Joshua Neicho
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No to racism + violence 🚮! Comms and journalism in Brum + wider West Mids/London. Workspace charity trustee @PopHubUK . Member @ACORNunion . #BuyAPaper
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The Mail on Sunday seems to think a person speaking five languages is something to smirk and titter about behind the back of your hand
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Will the Home Secretary look at each of these Jewish protesters in the face and tell them, and us, that they are motivated by hate? 🙏
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🚨 BREAKING: Two East London Labour Party chairs, Carel Buxton (West Ham) and
@TahirMirza
(East Ham) announce they are quitting as chairs and leaving the Labour Party
Mirza says other members will follow him + they will stand as independents in the local elections
@nicholascecil
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“Bringing down immigration generally” Frost says with a waft of the hand
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Why is the Washington DC-based Edmund Burke Foundation - not any UK policy or research organisation - funding the National Conservatism Conference this week coming? Wouldn’t it be better named the International Conservatism Conference? Hat-tip
@betapolitics
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“1863 + 1876 laws led to the effective banning of all works in Ukrainian. Stalin executed a whole generation of writers, cutting short the growth of the vibrant avant-garde” - fascinating by
@BlackerUilleam
on 🇺🇦🖋 Gogol, Shevchenko, Ukrainka etc
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@Samfr
How many mums and dads and kids in poverty will be front and centre of the coverage about this? How many people in poverty will be writing commentary and columns on the subject? That lack of visibility and dehumanising of people is also horrendous
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“I believe the measure of a success in an economy is not who has the most billionaires, but who has the fewest food banks” - Thunderous applause for Niamh Ramsey
@RMTunion
@eiecampaign
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@robertjwest
Professor West - could you please quantify “near certainty” as a percentage, and “massively exceeds” as a proportion of NHS capacity, for how long, and when this will occur?
Why haven’t you put any numerical estimates, beyond “many thousands”, in your Tweet?
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Why, four days on from David Amess’ murder, are some media outlets still apparently focused more on online abuse of MPs, than on radicalisation into extreme ideologies and how this problem may have grown over lockdown?
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Why do Sunday Times editors/subs let through stuff that is factually untrue? I don’t care that it’s in the Opinion section and that it’s Rod Liddle. It’s not based in fact, it’s grossly misleading and it corrodes your brand
@beckymbarrow
Rod Liddle writes today that Braverman tends to be approved in the North even though disliked in the South. That is just a false stereotype/projection onto northerners.
Was PM right to sack Braverman?
North: yes 72-15
South: yes 69-17
Midlands: yes 65-22
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Carel Buxton declares the party is "morally as well as politically bankrupt", citing the suspension of individual members and CLPs including West and East Ham.
The last straw - Christian Wakeford joining Labour while the NEC voted against Jeremy Corbyn's reinstatement
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@oflynnsocial
Any comment on Radcliffe’s acting work over the past 12 years, or should we all be judged on our juvenalia?
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@pmdfoster
(The paragraph on what Brexit is really about seems to be Frost taking himself off the hook from having to claim positive economic effects of Brexit - by “voodoo economics” does he mean any pesky economic analysis at all?)
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Green London Mayor candidate
@sianberry
at one of 5 campaign stops today, Warren Farm in
#Ealing
Now a “much better candidate than I was in 2016” due to her Assembly experience, she says, she yearns for more chances to debate Sadiq Khan face to face in final stretch of campaign
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@horton_official
@DefraGovUK
@theresecoffey
Will
@DefraGovUK
follow the crass fashion of doing its own ‘reporting’ of this briefing on social media, having snubbed specialist journalists trying to cover the event?
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@NJ_Timothy
What part of the theory about Stone and Bronze Age migrations to the British Isles do you dispute, Prof?
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Mirza writes that Labour Party democracy has been shut down to parachute in candidates
"Local councillors have betrayed their electors by imposing harsh Tory policies of cuts, privatisations and gentrification, and have shown Islamophobic behaviour towards party members"
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@sharpyrachel
Would a more generous scrappage scheme that completely covered the cost of replacing your vehicle change your mind about ULEZ expansion, or do you think it’s a fundamentally flawed idea?
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At
@horrendoushack1
protest - Diane, who lives in St Peter’s LTN, Islington, couldn’t get people to come to assist her in lockdown + has waited 7 months for council reply about suspension of disabled bus
She says Meals on Wheels + essential workers’ commutes also impacted
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@danwootton
Dan, as a senior journalist and editor on two national newspapers and a columnist at Mail Online, you show extraordinary modesty to exclude yourself from this beast called the “London metropolitan media”
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🚨Ealing Council leader Cllr Julian Bell is voted out at tonight’s Ealing Labour AGM and Cllr Peter Mason is new council leader
#Ealing
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@arusbridger
It’s not today’s interview, it’s an extract from Danny Danziger’s 1988 book Eton Voices (Danziger also being the author of today’s article).
