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Spiritual, @TheGreenParty Member, Woke, LGBTQI+ ally, he/him. Reader. Photography. Writing. Doctor Who. Tolkien. Justice for all. Neuro-spicy.
East Pennines, Lancashire, UK
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“You don’t just give up! You don’t just let things happen! You make a stand, you say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else runs away!”
It’s quote from Doctor Who, but a good standard to live by.
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If Sunak is a serious Prime Minister the following should not be in his Cabinet:
Priti Patel
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Suella Bravermann
Liz Truss
Boris Johnson
Therese Coffey
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Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I have a gut feeling that the government is going to collapse in the next few weeks and we will have an autumn General Election that the Tories will lose badly, leading to the breakup of the Conservative Party into its warring factions.
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Sunak has refused to delay the start of parliamentary proceedings by one hour on Tuesday so members can attend the Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Betty Boothroyd. I suggest all MPs attend and leave Sunak sitting alone in the Commons.
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How can the Uk afford to give Ukraine £2 billion, but we can’t apparently afford to give Junior Doctors a decent pay rise?
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Boris Johnson is taking the you know what. He’s presumably still receiving his MP salary and has reportedly missed 187 votes, yet is swanning around the US making serious money whilst parliament is sitting. The people of his constituents deserve better.
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If we don’t get them out this time democracy in this country is doomed.
Well, well, well.
The Party of the rich has raised the election spending cap by 80% to £35,000,000.
Only one Party can spend that type of money.
@RishiSunak
@Conservatives
A blatant attempt by the Tory traitors to buy the election.
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@LBC
@Bren4Bassetlaw
@IainDale
They sicken me. Speaking from a position of relative wealth a privilege and telling those who are struggling to eat the cheapest food whilst they undoubtedly enjoy fine dining. Its an attitude and philosophy that sickens and repulsed me.
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Utter nonsense spoken by somebody with a posh accent is still utter nonsense.
"The country would have supported the amendments and politicians have to be in touch with the country."
As Rishi Sunak suffers a rebellion over his bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, Jacob Rees-Mogg says the PM isn't listening to public opinion.
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Incredibly, after all the lies and failure, there are still 22% of people willing to vote Conservative! What are you thinking?
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How much longer can the country endure what is probably the worst government in my lifetime (born in 1967) and possibly the most evil and corrupt British government ever?
#ToriesOut567
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After this evening’s Panorama nobody who cares about the nation’s children and their education can vote Tory with a clean conscience.
#Panorama
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
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The British Monarchy should have ended when Elizabeth died. Inherited power (however symbolic) and privilege has no place in a modern democracy.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
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Basically Tory government policy……
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
#ToriesDevoidOfShame
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
#ToryBritain
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@Marina_Sirtis
Trump is a politician. He’s just managed to convince gullible people that he isn’t. How so many can be deceived by this evil man is beyond understanding.
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If you agree that it’s time to remove this moribund, elitist, useless, self-serving, deceptive and corrupt Tory government……
#FollowBackFriday
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This is indeed disgusting
@CamdenCouncil
. I would, in fact, go so far as to say it is wicked.
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Why hasn’t Suella Bravermann had the Tory whip removed as well? Her comments were worse than Anderson’s.
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@andreajenkyns
I’d rather trust an international body of health experts than a Tory government obsessed with profit.
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@Haggis_UK
Lineker is totally instep with public opinion that’s not hard right wing and racist - which is still the majority in this country. Jenrick is the one who is out of step with public opinion.
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Why would any woman vote Conservative with antediluvian attitudes like this expressed freely by a Tory MP? I really cannot understand an intelligent modern woman voting Tory.
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If you agree that the sooner we have a General Election and rid ourselves of this self centred, malign, baleful, evil Tory government the better….
#FollowBackFriday
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Surely this must be a breach of the Ministerial Code. Time for the Prime Minister to sack the Home Secretary.
