John Edwards
@JohnEdwards33
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A Labour Party member for 47-years and a Labour Councillor for 43-years, I resigned after Starmer poisoned the Party. A former firefighter, always a socialist.
West Midlands, UK
Joined June 2011
How long do we have to wait for a government to announce a ‘crackdown on the super-rich’?.
'Crackdowns on benefit cheats' were announced by Peter Lilley in 1992. And Tony Blair in 1997. And James Purnell in 2009. And Iain Duncan Smith in 2013. And Jeremy Hunt in 2023. And Rachel Reeves in 2024. The soundbite never gets old.
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Court rules that carers on minimum wage won’t be paid for resting while carrying out their jobs. Meanwhile over at the House of Lords on £300 a day tax-free.
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Fees per pupil at Eton are £42,501 a year and they still can’t afford to make the place safe to reopen. What chance has your local cash-starved academy got?. #StaySafe .#KeepThemAtHome.
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£144,000 a year, and he couldn’t chair a Parish Council let alone the House of Commons.
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Until the last child has no further need of the last food bank, not one single penny of public money for another royal wedding.
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I hope this is accurate. It could be the catalyst for a generational change in UK politics. Jeremy Corbyn tipped to launch 'new political party' ahead of General Election
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I wonder if more and more people are now beginning to recognise that @jeremycorbyn was right on the issue of Israel and Palestine and that the whole antisemitism thing was a device that was engineered by his enemies and opponents to prevent him becoming Prime Minister?.
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Apparently it’s ‘unparliamentary’ for MP’s to call each other stupid. But it’s not a problem for MP’s to vote for policies that drive our people to food banks and suicide. Sometimes it’s enough to make you wonder if you’re living on the right planet.
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Starmer today has taken a LOWER share of the UK vote than Jeremy Corbyn achieved in the general election of 2019. Some ‘landslide’ eh Keith?.
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Hancock tries to insist that having cut 21,000 police officers, replacing them with 20,000 is “increasing them!”.Is every Tory a natural-born liar?.
Absolutely brutal truth watch Susana Reid destroy DESTROY Matt Hancock Boris Johnson and the entire Tory shitshow of the last 9 years 👏👏👏.
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This child will never go to bed hungry,.Never go to bed cold,.Never live in poverty,.Never be crammed into an overcrowded school.Never be unemployed,.Never be homeless,.Never be unsure of its future. Why should ours @BorisJohnson ?.
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Kick them out of Parliament, no pensions, no perks, no nothing. Get them gone. We’ve had enough of these bent, over-paid, privileged goons living on our backs.
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Dear @theresa_may .The money you're spending to bribe the DUP would retro-fit fire sprinklers in every tower block in the UK. John.#bbcqt.
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Govt has defined those who REALLY matter to society:. -nurses.-doctors.-paramedics.-firefighters.-care workers.-police officers.-Local Govt workers.-teachers .-food producers and distributors. No hedge fund managers/stock market gamblers or CEO’s in sight . Remember this later.
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UK is now officially the 5th richest nation on the planet but we need overseas aid and foodbanks to feed our poor. We don't live on an island without wealth, but we do live on an island where the wealth is hoarded by the richest 5%.
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Why is @Keir_Starmer so silent on the worst cost of living crisis in decades that Gordon Brown has to come out of retirement and hand the country a plan?.Why is Starmer so bloody useless at his job?.
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Dear @theresa_may .Yes, because shining a few lights on Downing Street as a PR stunt is much cheaper than housing the survivors of Grenfell and removing the deadly cladding which still leaves thousands of residents and firefighters at risk. You are a total disgrace. John.
Last night Downing Street was lit up green in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire two years ago. #Grenfell
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May cut police numbers by 20000 while the threat was 'severe'. Now raised to ' critical' and doesn't have enough police. Sees no connection.
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As MPs went off on Christmas breaks @jeremycorbyn spent the evening at a ‘Crisis’ centre for the homeless in London. Unannounced and no press gang briefed, he was there because he cares. That’s why millions of people voted Labour in 2017. They know he would be a PM who cares.
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Tell Branson to sell his Caribbean island, his jet plane, every house he owns except one he needs to live in and put all the money into his failing airline company. Tell him to pay back all the UK tax he’s avoided for 14 years. When he’s done all that we can think about a loan.
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The strongest socialist stalwart and last working class former miner, Labour MP Dennis Skinner, lost his Bolsover seat tonight to a Tory. Unthinkable. Love, thanks and best wishes Comrade ✊.
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Dear @theresa_may .You survived tonight because you bribed the DUP with our money and .over 100 of your own Tory MPs are scared of bringing you down in case they lose their own seats in a GE. The reality is that neither the Commons nor the country has any confidence in you. John.
