Philip Collins
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I have disliked Prime Ministers before. There have been some I have not thought to be very good. But never before has there been a Prime Minister for whom I have no respect at all.
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If they'd said from the start that he did break the rules but he did so out of concern for his family, he's sorry and hopes it doesn't mean he loses his job.... I'd be sympathetic. It's the arrogance of the whole episode and the supine Cabinet that is so unbearable.
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Almost the entire Cabinet have made it impossible to retain any respect for them. What a bizarre decision to go with their hopeless, indefensible, ridiculous line.
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Oh FFS. He's hardly Martin Luther King. He's an advisor who is a good campaigner and useless in government. Get some perspective.
Cummings is one of those rare individuals who has bent the arc of history. From the Euro to Brexit, this country's path might have been very different without him
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We are now importing turkeys from France because we have a shortage of farm labourers. I remember
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Johnson is not even PM yet and he is already a dreadful PM.
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The BBC cuts from the construction of an actual Labour Cabinet to watch Nigel Farage shouting at hecklers. The BBC has, sadly, had a terrible election.
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That was Keir Starmer’s best press conference so far.
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Johnson says the Tories won Bury South in 2019 for the "first time in generations". Rubbish, as usual. It was only created in 1983 and was Tory until 1997.
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Boris Johnson is now committed to a form of Brexit by 31 October that can satisfy the EU27, the DUP, Matt Hancock and Steve Baker. Would any of his cheerleaders care to clarify what that looks like?
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It is always an interesting moment when a politician reveals he has nothing. Boris Johnson revealed that today. Why he decided to say anything at all I have no idea. And, more important, neither does he.
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It is worth remembering, in all the lurid talk, that Rishi Sunak was on the wrong side of the lockdown argument every single time. Don't let him off because you dislike Johnson so intensely.
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Three quarters of the non-payroll vote want him gone.
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You can lead it. We'll call it Centre Forward.
Anyone else feel politically homeless? Everything seems far right or way left. Something sensibly centrist might appeal?
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It's not very British to fly the flag so much. It's pathetically needy American mimicry.
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The immediate problem with Brexit is that it cleared the parliamentary Tory party of most of its talent.
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Thank you to everyone who has said kind things about the writing I did for The Times and will now do elsewhere. I've always wanted to be thought too left wing but never thought I would achieve it.
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I am usually a strong defender of politics but this empty, choreographed, stale, boring Tory campaign essentially implies we are all idiots.
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So Boris smashed up the whole place for nothing. For nothing.
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The boys in Jeremy Corbyn's office must be furious at Rees-Mogg mocking their old school.
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Mrs May had two options. To move towards the ERG to unite her party. Or to move in the opposite direction. She tried and tried to do the former and they rebuffed her. Now they are moaning that she is taking the only course left. Idiots. Utter idiots.
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Tory MPs are now licensing something that has been demonstrated to be nasty. Time to get rid.
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If Johnson refuses a serious interview we will have to reassess Corbyn's efforts. At least he dared to show up.
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Johnson’s defence was ludicrous. He is just taking us all for fools. What a stupid thing to do.
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And this is beyond embarrassing.
I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
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The stupidity of this is almost an achievement.
India in 1947 had rather less difficulty gaining its independence than we are having in 2017 leaving the Brussels empire. Time for Boris to go the full Gandhi.
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In his resignation letter Johnson refers to lory safety standards. It takes two minutes of easy research to discover that he is wrong about it. What do his defenders say? Nothing. They don't care he just makes things up.
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If Mrs May survives, then her deal falls in Parliament, she could put it to the people in "the deal v remain" and the madcap Brexit gang would be routed. Couldn't happen to a more ridiculous bunch.
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What a wretchedly stupid party the Conservative party has become.
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Yes, and all those Tory MPs who know this is true and who are backing him anyway, are craven and pathetic.
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If Labour had lost it would have led all the radio bulletins. They don't seem to understand that Labour winning is a much more interesting story.
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Don't forget that Sunak thought Brexit was a good idea. And his reasons were such sixth-form debating society nonsense.
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The problem with Brexit is that all the bad news will arrive too late.
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Keir Starmer put his finger on the weak spot of the address - the decision on whether you're expected at work 12 hours from now.
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Talking on in the pouring rain to the accompaniment of Things Can Only Get Better. You wouldn't script it like this. Too much of a humiliation, it wouldn't seem plausible.
