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I’m so proud of this work. It’s worth two hours Please give it. And be open minded #Cryptocurency
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Financial consultant @BlogPickled discusses energy, Covid, and the financial system. We've reached the limits. It’s possible elites want a revolution to reset. Financial lockdown is possible. The digital revolution could provide solutions.
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@goddeketal My name is Tim I was called all numbers of things Banned from a family wedding Unable to attend social functions with colleagues I’d do it all again. I was 35 and at no risk.
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@Steinernomics Those that paid get cheated. The cost is rewarding failure
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@BBCSport Lewis Hamilton has spent 18 years at the top of formula 1 Andy was great but behave
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@DaleVince Oh look. He hasn’t even solved the energy problem and now he wants to control your food As he gets richer you get poorer Imagine that
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@emilyhewertson It annoys Gary Neville
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@Breaking911 But anyone vaccinated can spread it. Which is known. So fact check his promise. It is absurd.
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@piersmorgan If you’re under 40, have a normal BMI and no underlying health issues then why not wait until 2023 and longitudinal studies and trust in the immune system that we know is 99.9% effective and proven over 1’000s of years… Just an idea.
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@LauraPidcock @Maomentum_ 200 years ago you didn’t see past 40 years of life. Capitalism is a force for incredible good. And when it goes wrong it provides the tools to fix it too.
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@carolvorders Carol owns a plane folks She’s not working class She’s also openly judging someone who has made free choices in their life and we all want that and the fruits it offers us. It’s shameful stuff and as she judges him based on what he looks like. She claims if does this to
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@LouHaigh @ASLEFunion Fix things You’ve not changed anything They get more money What have you secured for tax payers?
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@BladeoftheS Show the sources or you might as well just be lying
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@Ed_Miliband You hate working class people. That’s my only explanation for why you want to deny them cheap energy and make their lives miserable. If green energy was cheaper than fossil fuel sources the private sector would already be green. They don’t need any persuasion to cut costs and
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@Aiannucci He has his opinion You yours You feel able to speak about other counties you know little of so why can’t he? If you don’t mind him speaking but dislike his opinion. Why draw attention to it?
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Clean energy is getting cheaper than coal and creating more jobs.Trump will cause those jobs to leave America, the bad idiot shit-thinker.
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@GreenpeaceUK @TataSteelUK I thought you wanted net zero? You can’t have it both ways If green energy was cheap why isn’t it staying open? Oh you lie. Naturally
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@RhonddaBryant Nothing like rich men telling poor men about hard times and the Labour MP proudly thinking it looks good
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@SadiqKhan The guy who happily wanted pct tests or vaccine passports or correct engine types to drive on the road in his city, thinks it’s an outrage someone ask you show who you are to vote. Says all you need to know about “when it works for me Khan” @TheFreds
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@RobertLindsay In your opinion He’s allowed his You clearly love the idea of censorship of ‘wrongthink’ Another ‘progressive’ with a fondness for tyranny
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They all backed lockdowns They all aren’t fit to be voted for Today I say “I do not consent” I will not vote If turnout is sufficiently low (<50%) whoever is elected will have zero mandate to govern and the system has to risk going back voters to ask again for a mandate.
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@DreyfusJames “He used the I’ve been filming excuse again didn’t he?”
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@alwebbj @kylenabecker Nothing matters more to vaccine efficacy than arbitrary dates. The employees up to this point were fine.
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@thecoastguy @piersmorgan ‘Safe and effective’ It was the equivalent of the wright brothers offering you a safe flight on their very first There was no data of beyond 3 month effect Vaccines take 10 years normally to meet safety demands in data I wasn’t anti-vax. I was anti irreversible unknown risk
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@AvonandsomerRob He also admits the crime his clients should be charged with too. Not bright
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@EssexPR What cars do footballer’s drive I rest my case your honour
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@Steinernomics I’m not resentful. But debt forgiveness means no debt should have happened Those young folk could have all gone to college funded by the govt and used their money to advance in life. You speak about the accounting today. Not the missed opportunities that are lost to time.
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@lisanandy @England “The freebies start now”
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@James_BG Man employed to say green is great says it’s great to see someone on tv also paid to say green is great, say green is great.
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@MrEvanRoss @FLSurgeonGen That was a question you should have asked a year ago before getting vaccinated and realised your covid risk was tiny and the risk from the vaccine unknown. It wasn’t a difficult test. Yet most failed.
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@David__Osland If anyone wants to pop round and take from David he says it’s ok. He has his opinion on the level and you can set your own for him. It’s not his money and stuff, it’s yours folks Head on round this afternoon.
