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Award-winning business journalist with more than 30 years' experience in the media. Now at Liverpool Business News ...

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Short 🧵 1/2 As a world we are decarbonising, and it’s critical that we do. However, no matter how much we accelerate the transition, fossil fuels will remain essential to our lives for the next few decades. To label fossil fuel producers as ‘evil’ seems very odd…

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Fossil Free Book vs. Baillie Gifford. The boycotting of book festivals.

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2 years

Possibly my favourite social media exchange in the whole pandemic

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5 years

This is brilliant... how to describe Twitter to someone who has never used it.

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If you stand outside the hotel room shouting abuse at a 20-year-old singer, you are not the good guys.

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This is currently the situation outside of Eden Golan's hotel room. Because of her nationality, hundreds of people who hate her are screaming outside of her room. What happens if she goes outside? You hurt her so she quits? You kill her so she can't perform? If you are this

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A lot of discussion on here today about whether he ‘misspoke’ but what many seem to be missing is that when he did say ‘we must normalise massacres’ there was a massive cheer from the crowd. Did they mis-cheer?

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Aviva Klompas

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Mohammed El Kurd speaking in Londong today: "We must normalize massacres as the status quo." cc: Every university that plans to invite El Kurd to campus. This is a man who not only celebrates the Ooctober 7 massacre in Israel - he wants to see it happen again and again.

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To those unaware of the history, Bobby Sands was a cold-blooded bastard who planted a bomb in a furniture shop in Belfast. He and his gang shot two coppers as they fled the scene. But he was a good socialist.

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The key phrase is always ‘do your own research’

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TV gold, here, from Emily Maitlis, who illustrates what must be a common reaction when Barry Gardiner opens his mouth.

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25 passes for Liverpool’s second goal. Everyone touched it except Van Dijk. Graphic from the Telegraph

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Tony McDonough

5 years

Peter Sissons, who died today, on the far left of this pic, next to John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck in the Isle of Man in 1951. All three were pupils at Dovedale school in South Liverpool.

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Tony McDonough

4 years

We in Liverpool have known for more than 30 years what a stomach-churning cesspool of lies The Sun newspaper is. And maybe now is the time to talk about ending anonymity on Twitter #CarolineFlackRIP

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The Sun takes down article about Caroline Flack from website

Piece about a Valentine’s Day card mocking the presenter was removed amid concerns over media coverage of her arrest

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6 months

If you are a high profile politician then public protest goes with the territory. But the level of rage here is unhinged. Starmer would actually be in danger if he was unprotected. It’s like a mob portrayed by Dickens in A Tale Of Two Cities. These people are not the good guys.

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Keir Starmer getting the welcome to Glasgow he deserves. How many more dead children @Keir_Starmer ? Ceasefire now!!

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5 months

What an astonishing clip. I don’t know who this woman is but her effortless intellectual clarity made Billy Bragg sound as dumb as soup. And for someone who prides himself on being a progressive Bragg actually came across like a latter day Mary Whitehouse. A po-faced puritan.

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Stephen Knight 🎙️

5 months

It's fairly obvious that Billy Bragg isn't particularly bright.

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4 months

Screaming at a woman walking down the street alone at night isn’t ‘legitimate protest’. It’s abusive and bullying behaviour. If you think otherwise you have completely lost your moral compass.

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Anneliese Dodds MP, Labour Party’s chair heckled by her constituents outside the Party fundraiser she hosted last night

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2 years

Singing the national anthem of the country @UKLabour seeks to lead at its annual conference is ‘odd’ but spending half a day at conference waving flags of another country is perfectly normal. Ok, I get it

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2 years

For the millionth time… 1 We haven’t spent £37bn on test & trace. It’s the budget until April 2022. 2 Most of it will be spent on testing which has been absolutely essential. 3 Hardly any of it went to Serco. Intellectual laziness and repeating of lazy myths drives me crazy

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5 years

Bit of a mystery. Labour Party Properties Ltd, which invests in property for @UKLabour , made £2.5m in annual revenue in its last accounts, with a pre-tax profit of £637,000. Corporation tax payable on that should be around £120,000. But it paid none. Anyone any idea why?

