Robert Schopen
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It’s this bad - tinkering round the edges won’t undo this mess - it needs Real Change. Vote
@TheGreenParty
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@johnstevenson_x
@rhinomni
@Imber_Man
@Otto_English
@WestminsterWAG
@Peston
Meanwhile the women who started the Revoke Article 50 petition had three phone death threats.
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@DalrympleWill
Hebrew speakers on other threads have confirmed it - and these Israelis said it was revolting and condemned those behind it.
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@MythAddict
@ClaireByrneLive
OMG - a TV journalist doing her job right, actually challenging a politician with facts!
Why don’t we see this on British TV
@BBCNews
@BBCNewsnight
?
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@KishandaKish
@Kathbum
@chrissyteigen
Unless that book was written at 9 am this morning I’m afraid it’s out of date.
And it’ll be out of date again by 9 pm tonight....
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@SaulStaniforth
So the Catholic Archbishop of Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus says it happened. The IDF says it didn’t.
Hmm, who do I believe? 🤨
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@hannahrosewoods
Convinced that was a parody and had to Google it.
I’m guessing granpapa founded a bank?
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@RJMrgn
@DominicRaab
Come on - he didn’t know we were an island until he saw Dover.
Don’t tell him he’s just proved that 8 years of Tory Government has cut our wages and made us all poorer.
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@CrowD2203
@sirmobbsalot
I think he forgot to mention that a number of senior staff were sex pests accused of assaults or inappropriate behaviour.
The head tried to cover it up, got found out which is why he was demoted - but still awaiting his disciplinary. But he thinks he should be Head again…
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@pacarnahan
Bloody Remoaners!!!
So deviously clever they’re running the country without any of us realising it. 😡
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@peternotyoung
@jayrayner1
@PoetTaxiDriver
@piersmorgan
It became the new normal - which is why decent people like my father joined the Hitler Youth, because it was just like joining the Scouts. Or like a friendly chat on Breakfast TV.
As
@MichaelRosenYes
observed Fascism comes as your friend
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@MarinaPurkiss
Sadly most people in Hitler’s Germany just went along with it - like my family.
That’s all it takes. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - true whether attributed to Edmund Burke or John Stuart Mill
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Finally took the plunge and joined
@TheGreenParty
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Farewell
@UKLabour
- I’ve voted for you for 45 years but it’s time for change 👋🏻
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@BBCWorld
Wow, I wonder what could be causing all these explosives to just go off when civilians are nearby? 🤷♂️
As an old hack I’d advise the passive voice makes really dull reading which is why most journalists use the active.
Like ‘Israel kills record number of civilians bombing Gaza’
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@QuantumFister
@Socket1Sophie
@Psemtex
@DrHoenderkamp
I haven’t used any Trident missiles since they were introduced - can I maybe get a £200 billion refund on my taxes? 🤷♂️
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@AlexKokcharov
@cirian75
@Nestle
@NestleUSA
@NestleUKI
@NestleIndia
It’s not just the chocolate - but the
@Nestle
branding team are very good at getting their logo on all their products making them easier to avoid.
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@JohnJCrace
I’m loving having an energy bill bigger than my mortgage and seeing half of my wages disappear to fatten the coffers of fossil fuel companies wrecking the planet and making unprecedented profits.
Was that positive enough?
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@johnpringdns
This is where you end up when you harass benefit claimants but let tax dodgers get away penalty free.
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@PatrickBHenry
@MarinaHyde
Glad he got sacked over something serious - not a trivial matter like 60,000 dead and trashing the country and our economy then.
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@Stuzipants
The same Conservative party that imposed photo ID on the rest of us to prevent voter fraud and refuse to allow trades unions to ballot their members online?
One law for us, no rules for them? Double standards? Surely not!
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@JerryTaylorAyr
But it’s ordinary workers asking for a pay rise to help meet some of these costs that are to blame…not British Gas and other energy companies making obscene profits.