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A super-toff-holier-than -thou Catholic is urging his mates to support a serial liar, immoral, philandering charlatan to lead the Conservatives. This is how flexible Tories can be when they’re desperate to protect their wealth and privilege.
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Hey Vince, no offence mate but you're the one who worked with the Tories for 5-years, flogged off our Post Office, rammed up tuition fees, hacked benefits for our most vulnerable people and bleed dry our fire, police and Council services. Don't lecture us you yellow-Tory fraud.
There is now belated recognition that Jeremy Corbyn is the main stumbling block to a #PeoplesVote and #NoBrexit .He wants to help Theresa May deliver #Brexit. Time for Labour MPs, activists and unions to stand up and get their leader to do his job.
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This evening @BBCNews spent 20-times longer reporting on the Queen’s partner’s head cold than it did on today’s manufacturer’s revelations on lethal cladding at #GrenfellTower .Exactly who’s values does the BBC reflect?.
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Dear @bbclaurak .Your behaviour on social media today has been appalling. Your personal politics are interfering with our right to expect impartiality from employees of @BBCNews whose inflated salaries we pay. Get out. You’re a disgrace. John.#sacklaurakuenssberg.
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Three sex offenders, including two paedophiles, attending the 18th birthday party of some Princess at Windsor Castle. We’ve really no idea how big this cess-pit is.
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It’s no exaggeration to say that @jeremycorbyn is the one that hundreds of thousands of us in the Labour Party have been waiting for.
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The unelected, unaccountable snake Mandelson slithers into his next million-dollar role thanks to the weak and easily manipulated Starmer. Everyday I think this corrupt government can’t get any worse and every day it proves me wrong.
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Billionaire @RishiSunak and his family off to California tomorrow to enjoy the West Coast sunshine at one of their many luxury homes. I know we’ll be wishing him well on the first day of our unaffordable £2000 a year energy bills
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"The country needs certainty so I'm doing a deal with 10 bigots to cobble together a majority of 2. This will make me strong and stable. "
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Dear @Channel4 can you seriously consider whether this individual is an appropriate person to front programs on Channel 4?.
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Dear @theresa_may .A few weeks ago you told the Tory Party conference that ‘austerity is over’. As you spoke you knew that Councils would lose a further £1.3 billion in 2019/20 resulting in yet more cuts to essential local services. Why did you lie to people in the UK?.John.
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City-spiv and chancer @Nigel_Farage just claimed live on air that:. “. the European project is a comfortable place for those who can’t get a role in nation politics. ”. Story of your life you charlatan.
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Man waiting to inherit six palaces visits homeless in Sheffield.
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Farage says we should be ‘British’ and ‘stoic’ and never mind the snow, just get into work. Has anyone checked his attendance at The European Parliament lately? .#bbcqt.
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Dear @theresa_may .You told us there was no ‘magic-money-tree’ to pay for our public services and the people who work in them. Now you seem to have plenty of money to pay for more death and destruction in #Syria .Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror?.Yours,.John.
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This self-server betrayed 70% of his constituents after the referendum. He quit before he was kicked out leaving a poisoned-well for any successor. And along the way he back-stabbed his Leader. Treacherous. We were pleased to see the back of him.
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How grotesque that of the 650 MPs in the Commons only one would voice this support for the people of Palestine. All the rest content to say nothing on Israel’s murderous occupation and apartheid. Without Jeremy it would be unsaid.
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We can afford to write off £4.3 billion in fraudulent furlough scams by the boss-class, but we couldn’t afford £20 a week universal credit top up for people in the UK who are actually freezing cold and hungry. Time to tear this system down. .
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I bet Boris Johnson thinks Luxembourg is run by communists. Luxembourg Becomes First Country to Make All Public Transit Free via @archdaily.
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Remember the free quality broadband that @JeremyCorbyn and Labour promised at the last election and how the Tories ridiculed it and said it was what communists did?.Imagine how useful that would have been now for all the school kids, students and people trying to work at home.
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Dear @theresa_may.You destroyed the evidence these people needed: .You then ordered a witch-hunt against them because they lacked the evidence you had destroyed:.You then hounded them to deportation. What an utter disgrace you are. Yours,.John.
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This stench of cronyism and potential for corruption needs an urgent inquiry preferably by the Metropolitan police. Vote Leave AI firm wins seven government contracts in 18 months
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I'm sending love and best wishes for Christmas and New Year to @jeremycorbyn .Thank for being a brilliant and principled Leader of our Party and for renewing our determination to create a more equal, just and peaceful world. Thank you Jeremy.
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It’s #ChildrenInNeed evening, using charity to try and fix broken lives so that the super-rich can carry on dodging their taxes.