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5 years

He grew up in a seven-bedroom manor house in Shropshire. Today is the day when all those wealthy middle class socialists can indulge their working class fetish.

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Jeremy Corbyn

5 years

I'm on my way to the #DurhamMinersGala and it feels like going home. It represents the sense of community and togetherness that defines the Labour Party and our trade union movement.

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4 years

On the @afneil show @RLong_Bailey said that one of the reasons @UKLabour lost votes in the GE was because the way they explained their policies was ‘too intellectual’ for people to understand. There you have it. If we weren’t so stupid and simple, we’d have voted for them.

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4 years

On March 29 @ProfKarolSikora posted this. That was a pretty accurate prediction. Man knows what he’s talking about #coronavirus

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5 years

Little bit of advice for @UKLabour as you embark on your new journey... most ordinary people never mention ‘neoliberalism’, they don’t want a class war with billionaires and they generally don’t give a toss about Israel/Palestine. Hope that helps.

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3 years

Did Ridley Scott, Mike Leigh, Sam Mendes, Steve McQueen, Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle and Paul Greengrass all drop dead this morning?

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Can anyone in @UKLabour answer me this... why do so many of your members require training on antisemitism? I don't understand why an educated, politically-aware adult needs to be trained not to be a racist bastard.

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7 months

Starmer didn’t ‘praise’ Thatcher. What he did do, and what he has been doing for some time, is quietly challenge the corrosive tribal populism of the last decade. Today’s comments were an acknowledgment that complexity isn’t a vice. Adults will understand.

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Keir Starmer praises Margaret Thatcher in bid to woo Tory voters

Labour leader risks wrath of his party by hailing ‘sense of mission’ of former Conservative prime minister

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Jeremy Corbyn and friends in Liverpool, today... it’s a picture of youth, vitality and diversity.

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4 years

Is Lloyd Russell-Moyle about to be the next member of the @UKLabour front bench to be sacked after Rebecca Long-Bailey? He should be. This is a horrible take. Over to you, @Keir_Starmer

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It’s funny Gerry Adams never said that after his mates blew two children to bits in Warrington in 1993. I don’t know where he gets the nerve.

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2 years

Here are some very angry men shouting abuse at women in Bristol without being arrested or even moved on. This is where we are now. This is the new ‘progressive politics’ in its full illiberal glory. Watch and shudder.

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♀️🦖The Women Coventry💚🤍💜

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#LetWomenSpeak @StandingforXX Speaker's Corner event in #Bristol . Some of us were there and took this video. Aggressive men rage-shouting at women. For speaking up for our rights. These #PoundShopNinjas will not silence us.

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2 years

It is about time @Keir_Starmer grows a spine and gives Rosie his public support. This has gone on for far too long.

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2 years

I am aware of yet more personal, libellous, nasty and fictional crap being published about me again today. All published/written by ex and current @UKLabour members who are clearly absolutely obsessed by my private life for some reason. I have been subjected to this rubbish...

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‘We got 750,000 more votes than Blair’s winning total in 2005’ says maths genius, ⁦ @RichardBurgon ⁩... UK’s population has grown by 7.6 million people since then. Give thanks these people aren’t running the economy.

Learning the Right Lessons

Labour must rebuild trust among working-class people in all parts of the country - but abandoning its transformational policies would be a mistake, argues Richard Burgon.

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Tony McDonough

5 years

I don’t even know where to start with the level of ignorance in this tweet other than to point out that companies don’t pay tax on sales. I give you the Shadow Business Secretary.

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Rebecca Long-Bailey

5 years

In 2017 Amazon subsidiaries in the U.K. paid £5 million in tax while making £8.6 billion in sales. That’s like someone on £30k paying just £17 in tax.

