Simon Deane-Johns @sdjohns Twitter profile

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3 years

Does Boris Johnson know that Scottish Conservatives believe that lying to Parliament is a resigning issue?

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Brilliant 😂

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Amid the Teesside Freeport scandal @PrivateEyeNews reports Sunak/Gove have dropped annual audits of Freeports by HMRC/Border Force (as they’re a haven for tax evasion and other crime). Instead each Freeport operator will *audit itself* and report to a government “forum”. Corrupt.

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In a move that should send shivers through the Tory appointees to the BBC, Poland’s Parliament votes overwhelmingly to remove political appointees from the boards of Poland’s state media bodies.

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@nexta_tv

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The new Polish government has dismissed the heads of state media outlets The new government of Donald Tusk has dismissed the leadership of state media, accusing them of propaganda for the "Law and Justice" party, which lost power in the last parliamentary elections. The leaders…

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If Brexit is such a good idea for UK trade, why does the British govt keep delaying their own border check on goods, so that EU exporters can keep exporting freely into the UK but UK exporters face checks exporting into the EU? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Could it be to hide the impact from voters? 🤔

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British Chancellor blames a “problem with paperwork” over the weekend for the failure to bring in some more PPE from Turkey. 🙄 These Brexidiots have zero chance of organising post-Brexit trade by December.

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This should end the Conservative Party and Sunak’s political career forever

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

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Former Post Office boss says he was told by the government to delay payments to Horizon victims so they could "limp into the election” with the lowest possible compensation bill

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As Rees-Mogg sends his warning to British judges to ignore the law where it suits his far right agenda, another voice echoes from an ugly past…

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@sdjohns Adolf Hitler's speech of 26th April 1942.

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Before Brexit, this guy’s sole claim to fame was spokesman for Scotch Whiskey (in which capacity he argued to Remain). He negotiated a terrible Brexit deal and knows sod all about the law or human rights. Why give him a platform?

Farrukh

@implausibleblog

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Unelected Bureaucrat David Frost, "Pass legislation which says Rwanda is a safe country.. And the legislation excludes the ECHR and the Refugee Convention" Sophy Ridge, "How can MPs vote it is a safe country and overrule the courts?" UBDF, "The judgment of the courts is the…

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Michael Gove has quietly ordered an 80% increase in political campaign spending limits, while parties can accept *anonymous donations* of over £11,000 (49% increase) - no ID checks. Organised crime. @PrivateEyeNews

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‘Cleverly’ confesses that Sunak and Hunt have been allowing at least £6bn a year in tax avoidance 😳

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Asked how they can pay for their National Service plan, James Cleverly says the Government can raise £6 billion by cracking down on tax avoidance. So what have they been waiting for since 2010? #bbclaurak

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4 years

How much money did the BBC and Sky plough into searching for the 4 dinghies that could've been spent on, say, getting to the bottom of the Johnson government's vast procurement scandal?

Christian Christensen

@ChrChristensen

4 years

After BBC did it, Sky News now engaging in disgusting practice of refugee voyeurism, doing “interviews” w/people as they risk their lives. If these were middle-class white Brits, they would try and save them. This really is Orientalist trash journalism.

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Now why would Lebedev's best mate, Boris Johnson, have wanted to get his mistress a job as his Chief of Staff at the Foreign Office?

Conservative Friends of Russia group disbands with immediate effect

After 10 years of operation, the Westminster Russia Forum, formerly known as the Conservative Friends of Russia, has suddenly disbanded

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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WTAF. The Brexidiots now *paying* ‘forriners’ more than Britain’s own teachers, whose pay demands they’ve just refused, sparking strikes, *driving teachers out of the industry* and *creating the need for immigrants* the number of which they promised to cut. Criminally dumb 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@BBCNewsPR @tradercoach The BBC's support for Neil's shameful conduct is itself shameful. Where's the apology from Neil? Why does the BBC give a platform to these people?

