David Newble
@DavidNewble
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Balding tech fan, annoying leftie, experimenting with a beard. Former journalist, once told by a cabinet minister to 'go fk himself' - Sailor (ish).
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@BestForBritain
@YvetteCooperMP
Cracking stuff. I remember a Labour bod (can't remember who) saying that being in the presence of Cooper was like being in the presence of someone who you 'knew' was a million times smarter than you and thanking the Lord she was on your side.
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@mrjamesob
@bbclaurak
Also noteworthy that Clarkson 'thinks' that everyone his age 'thinks the same way'. I can assure Mr Clarkson that (aged 60) I most emphatically 'don't' think the same as him.
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@ThatTimWalker
Is it healthy to dislike someone as much as I dislike Johnson? He's 'everything' I can't stand...'everything'...I can't bear to hear his voice any more...can't bear to see his face, his 'jokes', his bumbling (studied) ineptitude...
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@fleetstreetfox
My dad, 88, was an eight year old kid when D-Day happened. He hid under a table during *Doodle bug* raids in London and wet himself. When he heard Farage was running again, he said to me: *That c*unt's back again?* I love my dad.
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@MustardSeedUK
@mrjamesob
Today, I ran into one of my friends who is a confirmed Tory voter...she's sick of Johnson, realises Brexit is awful and is desperately worried about the state of the economy...not 'quite' ready to vote Labour but open to Lib Dems and Greens...interesting.
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@implausibleblog
Of course it was planned. Sunak and his teenage advisers genuinely thought it would not matter that he was absent. The only real question left is why Cameron didn't say *Whoaaa, Rishi, don't you think this is a bad idea?* Now that's a story which should be followed up...
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@terrychristian
Hi Terry. One of the *worst* memories of my life when I was a teenager was seeing my dad cry when he lost his factory job due to Thatcher's policies in the early 80s. It's that sort of shit that stays with you (for life). He's 88 now, we have never forgotten it. Ever.
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@Klee_FilmReview
Ohhhh yeah...I forgot this one...brilliant, like a plot summary in a single shot.
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@mrjamesob
@LBC
The fine tradition of 'nothing happening' when you take a holiday has continued James...
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@_HenryBolton
Henry, a Brazilian Deliveroo driver helped to fend off the attacker...you are making excuses for thugs rioting after the despicable actions of one bloke (who, as far as I understand) was an Irish citizen (although of Algerian descent) and had lived in Ireland for 20 years.
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@RussInCheshire
Small (but maybe significant) story. I attended my nephew's wedding a few months ago. All his friends are in their late 20s/early 30s. *Not one* was planning to vote Tory. Not one...
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There seems to be a (coordinated?) campaign to throw doubt on the result in the London Mayoral race. Quite a number of accounts stating that Hall has *won* and several now claiming that if Sadiq wins, it's because the vote is *rigged*...beware.
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@Mij_Europe
@KwasiKwarteng
@trussliz
She's gone man...only a question of time...and if 'she' goes, the Tory Party 'goes' - there's no way back from this.
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@susanpenhaligon
My great-grandfather was one of the last native speakers of Cornish before the revival (apparently)...this is awesome...
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@Otto_English
When Brexit happened, I told a friend that my dream of retiring to Spain had been ruined. She started laughing. Needless to say, our friendship ended that day...we have not spoken since.
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@IanDunt
Does this mean that video footage of exhausted refugees meeting charity workers will be classed as 'illegal content'? Or rescues undertaken by the RNLI? Extremely concerning...
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@Number10cat
Well, they removed their rights to travel, live and work visa free in 27 other countries, to fall in love with a *foreigner* (unless they are rich), loaded them with student debt, got rid of youth facilities and made housing cripplingly expensive. What a puzzle.
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@maitlis
@BBCNewsnight
Damn this....just damn it...I come from a local news background, local papers have been pretty much destroyed over the past few years (with a few notable exceptions)...and here we are, a flagship BBC programme being reduced to a talk show...
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@whippletom
Woe betide the women if they fell pregnant though...such were the attitudes at the time. The men often got away with it - the women, not so much. Thank God for the pill in 1963...
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@mrjamesob
Or, indeed, Harry Kane, who wore his LGBTQ+ armband with pride...this is 'my' team...they represent 'my' country...