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Well this is an extraordinary evolution in the space of a few months

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1 year

This snidely post from @PoliticsJOE_UK illustrates how posh middle class socialists love to sneer at people from working class backgrounds

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my dad was a toolmaker

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6 months

A reminder Jeremy Corbyn came from wealth, grew up in a manor house in Shropshire and was privately educated, and remains wealthy. I’ve not got a problem with that per se. But if you’re weaponising the wealth & privilege of your political enemies then it works both ways.

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6 months

Alexei Sayle on Jeremy Corbyn: "The propaganda that's thrown against him is disgraceful. Until he appeared, you had to vote for one kind of Oxbridge twat or another, people who all go to the same dinner parties." Back to our politicians all going to the same dinner parties.

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6 months

‘Wealthy Jewish celebrities’ There is just no pretence any more

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There is something disgustingly shameful about wealthy Jewish celebrities using their influence to whine about antisemitism while Israeli Jews have just murdered over 10,000 children and destroyed every means of life in Gaza for indigenous Palestinians.

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7 months

I’m going to contact the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool and ask them where they stash the Kalashnikovs.

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Edward Levey

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"It's not inconceivable that the pile of kalashnikovs belonged to the hospital security department". Rather than applying Occam's Razor, @BowenBBC strains every sinew to cast doubt on the claim that the hospital was being used by Hamas terrorists.

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2 years

And the chair of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party, @RosieDuffield1 wasn’t invited. Which is simply astonishing.

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2 years

It was such an honour to open Labour’s National Women’s Conference this morning. Great to also hear passionate speeches from @Keir_Starmer and @AngelaRayner , and an update from @LouHaigh on the P&O scandal. I look forward to hearing from women across our movement #nawc2022 🌹

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4 years

Some on the left having a go at Lisa Nandy for pointing out Biden backed Britain in the Falklands. That is the Falklands conflict when we liberated 1,800 British people following invasion by Argentina’s fascist military junta. They still have no idea why they lost the election.

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Tony McDonough

22 days

As Lansman has popped up to bloviate let’s remind ourselves of election night in 2019 when Alan Johnson handed him his arse in one of the greatest arse-handing moments in the history of live TV.

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It’s beyond belief that in one month @UKLabour can admit as a member @NatalieElphicke who described the Rwanda plan as “world-leading” & bar @HackneyAbbott from standing again, both without proper process! What is this saying to Black voters? I speak more in despair than anger!

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1 year

While five people, including a teenager, slowly suffocate in what will be a terrifying end to their lives let us use their plight as a convenient vehicle for our ideological hobby horses.

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If the super-rich can spend £250,000 on vanity jaunts 2.4 miles beneath the ocean then they're not being taxed enough.

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He’s finally lost it. In 2015 Amnesty, not known for its love of Israel, revealed Hamas was using al-Shifa for the detention and torture of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel. Now he expects us to believe the hostages were getting ‘medical treatment’? Jesus H

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“If I was 18 choosing where to go to uni, if I was a young investor wanting to locate my business, if I was a kid in a Liverpool school, I would look at this city and say, ‘I want to go there. I want to be there… I want to do that’.” Claire McColgan

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What will be the legacy of 'best ever' Eurovision? - Liverpool Business News

Liverpool has delivered what some observers claim was the best Eurovision ever but will the immediate £40m boost for the city centre economy be followed by longer term benefits?

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Tony McDonough

4 years

For those still pushing the absurd narrative of disloyalty and sabotage, a reminder that back in 2012, a Labour MP called Jeremy Corbyn publicly congratulated George Galloway (yes, really) for beating @UKLabour in the Bradford West by-election. The audacity is off the scale.

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3 months

This is a weird take. Boat race is a part of English culture far removed from mine. But it’s still part of it. And sometimes I like watching it because it’s a good sporting contest. It’s on TV for like 20 mins. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. What’s the problem?

