Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast
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🚨OUT NOW🚨Parliament's back and Priti Patel is out of the race! In this episode
@rosamundmtaylor
,
@youngvulgarian
,
@hugorifkind
, and
@DmitryOpines
discuss how Britain's media is changing. Plus, where are we with our trade relationship with the EU? 👉
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Two months ago Liz Truss said the prospect of rising mortgage rates due to borrowing was “project fear”.
We’ve kept the receipts.
#WhereIsLizTruss
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Betty Boothroyd — hardcore. Share this one, it’ll stiffen sinews across the land.
"Wilson said anyone who claimed membership of the EU was a black and white issue was either a charlatan or a simpleton... which brings me on to Boris Johnson" says Betty Boothroyd - backing a "People's Vote"
#Brexit
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Current popular vote has Green/LD/CHUK at 5.4m as against Brexit Party on 4.7m so where is this “Brexit Party romps it” bullshit coming from? SHARE SHARE SHARE
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We will now leave the EU because the Labour Party was too stubborn and sentimental to jettison a leader who was clearly box office poison from day one. Every one of his enablers should hang their heads in shame. They’ve betrayed every Remainer.
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@DKShrewsbury
You are a liar. Britain received more from the Marshall Plan than Germany. Delete this tweet and replace it with an apology that tells the truth. Details here:
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The Metropolitan Police just radicalised a generation of women.
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We try to be fair to Laura Kuenssberg on the podcast. But how in hell is it possible to present Johnson’s announcement this afternoon as some kind of political masterstroke — instead of the most desperate, transparent and pathetic U-Turn of the past 20 years?
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"I am on your side." No you fucking aren't, you third-rate, xenophobic, cowardly, hostile-environment-creating, half-the-country-ignoring, cheap, delusional, lying FAILURE. You are everything this country isn't.
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More airtime for Nigel Farage — seven-times failed Parliamentary candidate, not a leader of any party — on
@BBCr4today
. When will BBC News cease shoring up this outlier’s brand for him?
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“Now that no-deal is off the table, we have a great, new deal” - Boris Johnson, October 28th 2019
Please don’t RT this, he wouldn’t want anyone to see it...
#BorisHasFailedTheNation
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“You know how we told you business would notice no change during transition? We were lying. And it’s too late for you to do anything about it now.”
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This is emerging as an absolute scandal. Lots of small companies offered the Govt readymade
#ventilators
right now. Govt went with untried Dyson instead. And “we didn’t get the EU’s email” is up there with “the dog ate my homework”.
#CovidUK
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A new campaign calling for Freedom of Movement across the EU has been started by *checks notes* The Daily Mail...
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Well done.
You’ve negotiated terms worse than we currently have.
We have secured a vital deal allowing service professionals to work in Switzerland visa-free for 90 days 🇬🇧 🇨🇭
This agreement locks in our existing services relationship, worth over £17bn, & is part of our strategy to enhance the UK’s status as a global services hub 🌎
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We would settle for it not causing all of them right now.
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While we’re all thinking of Michael Gove this morning, let’s remember one of the times he told a fat, stinking lie to the British public.
Here’s Michael Gove saying that the idea that we’ll be outside the great sprawling Single Market, which spans across all Europe, “is for the birds”.
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BBC
#QuestionTime
allows a clear untruth about Vote Leave to be broadcast unchallenged, and Brexit propagandist Oakeshott to trash the Electoral Commission without foundation. Fiona Bruce is at best poorly briefed.
This programme is no longer fit for purpose.
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Dear God, shut up about "letting the British people down". You know what would let the British people down? Promising them an endless supply of cream cakes and then turning up with a turd in a box, which is essentially what has happened.
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Good morning, Plague Island.
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Grant Shapps telling
#r4today
that rich donors want to give to the No.11 refurb to “preserve our historic buildings” – when the refurb is LITERALLY about changing the flat to suit the tastes of a here today, gone tomorrow PM’s consort – wins Bullshit of the Day.