Will you correct, please?
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@TiernanDouieb
I can see the headlines - Kids' Comedian Admits to Chasing the Dragon in Wales
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@MysteriousDrBex
@_ollielewis
This student and his contemporaries are paying (over their careers) very large amounts of money for their study. It seems to me the university has a profound moral and professional responsibility to mark this work
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As
@brexitparty_uk
meets in
#Olympia
, why have London's 1.5 million Leave voters (more than in North-East of England, Lincolnshire, Birmingham and Doncaster put together) been so overlooked?
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@Samfr
Most of the national media, certainly the articulate national media, is hideously middle-class. It’s a blind spot and a sickness
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@pmdfoster
Three examples of *how* democracy and self-government have been re-established without making a circular argument, Lord F…
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In Remain-voting London,
@Brexitparty_uk
is set to come 2nd and beat
@UKLabour
in
#EuroElections2019
😮
Smoked salmon biz boss
@LanceForman
, 2nd on London Brexit Party candidate list, and LGBT Tory
@AdamLake
tell me why they're backing the party
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@edbarkerAIC
@pmdfoster
‘Clan politics and regicides’ is a strong post-Independence developing economy look
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Who was the producer who booked Mizzy? Why did they think it was a good idea?
How many working-class young black men who don’t behave like Mizzy has Newsnight had on as guests over the past year?
How many working-class black people work on Newsnight?
Why the FUCK is this cnt who is literally famous for trespassing, stealing dogs off old women and threatening women at night while touching them without consent now on Newsnight being asked for his opinion on Andrew Tate, are you people on fucking glue
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Moving interview by
@TaliFraser
@TheHouseMag
with
@KwajoHousing
about the haunting impact of his + his family’s own experience of dire housing, and how at 24, he is taking up dozens of tenants’ cases alone
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"Tommy is not alt-Right or far Right, he is just damn right" - Shazia Hobbs at 9th June rally
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@sharpyrachel
You couldn’t be persuaded to replace your existing car with a newer, lower emissions model fully or largely paid for under a more generous scrappage scheme? (Fair enough if not!)
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In Sunday Times, Jeremy Hunt talks A LOT about “taking difficult decisions”, “putting people before ideology” etc
And yet there is not one mention of:
🇬🇧 Brexit
🇬🇧 immigration
🇬🇧 housing/planning reform
🇬🇧 triple lock
🇬🇧 education + reskilling
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@Towler
Different folks 🤷♂️
My thought on this which doesn’t negate what you’re saying is that there are parts of society and parts of the UK where many people are very tattooed, often in creative ways, and so it’s a normal thing seeing tattooed flesh
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Exploring the Independents at the election,
@LukeTryl
and
@cjayanetti
suggest voters + Indy candidates respectively were motivated by local + UK issues, not just Gaza.
@lewis_baston
charts collapse in Lab support in seats with >30% Muslim residents /1
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Strong image by Ealing resident
@MarkEccleston1
of planters being taken out of the borough's LTN 21 this afternoon. Schools were informed, but in at least one case too late to tell students to take care on their journeys home
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@darrengrimes_
Could you turn this around Darren, and argue that it is shameful that funding for teaching English as a Second Language has been cut and that govt should do more to promote language learning for everyone in Britain?
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@JonnElledge
He’s a consistent chap
“Death to all the Jews”
Please don’t tell me after all the placards, all the racism, all the terrorist sympathising that this wasn’t a hate march. I don’t care if it was a minority, you’re walking with far too many of them every weekend.
Suella Braverman was absolutely right.
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What was Boris Johnson paid to write his column for the Mail expressing sadness, but no sense of personal responsibility, for dumping Afghan women under the wheels of an oppressive misogynistic regime while he was PM?
Will he donate his fee to charity?
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Times, Guardian, Mail, i paper, Scotsman all splash on US inauguration, the day after UK records highest death toll in the pandemic so far. Telegraph has 1 Covid-related story lower on front page
This ain't right
Fight for our democracy before wallowing in someone else's
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One of the problems with the odious and depraved decision to put ad revenue above public service 💸 and block off the departure boards at Euston is that it’s difficult to see the new departure screens from much of the hall 😀
@networkrail
@NetworkRailEUS
@allpartyrail
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@darrengrimes_
Lots of “English” about in 50AD-late 4th century, professor? Were the Normans English? Or the architects and craftsmen who built Westminster Abbey, were they all English? Was Pugin of pure English stock? What about Brunel? Were the navvies who built London’s railways English?
