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Man they're doing the "he was no angel" routine on a cow
Cow charged at people before it was rammed by police, watchdog says
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Cops accidentally shut down operation actually harmful to society
Police in the UK busted what they thought was a cannabis factory, only to find a Bitcoin farm. Electricity was being stolen for more than 100 Antminer S9s
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They literally did the tweet
On Whitehall
@MrBrendanCox
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"You will not divide us: it's not in our power to stop the killing - what is in our power is to stop hate dividing us"
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Every time I see news coverage of a protest I remember this image
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"In my country, the united kingdom, politicians are issued with an alarm that they can press if a brown person attempts to talk to them"
🚨Today in
#Wycombe
, I used my SOS device for the first time, as a precaution.
⚠️This gentleman who accosted me about Gaza kept his distance and did not threaten me but I felt it wise to plan on escalation.
🔗My view is here:
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The UK chose "the economy" over keeping people alive and failed at both
UK economy likely to suffer worst Covid-19 damage, says OECD
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Since Rob Schneider said something dumb now is a good time to remember when Roger Ebert hit him with the greatest critical put down ever
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Genuinely forgot this one
Randomly remembered that Corbyn wanted to tax the use of automation and AI so that the tax revenue paid on the jobs lost to it won't just vanish into tech company pockets instead. It got mocked as a "tax on robots" with jetsons pictures, now here we are
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We often mock Americans for being completely unaware of other countries doing stuff better but large numbers of Brits seem to genuinely believe our train prices are normal.
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I'd really like her to expand on the phrase "Rhodesia was grabbed from us".
Maureen Lipman: "Leftist anti-Israel protests are close to fascism."
So what characterizes fascism?👇
Maureen Lipman here dismissive, hostile, bigoted.
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A Sunak/Starmer election is going to be truly tragic. Hardly any major disagreements on policy, just two guys insisting that they're both 5'8".
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British politics is just a privately educated rich guy calling you posh because you bought a latte in greggs.
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So er there's a setting you can toggle in Crusader Kings 3 to just make everyone gay?
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Centrist journalist: "How did it come to this!"
Leftist rando: "This you? "Why it should come to this - by Centrist journalist - 2019"
Centrist journalist: "Predictably the trolls are out in force tonight"
Far right journalist: "Awful! Sending love!"
Centrist journalist: "Thanks"
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2016: Racist Milkshake Duck
2019: Racist: "Milkshake? Duck!"
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I do think a generally underrated political dynamic is older liberals teaching their children principles they do not in fact believe, and being shocked and appalled when the kids take them sincerely.
It’s strange to grow up and you’re taught that genocide is the crime of crimes, the worst thing a govt can do, then to read the founder of Human Rights Watch call Gaza a genocide, then open up DC media and see opposing it talked about like a trivial, far left, boutique issue
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Bethesda: "See those mountains? You can go there"
Blizzard: "See those mountains? Kill six"
Bioware: "See those mountains? You can fuck em"
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Nothing really sums up the Labour antisemitism scandal quite like saying "this man is a racist, also he cares too much for foreigners".
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Entirely by coincidence just yesterday I was thinking about how both JK Rowling and Terry Pratchett looked at the stuffy British Education/Academia system and Rowling went "this is every child's dream" and Pratchett was like "these people are buffoons".
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Sunak's first big idea was a government groupon and his second is government wonga.
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Just to let people know yesterday the political editor of The Sun literally published Nazi proganda and he will absolutely be all over the BBC's political programs next week and no-one will mention it.
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Honestly the Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness is one of the simplest and best things you'll ever read on economics
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Johnson hiding in a fridge, stealing a journalist's phone, showing up hungover to the cenotaph, having the cops called on him for a domestic row, any of these could've been as big a scandal as Sunak's D-Day stuff. If the press had wanted it to be.
My tikka-masala-level spicy take is that Rishi Sunak isn’t campaigning any more ineptly than the last two Tories to fight an election, it’s just that the media has turned against him in a way it never did with the others while Starmer hasn’t faced any kind of meaningful scrutiny.
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Yesterday Keir Starmer was endorsed by a guy who commutes by helicopter.
The damage done to Stonehenge is outrageous. Just Stop Oil are pathetic. Those responsible must face the full force of the law.
