Oliver Cooper
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Leader of @Conservatives on @ThreeRiversDC (and formerly Camden) | International law, tax, and trade | Free markets, free nations, free people | Get things done
Chorleywood, Hertfordshire
Joined January 2009
Loving Katie’s shocked discovery that the Edgware Road has Lebanese shops. The area was built by Huguenot immigrants, had the UK’s first Indian restaurant in 1810, and has had the UK’s largest Arab community since the 1800s. It’s almost as if Katie doesn’t understand our country.
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This is Robert Peel, founder of British policing. Because of him, our police aren’t armed - he is why UK police killed just 3 people last year, while US police killed 1,536. So writing All Cops Are Bastards on him may undermine your case. As may the murderous hammer and sickle.
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Good god, this is blood libel from the BBC. The IDF said it entered the hospital *with* its own medical teams and Arabic speakers, so it can help people. BBC reports the IDF is *targeting* medical teams and Arabic speakers. That’s not a coincidence.
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Just stopped a guy yelling abuse at two women wearing hijabs on the tube at Camden Town. The guy squared up to me and started spitting in my face that he’d “fuck me up”. I eventually talked him into sitting down. It got a bit hairy, but glad I didn’t just sit in silence.
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Sickened by the anti-Semitic graffiti on walls all over Hampstead and Belsize Park this morning. All decent people across Britain stand with our Jewish community - and we must move heaven and earth to eradicate this racist hatred, which was unimaginable just a few years ago.
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“A protest outside a venue”. It’s not a protest - it’s a mob intimidating Jewish people. And it’s not just a venue - it’s London’s Jewish community centre JW3. Stop covering up antisemitic hate.
We are dealing with a protest outside a venue in Finchley Road NW3. Officers were quickly on scene and remain there. Conditions under section 14 of the Public Order Act have been imposed on those protesting. One person has been arrested for criminal damage.
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Bless. New York thinks being able to tap in and out of the Subway is “the future”. In London, we call it “2003”.
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Morrisons come out publicly against Labour’s Family Farms Tax. They realise it will decimate Britain’s domestic food supply - why doesn’t Keir Starmer?.
A message to British Farmers from Morrisons - we’re with you and support you 💪
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Man who quits job stops being paid for it.
Prince Harry revealed that the royal family cut him off financially after he and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, announced that they would be stepping back from official royal duties.
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The incredible cost of Starmer’s deal with Mauritius has been revealed:. “£800 million a year for as long as we wanted to keep the base there, plus billions in reparations.”. I bet taxpayers, pensioners, businesses, and farmers are glad to hear that.
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Yesterday, Lloyds Banking Group’s CEO had breakfast sat between Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. Today, Lloyds announce they’re shutting 136 branches. Growth plan going well then.
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Sadiq Khan promised he’d have 0 days of tube strikes. He called Boris Johnson’s record of 35 strikes while Mayor a “disgrace”. Khan’s now had 140 strikes himself.
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John McDonnell on Venezuela: “Here you have the contrast between capitalism. and socialism.”. Watch until the end to see what happens under socialism. 👀
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Labour's very low £1m threshold for Agricultural Property Relief means the majority of ordinary family farms will be caught in Inheritance Tax. Farmers can no longer hand their farms to their children to farm too. It is the end of the family farm. #Budget2024.
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Andrew Marr: How many people are in a similar position?.Boris: Probably 74. Marr: You’re trying to avoid my question, so I’ll ask you again. Boris: I just said 74. The PM is clearly on top of the detail, but Marr’s attempt to impersonate Paxman means viewers miss out. #Marr.
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This reporting by the BBC is disgusting. A rabbi - Yaakov Schlesinger - is stabbed in what is clearly a hate crime, and while other outlets call a spade a spade, the BBC just report is as a “man”. Downplaying anti-Jewish hate crime is unacceptable.
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Turns out Daniela thinks referendums are good, except one. Take a wild guess which one.
