Ben Brittain
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Now in Insurance // Former Adviser @Andy4WM || Fellow @ConGeostrategy
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As an Englishman abroad I’ll never stop being like: “whoa, double-decker trains. So cool.”
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A thousand years of English history and tradition to be destroyed by joyless managerialism.
All remaining hereditary peers will be removed from the House of Lords next summer, ministers announced as they said the “accident of birth” should not give people the right to make laws
Should hereditary peers be removed from the House of Lords?
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‘It is ludicrous and slanderous to think that Russia tried to meddle in the Scottish independence referendum,’ says Alex Salmond on his Russian state-funded show.
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The UK can proudly join Bangladesh, Brunei, Nigeria, and Pakistan in having blasphemy laws.
EXCLUSIVE
Labour is considering introducing an agreed definition of Islamophobia that it backed in opposition
MHCLG says it will “take into account a range of views and outline any updates on the Government’s position in relation to this in due course”
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My beautiful Nan has passed away with Covid-19. I am glad she had my Mum and my Dad cradling her when she passed away. She had Dementia and would always hum songs to herself to get to sleep. When she passed she was humming Nat King Cole’s ‘Goodnight Irene‘ in the arms of my Mum.
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The conversation between that Ukrainian guy in Kyiv and Boris is really very moving. We should be unashamedly proud of what Britain has done in helping Ukraine.
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Broadcasters should make a new year's resolution to stop being relentlessly negative about brexit.
@Fox_Claire
was spot on the other night when she called them out for it. 👇
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I see the left are losing their minds about police brutality in the US but were silent when French cops were battering the crap out of teenagers and pensioners.
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Just a reminder that when Macron got to power he renovated the Elysée and wrecked it. He made beauty ugly.
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This is very good from Curtis. Brits have never felt European, Brussels is ‘other’.
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This is the beauty of about British politics. One minute you’re at the G7 telling the President of the US to wind his neck in, the next on the phone to the local council reporting potholes
With
@theresa_may
reporting her first potholes in Alexandra Road in Belmont ward in
#Maidenhead
under the new 24 hour working repair scheme from
@RBWM
. Reference number HIG013365
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Prediction: this photo will haunt the political career of every single politician on stage
.
@BorisJohnson
you have done this.
You've united the parties in the
#PeoplesParliament
, against your plans to shut the people, and our historic Parliament, out of one of the most critical decisions our country will take; crashing out of the EU without a deal
You won't succeed!
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This makes me uncomfortable. I could never use a child, let alone my own son, for a political stunt whilst I flaunted myself before cameras.
"The government has a responsibility to be looking after our children for at least five days a week" - Jess Phillips explains why she has left her son at 10 Downing Street to protest schools shutting early
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There’s a national security issue with all these leaks from No 10. If you’re a foreign leader would you speak with much honesty or openness knowing they could be leaked by some anti-Tory civil servant at any time?
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You and your wife catch virus. Your 4 year old son is hospitalised after showing similar symptoms. Your boss is hospitalised in ICU with the virus. Your uncle dies of the same virus. Not sure Cummings has been darting down the A1 lip-syncing to Heart FM, despite what media depict
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Houses like this should be attainable and affordable for most British families and not be north of 1mil.
I can't believe Britain perfected suburban housing and then just… stopped building like this.
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Sturgeon isn’t a ‘world leader’. She’s the leader of a large county council.
Tomorrow's front page: REVEALED: SNP agree on motion for a debate on Independence Plan B at the party conference
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How can the public have respect for Parliament or Parliamentarians when they are seeking, at every opportunity, to overturn an instruction to Leave the European Union, given to them with a majority of 1,269,501? It is Parliament that is in contempt of the mandate by the people.
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Utterly animated to fly over HS2 -a stunning spectacle of engineering snaking through the countryside. When it’s finished you won’t be able to distinguish it above from the roads and hedgerows - cancelling to Manc remains the most politically illiterate decision of recent decade.
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Without UK military training and donations of NLAWs, when no other European nation would donate lethal weapons, many more Ukrainian cities would likely have fallen already. Twitter should try and remember that when they try and compare UK leadership on this to the EU.