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Omid Djalili

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The main question about the Oxford/Cambridge boat race is NOT wether they should follow tradition and throw the winning Cox into the filthy Thames water, it’s when we’re going to STOP focussing so much TV coverage over this nonsense race that means absolutely nothing to anyone.

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Watch this and tell me again how Lloyd Russell-Moyle has been hard done to by @UKLabour - good riddance

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1 year

BAE Systems employs thousands of people in well paid, high skilled jobs in Barrow. It’s the lifeblood of the town. This tweet drips with metropolitan privilege and sneering contempt for the lives of working class people. And they still don’t know why they lost.

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1 year

An evening with Keir Starmer and The New Statesman, brought to you by Amazon, BAE Systems and Coca Cola. lmaoooooooo

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1 year

Alexei Sayle speculating that @Keir_Starmer may be an MI5 agent. So many of us tried to tell you between 2015 to 2019, when they held sway in the Labour Party, that these people are howl at the moon crazy. Absolutely certifiable. Now do you believe us?

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Alexei Sayle, narrator of the antisemitic Corbynista "Big Lie" film, explains it all for the unelightened. 🚨Keir Starmer is MI5!!!🚨

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3 years

Mainly silence on this from the ‘lifelong anti-racists’

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3 years

Video has emerged of a group of men spitting at a bus full of Jewish teenagers in Oxford Street where the group were celebrating the first night of Chanukah.

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You can smell the desperation in this. Any crumb of comfort will do at this point. An extra Green seat, a Corbyn win. Any thread he can grab to continue the delusion that 2015 to 2019 wasn’t just a spectacular waste of everyone’s time and that the ‘project’ twitches still.

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I am one of the 99 people in Liverpool who have signed this declaration. Antisemitism is on the rise and I proudly stand alongside my Jewish friends to fight it #antisemitism

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Declaration against antisemitism says Jewish MPs left to 'walk alone'

Nearly a hundred people in Liverpool including rabbis and academics have signed the declaration

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5 years

McDonnell now criticising the Institute for Fiscal Studies after it questioned the credibility of his tax plans. Yet he himself referenced the IFS no less than 17 times in the @UKLabour manifesto. Just like his faux IRA apology, you can’t trust a single word he says.

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5 years

One of the now numerous challenges to the IFS on its assessment of Labour’s plans.

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8 months

Gary Lineker blocked me for this tweet over a year ago. Even I didn’t realise then just how much on the money I was.

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2 years

The appalling @virginmedia has had my 83-year-old mum on online chat for two hours as she tries to cancel service. Each polite request to terminate is met with a 10-min wait and then another delaying question. They are disgusting to the last. Worst company we’ve ever dealt with.

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2 years

Kerry thinks it’s shameful that @UKLabour under @Keir_Starmer is charging £70 a head for a fundraising gala dinner. She’s right, it’s outrageous. Corbyn the Messiah only charged £65 a head in 2018. And he performed a loaves and fishes trick.

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What is astonishing is the number of Corbynites on here who don’t realise the ‘project’ is over. Like ghosts who don’t know they are dead. Most of the public is oblivious to their leadership contest and the rest of us are just here for the entertainment. Both funny and tragic.

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5 years

With his implication about Madonna and prostitution, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie illustrates beautifully how crude misogyny is never far from the surface among the sectarian left. The antisemitism, of course, is a given.

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BBC Newsnight

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“Madonna would do anything for money" - Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie on Madonna performing in Tel Aviv at Eurovision. Madonna has said she will “never stop playing music to suit someone’s political agenda" MORE TONIGHT 22:30 #newsnight #Eurovision

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Tony McDonough

4 years

In 2017, Tobias Ellwood, a former Royal Green Jacket, fought in vain to save the life of policeman Keith Palmer during a terrorist attack on Parliament. Any decent person would be proud to give him their support. What has happened to @UKLabour ? It is a party now in the gutter.

