Joel Taylor
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A reminder, Allegra Stratton, who doesn’t appear to have attended in any capacity any illegal govt party, is the only person to have resigned over the matter
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If anyone doubted why England’s players were taking the knee before kick offs, it’s fairly clear now
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Bercow just told a Labour MP off for shouting 'ahoy there' towards Chris Grayling
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Eustice on Israeli minister in a wheelchair unable to access Cop26
'What would normally happen in this situation is that Israel would have communicated that they had that particular need for their minister'
Surely what should 'normally happen' is the venue is 100% accessible?
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A reminder, Allegra Stratton, who doesn’t appear to have attended in any capacity any illegal govt party, is the only person to have resigned over the matter
The guilty people are still trying to cling on hoping it’ll all blow over
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How have so many people forgotten Marine Le Pen is a fascist?
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Eddie Mair on Javid refusing
#r4pm
interview re death penalty:
‘We invited the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, on to PM to be interviewed but the answer was no. The statement that was sent in did not address the concerns that have been raised so I won’t waste your time with it.’
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Satire from the football commentator on Newcastle’s St James’s Park
‘From the top you can see for miles and miles - probably as far as Barnard Castle if you’re eyesight is good enough’
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To think, Downing Street spent £2.6m on a briefing room perfect for weather like today
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Christ! King’s Cross is just littered with people sleeping rough, all frozen and soaked
Dozens
What the hell is wrong with our society that has allowed this to happen?
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The more I’ve read of Jack Merritt & Saskia Jones the more I see what an impressive pair they were
Committed to rehabilitation & helping others, what a loss
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Lord Sumption on
#r4today
saying those who died of Covid ‘would probably have died within a year after’ because of their underlying health conditions
That is a vast, unprovable, claim unworthy of a once senior judge
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I may now be getting the hang of Twitter
I keep writing a response to tweets that annoy me, before deleting with a sigh and saying in my head ‘it’s really not worth the hassle of having an argument with this berk’
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‘Failed orthodoxy of the last 10 years’ says Sunak
Amazing the pitch of both candidates to be PM is based on how bad the govt has been for years
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Nick Robinson right to point out on
#r4today
that we have a govt that operates by briefing its intentions anonymously and sends out its ministers who subsequently don’t answer any questions
A pretty rotten state of affairs
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Great line from
@DavidOlusoga
on
#bbcnews
just now in the wake of the Rhodes statue decision
'Are we never allowed to assess & reframe the history & life stories of people who did terrible things because they were rich, because they paid for their reputation to be laundered?'
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Shouldn’t the Secretary of State know this?
Nadine Dorries tells
@CommonsDCMS
Channel 4’s future should be ‘brought into question,particularly when it is in receipt of taxpayers’ money. It is our responsibility to evaluate whether taxpayers are receiving value for money’. Channel 4 receives no taxpayers’ money.
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Suella Braverman saying the govt had to cut the nurse bursary because difficult choices were needed after Labour
The bursaries were cut in 2017, seven years after Labour had left office
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The Stasi was a force of terror. It abducted people, indulged in torture & psychological warfare & had death squads
This MP is required to wear a mask to help protect other people
Yes, the two are just the same
MP caught on tube without mask complains country is ‘like East Germany under the Stasi’
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Shaun Bailey on why the working class need rules
They ‘look to rules. The rules are important to them. Take away the rules and they are left in limbo
‘… Then they get into crime – because it’s more acceptable – it’s more readily done’
Not sure what his excuse is
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We could have the ridiculous situation of the govt simultaneously trying to rip up the NI protocol allegedly to protect the Good Friday Agreement, while champing at the bit to leave the ECHR thus jeopardising the Good Friday Agreement
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Taxi driver in London
‘I’ve got less than an hour left, I can’t find any petrol anywhere, if I don’t find any that’s it till Monday
‘After 18months if scratching a living this is so frustrating
‘It is Brexit. Why would Czechs & Poles come back?’
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School kid on my train
‘Imagine living in a terraced house’
Dulwich School
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Just catching up with
@KayBurley
's interview with Matt Hancock - crikey, he looks utterly haunted, pale, gaunt, hunched, shattered
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Well, isn't that nice
A drinks and deportations party
Ahead of the Rwanda votes tonight that could go on until 1AM - Tory chief whip Simon Hart will host drinks for MPs in Rishi Sunak's parly office
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David Gauke: ‘It would be helpful if the government would clarify if it believes in the rule of law’.
Normal
#r4today
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If Downing Street want to dispel concerns over SAGE they could just make membership of the body & it’s advice public
There is no defence for it being secret on a matter of such importance when others, excluded from the body, can offer expertise
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This passage from
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's New Statesman diary shows what is wrong about politics in so many ways
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Pondering a tv prog in which Sue Gray and Jackie Weaver team up and travel around the country and police politicians like sheriffs
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Could John Redwood find a more intimidating angle for his camera?
