Black Bob Craufurd
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@visegrad24
He can't insure them
He can't fly them
He can't sell them
He'll still have to pay for them though!
Leasing companies: kerr-ching! Thanks, Russian Central Bank...
Vlad: Doh!
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Look, if you were going to be interviewed by the BBC, speaking as prospective UK Foreign Secretary, wouldn't you at least *Google* the history you were about to spout?
FFS! This utter clown gets all three of the historical facts he decided to use WRONG!
What an utter 🤡🤡🤡
"Churchill replaced Chamberlain just days before the Second World War, Lloyd George replaced Asquith weeks into Somme, Eden lost his job during the Suez crisis"
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy says "there are always others" to replace Boris Johnson
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@SadiqKhan
This is risible. His race-based narcissism is beyond weird.
Not sure if hotel accommodation, paid legal representation and a slew of freebies handed out to Albanian "refugees" constitutes a "hostile, draconian and immoral" immigration policy...
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5.2 million claiming benefits of whom 3.7 million have no obligation to look for work
36 million Brits now live in households which received more in benefits than they contributed in taxes
There is no worker shortage: there is a welfare surplus
Cut spending, cut taxes
"I think the problem is that we've ended up with a Brexit that's been a slow puncture in some respects" - Liberal Democrat Wendy Chamberlain MP points out that businesses local to her constituency face staff shortages since the UK left the EU
#Newsnight
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Forgive me, but a proper rant is needed.
The "experts" in this case were the usual suspects: led by the IMF, OBR and
@FT
(natch) with Bloomberg's often more sensible
@johnauthers
and many others joining in.
In understanding the UK gilt meltdown, some of us tried to point to the
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@DouthatNYT
🤣 A classic ... Here, let me try one:-
Increasingly concerned the Salem Witch Trials may not have been entirely on the level.
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@5Pillarsuk
So if someone thinks that Muslims demonstrating over a particular issue is "provocative", or taking place in "their" area, do you think they should be able to get their demo banned?
Or are you demanding special treatment? 🧐
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@MForstater
My daughters coming home & spouting this gibberish at the dinner table. My horror at seeing their fear of questioning the groupthink and appearing "hateful".
Making it clear that tolerance for oddball ideas/people doesn't mean you're obliged to agree with their whackery.
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@samoye95
On gross pay of £74,000, Scott takes home £47,769 per year.
The Govt takes £35,186 in income tax, NI and student loans.
(IT: £17,028, NI: £4,998, EmpNI: £8,956, SL: £4,203)
The gross rate of tax on his labour is 42.4%.
Can anybody see what the problem is here? 🤷♂️
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@CarolineLucas
"7 years on from Brexit vote .. NHS no better funded"
An outright lie.
Since 2016 NHS/DHSC funding is up by £39.1bn (🔼27.7%) in real terms or £752m per week, in side-of-bus terms.
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@GeorgeMonbiot
Here's what happened in my part of the UK when we didn't have planning laws. I know, terrible eh? 🤷♂️
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Jesus wept. £14.5bn spaffed on renewable energy this year.
That's worth 2% off income tax. We are being mugged by green zealots.
Ofgem is forecasting >£2bn will be added to bills in CfD subsidies next financial year, ROC subsidies cost ~£7bn & FiTs >£1.5bn. Then there's ~£4bn on grid balancing, but this is not a big enough price to pay for Caroline.
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@JMPSimor
Would you say that the EU's policy of marginalising NATO is looking very, very silly right now?
How about Merkel's policy of dependence on Russia for the EU's energy supplies?
Or maybe the EU refusing to accept Brexit and poisoning relations with the UK? Was that wise? 🧐
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@Wera_Hobhouse
Sure Wera. Nat Gas and oil production booms in the USA have led to their full energy independence and energy costs 50-70% lower than the UK.
Wera just spouts Green pieties while our industrial base withers and fuel poverty soars.
Utterly shameful.
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@theresa_may
@David_Cameron
Let me guess - you're going to be Minister for Exiting the EU? 🤪
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@LanceForman
The majority of this country are right there with you and your dad. Go well, Lance.🙏🕯️
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Please use Timpsons whenever you can. An excellent company.
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@JustStop_Oil
No, sorry this is on you.
Maybe -just maybe- your chosen forms of protest have been *a tad* counter-productive? 🧐
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@Oxfam
@andakalnins
Oxfam will re-post and presumably double down?