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@CeeMacBee The most laughable thing is that it is the EU who insist on protecting the single market and having checks and red tape to do this. Yet, they freely allow and do nothing to protect the integrity of national borders and watches on as lives are risked? Is this the action of a
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@StanCollymore If we can take a knee or kick it out then surely we can say with one voice “knives never” If you have a knife on a street then; Benefits of family should be at risk Army mandatory for repeat offenders 10 years minimum for any use of a knife not in self defence for anyone
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@EssexPR All paid up for and not prepared to show their faces A uniquely modern trait of the extreme - almost as if they aren’t real and can’t put their faces to it
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@piersmorgan But the nuance you now claim to admire was absent in all the stories you cover. Which beautifully exposes your model - like anyone in the media - of extremes where there are none. Contorting after the fact to your need is epic hilarity.
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@GaryLineker Blind trust in ‘authority’ isn’t clever or smart Never discount a voice in the room solely based on their ‘authority’ lent by title or reputation alone. Ask to see evidence of whatever claim is made Tree ring data worked for 600 years in climate correlation. Trees say we
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@NickCohen4 You just don’t get it and you never will. Which is why they’ll have no care for you eventually You didn’t even pay them a courtesy of actually listening You just know better Get back to the Sunday latte and your merry day.
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@TheFreds @MayorofLondon Bad news for all those kids who presumably we must insist never leave the ULEZ now or face hospitalisation risk vastly higher than safe within the ULEZ It has to work both ways the logic he claims.
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@jonsopel Jon. Have you gone on camera to apologise for your defence of Huw yet? Have you apologised to the Sun and the journalists you criticised? You’ve got time on your hands it seems. @banthebbc
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@JamesMelville James. Why are you and most prominent voices on all things creeping totalitarian making such a big deal of this treaty? The WHO cannot enforce it. The govt must choose to enforce it. I won’t follow any WHO directives I will not lockdown again. I will accept the risk. I will
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@MrHarryCole We washed our hands We stayed at home for 3 weeks We flattened the curve We socially distanced We wore masks We cancelled Christmas We waited We got vaccinated We got what back? #endbyeaster
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@DrJBhattacharya @JamesDelingpole @joerogan @benshapiro @ConceptualJames @Cernovich @elonmusk The next events that are certain and time to get worried. No conspiracy. No vaccine debate needed. Just logic. Global system collapse. Total. A thread
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@GaryLineker For once Gary. Think
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@Ed_Miliband You hate working class people. That’s my only explanation for why you want to deny them cheap energy and make their lives miserable. If green energy was cheaper than fossil fuel sources the private sector would already be green. They don’t need any persuasion to cut costs and
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@YvetteCooperMP What law will you apply? We have border staff now. How does more solve the problem? Isn’t the gangs the focus of SOCA or police? How can target gangs that find customers in southern Europe? And safe routes mean more will come as the cost you have just made almost zero vs £’k
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@carolvorders @GBNEWS How much PPE did your plane deliver Carol after you proudly claimed it was? Or was it used to take 3d printed parts of a ventilator design between BAE system locations? As you definitely said PPE
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@LizWebsterSBF How are they wrong Liz? We are outgrowing the EU? We didn’t lose millions of jobs And we have food at the supermarkets We haven’t had drug shortages The earth didn’t end What exactly is so wrong?
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@MrHarryCole Can someone explain how it sounds like our plan to unlock is barely quicker than last year after the first lockdown despite the fact we will have vaccinated all of those in the population likely to be hospitalised and / or die? If vaccination doesn’t ‘change the game’ what does?
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@PhysicalMedia_ Cover you arse syndrome is the engine of conformity and the death of creativity and all that is worth living for
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@Andy_Suth_UK Sadly facts disagree Wage growth is now a success and in low pay jobs previously over supplied by freedom of movement EU workers The NHS too has benefited. Not my words. Jonathan Portes in the guardian Care to correct your statement? Facts matter no?
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@eyejosh Sorry. Clear evidence? Show me an aggregate economic measure that shows this and using a divergence from other eu and non-eu nations so that it can even unequivocally blamed on Brexit as we see a uniquely UK trend? You won’t be able to. Which begs how you can tweet what you
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@JuliaHB1 Beyond reasonable doubt. There is no way based on the testimony in this case that was proven. He what an authorised act of force, he had shitloads of drugs in his system and he had serious health issues the office couldn’t have known. Tragic accident. Murder no.
