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Richard Barrington

6 years

@jpgerard64 @JasparCJ No they’re not. Mays deal means we’re in until we can negotiate a trade deal, and have no say anymore, lose our rebate, pay to travel to EU etc, Remain means we continue to shape the EU, get our own way 97% of the time, can study, live work & retire across 30 countries

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3 years

World leaders photobombed by Matt Lucas from Little Britain @DeborahMeaden

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Richard Barrington

11 months

@implausibleblog Question VD missed “if We’re the best in the world at AI why do we keep giving large swathes of public sector data to Palantir who with Cambridge Analytica destroyed our economy”

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@KEdge23 so..not the Defeat of Hitler, Discovery of DNA, Antibiotics, a cure for HIV, Salvation by Grace, but someone trying to save the planet being locked up.. - you really are a sad and pathetic individual...

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Richard Barrington

7 years

@Conservatives Strong leadership? More flip-flops than a Spanish beach

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Richard Barrington

6 years

@timothy_stanley @EvanHD @giles_fraser @unherd Not really no. I’m a cleric and it’s complete tosh

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Richard Barrington

6 years

@PiBMcGinty @ryandec33 @Chops8592 @theresa_may Err without wishing to stoke the flames, we call ourselves Christians but it’s by our fruit we shall be known and in her case, I do not recognise Christ in her actions! ( frequently not in my own )

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3 years

@Simon4NDorset @NDCAtweet @Conservatives Delighted & honoured? Surely ashamed and humiliated at being a member of the party that puts parties before people and corruption before country…

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2 years

@SimonClarkeMP Appreciate you want the whole country in Penury serfs to debt - but NI is doing really well right now so maybe concentrate on finding alternative employment?

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2 years

@PatrickHanrahan @shoshanade @KwasiKwarteng @trussliz Isn't he credited with tupping truss? if so she won't let him go...

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5 years

@OGMurphy1 @A50Challenge @Nigel_Farage Thanks, it’s hard admitting you’ve been conned so you have my admiration! There are 10s of thousands like you, I hope they have the same courage and integrity as you...

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2 years

@kevinmyoung It’s also clear the church hasn’t held that view for 2000 years as I reading bibles from the 15thC don’t mention it - just abuse of power over young children (Pederasty) plus as any Rabbi will explain Leviticus & S&G are nothing to do with LGBiTQ people..

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7 years

@StilwellRoad @Picss3o @GrgHowser1 @allisonpearson Yes dear, although ISIS grew out of our invasion of Iraq so... and its Mr loony leftist if you don't mind

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1 year

@calvinrobinson Oh sweetie, if there’s room in God’s creation for you pretending to be a priest and playing dress up, there’s room for everyone…

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4 years

@DeborahMeaden Anyone can swan in at the airports untested & untraceable so probably not...

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3 years

@GeorgeMonbiot I think Gaia has had enough of us -

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6 years

@hzeffman Strange because I’ve not yet met a WW2 veteran who voted leave, they all seem to think that peace is more important.

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2 years

@ThreeWordsWork @NileGardiner If it has no impact as she suggested, why are they desperate to renegotiate / rip it up?

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4 years

@FallonRogeri @bbclaurak Michael Howard is arch brexiteer, so what else you got?

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2 years

@hancock_i @archer_rs Is that a euphemism?

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4 years

@RichardBurgon @iBreezeblock You do understand MP's are elected representatives for their constituents, not party? - silly me of course not...

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5 years

@DExEUgov You mean replace the deals we’re already covered by with ones negotiated from weakness by amateurs? Got it!

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2 years

@vinod_d007 @nharris59 @PippaCrerar @Channel4News Well, apart from the vulture capitalists, hedge funds and billionaires..

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Richard Barrington

7 years

@DjinnThe @ronnewman55 @PrisonPlanet 1) fake news 2) USA killing Muslims in 14 countries 3) Mary and Joseph weren't christians so should they only be played by Jews?

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2 years

@sparrowhawk28 @mac_puck Hedge funds & investors love farm land always goes up in value - just those pesky farmers to Bankrupt first so they can buy cheap… best way - reduce opportunities to diversify

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3 years

@JeantheBean1956 @Hope1967 @KirstieMAllsopp There’s been some & the £57,000,000,000 paid out in dividends could have done a whole lot more…

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7 years

@tragic_muse @Ed_Miliband So English @realDonaldTrump wouldn't understand

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4 years

@Jolyon5 @DeborahMeaden @Jacob_Rees_Mogg bless you, Deborah is making the point that JRM has complained about his children being targets - yet here we are...

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@AndyGJBurge @Jacob_Rees_Mogg He’s nouveau rich - no class or style - a pastiche - pantomime villain - rather sad..,

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4 years

@JohnDonker @DmitryOpines But they neeed usss and we’ll hold our breath until they recognise that!

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6 years

@LeoDochertyUK @Simon4NDorset Yet the Attorney General says otherwise

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7 years

@RussellDutton @Anna_Soubry Democracy is not a single event but a process with checks & balances ( law HOL etc ) to suggest things cannot change means we must stay in because 1973 vote came first. Farage did say 52/48 was unfinished business!

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@Picss3o @GrgHowser1 @StilwellRoad @allisonpearson We already are engaged in 7 covert wars plus spent £32B on bombing people over last 7 years... maybe part of the problem?

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7 years

@DawnHFoster @pgo1980 Would that be because of the number of Tories who are slum landlords??

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2 years

@Harvey8888 @SSnedHayman Quick reminder Harvey supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine - he’s that kind of barking…

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@chrisgutowski @david_pickworth @PAisthorpe Compared with how many in the USA? Happy to do the maths when presented with the facts!

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2 years

@JeremyTate41 @scottmcnealy is it because they’re afraid of their kids being slaughtered in school?

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1 year

@DavidGHFrost @nationaltrust It already does, that’s why I’ve been a member for 50 years - you get anywhere near it and, along with vast majority of members I’d be off!

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@Conservatives Looks pretty prudent to me

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6 years

@JolyonMaugham @Simon4NDorset @MollyMEP @Anna_Soubry EU confirms U.K. can revoke A50, so let’s do that and pretend this sordid affair never happened?

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@andrewsduncan1 @LeggeBourke @RNLI @CAupdates Yes! Cause nothing says human being like preferring ripping animals apart for fun to saving lives at sea…

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6 years

@SamGyimah @Simon4NDorset Is that the Singapore that has a FTA with the EU?

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2 years

@Femi_Sorry @dorsetnative @grantshapps @CBeaune Sovereignty init! - Everyone knew taking back control meant French Border staff on English soil….- (( Shame cabinet refused to double number of booths ))

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2 years

@William_E_Wolfe Oh my…

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8 months

@aljhlester @Davesmum21 There’s a reason the HOC bars should be closed…

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5 years

@giles_fraser Really? estimates put labour leave voters at 30% so to champion leave goes against 70% backed up by overwhelming conference vote re 2nd referendum.

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6 years

@SuzanneEvans1 @metpoliceuk @MetPoliceEvents @campbellclaret BTW I’m a peace pastor and reject all forms of violence including verbal so no, I’m praying for peace. One MP murdered, death threats, regular physical and verbal assault including on police by leave supporters is an affront to our country...

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@RichardGCorbett Let’s not forget silicon shortages have halved production…

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5 years

@OxfordDiplomat @nharris59 What kind of wanksock uses a ring binder for a single document?

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