Re-post without an apology, acknowledgement or explanation?
You are utterly shameless. Get in the bin.
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@JamesCleverly
@ukhomeoffice
The Supreme Court gives its verdict on the Rwanda plan on Wednesday. If as expected of The Blob they reject it, will you immediately act to withdraw from the ECHR, or not?
We shall soon see how hollow your words are, or not.
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@theuniversalben
@tashecon
The scale of Britain's banking and financial sanctions, our full energy embargo and asset seizures are way out ahead of those of the EU and the USA. Please keep up.
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Police raiding & searching the home of a UK political figure. Really, really hope the police had cast-iron evidence of a real crime before deciding to do this.
It really doesn't matter what you think of Fox's politics, if this isn't the case then this raid is appalling.
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Timpson's lead the way by rehabilitating ex-offenders with work and skills.
As a direct consequence they have a fantastic, loyal, skilled workforce who give a great service.
Please don't go anywhere else for anything they do (which is a helluva lot!).
Hi
@JamesTCobbler
I was walking along High Holborn and my heel fell off
The lovely man at this shop (corner of Grays Inn Road) stappled it on as a temporary fix for free
With that kind act of generosity he has bought my loyalty for life - you are rightly proud of your team 😊
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@campbellclaret
@JuliaHB1
@talkRADIO
-the EU insurance directive increased insurance costs
-the mobile companies have stated they will not hike roaming charges
-Iraq did not have WMD deployable in 45 mins
Happy to help! 😎
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@GrandmasterNabz
His silly racism doesn't justify yours.
There were very, very few non-white people living in Britain in Roman times.
Attempting to erase the indigenous people of these islands, their history, culture, art, identity, achievements etc. is a sad response that is beneath you.
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@ZacGoldsmith
So you support leaving the ECHR, so that we can legislate to fix our broken asylum & immigration system? Or not? 🧐
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@CarolineLucas
@StopSizewellC
Nick Clegg came out with the same "bone-headed" comment to rule out building new nuclear plants, saying it would take 10 years to come on line.
He said it in 2010! When will Greens ever learn?
This is some grim real life dramatic irony: Nick Clegg opposing nuclear power in 2010 because it would only come on-stream by 2021 or 2022.
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"Community Notes" is a stroke of genius. The poor wee eco-bedwetter must be fewmin' 🤣
It's worth reminding ourselves that the red areas in this map are projected to be underwater in 2050 unless we do something about climate change.
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@ClintEhrlich
@JackPosobiec
Neither the footage nor events on the ground corroborate the Russian claim you're parroting.
Russia said they would open a corridor out of Mariupol, then shelled civilians as they used it to flee. WAKE UP.
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"out of two million non-EU net arrivals over the last five years, only 15% came principally to work"
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@JustStop_Oil
You utter morons. I sincerely hope you spend a very long time in jail. This is an absolutely disgusting thing to do.
You have vented your pathetic, childish anger by damaging a glorious expression of human creativity. Away with ye!
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@IAPonomarenko
Massive respect for our Ukrainian brothers and sisters.
We know you'll put that training to very good use - give'em hell!
Godspeed & Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 🤝🇬🇧
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@KateWilton1
Paying a criminal gang £5-10k and putting your kids in a dinghy to make a dangerous sea crossing is safer than *checks notes* staying in France? 😳
Are you serious? Have you thought that through?
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@OULGBTQ
Or you could attend the debate peacefully, speak against her views, win the argument and convince the audience.
I know, the Enlightenment is so old school eh? 🤷♂️
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@SamRamani2
You forgot "EU strategic autonomy", "Energiewende", "Merkel Foreign Policy", "Post-Brexit marginalisation of the UK", "Russian sphere of influence"... list goes on a bit but I think you get the idea?
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@RichardGCorbett
I thought Remain outspent Leave by a considerable margin?
Could it be that Remain lost the argument, and so lost the vote? Just sayin'... 🤷♂️
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@donaldtuskEPP
The finger of blame also points at YOU:-
-Your fantasy of independent EU military power has undermined NATO for years
-Your attempt to marginalise the UK over Brexit now looks very ill-judged
-Low EU defence spending and dependence on Russian gas happened on your watch
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@RubinReport
I hereby condemn the taxation of capital
It's like taking a farmer's seed corn
It reduces investment, savings and growth
It is regressive
It is anti-family
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President Milei's reforms have cut Argentina's inflation from 25.5% in December to 13.2% in February.