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@JuliaHB1
@jessphillips
Did you say the same about the egotistical self obsessed Braverman or is political prejudice at play here?
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@Marina_Sirtis
Speaking as a Christian Minister I disagree profoundly with Mr White. The Bible actually says nothing about abortion. Nothing! And as for the popular myth that St Peter allows or denies entry into heaven.......
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@emilyhewertson
The ones to admire are those peacefully fighting for our planets future, not the person trying to use force and intimidation.
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One of our leading contemporary theologians hits the nail on the head.
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@NileGardiner
Fact check. All Lineker actually said was some of the language being used was similar to 1930s Germany and, to be Frank, some of the language Braverman is using about migrants is potentially dangerous and inflammatory. The Right wing elite just don’t like this being highlighted.
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@DrKateJMiller
@Revdavidgray
I heard it reported that most of those hospitalised with Covid have not had the jab. If you can have the jab, have it, and make life easier for doctors like Dr Kate.
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So Lord Sugar, a BBC Presenter, can make political comments without censure, but Gary Lineker can’t? There is a double standard at work here. I wonder (rhetorical) what the difference is.
#BBCBias
#BoycottBBC
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Trump appears to have completely lost it. He appears to be mentally unfit to be President again.
#TrumpIsNotWell
#TrumpDerangementSyndrome
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Tory MPs are expressing anger about damage to the Conservative Party. What about the damage they’ve done to our country for twelve long, politically and socially grim years?
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
#ToriesNotFitToGovern
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Kemi Badenoch’s ludicrous statement shows how incredibly out of touch the government is with the people of this country. Almost unbelievably so.
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
Jeez! Imagine the shock for the Business Secretary when someone tells her the poorest households actually can’t afford a car - a million adults can’t even afford to eat every day! This Government has completely lost touch with all reality!
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@chancetherapper
@MelissaFloBix
From what I understand, as a Brit, it isn’t about the Flag or National Anthem but is a protest against injustice.
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Remember when Teachers, Rail workers, University and College staff, Ambulance Staff, Nurses, Midwives, Postal Workers, Doctors and Firefighters crashed the stock market, wiped out banks, took billions in bonuses and paid no tax?
No, me neither.
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
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@SuellaBraverman
@Conservatives
No. What your Government did was to put forward measures to further limit the democratic right to protest. You are the enemies of freedom and democracy.
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#FollowBackFriday
We are stronger together.
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#BrexitBrokeBritain
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Feeling very sad and broken right now. Our nine year old cat Freya had to be put to sleep as a result of her heart condition.
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Can we leave Philip Schofield alone now, please? He didn’t break the law, he made a big mistake which he has now admitted and been punished for. There is nothing to gain from further harassment of a man whose world has fallen apart.
#Schofield
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@jessphillips
I’m probably too soft after all the Tories have done but I’m genuinely concerned for Liz Truss as a human being, for her health and well-being. For her own sake she shouid resign.
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@JoeBiden
As a U.K. citizen I’m struggling to put into words the profound relief I feel that Trump is no longer US President and that your are.
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@KEdge23
Caroline Lucas is one of the best, most honest, hardworking and principled MPs this country had ever had and will be sorely missed from Parliament. She politically towers above any of the current Tory Cabinet and the fact that you call her awful says a lot about the Tories.
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Mr Sunak,
@RishiSunak
, if you are serious about tackling extremism, how about you start with the intolerant extremists in your own Party like Suella Bravermann, Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch…….. etc
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The Rwanda Bill is not “the will of the people”. It’s in no election manifesto. The Tories have never stood in a General Election with it as policy. The phrase “Do not frustrate the will of the people” is reminiscent of authoritarian fascist phrases.
#ToryFascistDictatorship
'Do not frustrate the will of the people'
In a press conference this morning
@RishiSunak
urged members of the House of Lords to 'do the right thing' after his Rwanda Bill passed through the Commons
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If you are a pensioner who votes Conservative never forget that Boris Johnson considered you to be expendable during the Covid epidemic !
