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@8illy_Hunt

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🌹TheJam.TheClash.Pulp.Bluetones.Blur. Supergrass.Tied to the 90s.Independence is abnormal but @maxine77mm will try and tell you otherwise. #wearethemods

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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@beyer_char @bbckamal No, they would not.👍🏼 People turned to the continent after getting fed up with the generic, chemical, fizzy cooking lager that was on offer here.
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@8illy_Hunt
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@MailOnline The Counterfeit Queen? She has a cheek!
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@8illy_Hunt
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4 months
@janette_hannah “Isn’t it weird” that you ‘other’ people behind an imaginary line in the ground? “The English.” You shame our nation.
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@8illy_Hunt
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5 months
@BBCPolitics @bbcnickrobinson @BBCSounds Why?!? Why give that failed washed up racist more airtime??
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
Iain Lee is responsible for me coming to understand, accept and discuss my mental health problems. He’s a top fella. Loved his and Rebeka’s chat last night. @iainlee @FlippinKath
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
@LabourRichard I will never acquiesce to the Nats demands. Scottish Labour saved Scotland in 2014. Bowing down now won’t win us votes back. I have more in common with a docker in Liverpool than a simple crofter in Skye.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@Rulke55 What in the name of fk does the constitution have to do with this? Do you people never stop?? This is heartbreaking for everyone “yesser” or not.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
Going through the archive of CD’s and I find this original print from when my sister worked at The Glasgow Evening Times. @TheQuill @Britpopmemories
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@valbrown_valb @blondiesa @BjCruickshank @JohannaBaxter @scottishlabour "Battle stained".🙄 Good Lord get a grip of yourself. You're not in Braveheart FFS.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@theSNP @MhairiBlack 📢 Me: "The SNP really do think they can do whatever they like to Scotland and get away with it."
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
Now if any cunt doesn’t get shivers watching this... @Afterglow85 Still amazes me nearly three decades later. @Britpopmemories Paul Weller Sunflower Live Jools Holland 1993 via @YouTube
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@labour_history @ProfScottThinks @UKLabour The greatest Prime Minister we never had. God rest his soul.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@RoryStewartUK @Nigel_Farage @LBC You have my sympathies, Rory.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@BBCPhilipSim “Imprisoned” What an insult to those who truly suffered under regimes. The SNP’s toy town sufferance is both embarrassing and disgraceful.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@scotgov Bute House won’t notice but those of us on a far lower salary than the FM will. A punitive tax on the poor and another step on the creeping prohibition road.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@BluetonesFanz < Always wanted to know this. In “Bluetonic” you sing about “I walk around my house and think of you with nothing on.” Are you in the buff or thinking about the other person being in the buff? #AskMarkMorriss
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
@Britpopmemories Hola mi amigo. I pray you are well. Found this wee gem whilst rooting in the archives.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@tweetmentcentre The very one who claimed he was going to turn it into a youth centre or some sort. Snout in the trough. Sickening.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@ClaireAllan I’d say no. The song is a masterpiece and art shouldn’t be censored. Shane and Kirsty are playing characters. Just my tuppence worth. 👍🏼
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
2 years
@HyndaBohdan @DWPgovuk @mimsdavies Most benefit claimants are in work. Taxpayers are boosting the profits of companies which employ poorly paid staff.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@ChristinaSNP_ @theSNP Will. Not. Happen. Like all SNP pledges, announced with fanfare and swiftly forgotten.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@AgentP22 @paul13walnut5 Frightening. Had you said to me ten years this is how Scotland would be I’d have scoffed. The SNP have a lot to answer for...
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
For goodness sake M&S! Someone is at here!
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@AgentP22 That political chameleon is the biggest fake that has ever entered politics. Total fraud.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 months
Why the fk has #jeremyvine turned into Reform Party TV? Rice is a rude arrogant fuckwit.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@BluetonesFanz @TheBluetones @TheQuill @scottmuldoon @ad_I_am @edsosteopath @keysmanalex Despite only being able to attend the Glasgow show I feel like I’ve been there every show on the way thanks to the Fanz community. Can the boys tour again next month??? Please!!!!💙
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@NicolaSturgeon Always a wee 4 nations summit demand to take the heat off your cognitive dissonance...
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@AgentP22 Good. The more bizarre their behaviour the further Indy slips away.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
2 years
@AgentP22 Those layman Nationalists trying to tell a QC that they know the law better than he has given me no end of entertainment. Still, no wonder he’s exasperated...
