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@JulianOD

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European, Rejoiner, 🇪🇺🇦🇹🇩🇪🇮🇪🇺🇦 May contain typos. Runs on coffee. Biased against Brassicas. Parody. Or not. On ‘Elephant’ & ‘Mail’ with same name…

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2 years
@baronjutter @Euan_MacDonald @EliotHiggins It was a Ukrainian tree. It took out an Orc tank.
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@DrChrisParry @sourandsourpork Twice this year so far. That’s more often than I tax my TV or my car. Online.
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@EdwardLeighMP Who leant on you to change what you think you said? We all heard it. We were all appalled. I live in Lincolnshire. You do NOT represent my point of view. The only thing you should do now is apologise, unreservedly, completely and, if you can manage it, genuinely. I’ll wait…
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@campbellclaret @MitchBenn @Twitter You mean like this??.. To The “Right Honourable” (ha ha) “Sir” (roflmao) John Hayes, MP for South Holland and The Deepings, (Con…).
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@markjenkinsonmp @AdamWagner1 @pritipatel @BorisJohnson Oh for goodness sake man. Calm down. Don’t bring the Queen into a political decision. Let’s be clear-none of us trust @pritipatel , except to be sure she’ll try and bully her way through, as she always does.
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@pjnichols @EuanYours At which point you will declare “It’s time to move on.” Pathetic.
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@markito0171 Could they not just send them with the turrets and tracks missing, to save time and effort blowing them off?
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@davidleighx @michelledonelan The addition of a prohibition on video footage, that shows the truth of the horrifically real problem of people suffering and dying because you provide no safe route, is obscene. You disgust me.
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@NicKeaney @PickardJE @waitrose The only large turkey we could all do without was on tv earlier...
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@pjnichols @EuanYours Im 61. I did my growing up a long time ago. You, apparently not.
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@ChristopherPBS @edwinhayward @garethbouch But you wrote some of these. You are one of those pouring out the hate. What you do isn’t journalism. It’s propaganda. It’s bile. It’s racism. Its hack for hire. It’s hate.
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@Daily_Record We don’t get ‘extra’ bank holidays. We just get bank holidays.
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@PoliticsJOE_UK @BorisJohnson You did this. You are culpable. Apologise. Resign.
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@campbellclaret @GaryLineker At times like this I ask myself am I a big enough man to greet this win without rubbing salt in their wounds and crowing about it. The answer is of course, ‘no’.
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@sgfmann @GaryLineker Would Tim Davie like some climbing rope to help him in his absolutely mahoosive climb down? And will he be completing his apology by resigning? Also Richard Sharp Ditto Robbie Bibb. Likewise Laura Kuensberg. Oh, and Fiona Bruce too?
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@Ben_Stephenson @domdyer70 Or you could just remind your colleagues that you police by consent. Not seen much evidence of that recently. We’ve seen an awful lot of overreach, misogyny, lying, corruption and lack of transparency though.
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@AndrewGibsonMBA @PickardJE I watched this live. She absolutely was. It was a terrible performance by a terrible person. She has no shame.
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@Peston @pritipatel Not odd at all from her, or her ‘colleagues’. They avoid any responsibility at all.
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@markjenkinsonmp Have you been out on the town with @NadineDorries ? You’re getting increasingly out of order tonight. Drink some water, calm down and go home to bed.
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@AlexanderAiken @cabinetofficeuk @UKgovcomms Is the ability to distinguish between truth and lies an advantage or a disadvantage in this role? Can the successful applicant look forward to a job share with national newspaper and TV hacks? Will they get their own fridge? Asking on behalf of 68m misled citizens.
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@mikegalsworthy @JimBethell @MichelleMone @RishiSunak Hey! Bethell! Turn yourself in the @metpoliceuk now you’ve found all your missing messages! “We are very lucky they are so dumb…’ as a wise man once said of another bunch of crooks. (Ones you probably know.)
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@stevewhippa78 @campbellclaret Lardarse is: a. Accurate. b. Mild. c. Satirical. d.Appropriate. e. All of the above.
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@mjf_michael @Peston Infantile. Irrelevant. Inane.
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@life_arts_lane @fascinatorfun My eyes…. What have I just read and can I catch anything from it?
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@bbcnickrobinson But it’s no longer true. There’s too much kowtowing to the govt and a failure to press home critical analysis. Far to often the BBC seems scared to speak truth to power.
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@georgegrylls Has anyone carried out an assessment on Chope and his grip on reality?
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@bbcnickrobinson You were, as you always are recently, very late to the party. This is becoming a pattern. We no longer trust the BBC to lead on these stories because we see you dragged along in their wake. You don’t break them, you just repeat them.
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@suzzybear7 @jimrosecircus1 No such thing as Noah’s flood. It’s just a story, based on, amongst others, the epic of Gilgamesh. It’s. Not. Real.
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@Peston @KwasiKwarteng ‘s massive mini budget is simply a suicide note for the whole UK. And the Tory’s are to stupid to see it, or do anything about it. It’s beyond grim. It’s catastrophic.