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I now understand holes in jeans. A girl at Victoria is on her phone, kneeling and writing directions on her exposed kneecap
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Me in WHSmith: ‘Can I have 24 1st class stamps please?’
Man at till: ‘Sorry, we only sell them in books of 6 or 12.’
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First Priti Patel, now Raab pulls out of a committee session...
@DominicRaab
has postponed his evidence session that was scheduled to take place next week.
We have asked him to reconsider his decision so that we can question him on the Bill of Rights before recess.
Read our letter➡️
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I’ve got plenty of disagreements with
@AyoCaesar
but on this, in all respects, she’s spot on
“Migrants to this country bring more and contribute more in tax than they take out”
@AyoCaesar
says there is a ‘human case’ in support of immigration to Britain.
#bbcqt
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What an extraordinary statement for a public servant to make
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There wasn't, unless I missed it, a single acknowledgement of why Boris Johnson is in the position he is at this moment
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Whoever took the decision on landing cards is ultimately neither here nor there, the root cause of the
#windrush
scandal, & all the other British citizens threatened with deportation, is the ‘hostile environment’ created by the person who was Home Secretary between 2010 & 2016
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This pastoral guidance from the Church of England is fascinating
'Sexual relationships outside heterosexual marriage are regarded as falling short of God’s purposes for human beings'
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What will become apparent is that the National Service plan wasn’t even drawn up on something as substantial as a fag packet
The costs are pretty much made up
What are the penalties if 18yos refuse?
How legally enforceable will they be?
It’s just utter nonsense
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And Cressida Dick defended the policing & attacked ‘armchair critics’
Yet the policing was deeply questionable, Dick’s record remains very questionable & the Met faces an awful lot of very troubling questions
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Boris Johnson tells Commons 'I said no such thing' when Rayner claims PM said inflation fears 'unfounded'
PM in October: 'People have been worried about inflation for a very long time. I'm looking at robust economic growth. And by the way, those, those fears have been unfounded'
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Our 5yo is 6 on Sunday & she’s taken to asking Alexa if we have any notifications as it will announce if we’ve ordered anything from Amazon that might just be a present for her
I’m not sure whether to be proud or terrified
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The office of PM appears to be little more than an honorary position now
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Amazing how the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, & other terrible human rights abuses, just doesn’t matter
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Those suggesting Susan Hall was about to pull off a huge upset in London look utterly stupid
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This is a blatant attempt to rig an election
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So, Formula One is dropping grid girls. You never know, they might one day let women regularly take part in races
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Biggest surprise of the election?
The BBC presenter who just said 'let's just turn to a tweet Margaret Thatcher has just put out'
Things have got very weird
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This should happen more often when politicians refuse to answer for their actions & decisions
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Parliament was unlawfully prorogued for a Queen's Speech and then lawfully prorogued for a Queen's Speech but now there's no time to debate it
Why did we have it again?
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Sorry? Will making sure poor children don’t go hungry really make the economy ‘collapse’?
@MarcusRashford
You have 3.4M followers Marcus, to my 96K. The power is yours here.
Everyone knows feeding hungry children is a top priority. I'd like to see UC boosted.
But if the economy and currency collapse, the poor will be devastated.
Alleging a blind eye is just wrong.
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Scorching by
@BethRigby
'In the real world, you can't get a train... when you do dial 999 you can't be sure an ambulance will get there in time to save a loved one
'That's the reality of Britain... Why should the public believe you're any different from your predecessors?'
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Few things irritate me more than the ‘politicians are all the same’ sentiment
They’re not and it’s incredibly lazy & dim to claim as much
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@jamesrbuk
Sorry, but not having house rules really spoils the fun
And no one does the auctions as it just adds that final bit of maths that pushes it over the edge of the fun/homework boundary
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Bravely not allowing replies
Wonderful scenes from the
#BoxingDay
meet for the Bicester Hunt with Whaddon Chase which was held in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, earlier today. Many thanks to Sam Nash for sharing this great footage.
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At its heart, Boris Johnson's defence relies on the assumption that 'work events' in Downing Street were crucial and family funerals were not
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Course, if the gov says it’s going to ease the lockdown on the Monday after a sunny bank holiday - without specifying any details, just vague anonymous briefings - people will act as though the lockdown has already been eased on the days before
Not seen it so busy in weeks
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Trump tells Farage that he doesn't want a trade deal to involve the NHS & adds: ‘I don’t even know where that started’
Perhaps it was when he was with Theresa May in June &, speaking about a post-Brexit trade deal, said
'Everything will be on the table - the NHS, everything'
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Powerful tribute from the Flat Earth Society to 'Mad' Mike Hughes
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Blimey, Rowena Collins Rice, director general at the Attorney General’s Office, is quitting now too
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It's all very well to say don't got to pubs and restaurants, but how do they survive?
They have bills to pay now
How do they possibly survive?