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Well this is horrific. St Thomas' Hospital admits 500 people to A&E every day. It has one of the largest critical care units in the UK. Extinction Rebellion know that blocking a bridge next to it would mean many ambulances being stopped, and they're doing it anyway.
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Equality legislation is not a devolved matter. It is a reserved matter, and cannot be decided by the Scottish Parliament. But don’t ask me… ask the Scottish Parliament’s own website:
This is a full-frontal attack on our democratically elected Scottish Parliament and it's ability to make it's own decisions on devolved matters. @scotgov will defend the legislation & stand up for Scotland’s Parliament. If this Westminster veto succeeds, it will be first of many.
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Wait until Lord Adonis finds out that he was the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission and responsible for advising the government on the roll-out of 4G until a year ago.
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£600 a year across six sites is a peppercorn rent: a small amount that is legally required to create a lease and therefore give the RNLI tenants’ rights worth way more than £600. King Charles isn’t literally giving it away to the RNLI - His Majesty is doing far better than that.
King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing. (Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)
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Wow, Conservative-run Wandsworth spends ONE SIXTH as much on publicity as Labour-run Camden: £0.2m a year, while Camden spends £1.3m. No wonder Wandsworth has the UK's lowest council tax. Thanks to Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan for highlighting the profligacy of Labour councils!.
Over the last decade, Wandsworth Conservative Council has spent over £2million on publicity, an FOI has revealed. That's the equivalent of 870,000 free school meals. Pass it on.
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Take a bow, @MattHancock. 122,347 tests in a day is a gigantic achievement. That ramping upon of both capacity and testing itself is unprecedented around the world and something the whole country should be proud of.
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The UK is now running a current budget surplus - that is, we no longer borrow to fund day-to-day spending - for the first time since 2002. Britain is back in the black.
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If Parliament can demand specific individuals’ private messages, it can demand yours. MPs’ vote tonight shows the disregard that the Government’s opponents have for human rights and due process.
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The last time UK power stations burned a single kilo of coal was Thursday. The 82 hours since is the longest spell without coal since the Industrial Revolution. Thanks to the phase-out of coal, since 2010, the UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen by more than any other major country.
UK National Grid: #Coal is currently generating 0.00GW (0.00%) out of a total of 26.12GW.Continuous hours without coal: 82.
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And the Romans built the Edgware Road itself as part of Watling Street (the clue’s in it being straight as an arrow). But yes, Katie, tell us more how immigrants have ruined the Edgware Road. 🇱🇧🇬🇧.
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It actually happened, the greatest football result in the world:. East Fife 4, Forfar 5 (on penalties, at any rate)
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Little remarked, but UK Corporation Tax revenue in the last twelve months hit an all-time record high of £58.3bn today: up £10bn compared to the same period just two years ago. Corporation Tax cuts create jobs, raise wages, increase savings, and - yes - boost government revenue.
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Ukrainians see the UK as its closest ally, behind only Poland and alongside Lithuania. 86% of Ukrainians say that the UK is supportive of Ukraine.
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@Ned_Donovan London’s new water fountains are ugly, but they also cost about £10,000 each. It takes a particular kind of talent to make something that’s so expensive look so cheap.
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Kensington was won by a hardcore Corbynista MP, Emma Dent Coad, by 20 votes in 2017 - because 2,000 Conservatives thought it was safe to vote Lib Dem. The only way to stop Corbyn taking over our country is to vote Conservative. Well said, @GregHands. 👏
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Sunak directly asks Starmer if he will rule out taxing the State Pension. Starmer claims the audience doesn’t want a yes or no answer - and the audience boos him for dodging the question. It’s there in black and white: Labour will impose a Retirement Tax. #BBCdebate.
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Keir Starmer is a hypocrite for complaining about Council Tax. On Monday, his own local Labour-run Camden hiked Council Tax by the legal maximum for the 7th year in a row. It's now £900 a year more than neighbouring Conservative-run Westminster. Labour love Council Tax.