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Knight of the Realm, fan of Thatcher, opposer of a ceasefire in Gaza, supporter of the IDF. He joined the Labour Party in 2015 and lied his way into the leadership with the support of rightwingers and the establishment. Can you see what it is yet?.
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Even now, even today @jeremycorbyn can’t leave his house without having some tabloid hack sticking a microphone in his face and demanding a street interview. Does anyone EVER recall Johnson, Swinson, Sturgeon or any other Leader being subjected to this kind of vile intrusion?.
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Londoners are probably feeling very frustrated by climate change protests and disruption, but these young people are fighting for their descendants future and for our planet. I’m cheering them on. We all should be.
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Dear @theresa_may .You said this week that young people should be angry with the appalling housing situation in the UK. You’ve been in government and in power for 8-years. Who do you think they should be angry with?.Yours,.John. #bbcqt.
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Dear @SkyNews .I understand why you feel the need to send film crews to report from Venezuela. But when will you send crews to Palestine to report on the murderous attacks and atrocities which are being carried out against its children, women and men by Israeli forces?.John.
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At the last 2 general elections Tories said they’d invest in our NHS. They lied, it’s on its knees, being sold off. Now they’re saying, vote Tory again, this time we’ll invest in our NHS. They’re lying again. If we don’t get a Labour Government the NHS is finished. #bbcqt.
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What’s all this “PM will address the nation” garbage being peddled on behalf of the Tories by their poodle press and the BBC?.It’s already done, pre-recorded, in the can. The phoney Pound-Shop-Churchill wasn’t having his Sunday ruined by doing some work.
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Newsreader George Alagiha on @BBCNews just referring to the Prime Minister as ‘Boris’. Can anyone imagine him (or anyone else at that place) referring to the Leader of the Opposition as ‘Jeremy’?. The political bias of this State broadcaster and the people it employs reeks.
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This Tory is at the edge of humanity. Just vile. A complete shit.
You do realise that it’s not a documentary, don’t you. Don’t you?.
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Do the Metropolitan Police no longer have a fraud squad?.
In March Topwood Ltd were awarded two NHS contracts worth £300k. Health Secretary Matt Hancock was handed a 15% stake in the company. Which coincidentally is owned by Hancock's sister. The #Sleaze Fest continues.
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UK fishing industry wants to know why Slippery Farage missed 40 out of 41 EU sessions to argue for their future but never misses appearing on Question Time for the BBC.
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Starmer has sunk into the ugliest and most disreputable position of all: defending Israel’s vile attacks on Palestinians lives then saying he didn’t mean it while still not condemning it. And now refusing to support a ceasefire when the UN and his key Party leaders demand it.
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Dear @jeremycorbyn .Thank you too for your leadership, your decency, your caring and your socialism. Millions of us are with you and always will be. John ✊🌹.
I promised @UKLabour would run the biggest people powered campaign our country has ever seen. And you, our members and supporters, have done just that. You're the heart of our party, and you have campaigned tirelessly to win so we can a build a fairer country. I thank you all.
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Netanyahu and Israel should know that when Sunak says ‘we stand by you’ he was not elected by the people of the UK and does not speak for us on this war. He is also afraid to call a general election because he knows he would be driven from office. Sunak is NOT the UK.
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I never get tired of reminding people that .@nadhimzahawi is the millionaire oil-dealing Tory MP who tried to make us pay the the cost of heating his horses stables by claiming it on his Parliamentary expenses. #bbcqt.
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With only 29 exceptions @Keir_Starmer and his Labour MP cronies abstained in the Commons yesterday during the vote on pensions and benefit cuts. They stood by offering no opposition and watched the Tories make the poorest even poorer. Utterly shameful.
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When I witness a guy in his 60’s with tears starting to smart in his eyes telling an interviewer that he’s worked all his life and can’t afford to buy himself a pair of shoes, I know that the UK needs social and economic upheaval on a revolutionary scale.
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I believe that when history is written @jeremycorbyn will be seen as a man who wanted everyone across the world to be housed, fed, educated, realising their dreams and safe from war, hatred, bigotry and racism. And maybe by then that will be the reality. Thank you Jeremy 🌹.
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I’m pleased @tom_watson is offering to work with someone. Shame it’s not the Leader of the Labour Party.
Congratulations @joswinson on becoming the leader of the Liberal Democrats. I hope we can work together to stop a disastrous no deal Brexit.
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Matt Hancock has resigned and left the government. @Keir_Starmer is expected to call for him to be sacked on Monday morning.
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The whole so called Royal Family needs to be investigated. It’s time this whole fiasco was disbanded and the Uk grew up, dumped this nonsense and became a legitimate democratic republic.
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The ‘stop the war’ protests taking place in Moscow are seen quite rightly as a great reaction to #UkraineWar. So why is @Keir_Starmer threatening to suspend Labour MPs who are supporting ‘stop the war’ protests in London?.