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Bricklayer complains on @Channel4News that putting bricklayers on the Tories’ 500,000 ‘immigrants welcome’ list takes food off his table and is unfair because he can’t get a job overseas, while his boss says they’ve turned away work because they don’t have enough bricklayers 🤔

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We need a public audit of the Conservative Party donors/donations @ElectoralCommUK #BorisJohnsonMustGo

The Conservative Party received tens of thousands of pounds from non-existent companies

An investigation by Insider has revealed nearly £30,000 in donations were received by the Conservative Party from companies that were no longer trading.

www.businessinsider.com

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🙄 Only the Tories could stuff the Lords with extra cronies then complain about ‘unelected Lords’ foiling their fascist deportation plans

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@peterjukes @peter_garbett @carolecadwalla Of course it must be a complete coincidence that Johnson and Gove met at Lebedev’s home to decide whether Johnson should back the Leave campaign…

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Johnson finally decides to ‘warn’ Britain about the ‘Indian variant’… 🤬 He’s done it again, hasn’t he! Reacted late (timed with the elections) continued weak border controls and therefore guaranteed an extended set of measures in due course. That public enquiry is needed now.

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If you still think Trump is good for America, please read this post or what he told Time "...even after four years as president, [Trump] has virtually no grasp on any policy issue beyond empty talking points, most of which are lies."

He's not even trying to hide it

Trump's Time Magazine interview exposes a malevolent fool.

www.publicnotice.co

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@lewis_goodall Hey, isn’t Mary Wakefield (Dum Cummings wife) the sister of Jack, the Firtash guy who helped set up the Tory Friends of Russia group that Carrie Symonds was involved in? And where is the #RussiaReport ? 🤔

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Why hold their NatC conference in Brussels? Because Brexit was never about British sovereignty, it was about destabilising the European Union. These people are doing Putin’s work for him.

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Responding to Brussels shutting down a far right conference, Nigel Farage says, "No alternative opinions are allowed. This is the updated new form of communism" "If ever I doubted for a minute what Brexit was about.. The role of the ECHR.. Are we on the right track?" Suella…

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And the Award For The Most Entertaining Twitter Account for 2020 goes to... 🥁🥁🥁 @mikegove12 who sustained us with not one but three satires of the highest order! 🥇🥇🥇🏆🎖🎭

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@HighlandHeathen @MarkUrban01 @squeezyjohn Like Britain’s fishermen, farmers and poorer regions etc tricked into voting for (Putin’s) Brexit with a Russian funded misinformation campaign, stunned to find their livelihoods gone…

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Who's Behind Boris Johnson's Coup? The Murky Lobbyists Who've Taken Over the Government – Byline Times

Who's Behind Boris Johnson's Coup? The Murky Lobbyists Who've Taken Over the Government

Simon Roach reveals the main players and interests in the Boris Johnson regime – and most lead back to Vote Leave and Donald Trump

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Oh my God, 20% of Twitter accounts promoting the Brexit Party are human! 😱 🤖🤖🤖

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@ByDonkeys @BorisJohnson Time to revoke the article 50 notice and get on with solving Britain's genuine problems - which are nothing to do with EU membership.

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Braverman and Jenrick should be prosecuted for Misconduct in Public Office over this whole saga: “Asylum seekers moved off Bibby Stockholm barge after Legionella bacteria found”

Asylum seekers leave Bibby Stockholm amid fears over bacteria

Legionella bacteria, which can cause a serious type of lung infection known as Legionnaires' disease, has been found in the water on the barge.

news.sky.com

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@AdamBienkov The boss of Dover Port disagrees

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If you're still claiming that the queues at Dover aren't due to Brexit, you're arguing with the CEO of the Port of Dover. “In a post Brexit environment, every passport needs to be checked. That happens here in Dover."

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@PoliticsJOE_UK Again the Brexidiots deliberately confusing Britain’s obligations to refugees rather than ‘immigrants’… why Raab kept saying Ukrainians trying to reach their families in the UK could choose closer countries. Vile liars.

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@PaulBrandITV Unless the hospital managers are prosecuted I can’t see why others wouldn’t act the same appalling way. How can it be okay to say the police shouldn’t be called because they’ll declare the place a crime scene? That’s admitting suspicion that a crime might have been committed!

