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Wildlife, singing, cats, books, prosecco, red wine. Hate cruelty, especially to those, human & animal, who are defenceless. Christian. Vegan

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@JanJancsmith
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7 years
@BarryStanton64 @VonHitchofen You mean 'could have been'. 'Of' is not a verb.
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@govbr Quite a few lies in that tweet sadly.
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This is the reaction of the peregrine incubating eggs at Cromer this evening when people clapping for the NHS thought it was a good idea to let off fireworks. Please don’t! Video courtesy of Chris Skipper, Norwich Peregrines.
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@BarryStanton64 Should be able to make you a good curry then.
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@mrjamesob Good grief, that was a marathon. Endless admiration for your patience and restraint
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@debra_shakes I think she is unable to feel empathy, compassion or any genuine concern for other people. I’m sure there are words for people like her, which I’m not qualified or prepared to use but I think she’s a very damaged & damaging person who shouldn’t be in public office.
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@Weymouthanimalr “Call me sir” because? On what possible grounds does he base this demand? Oh yes, generations of undeserved privilege based on an accident of birth. Dream on sunshine, those days are going fast thankfully.
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@MarinaNigrelli @jamesowild @CommonsPAC Yes we are, deeply ashamed, he’s not only ineffective but shameless himself.
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@callybeaton @mcc_ss You probably know this already but Mary Temple Grandin has done pioneering work on animal welfare. Her autism gives her such a different perspective and insight into how the world is for animals. Inspirational!
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@JanJancsmith
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@MrMatthewTodd @rachaelvenables @vivianharris45 @LBC @HertsPolice Just heard that at COP27 there are more lobbyists from the fossil fuel industries than there are legitimate delegates. Little wonder that JSO are needing to campaign so desperately.
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@educationgovuk @1Britain1Nation That would probably far more effective if members of the government and assorted followers were not spewing out xenophobia, racism, intolerance and hatred.
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@JMBaldam @metpoliceuk Let’s get this right. Are you congratulating the police for arresting volunteers who patrol the streets at night protecting people, especially women, from harm, like rape & assault? Because that’s what the police did, detaining them for hours before releasing them without charge.
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@PippyBing @Fifthcolumnblue @OliDugmore Oh you did, and you know did, just a hint, to stir up trouble for her, to grab a bit of attention for yourself, to try and sow doubt. What a thoroughly nasty thing to do.
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@JanJancsmith
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@NicholasPegg Neither am I and I couldn’t agree with you more. That walk seemed to go on for ever and he either had to remain in total control of all his feelings or display them to millions of people all over the world. Unbelievable, unforgivable.
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@Liz_Wheeler The saddest thing in the world is the state of the world itself. The saddest thing is the children being blown up or dying of dehydration in Ukraine, dying of disease or malnutrition or abused & trafficked. Please don’t judge another person’s choice. Think before you tweet.
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@up_learn You really should have done more research. She is not a good advertisement for anything to do with genuine education.
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@MichaelRosenYes The book you created out of unimaginable grief and pain is used constantly to reach out to grieving children, & adults too. I know it can never be enough but he lives on in so many ways, in the memories, the laughter, the love of words you engendered for so many people.
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@doctor_oxford My mother had polio as a toddler in the 1920's and was in calipers throughout her life. I still remember her desperation to have my brother and me vaccinated as soon as it was available.
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@SalfordMe2023 I disagree. It’s an acceptable response to being badgered by a reporter who won’t accept the initial perfectly polite refusal she was given. Please don’t make everything about gender. There’s enough genuine male aggression & dominance going on without your deflection.
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@BylinesEast This is the second story I’ve read today where hate or cruelty has been turned into something amazing. Yes, there is much more love and kindness than hate out here but it doesn’t get as much attention and it should because it lifts hearts.
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@njsmith73 @BorisJohnson I’m not. I’m ashamed of having a liar and a buffoon as the country’s PM and angry and frightened that he wasted so much time and failed to take the actions that were so essential in the beginning.
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@DianeCoyle1859 She’s made a huge leap in the last 24 hours, almost as if she can finally believe that she is safe and loved. So heart warming to see.
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@MichaelRosenYes He was indeed. I would be interested to know what, if anything, he would say to you now.
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@NiallHarbison @LloydsBank Best not to go with @LloydsBank when they’re already demonstrating how little they care for customers. @triodosuk is the most ethical.
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@ruskin147 Love the way she turns her back on the prof! “I can see what she’s doing and I’m not impressed”.