He now stands a fair chance of pushing through the rest of his reform package.
Sound money and economic liberalism is working, so the socialists are, of course, outraged. Good.
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@Charlie533080
I think we saw much more powerful images some time ago. To my eyes the picture you show is captioned "The Reckoning".
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@thehistoryguy
Quite the contrary. Please rethink this.
King's dream that people "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" is completely rejected by today's advocates of hyper-racialised identity politics.
Kehinde Andrews:
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@adilray
The fact is you seem to have overlooked Jack Letts - you might remember him as "Jihadi Jack"?
Stripped of UK citizenship for joining ISIS. He was white.
*Sorry to intrude on your grievance narrative*
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@DPJHodges
@DavidDa54355054
@DouglasKMurray
OK, have a read of the most important single work on the low-level perpetrators of the Holocaust. It supports Murray's comment 100%.
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@Bob_cart124
If we're getting into the history bit, I feel obliged to point out that there was quite a lot of rape, slaughter and occupation of "Christian lands" by Arabs.
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🤣A classic. I wonder if
@EricIdle
can remember their reply?
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@DavidGHFrost
Lord Frost - the next election is lost so I am voting Reform to teach the fake Tories a lesson. It is a free hit.
Perhaps electoral oblivion will save the party from itself? No signs they get the message yet though...
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@StevenEdginton
Here's the evidence for that "wave them all in" asylum backlog solution:
When the government said they were going to clear the asylum backlog, I didn't think they meant by giving everyone asylum....
The share of asylum seekers granted an initial positive decision has tripled since the conservatives came to power in 2010, from one quarter to three
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@FraserNelson
The mission creep from independent regulator for press standards to press censor and plaything of the Left took just under a decade.
The Long March continues, comrades! 🙄
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@ClaudiaWebbe
Don't fascist governments normally control the media though? Have you actually thought this through? 🤡
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@BBCDanielS
...and no little old ladies ending up in front of a Magistrate for failing to subscribe. I know, terrible right?
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@Trollstoy88
Repelling? 🤪🤣🤣...Until the end of the video where HIMARS hits the S-400 and injures the cameraman! 🤣🤣
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Absolutely, spot on, 100%. Well done Gen Hodges.
“Russia’s navy sucks, their airforce sucks and they’ve lost half a million soldiers.”
- Military Analyst of the Decade award goes to
@general_ben
:)
Are you listening
@ElonMusk
@DavidSacks
? School is in session
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@bulshdetector
@CeeMacBee
Epic fail.
Labour economics = Goebbles-esque xenophobia 🤪
Remainers have become a parody of themselves.
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Remember when the Govt "crashed the economy" in *checks notes* last September?
Turns out the OBR got their forecast wrong by £97.5bn!
Some perspective:
£97.5bn is enough to *abolish* the basic rate of income tax...
Punchy stuff from NIESR... 👇
Fiscal headroom of £97.5bn against the debt rule assumes inflation higher for longer (good for tax revenues) without much higher interest rates - which is optimistic. But yet another reminder of the folly of relying on a single set of OBR forecasts!
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@maitlis
You are Diane Abbot and I claim my £5.
It's £477m.
Over 3 years.
So £159m per year...
Which is £18,041m less than £350m per week.
You're welcome. 🙄
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@vonderleyen
WTF? Is that all?
UK pop 67m = Eur 633.6m donated
EU pop 448m = Eur 1,000m donated
The UK's donation per capita is 4.2x higher than the EU's.
Another CV-19 fiasco from the EU Commission.
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@Freddie_G7
@JuliaHB1
LOL
Her dad was attorney general in Guiana. He sent her to boarding school at Moira House - Roedean. She says she worked as a chambermaid for a summer job.
Her 3rd husband (top hedge fund manager) is worth
c.£30m.
Not exactly Little Dorrit, is it?
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@BellaWallerstei
Genuinely curious to understand which bits of an immigration policy that welcomes 1.2 million immigrants per year and provides them with free healthcare, education and housing support are "illiberal"?
Which parts of this policy need to be liberalised? 🤷
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@johnestevens
This Will Young? The guy who should be on the sex offenders' register for w*nking on trains?
What a stonking endorsement for Sir Keith. 😬
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Why would the UK seek to rejoin a protectionist trade block when our global exports are doing so well? Crazy.
UK Global Exports, Real £m per month, ONS:-
Brexit has not been success. It’s good to see discussion of how to improve things. Here is some thinking on what we can do now. Build closer association & open way to Single market or even rejoin shud we want to.