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Zarah Sultana

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Tories trying to get me to vote for them onto select committees... Lol that’s not me 😂🚮

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Tony McDonough

5 years

A new low for me was watching you throw Luciana under the bus on Newsnight the other night.

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Angela Rayner 🌹

5 years

Well a new low for me to see the MP who was my representative when growing up & was part of a gov’t that gave me Sure Start welcomes the MP who was part of the Gov’t that cut the funds for this vital flagship programme into their ‘tinge group’ I’m utterly disgusted #PMQs

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1 year

Lots of Corbyn cranks jumping and down today, like Rumpelstiltskin, over Starmer’s expenses… So credit to ‘Kathy’ aka @CentreLeft_ for doing a quick expenses comparison between Starmer and their hero

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Alex Nunns

1 year

Starmer billed over £160,000 for a chauffeur-driven car as DPP despite living just four miles from his office. His successor managed to claim a third as much on transport, so this can’t be about necessity, he just likes to live it up at others’ expense.

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Some will say ‘it’s just an old painting, so what?’ but if there are no consequences it escalates. These people have barely restrained rage and violence and an insane level of moral righteousness within them. If you think they’ll stop at artworks then you are out of your mind.

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#BREAKING Pro-palestine protesters DESTROY historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, by spraying and then slashing it.

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If you inherit an estate worth £1m then your inheritance tax bill is £270,000. That leaves you with a clear £730,000 that you haven’t earned. It isn’t a Dickensian tale. Stop whining and pay the man.

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2 years

That human chain for Assange in London today is possibly the largest collection of plastic revolutionary cranks ever assembled

@people4assange

People For Assange

@people4assange

2 years

Former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s message to Julian Assange as he stands with thousands of others in a #HumanChain to #SurroundParliament in London today. #FreeAssangeNOW

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7 months

His unwillingness to call Hamas terrorists isn’t the most telling part. That is expected. I’d be more surprised if he’d said they are. What’s vintage Corbyn here is the incredulity that anyone should dare challenge his myopic worldview. He’s never been able to deal with that.

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Piers Morgan Uncensored

@PiersUncensored

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Piers Morgan asks Jeremy Corbyn 15 times whether the former Labour leader thinks Hamas is a terror group. Jeremy Corbyn refuses to answer. @piersmorgan | @jeremycorbyn

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Tony McDonough

2 years

Don’t understand Labour supporters annoyed about Owen Jones writing a piece slagging off Starmer for the millionth time. Firstly, he can write what he likes. Secondly, he and his fellow travellers have zero influence over mainstream politics. Their time has gone. Leave him to it.

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Tony McDonough

5 years

The current line of people such as @RichardBurgon and @faizashaheen that negative media coverage cost Corbyn the election, is incredibly insulting to working class people. Are they saying that voters are incapable of thinking for themselves.

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Tony McDonough

5 months

Lineker is a man of moderate intelligence who offers simplistic takes to please a particular gallery. And that’s fine, he can do that. But he is also a very public figure and people have every right to criticise him. ‘Expressing views’ works both ways.

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Jonathan Tod

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Gary Lineker is a very brave, compassionate and decent man. He is being vilified by the right wing media, many Tory MP’s, and some of the Jewish community. He receives large amounts of hate mail. All he is doing is expressing his own views; his own truth. This is his

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Tony McDonough

7 years

Hypocrisy of the The Sun's gushing George Michael tribute after once calling him a 'poof' & a 'pervert' - and it gets better #dontbuythesun

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Tony McDonough

5 years

I’ve covered local fetes, magistrates, council meetings, road safety, schools, hospitals, businesses and a million other things while learning my trade. Owen Jones went from Oxford to political aide to opinion writer to activist. He’s never done a reporting shift in his life.

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Tony McDonough

2 years

Andrew Murray was banned from entering Ukraine because they didn’t trust his connections with Russia. Had @UKLabour won in 2019 he would likely now be a senior Government advisor. Think about that and shudder.