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30 years ago today, Margaret Thatcher became the world's first major leader to warn of the dangers of climate change and call for a legally-binding treaty to reduce CO2 emissions, which later became the Kyoto Protocol and COP.
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Hey @BBCNews - a bit of a weird decision not to feature the UK's lowest unemployment in 45 years and fastest wage growth in over a decade ANYWHERE on your homepage. As much as a curfew for cats and Watford FC's tweets are important, I think you've missed the day's biggest story.
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The Hezbollah plot to bomb London was only thwarted because of a tip-off from Mossad. That Israeli intel likely saved dozens or hundreds of British people's lives.
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That's the sound of champagne corks being popped in Beijing. Labour have handed China a huge geopolitical victory.
UK agrees to give up sovereignty of remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in historic deal over one of its last overseas territories
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@StevePeers @MikeStuchbery_ And look at these foreign restaurants with their strange food. And we tolerate them in London? What is this: London or New York?!
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Grade II listed pub mysteriously burns down on a wet night a few days after closing. 🤔. South Staffs Council should do what Westminster did with the Carlton Tavern and Ribble Valley did with the Punch Bowl Inn: order the pub be restored precisely, brick-by-brick.
Footage shows extent of damage to iconic Crooked House Pub in Dudley after a fire broke out last night. Read more:
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The UK is the only international partner that the majority of Ukrainians think is doing enough to help Ukraine. We should be proud that the UK is doing more than anyone else to stand up for freedom. 🇺🇦🇬🇧
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The scenes are Clapham Common are unconscionable. The Metropolitan Police’s leadership has seriously misjudged this, and has exacerbated a lack of trust that has been created by Sarah’s killing. There needed to be a moment for her and other victims.
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That’ll teach AstraZeneca not to manufacture a life-saving drug without making a profit itself. Thanks to the EU, no pharmaceutical company will do anything as charitable ever again.
The European Commission is expected to announce it will sue AstraZeneca over delays and shortfalls in its vaccine delivery. Now nearly all EU members, including those that had expressed some reservations, have said they back the lawsuit.
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Abiding by international law is a political choice. Countries often choose not to - and Advisory Opinions like the Chagos one carry limited weight. But Starmer's choosing to put international law ahead of British interests. And just the Chagos case will cost UK tens of billions.
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Guyana has a fast-growing economy because it found billions of barrels of oil offshore in 2015 and decided to drill for it. That's the exact opposite of Labour's policy of impoverishing the UK by ending oil production.
As the son of Guyanese parents, it was a huge honour to be back in Guyana as the UK’s Foreign Secretary. This is the fastest growing economy in the world, and I’m determined for us to grow more together. Thank you @PresidentAliGY for the warm welcome yesterday.
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Over 600 doctors that Cuba's government keeps as actual slaves have asked the International Criminal Court to end the practice because it's a crime against humanity. Yet Labour MP Zarah Sultana has nominated the practice for the Nobel Peace Prize. 🤯
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When you attack a girl that was shot in the head by the Taliban as a “disingenuous careerist”.
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You simply can’t generate *60%* of GDP from taxes. No country on Earth raises more than 46% - while the OECD average is 34%. So it’s not tax rises that are needed. It’s 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 - more tax is the last thing we need.
Remarkable graph on spending outstripping revenue from the new OBR report. Reality: taxes will need to rise significantly over the coming decades.
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Thanks to massive tree-planting programmes, British woodlands are now back to a size last seen almost 1,000 years ago - with hundreds of millions more trees being planted over the next five years.
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Losing a Cabinet Secretary. Losing a Chief of Staff. Getting mired in a freebies scandal. And their economic policies unravelling. All in Labour’s first 100 days. Thank god the adults are back in charge, eh? 👌.