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More client journalism, as Peston allows Sunak to get out his lies about protecting the economy during the pandemic and speed of recovery relative to G7, and doesn’t ask where his WhatsApp messages are or about the parties or general lack of a plan.

Best for Britain

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7 months

Absolute free pass from #Peston to the PM. Apparently, Sunak was too busy saving everyone's job (evidence on Monday suggested that, actually, Treasury was very resistant to furlough, at the start) to notice the chaos, incompetence, and toxicity ***in his own workplace***. ~AA

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Wrong.👇Parliament is elected by the people to be sovereign. MPs represent, not act on 'instruction', and must act in national interest. Why stop free trade with EU and other countries under EU free trade deals? Why remove our rights to live/work freely in 30 countries?

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The highest authority in the UK is the People. They voted to leave the EU. Parliament must obey that instruction.

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@CharlotteCGill 😂It's ridiculous to suggest that Britain's flatlining economy and lack of investment in public services/infrastructure is the fault of asylum seekers whose applications aren't being processed. You must think this country is tiny! So much for 'Great' Britain😂

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Baroness Altmann: Tory MPs too "frightened" to question #Brexit . Suggests fascists at work in UK, like US - why #TheresaTheAppeaser silent?

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@mmfa Also a good explainer on the 40 year old academic concept called 'critical race theory' and why it is unfairly seized on by right-wingers as some kind of 'umbrella' for all the liberal thinking they don't like:

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In other words, the Conservative Party is headed to join UKIP and the Brexit Party in far right oblivion…

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George Osborne disclosed on his own Political Currency podcast that it’s “not inconceivable” that Farage could become a future leader of the Tory Party if it loses the next election.

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😂 Truss is politically very stupid.

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

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Liz Truss: "When I was Equality Minister, I wanted to abolish the Equality Act... because it embeds identity politics... but No.10 said no... " #LBC

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@REWearmouth …also involved in climate change denial

Wealthy climate sceptics have given Penny Mourdant thousands

Tory leadership candidate has welcomed endorsements and taken donations from figures opposed to UK’s climate target

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@SarahLeeNotCake @OwenPaterson @Econs4FreeTrade ... and yet he pins the UK's hopes on trade in services, which are NOT included in most free trade deals, with the mighty exception of the EU, in which he points out the UK services industries have prospered! Zero logic, 100% idiocy! #StopBrexit

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@Andy_Hunt357 @BBCPolitics @OwenJones84 Can't fathom why the BBC insists on 'balancing' the facts with opinion populist commentators instead of discussion amongst people who know - in this case data scientists and those who know how to programme #Bots and create #Botnets

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@implausibleblog …and Sunak was in it up to his neck as Chancellor!

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@theousherwood Not only should Hoyle make Johnson correct the record over his use of an AltRight conspiracy theory, but he should have to correct the little string of lies he tacks onto all his non-answers, such as ‘fastest vax rate’ ‘more jobs than pre-Covid’ and ‘highest growth in G7’.

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I wonder if Sunak's Treasury also warded off UK criminal authorities from investigating the shenanigans at Rishi's flagship freeport on Teesside? Whatever happened to Gove's "independent review" of corruption allegations? @privateyenews

Michael Gove orders review into corruption allegations at Teesside freeport

Investigation of Teesworks project to be led by independent panel of his choosing, not National Audit Office

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Gove and Houchen (and Sunak) are at the public assets again… Expect their adventures in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool to go the way of the Teesside freeport scandal @PrivateEyeNews

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Johnson has trashed his own Queen’s Speech a few days after making the Queen read it out, even after telling her and the Supreme Court it was so crucial! Nothing he says is true!

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Having campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, the BrexidiotExpress now says it was “crazy” for Brits to have lost freedom of movement to and from…the EU 🤬

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@pmdfoster @sff_uk @BorisJohnson Yet the fishing industry still seems to believe this is a problem with 'the deal' rather than simply being outside the Single Market and Customs Union (depending on which of the many issues involved). Once that penny drops, they'll realise why others have been so angry for 4yrs.

