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Week 24 MetaSub from the #SubPollSeries . Labour and SNP narrow their positions and this is all in line with the more recent data so looks locked in. But the Tories are looking in a difficult position falling in the Metapoll and seeing sharper recent falls. SNP on 11 seats.

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England aren’t my national team. They’re the national team of my friends, some family members, my customers, my colleagues and a diverse, young and enthusiastic people I admire. So why wouldn’t I support them in a final?

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4 years

Jings. Looks like the U.K. Government have finally got their Scexit lines together.

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3 years

Take 30 seconds to watch @NicolaSturgeon getting chewed up and spat out by her own Government’s star economic adviser.

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2 years

Wow! This is an incredible move by @NicolaSturgeon to tackle the energy crisis. Selling energy to consumers at wholesale renewable prices! This is a game changer. What’s even better is that it was announced 5 years ago so it must be up and running. …Oh bugger.

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OK I can’t believe I’m having to explain this… The Jacobite/Redcoat building is a complimentary set. Their names are deliberate because they are conjoined. IF YOU HAD EVER ACTUALLY GONE THERE YOU WOULD KNOW THIS. Stop protesting about sh*t you don’t understand.

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3 years

Here it is folks. @murdo_fraser tees up Salmond as to ‘who is to blame’. He quietly and slowly he twists the metaphorical knife into the First Minister. Perfect staging, cold and brutal.

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3 years

Huge political earthquake going on in Scotland... BBC Scotland News The Nine gives it 4 minutes.

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1 year

Well @loosewomen I think it’s fair to say you got “played” here.

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3 years

This is rather explosive stuff and now it’s in the public domain. Looks like Mr Murrell’s story is unwinding before our very eyes.

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1 year

The Deputy LEADER of the SNP in WM. Let me say that again the Deputy LEADER… The socialist and green warrior of the SNP… are you in favour of raising fuel duty? This is not intentional comedy.

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2 years

“Which experts say that independence will boost the economy?” Answer: “wibble” It’s even better with the sound off.

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3 years

Just sayin’

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3 years

Are pensions safe in an independent Scotland? No. That is all.

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4 years

The close up of @AlynSmith getting the smirk wiped off his face by @afneil . The end is absolutely tremendous.

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4 years

Watching @AlynSmith unable to deal with @afneil saying the SNP don’t lack the powers to help a poor kid from the East End of Glasgow is a joy to behold.

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3 years

Sturgeon 2015 : Judge me on education. Sturgeon 2021 : How dare you judge me on education!

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4 years

In the line of their greatest hits, they travelled to Berwick to report the UK for war crimes, but the station was shut... so they did it on the phone. To hilarious consequences. Can’t say this enough.. this is not intentional comedy. @mattforde

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3 years

“I just want someone who can fix the roads” SNP; why do you hate Scotland.

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Why do they lie?

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On the Record. David Davis claims under Parliamentary Privilege that FM’s Chief of Staff was interfering in an enquiry that apparently her and her boss knew nothing about.

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3 years

Scotland under the SNP....

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3 years

This is the moment that @NicolaSturgeon jumped the shark. You heard it here first.

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4 years

Well this is totes awks

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2 years

Wow!!!! Wasn’t expecting this!

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1 year

We’re going to hear a rather thin excuse today about how Sturgeon is fed up and exhausted. This is from a month ago. Dont believe the hype today, something else is on its way the only question is when it comes out.

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1 year

The final word and expression is always revealing.

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1 year

Strange. @NicolaSturgeon doesn’t seem to know when people are leaving @theSNP yet here she in in 2021 admitting she gets reports when people leave in numbers.

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2 years

Let’s get this straight. UK refuse a S30. SNP hold pretendyref and UK and unionist parties boycott it. SNP win the pretendyref on a small turnout. The SNP then expect the UK to start negotiating the secession of Scotland. Have you lot got a screw loose.

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3 years

This is a stunning admission. This means that @NicolaSturgeon is in favour of Scottish independence even if it means a substantial cut in Scottish incomes and harms working people. Just think about that. Happy to be independent no matter how much it hurts.

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3 years

“Have you modelled the impact of independence on peoples income?” @NicolaSturgeon “errr not yet” FFS

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2 years

That nationalist enthusiasm for the EU in full.

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3 years

Scotland... Hi. I'd just like to point out that were it not for @afneil and @spectator (people that, come on, quite a lot of you love to hate) then we would have seen an absolute corruption of the democratic process. Just think on that, why are they having to do our job?

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2 years

Sturgeon: the Scottish people will be presented with detailed proposals before an indyref. - So how long will we retain Sterling? I don’t know. - So when you move to a new currency will it be Fixed or Floating? I don’t know 1/n

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5 months

Just looking back at some of @NicolaSturgeon appearances on @loosewomen , this made me spit out my morning coffee. There is something VERY wrong with a person that can just openly lie like this and appear to take the moral high ground over it. Shameful.

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2 months

This is chaos. Only days ago Humza was arguing that recording of incidents was essential. Now 3 days into the clusterf**k it’s ’under review’.