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@ByDonkeys
MPs and Lords should be made to wear their sponsors’ logos on their clothes, just so we know whose interest they are really working for.
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@MichaelRosenYes
Your touching tribute to her on Radio 4 broke this sad news to me.
Took me back 30 years, reading one of our bedtime story favourites to my daughter - Peace at Last. As a new parent I could read the part of poor sleep deprived Mr Bear with real empathy.
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@AuthorMonika
Polish army, French fireman, Sikh charities and the German ambassador all visiting the stranded lorry drivers.
Not a single UK politician bothers to visit those who help this country’s imports and exports.
Funny how they turn up for a rumour of an asylum seeker in a dinghy.
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@samjknights
Everyone slating the Russians for arresting anti war protestors who face 10 years in jail should remember exactly the same could happen here.
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@RalfLittle
@jeremycorbyn
Absolutely - we concede.
@jeremycorbyn
won this debate hands down.
Well done Jezza - you thoroughly deserve the keys to No 10!
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@AlnaouqA
@compassion_heal
Poor kids just need their mum or dad to hug them and say everything is OK and they’ll be safe.
But it breaks my heart to know that they may not have parents. And no one can say it is OK and they’re safe because they’re in constant danger as a child dies every 8 minutes in Gaza.
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@MrJohnNicolson
@GaryLineker
I didn’t join a political party for 35 years when I worked first as a journalist and then in local government communications.
I thought it inappropriate with the needs of the job to remain impartial. I was pretty low down the pecking order - at this level there’s no question.
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@BBCPolitics
You realise you should make format of your programmes fit with our democratic process, not the other way round, right?
So why no
@TheGreenParty
representative on Question Time when they are contesting every seat & fielding more candidates than the Tories at the moment.
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@David__Osland
I grew up when it was free to go to university, working people could afford to buy a house, jobs had final salary pensions and prescriptions were free.
Don’t think we’re going to see any of them again under this Government.
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@HeldinEU
@Kyel3
@SteveGarner5
@ValGillies
We have revived decades old practices where dockers and building workers would turn up every morning and if their face didn’t fit with the supervisor, they were a union ‘troublemaker’ or just unlucky then they got no work.
I truly thought these bad old days had gone - sadly not.
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@DavidPNoble63
I’m on holiday in Powys and will be trapped by these dastardly laws! Had I known I would never have visited Wales as it will as minutes to my journeys.
Can’t wait to get back home, where I live on a street where I am free to do…..20 mph, err
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@MikeStuchbery_
That was a pretty stomach churning thread Mike, which I found difficult to read and impossible to ‘like’ many posts.
You have to ask yourself - how did we even get to the stage where you need to explain this?
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@MichaelRosenYes
My daughter’s boyfriend recently lost his grandad to Covid - when they went to the hospital to see him one last time they asked for the Covid ward.
“Which one? We have seven.” Was the reply.
Don’t even get me started on the idiocy of the deniers.
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@JustSayNope
@benlewismedia
@Don_LImmortale
By contrast saw stories about Sikh charities at the border crossings upholding their tradition of a langar, or community kitchen, giving free food to all.
They don’t preach or convert - just take the view that all humans are the same family so you help those in need.
#Ukraine
Langar on Poland-Ukraine Border
Our volunteers continue to serve hot meals & hot drinks ( 24 hours daily ) to those who are escaping war in
#Ukraine
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#UkraineRussiaWar
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@over_the_thrill
@BylineTV
Worked in a butcher’s shop as a teenager - we only gutted the Xmas turkeys on Sunday’s when the shop was closed.
The stench was stomach churning and it was a bloody hard job!
Great opportunity for those armchair warriors who extoll the virtues of hard work.
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@MockRamblings
@DrMLivingstone
@BlytheByName
@EloiseFaichney
Favourite was having to shout downstairs to get off the phone as I stuck the upstairs handset into the acoustic coupler!