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@NikaMelkozerova The face of someone who has seen what no human being should ever see because it should never happen. I remember that photo very well and the stories that followed about what had been done. Such horror, pain and grief.
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@realDonaldTrump Presumably 'over 10' means that anyone over 11 years old will be considered. Could work well, at least you'd be working an intellectual equal.
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@ruskin147 But I’m a social media star. I deserve poached eggs!
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1 year
@sociabledog Amazing progress. Lovely to see all those months of patience, gentleness and following her pace rather than putting #sophiefromromania under pressure are paying off.
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@ruskin147 How lovely, and in a lump in throat kind of way. It will be your turn soon Rory, she’s just got more fears to overcome with men, but she’ll do it.
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@simonharris_mbd My mother breast fed me and my younger brother so I grew up with it just being how you fed babies. Many years later, seeing a mother feeding her baby is a lovely warm and natural sight. I just don’t get the outrage let alone the disgust.
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@LibbyMbc I feel that once the money is donated it becomes yours to do with as you want. Whether for Violet or to charities that want to prevent people going through what you are experiencing, it’s your call. I’m sad that anyone should try and tell you how to use it.
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@SteveOlley1 @RobertBarnes542 Your reply is virtue signalling in its own way, or are you trying to be ironic?
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@LovesTiki2 Kali I’m so sorry to read this. You’re at the start of a journey though, with a lot of treatment ahead and lots of people rooting for you. I’ll be praying for you and your family.
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@DrProudman The world would be a different place if there were more leaders like her. With self awareness, courage, integrity, recognising what her country needs from its leader, she has been, and is, outstanding and a role model for what leadership should be at every level.
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@always_uk_ire @RachelRileyRR @sported_UK Absolutely no chance I would support any campaign that has Rachel Riley as its face. A very strange and misguided choice.
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@Dunkirk_1940 Has anyone actually done a nutritional analysis of this meal? Or of any of the meals they’re serving up to people who are sick, have had surgery or for many reasons presumably need optimum nutrition for wound healing, recovery or even just to feel cared for?
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@DianaBlackburne @JimGamble_INEQE @JohnnyMercerUK @carolvorders She hasn’t been evil at all. She has called out corruption, lies, cronyism and all manner of evil which @Conservatives have perpetrated on this nation and its people.
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@DianeCoyle1859 @ruskin147 She’s having another one of those leaps forward! Play bowing, wagging tail and then claiming shoes as hers. I just love watching her progress.
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@TVKev @nuffthefairy Oh I think you’re not being Strictly honest there Kev. If you had actually avoided it, congruent with the lack of interest you profess, you wouldn’t have needed to write your attention-seeking little tweet now would you?
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@PeterEgan6 @MailOnline . @David_Cameron is a weak and immature man who after a life of privilege and entitlement cannot cope with the failure of his ambition so wreaks revenge and exerts his little remaining power by killing something beautiful that cannot fight back against guns.
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@danielsjross @SamuelKOfficial @Channel4 The security guard who was stabbed to death is Faraz Tahir, a refugee from Pakistan in his first week on the job.
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@BootstrapCook Often grieving for one loss triggers the pain from other losses, other griefs and you have had so much this year. Maybe there are lots of tears to be shed. Have thought of you so much today.
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@LifeAfloat I’d be very happy to contribute in return for the wonderful photos and videos and being able to share in your amazing journey. I’m so glad you are safe!
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What you’ve done @KemiBadenoch is to sign the death warrants of unique and precious species and opened the way to the destruction of irreplaceable habitat.
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🔴 UK’s Brexit Trade Deal has Potential to Flood Market with Dirty Palm Oil In a weakened position due to Brexit, the UK has accepted Malaysia’s demands to reduce import tariffs on palm oil from the current 12% to 0% – Rachel Donald reports
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@jude5456 I said yesterday she is like the queen. Photo-shoots with hair-dresser, make-up artist, wardrobe mistress. She’s now decided the only thing missing is a lady-in-waiting!
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@DavidLammy Literally just heard it on Radio 4. He must have been in so much anguish. My heart aches for all the people who love him and grieves for a young and precious life lost.
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@Barbara01963528 @Peston Yes! Having a Prime Minister who is neither a habitual liar nor a law-breaker is top priority for me. No need to worry about Russia & the Ukraine because a) The U.K. is an irrelevance b) we have very little significance on the world stage & what we had was blown by @trussliz
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@BarryNSmith79 It’s a good thing that no-one asked you for your opinion then, but unfortunate that you feel the need to criticise openly the young people who are obviously happy and proud of their uniform and far more gracious in their responses than you.