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Harry's Place

2 years

Former Special advisor to the Leader of Labour Party Andrew Murray: "we see what's happening with NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe and the extraordinary rhetoric from the British gov as an attempt to maintain and even extend US hegemony across Europe"

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Tony McDonough

3 years

Owen Jones, Aaron Bastani, Matt Zarb-Cousin - all key figures in a movement that pushed @UKLabour to the brink of destruction. They all have PhDs in losing spectacularly. Why do they still think their view on party strategy has a shred of credibility? World class delusion.

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Tony McDonough

2 years

Grew up with the ‘no grass’ culture in Liverpool. I hated it then and I hate it now. It’s a culture that only suits scumbags who have most to gain from it.

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BBC North West

2 years

Merseyside's Chief Constable has made an emotional appeal for information about the murder of 9-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Serena Kennedy wants criminals to search their consciences, and says the public cannot stay silent after such an abhorrent crime.

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Tony McDonough

3 years

Someone made a good point. Everton have been planning to build a new stadium based on future revenues. At the same time it’s neighbour Liverpool was secretly discussing a project that would put that plan at serious risk. Someone will need to explain that.

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Everton accuses ‘Super Six’ of ‘preposterous arrogance’ - Liverpool Business News

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Tony McDonough

5 years

@nigeltheleftist Her spelling is correct and the lack of a comma makes your second sentence incoherent. Not your night, is it? Bellendery at its finest.

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Tony McDonough

1 year

1/4 Last night’s events in Knowsley once again shatter the myth of Scouse exceptionalism. The idea that people who espouse racist views ‘don’t represent us’ and ‘aren’t proper scousers’. It’s simplistic nonsense…

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Tony McDonough

3 years

Julia Hartley-Brewer described by one of the country’s leading epidemiologists as a ‘fire hose of angry nonsense’. Brilliant

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Tony McDonough

5 years

I think it is really refreshing that people feel liberated enough to talk about their sexual fantasies on social media.

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Wolfie. 💙🧡💚

5 years

Fuck Tom Watson. Fuck Wes Streeting. And especially, fuck Chuka Umanna. This is Labour.

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Tony McDonough

4 years

Dear God. This is current @UKLabour in a nutshell... self righteous, bitter, hateful, snarling, intolerant. If you want an illustration of why the party is finished, it’s right here.

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Tony McDonough

9 months

Your regular reminder that when @Keir_Starmer was helping to defend two activists against the might of McDonalds pro bono Loach was taking a bag of money off them to make a TV ad.

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The National

9 months

Ken Loach gives brutal verdict on Keir Starmer in BBC interview 👇

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Tony McDonough

3 years

Introducing Jeremy Corbyn onto a podium, Alexei Sayle calls @Keir_Starmer a “shitbag”. Jezza then appears smiling. The only shitbag is Corbyn himself who has worked against every single @UKLabour leader since the day he joined the party. There should be no way back in for him.

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Tony McDonough

5 years

Well, I think @afneil is going to give @Channel4News a run for its money every Wednesday. It is going to have to up its game.

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BBC News Press Team

5 years

New @afneil political programme, The Andrew Neil Show, will start next week on @BBCTwo

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Tony McDonough

1 month

‘We just want peace’

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Tony McDonough

2 years

My jaw just dropped. This guy is casually telling someone to take their own life. Please report this @friendofjeremy poor excuse for a person

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Tony McDonough

4 years

A couple of weeks ago there was plenty of sanctimonious sneering at people shopping in Primark. Today, I’m seeing the same sentiment against people drinking in Wetherspoons. Why do so many who claim to speak for the working classes despise working class culture so much?

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Tony McDonough

2 months

That escalated quickly… there are people on here who have truly lost their minds

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Tony McDonough

4 years

Who to believe on #coronavirus - decisions decisions, is it... Owen Jones, Caprice, Stan Collymore, Piers Morgan? Or... The Chief Medical Officer, Chief Science Advisor and their large team of world class experts? It’s a tough one.