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It’s the government who are ruining Christmas, not the Unions. They could end the train strikes tonight if they wanted to. Instead, they have blocked the rail delivery group from giving railway workers an improved pay offer.
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
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#followbackFriday
If you want the Tories out of office. If you want the UK to stay in the ECHR. If you want to reverse Brexit. If you are seriously concerned about climate change. If you want a fair society for all. If you want a PR electoral system.
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If you want the Tories out and a government that cares about all people, especially those in real need, and the environment……
#followbackfriday
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I hope every one of these MPs lose their seat at the next General Election. They deserve to for what Brexit has done to Britain.
#BrexitBrokeBritain
#BrexitCarnage
#BrexitDisaster
#BrexitShambles
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Brexit might well be the stupidest thing this country has ever done.
#BrexitHasFailed
#BrexitDisaster
#BrexitBrokeBritain
#BrexitShambles
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The ECHR isn’t just a court that stops immigrants being sent to Rwanda. The European Convention on Human Rights protects all of us from the excesses of government who want to do something that would affect or indeed remove our rights. To even contemplate withdrawing is madness.
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@theAliceRoberts
You may be surprised at a Christian Minister writing this, but I agree with you. Compulsory Christian worship isn’t something I support.
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Carol Vorderman is my new favourite celebrity. She is brilliantly exposing the current government’s faults and failings.
@carolvorders
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@andreajenkyns
@RishiSunak
This is what you want to take away from the British people. You have no right to do so. You have no electoral mandate to take such a huge step. The British public will not tolerate you trying to take away our human rights and put us on par with a pariah state like Russia.
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Should misleading Parliament, and therefore the electorate, be a criminal offence?
Please re tweet for a wider sample.
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Having read Harry Windsor’s book, Spare, my respect for him and his wife has increased, whilst that for the remainder of his family had declined sharply. His book has the absolute ring of truth and I believe in the veracity of what he writes.
#SparePrinceHarry
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@theresecoffey
I’m looking forward to you and most Tory MPs losing your seat at the next General Election. There will be celebrations across the land!
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@NadineDorries
On that basis, “if it looks like a fish and smells like a fish”, the Tory party is now basically a corrupt hard right party with fascist leanings who only favour the wealthy and couldn’t care less about most people in this country……
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@MediaWeasel
I’d actually rather a progressive coalition of Labour, Lib-Dems and Greens which will ensure we have Proportional Representation for future elections.
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Caroline Lucas on the Laura Kuenssberg show once again showing she is a serious adult politician and making very sensible, reasonable taxation suggestions that are casually dismissed by Hammond. We need the Tories out and the Green Party in a progressive alliance government.
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@tomhfh
Get your facts right. The Tories don’t have a historic majority with 80. The 1983 Thatcher government had a majority of 144 and the 1997 Labour government a majority of 179 and the 2001 government 167 majority. 80 really isn’t historic! Facts are such inconvenient things….
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I care too much about people who are suffering good and/or fuel poverty, about those on benefits, about the future welfare of the majority of people in this country to ever vote Conservative.
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
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@DeborahMeaden
I’m deeply concerned by her speech at the Tory Condrencr and her attitudes towards freedom of expression and immigration, which, for me, are verging on being,or perhaps are, fascist. Attitudes like that should be alien to a British government Secretary of State.
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You really couldn’t make it up……😂😂😂
Yesterday in Parliament, MP Badenoch said she failed at her trade deals because other countries didn’t negotiate how she wanted
#r4today
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@LizKershawDJ
Yes, and now she’s the Duchess of Sussex, a woman of class and dignity who has always been dressed appropriately in the last few days and given her husband appropriate and no doubt much needed support as he mourns his grandmother. What are you trying to imply?
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With politicians of this quality it’s no wonder our country is a complete omnishambles.