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@bjames280961
@DanielaNadj
Best laugh I’ve had on Twitter since I saw someone question Simon Scharma’s knowledge of Jewish history!
So glad you didn’t delete it
@bjames280961
- you keep on questioning orthodoxy 😂
Who needs experts, eh?
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@_SueNash_
@fascinatorfun
Sadly a story repeated in high streets across the country. Small traders and pubs who just can’t bear the strain of inflation and energy profiteering.
But don’t worry British Gas profits increased 10 x to £751 million while more than 6.5 million households are in fuel poverty.
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@estherk_k
Imagine being arrogant enough to go to someone else’s country to tell them they should change their Apartheid culture.
Thankfully many did speak out and the repressive, racist South African regime was changed.
Now imagine if they hadn’t.
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@HRRBFireSafety
Never ask if it’s time to crack down on Billionaires do they? They’re not earning that cash by doing a job - it’s coming from us.
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@PoliticoTeacher
It’s almost Labour are afraid to publicise their policies - especially up against a Green alternative offering real change.
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@LilJamesOP1
@WelshSocialism
I thought he said lizard king - some weird reference to the Qanon conspiracies about the Royals being lizard people? 🤷♂️
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@RachelT1722
@Otto_English
Thanks Rachel, good to know. I always challenged it but understood the reason for his racist views.
He served in the Luftwaffe, so went to school under the Nazis and was indoctrinated in the Hitler Youth.
Not sure what her excuse is though?
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@thenitinsawhney
@JolyonMaugham
@mrjamesob
I wish the media would show as much interest as people on the breadline who can’t get bank accounts or credit and end up using payday lenders and loan sharks.
That’s denying a basic service - Farage is a business based on hatemongering, why should a bank be forced to supply him?
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@JoRichardsKent
@DevonianMatthew
@LoveEUToo
@patel4witham
@darrengrimes_
@Conservatives
@theresa_may
@ScotTories
@RuthDavidsonMSP
@HouseofCommons
@ElectoralCommUK
Tories - tough on crime! When it’s working class kids from the wrong estate.
Not when it’s young Tories who only undermined and corrupted the fabric of our entire democracy.
I mean, it’s not like proper crime is it Priti?
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@nichola_lashmar
@davidschneider
That look. Like a kid who paid the brainy pupil to write his homework, forgot to read it and doesn’t recognise it when the teacher reads it out.
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@Defencebrief
@MarksLarks
@CivilLitTweet
Encouraging companies to invest even more in renewables because it is the cheapest, most effective method of generation and solves our dependency on fossil fuels.
Problem?
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@catsinbelfry
@Greegers
@Carolin38918619
No doubt you ‘jumped the queue’ because we hadn’t bothered to train enough teachers to educate our kids?
A bit like all those queue jumping doctors and nurses muscling their way in to treat the sick?
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@Chrispgce
@iain4europe
Actually that’s two bits of bad news
- Pound is collapsing faster than other currencies
- New report on inequality shows the average Pole and Slovenian will be better off than the average Brit. Basically because the rich are hoarding all our cash and we have more in poverty.
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@BBCFLauraKT
@antmiddleton
We’ll it would be our history, if we hadn’t conveniently burned all the evidence to cover it up!
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@sschweb1
Britain’s part in this as a colonial power is often conveniently forgotten or overlooked.
Just look at the mess we caused worldwide - partition in India which killed at least a million and is still not resolved today along with Iraq, Cyprus and Ireland.
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@mackio_
@KateVasey
Rolling your window up, laughing, eating a burger at a McDonalds and standing on the pavement are crimes in the US? 🤷♂️
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@gorhunter
Your Queen, Elizabeth von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha? Who was married to Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg of the Greek royal family?
Now what was that about people with funny foreign names going home? I missed it.
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@BrianHTweed
Swap the cosplay and Victorian gentleman’s club rules for a modern, functioning democracy where my vote counts any day of the week.
Make it a republic while you’re at it.
