JoO’Neill
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I write fiction. Sometimes I paint too.
Joined June 2009
@JuliaHB1 @keith_fit People who write ‘I’m not backtracking’ only ever do so whilst backtracking.
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@Gem28211 They’re targeted at Muslim consumers obviously. Many people celebrate Easter without being Christian. Like me, I’m an atheist. Muslims can’t win… one minute they’re refusing to embrace our culture, the next you’re upset that they may buy an Easter egg. 🤷♀️ get over it.
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@mrjamesob Or Labour have spotted that the consistent factor in declining Tory support has been their slide to the right. Distancing himself from that could be a good tactic. Labour don’t need reform + Tory right…he’s courting the tory centre who don’t have the stomach for ugly nationalism
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@mrjamesob Apparently deporting a couple of hundred people to Rwanda will boost the stagnant economy, end poverty, end industrial unrest, resolve the Irish border problem, fix the NHS, ensure our schools are properly run, level up, make mortgages affordable and provide affordable housing.
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@albundysdad @BBCBreaking Oh yes afghan women are just waiting until the next general election. They’ll vote them out of office at the first opportunity 🤦♀️.
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@toryboypierce And yet we have record low unemployment. So you’re basically acknowledging that wages are so low that benefits are required for more than half the population. This after twelve years of tory govt. A compelling case for change.
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@Jenny_1884 In the 80s average house prices were 3.5x average salary. University education was free. Today av house prices are >10x av salary and uni leads to >50k debt. If you think your experience is comparable to young adults starting out today you’re in a bubble.
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@jayrayner1 @AlexWest_30 I’d like to award my husband the huge honour of ‘order of the chocolate hobnob’ and my son ‘order of the mashed potato’. I am sure that the whole of Britain will join me in congratulating them on these well deserved honours. 👑👑👑.
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@pongosapien Tricky. The glorious benefit of being able to claim we can do things that we could always do anyway. OR the glorious benefit of assigning successes to brexit that we could’ve done anyway as EU members. OR the glorious benefit of gloating and saying ‘sovrintee’ on repeat.
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@SamanthaTaghoy Dear tories. You well and truly sh@t the bed when you gave tax cuts to the rich . who weren’t even asking for them… funded through ordinary working peoples mortgages. Acting the victim because people got angry and called you names is not going to change that. Try decency.
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@implausibleblog @BlackHa63918252 History will show the Rwanda bill to be this tory government’s most shameful moment. And I don’t say that lightly because there are a LOT to choose from.
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@johnredwood Eurovision is about everything that your tories are not. Inclusion, unity, borderlessness, progress, fun. In fact Eurovision is the epitome of WOKE. So after years of stoking hate, blame, division and a culture war don’t go trying to ride on the bandwagon of a UK success.
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@ACJSissons Instead our govt is saying: 1. Let’s start a trade war with the EU. 2. And the woke. 3. Immigrants are the cause of all our worries let’s deport them to rwanda 4. Tax cuts for the wealthy 5. Don’t talk britain down 6. Save brexit.
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@AidanCTweets She keeps saying she’s not transphobic but that’s how dog whistles work… attracting people under cover of carefully chosen words. She doesn’t pass the test of ‘if you’re not transphobic how come so many transphobes follow you?… and how come you’re so welcoming to them?’.
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@joro55 @GaryLineker Another comparison to wind you up. In 1930s germany anyone speaking out against the regime was removed from public positions and vilified. Well done. #garyisright 👏.
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@DeborahMeaden Not catholic but Pope Francis once nailed it:”Free speech is a human right, but if my friend says a curse word against my mother he can expect a punch” Basically we are all free to say what we want but people are equally free to react. The RW don’t get that, Fabricant is learning.
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@toryboypierce @MailOnline He simply said that she had ‘an extraordinary lack of empathy. ’ What a bunch of pearl clutching snowflakes these RW lot are. Akua was supporting Patel’s immigration policy. Yes… lacking empathy. True statement. I’m liking GL more and more. Keep going tories 😂.
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@IndiaWilloughby @BBCNews They recently published a report about an immigrant rapist in an article about asylum seekers. The same tactic of planting a negative story about one individual in an article about a minority group in order to infer equivalence. Disappointed they feed the culture warrior agenda.