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The odious smirk on Farage’s face, as a woman from Germany explains how she’s been made to feel unwelcome since the referendum, says everything you need to know about him and his vicious, petty little mind.
#C4Brexit
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"She is mean. She is rude. She is cruel. She is stupid… It's crazy that someone like her would end up in a job where the most important thing is to communicate, answer questions, make decisions. That is more of a psychological than a political problem."
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says we must stand up to Russia. Quite right. Will he set an example by withdrawing the almost $100m that his fund manages in Russia? That would send a strong message to Mr Putin, would it not?
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If you’ve got evidence of a major story and you don’t publish it because it doesn’t suit your political agenda, you’re not a journalist — you’re a propagandist.
Oakeshott's mea culpa - It was always my intention to publish the information - What? After Brexit had ruined the country? Absolute disgrace. She's sat on this as it's HER OPINION that "those who voted Leave would have still done so" FFS!
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Iain Duncan Smith, living proof that the British will swallow any amount of arrant twaddle provided it comes to them in an officer-class accent.
WHY indeed argue against Iain Duncan Smith's mad delusions when a facial reaction will be so much more appropriate? 😁🦄
#PoliticsLive
#BrexitChaos
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The rancid Farage now openly saying he'll treat with foreign governments to procure a veto to the settled will of the Parliament whose sovereignty he said he wanted to restore. What a scumbag the man is.
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"I am at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust."
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This lot deserve knighthoods.
We’re in Brussels reminding Europe’s leaders of the donkeys responsible for this Brexit shambles. SOUND ON.
(Location: European Parliament Liaison Office)
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“Law-abiding patriotic citizens with legitimate concerns.”
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Whoever did this is a prize fucking idiot. This guy is not Farage or Tommy Robinson. Wrong, foolish, and counter-productive too.
This old guy was sitting outside a polling station in Aldershot doing the numbers for the Brexit Party and apparently it was okay to attack him because he was a 'fascist'. Congratulations, everyone.
#EUelections2019
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Johnson's outburst about Starmer supposedly "prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Saville" is perhaps the lowest and most despicable utterance of his putrid career. What an obscene disgrace he is.
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This woman has destroyed her own reputation forever. Whatever happens, she’ll be hounded by this.
Now
@AmberRuddHR
lacks the guts to justify her support for prorogation of Parliament despite having condemned it as unconstitutional until Johnson bribed her with a Cabinet job. A truly shabby woman who should be ashamed of herself.
#newsnight
#skynews
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There's always a tweet. Share this now. Cummings cannot be allowed to get away with this.
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Free Remainiacs t-shirt to the first MP to get inside the Chamber, stand up and go "…as we were saying before we were so rudely interrupted…"
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Can you imagine the incandescent shit-fit this paper would be having if the leader of ANY OTHER PARTY WHATSOEVER indicated that they’d ignore the law if it suited them?
The front page of tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph: ‘Johnson: I'll defy law over Brexit extension’
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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The Labour MPs who helped defeat the plan to avert No Deal — Kevin Barron, Ronnie Campbell, Jim Fitzpatrick, Caroline Flint, Stephen Hepburn, Kate Hoey, John Mann and Graham Stringer — are an absolutely contemptible bunch and history will bury them in shame.
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And now Sarah Vine says “the PM can’t live in a skip.” So it’s official. If your place is done out modestly with a bit of John Lewis furniture, you live in a skip. Good to know.
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For some reason the BBC is now referring to the “so-called” People’s Vote. We don’t have the “so-called” Conservative Party or the “so-called” Labour Party. Can
@BBCNews
please explain this extraordinary slanted reporting? Is it policy directive?
Have now heard it called the “so-called People’s Vote” from four different journos on
@BBCNews
. This points to an editorial decision to comment on the
#PeoplesVote
. Pretty extraordinary considering the only other such editorial interference is the “so-called Islamic State”. WTF
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What an abjectly pathetic way for this entire shitshow to end.