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@skyfew Hi Rob. 6 weeks of chemo & radiotherapy takes its toll and can really knock you back. There will be down days, exhausted days when you just need to rest and be kind to yourself. You’ll pick up again. (25 years nursing in oncology & listening to people describe their experiences).
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@eliistender10 Nick Robinson, Andrew Marr, John Humphrys, Laura Kuenssberg, David Dimbleby and pretty much all the @BBCRadio4 political crew.
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@NestleUKI @CommunityShops @FoodCloud Words, words, words. Dumping Fair Trade, denying that water is a human right and stealing water from the poorest communities, promoting powdered baby milk in the developing world and killing babies. #BoycottNestl é
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@Harrii_W Throughout my nursing career it was always front line colleagues that knew how to make each other feel valued - with a few exceptions. Managers had either forgotten or never knew how much it mattered. Good that it still exists even though government is trying to divide and rule.
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@Carlabela1 Please report them for breach of Data Protection Act and also speak to the police and let the Estate Agents know you’ve done both of those things.
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@sociabledog Amazing! Playing with a ball, asking for strokes, lying down and having tummy rubs - I had to keep watch it !
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@IcyShimbiris Really? Having worked / volunteered / visited In Asia, Africa and South America that has not been my experience.
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Please read this, especially any of you who think we are “over the parties” @grantshapps @BorisJohnson @Conservatives
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@Factinate This must be the most badly written piece of prose I’ve ever had the misfortune to begin to read. Thankfully I soon realised the error of my ways!
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@RestoreTrustNT Absolute garbage. Your campaign was divisive, destructive & led by a right wing cabal whose funding is mired in secrecy & obfuscation. Thankfully your links with Tufton Street were exposed & the thousands of us who really care about & support @nationaltrust saw through you.
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@Harryslaststand It seems that the world has become very small this evening, so many people keeping vigil together with you. #IstandwithHarry
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@MichaelRosenYes Seeing him stopped in his tracks really did make me smile and your tweet is a delight.
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@PlainLincoln No, it is not antisemitic. There are many Jewish people and Jewish groups who campaign for justice for Palestinian people and condemn what the Israeli authorities are doing to them.
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@drjanaway A sense of privilege that has its seeds in the days of empire, reinforced by being on the winning side in 2 world wars, fostered for years by the press at both ends of the political spectrum but particularly now by the right wing media.
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@selli68 @ohchrissavidge Guess you’re self-isolating. That would be the only excuse for such an attention seeking comment.
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@PeterEgan6 @kovacslives Really sorry when you have to deal with rubbish like that Peter. You do so much for animals and in so many different areas. You're supported, loved and respected by thousands of us.
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@NestleUKI @CommunityShops @FoodCloud It’s good to see how well this PR exercise is going. Every time people see it they learn how utterly corrupt & immoral Nestlé is. They discover how you steal water from indigenous communities, exploit the poorest and most vulnerable & have betrayed the Fair Trade movement.
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@ruskin147 Oh that maybe one of the best photos yet! Thank you for sharing her journey, you’re my first call on Twitter in the mornings.
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@AlastairMorgan It was good to hear him and he interviewed really well. I guess those who lied, covered up and colluded for all those years never gave a moment’s thought to the little boy whose Daddy was murdered so horrifically.
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@tianran @mrjamesob Surely looking at what transpired yesterday it could be legitimately argued that her words and actions are treasonable?
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@CMO_England Where’ve you been? Restrictions were lifted, various politicians were telling us we were leading the world in beating Covid, others were saying we are now “Post-Covid”, people were developing Covid, some were dying & you & your clinical & scientific colleagues were silent.
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@garethlpowell The hedgehog rescue I for which I volunteer uses dozens of these for water and/or food.
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@implausibleblog Andrew Neil would know, he lost credibility some time ago and with his loud mouthed right wing agenda bears at least some responsibility for the chaos we’re in now.
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@STRAWPlymouth @guardianeco @EnvironmentPlym @PlymouthGreens In relation to our vanishing wildlife and catastrophic climate change I can think of few sadder pictures than this. It is our equivalent of the photo of a lone orangutan clinging to a stump in the destroyed rain forest.
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@mrjamesob Just 40 years old with a pregnant wife. How can people, especially the anti-vax “celebrities” live with themselves?
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@NestleWatersHQ Water is definitely the best choice. Nestle is the worst choice anybody could make for anything. This corporation is amoral, unethical, greedy, bullying, thieving, responsible for the deaths of babies and toddlers and massive plastic pollution throughout the world.