The UK defence secretary: whats happening in the Red Sea can't be connected to whats happening in Gaza because its a long way away.
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@LeeAndersonMP_
A Union Flag flown upside down representing the complete failure of 13 years of Tory government. A warning to people never to let your Party into government again.
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
#ToriesDestroyingOurNHS
#ToriesOut
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One of our youngest and best MPs, saying what others are afraid to…..
#ToryFascistDictatorship
#ToryFascists
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I’m seeing so many Tweets criticising the Duke & Duchess of Sussex for holding hands. It wasn’t wrong and it wasn’t inappropriate for a wife to hold her grieving husband’s hand. And they weren’t the only ones. I wonder about the motivation behind the Tweets.
#HarryandMeghan
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@heartstarlet
As a UK taxpayer I’m happy that part of my taxes funds gender reassignment surgery. Much better than spending it on weapons of war.
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@William09733378
It’s one of the consequences of Brexit. The British are no longer EU Citizens and therefore no longer entitled to be resident in EU member states. It’s one of the inevitable consequences of the Brexit you voted for. The EU is not the villain here.
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@dave43law
And what about the controversy surrounding the Director General, which is far more serious. I bet they don’t want a full independent investigation into that. Hypocrites!
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@BrugesGroup
Typical Tory lies. The March was huge, as this picture shows. Those who support Brexit have lost the argument.
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@Nigel_Farage
I cannot believe people in this country are contemplating leaving the ECHR a move that would put us on a par with a pariah state like Russia. The ECHR protects our rights and freedoms as individuals and helps prevent dictatorship - or is that what you want?
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@GMB
We don’t need a King or a Queen. We don’t need a monarchy or royal family. The concept of inherited power and position is outdated in the extreme and has no place in the 21st century.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
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@paulbristow79
@radiodandy75
Maybe you should think about why people feel so strongly about the Party you represent that they express those feelings in such a way. There are many, many people in this country, not just the left, who feel the Tory Party is destroying the UK and ruining lives.
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4 chapters into this and I’ve already shed tears and felt genuine anger about how women are abused every day in our society. Talk about having my eyes opened as never before to how far we are from anything approaching gender equality. Every man should read it.
@EverydaySexism
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@AngelaRayner
I often agree with you, Angela, but surely that is for the Scottish people alone to decide. I would rather Scotland remained within the UK, but as an Englishman I believe it’s their choice.
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@danwootton
@Nigel_Farage
@GBNEWS
I have never seen anybody treat the late Elizabeth with more disrespect than Donald Trump.
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For a couple of years now, the UK has been battling with a surge in Victorian diseases, from scurvy & rickets to, most recently, scabies, amidst soaring poverty & malnutrition. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the Tories then I don't know what else will.
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@POLITlCSUK
That is wrong and undemocratic. No wonder the people of Scotland want full independent.
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@carolvorders
30p Lee doesn’t admit to being a Tory in his biog, and yet he’s Deputy Party Chairman.
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@joymorrissey
The report upheld some bullying allegations against Raab. Bullying is never acceptable. It can cause mental health issues that can last for years and severly undermine people’s confidence in themselves. It’s not about telling people to go their jobs, it’s how it’s done,
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The attitude of the Tories towards those who are struggling! If you have an ounce of compassion you cannot contemplate voting for these hard hearted self-centred people at the next General Election.
#ToryBritain
#ToriesDevoidOfShame
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
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@SuellaBraverman
From the article: Labour say Sir Keir had nothing to do with processes that allowed these men to remain in the UK. “The idea that a letter from MPs questioning process led to dangerous criminals going on to commit crime is as weak as this government’s running of the Home office.”
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@theAliceRoberts
You may be surprised that as a Methodist Minister I entirely agree with you on this, but I do. People should be honest about whether they are religious or not.
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I’m turning into my Dad. I go round the house switching lights off muttering about Blackpool illuminations……
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