A wasted decade. A damaged country. All for the festering vanity of this worthless man.
Fuck you,
@BorisJohnson
. Fuck you all the way to hell.
Boris Johnson quits as an MP after receiving privileges committee findings
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@KateHoeyMP
@BBCWorld
@robwatsonbbc
It's not a deal, Kate. WTO is the absence of a deal. Maybe it gets negative coverage because it's objectively an insane course of action.
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Jesus Christ just look at this ridiculous, ranting, blathering arsehole. He's everything that's wrong with this country, and he's proud of it. We are on the eve of a national humiliation of unimaginable proportions.
Live : he's finally lost the plot.
He is actually insane. 😱😱
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What would the 2016 vote have been if people had known that this farce would end not in the “easiest deal in history” where “we hold all the cards”, but in a laughable stunted-up photo and a desperate “final throw of the dice”? Would be funny if not so tragic.
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“Empty windbaggery”
Steve in Cambridge nails it over Johnson’s No-Deal Brexit
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Rewatching the Soubry/Allen/Woolaston presser from this morning, what shines out from their faces is the relief and the energy. They’ve stood up. They’re not taking any more shit. And the headbangers can’t hurt them any more.
#TIG
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All opposition MPs need to understand that Johnson’s disgusting antics tonight are not an index of his strength. They show his impotence. Don’t crack. Don’t give him the VONC he needs. Keep him trapped up to 31 Oct. Kill No Deal then end his putrid PM-ship.
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Gareth Southgate just became Prime Minister.
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Yet again
@BBCr4today
lets Jeremy Hunt assert that “Voters of both main parties are very angry that Brexit hasn’t been delivered” without challenge. Local election voters were crystal clear: they humiliated both Pro-Brexit parties AND Ukip. It’s an anti-Brexit vote.
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Here's
@sturdyAlex
's collection of
#NoDeal
lies and volte faces from the culprits for this fiasco. Compare and contrast with the bullshit and revisionism we'll get over the next few weeks.
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“There is a very clear message to both parties that we have got to get on with getting Brexit done” NO THERE FUCKING ISN’T, it’s the complete opposite! Who votes Lib Dem or Green because they “want Brexit done”?
Tory Chairman
@BrandonLewis
says he accepts there is "huge frustration" from the public on Brexit. There is a "very clear message to both parties that we have got to get on with getting Brexit done"
#r4today
#LocalElection2019
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Splendid comment on The Times this morning, spotted by friend of the show Mark Wood: "With non EU immigration now being twice that of EU immigration will Brexiters want another referendum to leave 'the World' as well as the EU?"
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Asked on
#r4today
whether he agrees with the OBR that Brexit has harmed the economy NOW more than COVID, Sunak says Brexit was “five years ago” then waffles about booze duty. There is no meaningful follow-up question.
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Immensely sad and rage-inducing. She wants to stay (“my heart is in England”) but for him, the bad atmosphere at work makes it impossible. How did we become this spiteful country?
"This is very hard - because my heart is in England."
As Brexit approaches, this family is returning to Poland after 13 years in the UK - because they say there are more opportunities there.
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What a joy to see our Nina thoroughly demolish this bonehead from Westmonster, the Happy Shopper Breitbart.
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What a shabby, cowardly excuse for a minister Matt Hancock is.
Perfectly reasonable question and the small minded idiot Hancock responds in a way thats enough to make anyone’s blood boil. Insulting garbage. He should be prosecuted.
#torybrexit
#covid
catastrophe
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Whatever else you think of the Lib Dem revoke position, calling it "undemocratic" won't wash. In the unlikely event that they won a majority, they would by definition have a mandate superseding prior mandates. Revoking A50 would then self-evidently be democratic.