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Israel went for a two week ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown. That was a month ago and they’re still in lockdown. If you think it will be for two weeks then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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A lot of Tory volunteers that slog on the streets in the rain will feel such a sense of upset in the Prime Minister tonight. We believed her when she said no deal is better than a bad deal. But she is now asking us all to swallow a deal she said she would never accept.
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Bemoaning the lack of ‘grown-up politics’ from the lass wearing a Marx t-shirt is deliciously ironic.
“Asking for grown-up politics from Boris Johnson is like asking a Labrador to deliver a treaty on Aristotle. It’s not in his nature, it’s not going to happen” – Novara Media’s Ash Sarkar
@AyoCaesar
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#Newsnight
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Big question why British flagged tanker wasn’t escorted given
#Iran
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The power of nuclear. UK relies on gas for 40% of its energy. France 16%.
🇫🇷French energy bills will rise by 4%.
🇬🇧British energy bills will rise by 54%
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The German Foreign Ministry website has replaced its flag of Taiwan with a white flag. Surely there could be no greater expression of German foreign policy on China than a white flag of surrender? Humiliating.
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Flabbergasted that after this whole debacle the EU has had the brass neck to ask AstraZeneca to divert supplies from the UK to the EU to make up the shortfall.
The EU ordered 3 months after the UK and hasn’t even given approval for the vaccine.
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Nothing would reaffirm my conservatism quicker than this man knocking up for Labour
Guess who was out doorknocking on my street FOR LABOUR?
John Bercow!
#GeneralElection
#VoteLabour
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HRH Prince Harry did two tours of Afghan.
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Morning. Your regular reminder that the 1960’s was a crime and brutalism a stain. Before / after demolition / reconstruction in Birmingham, Stephenson Street, Exchange Building.
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This photo from Mark Drakeford’s Wales is horrific. Wales is now a nation that forbids the purchase of books. Miserable and depressing.
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Won’t accept faux outrage when for the last 3 years you’ve mocked Leavers as thick, racist and uneducated. You’ve called us nazis and fascists. Your refusal to accept the result and the subsequent way you’ve treated us has created a climate of despair and contempt.
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Jerusalem hasn’t been this butchered since the Romans sacked it in 70 CE.
#lastnightoftheproms
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How many times does Orwell have to be proved right when he said, “England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals
are ashamed of their own nationality?” 🙄
MY BOOK HAS GONE TO PRINT I'M SO EXCITED
If you like my stuff, I promise you'll love it. Guarantee you it's the only non-pornographic book you'll buy this year with multiple penises and a quote from James O'Brien on the front.
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Why are Scottish Nationalists kicking a football about in the House of Commons?! Such a lack of respect. Shameful.
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24/7 vaccine roll out. Vets, GPs, army corps, volunteers, the lot. Stadiums and village halls. Drive throughs and walk-ins. With 2 million doses of the Oxford jab a week there’s no excuse. So let’s end this nightmare so we can move on and restore our lives and liberty.
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Is this biggest political yolo in history?
Disraeli accepted an amendment to his Second Reform Bill after hearing an amendment from unknown backbencher, without consulting anyone in his party or his cabinet. It enfranchised half a million men.
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This was, admittedly, a very good line: “Your work. Your car. Your pension. You name it, Labour will tax it.”
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Curiosity and assimilation is in the English nature. When the Portuguese got to Japan they busied themselves converting everyone to Catholicism.
Whereas the first Anglo in Japan, William Adams (Miura Anjin), instead ended up becoming a Samurai.
Tendency on Twitter especially to be snobbish about Brits abroad, but in rural Corfu working-class British (Northern English) émigrés attend village festivals, marry in, learn Corfiot dances, pick up functional Greek, start keeping chickens/goats: quickly become Greek peasants
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Very joyous moment: Mother had her cochlea implants switched on. “I just heard my Son’s voice for the first time.” Cue a lot of happy tears. 💙
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Fantastic news.
UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor China transparency
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The UK's Space Force is surely going to be called the Royal Space Force? If not, why not, and how do we sack the person that decided against calling it that?
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This is an unsurprisingly smart move by John Bew, but I do wish spads and civil servants had a better relationship with academia. It should be common for them to be reading journals and papers - one way we drive better understanding of policy and foster innovation in Whitehall.
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Last week they were clapping key workers now they’re slapping key workers.
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Suella has blown her leadership campaign up before it even began. I for one am grateful.