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Two weeks ago, Jeremy Corbyn congratulated Bolivia’s corrupt hard-left leader Evo Morales on his fraudulent re-election. Today, Morales resigned after admitting widespread electoral fraud. How terribly unlucky of Corbyn to yet again take the side against democracy.
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The UK should be very proud of these front pages tomorrow: shunning sensationalism and putting the vanishingly small vaccine risks in the context of the huge benefits.
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The NHS has more than doubled its number of ventilators in the last eight days. A huge achievement by the NHS and Government, and a testament to the versatility of UK manufacturers.
Health Sec: Uk now has 12,000 ventilators - up from 5,000.
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Diane Abbott today says that it isn’t possible to be racist towards Jewish people, and that thousands of years of discrimination and genocide is just like a little teasing for being a redhead. Truly revolting. Starmer must remove the Labour whip immediately.
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Labour putting out leaflets in Batley & Spen that attack the Conservatives for having diplomatic relations with India. Not a dogwhistle, but a foghorn. Labour’s rising hostility to Indians is repulsive and hugely under-reported.
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2,000 RTs for a conspiracy theory claiming that a watch that clearly says 8 o'clock somehow doesn't actually say 8 o'clock. That's Twitter.
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Fact-check: 83% of people did not use public transport to get to work before COVID-19.
Most people need to use public transport to get to work. .
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"Simply not possible in any other country"?. Here are Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, and Priti Patel with their parents. All having held one or more of the top four offices in the UK and all in the Conservative Party.
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Hartlepool's Labour candidate Paul Williams petulantly refusing to make any comments and thank the staff, police, and his volunteers is really graceless. Particularly as it means that no other candidates can make any comments (if second place doesn't speak, third etc can't).
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You clearly know nothing about Boris Johnson. - Boris was the 1st major UK politician to back same-sex marriage, over 15 years ago. - Boris defied party leadership to vote to end Section 28 and bring in Gender Recognition Act. - Boris ended ban on embassies flying rainbow flag.
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The UK government is searching for a site for Tesla to build a 4 million square foot gigafactory and R&D centre: large enough to employ several thousand staff.
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@MetPoliceEvents I hope "engaging" means "arresting the registered keepers of all vehicles used to threaten to kill or rape Jewish people and identifying and arresting all others involved".
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I’ve paid respects by laying flowers at Buckingham Palace, as have many hundreds of others. Warming to see that the vast majority of people laying flowers are young. The Royal Family’s values of service, selflessness, and sacrifice are timeless and their example priceless.
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London now accounts for 43% of all foreign exchange trading worldwide - up from 37% in 2016. That's $1 trillion more traded in London every day than 3 years ago. The reports of London's death as the world's financial capital are greatly exaggerated.
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If you witness any anti-Semitic hatred - violence, abuse, or vandalism - please contact the police at 101 and the @CST_UK on 0800 0323263. The police and CST take the threat to Britain’s Jewish community very seriously, because it is and you can help stamp it out.
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Chancellor: son of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan.Foreign Secretary: son of a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia.Home Secretary: daughter of Hindu refugees from Uganda. Can the lazy comparisons with Trump stop now? #GlobalBritain.
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Hockey becomes the fourteenth different sport that #TeamGB has won gold in Rio at. No other country has yet won gold in more than ten.
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Michel Barnier hasn't 'liked' a tweet in a month, but he likes @tomhfh calling Jeremy Corbyn a notorious racist. Not sure about that Labour renegotiation now, lads.
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Conservatives lead by 14%. On national uniform swing, that means a majority of 158. Which is why Corbyn has reneged on his demands for an election.
YouGov for the Sunday Times.(fieldwork Thurs/Fri). Con 35% (-).Lab 21% (-4).LDem 19% (+3).Brexit 12% (+1). A week of turmoil and Johnson seems to be defying gravity.