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Farage: “I’ve changed my mind. You are allowed to do it. It’s not a sign of weakness.”
Just not when it comes to leaving the EU, apparently.
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Cancel everything. Bring everyone. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, you MUST come to this on March 23. The Government has failed, Parliament has failed, and the two main parties are paralysed. Time to
#PutItToThePeople
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“Making stuff up as you go along. Taking decisions based on mental tosses of a coin, saying stuff before engaging the brain: all this is the currency of modern policy-making.”
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Fans of “Tommy Robinson” who are celebrating need to understand that this ruling destroys every argument they’ve made. Contrary to their conspiracy theories, he’s being given due process of law like anyone else. So much for the imaginary state war on free speech.
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Tony Blair patiently explains to
#r4today
the insupportable costs of Brexit. John Humphrys interrupts “but we voted for it!” When even BBC interviewers are supporting the infantile “you lost get over it” argument we really are in trouble.
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Same old shit from that flabby failure David Davis in a chummy chat with Humphrys on
#r4today
. They need us more than we need them. Chaos at Dover won’t happen. EU about to crumble. Vapid, dishonest, pointless.
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This is completely inexplicable. Can anyone think of anything that happened in 2010 which might have occasioned this mystifying trend?
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SO UNFAIR. How dare he?
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This odious, self-enriching creep just made more than the PM's salary for making two speeches. Except they're not really speeches, are they? They're downpayments for future favours.
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“They call him Britain Trump.” 👀
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Please enjoy Andrea's videos about the masses of red tape that will impede business for decades – all because the nutters who've taken over the Tory party demand their kamikaze Brexit no matter what the cost.
My department has created 11 explainer videos covering topics from travelling to the EU for business after Brexit, to using the new UKCA mark. Watch and share the videos to make sure your business, and your suppliers, are ready for
#Brexit
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Another bald-faced untruth from John Humphrys on
#R4Today
. "When we voted to leave the EU we voted to leave the Customs Union." Did we, John? Where did it say that on the ballot paper?
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If the Brexit nutters think they can hammer "undemocratic Backstop" into the national mind purely by repetition, is it time we started talking about "undemocratic Dominic Cummings" and "undemocratic No Deal"?
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John Humphrys plumbing new depths of biased disgrace on
#R4Today
. Liam Fox says democracy will collapse of Brexit doesn’t happen. Instead of challenging him, Humphrys goes into a Leave EU talking point about how Remain MPs engineered this chaos. No mention of ERG.
#SackHumphrys
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Word of the day: "ZUGZWANG" (n.). In chess, a situation where you have to make a move – but every possible action makes things worse, possibly terminally so.
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Either the Education Secretary thinks Pete Waterman was in Minder, or he thinks Dennis Waterman produced ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ and ‘Roadblock’.
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Brace yourself for hectic post-hoc redefinitions from the Prime Minister’s unpaid flunkies.
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“Sources” who give journos false information aren’t sources at all. They’re political operatives abusing the convention that sources are protected. The only way to stop them from doing it is to remove their anonymity if/when they lie.
@bbclaurak
@peston
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Just a quick update to say that we — producers of a weekly Brexit podcast who have never owned or operated commercial shipping before — have won the tender to be the Government’s new providers of ferry solutions for the Hard Brexit Era. Thank you.
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But yes by all means deselect Margaret Hodge
Kate Hoey, still a Labour MP, appears at her first Tory conference. She says this is a “much better-dressed conference”
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There is it. After swearing it would be the easiest deal ever… insisting No Deal wouldn't happen… then lying about the consequences… these extremists are about to drive us out into the cold, in the middle of an economic crisis.
They are criminals.
BREAKING: Boris Johnson says the UK must prepared for no trade deal with the EU from Jan 1
Says EU not willing to give UK a Canada style deal
If the EU comes back "with a fundamental change of opinion" then the UK will listen. But says that doesn't sound likely after the summit
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Naming this thing “Operation Save Big Dog” is like when those office guys tell you to call them Killer or Ace or Kick-Ass or The Winnerator and yet everyone continues to refer to them as Barry the Wanker.