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@ItsJamesPowers
@cazzacaz63
@RoryStewartUK
You’ve just casually accused Jews of being hate marchers in your bombastic comment
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Kwajo says he’s found
@lisanandy
@mtpennycook
@Keir_Starmer
less responsive + interested than
@michaelgove
“It is so frustrating on behalf of tenants that I know vote for Labour that Gove and his team are now doing x, y and z and it’s like, you guys should be doing this”
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@cjayanetti
@Nicoledso
Feels quite useful to have some MPs who live in council housing, to make the Commons a little bit less rarefied and removed from how a significant proportion of the country live their lives
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@sundersays
Worth also mentioning that Jody McIntyre is a disabled man + disability campaigner, and that access to SEND provision and pressure on inner city schools to support vulnerable pupils + those from chaotic backgrounds due to cuts in other areas are huge issues for Birmingham
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@iainoverton
Thank you for raising this Iain. Has
@AmnestyUK
explained why they chose Staines as a judge in the first place? How did senior Amnesty UK officers react to the announcement?
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Life is back. Leicester Square filled with joyful Scotland fans before their match against England tomorrow 🏴
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Does
@CamdenCouncil
’s St Pancras Way scheme give wheelchair-using residents, blind and partially sighted people, older pedestrians, and bus users more options to get around?
Is the scheme “healthier” for them? Why has Camden not apparently mentioned these groups of people?
We've transformed St Pancras Way into a healthier and safer street, giving you options on how to get around 🚲
Now, this trial scheme could become permanent. Let us know your thoughts - consultation ends 13 January! ➡️
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"He always had style, and a sense of humour, albeit a morbid one. Moses in a fedora" .
@frankturner
on Leonard Cohen
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An empty road at the junction of Northfield Avenue and Uxbridge Road at 9am this morning, after the removal of LTN 21 Low Traffic Neighbourhood to the left of the first picture on Friday
How do Ealing residents feel about the ending of the trial?
#LowTrafficNeighbourhoods
Wow, for the first time in 9 months, the Lido junction is completely clear at 9am. No queues back to the Forrester. Nice & quiet on the school walk as well. Not missing LTN21 at all.
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@epkaufm
@sundersays
@Schroedinger99
@stephenkb
It seems very unfortunate and discourteous to pick 2 specific writers who personally go against the grain of what he believes are elite tendencies, while those elite tendencies remain mysteriously undefined and lack any illustrating examples
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@NileGardiner
@SuellaBraverman
YouGov polls have shown:
- 12% have unfavourable view of Braverman, 35% favourable
- 44% think her “invasion” language inappropriate, 43% appropriate
- 42% oppose Rwanda plan, 35% for it (April poll)
What polling evidence shows strong support of Braverman and her policies?
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@GeorgeMonbiot
As a writer with a weekly column in a national newspaper with a massive personal social media reach, you’re in an excellent position to do something about this howling silence by offering yourself to mainstream platforms like breakfast TV to talk about this issue
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I knew there was a case backlog, but this is ridiculous
@MaxJLHardy
@Seb_Winnett
Mother, daughter, warrior queen - Boudica stands on trial for terrorism.
Her defence is that she is a freedom fighter.
The Roman authorities view her as a criminal.
Will justice be served?
Watch her trial live from the
@UKSupremeCourt
on 14 October:
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@lewisiwu
Schools, private or state - like City livery companies, churches, libraries, working men’s clubs, sports clubs - are institutions, with an ethos + a community
Takes a brutal, ahistorical mindset to think that the pre-eminent thing in society is the market or the state
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@bencsmoke
Personally I’d like them to say when they last interviewed, formally or on background 1) a train driver 2) RMT ticket, maintenance or cleaning staff, and what they learned
Where’s the curiosity?
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@JonTonge
@BelTel
Will
@GBNEWS
also cover Nationalist communities in Belfast and elsewhere in N Ireland quietly going about their business on 12th? And interview younger, post-Troubles generation on what they think about 12th?
@SluggerOToole
@freyamcc
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Thoughtful by
@AdamBienkov
about nature of mainstream UK political journalism
How much is the political journalism we have a result of brute commercial calculation? How much does it reflect many UK journos’ desire to be practical and flinty - not academic or philosophical?
The Shipman delusion: Why 'impartial' political journalism is often anything but
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Why the
@LibDems
being a broad church should mean accepting the party's eurosceptic wing, not taking on any and every malcontent MP from other parties
With thanks to
@TorrinWilkins
@LindaAnneJack
@existent_chaos
@_robcastell
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Massive kudos to Kate,
@joshi
, the wider
@ManchesterMill
team which will now be serving 4 🇬🇧 cities and The Mill’s enlightened investors for the birth of this exciting new venture!