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@Patch_Thompson
Why do these people *insist* on calling themselves middle class when the average household income in the UK is £35,000 p.a.?
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@Wokewaster
@reformparty_uk
How will they plug the gaps in public spending? They never say. And when they *do* mention it, it comes down to moving to a US style *insurance based* NHS and drastically reducing welfare, dropping the poorest in it.
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@janeclarejones
@APowellLaw
@Finn_Mackay
Hear hear. In *every* other single respect, I would consider myself to be *soft left*. Yet just because I agree with you rather than Butler, I'm a *bigot?*...her views are (at best) intellectual suet pudding - at worst, dangerous and wrong.
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@ThatTimWalker
The 5,500 complaints to IPSO (and counting) are really not going to help the Mail that much...'out of touch' does not even begin to capture this...
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@Otto_English
You know, I'm *beginning* to think that Farage isn't the political genius people claim he is. A bit of robust questioning by journalists worth their salt and his entire act crumbles...
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@LBC
@SayeedaWarsi
@mrjamesob
What an absolutely fantastic interview. And 'the point' is that the language Braverman uses, is reminiscent of the language used in the 70s which resulted in awful attacks against POC during that decade 'including' my British/Indian GF who was violently attacked when she was 15.
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@pearceyp78
@vicderbyshire
And yet, people were told during the Brexit ref by 'Leave' that we would be 'better off' - people warning (correctly as it turns out) that we would be 'worse off' were dismissed as 'Project Fear'...
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@vanmaneuro
Habib is never knowingly right about anything. His little court case to somehow 'prove' that the NIP was 'illegal' because it directly contradicted the Act of Union between Ireland and Great Britain collapsed in a heap of logic.
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@mrjamesob
Yup. The Irish lady (can't recall her name) did a pretty sterling job as well when he was interviewed on (I think) RTE...
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@implausibleblog
This is, of course, true. *But* the UK has to now have a reckoning *with itself*. The path to joining the EU is via Art49. No cherry picking, no *special* deals this time.
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@Samfr
The problem for the Tories is that the *boomers* are a shrinking demographic...and Gen Z are a *growing* demographic.
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@darrengrimes_
Point is. Every student *could* study abroad in the EU...and now, only the entitled and middle class *can*...we've gone backwards.
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@mrjamesob
How times have changed. Back at Manchester University in the 80s, Heseltine was targeted by student protests culminating in red paint being thrown over him (not by me, but I was in the crowd) and now I agree with every word (on this issue) he says...blimey.
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@IanDunt
Sunak (memorably) has been described as the *rail replacement bus service prime minister* - I don't think I can top that...😎
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@Taj_Ali1
I've said this before and I'll say it again - most people are kind and decent...well done the Pizza guys.
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@BBCMBuchanan
@BBCNews
A society that tolerates this needs to take a long hard look at itself.
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@RazerWithAKnee
@Nigel_Farage
@reformparty_uk
Sorry, but £25 goes into Farage's pocket. Do you have (as a member) any say on policy? No? Oh dear...
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@mrjamesob
@bbclaurak
You did it James. And those of us who have listened to you for years are eternally grateful. I would not have been able to navigate my way round this rubbish if it was not for your show...
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@ramonagusta
It *did not* take 15 per cent of the NHS budget annually and, in fact, earned us far more in revenue than the cost of the membership fee (£40 billion a year has been lost to treasury coffers because of increased trade barriers)...it's *cost* us money to leave...got it?
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@IanDunt
Yes. It's an excellent interview, and all the better *because* nobody (apart from a few people close to him) knew what had gone in his life. My, what a life he has had. It would have crushed a lesser man.
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@Number10cat
I just 'love' the way the guy carries on regardless...and even gives the cat a little stroke.🤣
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@mrjamesob
I was thinking about the Duke today...he's the reason I did the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme which led to a lifetime love of hiking and sailing. Strange...I never really thought about it before...it's fair to say that the scheme has a lot to do with the person I now am.
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@jdportes
This mob are pointless...I was 34 (knocking on 35) in 97'...my *entire* adult life had been spent under the Tories. We could not wait to be rid of them...but I can't recall the sheer, visceral loathing this lot engenders...
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@MrAhmednurAli
That has put the 'biggest' smile on my face for weeks...amidst a pretty rotten time in the UK.