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@HannahCCoach You haven’t watched it? Then what qualifies you to opine? It sounds like you’re advocating avoidance of truth in case it hurts. I’m an advocate of knowledge and awareness. It did hurt to watch it, it should, and the discourse is also good.
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@nannycrin The people who voted to end freedom of movement say that it’s the EU’s fault freedom of movement has ended? Why doesn’t that surprise me?.
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@simonharris_mbd @Darcetron73 And no surprise . which royal. the only decent one imo. actually gave him the time of day
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@JamesCleverly Why do tories keep begging labour to sort out the strike? Are tories unable to govern? First you copy their windfall tax idea, now this. With more strikes likely across public sectors you’ve caused chaos and you’re bleating for labour to fix it? If you can’t govern step aside.
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@AliceLIrving @UKLabour Yvette Cooper did. Starmer farms out his topics to his front bench. Labour isn’t a one man party.
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@thegordonkerr @DJFlatWhite @chris_London2 Omg do you seriously not remember Gareth Southgate in his heyday causing a run on the pound at every opportunity? As for Roy keane… I’ll never forget his irresponsible approach to sub-prime lending. Never again I say.
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@MissBlanka01 @bmay Some Brexiteers argued that EU membership takes away sovereignty. So how do they reconcile supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty with the fact it wishes to join EU. The answer is obvious… the EU is an alliance of sovereign states… but that doesn’t fit the brexit narrative.
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@johnredwood The EU single market made britain the worlds 5th strongest economy. These desperate tweets are getting beyond parody.
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@implausibleblog The PM didn’t halve inflation. And btw thanks to the Tories we are still worse than other rich countries and blocs
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@NickBuckleyMBE Then you tweeted a content-free tweet complaining about a presenter you didn’t listen to. What is the point of you exactly?.
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@jomilleweb Hardly. With Camilla choosing to lunch with Meghan’s trolls I think it’s the royals that should be very nervous. Unable / unwilling to deny claims of bullying and then socializing with known bullies…. Big misstep.
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@WrongSince81 A chancellor responsible for legislation that benefits his wife. A deputy PM who thinks only tories are allowed at the opera. A levelling up minister who gives contracts to his friends. A minister for brexit opportunities who still writes with a quill.
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@NatWorldPhoto @Heidis9Lives What’s that you say? German? Nobody told me they were German! We didn’t vote for brexit to have some German family taking our jobs, forcing down our wages and scrounging our benefits. We don’t have enough space for immigrants. Liebensraum. Send them to Rwanda.
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@justinmortlake1 @alanmoore4816 @mrjamesob Project fear. I always find it entertaining that brexiteers in one breath arguing the EU is becoming a ‘united states’ and in the next breath they say it’s falling apart.
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@JumbleRates @johnredwood The most economically illiterate tweet I’ve ever seen from tory. And there has been plenty of competition. No wonder growth under the tories is a pipe dream.
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@JuliaHB1 @pritipatel @HackedOffHugh I don’t see any hatred and contempt. Just a statement of opinion. Our HS is the worst in our history. In many of our opinions. wants to transport refugees to Rwanda? Wants to override human rights? Some of us find that repugnant.
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@steffieegg12 Sorry to be dim… you are actually still paying the rent no? The landlord is evicting you ‘in case you don’t’ … that’s shocking.
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@BladeoftheS Using his own family’s experience to provide air cover for his wife’s 1930s Germany attitudes to asylum seekers…. Is there no limit to the depths a tory will go?.
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@toryboypierce Tory gaslighting. An unpalatable bill with a couple of palatable elements. Then when labour oppose it tories claim ‘labour oppose….’ So sick of this crowd. Bring on a GE.
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@SalfordMe2023 I was at a business dinner this week, with 14 men. One man commented that it was shameful there was only one woman. Another replied ‘if you want more women, it can be arranged, we can go to a club’. How was that going to make me feel? Respected as a business peer? Hardly!.