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3 years

Remember when all the English refused to back Andy Murray at Wimbledon because he was Scottish and we’d never stop going on about it if he won? No, neither do I.

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3 years

Scotland CAN be independent. Scotland CAN have its own currency. Scotland CAN rejoin the EU. It CAN do all of these things. They will just make Scotland SUBSTANTIALLY worse off. Please stop confusing CAN’T and A BLOODY STUPID IDEA.

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2 years

Very telling that @NicolaSturgeon is responding to the #UKSupremeCourt as leader of the SNP and not the First Minister. I suspect this ruling means she can no longer work on independence as First Minister.

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3 years

Before the election we saw Sturgeon on TV every day telling us what a great job she was doing on COVID. Now it’s all gone to hell with the infection rate she’s as absent as her husband.

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3 years

Thanks @NicolaSturgeon

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4 years

Close up of @NicolaSturgeon taking questions from @HTScotPol The utter contempt shown for a respected journalist is quite hard to disguise.

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3 years

So why all the distress and lies from @NicolaSturgeon on missing targets. It’s simple as @afneil showed the FM is very rattled whenever her actual performance is mentioned. Better then to deal in fantasy and play to the base.

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3 years

Today I shall mostly be tweeting this...

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2 years

How uncomfortably does @Ianblackford_MP look as he announces his humiliating u-turn. The swallow at the end is a bit of a giveaway.

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3 years

“Have you modelled the impact of independence on peoples income?” @NicolaSturgeon “errr not yet” FFS

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3 years

So @DavidLinden takes over on @theSNP front bench as social security spokesman. He's always been "very clear" as he was to @afneil on currency. I wonder then if he will be the first SNP MP in his position to be honest about the welfare powers in Holyrood.

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SNP MP David Linden explains to Andrew Neil the SNP's currency plans for an independent Scotland. 😂😂😂😂😂 #andrewneilshow

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1 year

Dear God! Ross is putting an ultimatum to the SNP membership. Vote Humza or we’ll not vote for them as FM.

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2 years

“If independence doesn’t become the preferred option of the majority we will not have earned the right to ask that question (indyref) again.” I couldn’t agree more. Why does @NicolaSturgeon disagree with *checks notes* @NicolaSturgeon

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1 year

Why could nearly 30,000 SNP members not be arsed voting?

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3 years

The latest poll from @ProgressScot actually now shows a majority back the union again. This has been missed because it's been buried in the data tables and using a radical weighting technique to benefit the yes side. This thread explains what's going on.

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4 years

For viewers in England this is not an intentionally comic video. However it excludes anything that Python or Partridge could ever have done. @mattforde

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3 years

This is very good.

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4 years

“By the end of this Parliament we WILL set up a publicly owned energy company” Cue: biggest applause of the day. 7 month to go and nothing, zip, nada. But hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on management consultants.

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1 month

An election in Scotland is a democratic necessity. Don’t take my word for it.

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1 year

New plans announced for tribute to @NicolaSturgeon from the people of Edinburgh. Design will be based on the Colossus of Rhodes and will be visible from Mars. At midday the shadow will fall perfectly on the Balmoral hotel which is a beautiful touch.

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3 years

Apparently a billion people have joined the SNP tonight after that horrible committee said those nasty things about her. She spoke for 8 hours remember, 8 hours.

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2 months

In just 22 seconds over 4 days Humza has shown he’s so far out of his depth that he no longer knows where the surface is.

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2 months

This is chaos. Only days ago Humza was arguing that recording of incidents was essential. Now 3 days into the clusterf**k it’s ’under review’.

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3 years

Pensions. We told you at the time of #indyref there is no pension pot. Still the yes side lied to pensioners about it. We’re still telling you there is no pension pot, and yet @theSNP are still lying to pensioners. Why do you have to lie?

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3 years

So the Sturgeon defence is that Salmond, Aberdein, Pringle et al are lying because Sturgeon spoke with the other person in the room, who has no one to back her up, and concluded that it was a lie.

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1 year

In close up you can see the ‘touchy face tell’ the almost aggressive retort that he tried to cover with comedy. This fella is just not up to it.

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3 years

Errrr it’s the EU that is implementing this ban. Are the SNP arguing we should have agreed no deal over seeded potatoes?

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If this is the case this will be a damaging blow to Scotland made in Westminster and @BorisJohnson If we want to protect our seed potato producers Scotland needs to become independent and in the EU. #itstimeforindy

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2 years

This is madness. A Central Bank of Scotland cannot in any practical sense be a lender of last resort whilst using someone else’s currency. This is just surely French surreal art. It can’t be an actual policy.

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2 years

It's an astonishing admission of the state of Scottish politics that a government can admit to a exceptional failure and lapse of judgement and the First Minister can stand up and say "the buck stops with me" and that's supposed to be the end of the matter!

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4 years

Sturgeon on #Marr “I’ve done everything” to suppresses COVID. Except lockdown Glasgow when it was out of control for months.

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4 years

Here’s the moment when @afneil informs @NicolaSturgeon that Sterlingisation precludes EU entry and with nothing else to reach for we get “it’s Scotland’s Pound”. The SNP have no idea about currency which is why only 5% of Scots want to leave Sterling.

