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Writer and independent human rights consultant

Irish in London
Joined April 2011
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Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺
5 months
Early reviews are in! Sister 1: “Another mucky book!” Sister 2: “Aye. Why can’t you just write a NICE book, Aidan?” #SomeServiceToTheState is out tomorrow, 8 Dec. You can make up your own mind.
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Dear @BBCNews Why are British in Spain expats but Spaniards in UK are migrants?
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10 months
I think it’s past time that the English recognise once and for all that @BorisJohnson is a blithering eejit
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“How in the name of Jaysus did these people ever manage to get an empire?” - Michael Collins
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The conscience of England is now carried by Lineker, Rashford, Southgate, Voderman. @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour keep their gobs shut for fear of upsetting racist potential voters
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I don’t imagine ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ or ⁦ @BBCr4today will report this tomorrow but it’s another case of fantasy #Brexit colliding with reality:⁩ A hard border between Ireland & Northern Ireland would prevent US-UK trade deal post Brexit - Nancy Pelosi
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3 years
Good news everyone: there can’t be any rioting in Belfast because @BBCNews at 10 pm hasn’t mentioned a word about it... I mean it can’t be that they don’t give a stuff or have no editorial integrity, can it @bbcpress ?
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Dear @RishiSunak @10DowningStreet In 2017 I was awarded an honorary OBE in recognition of my services to the eradication of slavery. I am now returning this as it is something which I can no longer, in good conscience, keep”
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1 year
Oh mate!
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Mike Galsworthy
1 year
This is not what Britain is - and not what British police are. This is our police being used as government enforcers for a government over-obsessed with controlling culture whilst preaching an alarm around the protection of free speech.
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3 years
You’ll know @BorisJohnson that when Malta was awarded the #GeorgeCross during WW2 graffiti appeared on the walls of Valletta: “Bread not medals”. #NHS staff using food banks may feel the same thing.
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It should be a matter of perpetual shame for @UKLabour that this far-Right activist was maintained in a safe Labour seat for decades
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2 years
Your occasional reminder that not a single person born this century voted for #Brexit
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Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺
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Dear @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Tell us again why you so admire the convicted fraudster Donald Trump?
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10 months
The Beatitudes really passed Widdecombe by.
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2 years
Woman who can’t pronounce “Taoiseach” wants the world to believe she understands and cares about @BelfastAgmt
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By putting lunatic right wingers like Melanie Phillips and Nigel Farage on @bbcquestiontime its editors seek to normalise the mere far-right that is the Tory party
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@BBCJonSopel I’d guess Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and the other Iranian hostages
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Poor @BorisJohnson ! All he ever did was - destroy the economic prospects of the U.K. for a generation - jeopardise Irish peace - vandalise the prospects of his country’s young - undermine rule of law - cause the needless deaths of 10s of thousands #NoConfidence
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Dear @SamiraAhmedUK @newswatchbbc Perhaps you could enquire of the Powers That Be, why @BBCNews is giving more attention to a story about cheating in sport, than one about cheating to undermine the foundations of British democracy?
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10 months
Dear formerly English Tweeps who have now, since 2016, acquired Irish passports: 1. Welcome! 2. Can youse now go and learn a bit of Irish history?
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@CharlesTannock @Matthew_Kupfer @olex_scherba A key issue in 1961 was Kennedy’s effort to find a way to let Khrushchev back down by offering a quid pro quo with Turkish missiles. What let’s Putin back down?
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5 years
Some years after the publication of #Catch22 Joseph Heller was interviewed: “You haven’t ever written anything as good as Catch 22 these past decades have you?” “No. Neither has anyone else.”
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Dear @SuellaBraverman @ukhomeoffice Just a quick one for something I’m writing: What country in the 1930s wished to deport undesirables to Madagascar?
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6 years
So currently the UK is under attack in a trade war by the US, and a real war by Russia. Aren’t Russia and the US the only 2 countries in the world supporting #Brexit ? #BrexitShambles
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Dear @LangmanVince Ms Parton is a legend. She can do what she likes. Who are you again?
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Vince Langman
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Are you ok with 77 year old Dolly Parton dressing like a 20 year old Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. Yes? or No? 👇
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I'm profoundly sad that on 23rd June the UK electorate endorsed the values of @Nigel_Farage rather than #JoCox
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Brexiters “would have Britain stand before the world, knee-deep in shredded treaties, and say, “Sign here, trust us!” One can but wish them the best of British luck with that one,” by the great @fotoole
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10 months
Lots of English people who were fine with Johnny Mercer’s grotesque posturing around unlawful British Army killings in the North of Ireland… …are losing their rag with him for being a bit rude and stupid on Question Time
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This is why #Brexit happened
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No Context Brits
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3 years
Occasional reminder to English Tweeps who’ve just found NI on a map but haven’t gotten round to reading a book on the subject yet: When Kate Hoey talks about Northern Ireland, she only means DUP voters.
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If you're thinking that you might not bother voting remember: people died to get you your vote. Honour them by using it.
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@KateWilliamsme Myself and my wife watched the two of you take on Farage this morning. We were cheering by the end. Well done
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“Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?”