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@ThatTimWalker
@7_StarGirlx
I'm growing disillusioned with the timidity...the sheer hopelessness of it all. If Labour don't make any kind of stand about *anything*, if they are so damn scared of the reaction of the r.wing press (and) socially conservative voters in *Red Wall* seats...what's the point?
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@campbellclaret
I've just seen the footage of BBC Newsnight journalist, Nick Watt, being pursued by an angry mob outside Downing Street. We are well on our way to 'failed state' territory now...
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@wesstreeting
Rishi has the air of someone who has just called his dad so he can fix a blocked sink...
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@justrightFrank
Don't be silly. Brexit has been a disaster. The only people who have profited from it have been the elite.
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@BethRigby
All he's doing is to try to create further headlines...so that a *narrative* is embedded by his friends in the r.wing press that he is sinned against...this is who he is, this is what he does.
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@supertanskiii
Those of us old enough to remember the late great John Smith roasting John Major alive in the early 90s also recall him saying Major was the guy with the reverse Midas touch - lovely to see...
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@CuriousBunnie12
Dunno mate, but moaning about someone hoping to use second-hand fairy lights for their wedding doesn't seem somehow, you know, *abnormal* to you?
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@mikoh123
@AyoCaesar
The sheer mendacity of these people. I'm old enough to remember when the ERG's ludicrously named 'Star Chamber' declared the deal 'sovereignty compliant' and Iain 'Dunkin Doughnuts' declared there was no further need for the deal to be debated in Parliament.
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@tim_brannigan
Ironic indeed that the paper she writes for enthusiastically championed taking away the freedom to retire to (say) Spain for many folk on average incomes - ah well.
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@IanDunt
The Tory Party is dying...no political party has the God given right to exist *for ever* - look what happened to the Liberals in the 1920s...quite frankly, it can't come soon enough.
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@EmmaKennedy
@campbellclaret
My particular 'bee in the bonnet' at the moment is Brexity Tories demanding economic impact statements about 'lockdown' who were silent about the need for economic impact statements concerning Brexit...hey ho...
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@RosieDuffield1
I'm retraining as an HGV driver but I can assure you, I will 'not' be plying my new trade in the UK. I'm moving to ROI where it will be far easier to do European deliveries, and in five years can apply for Irish citizenship...
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@DUPleader
Ireland has *never* had any truck with this grifter. It's why parties of the populist right in Ireland score around one per cent in GE's there...nobody likes them.
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@notayesmansecon
Why is *immigration* to blame in the UK when France and Germany have *half* our rates of homelessness and have similar immigration levels?
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@C_Kenyon1
Last night, a reporter on Sky cited 'transport issues' as part of the reason for the food shortages...in other words, 'supply chains'...almost as if the broadcast media have been instructed 'not' to mention the 'B' word? Dunno. But I'm suspicious.
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@kapaterson
Line from the Times. When Johnson was asked if he would resign, he replied (apparently) 'fk that'...he's going to have to be removed by dynamite.
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@LBC
@mrjamesob
My Anglo Indian GF's mum was born in Bengal in 1934. This policy, if enacted then, would have meant her (British) father could not have brought her here in the 1950s. The GF would *literally* not exist. I loathe this government and everything it stands for.
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@IanDunt
I can't lay claim to this but someone on Twitter (X) has just remarked that it's like someone has just called his dad so he can fix a blocked sink...
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@JustineClaire65
@BrexitMyArse
*Citizen journalist* 🤣🤣🤣- I'm a qualified journalist who spent 34 years in the industry before retirement. I never ended up in jail for contempt of court because I understood the law...
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@johncusack
As I have pointed out before, the UK faced similar issues with an out of control East India Company (the largest corporation in the world) in the 19th Century - the government of the time ended up nationalising it.
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@rolandmcs
If it's impossible for people like Hannan to admit that austerity, Brexit and Truss (as well as Johnson's venality) played a major part, they are going to be out of power for a loooong time.
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@SophyRidgeSky
As a son of a factory worker (first in my family to go to university) I *completely* get this about Keir's relationship with his father...very, very, fortunately, we have addressed this in our relationship over the last few years and I am extraordinarily grateful that we have.
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@ProfBrianCox
As I think I have tweeted before. The *epic* and I do mean epic failure of UK journalists to explain how the single market and the CU actually worked and why SM membership is significantly different from a basic FTA is a large part of the reason we landed up here.