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"The BBC put people on with diametrically opposed views and didn’t give their viewers and listeners any help in assessing which one was the looney and which one was the genius."
@Peston
is spot on.
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Direct Access, NHS supplier of Nantwich, contacted health dept offering 5,000 certified ventilators. Email ignored.
EU invites UK into ventilator bulk-buy. Email “not seen”.
Does anyone have a spare teenager who can give the Govt some free IT support?
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Every promise made in this article has been broken.
Boris Johnson has stripped away the rights of every UK citizen and reduced Britain to a laughing stock on the world stage, all for his own gain.
He has a lot to answer for.
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Is Guto aware that the key lyrics of I Will Survive are:
"Go on now, go, walk out the door/
Just turn around now/
'Cause you're not welcome anymore"?
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Well, it's 11pm on 31 Oct 2019, the "Brexit Do Or Die" deadline, and…
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One of the most depressing phenomena of recent years is intelligent people pretending to be dumb in order to make cheap political points.
Appointed for life ≠ elected for a limited term.
Their crime is not to be young. Their crime is to be Conservatives. This criticism comes from the same people who rejoiced in Mhairi Black's election and the election of a 25 year old on Thursday in Selby. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
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What must the inside of his head be like?
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Manchester has just been subjected to a public punishment beating.
Replacing a £60m offer with an imposed £20m is designed to send a clear message – oppose us and we will go out of our way to hurt your people.
This is a key moment in the Conservative Party's self-degradation.
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The QC who wrote an "independent" report exculpating Cambridge Analytica of any wrongdoing (commissioned by, erm, Cambridge Analytica) is now standing as… a Brexit Party MP!
What an ASTONISHING coincidence.
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Yes Andrea, we all remember the bus with VOTE LEAVE AND LOSE YOUR JOB written on the side. Another extremist shows her callous true colours.
Andrea Leadsom - It was made very clear, in 2016, that people would lose their jobs in the event of a no-deal. 😮
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What a pompous, vapid, windbag of an arse this man is.
Siri, show me a video of someone crucifying their future self.
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Look at this woman. A decent, hardworking business owner driven to tears by the self-destructive idiocy of Brexit. This is what “fuck business” comes to: fear, uncertainty and the end of dreams. WE DID NOT HAVE TO DO ANY OF THIS.
Business owner, fighting back tears, worried for her livelihood and that of her staff. This is what your “only upsides”
#Brexit
looks like,
@DavidDavisMP
. Your “independence day”,
@Nigel_Farage
. Your “easiest deal in history”,
@LiamFox
. Your “confected hysteria”,
@BorisJohnson
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Take a good look. A LONG, LAST look.
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Getting the strong impression that many of our followers have suddenly started work on Donald Tusk erotic fan-fiction.
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The Government appears to have picked a fight with butter... and lost.
@DenisMacShane
Hi there, Lurpak is subject to legal origin protections which means that Arla can only produce Lurpak® in Denmark with Danish milk; it can't be produced in the UK. Don’t panic, whatever happens with Brexit, we’re sure we’ll be able to find a way to keep Lurpak coming into the UK.
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Billionaire
#Brexiter
Sir James Ratcliffe loves Britain so much he’s depriving our schools and hospitals of £4bn. Such confidence in our future! The guy is worth £12.3bn. How much money does one person need?
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On a day when the Conservatives got absolutely ploughed, Andrew Mitchell MP is now on TV claiming that if Andy Street wins, it poses “very serious” questions about Starmer’s electability.
It is the most pitiful, craven and undignified thing you could possibly imagine.
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There it is. Russia DID interfere in the EU Referendum and the Govt refused to even try to find out how effective their meddling had been.
We need a public inquiry.
#RussiaReport
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