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“The Blob” is the Brexidiots’ name for “Reality”

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Hey, look what happens when politicians use their privilege and power to enrich themselves and their cronies rather than solve genuine problems…

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@ITVNewsPolitics Sunak is being typically disingenuous here. The nominees that Sunak did allow through still make him look utterly complicit with Johnson. And if he’s trying to suggest he stood up to Johnson, then the outcome shows he’s appallingly weak.

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@mikegalsworthy @BBCNews Leaving the EU to get back fishing rights at the expense of financial services passporting is like a parent quitting a job on £65,000 a year to protect their kid’s £5 paper round.

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@implausibleblog You get the impression that not only is Johnson unfamiliar with how decent senior people conduct themselves in a high stress environment, but he hasn’t even seen that on screen/stage 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@dust_heat @BBCLauraKT Now there’s a Brexit benefit!

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Now why would Nigel Farage want to 'cancel' the Nuremberg Trials?🤔Does anyone not see this vicious little man for what he really is?

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@GazfromFlixton @Trickyjabs @MattHancock It’s called #Mattymatics 😃

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Nobody’s even been prosecuted, let alone jailed, over dodgy political donations, the Tories’ “unlawful” VIP lane for dodgy PPE/testing contracts, the Teesside freeport etc etc but they’ll jail a father of 3 for a 30min protest march 😡

Jo Maugham

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Extraordinary press release from @JustStop_Oil . For peacefully marching for 30 minutes on a road in North London to protest against the destruction of the planet - and having pleaded guilty - Stephen Gingell, a father of three, has been sentenced to six months in prison.

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Badenoch lying that the EU trade restrictions were in “retaliation” for Britain leaving. They apply to all non-members depending on their EU trade deal. The current arrangement is what Johnson, Sunak, Gove, Frost etc signed us up to and they also lied about the consequences.

Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

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So @KemiBadenoch blames the EU and farmers for trade barriers which the Tories *chose* when they selected the Canada deal. And when we were in the EU a deli owner had just same options to try and find European products in other countries, but thanks to protected designation of…

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@OwenJones84 @Andy_Hunt357 @BBCPolitics You said the "idea... is ridiculous" and only now point to some analysis about Twitter from someone claiming expertise. My point is the BBC should be interviewing the people with expertise about their analysis and not airing mere opinion from "commentators".

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Sunak, Johnson and No 10 are all lying about the appointments scandal. HOLAC recommends appointments, and does the vetting, but peers are appointed by the King on the advice of the prime minister:

How members are appointed

www.parliament.uk

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Every US newspaper ran “Guilty” yet Britain’s Daily Heil takes this view…

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@Laurence_in_EU @Sosban_in_Exile That’s nothing. We pay Tory MPs £82,000 a year to create the need for food banks.

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@implausibleblog If there weren’t such a powerful need for Britain to join the Single Market and Customs Union, politicians wouldn’t keep pretending otherwise to cover for the fact they are powerless to deliver such an enormous economic boost through their own policies.

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Not surprising to see her trying to play down the revelations of gross negligence and misconduct among the cabinet during the pandemic, as she was married to Gove at the time and we didn’t see her reporting on any of it.

LBC

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"This inquiry won't actually result in any criminal prosecution; it's really just a 'he said, she said' situation." Daily Mail’s Sarah Vine describes the unravelling of the Covid Inquiry as ‘petty’. @IainDale | #CrossQuestion

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When your trade and health policies means begging retired people to return to work in the midst of a pandemic that you admit is out of your control, you might change your policies…

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I am asking former teachers to come forward to temporarily support school and college workforces in the New Year. Please share and visit @GetIntoTeaching 👉🏽 My message to ensure we protect education👇🏽

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@ThatTimWalker May (and Johnson) did nothing because the Russians have donated £3.5m to the Tory Party since 2010:

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@PaulbernalUK So ironic that the Tories should criminalise protest just prior to losing power, when they would need the support of all the protests they could muster…

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Brilliantly persistent questioning from Reid here to confirm United Utilities places shareholder wealth above customers and clean water. Are we nearing the end of the post-truth era of 2016 - ?