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This just makes me sad, to think this was just torn down..
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Wetherspoons is such a great British company that deserves a lot of praise. Apart from the obvious cheap booze and food, that it takes rundown buildings and repurposes them giving them a new life for local community is great. It’s table app also shows how innovative it is!
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Just imagine if the parliamentary party had originally chosen Penny…
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What Boris deserves, as do every other person suffering with this vile illness, is compassion and thoughts for a speedy recovery. If you’re unable to show kindness perhaps you should keep your thoughts to yourself.
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Those shrieking for a no-fly zone will also fail to acknowledge that it’s the UK that plans to donate Starstreak anti-aircraft weapons, effectively enabling Ukraine to establish its own no-fly zone - not France, Germany or the US, but Britain. Again the UK showing leadership.
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Beeching was a short-sighted vandal that hacked carelessly at Britain's railway line, with several lines set to be re-opened at a cost of a few billion.
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A group of women protestors overwhelm Belarusian riot police. No messing. 😍
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Today British citizens literally marched on Buckingham Palace waving the flags of other nations. A friend to every nation, but their own.
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Someone just tried to force entry in to my house with a knife. I opened front door and they tried to get in. Managed to lock door and distract them. Police on their way. Having a wine to settle the shaking hands first.
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If you genuinely thought things were worse than you ever could imagine with the worst economic condition since the Second World War you wouldn’t scrap winter fuel allowance for pensioners whilst committing to spend 11.8Bn on overseas green projects.
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It might be lost on the left that the UK, US and Israel is set to be the three nations to reach immunity through vaccination first. It will never be lost on those on the right.
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I’m 29 this month, (I know, I don’t look it), and I’ve just found out Robert Peel was first appointed to government as undersecretary for war and the colonies aged only 22. Why am I yet to appointed undersecretary of war? I’d have War with Spain before the weeks end.
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The email was not from Boris. It was from a civil servant. When was the last time a civil servant was held accountable for their mistakes? Rotten to its core.
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You are and will always remain my hero and idol. You deserve a great grandson and I hope the values and love you taught me will give you that. Goodnight Irene, goodnight Nan 💚
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Stunning NASA photo of the British Isles - released today.
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Tamworth voted by 67.5% to leave the EU.
Passing through Tamworth on the way home after an eventful few days, starting in Machynlleth in Mid Wales and ending in Bolton.
An absolute priority of my government will be ensuring economic development doesn't just happen in London, but across the regions and nations of the UK
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Repeat: the German economy’s nose dive is a very real lesson in the inextricable link between energy policy and economic growth. Astonishingly stupid policy decisions are having v harmful consequences.
Next shoe to drop:
#Volkswagen
is considering unprecedented factory closures in Germany in a bid for deeper cutbacks in another blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s govt. Any shutdowns would mark the 1st closures in Germany during the company’s 87y history, setting VW up for a clash
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I don’t think the news broadcaster’s obsession with daily death counts is good for us. In a 24 hour news cycle they’re incessantly and constantly barking at us about death whilst most of us are sick with worry about the health of our loved ones.
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‘This slide is not a prediction’, I said I as I showed the mortgage manager a graph showing that in 4 weeks I will have £12million in my bank account, if I win the lottery.
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Hugo has just had his first walk and he was good as gold 😆
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Channeling the terrible Hinge profiles out there and did a hike followed by a Sunday roast and red wine = basic
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New coach, new nutrition plan, new training plan - let’s go!
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London to Belfast on high-speed rail line, via Birmingham and Liverpool? Make it so! Build it!
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If the UK is “at the back of the queue” for the
#ModernaVaccine
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Why do the media try to use almost everything as an example of how awful Britain is?
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I think we’ll all remember 90-year-old Maggie. What a photo, what a woman, what an historic moment.
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How beautiful is Lark Ascending? Such a longing and moving piece of music that dances through tones of despair and grief to explosions of hope and reconciliation. A perfect piece of war-time inspired music to play at
#lastnightoftheproms
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It’s not that we weren’t conservative enough, it is simply we weren’t competent enough and we were rightly punished for it.
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If you find the scenes at Whitehall utterly depressing and disgusting here’s Hugo to cheer you up.
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Ursula von der Leyen confirms that the EU will look to implement offshore processing of asylum seekers, adopting a Rwanda policy.
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