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@peterjukes “Voluntarily” Yeah Peter He’s chosen to do this on his own accord
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@jonsopel John. Can you show the multiple studies that show this isn’t the case? Also John, more people are dying than in the pandemic and this contradicts established science. Yet you, who screamed about excess deaths in Covid, are now silent. You are the misinformation bandits you
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@mattletiss7 Keep up the great work Matt. Thank you
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@Keir_Starmer Yeah. Retweeting multimillionaire pop stars demanding taxpayer money be spent You’ll be PM before you know it. Cheap and hollow is still on the menu then folks.
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@JMPSimor Can you point out what is wrong here? One person shares a factual police statement The other shares his shared shock that this is actually happening You want everyone labelled and in their places. Just smear and dismiss
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@gazmogazmo23 Trading people…. Mmmm now what in history reminds me of that? So woke you can’t see it! Love it
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@KateAndrs Let it not be forgotten the U.K. quickly alerted the world to a new strain it identified. That was motivated simply by doing the right thing and putting the health of all citizens - British or otherwise - first. The EU is acting in a way the mafia would be proud. People first?
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@Otto_English Facists disappointed their public shaming system won’t work anymore
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@mikegalsworthy Each day hundreds arrive on boats and risk their lives by leaving France Taking back control of its borders you say? The silence by so many of the fact France hasn’t stopped the risk to life is not unnoticed too. Care to show me a tweet where you’ve called for France to step
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@Sargon_of_Akkad @mikegalsworthy His comment is essentially to suggest there is no such thing as a British identity or nation Which is exactly why he’s not a smart chap but the problem
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@JMPSimor Didn’t say that about Brexit did you A ref agreed to The conditions of it known to all But you lost and then the “will of the people” had to be frustrated, undermined and discredited to the point you hoped it wouldn’t be willed any more You are the perfect example. I don’t
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@DouglasKMurray My man crush on Douglas Murray’s eloquence of writing that distils any manner of subjects into rational, logical and balanced accounts knows no bounds. Yes. Shameless objectification in this age. How dare I. Superb.
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@ArchRose90 I’ve been really disappointed with the new Series of Gogglebox
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@peterboghossian One of the most remarkable interviews I have ever seen. To ‘see’ his head working without the inherent dishonesty of adulthood that clouds it for almost everyone due to social interaction was something to behold.
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@LizWebsterSBF She’s lost it folks Liz this is shameful. I mean. Utterly. In every sense. I’m not a Tory. I won’t be voting for them. But to compare a fellow citizen and MP to hitler shows your own worrying mind. Withdraw it. Apologise. Hitler led to the deaths of over 100m people and
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@michaeljswalker It’s funny but I’ve gone through your tweets for today and you haven’t once condemned Hamas and Palestinian forces for the attack. Not once. It’s a feature of the Palestinian supporters to miss out this key detail in their coverage of events. It’s easy “today and unprecedented
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@DrJBhattacharya I’d start with why is a treaty on the table when globally most nations inquiries into Covid policy are ongoing How do the WHO know what went wrong? They haven’t globally conducted a post-Covid project to learn lessons They seem to have the answer without asking a question
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@afneil If people take Cummings at his word - as most are - then the way the same people hounded a man when ill and moving his family to safety is on them to apologise for. The picture he paints is one of some good people working tirelessly to combat a dysfunctional system to save lives
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@BurnsideNotTosh And the capacity limit But apart from the fencing, ticketing system and capacity limit we are border free!
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@mattletiss7 There is a reset as they announced Key parts 1. Fiat monetary system collapse - cbdc the only solution. This is a Trojan horse. It isn’t a monetary system. It is ultimately a resource allocation system. Equity and no value in new world. 2. Erosion of nation states and
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@CaolanRob @jk_rowling Good for you and doing this. And Jk for her civility and acceptance of it. That’s how civilised societies do it! More
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@EssexPR I see she got her hair and make up done Made with magic beans and pixie dust
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@hector_drummond Nothing to do with the product. Naturally
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@The_ChrisShaw Chris. Can you explain why we don’t see the same for eu people coming to the uk? And in that answer is your embarrassment. We didn’t make it harder for them. We kept the epassport gate access the same. They are customers, holiday makers and friends. The eu made it difficult
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@EssexPR Whose ev went up. The only cause The future folks. Batteries really are fun.
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@DPJHodges Stop making sweeping generalisations about groups Anyone who wants to attack or remove any other citizens is committing a serious crime Sharing an opinion about another group is not. Otherwise the left would need locking up for what they say about tories which is just as
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@thecoastguy @seanjor1 If they head down this road they may be surprised when I start refusing to pay any tax or insist on the obese paying their way. What is it with covid that means it is singled out as some unique health risk when 600k die in the U.K. each year and many are preventable?