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According to tomorrow’s press, only 221 people in the UK are richer than Tory Chancellor Sunak. Yes, he’s really feeling our pain.
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Dear @theresa_may .In these turbulent times it’s the height of arrogance to assume you can just pack your job in and use divine right to appoint the next Tory PM. What about us?.What about democracy?.Don’t resign. Call a general election and give us the chance to sack you. John.
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I just Googled ‘tractors’ and accidentally joined the Tory Party. Bloody hell. .
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The assault on @jeremycorbyn was deplorable. He’s a man of peace, decency and integrity. He wants the very best for the overwhelming majority who usually face the very worst of circumstances. He’s also strong. He will go on and win and deliver Labour’s vision for our country.
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Fiona Bruce has resigned as ambassador for charity ‘Refuge’ after defending wife beater Stanley Johnson on #BBCQT.Now she needs to be dumped from the programme. We’ll have no more toleration of BBC being stuffed with Tories.
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Superb speech by @jeremycorbyn on winning his Islington seat. He won’t lead us into another general election but he’ll stay to lead the transition to a new leadership. Total respect for him and the socialist perspective he’s recreated for our Party and for the country .🌹✊🌹.
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The Tory MP on #bbcqt tonight was caught out trying to claim expenses to heat his horses stables. He strongly believes that people on universal credit should wait 6-weeks for money to heat their homes. .
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For the whole of my political life I’ve waited for someone with the decency and principles of @jeremycorbyn to become UK Prime Minister . Never in my political life did I think someone like Johnson would be. The outcome of the next general election is beyond critical.
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Can I wish a happy New Year, a general election and a Labour Government for 2019 to anyone who has the faintest idea who I am. All the best- and cheers!.
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A few people with nothing head off to travel the world, wash up on a Kent beach and we’re supposed to be horrified. A bunch of billionaires head off to travel into space and we’re supposed to be overjoyed. Funny old world. .
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Apparently 60 Labour MPs have been on freebies to Israel, more are members of Labour Friends of Israel (including Starmer) and almost all of these will be receiving ‘sponsorship’ from the murderous Israeli State. Anyone with a Labour MP should ask them if they’re on the payroll.
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This guy is easily the most decent, caring politician in the UK. And if we have any sense he will be our next Prime Minister.
It wasn’t nurses who crashed our economy: it was bankers. It wasn’t immigrants who caused the biggest squeeze on wages since 1815: it was bad employers. It wasn’t the EU that cut public services to give tax cuts to the rich: it was the Tories. We need solutions, not scapegoats.
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This utter hypocritical disgrace of a man. He’s expelled more Jews from Labour than any other Leader. @AmnestyUK says Israel IS an apartheid state. I know who I believe and it’s not Starmer. via @JewishChron.
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People in this country and in the Labour Party have every right to criticise the appalling and murderous treatment of the Palestinians by the State of Israel without attempts to deflect from that by highly personalised and false attacks on @jeremycorbyn.
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This might seem like past history to many, but we should never forget what Thatcher did to miners, their jobs, their families and their communities. It’s what Tories do. It’s in their DNA. Never forget. And never trust the Tories.
The Miners’ Strike began #OnThisDay in 1984. The strike would last a year. Within a decade, every colliery in Durham would be shut. Pictured is the Occupation of Easington, captured by photographer Keith Pattison.
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Why did 49 Labour MPs who can't support @jeremycorbyn on Brexit, stand for election 22-days ago on a manifesto which contained that pledge?.
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It’s not a sad day at all. 7 disloyal malcontents, most of whom have already lost the support of their own local CLPs, have jumped before they were pushed. They should stand down and seek re-election under their new colours. But they won’t of course, they know they’d lose.
This is a deeply sad day for the Labour Party. Here is my full statement on today’s events.
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Abramovich has Israeli citizenship and owns property worth more than £120 million there. Dozens of other billionaire Russian oligarchs are also being welcomed by the Apartheid regime. The quietness you can hear is @Keir_Starmer @lukeakehurst and @_LFI saying absolutely nothing.
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Just imagine for one moment how the UK media would have behaved if this photo had featured @jeremycorbyn and not Mandelson. But where is the gutter press now? They’re as quiet and timid as church mice.
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What we know from today is that @BorisJohnson is prepared to lie through this teeth on live TV to save Cummings. What we don’t yet know is just how much dirt must Cummings have on Johnson to force him to do that?.
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Tories and Brexit. -Tories called the referendum .-Tories lost the referendum .-Tories selected May to sort it.-May took total control .-May lost total control.-Tories and May are not the answer .-They are the problem .-General election now.-Labour will deliver the solution.
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