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There’s a fire at legendary music venue Koko in Camden Town, with smoke billowing out from inside. Three fire engines and dozens of firefighters currently on site.
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Alison McGovern claimed on #PoliticsLive that France has an employment rate higher than the UK. That is simply not true. It’s 67% in France. It’s 76% in the United Kingdom. It’s not even close. Labour just can’t tell the truth about the economy.
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Corbyn literally accepted a £2.2m donation from Lord Sainsbury in 2016: the biggest individual donation to any party since Corbyn became Labour leader. Will Corbyn now return Lord Sainsbury's money?.
Corbyn: I don’t know any billionaires. we don’t want their money.
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Think Juan Guaido was already the President:.- Venezuela's legislature.- Every western European country.- The five largest South American countries.- The U.S., Canada, Japan. - The Socialist International. Think it's a "coup":.- China.- Russia.- North Korea.- Iran.- Momentum.
Deeply worrying news of an attempted military coup in Venezuela, supported by Trump and the White House. US imperialism must always be opposed. Solidarity with the Venezuelan people! ✊.
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I support assisted dying in principle. I never ever thought I’d oppose a Bill that legalised it. But the Assisted Dying Bill’s *author* says it should allow the NHS to kill people because they’d been persuaded they’d become a burden on the NHS. That is so utterly unconscionable.
Leadbeater on being a burden, transcribed. Small prize for the first person who can decipher this for me.
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Michaela is the best state school in the country. By far. But Labour’s position seems to be to talk down @Miss_Snuffy’s team and her pupils because Labour don’t want people to think it’s possible to achieve that in a deprived community. Good to see her fight back once again.
Below is my open letter to Sir Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer regarding the behaviour of his Shadow Minister Jess Phillips.
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This is the clearest and most shocking of the horrific footage coming from Beirut. 💔.
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Jeremy Bowen is so desperate for the BBC to not report that Hamas use hospitals as shields that he claims it’s normal for hospitals to hold stocks of Kalashnikovs and hand grenades. War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
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Unpopular view but… Blair was Prime Minister for ten years. Not an activist or a keyboard warrior, but the actual Prime Minister. So whether you agree with him or not, of course he should receive a knighthood.
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I quietly made sure the women got off safe and unharassed at Camden Town, but in the adrenaline rush, I didn’t talk to them and check they were ok. Hope they are.
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Allowing prisoners to call their families from in-cell landlines is proven to reduce reoffending by easing reintegration. Fears about misuse are misplaced, as the phones can only dial pre-approved numbers and calls can be monitored. Well done, @DavidGauke.
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Today's UK jobs news is breathtakingly good:. - Employment rate up to 76.5%: by far the highest ever.- 381,000 more full-time jobs in the last year and now 3.1 million more full-time jobs than in 2010.- Average wages up 3.2% in the last year: well over twice the rate of inflation.
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Clear video showing @GhorbaniiNiyak doing nothing wrong - indeed patiently NOT fighting back when he was attacked. And then the Metropolitan Police storming in to arrest HIM instead of the people assaulting him. The Met have given up defending the public.
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Conservatives won Barnet’s West Hendon ward from Labour for the first time in 44 years. It wasn’t just Jewish voters - West Hendon has twice as many Muslim and Hindu residents as Jewish. But residents of all creeds took a stand for their Jewish neighbours. Barnet: be proud.
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New UK aid package = £84m. Current UK aid = £15,400m (183 times as much). African GDP = £2,400,000m (28,571 times as much). The idea that this drop in the ocean will transform Africa’s economy and so stop illegal immigration is utterly disingenuous.
Starmer announces £84m of funding for Africa and the Middle East in a bid to stop migrants coming to the UK. 'To stop illegal migration, we must also tackle it at source', PM says
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It is now vital and urgent for the UK to allow its British Nationals (Overseas) and as many other Hong Kongers as possible to come to live and work permanently in the UK if they wish. The UK must be a safe harbour for Hong Kongers yearning to breathe free.