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@dave43law @AlStewartOBE Johnson disguises the problem saying we are going for ‘high skilled high paid’ economy. Obvious questions. who does the low skilled jobs? (Queues at airports, 5 hours on hold talking to phone helplines…) and if he cares about pay so much why isn’t he raising living wage?.
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@SamanthaTaghoy He made a pro-worker speech. Interesting that you see it as pro labour. An admission that government are anti workers.
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@ITVNewsPolitics @SuellaBraverman @Keir_Starmer Another nail in the coffin of the tories… people are so tired of all the hate and sniping towards minority groups. So tired. They just cannot read the room. Getting thunderous applause from a room full of hardline nasties will not translate to a GE.
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@WhittallClive I know. And this was a shop in an airport! You’d think he’d seen a female pilot before. She had three stripes on her cuffs too.
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@GaryLineker Don’t stick to football. People without voices need you more than football fans.
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@johnredwood Recovering from harm done by the tories, required a 65bn bank injection which will be paid for by us through interest rates… you want more media stories on this? Because trust me… it’s really not a good story.
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@SaleemK16010641 @NasimiShabnam It’s not hypocrisy. The Taliban are to blame. AND so are the powers that put them where they are. This tweet is about the Taliban. If you also want to talk about the role of other powers that’s also valid. add to the thread instead of throwing accusations of hypocrisy around.
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@flora19 @Garethjaz @AlexTaylorNews @maitlis “She recalled how during the 2016 EU referendum the BBC would create a false equivalence by putting one pro-Brexit economist on air to debate with one anti-Brexit economist, even though the overwhelming majority of economists felt Brexit was a bad idea”.
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@Nigel_Farage I felt proud to be british yesterday when voters showed the door to tories and the far right racist parties that have been peddling your narrative. You’re done.
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@PennyMordaunt When a Tory front bencher has to make a speech pleading with us to believe that the PM isn’t useless. we can be fairly sure the PM is useless.
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@joses_poses @GNev2 two things. 1. wise people don’t comment on ongoing criminal investigations of such seriousness 2. who on earth are you to dictate what people should be tweeting about?.
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@GlowanneLee The whole ‘cashing in’ argument falls apart when one remembers the fundamental nature of royalty is unearned privilege.
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@toryboypierce Is that the last shred tories are clinging on to? ‘Public support will be less than nurses’ ? I can tell you one thing public support will not be for… the tories.
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@BeckaAlexandra I was on the fence about Meghan’s claims she’d been made unwelcome. Not any more. So I say thanks to all the trolls and bullies for revealing themselves. She has been the epitome of class through it all and gone up in my estimation.
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@_HenryBolton It’s a full time job cancelling all that positive brexit news…. There’s so much of it. I can’t go ten seconds without another brexit benefit popping up. I’m literally living the dream right now. Thank you so very much brexiters. you were right all along. we are so well off now.
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@implausibleblog Why does a high profile political figure speaking common sense seem to be such a rarity?.
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@Zero_4 Kuenssberg reveals she’s no journalist . The uk didn’t have ‘huge success with the vaccine programme’. We started first, were quickly caught up and ended up average. btw the majority of vaccines administered in the uk were Pfizer imported from The EU. Source? Govt’s own website.
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@KatyFBrand The folk that say it tend to be tories. I find it fascinating that their bar is so low that they are actively defending regressing 30-50 years. It’s proof that tories are done. Out of ideas. So let them keep saying it. A gift to the opposition l.
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@danwootton As a woman I have to say I don’t feel remotely offended by an interpretation . it’s a free country. I’m also not especially interested in going to see it. slightly more offensive is you hijacking womens concerns for your political agenda. You don’t speak for all women… do one.
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@SusanEacock Oh get over it. She was mocking herself. Some folk just live to be offended. Mail readers normally.
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@mrjamesob I will be voting tactically to get rid of the Tories … if my car breaks down, my bicycle has a puncture and both my legs break I will crawl on my hands and elbows. Enough is enough 😄.
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@LizGibbons15 We didn’t have jubilees and we didn’t have imperial measures. We even had a German monarch planted by the EU to infiltrate our sovereignty.