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You know a fun thing about Channel 4 going undercover in Reform and immediately finding people saying racial slurs is that news organisations repeatedly tried the same trick with Momentum and found nothing.
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Is there anything more British politics than an unelected Lord who is about to abolish your rights telling you to seek change at the ballot box.
'If you want change the way to do that is through the ballot box'
The government's adviser on political violence
@LordWalney
tells
@SophyRidgeSky
blocking roads and stopping ambulances 'is not acceptable'
#PMQs
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It's cool how British newspapers are basically our secret police
Yesterday, six people from Palestine Action were arrested after the Daily Express infiltrated their meetings and sent information to the Metropolitan Police about a planned action at the London Stock Exchange. Supporters of Palestine Action have been arrested for planning to take
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Just spitballing here but one reason that the anti-trans media hate campaign so closely resembles the previous homophobic hate campaign is that there were absolutely no consequences for the latter and many of the same people are in charge of our press.
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Wild how Julie Burchill literally losing a lawsuit and having to make a public statement declaring her comments racist has had absolute zero impact on her career in the British press and has possibly enhanced it. What does that teach us I wonder.
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Absolutely peak liberal centrism to fully support the bombing, call anyone against it traitors and terrorists, and then afterwards ask why we did it
KS explains he supported the bombing of Yemen & he now needs to hear the govts full reasoning for why it needed to happen
Hes then asked about his previous pledge to back a vote before action & says thats hard when its a joint campaign (when is the UK ever going to go it alone?)
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"Not having shit pumped into your rivers? Sixth form politics I'm afraid, impossible, unicorns, unserious, not grown up. Anyway here's how AI will cure cancer."
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Fucking hell, hiring a guy to look into racism in the party and then, when he finds some, telling him to shut his mouth if he knows what's good for him.
Revealed: Labour attempted to gag prominent Black barrister, Martin Forde, who authored a report which exposed a "hierarchy of racism" within the party,
@Independent
can reveal. New from me.
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Thinking about this article again. The writer is now safely back in Labour after running for the Lib Dems in 2019.
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The soldiers who did this weren't even sacked btw. But we care a lot about MPs safety. This is definitely a real concern and not at all fake.
Corbyn speaks about the footage of British soldiers firing at his image in 2019.
'I contacted the Ministry of Defence straight away and asked what was going on. "The lads just got carried away, they didn't really mean it".'
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I think the most interesting part of this graph is the bit where energy prices begin skyrocketing a good few months before the invasion of Ukraine (which was in Feb 22)
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People mocking this still don't get it. Folks like Tim Martin don't want foreigners *gone*, they want them to have *no rights*. Essentially they want the ability to deport their employees for declining a shift.
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UK politics is just people invoking the murder of Jo Cox to push the politics of her killer, forever.
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Just wild that we had years of fantasists saying that there would be pogroms if Jeremy Corbyn was elected and then they elected Keir Starmer and this happened.
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Once again I think the actual "what if Corbyn had been in charge" counterfactual is that the moment he proposed lockdown measures the centrists would've gone full anti-vax and brought the government down.
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It takes a real genius of political strategy to fuck up so badly you get Jon Stewart to comment on the selection process for Chingford and Woodford Green.
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Jonathan Pie is really a great encapsulation of British politics in that in kayfabe the character is an angry centrist but in reality everyone behind the scenes is extremely right wing.
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I really cannot emphasise enough how this is extremely explicitly Keir Starmer's Labour party actually doing what they false accused Jeremy Corbyn of doing. Interfering in an independent disciplinary process to let a person accused of holocaust denial off.
Labour MP Rosie Duffield says she's been "completely exonerated" of allegations of antisemitism and transphobia
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Once again I can't help but notice we're having a conversation about politician's safety that doesn't mention Sadiq Khan, who has 24 hour police protection, or Diane Abbott, the most abused MP in parliament. In fact this conversation seems likely to decrease their safety.
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Thinking once again about how the MP for Kensington, who was a huge advocate for the Grenfell families, lost her seat after a dodgy tactical voting website falsely claimed that the Lib Dem candidate (a former Conservative minister) was best placed to defeat the Tories.
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Very weird how journalists keep actively talking about a "honeymoon period" where the government is given a pass on things. That's you guys, that's yourselves not doing your jobs you're taking about.