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@hendopolis Now isn’t that odd, when it was ITV who made the running this week. And the BBC have been passive around Johnson for ever. One might almost think there was agenda here…
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@Nickorando @campbellclaret “I walked into the garden and realised I was at Chequers’. At this rate he’ll be walking into wardrobes and ending up in Narnia.
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@BrexitAlex Rolling over, or even agreeing less than before, does not a ‘trade deal’ make...
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@areeyoushaw @ThreshedThought Do you mean carefully handcrafted and concise examples of the cartographer’s art, bringing understanding and clarity to an otherwise confusing and fast moving situation?
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@mikeysmith @EliotHiggins @Jacob_Rees_Mogg I’m sorry I was out when you called. I was: a. Meeting with colleagues b. Meeting with stakeholders c. Meeting with ministers d. Meeting with consultants e. Meeting with bereaved families f. WORKING from home g. On annual leave (Happy Easter).
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@edwinhayward Sunday-1/2km walk to passports at Munich a’port, difficult 5mins with border guard, “have you had probs with your passport before, where do you live, why were you in DE?“ Minute checks of stamp dates, before grudging permission to leave DE. Because we asked for 3rd country status
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@Jollydom @mrjamesob @LBC We’ve found him ladies and gents-the worlds only semi-sentient turnip. Coming to an Kwiksave near you soon. *Warning. May contain nuts…
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@PerfumedDandy @culturaltutor A reminder that this is Twitter, not an academic journal.
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@APSchrader @mrjamesob @DetroitSocial If @APSchrader says it, I operate on the default assumption it is rubbish. But unlike him, I checked. It is.
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@campbellclaret Looks like an unsuccessful, down at heel second hand car salesman, trying to convince the buyer that he’s persuaded his ‘boss’ to give him a really good deal on his trade in. Reader - he hasn’t.
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@mrjamesob Not media, but worse - Our elected representatives. Including my MP John Hayes.
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@GaryJohnsonFan7 @TerribleMaps “Thank you for calling our invasion hotline. Your call is important to us. All our forces are busy now propping up a discredited and failing government, but we’ll answer your call and invade as soon as possible. You are number 22 in the queue.”
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@Peston @rsoames Are they going to give ALL the money back?
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@SamChambersDMC @olivershah I’m an ex-partner, married to an ex-partner. Sharon White and her ‘team’ are not retailers, do not understand the partnership, or its unique strengths. They have managed it into the ground and are now digging its grave. She should resign.
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@JamesEFoster @savage_home @BethRigby Nurse? Nurse! He’s escaped again!
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@TimesRadio @fifiglover Why did a supporter of free speech have such a problem with free speech? Genuinely. Why?……..
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@wakjak222 Respect is earned. This bunch in power have earned nothing.
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@JamesThomasMUFC @bbclaurak No. None of them are any good. All are compromised.
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@alisterrobson @Peston @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak @MattHancock @Jeremy_Hunt a. Because he does a better job, and b. Why would you pay Johnson more?
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@MichaelLinden8 @RAF_Luton You ask yourself a useful question. Have you given yourself the answer yet?
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@leng_cath A woman who has just claimed that a Memorandum of Understanding is the same as a Trade Agreement. In other words, another Tory liar.
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@Kinsellas @annettedittert Look, I’m as remainer as they come, but this one isn’t down to Brexshit. It’s IT. I asked some friends in Waitrose yesterday. Picture from a branch near me on Saturday
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@Gerashchenko_en People of the interweb. 1. Please aim at the item you are videoing. 2. Please hold the camera/phone/half chewed doughnut steady. 3. Use landscape mode (this may be difficult with doughnuts, but please persevere). Thank you.
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@nytimes 5p per household? I think we’ll manage.
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@AdamWagner1 I do not like being lectured by a politician who breaks rules when it suits her & makes things up as she goes, and a policeman who doesn’t understand the difference between guidnace and regulations. Neither helps the problem we face.
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@RAF_Luton At last, some accurate, facts based reporting! The rest of the media really need to up their game to keep up with @RAF_Luton
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@peterkyle @johnredwood @HouseofCommons Hi @johnredwood You going to correct the record then and apologise? You know what happens to bad boys who lie don’t you? Just look at @BorisJohnson
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@Peston I suppose it’s actually a ‘good thing’ because they get their dirty linen out in public again. Anyone got any popcorn?
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@standardnews But it was OK for @BorisJohnson to use the park, just not the plebs? It’s central London ffs. Where the hell else can people exercise?
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@corneil @ThreshedThought My dog is a better military strategist than Russian commanders and he died 2 years ago. Mike is frankly in a league of his own, and the Russian military are living in their own bubble of their own confusion, incompetence and fear.
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@tomcapt8 @RAF_Luton My wife, who is from Sunderland, has confirmed that the caption is correct. Are you going to tell her she’s wrong? Brave man!