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Tony McDonough

4 years

Every time you think the crank left has gone as low as it can go, up pops another jackpot... Delia Gebrial, an editor at @novaramedia questions why Manchester bomber Hashem Abedi was given such an ‘unusually long sentence’ for slaughtering 22 people, many of them children.

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Jay Motty

4 years

“I’m interested to see how the judge was able to give such an unusually long sentence” “Well possibly because he killed 22 children and their parents at a pop concert”

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Tony McDonough

4 months

Wow, Dr Julia sharing a Chris Williamson post… the (ridiculously overpriced) mask slips

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Tony McDonough

5 years

Statement from @UKLabour : ‘Only 000000.1% of Labour members ever shit on the kitchen floor. We takes all complaints of shitting on the kitchen floor extremely seriously. Shitting on the kitchen floor is a problem in all political parties, not just Labour’.

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Tony McDonough

6 years

Alan Sugar grew up in a council house, built a business empire, employing tens of thousands of people - providing many more jobs through his supply chain - and pays tens of millions to the exchequer in tax every year. Richard Burgon has a Twitter account

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Richard Burgon

6 years

A reminder that a rotten system encourages us to view the wrong people as role models There are real heroes & heroines all around us, in our communities Their names may never be widely known. But they contribute so much. They are the many that actually make our world go round

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Tony McDonough

5 years

If Chris Williamson isn’t fit to be a Labour MP then what does that make Corbyn? Can someone explain the material difference between the two?

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Tony McDonough

3 years

She is taking a lot of stick from her friends on the left for this but Diane is right. Sex work is, for the most part, the subjugation and exploitation of women by men for money, sexual gratification and power. We should never normalise it.

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Diane Abbott

3 years

Horrific that Durham University is offering training to students who want to be sex workers part-time. Sex work is degrading, dangerous and exploitative. Uni should have nothing to do with it

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Tony McDonough

6 years

@SaltleyGates @jessphillips At least she’s not spitting from behind an anonymous profile like a coward.

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Tony McDonough

5 years

Paul Brand of ITV News tweeted about Omar Salem at pretty much the same time as Laura Kuenssberg did, yet it’s Laura getting the lion’s share of the criticism/abuse. Why is it the women so often get the brunt of all the anger?

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Tony McDonough

5 years

‘I may have wrote for The Sun,’ said Owen Jones, ‘but it was just so I could troll them’... any subsequent boost in the sales of his book was entirely coincidental. Nothing to see, here.

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Tony McDonough

5 months

#Houthi scarves will be available on Amazon but there may be an issue with shipping

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(((Rubie)))

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Do the Houthis by any chance wear distinctive scarves? Asking for my friend Fiona

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Tony McDonough

6 months

A reminder Laura lost not just one, but two, previously safe Labour seats to the Tories. She forwarded the interests of working class people not one millimetre. Starmer needs no lectures from her and her fellow travellers.

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Laura Pidcock

6 months

It’s the deliberate use of the words ‘tilt’ & ‘towards’ for me. We know what this is saying, just a little tilt, not to arrive at our interests, but just *towards* them. After what working class people have been through in the last decade, a ‘tilt’ ‘towards’ is not it.

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Tony McDonough

2 years

Haha, this is worth it just to see the swivel-eyed left go apeshit

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Tony McDonough

4 months

Top tip: Saying ‘I don’t like George Galloway but…’ isn’t fooling anyone. You’re not being clever or nuanced. We see exactly who you are.

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Tony McDonough

3 years

@PortobelloPatti @IanDunt So anyone on social media who helpfully suggests buying anything for any reason is, by default, being insensitive because there will inevitably be someone somewhere who can’t afford it?

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Tony McDonough

4 years

For the second week in a row, one of @UKLabour ’s best MPs @RosieDuffield1 is being trolled and abused by a pitchfork-weilding mob. Many are from within her own party. Is @Keir_Starmer going to act on this? Will he come out and say anything at the very least?

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