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I know we joke about centrists immediately rehabilitating right wingers after pretending to hate them but Jesus fucking Christ it has not even been one week.
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Is there anything more British politics than blackmailing a guy an then immediately texting a journalist to say "blackmailed him lol"
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Once again I note that violence at a far right "protest" is immediately caught in 4k, but we're expected to believe that left wing protests are doing unseen megaviolence just off camera, everyone forgot to record it somehow.
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Labour repeatedly said "country over party" in the build up to this vote and then suspended MPs for voting in the interests of the country over their party.
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"dignity of work", "no-one wants a handout" shit is the surest indicator you're dealing with someone who is managerial class. Normal people don't talk like this.
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Anyway, my favourite Penny Arcade comic was the one from 11 years ago that perfectly predicted what they'd become
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Last week several news programs featured commentators arguing that we should stop referring to the far right as far right because they're mainstream now:
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Gonna have to start hovering around police auctions trying to snag myself an RTX card.
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Remembering when Keir Starmer went to a welsh mosque and demanded they release their hostages.
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He's making a list.
He's checking it twice.
He's breached the perimeter
He's killed two guards already.
Oh God.
Santa Claus is coming.
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Rory Stewart voted against the Letwin amendment.
Committed Lexiter Dennis Skinner has voted down Brexit more often than this utter charlatan.
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So are we going to get any TV interviews with the newly elected independent MPs or is it just going to be sore losers complaining they cheated by letting muslims vote
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Like I say, nationalisation without compensation is the moderate, compromise position. What we should actually do is nationalise, levy punitive fines, prosecute and jail the boards of these companies.
Young woman left fighting for her life after swimming in sewage-filled Pembrokeshire sea
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I know I've said this several times now, but once you recognise the tactic of "invent a new norm and pretend it has always been true, then accuse your political opponents of violating it" you'll never stop seeing it.
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Seems like maybe we should be asking why all these book festivals are being funded by fossil fuel companies and arms manufacturers?
Like I went to a board games festival last month, you know who funded it? Board game companies. Hardly any arms dealers at all.
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The British government was a participant in this harassment, through their agent Lisa Nandy (no, I'm not letting this go)
BREAKING: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at centre of Olympics gender row, files legal complaint over online harassment
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Cannot emphasise enough how this was what George Osborne said in 2010. "We can't invest in public services until the economy improves" and then because they didn't invest, the economy didn't improve, and so they didn't invest, and everything got steadily worse for 13 years.
Jonathan Reynolds explaining that the next Labour govt won't invest in and rebuild our public services after 13 years of Tory cuts unless they increase economic growth first.
#BBCLauraK
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Centrists in 2017: "Will you push the button Mr Corbyn? Will you kill us all Mr Corbyn? Will you cleanse us in nuclear flame Mr Corbyn?"
Centrists in 2023: "Actually the foreign policy positions of the leader of the opposition aren't terribly important."
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This guy just loves taking pictures with fascists. He's like a trainspotter for racism.
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Jeremy Corbyn: "I condemn all violent acts and urge a peaceful solution"
Keir Starmer: "I endorse war crimes"
UK Politics: "Well one of these guys is a dangerous extremist."
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This piece of shit has spent the last month slandering a Muslim for daring to beat him in an election.
Shameful from Jenrick.
People across Leicester are tonight looking out for one another offering mutual support and solidarity.
Leicester people stand firm against racism, Islamophobia and hatred.
Politicians should be dialling down their rhetoric.
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An addendum to this is that there is a separate setting to make same sex marriage approved of, and honestly I wonder what happens when the church doesn't approve but every King, Duke & Count in Christendom is gay.
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Remarkably little is being said about how juries keep letting these guys off, clearly persuaded by their case that vandalism is morally correct in the face of crimes against humanity.
Earlier today a court acquitted two activists of criminal damage to an Israeli weapons factory, accepting that it was defensible on the grounds that it would prevent harm to Palestinians.
My report for
@novaramedia
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This is I think the first BBC interview I've seen with a new independent MP not called Jeremy Corbyn. Literally the first thing they ask is if he will apologise to the candidate he beat. Incredible entitlement.
Cuts back to the studio where the newly elected independent MP Iqbal Mohamed is asked to apologise to Heather Iqbal
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Remembering that the original case for tuition fees was to put universities on sound financial footing. Has that worked, do we think?