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@KiszelyPhilip
They're just peddling a bizarre, racist narrative.
Can you imagine mounting a publicity campaign for the "white people who built this nation"?
It might offer better supporting evidence for the claim than the BBC's fantasy, but who would support such a sad, racist narrative?
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@tshirley44
@FT
@johnauthers
Shirley I'd trust you on UK fiscal policy, blinfolded, back to the dartboard, chucking arrows over one shoulder, than I would any one of the current parcel of absolute throbbers we have running the numbers 😘
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Poland bought all this kit on an annual defence budget of £24bn. Sunak will soon increase the UK Defence budget to 2x that of Poland.
So why can't Britain manage to do what they're doing?
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@FCDOGovUK
@David_Cameron
@UKinJerusalem
Tell me you're not sending Hamas £30m? 🧐
Terrorism Act 2000, Section III, a17:-
A person commits an offence if they give money to a person or organisation and :-
"(b)he knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that it will or may be used for the purposes of terrorism."
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@DaveKeating
"I went ahead and jiggled the data to make it less upsetting for pro-EU or anti-Britain types"
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@DPJHodges
I recall you being very keen on the rule of law in Cake-gate?
Now you want the government to round up foreigners you don't like, sieze their assets and boot them out of the country without bothering with the courts.
Apparently this is how we should respond to tyrants? 🤪
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@BenInLDN
This is an excellent sign of a government determined to assert that the NHS' priority should be their patients, not woke, virtue-signaling staff badges. 👍
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For the avoidance of doubt, Peston et al pontificate about the sacred institutions of Parliament because their anti-Brexit animus was rejected at the ballot box.
Their recourse to kangaroo courts run by of all people the paedophilia apologist Harriet Harman is telling.
For the avoidance of doubt, there is no precedent for a prime minister to do as the prime minister has done today, which is to accuse one of parliament’s most important institutions, the privileges Cttee, of abuse of process and bias (can’t be political bias because he says
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A helpful comment from the UK Actuary here:-
The UK's Gilt market disruption in September was a liquidity issue driven by the poor design of some pooled LDI funds' collateral requirements.
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@nazirafzal
So do you think we should deport all asylum seekers who commit sex offences, or not? 🧐
I think you're a "no". Why is that?
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@sentdefender
cf. Op Lightfoot (2nd Alamein)
Monty planned 3 phases -break in, "crumbling" / dogfight then the break out, over 12+ days.
There was tactical chaos and heavy losses in phases 1&2 as 8th Army ground out successive attacks and met Axis counter-attacks.
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@Trickyjabs
Quite a broad swathe of society doesn't like Jew-hatred. But hey - you do you. 🙄
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@AaronBastani
Probably the racist anti-Semitism? That and the overt hatred of anything English, British or "white"?
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@guyverhofstadt
An EU Empire is not the liberal-democratic European model, quite the opposite.
What next? Stalinist free speech? Maoist human rights? 🤪
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@Nialltoner
@DrPragyaAgarwal
You mean the raping, pillaging, enslaving Vikings?
Or... the English?
Mate, this is getting a tad awkward...
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@onlmaps
What? You missed off Morocco, Algiers and Tunisia:
Tunisia: Battle of Porto Farina 1655
Morocco: we occupied Tangier 1661-84
Algiers: punitive raids and naval bombardment 1622, 1655, 1672
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@Miss_Snuffy
I think the "be kind" brigade think this sort of attack on a school is just fine - when they do it.
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@CeeMacBee
At that rate they'll have deported all the illegal arrivals just in time for Christmas 2307.
(Assuming they stop the boats, which they won't, until the government grows a pair, which they won't...)
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@jordanbpeterson
@elonmusk
Asking Chat GPT the standard questions of the "Political Compass" tests revealed that its politics were those typical of a college-educated American computer programmer.
Colour me shocked!
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@AngelaRayner
Making it more expensive and riskier for businesses to employ people is likely to result in fewer employed people.
We already have the highest minimum wage in Europe. Reducing employment flexibility damages a key element that makes this economically viable.
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@IAPonomarenko
@Trexxl
Wallace persuaded BoJo last April that Ukraine needed high tech arms.
BoJo spent June-August 21 overcoming opposition from MI5/6 + Foreign Office.
If anything, Ben Wallace is more pro-UKR than any other sen. UK politician.
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