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@cabinetofficeuk
No downsides only sunlit uplands!
Oh, didn’t we mention no more pet passports?
Wonder what else we will losing they forgot to mention?
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@ChrisGPackham
Privatisation of our utilities was a con - just took a while for most people to realise.
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@PeterStefanovi2
@CWUnews
@DaveWardGS
Listen to the end - last 30 seconds
@DaveWardGS
sums it up superbly - working class people always pay for a crisis they didn’t create, sick of being asked to work harder and faster for less.
I’m one of those ‘ordinary people’ not on strike and 100% support all those who are.
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@Matt_Severn
@Hells4Heroes
Even if she’d been her direct employer, we don’t have to like our boss from 20 years ago and agree with their extremist views!
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@waitmanb
@cthulhupotamus
My entire military experience runs to watching Saving Private Ryan, but if you need suppressive fire to keep enemy heads down that thing called common sense tells you maybe don’t do it standing up in full view looking the other way while smoking a fag?
Just a wild guess tho. 🤷♂️
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@hannahmsays
@joebingo49
This thread took a while to sink in what it was even about. When I realised, it felt like this was some time warp from the 1950s. Then I had to check if this was about a reprisive regime like Saudi Arabia.
What kind of civilised, modern society controls women’s bodies this way?
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@PickardJE
Not as sad as those who have to live through this pantomime disaster.
They’re just sad because they’ll lose their job - some of us will lose jobs, houses, pensions, benefits, services, savings, the lot!
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@shillcock_paul
@trussliz
@MailOnline
Hard working people rely on a living wage, decent conditions & a pension that doesn’t mean poverty in old age.
Backing bad, bullying bosses ensures that striking is the only way to achieve those.
Ministers withdrawing their labour from Johnson gave you a crack at the top job!
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@implausibleblog
Tice - We want people who believe in British values like decency and fair play.
Twitter - What, like giving refuge to people whose home countries have been torn apart by civil war and slaughter such as Syria or Somalia?
Tice - Not that sort of decency and fair play!!
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@implausibleblog
Not a Lib Dem supporter but from a humane and moral point of view Layla Moran is spot on here. Most people don’t want to pick a side they just want a just peace.
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@divapbitz
@MockRamblings
@DrMLivingstone
@BlytheByName
@EloiseFaichney
Bit of nostalgia - wait for the boing, boing before you know you’re connected!
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@GailBye80954084
@itvtynetees
@NissanEurope
@RBullockITV
Sunderland screwed Nissan by voting for Brexit.
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@DaveBalkissoon
@A_Bandini
@ChrisMcL24
@DrPhillipLeeMP
Amazing Chris, how do you know exactly what 17 million people wanted in a yes no ballot, when two years on after countless debate 17 members of the same party, in the same Government, can’t even agree without resigning or threatening to?
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@RichardJMurphy
Seems the free market in energy is neither ‘free’ nor a ‘market’.
So privatisation was just an illusory con trick - who would have guessed!
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@kevsav50
@TorstenBell
@tudorinjordan
But they found time to introduce new laws to jail
@InsulateLove
protestors who said we need to insulate our homes to solve the energy crisis.
Remind me again - who are the extremists?
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@bridgetCraig17
@JolyonMaugham
@johnandi
The state of our country when citizens need to whip round cash they can’t afford for volunteers to protect us from our own Government.
Meanwhile our hard earned taxes are used against us to silence critics and keep us in the dark.
Like something from a repressive dictatorship.
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@ProtectTheWild_
Same action but football fan gets 12 months, posh hunt supporting horse owner gets away with it.
Tell me why this is different.
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@TabitaSurge
@Gabriel_Pogrund
Not sure if I’m more shocked by the vile behaviour of Young Conservatives or the vile behaviour of the Times linking this story to a peace protest by those who could not be further from the Tories.
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@SarahAndCo3
If you think mansplaining is bad just imagine being an Irish woman talking to an Englishman.