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Northern Ireland Sec says don't activate Article 50 as "we'll be shut out of important meetings". She voted Leave. Amazing.
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Your application for silliest MP in Parliament has been received and noted, with thanks. You will appreciate there are lots of good candidates so we may be a while in getting back to you.
I think this is a wonderful, patriotic and unifying campaign for our country. I will be writing to the Prime Minister to ask him to give it careful consideration and looking for opportunities to discuss further in Parliament. 👑🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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I think Sajid Javid has made a really bad decision to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship.
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Joe Biden may well, as plenty of people have said, not do much. But he will respect due process and democratic norms and if he does nothing else that will be worth it.
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According to the left a new party would be viciously right wing yet would somehow take votes only from the Labour Party.
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It is hard now to listen to members of the government and take them seriously. In the midst of a pandemic that is what they have achieved.
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Those of us who always said Corbyn is a disaster have been completely vindicated. It would be nice if even one of the prominent cheerleaders had the grace to say so.
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There was never much of a case for appointing Priti Patel and there just isn't any case at all for keeping her.
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The Chief Rabbi is, sadly, quite justified in saying what he says. I can't vote to put the appalling people at the head of the Labour party into power. I'm stunned at some of the people who can.
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I have never thought there is anything that would satisfy the Tory Eurosceptics. They are beyond reason. They will bring it all down and still not know what they want.
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Starmer instantly looks comfortable as Prime Minister. I always thought he would and this hard-to-define sense is part of the reason he is PM in the first place.
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Don't waste your time saying "but then Tories believed x and now they believe y". This is their secret. They adapt, they change, they respond to what is in front of them.
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This is a beautiful, gracious speech. The Republican party should be ashamed of what it has permitted since.
John McCain’s concession speech from the 2008 election. Listen when the crowd “boos” Obama, he says stop and settles them. America, you are unrecognisable.
#ElectionResults2020
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I cannot abide the patronising rubbish that Northern voters need a Northern leader. Maybe they just want someone good. Plenty of them have shown they will vote for the better of two options.
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Robert Jenrick is the MP for Newark which, a friend of mine who lived there once pointed out, is an amusing anagram town.
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Dominic Raab has become Dominic Rbbc
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My last word on the subject. The Times is more right-wing than it was; my departure will make it more so. Its comment pages remain, even so, the most balanced around. It has some fine writers of all shades. That balance is the best thing about it and it's stupid to threaten it.
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The Tory moderates should get very hard with Johnson and Raab. Make it abundantly clear that, unless they renounce the stupidity of no deal, they will lose a confidence vote immediately.
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Imagine spending your political career exaggerating one issue (Europe) to the total boredom of everyone forced to listen. Then, when you finally get your way, you decide to vote against it. Quite incredible.
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Whatever else happens this Tory campaign has been the worst I can remember. All of it, not just the social care fiasco.
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Labour must refuse the kind offer of an election. Refusal puts the government in a terrible invidious position.
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Is there a more wretched politician in the nation than Boris Johnson? What a dislikeable charlatan that man is.
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Boris Johnson is both a formidable electoral politician and fundamentally ill-equipped for high office. Lots of senior Tories knew what they were giving us.
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I'm afraid you did. I know you didn't intend to or mean that but it was entirely predictable and you should have weighed that more heavily.
Can someone please explain the point of getting companies to list foreign employees? I didn't vote for people already here to be harassed.
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Last verdict on Keir Starmer's conference speech, and the best case for it, is that all the right people are cheering.
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This is unpublishable rubbish. Embarrassing.
Wow...this P1 commentary in tomorrow's Times.
I worked for this newspaper for 25 years, something I am now ashamed to admit.
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Tessa Jowell was a person of rare beauty. Principled, passionate and sincere in public she was all three in private where she was also kind, mischievous and very funny. I don't know if I ever met anyone in politics I liked more.
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Good luck to
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Very few people I’d happily get up so early for;
But
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If you live in Finchley and Golders Green, please support the bravest, most principled and strong candidate around. She really IS The best of politics and politicians and am proud to support her
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The Conservatives have had as many election winning leaders in the last 4 years as Labour have had since 1945.
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Well, leaving The Times turns out to be brilliant for adding Twitter followers.
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I've been against a second referendum. I thought the original result should have been respected. I think MPs should vote for the deal. But these jokers are ensuring there is no option other than to vote again.
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"We did ask some of the people who have died from COVID-19 to appear on the programme but none were available".