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“Woe betide you... you hypocrites! You’re like whitewashed graves, which look very fine on the outside, but inside are full of... uncleanness of every kind. That’s like you: on the outside you appear to be virtuous & law-abiding, but inside you’re full of hypocrisy & lawlessness”
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3 years
The same folk who think it an affront to their civil liberties to have to wear masks during a pandemic seem noticeably mellow about @pritipatel ’s plans to reintroduce concentration camps.
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@JimMFelton In the tradition of Jim Crow, Klan terrorism and lynchings... yes.
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@BrexitClock @DPJHodges You are, of course, right. And if Dan ever bothered to learn his history he’d also know “taking the knee” originates with the British anti-slavery struggle
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#Brexit hardman @SteveBakerHW tells the Paddies it’s okay for him to promote unionism but it’s not okay for the Micks to talk about wanting a New Ireland
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When I was a kid, loyalist paramilitaries planned to attack my primary school to kill all the teachers & pupils in reprisal for an IRA atrocity Still surprised how many folk are fine with @netanyahu doing x1,000s something that was even too horrific for the Glenanne Gang #Gaza
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2 years
Just think: everyone who watched #DerryGirls this evening now knows more about @BelfastAgmt than @trussliz , @lisanandy @BorisJohnson and @Keir_Starmer put together
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@simon_schama @sarahcpr The Casablanca La Marseillaise
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5 years
Anyone who ever says Britain stood alone in 1940 is insulting every South Asian, African, Australian, Kiwi, Canadian, Czech, French, Irish and Pole who bled alongside the British in those dark days.
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"If the word "NO" was removed from the English language [the @duponline ] would be speechless" - John Hume
@BelTel
Belfast Telegraph
5 years
DUP prefers one-year delay over May's 'toxic Brexit deal', says Wilson as Rees-Mogg signals shift
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4 years
On this day 23 June in 2016 my beloved @klaraskriv was kind enough to marry me. We wouldn’t have met without Freedom of Movement in Europe. The personal doesn’t get much more political.
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Just visited my friend Richard who is hunger-striking outside @FCDOGovUK to obtain @trussliz & @BorisJohnson action to #FreeNazanin In Irish culture there is no worse shame than having someone hungry on your doorstep when your action could prevent it
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I would urge every Irish and Scottish nationalist to share this far and wide. I can think of few better ways to undermine the union.
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Dear @Jacob_Rees_Mogg By now I’m sure you will have been made aware that Eoin Morgan is Irish, as was, of course, Wellington. Surely the critical reception of your book, The Victorians, taught you pause before displaying your crass ignorance in public? #eejit
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@PamKeithFL @EuEthnic It’s a Republican tradition: Nixon did it with North Vietnam; Trump did it with Putin.
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5 years
Ireland’s interests, Ireland’s peace, will always be subordinate to English prejudices & xenophobia. The future peace & prosperity of Ireland, therefore, is dependent on the solidarity of EU 27 refusing to accept any more of England’s neo-colonial nonsense
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UK is paying tens of billions of pounds in #Brexit to get a worse trade deal than the one they already have. And some English people still think us Paddies are thick. #IronyIsDead
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@VictoriaCoren @Channel4 You’ll always be a winner in our house
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Dear @BBCNews @BBCNewsPR There’s about 30,000 people awaiting an answer to this question.
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@thehistoryguy @cathie_wood Having no empire left to pillage, the British Establishment plunders the U.K.
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@tshep42 @NicholasTyrone It’s only the speed of the collapse that has surprised me about Truss. The collapse was inevitable in a country where Left and Right tell the people “You can eat a flag”
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Given the choice between securing NI in the U.K. and a fantasy of reinstating the Protestant Supremacy there, Junior, never the sharpest of spoons in the knife drawer, goes for the latter.
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2 years
2021 Sinn Fein ard fheis
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3 years
Dear @DominicRaab Best read the Good Friday Agreement now, @BelfastAgmt , donchathink?
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Dominic Raab
3 years
(2/2) It was a close contest and @realDonaldTrump fought hard. Looking forward to working with the new administration – the UK 🇬🇧 US 🇺🇸friendship has always been a force for good in the world.
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The moral of the story? Keep boycotting #Wetherspoons - profits drop 19% and its boss is blaming Remainera
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Mount Everest is Visible From Kathmandu, Nepal for First Time in Living Memory
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Putin’s aim with #Brexit was to bring Britain to its knees for a generation.
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On the 23rd June 2016 I married the missus @klaraskriv (we had the date before Cameron decided on the unpleasantness) We’d never have met without freedom of movement across our common European homeland. I for one will never “embrace” #Brexit
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@BBCNewsnight @PeterBoneUK God! Peter Bone is really thick, isn’t he?
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@JamieBrysonCPNI Dear Jamie It was the British government that imposed the Irish Sea border. Why aren’t you burning their flag?
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Please join me in signing this Petition: Publish the Russia report
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Btw the DUP was completely fine with NI being different to the rest of the U.K. when it came to civil rights
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2 years
Othello murdered his wife. Johnson murdered your granny.