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@oflynnsocial Oh do come on. That crowd is as true blue, daily heil and blue wall as they come. If they boo him he’s toasty toasted toast.
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@WillK59747733 @mrjamesob @EavyMental 1. Projection… 2. See pic…
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@bbclaurak @BBCOne Thick Lizzie wouldn’t do a proper interview, but she’s ok to talk to you? Doesn’t sound as if she’s expecting you to press her too hard… Go on. Try.
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@RegannotC @RichardBurgon If they were Labour run, and it’s a big if as you’re really only guessing, what’s the betting that they were underfunded by central govt with an a unfair spending settlement? If you can guess, so can I, but I bet I’m right.
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@tobeasim @aaron1867 Germans old chap, Germans.same continent, different flavour.
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@zuleykastrasner @Peston @SuellaBraverman @OBR_UK Good to know. The rest of us will stand upwind.
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@KyivIndependent The Russian Fleet confirms its combat ready…
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@OhioStateNiner @MarkUrban01 @RAeSTimR You spelt ‘target’ incorrectly… 😉
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@Vanwheel @ShippersUnbound He absolutely would not care. It’s him blindly lashing out at anyone or anything that disagrees with him. Doesn’t matter why, it’s just his default setting.
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@VintiquesMark @fascinatorfun They’re deeply upset? Imagine how the rest of us are feeling…
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@Jake_Kanter Has anyone looked into Brand in relation to the St Trinians films? Of all the worse possible situations to put him anywhere near they have to be near the top of the list.
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@fascinatorfun Presumably he declared Potatxit in a bid to retain sovrinty, rather than continue to pay an outrageously unfair contribution, but still wanted all the benefits he wouldn’t pay for…
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@Craig4Brexit Hi Craig. Just got a quick question if you’ve got a moment? Any chance you could jot down any tangible benefits of Brexit? Take your time. Don’t want to rush you. Anything at all. Anything. At. All.................
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@BILDERBERG_GP @lally55p @KellyDuddridge @BackBrexitBen @benhabib6 @reformparty_uk That’s quite the pivot there Peter. He’s in the wrong town, where no one is voting, when he could be in the constituency he’s supposed to want to represent. How much does he really care about *checks notes, Wellingborough?
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@Dominic2306 And winner of most pathetic tosser of the year is… Dominic Cummings! For blitheringly stupid point scoring and woeful stupidity in the face of overwhelming competition from Russia, Belorussia, Donbas and the Stop the War 11.
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@benrileysmith @IanDunt @dailytelegraph Will you please decide what side you’re on? And when you finally come down against Johnson, as you surely must, will you please maintain that stance in relation to everyone else in the #CorruptToryPartyParty ?
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@campbellclaret With luck the next government will have to build a new prison just to house the whole of the current one.
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@dinnerwithndg @ThreshedThought Are the blue ones the French?
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@Mrbaiti Who has any alcohol at work meetings? Ever? Only government it’s seems.
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@horton_official If it looks like a cartel, and it smells like a cartel, then it’s a cartel. If it looks like sewage, and it smells like sewage, then it’s a water company cartel.
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@Jollydom @mrjamesob @LBC Do let us know your line of work so we can avoid employing you 😙
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@GarfyTheTurk @RAF_Luton Normal behaviour in the UK is to check your eyesight by driving to Barnard Castle. This is not too far from Sunderland (A690, A1, A688), so we can be very sure that @RAF_Luton has no eyesight issues.
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@GrahamMuz @Iksander47 @RAF_Luton You just shout ‘parody account’ in English, but louder.
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@IanDunt @BorisJohnson Sacrificing the health of millions on the altar of one man’s ego.
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@tnewtondunn @EveningStandard As others have commented, it’s doesn’t matter if he didn’t have a drink at a ‘work event’. He’d outlawed ‘work events’ full stop. If he was there he broke the law (Reader, he was there) The rest of this article is just as partial, and not worth the time it took to write, or read.
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@PGMC52812677 @allymc29 Duh, you spelt ‘jeering’ incorrectly…😉
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@adamfleming But they still need a bl**dy visa, so we’re still putting obstacles in the way. And 5 days before it happens (if it actually works at all).
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@fascinatorfun @RosieisaHolt @NadineDorries There comes a point where art and life overlap so much that it’s beyond parody. I just hope you got a really good fee for @BBCBreakfast cos it was the most convincing yet!
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@JolyonMaugham Yes. But in a limited and specific way… Not all of them in one go, but enough momentum built up by an endless stream to tip them over the edge.
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@PaulLomax @edwinhayward @HimiHuskyme @SydesJokes Probability of him having a rare and undiagnosed condition? Vanishingly low. Probability of him being a complete and utter tosser, off his face on Colombian marching powder? Stratospherically high. Apply Occam’s razor.
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@confriendsukr CFU? It’s turning into Life of Brian. Peoples Front of Judea, Judean People’s Front, the Judean Peoples’s Popular Front and the Popular Front of Judea (splitter!). Presumably they qualify for cash… Donate it.
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