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@BluetonesFanz : To those of you about to enjoy @TheBluetones later tonight, I salute you. *raises glass* To the #bluearmy regiment. I wish I was there! 💙
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
Getting nicely crowded on the parka now. Thank you @BluetonesFanz 💙💙💙
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
25 days
@Wmt131 @Jen4Scot Have a look at yourself! Could you be any more xenophobic? "English" Fuck sake. We're all the same. I have far more in common with a steel worker in Wales than I do with you and Nationalism.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@Maxie_UK @2351onthelist @benrileysmith @JohnnyMercerUK @nigelmp The Corbynites have cut n pasted the Cybernat/Cult handbook.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
25 days
@MrsNickyClark Tony nipped it quickly in the bud with ease. How politicians can't just say it as it is baffles me. History will not judge this obfuscation nicely.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@BBCScotlandNews Me: we appear to be dealing with a Scottish Executive that is acting recklessly and negligently.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
That’s a full house! Thanks again!!!! @BluetonesFanz
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
@NeilFindlay_MSP Nationalism, Neil. It’s a shite state of affairs. All is forgiven as long as England can be blamed.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 months
@AgentP22 It's just so completely shite that they reduce things to this level. The pettiness helps no one.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@BluetonesFanz #diddydevlin has arrived. Already pushing #littlemark out the way to take centre stage.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@PCrossan8 @peterjharvey @bbclaurak Anyone who believes in Corbyns leadership is living in a fools paradise.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@Smallgingergirl @putey_pute @EnoughScotland That’s just fkng it! Anyone who’s against separation is labelled as a Tory loving monarchist Unionist. I’m not personally and have no gripe with anyone who is. Don’t want to be poorer and the main thing that disgusts me, like you say is the division they have caused.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
@JamesKerLindsay @murrayf00te The idea we have another vote is obscene. We decided. It was a horrible time which has scarred Scotland badly. I was on the doorsteps. So much hatred and division.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@snpforme @LaLa_FruitCake @TwistedKelpie @dlmde16 @NicolaSturgeon That’s a great comfort to those of us who can’t afford to drink in bars and hotels. Smashing.👍🏼
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@8illy_Hunt
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5 years
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
1 month
@STVNews For the love of God. Glasgow was built on slavery. We can't erase our history. Statues and monuments must be maintained.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@Britpopmemories Enjoying Claire on Pointless. “What would you like to see come up in the final?” “90s indie music.” Good lass!😎
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@blackenrho Weller’s greatest line, if you ask me. Mind you there are probably a million better. Up the Mods etc.🛵✊🏽🇬🇧
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@Ryan_McCuaig @NicolaSturgeon @whocaresscot In all seriousness, Ryan, don’t you think it’s odd that you would consider a political figure your “Chief Mammy”? Aren’t we supposed to hold our politicians to account? Not just blindly follow, never mind giving them such uncomfortable titles. Very Cultish/Stalinist/North Korea
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
1 month
The man who got me into music. The man who made me a mod. The man who made me explore soul and funk. What is it the youth call it? GOAT 🎸
@paulwellerHQ
Paul Weller
1 month
A huge thank you for all of the support that '66' has received so far!
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
25 days
@theSNP Who ever runs this SNP social media you should really take a look at yourself. Did you get into politics to lie? Shame on you.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@BluetonesFanz @TheBluetones Going against my no phones at gigs rule I did take this in Glasgow. What a night.👍🏼😎💙
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
@laurenlaverne @BBC6Music Glastonbury? If you can remember it you weren’t there! Seriously though. Blur in 2009 was one of the greatest moments in my life. When Damon was crying during Tender...😢
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
2 years
@AgentP22 Good grief! Frightening.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 months
My favourite of all the Enid Blyton books.
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BBC Scotland News
4 months
Five arrested as police seize £2.3m cannabis haul
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@AgentP22 I used to think like that. Back in the days when our rivalry with England was friendly. But the rise of Nationalism in Scotland under the SNP has made me revise that view. I now support all the home nations in any sport.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
#LittleMark is making me go to the shop for cigarettes, @BluetonesFanz . Ssshhh!🤫Don’t tell @WeeT76
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
Tuning into the Hootenanny now completely justified by the showing of @SupergrassHQ from 1995! Them were the days... #britpop @Britpopmemories Happy New Year 🥳
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@GeorginaSparrow @gorbalsgoebbels @MhairiHunter I don’t understand this rewriting of history. It was horrible. And still is. Too many “Yessers” spent time in George Sq drinking and waving flags rather than engaging with the general public who hated the whole thing.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@kevverage How dare one have a dangerous opinion of their own! Happy New Year when it comes Kevin. :-)
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@CllrScottArthur Astonishing! As far as I was aware it was only the windows that were duff! Now it’s the bow and the funnels! How do they get away with it?
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 months
@bobmca1 @afneil It’s fkng frightening. How did we get here? Oh, that’s right, Nationalism!
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@M44Tweet I'm not a Tory Matt but Nationalism is the bigger threat. Anyone but the Nats.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@AOU1707 @olafdoesstuff @theSNP @NicolaSturgeon Scotland’s place in the EU would have been gone had Yes won in 2014. Don’t let truth get in the way of a good yarn though.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
Imagine being at a private gig in someone’s house and the entertainment was @TheQuill Imagine that... Some of us don’t have to. #27ClubForever 💙
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@AgentP22 The PM does seem to have a better handle on Scottish politics (well, SNP lies and obfuscation) than her predecessor.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@Gedk Good man, Ged.👍🏼
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@8illy_Hunt
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6 years
After a 4 day weekend it was a tough shift today. But that little smile wouldn’t leave my lips. #27Club
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@8illy_Hunt
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6 years
Hurtling towards Edinburgh from Glasgow for a day out. I have *not* taken a jacket. This is a big deal in Scotland. ☀️
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@8illy_Hunt
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7 years
@BrianSpanner1 Scotland pre 2014: “Whit school did ye go tae?” Scotland post indyref: “Did you vote Yes/No??!”