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Henry Zeffman
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Am told Boris Johnson compared himself to Othello while addressing Conservative MPs tonight. He said he always sees the best in people, unlike Dominic Cummings (who he cast as Iago)
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Our wedding today: We'd not have met without freedom of movement. Thanks Mr Churchill for thinking up EU #StrongerIn
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Irish political leaders understand 2 things about war: 1. That violence is a symptom of a political problem; 2. That all armed actors tend towards atrocities. Few British political leaders know these things because 1. They know little of history; and 2. They know little of war.
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Who's going to tell him? #Bless
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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We need a President who isn't a laughing stock to the entire World. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect!
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I always reckoned Nicola was sound
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BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Nicola Sturgeon urged to apologise after leaked WhatsApp messages describing Matt Hancock as “Weaker than a nuns piss,” Liz Truss as “About as much use as a marzipan dildo,” and referring to Suella Braverman as “Shitler.”
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Bloody refugees, coming over here, inspiring some of the finest children's literature ever!
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#Bless Heartless bigots don’t like being called heartless bigots ❄️
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Dear @BorisJohnson I remember the 1978-9 “winter of discontent”. At least we had food then and the hospitals weren’t at breaking point.
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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
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ITV News Politics
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. @BorisJohnson : 'Without democracy governments will become corrupt and they will be run by an elite who will hand power to other members of that elite down the generations and that will have a terrible effect on the rule of law'
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It now seems that the only real reason that @theresa_may is contemplating economically disembowelling the UK with #Brexit is because she’s afraid the UK will look a bit silly if it doesn’t go through with it. That ship has sailed.
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@grantshapps Dear Grant, Have you considered the possibility that your anti-strike bill is in contravention of the 1930 Forced Labour Convention by introducing a menace of penalty to extract involuntary labour?
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It may not be big in the grand scheme of things, but I did get quite a buzz after a year and a half of plague walking into my hometown @Waterstones in Newry and seeing this
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Dear @Nigel_Farage You’re an awful oul eejit
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I was once intimidated by an immigrant. It was Johnny Rotten himself in a juice bar on Venice Beach, California, where he had IMMIGRATED to. Scary looking hypocrite!
@LBC
LBC
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‘You shouldn’t have accepted them in such vast numbers, it’s created real animosity in communities.’ The Sex Pistols’ John Lydon tells @AndrewMarr9 that immigrants have created ‘division’, relaying his own adaption to ‘being British’ after his family’s relocation from Ireland.
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Protest is leadership
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@peterkyle @RichardEmmins @UKLabour All due respect Peter, that’s a pretty vacuous sentiment when the source of the argument relates to the cause of the decline
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@alexhallhall @KernowQ Having no more Empire to plunder the British Establishment decided to loot the U.K.
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4 years
Go well John
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So I watched #BelfastMovie 1. I have no idea what sort of accent Judi Dench thought she was doing but 2. Liked it 3. It's a child's perspective on those days so it's fragmentary and at moments almost magic realist and 4. As ususal Ciaran Hinds is superb
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There you go: the #GFA was a munificent gift of the English in general and @UKLabour in particular. Nothing to do with John Hume, the Irish @dfatirl or various Taoisigh who mapped it out for the Brits and showed them where to sign. #BritsAtItAgain
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Keir Starmer
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The Good Friday Agreement, signed 26 years ago today, is one of Labour’s proudest achievements. Courageous leadership like Mo Mowlam's finally ended the Troubles, bringing peace to Northern Ireland. We celebrate the progress made since then and must never take it for granted.
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So farewell then @BorisJohnson , You let the bodies pile high, You fucked business, You got your flunky to lie to your Queen And drunkenly danced on her husband’s grave. Finest traditions of the British Empire really! I’m sure the @Conservatives would love to have you back.
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Hello darkness my old friend...
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@HarshadeSilvaMP @SusanChubb1 @David_Cameron @BarackObama Class privilege is when you can feck up your own country and still find a place as a witty after dinner speaker.
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Ireland must plan for a “car crash” in case “headbanger” #Brexiteers get their way, AIB chairman has said
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Finally here
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Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺
4 years
My 1st novel #TheUndiscoverCountry is published today with ⁦ @unbounders ⁩ It’s an investigation of murder & morality against the background of the Irish War of Independence in 1920 The Irish Times calls it a “smart & pacy debut” Check it out 😊
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The eejits who love this kitschy nonsense would also have Paddington deported as an illegal immigrant.
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Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺
4 years
Dear @jeremycorbyn @joswinson Cons + neo-fascists = 47% Lab + Libs+ Greens= 49% Get your bleeding acts together
@BritainElects
Britain Elects
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Westminster voting intention: CON: 40% (+3) LAB: 30% (+1) LDEM: 16% (-1) BREX: 7% (-2) GRN: 3% (-) via @ComRes , 11 - 12 Nov Chgs. w/ 10 Nov
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England is such a silly country
@jonsopel
Jon Sopel
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Busiest room in Manchester is not in the conference centre. It’s the room where ⁦ @trussliz ⁩ is about to speak. That’s where the real buzz is
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