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@SangitaMyska
Solidarity Sangita...one of the best broadcasters in the UK...this person does not know what it is talking about...
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@campbellclaret
Looks like game set and match. No wonder Labour's comms bods were relaxed about the Sue Gray appointment. Wonder if Johnson will find a home in 'ReformUK'? Stranger things have happened.
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@implausibleblog
When the future history of this country is written, Johnson's reputation will be shredded. The absolute worst PM this country has ever had.
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@campbellclaret
Rather cheeringly, some of the Tories have (belatedly) turned on Johnson 'and' Oakeshott...(and the daft anti-lockdown narrative)...opposition for them is going to be 'heaps' of fun...(for the rest of us)...
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@Roh_Yakobi
@ThatTimWalker
It is important we have 'names' and pictures. Shocking footage on Twitter 'does not' capture these people's humanity.
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@FraserNelson
Stop whining about the special privileges which 93 per cent of parents don't enjoy for their offspring Fraser...seriously.
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@implausibleblog
Wriggling, and wriggling some more...how uncomfortable the so called moderate Tories look...no amount of trying to be 'reasonable' is going to save them from electoral oblivion...and it's their fault.
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@Jebadoo2
I'm so (fkn) tired of the gender ideology types calling myself (and my mates) *far right* and *bigots*...yesterday, a dear friend of mine (a lesbian and former co-worker) got in touch for the first time in years expressing her dismay at what was going on.
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@addicted2newz
She's not doing it to the viewers dopey. She's doing it to the camera-crew/production crew and did not realise she was on air...
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@IanDunt
It's just like 'everything' about these people, from Oakeshott, to Tice, to Mogg, to Dorries to Johnson is unraveling at break-neck speed - and it won't be too long before the waters start lapping around Rish!'s ankles as well.
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@sophiamcoutts
Good for him...it takes an awful lot of courage to do that...I *was* that soldier many, many moons ago.
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@ThatTimWalker
@TVNaga01
Deep seated, thin skinned insecurity...a country 'at ease with itself' simply does not get into pointless rows such as this. Whatever has become of the Telegraph?
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@mrjamesob
Dear God. So it *comes down to* the *fact* that he a) Is not wealthy enough to have an account with Coutts and b) He didn't want to have a pleb account (which he was offered)...have I got this right?
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@campbellclaret
You can 'almost' imagine his unknown number of children saying 'Dad, please don't dance like that, it's embarrassing'
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@BestForBritain
Dear God in heaven. They 'still' don't get it...after 'six' years...when I voted 'Remain' 'I' did not get it ( I voted 'Remain' because I did not particularly like or rate the people on the other side)...I 'do' now...and this guy is an 'actual' minister of HMG...I give up.
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@RobBennettAscot
It's got to the point where I'm thinking about sailing my yacht to Calais, picking up some refugees and coming back to the UK (with their consent of course) and presenting myself and them to the authorities on arrival. What jury in the land would convict us?
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@addicted2newz
@londondanish
Nope. You now have to pass income tests to obtain visas (whereas previously you did not have to). Loss of FoM penalises less well off pensioners who no longer pass them. £36,000 minimum income for a couple - plus costly health insurance (each).
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@mrjamesob
It never stops being amazing that you are still up for the fight James...I'm just exhausted tbh...'years' of calling out these people takes an enormous toll.
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@BestForBritain
@TheIFS
As the ever prescient David Gauke remarked, vote Reform to get Corbyn's foreign policy and Truss's economic policy...
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@danielmgmoylan
@alexhallhall
You took away my FoM Daniel...this means I can no longer retire to Spain (because of the new income tests) - well done you. And do you *actually* have an Irish passport? If so, are you going to use it? Or is FoM just for the *little people*...?
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@edwinhayward
I rather suspect that like Brian Cox (the science chap, not the other one) I believe that 'this' will be what kills off Brexit eventually...the ball-aching inconvenience of it all...every.single.holiday.
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@mrjamesob
I remain (ha!!) of the view having read this excellent thread that 'until' the UK switches to PR, we will be in thrall to voters who 'still' think Brexit is a good idea.
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@mrjamesob
A friend of mine living in Australia asked me to explain what was going on in the UK atm. I sent her this...I'm 'also' going to recommend she tunes into your show..
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