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@dave43law Good lord what’s happening today is as bad as the 70s. Poverty is back at that level. The NHS is worse! The Tories haven’t once achieved their own growth target of 2.5% pa in 14 years trying. The last Labour govt exceeded it for 11 years in a row!.
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@PaulEmbery Call me old fashioned but I prefer UK immigration policy to be in line with human rights standards and international laws. Not set be politicians trying to appease GBNews and the Express.
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@johnredwood How is ‘the end to the NI protocol’ a brexit win? Brexit caused the NI protocol. Are brexiteers now going to claim that fixing problems caused by brexit are ‘Brexit wins’ … good god.
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@_scottym_ Ireland is a member of the EU. I can’t wrap my head around the daftness of this comment.
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@fitzpatrick42b @No7Sammy I’m often told that transphobia doesn’t really exist. It’s just invented by people who hate women. So when I see a post that is so overtly transphobic ‘dress up… pretend you’re women. ’ I can only thank you for proving my point. If really concerned about fairness try respect.
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@baratheongirl @mrjamesob He accused sunak of courting farage, cited farage’s alignment with powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech. He called out Tory ‘flat earthing’ and race baiting and asked twice if sunak would welcome farage into the Tories. sunak failing to reply gave the answer. Brilliant by starmer.
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@SimonInfuriated @campbellclaret @BBCNews It’s more of a right wing idea that a public persona is not allowed an opinion on politics unless it matches their right wing ideology. Hence they don’t complain about the likes of Clarkson, Morgan, Botham, Hopkins….
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@piersmorgan You got obsessed with Meghan markle, started ranting about her live on tv, a colleague has a different opinion, you stormed off in a huff. I really don’t know what else you want anyone to say 🤷♀️ brat storms off when colleague disagrees.
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@ClarkeMicah Saw it and was confused. You seem to say they deserve more money but shouldn’t strike. They don’t want to strike. But what route do they have to be heard? If they weren’t striking you wouldn’t have been talking about it on QT. Simply ‘deserving’ more money doesn’t pay their bills.
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@piersmorgan Yes I think some folk have jumped to judgement. But most people are just horrified at the violence. So why do you pick on this particular point @piersmorgan? It isn’t the main story by any means. Aren’t you leveraging the situation to have yet another go at woke? Distasteful.
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@DomMgy1 @bbcquestiontime they’re asylum seekers and you cannot know if they are refugees without their claims being assessed. Btw… Home office’s own data says that most of them are in fact refugees.
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@Haggis_UK Cue a lot of brexiteer huffing and puffing and no doubt a Mail article trashing Simon Calder.
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@DebraBe16141698 Why are dogs required to quarantine but the population still has to be exposed to toxic racists?.
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@markjenkinsonmp @bbclaurak @lisanandy Average uk income £26k. Average uk house price £285k. Few have the ability to save a deposit during a cost of living crisis. So buying a house often means borrowing from various sources. Banks, parents. etc. Or more likely, simply not buying. Tory britain.
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@steffieegg12 You’ve had a year from hell and must be feeling so vulnerable. I can only imagine what you’re going through. Lots of good advice on here. I truly hope it works out for you and you find joy and comfort in your beautiful baby when he/she comes.
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@davesumnersmith @EmmanuelMacron Because it suits the far right nationalist party formerly known as the tories to allow asylum seekers to cross the channel so they can blame them for all the economic problems 12 years of tory govt has caused. Get racists wound up and create a phony war against an invented enemy.
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@HawksmoorTweets @mrjamesob ‘Quite a nice chat’? you trying to adjust your tone retrospectively to save face? Your reply was dripping with sarcasm intended as an attack on JOB. You were sarcastic about his book and you directly accused JOB of ‘sweeping exaggerations’. It was a snarky response and personal.
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@CatharineHoey Fracking 😂🤣😂🤣 woke 😂🤣😂🤣 GB inflation less than EU’s 😂🤣😂🤣 that was the sum of Mogg’s arguments . buzzwords or factual inaccuracies. Btw EU inflation is 8.3%. GB >10%.
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@paulhannan1234 @BBCBreaking @BBCNews Yes he can. And we are free to deliver him a well earned backlash. Why do people confuse ‘free speech’ with ‘exempt from criticism’.
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