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@AgentP22 @ukunionvoice For me it's the fact the oddballs don't care about the potential of risking Scottish jobs. I dare say many Tunnocks employees are Yes/SNP.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@gorbalsgoebbels @dan_silcock @KTHopkins What did they spend on their EU campaign and how much did they spend on the Shetland by-election. Remind me... The Nats didn’t give two hoots about Europe until it gave them an inning. Political chameleons.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@LOZZISTEVENS @Britpopmemories At least you didn’t say, “so mark, is it Jim Beam you drink?” As he poured a Jim Beam. Total fanny I was at your house! Like a 15 year old boy again!😫🙄
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@Maxie_UK @ScotGovFM @emily_hogarth @NicolaSturgeon @scotgov Long gone (in Scotland) are the days when artists held the establishment to account. Now they line up to fawn.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@MenziesDavid @valbrown_valb @blondiesa @BjCruickshank @JohannaBaxter @scottishlabour I'm an activist. Never once called it that. It's romanticising you're perceived 'struggle' against 'occupiers' and other such nonsense.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@VictoriaLIVE @BBCScotlandNews @DavidLinden The SNP are not Scotland. They are liars. “Lend us your vote to stop Brexit” Seconds after the exit poll was published : “We have a clear mandate.” Lie after lie after lie.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
4 years
@Britpopmemories This is another nugget from the cave. A Jools Holland Special. ‘96 a great year. The Euro’s in England and a long hot summer. Happier times.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@OasisPodcast Rockin Chair by Oasis. Beautifully melancholy.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@BrianSpanner1 That’s outrageous! Literally like printing money for their pals!
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
@Britpopmemories @britpoprevival At the time I never realised that the Britpop empire was about to collapse. I went to my first Glasto the following year and I remember thinking, “where are all the Britpop bands?” Still got to see Pulp and Blur, I think... How I’d kill to have those two on a bill today.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@putey_pute “Resignation” 🤣🤣🤣 Like she’s some high up elected politician!
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@ClareAdamsonSNP @theSNP To paraphrase Hannibal from the A-Team, isn’t an “achievement” only achieved when an “action plan” comes together?
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@fellowhoodlums @SNPGrowthComm @kevverage Austerity in an Indy Scotland would be eye watering! Worse than Greece!
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
7 years
@BrianSpanner1 🎶"Cos I'm guilty, guilty, Of ********(insert applicable) in the first degree!"🎶
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@8illy_Hunt
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1 year
@TaylorMod To Hull and Back.
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@8illy_Hunt
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7 years
@AgentP22 I have no problem with MPs claiming for costs as is their right. It’s the disgusting hypocrisy of SNP who won on a ticket of ‘we’re different’ that irks.
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@8illy_Hunt
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6 years
@BluetonesFanz I’m pished right now! Bring it on!🥃 #AskMarkMorriss
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@8illy_Hunt
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5 years
@weirb @JournoStephen What? Each and everyone? Your inside knowledge of 5million of us is impressive!
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@Britpopmemories Has such a special place in my heart. Takes me back to Glasto 2009 and that amazing set with the whole crowd singing along. Me with sunburnt nose and cheeks (maybe that was the Cider Bus cider..?) having the time of my life... #sighs 😄
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@8illy_Hunt
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1 year
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@8illy_Hunt
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4 years
@JollyGoodWheeze @Channel4News @C4Ciaran Thirteen years of Nationalist Government with full powers over education. And still you blame Labour.
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@8illy_Hunt
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6 years
@LoveIsland So sad to hear this news. One of the stars of 2016.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years
Thank you to @TheQuill for another fabulous performance. Sorry for being so gushing!😄 #NoRefunds
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@8illy_Hunt
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5 years
@ShiiineOn_ @gazwhelanmusic @pauloakenfold @Happy_Mondays Holiday. I still play it every time I travel abroad.
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@8illy_Hunt
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3 years
@AgentP22 To him it doesn’t matter who was responsible. Dornan could have watched the Holy Father himself do it and he would still have blamed Rangers fans. And I speak as a Catholic. The man is a mischief making moron.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
3 years
@2351onthelist @Del_ivered @MajorDMalpas @MhairiHunter As a Catholic of Irish descent it appalls me how the vote was courted by the Nationalists. More faces than the town clock, the Nats.
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@8illy_Hunt
Billy Hunt
5 years
@unsheenashashin @BBCScotlandNews Loving the Nats missing the point that not all No voters are “yoons”. We just don’t want to be poorer.
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@8illy_Hunt
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4 years
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