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How can you defend this appalling situation?' - ＠susannareid100 Susanna challenges Chris Matthews from United Utilities following data that the company dumped more than 27,000 hours worth of untreated sewage since 2020. Mr Matthews is also asked to reveal what the return to…

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@OliverDowden “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

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@noahbarkin May sure loves to rush in to hug the AltRight: our own Brexidiots, Trump, Erdogan, Dacre, this Polish mob...

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@mikegove12 . @Will_Overman Fixed it for you 😉

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Really dislike the constant platforming of people from opaquely funded right wing ‘stink tanks’ who are presented as ‘journalists’ without explaining their covert political connections, then defended as if the only criticism made of them is based on their age or gender.

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Really dislike the constant personal attacks on @KateAndrs . We disagree on plenty, but she's a smart person with sincerely held views. Play the ball, not the woman.

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@DanNeidle Great work. Fascinating that HMRC pursued the ‘loan charge’ customers/victims, not the predators. Similar attitude to the Post Office, whose real argument is with their supplier. Donations to the Tories may have helped? Treasury also turning a blind eye to Teesside Freeport crew.

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@mikegalsworthy What do you mean ‘if’?

The Brexit campaign got 61% of its funding from just 5 of Britain's richest businessmen

These people feature in The Sunday Times Rich List 2017.

www.businessinsider.com

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Sunak's toast. He's got rid of 3 cabinet ministers in 6 mths, now losing his Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary in one hit. His Home Secretary is burning down the house, his Foreign Secretary is ironically named and his Chancellor is conflicted on NHS funding/strikes

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Sunak says people are out of line when querying his wife’s income from Infosys, which still operates in Putin’s regime, but here she is campaigning with Dowden 👇🧐

Oliver Dowden

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Great to be out campaigning with Akshata (Mrs Sunak) and @dean4watford today in #Watford and #Bushey 🏘 Good reception on the doorstep for our fantastic @conservatives candidates ✅👍🟦 Remember to vote Conservative in your area’s local elections on 4 May 🗳

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@StevePeers “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

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The BBC management needs a deep clean after the election

penwan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@maitlis At least you called them out, Emily Maitlis. Well done.

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@Haggis_UK @fish_in_a_hat WTAF?! Brexidiot Jenkyns asks this question not only after the #EUref but 2 years after???

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@LouisaJamesITV Really? I’m seeing this 👇

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Is this the same person who wanted to shut down protest when Home Secretary? It most certainly is!

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@implausibleblog

2 months

Federal Deputy of Brussels @emir_kir shuts down a far right conference and Suella Braverman and Nigel Farage are upset because Brussels have taken back control and are applying their laws to prevent division Braverman, "It's a real shame that the thought police instructed by the…

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

7 months

So who arranged the financial support without first going to the Police? 🧐

L8in

@L8in

7 months

Sir Jake Berry told police one alleged victim was receiving support paid for by the Conservative Party, according to a letter published in the Mail on Sunday. The MP has not been named...

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

5 months

Is there any aspect of government where the Tories aren’t overseeing an utter shambles?

Sky News

@SkyNews

5 months

Lord Cameron admits he does not know if the UK considers Gaza to be occupied by Israel. "I don't think Israel regards itself as an occupying force, but whether that is correct, I would want to take legal advice" he says. 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

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@sdjohns

2 years

@pritipatel “…relocated…” as in “trafficked” or “smuggled”, right? By the British state? And the people you traffic or transport then have to stay in Rwanda as part of your ‘deal’ with the Rwandans… 🤔 They aren’t convicts, so Britain is basically return to the slave trade. 😳

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

6 years

@SMEadviser @Digbylj 😂Jones isn't even elected! MPs are elected - that's democracy. They're debating May's so-called deal vs other options available today - that's democracy.

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@sdjohns

4 months

This is the stuff of fascism. Mogg literally blames England’s judges for a recent act of grievous bodily harm. He puts his viciously cruel segment of the Tory Party above the judiciary and the laws passed by Parliament. He wants a dictatorship where his crew makes the rules.

Adam Schwarz

@AdamJSchwarz

4 months

More Rees-Mogg incitement: "Courts being weak about this & preferring an international construction of human rights must share blame for judges who allow people who throw corrosive substances over people remaining in this country". To be clear, this was not the fault of judges.