"Who's dead? I'm not. I'm still alive. So's everybody else I know."
Lord Alan Sugar tells us why he thinks it's safe for the UK to follow the US's lead in coming out of lockdown.
@Lord_Sugar
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It is offensive to pretend we were not free today but will be tomorrow. Idiotic, pathetic, stupid and offensive to people who are not free.
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Alan Johnson, take a bow.
Alan Johnson lets rip - Corbyn was a disaster on the doorstep.. I want the Momentum cult out of the party, I want them gone.. 👏
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It is very hard to imagine the circumstances in which Labour's policy would actually lead to a referendum. Which of course is the point. It has been very cleverly done, stringing along the PV lot while meaning next to nothing.
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This is really low grade. I thought Sunak fancied himself as better than that. Clearly not.
This is what we’re up against.
The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally.
I have a plan to stop it.
Here’s how 🧵
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Theresa May's best skill is that she is so boring I drift off during the answers.
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I gather the Tories have decided to pick a fight with Strictly Come Dancing and abolish Match of the Day. Brilliant. Why has this Culture Secretary been in obscurity so long? This is surely genius.
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There are many reasons for the decline of Labour but the position on Brexit after the referendum was disastrous. Instead of accepting the result, they spent two years telling their own voters they were idiots.
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Is there anyone yet with the honesty to say "I didn't foresee this border problem and it would have changed my mind if I had?"
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I have read every Inaugural Address. That was the worst.
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The BBC has lost control of this. I would reverse the decision now, as the least bad option available.
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Starmer is serious. I assumed from the start that Long-Bailey was given that job so as to be allowed to fail in public. First failure and she has gone. Rightly.
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This man is incapable of understanding. It was a disgrace to seek to make him PM and his every action vindicates all those who refused to do so.
My statement following the publication of the EHRC report can be read at
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Bob Mortimer is on Would I Lie To You tonight. His appearances on this show are one of the great comic bodies of work.
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My position is I voted remain but I lost. I would like a compromise deal to leave on the softest possible terms, preserving as much as we can of the value of membership while also leaving. There is no party remotely close to this view.
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This is the level we are about to sink to. May and Cameron hated Britain, I gather.
With Boris Johnson leading the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister, the United Kingdom, at long last, will have a Prime Minister who believes in Britain.
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It is now obvious that leaving the EU was so much more complex than the Leave campaign advocates thought. They've all gone pretty quiet.
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Dominic Raab has an important function. He reminds those of us who could never be Tories why not.
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What they want is a fight.
Genuinely confused about what they want... they want to defend the statues but are angry that the police are... also defending statues? 🙃
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Well written and perfectly pitched. Labour has a serious leader again.
It’s the honour and privilege of my life to be elected as Leader of the Labour Party.
I will lead this great party into a new era, with confidence and hope, so that when the time comes, we can serve our country again – in government.
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I had the great pleasure, at The Spectator party last night, of thanking Nigel Farage in person for his excellent tour of duty as a Labour party agent. He was, all of a sudden, a bit less hail fellow well met than usual.
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Now that the attempt to unseat Tom Watson has been withdrawn outraged Labour MPs can get back to arguing that Jeremy Corbyn should be Prime Minister.
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Make sure you listen to the end. A great pay-off.
#DontvoteforGeorgeGalloway
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I first met George Galloway in Bucharest in 1990 sticking up for Team Stalin. Don't vote for the tyrant's friend.
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You know the citizenship test we now make immigrants do? MPs ought to sit it. It would be a quick way to be shot of this moron.
Unelected judges calling the shots. This is precisely why we voted out. Power to the people!
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At the time he did it I thought Rishi Sunak's excruciating fan-boy interview with Elon Musk was merely embarrassing. It looks worse than that now.
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It is important to refer back to one of the golden rules. In this case the relevant rule is that Boris Johnson will not be telling the truth about his intentions.
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Isn't the distinction between party and work event irrelevant to whether the gathering was a breach of the rules or not?
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Trump will rant and rave but he will be gone and I am delighted. It's a good day.
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Take Twat
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I don't believe, when you survey the candidates, that a different Labour leader would have won. You cannot simply take 40% for granted....
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British workers in fact take fewer sick days than those in almost any nation. This is complete nonsense.
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Boris Johnson gets a deal. He assembles a coalition in Parliament which might conceivably take it through. Then he has a hissy fit and gives up. What?
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