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2 things that stood out for me in
#kingsspeech
Strong tribute to public services in hard times - will have been noted
& this
‘Our Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, Temples and Gurdwaras, have once again united in feeding the hungry, providing love and support throughout the year’
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A simple rule
If you are planning to use emergency legislation in advance...
... it will not be an emergency
Think about it
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BBC presenter says ‘fact checkers are going through the speech’
What’s the point? It was all fiction
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The Benn Act already does this
There’s nothing to turn down
EU sources saying tonight they will offer a ‘flextension’ - a 3 month delay, but “it would be terminated once/if brexit deal ratified”. Will Boris turn down that?
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Presenter on the BBC almost overwhelmed as she reads reports that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri are on their way to Tehran airport to leave the country
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History might not judge Rishi Sunak too kindly but history will remember Nadine Dorries as one of the most inept politicians & least qualified ministers of modern times (against some pretty stiff competition)
Good riddance
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Cummings says he made no efforts to find out if anyone living locally in London could've helped with childcare before heading up north
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Rees-Mogg just told the Commons it's fine to be inside with someone with Covid-19 as long as your two metres away
How does that fit with government health policy?
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As gov sends troops to help evacuation of Britons, I’m left thinking I can’t remember a more shameful, cowardly betrayal of a country
After all those lives lost, all that money blown, all those hopes & ambitions raised, we’re complicit in letting Afghanistan sink back into abyss
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Don't hear the anti-maskers moaning much about this attack on liberty
New bill quietly gives powers to remove British citizenship without notice
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Boris Johnson just said he is considering abolishing the television licence
He just said: 'you have to ask yourself that kind of funding for a media organisation makes sense... how longer can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a tv has to fund particular channels'
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Gov may, on the face of it, have ‘won’ court ruling on Rwanda asylum seeker policy
But they lost 19 decisions on individual cases making the policy immensely hard & expensive to implement, especially for a dysfunctional HO
Excellent by
@davidallengreen
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Regardless of the mutation, it has been clear cases were still rising substantially for days
A lockdown in January was inevitable
People can cope with restrictions if it's presented soberly and sensibly
The overpromises and u-turns, though, many find agonising
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When Cummings went for his eye test, this is what Margaret Ferrier said:
'Dominic Cummings’ actions have undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus. His position is untenable and he must be removed from his post now'
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Euston Station concourse to be festooned with balloons & decorations as it hosts a Christmas Day lunch for 200 homeless people, What a thoroughly fab thing to do
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Just a horrifying paragraph from
@TheNewEuropean
’s interview with
@Femi_Sorry
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Where is this country going?
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It happens to be my birthday tomorrow but, as I’m working, we’re having a party at home today
My wife has spent hours creating this Darjeeling Toy Train in cake form, with design hints from my girls
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The Conservatives have been in power for nine years
It’s very hard to blame any other party for criminal justice failures
This is one of the things the Conservative Party is supposed to be about
Skating on thin ice
SUNDAY TIMES: Boris vows to lock terrorists up and throw away the key
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Bercow justifiably angry that the House of Commons has failed to agree a system which would allow proxy votes in cases such as
@TulipSiddiq
who is in the absurd position of postponing her Caesarean to vote in the
#Brexit
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‘Activist lawyers’ are just lawyers working with the law as it stands
Is the Home Secretary saying she wants to act outside the rule of law?
Today we removed people who came here via small boat.
They had previously claimed asylum elsewhere and had no legal right to be in the UK.
Removals continue to be frustrated by activist lawyers, but I will not let up until this route is unviable
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This can absolutely take a very long walk down an exceedingly short pier
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Bercow confirms thaat Parliament will sit from 11.30am tomorrow but there will be no
#PMQs
but full scope for urgent questions, ministerial questions and applications for emergency debates
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Ken Clarke fairly brutal on Cameron's decision to call
#Euref
, calls it 'the worst political mistake made by any British PM' in his lifetime
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A reminder, this student died after falling from a roof while hiding from officers while they were raiding an illegal lockdown party during tier 3 rules
He never had the opportunity to laugh & make jokes about breaking the rules afterwards
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@rhiannonlucyc
Jesus, that's just crazy stuff
We'd almost definitely have lost our first child without an emergency intervention
I really cannot abide this debate
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Um, the idea that every vote under FPTP carries equal weight is nonsense
Every vote cast in a general election will carry equal weight.
The Parliamentary Constituencies Act, now law, means that the geographical boundaries of the UK’s 650 constituencies will be redrawn and made near-equal in size.
Read more:
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Years ago, I was battling to board a train with a pram & a man in his 50s helped.
Later I realised he was homeless. Over the years I’ve tried to help him get into a flat, always thwarted by bureaucracy.
Today I hear he’s died. His deterioration was visible.
I’m upset & livid.
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Some may question PM's claim 'we truly did everything we could' with issues like these:
Missed Cobra meetings
Late lockdowns
Lack of PPE
Care homes disaster
Test & trace failings
Over in 12 weeks, normal by Christmas
Late border checks
Cummings rules breach
Exam chaos
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