#BuyaPaper
📰🗞💻
#Birmingham
writers, please hone your best ideas for The Dispatch ✍️
I'm excited to reveal that since leaving my job at Bham Live, I've been working hard on a new publication for the West Mids! 🗞️
You can read about it in today's I paper:
'A new local publishing model is giving regional titles the wake-up call they need'
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Great piece by
@lewis_baston
@OnLondon
on plinth from where statue of Butcher of Culloden, Duke of Cumberland was taken down in 1868
Instead of dim, goldfish memory-span outrage, can media recognise that public opinion on acceptability changes over time?
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@Herring1967
Fantastic initiative! PM should help since he’s also a big name comedian still working on TV
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@GuidoFawkes
@SamGyimah
I think *even if you're an avowed anti-Marxist* you should try and understand it. For everyone else - Marx's economics are an analysis not a fully-formed programme of govt for crying out loud. A bit like saying the Bible = the Spanish Inquisition
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Heart-breaking to read about organisations + professionals monitoring and caring for disabled people in a parlous situation in Ukraine – while rampant Russian military leaves a trail of newly disabled Ukrainians each day
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@OliverCooper
What about
@garvanwalshe
’s point - that it’s an inaccurate view of the constitution because the courts interpret the laws made in Parliament, and in this case the new law comes into conflict with existing law in such a way that it comes down to legal judgements
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@Samfr
Does the fact Johnson was a Fleet Street staffer, while Starmer was DPP during phone hacking scandal + fairly or unfairly, deeply distrusted by some journos over outcome of Operation Elveden have something to do with it?
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@Samfr
@stefanstern
A not insignificant part of the culture war appears to be a war on diligence. Accuracy/precision/professionalism/nuance = elite
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The Home Secretary must explain her *objective* in seeking to reduce the number of foreign students coming to UK
Is it to drive growth?
Is it to boost productivity?
Is it the best way to help UK-born Brits acquire skills? (And why?)
Or is it mainly about “cutting immigration”?
Excl: Suella Braverman's proposal to reduce the time foreign students can stay in the UK after their course is "strongly opposed" by the Department for Education in a fresh Whitehall clash on immigration:
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One irony of Robert Jenrick’s “nobody has worked harder than the Prime Minister” comments is that in his ministerial role, he is the figure in central govt who could pay tribute to England’s council leaders - and hundreds of thousands of council staff. But no
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My piece for
@_LambethLife
on the
#LambethWalk
against knife crime 23rd September, headed by Asher Senator of
@Code_7_Charity
…
@YouthViolenceUK
@OneBigCommunity
@LeeJasper
@sophieklinden
@cohenstandard
@ShaunBaileyUK
@FloEshalomi
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@epkaufm
@sundersays
@Schroedinger99
@stephenkb
In fact when the article originally appeared on evening of 31st March this passage named only Bush. It was changed to include Hirsch later.
Why was that change made? Was it at the behest of Goodwin or the commissioning editor?
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@hugorifkind
Hugo I'm interested why the newspaper you write for has reported on the reaction to Boris' comments by quoting (male) imams, Muslim orgs headed by males and
@SayeedaWarsi
, not Muslim women who wear the niqab. Shouldn't their response be the most prominent?
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@tracey_thorn
@laurenlaverne
Really enjoyed that episode - Tracey you spoke brilliantly + were inspiring
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@DrMatthewSweet
Your energies might be better spent responding to the MP for Harborough, a substantial policy thinker, who took time out of conference to call this MA “wasteful nonsense”, and suggest it is “a low value degree”.
Does he know what he’s talking about, in your view?
This kind of wasteful nonsense shows why Gillian Keegan was so right to launch the review of low value degrees - hope OfS nuke this from orbit
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The view that Labour MPs voted according to constituency make-up not conscience seems flaky
For eg why did Jess Phillips in Yardley (~20% Muslim) vote for ceasefire but Shabana Mahmood in Ladywood (~35% Muslim) + Preet Gill in Edgbaston (11% Muslim + lots of students) didn’t?
A sign of how Lab in power is going to be highly responsive to Islamist lobbying.
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What is the
@metpoliceuk
TSG doing, reportedly arresting members of
@CityWestminster
’s Night Safety team? Can we have an explanation please from the Commissioner?
@AdamHug
@twocitiesnickie
@MayorofLondon
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@JonnElledge
@marty_mcd
It’s great - by Braverman’s logic, if we disagree with her I think we become rich and influential
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