China's parliament approves security law for Hong Kong which would make it a crime to undermine Beijing's authority
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Hugh Grant is campaigning for Corbynistas in the hope of electing a Corbyn-led government backed by Lib Dems. They are one and the same. Every single vote for the Lib Dems is a vote for Corbyn. Even, sadly, in Finchley & Golders Green. Vote Conservative or you’ll get Corbyn.
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The Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards advised Starmer to sack Tulip Siddiq. Starmer chose not to. He said he was only accepting it with "sadness". And he said would keep the ministerial "door open" to her. Weak. Weak. Weak.
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Pros and cons of the Welsh Government policy of holding back vaccines:. Pros: vaccinators won’t get bored. Cons: more people will die. Tricky.
Mark Drakeford defends decision to delay deployment of Pfizer vaccine supplies on #r4today: "There would be no point and certainly it would be logistically damaging to use up all our vaccines in the first week and have our vaccinators standing around with nothing to do.".
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1) It was a gift. 2) You both earn £81,932 as MPs. He earns a bit more as a minister (as you did). 3) He can be a minister, because unlike you and every other Labour MP, he didn't campaign to put Jeremy Corbyn in No10. 4) Your rancid politics of envy is why Corbyn's not in No10.
When you can pay £180 for a coffee cup you prob don’t live in fear of having no economic security.
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Surprised at how calmly I kept saying, “No, you’re going to sit down and be quiet” when the guy kept shouting inches from my face that he’d fuck me up. And surprised that he eventually complied, to be honest. .
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Erm, Ardern deliberately used *exactly* the same language - “left nothing in the tank” - as former New Zealand PM John Key when he resigned in 2016.
I’ve never ever heard a male senior politician resign because he’s ‘reached his limit’.
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Once again: The monarchy costs taxpayers NOTHING. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Not one penny. The Sovereign Grant - which replaced the civil list in 2012 - is a fixed percentage of the Crown Estate’s income: 75% of which still goes to the government.
The monarchy cost British taxpayers £67m during 2018-19 - a 41% increase on the previous financial year
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Labour ministers didn't meet Vauxhall's owners even once in the four months before they announced the closure of the Luton plant. No wonder they thought the Government wasn't listening and that they had to close it.
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UK GDP fell in September, when it had been expected to rise by 0.2%. And even that was propped up by rising oil and gas extraction: a sector that Labour plan to shut down. All the red warning lights are flashing.
GDP fell 0.1% in September 2024, largely due to falls in manufacturing and IT. Commenting on today’s GDP figures for September, ONS Director of Economic Statistics Liz McKeown said 💬. Read the article ➡️
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PLOT TWIST: The government gave the Mayor a record £3.15 BILLION to provide social and affordable housing. Literally all the money that Khan’s boasting about spending came from the Conservative government.
The government is failing to enable councils to replace the hundreds of thousands of council homes sold through Right to Buy, and so I will do all I can to help councils replace as many of them as possible.
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@the_transit_guy Many cities in Europe have parks where their city walls used to be: sometimes wholly encircling the city centre. But they are much narrower than Adelaide’s. eg.Krakow.Luxembourg City.Frankfurt
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This is an outright lie. Application rates from low-income homes have never been higher. All articles about tuition fees should report this.
Jeremy Corbyn: "Fewer working class young people are applying to university. Let's end the debt burden and scrap tuition fees!" #ToriesOut
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I am walking around Hampstead documenting all the anti-Semitic graffiti that mars our community this morning, and just got to South Hampstead Synagogue. This is a place of peace and prayer, desecrated by the world’s oldest hatred.
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Change in employment in manufacturing:. Conservatives (since 2010): +123,000.Labour (1997-2010): -1,468,000. Yes, that's 1.5 million manufacturing jobs lost under Labour. The only party that will support manufacturing is the Conservatives. #ITVdebate.
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