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@RedMarkyMark
@davemacladd
@DanielJHannan
It was all good until he got to the bit about him being the last Tory standing.
Oh well, can’t have everything.
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@BiaKing93
@HUGOBOSS
@joelycett
Sounds like a clear breach of the trade mark of the real Hugo Boss
@joelycett
- hope they asked for his permission otherwise there could be a cease and desist letter on the way!
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@MichaelRosenYes
@sarahjebner
@SRTRC_England
Here’s one of my favourites by Mr Rosen from 2014 called ‘Fascism, I sometimes fear....’
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@MichaelTakeMP
Absolutely Sir Michael - thoroughly decent!
Look at the sterling job he’s doing raising £12,000 donations for the party we both love.
If the lefty Council had got their claws on the developers’ £45 million they would just have frittered it away on schools and libraries.
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@fascinatorfun
@MintyTeaboy
@staringatclouds
@LeaveEUOfficial
Just proves how evil and insidious the EU is - shaping our laws and curtailing our freedoms 100 years before it was even formed!
I want my sovereign rights back so I can be operated on by a partly qualified doctor.
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@kevshaw99
@MichaelTakeMP
I thought ‘Bugger all’ Barclay had a certain alliterative ring about it.
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@Dan1763
@sianushka
@rolandmcs
The torture and concentration camps in Kenya could have been taken straight from the Nazis.
We’ll never know because they destroyed the records and lied to Parliament.
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@BBCPolitics
What a difference a year makes - same brewery, same sakes manager talking about all the support she got from Government.
Despite that business drops off a cliff.
Since January 2021, any UK business involved in exporting or importing has to complete customs declarations.
Virginia from
@OldDairyBrewery
has been exporting for five years and tells us about her experience.
For more guidance on exporting 👉
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@abenaopp
@HouseofCommons
@DrRosena
You’ve joined a Victorian gentleman’s club - we need MPs like you to go shake Parliament up and drag it into the current century.
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@SocialistHB
@Danwhite1972
@VinallJosh
@TheGreenParty
@ZackPolanski
There’s a handful of decent Labour MPs I’d vote for, but mine certainly isn’t one of them.
So it’s Green Party for me. The seat’s safe Labour but they’ve taken my vote for granted for too long. No more.
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@LBC
@IainDale
Great, is
@SangitaMyska
taking over his show as she had the best ratings on LBC? As far as I know you’ve not said she’s left so must still be on the payroll.
Looking forward to hearing someone with honesty and integrity on
@LBC
, qualities none of your other presenters have.
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@JolyonMaugham
You mean all the young, productive people at the start of their careers?
The ones we need to fuel our economy and pay taxes for the next 40 years to pay for public services and my pension?
Great plan!
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@chrisrawlins1
@ElectoralCommUK
@StevePeers
Too many like this one - totally misled and told ‘nothing more to do’ until they get to the ballot and are turned away!
Disgraceful! Not what happens in a democracy.
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@jeu_desprit
@hughlaurie
Re arrange - it’s called contingency planning.
Or are you too busy being anti Woke and Conservative 🤢🤮
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@Osinttechnical
Israel orders the UN move 1 million people out of 45 square miles in 24 hours.
UN says it’s impossible and will be a devastating humanitarian calamity - the world watches and says what?
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@emmacpicken
But it didn’t call for the death of Jews, did it? It said from the river to the sea.
Same phrase used by Netanyahu and the Israeli Ambassador - unless they are calling for the death of all Palestinians?
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@LKTranslator
I’m just waiting to see if I one of Nadhim Zahawi’s horses is made Home Secretary/Senator.
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@GrahamY14807987
@CPanther95
@Unbroken1888
@metpoliceuk
These are those people ‘honouring’ the war dead, by attacking the police?
85 years ago these would have been Mosley’s Blackshirt traitors - no better than the Nazis.
Fighting has broken out as people shouting ‘England ‘till I die’ attempted to reach the Cenotaph 👇
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