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@sdjohns

2 years

Brexidiot Habib admits that Johnson has not delivered Brexit and Britain’s current status is worse than remaining in the EU…

Femi - REGISTER TO VOTE BY 18 JUNE

@Femi_Sorry

2 years

Now that we've been out of the EU for 2 years, and Brexit doesn't match with what the politicians told people they were voting for.... Leave voters get to see just how delusional their leaders always were. Ben Habib says he'll fix Brexit, but also, it's not Brexit. 🤪

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@sdjohns

2 years

@PoliticsJOE_UK I do get this repeated question very often outside of Australia because of my Aussie accent. Sometimes by other Aussies. The tactic is definitely designed to pigeonhole you in whatever socioeconomic matrix exists in the person's head, and is irritating at the best of times.

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@sdjohns

4 years

Pressure must be mounting on Brexidiots Buckland and Braverman as the UK misses EU deadline to justify the deliberate breach of international law

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@sdjohns

6 months

Brexit means… accepting the assurances of Rwanda rather than the judgment of Britain’s highest court. 🤯

Farrukh

@implausibleblog

6 months

Left: Cleverly, "Rwanda takes their duty to the humane and professional treatment of refugees incredibly seriously" Right: Rwanda, "We don't agree with the decision of the UK's Supreme Court, because it's based on dishonesty of the UNHCR"

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

4 months

Sunak’s flagship freeport scam has run aground. How/why did the Treasury sign off on it? @PrivateEyeNews

Mike H

@mikoh123

4 months

Lord Ben Houchen geot a bit of a kicking on #newsnight from Victoria Derbyshire. #bbcqt #politicslive

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

6 years

@sturdyAlex @MarcusFysh Every day brings a new low in Brexidiot understanding of the UK's trade arrangements. But the fact the BBC thinks it is providing appropriate 'balance' by allowing someone this catastrophically dumb to challenge a genuine professional shows how poorly the BBC has served the UK.

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

3 years

The Brexiteers don’t like being told that Brexit is their “fault”.

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

4 years

@davidschneider Patel’s not bothered at all by the fact her parents wouldn’t have been allowed in under the new plans. She -and they - are clearly happy to be pulling up the drawbridge so theirs can’t follow.

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@sdjohns

7 months

Surely all the ministers’ outright lies about the ‘value’ of these trade deals constitute Misconduct in Public Office?

UK’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal worth even less than previously thought, OBR says

Office for Budget Responsibility says UK entry into the Indo-Pacific agreement will add just 0.04% to GDP in the long run

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

27 days

Hunt has resorted to outright lies in this speech, including on things like foreign investment. I doubt he cares anymore. He knows the game is up.

Best for Britain

@BestForBritain

27 days

Jeremy Hunt took exception to @nickeardleybbc using the term "stealth taxes". He says he's been "completely open" about having to put up tax. And here he is being "completely open" about it in March 2023, in November 2023, and again in March 2024. ~AA 👀 @TVNaga01 @angelaeagle

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

3 years

Political zealots whining at citizens to ‘find a way’ to cope with their pathetic red tape is not ‘democratic’ or ‘libertarian’. The Brexiteers can no longer hide the fact that Brexit doesn’t “work” and they misled a nation.

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Haggis_UK

3 years

Michael Gove has insisted that businesses, big & small, need to understand that we have now left the customs union & single market.. with big implications... like business experiencing significant friction due to extreme amounts of bureaucracy. #BrexitReality

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

8 months

Behind closed doors, Sunak and Cleverly are promoting the benefits of EU membership for other countries, yet denying British voters those same benefits 🤬

Edwin Hayward

@edwinhayward

8 months

Interesting story in the Telegraph. Apparently Britain is putting its diplomatic weight behind Ukraine's EU membership bid, but is having to do so covertly because the cognitive dissonance with Brexit would be too unbearable if it were to do so overtly.

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Simon Deane-Johns

@sdjohns

3 years

Exclusive: Boris Johnson in fresh inquiry after Jennifer Arcuri agrees to assist ethics watchdog

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