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3 years

Dear nationalists, it’s quite possible to have no respect for any set of politicians. Just because you criticise the SNP it doesn’t mean you love the Tories or Labour. They can all be useless. This is the problem when you apply the rules of football supporters to politics.

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2 years

Here it is. The SNP currency policy 2022. Use Sterling until the Growth Commission tests are met. That’s a car crash.

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Democracy in Scotland. In the event of Scotland as a whole voting to leave the UK then any areas within Scotland that want to remain must be allowed to do so. Otherwise those talking about democracy are just hypocrites. That is all.

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3 years

Jings. This is good. The fundamental problem in Scotland is not the union but that we aren’t electing Scottish Government’s that want to make devolution work.

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2 years

Oh I see someone has had a spanking...

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2 years

So, this aged well.

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1 year

What a car crash!!

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3 years

Everything that is wrong with the SNP in one tweet. They want to sacrifice 48% of a market to retain 5%. This is THEIR own data. Potatoes... they can’t even get potatoes right.

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This is a disastrous Brexit outcome for Scottish farmers...and like all other aspects of Brexit, foisted on Scotland against our will.

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3 years

This is a very revealing 3 seconds. When asked if she’s missed the boat for independence, the denial, the pleading and desperation is revealed in the close up.

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3 years

1/33 The SNP and their detailed prospectus for the next independence referendum. A long thread, but I promise you it's worth it.

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You current and future state pensions are not safe in an independent Scotland. That is all.

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3 years

Another in the series of ‘SNP Scotland 2021’

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So let me get this straight. When it was direct funding from the EU that was just peachy, but when it’s direct funding from the U.K. the entire world is about to collapse?

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2 years

March for Indy to defence the *checks notes* fully devolved NHS.

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1 month

I’d like to nominate this for the weirdest thing on Twitter 2024.

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3 years

Wow

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Ever wondered what it's like to cross the Forth Bridge in the driver's seat?

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Maggie, Sorry to be a bit of a downer, but YOUR pension is currently invested with Baillie Gifford in their Diversified Growth Fund. This fund explicitly does not seek climate outcomes in its investment objectives. I take it you will be withdrawing from the pension Scheme?

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The end of the partnership between @edbookfest & @BaillieGifford is a victory for climate activists. We are in a #ClimateEmergency . We should not be greenwashing our cultural festivals.

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4 years

You have got to be kidding me.

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3 years

A thread: 17 January 2019 FMQs @Nicolasturgeon 2019 viciously attacks errr @NicolaSturgeon 2021 "I now intend—fully, as the First Minister—to respect the work of the various investigations that have been established"

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1 year

'Morally wrong' to pay more into your pension… Coming from an MSP who has a pension which is worth 75% of his salary that really takes the biscuit.

'Morally wrong' for wealthy Scots to dodge income tax rises, says John Swinney

It would be morally wrong for the wealthy to change their tax arrangements to avoid paying more in Scotland, the Deputy First Minister has said.

www.scotsman.com

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3 years

On #Marr @NicolaSturgeon has just conceded that she needs UK legislation to end the Union. That will come as quite a surprise to many of her followers.

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3 years

Salmond Inquiry vote is 55% in favour of ‘Sturgeon lied’ But as we know 55% isn’t a result that the SNP respect.

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You called us traitors. You call us Yoons. You call us spineless. You call us anti-Scottish. NOW, you want to reach out and work with us. Go f**k yourself.

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10 months

Just sayin’

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3 years

The SNP's crisis is deep and long running. THREAD: I try to explain what I THINK is going on. Sturgeon is finished and she knows it. It's just a matter of time. Unsurprisingly the SNP have been searching for a successor to Sturgeon, that's normal and that's good planning.

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3 years

I think this says it all now.

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3 years

Well said @Ross_Greer looking forward to you saying the same to @patrickharvie

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1 year

This just about sums it all up.

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1 year

Humza is the only person that could turn up at a funeral and ask the widow where her husband was?

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NEW SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf just jokingly asked a group of Ukrainian women in Edinburgh “where are all the men?” There was polite and awkward laughter before they explained that many of their partners had stayed in Ukraine to fight in the war.

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2 years

And with the first preferences in, it’s 55% for the Union and 45% for the nationalists. For the hard of thinking 55%>45%. That is all.

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1 year

If you think that this is unrelated to Sturgeon’s sudden resignation then simply ask yourself this. If she was still First Minister and this was happening can you imagine the current level of chaos.

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A kid in Govan with a single parent and a drug habit has the same start in life as a kid from Newton Mearns born to a cosy middle class lifestyle because Sturgeon gave them both a box of stuff worth £160.

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Sturgeon on Loose Women saying the baby box means every child in Scotland gets “literally” the same start in life is quite some spin.

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To be fair I thought that “not yet” would sum up the SNP economic policy but this is just dynamite. An out of depth @NicolaSturgeon tries to deal with the fact that her currency policy would be ruinous. What’s the answer “Helllloooooo” This is not intentional comedy.

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