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@JMPSimor The issue is mass migration Most want it reduced Race and colour isn’t an issue We are a tolerant nation You want to make it them vs us so that the right of centre issue isn’t discussed openly and the race card trick is lost forever more Most don’t care about what they
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@DreyfusJames I just wished society could remember all we can demand is tolerance and respect You cannot demand to be loved or liked. Or accepted in any pursuit you wish. Teenage boys would love to be in female changing rooms. They aren’t. Anyone demanding that must learn that most lie to
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@TheFreds @darrengrimes_ I hate the way we all stand back and say “unacceptable” The guys are armed These thugs relied on the professionalism of the cops to be alive. Being dragged to floor with a gun on you is a weapon that can be turned against you too. Most forget this fact. And they forget
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@JMCDelingpole I think that less people liking her drama than anti-lockdown protesters tells you all you need to know about public mood Odd she never lets up. Almost as if she isn’t who she says she is. You’d think she never worked if you looked at the volume of tweets and timing of them.
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@David__Osland Man outraged by others acting freely and within their rights The modern left
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@tomhfh Just because people agree with you it doesn’t make you right.
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@Gola87 @piersmorgan It isn’t nonsense. I’ve never taken the flu vaccine. Yet flu can kill older people. It’s also not likely to kill me. Why the sudden desire to insist on a vaccine when the risk profile is almost identical?
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@alwebbj @kylenabecker Someone has to sue the hell out of them. Vaccines have existed for almost a year. If they were important to staff and customer welfare then you mandate from day 1. You can’t happily let staff face a risk that was known and then demand they accept a solution months later.
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@reidhoffman That was true if had never run To run and drop out 100 days before an election is reckless and selfish
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@JuliaHB1 As it always was intended to. 20 months and they want people to wear masks they haven’t even bothered to establish an official standard for. You can wear a rag. If it mattered you’d have a govt mandated standard…
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@calvinrobinson @hklinkup It’s amazing. Never thought I’d see the day when a US President would talk about ‘systemic’ racism at home but cultural differences to justify genocide in a communist nation.
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@UKLabour Just imagine being on Universal Credit and thinking a cut has been made. Even more worry and it’s not even true. The UC level is agreed until April and any change is due in the budget in March. Playing politics with the poorest in society and adding to worry. Thanks Labour.
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@DouglasKMurray “If you looked at her and not her chart” A chart that through extensive learning and process has evolved today to be the summary of vital details necessary to help someone - we’ve tried to cut to the chase and all for the goal of helping someone How can anyone miss that?
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@Aiannucci Not a strong start for the comedy writer of his generation Maybe you’ll warm up
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@LozzaFox I wasn’t aware we had 3 lions on our shirt that said we only think males are important Literally no one looked at that badge and thought - jeez 3 lions. What a patriarchy Utter joke. We are seeing things that aren’t there and changing things when REAL issues exist in the world!
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@BurnsideNotTosh Making some kids and parents miss out on their choice they wanted to make just to show the mob they will take on the ‘rich’ Making education more expensive can never be a policy success for a govt that was interested in the country’s success £ tax that is not even rounding and
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@afneil The way he was hounded was a disgrace by those in politics and the media. That’s on them to admit now. They were part of the dysfunctional system that distracted and wasted effort
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@Danjsalt They know exactly what they are doing
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@BBCBreakfast Imagine a news service that has lost trust of the public for their lack of accurate reporting, to then think to counter this demands a new special office of the same news service to ‘verify’ stories it can’t be trusted to say anymore. The perfect summary of its own failure.
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@DAaronovitch Part of it? We are all part of it David This is precisely why it’s now boiling over You think it’s all nonsense. Naive folk of no civility with pudding for brains who have been led to act by dog whistle voices with public platforms and reach for gain. You suffer a classic
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@AvonandsomerRob Sir Dong King jnr of Griftershire if I’m not mistaken
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@mikegalsworthy Lockdowns 12 years of zero interest rates And yet Mike blames Brexit - something you can’t actually see in any gdp or employment data (only Doppleganger models that say we’d have grown by 4% a year if we stayed in. The euro area isn’t growing at those rates but why bother with
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@EssexPR My observation; People like David spend their entire life insisting they know what other people want and then telling you to be thankful for it. How about you look after you and let people make their own informed choices.
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@drsimonwilliams Simon, it’s not anger at your precaution. Do as you wish. It’s anger at the performative precaution it becomes when you share it on here. Just as you say yourself. Because you’re wonderful and kind. Ergo others are not as wonderful. We used to use how we felt to determine if
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