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@helen_a15 Thanks for this Helen. I haven’t seen anything on social media but I thought about her a lot yesterday, what their relationship was like, how she must feel but mostly what do you say to your children and how you all then live with that for the rest of your lives?
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@imajsaclaimant @HousingFirstUK @blueannoyed @Dis_PPL_Protest @DrFrancesRyan This is enforced euthanasia and it is beyond belief that GP’s, whom patients should be able to trust, would put this sort of pressure on their patients.
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@Gameandwildlife Thanks for giving me the opportunity to say how much I value the work that @WildJustice_org are doing in raising awareness of the harm being done to our wildlife and in campaigning to counteract it.
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@ChristineBore Hi Christine, you continue to amaze me! I’m sending you a hedgehog video. He was born in a Rescue after his mum was discovered out in the day & poorly. He shouldn’t be this bold! I’ll foster him for a few weeks with minimal contact until he gets big enough to release. x
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@Harryslaststand It was really good to hear you on Last Word today, to put a voice to your face and to hear you talk so movingly about Harry and your family.
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@StephenMcGann Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Nature Reserves, ancient trees, precious wildlife habitat, all destroyed. Homes & farms, gone, livelihoods destroyed. Who’ll benefit now? Presumably, as with Stanley Johnson, friends & family of Tory M.P.s & donors to the Tory party.
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@ClaraStKilda @BBCWomansHour @GoonerProf @AlexSharpe64 and Alex also thinks it's OK to discriminate between 'real' feminists and the rest, who I presume are the 'cis' women, whatever that means!
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@DianeCoyle1859 @ruskin147 Love the relaxed crossed paws but she’ll still look after him and not let the baddies in.
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@doctor_oxford So very sad, especially that the protestors have lost sight of the needs of all the other sick babies and children being treated there and their frightened anxious families. What on earth do they think they would do if they got inside?
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@ruskin147 She is so gentle and her face at the end is just heart-melting.
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@MichaelRosenYes @BBCRadio4 It came very close to you Michael and of course to your family so it is not surprising that you had such a powerful reaction. There is so much grieving still to be done and the dying continues. Sometimes it is overwhelming.
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@LindaSk49118554 I am totally in support of the manager of Sainsbury’s & the police. Why would you risk other people’s lives unless for attention & to make a point which when over 1000 people are dying each day is actually totally irrelevant. If you can’t wear a mask there are other options.
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@elisled2 He’s out of his depth. Dressing up and playing with his “My Junior Scientist” or “My Junior Doctor” kit is all he is comfortable doing.
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@OliviaLaGrange3 @bmay Unless you’ve lived under that regime and in a war situation you have no idea about what brave is and absolutely no right to judge.
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@MeanwhileScotia Oh I am so envious of Scotland! To see Nicola Sturgeon in action, calm, professional, adult, open, empathic and forensic in her demolition of the Tories, is a delight, & such a contrast with Westminster.
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The poster that sums up everything wrong with corporate tax dodging http://t.co/uAnWUJvR81 Shop local, go #AmazonFree http://t.co/31tRr8kT00
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@AllisterHeath Well you weren’t wrong there, but maybe not quite how you envisaged. By the way, where have you been for the last three days? Same place as @trussliz I imagine.
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@LibbyMbc Dreadful response, reflecting his own fears and anxieties and effectively shutting you down so you can’t talk about the things that matter to you. I hope there are people on your team to whom you can talk openly.
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@PamelaStephensn @CockertonMark What a wonderful clip. Nobody ever reduced me to total helplessness with laughter like he did, and still does, even when I know what's coming. And no-one ever will because he is unique. Please wish him well and thank you.
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This is appalling & reveals the depth and breadth of the corruption within this government & its political partners.
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The true story of David Cameron the Water Voles and the Dredging
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@Loriagne2 Goodbye NHS, Benefits, Education and everything that isn’t privatised already.
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@benedictsf @JamesDelingpole She’s a consultant in palliative medicine. What are you?
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@NCCtaxpayer @Depheruk Apart from your ignorance about how far benefits actually go now, have you any idea how absolutely swamped the CAB are with people struggling to survive, accumulating more and more debt, losing their homes and often their relationships under the burden of debt? Try asking them.
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@DancingTheMind He isn't relatable and his relationship history demonstrates that he isn't actually a family man either. He is so utterly self-absorbed that he can't even understand the concepts.
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@anaglyph32 @RNLI @MailOnline @thetimes Anyone that boycotts the RNLI because it saves lives that just happen not to be in the UK is absolutely beneath contempt. I'll be donating to @RNLI tomorrow
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