Ex-ministers warn UK universities will go bust without higher fees or funding
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How liberals actually responded when a Labour leader talked enthusiastically about the arts
I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – it gives me hope | Charlotte Higgins
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I really think we need to emphasise how not normal this is, for multiple Labour MPs (Starmer is not the first) to essentially go on TV and say "yeah I didn't actually want to win the last election, I was lying"
"You said, 'I do think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great prime minister', did you mean that?"
@BethRigby
"I was certain that we would lose the 2019 election."
@Keir_Starmer
#BattleForNo10
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I've been analysing these themes for years and they just... tweeted it out
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Took me a while to get this but centrists simply don't have any kind of consistent standards. They just say good things about guys they like and bad things about guys they don't. Wether the things are true doesn't matter to them. The concept of hypocrisy doesn't even register.
Centrist brain somehow thinks simultaneously left is bad but right is leadership.
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They really are going for this. They're going to try and say "actually it's ridiculous for the opposition to have a foreign policy". This is it. This is their best argument.
'He's the Leader of the Opposition for Christ's sake, what is he meant to do - go waltzing into Gaza waving white flags?'
@BenKentish
says 'ridiculous' protestors ,who gathered outside Keir Starmer's house, are 'targeting the wrong man'.
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Wrestling reddit spotted this in the GLOW title sequence
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Whenever people talk about the possibility of "disappearing games" in relation to streaming or games as service it is worth remembering that this happens already, to games that were sold in a box and everything.
Alpha Protocol was removed from Steam because of an expired music license
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Immediately knew without looking that the reason for the "schools falling down" problem, like so many other problems, would be "this stuff lasts around 30 years and 40 years ago we stopped doing maintenance on basically everything".
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Once again I am thinking about this editorial by ex Labour, Change UK and Lib Dem MP Angela Smith, who became a private water lobbyist immediately after leaving parliament and was recently re-admitted to the Labour party.
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Bernie Sanders: "You know the NHS is quite good."
British journalists: "You fucking cunt, you piece of shit, who the fuck are you, we are going to kill you."
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Last week we had an entire news cycle about how smol bean MPs were being intimidated by graffiti and protests, yet at no point did they talk about how Khan has actual police protection as a result of politicians and journalists saying things like this. I wonder why.
(Record-scratch) Yes, that’s me, editor of an actual newspaper, accusing the Mayor of London of praying for the triumph of a proscribed terrorist group. I think about this and I wonder: how did I ever end up here? I guess it all started in a barber shop in 1987, back when I
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Really can't overemphasise how much of neoliberalism is just pretending we can't do things we used to do all the time.
I see the Twitter consensus is that the magic money tree should pay to upgrade our sewage system
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The British press have truly never forgiven the New York Times for allowing an ordinary Muslim bloke from Birmingham into the journalism club.
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I really cannot overstate how *the* main charge against Corbyn, the core basis for the anti-semitism scandal, was the accusation that the leadership were interfering in disciplinary cases, something that Starmer does routinely and brazenly.
My statement for The Observer on Sunday in response to anonymous briefings against me 👇🏾
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It's cool how basically the entire UK politics and media sphere has agreed to just talk as if something terrible happened to Rosie Duffield, when in fact absolutely nothing has.
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One month of BBC Verify and I've watched them just totally ignore probably the two biggest misinformation stories of the period, ones that literally resulted in questions being asked in parliament based on false information.
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I really don't see any other way to describe this but "corruption". The Prime Minister has agreed to drop investigations into potential criminal wrongdoing in exchange for campaign support.
Lisa Nandy signals that Labour won’t support the second stage of the Leveson inquiry into press corruption;
@theipaper
reveals Labour agreed to drop the inquiry as a condition of the Sun and Sunday Times endorsing Starmer for PM.
Thank God press corruption is a thing of the past!
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MPs will be like "I went to visit some of my constituents after I voted to kill their families and they were mean to me, how can I make this illegal?"
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Gay man suspended for criticising bigot. Note how they don't even pretend to go through the proper disciplinary process any more.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour has removed the party whip from Lord Michael Cashman after he appeared to suggest that Rosie Duffield (Labour candidate for Canterbury) was too "frit or lazy" to attend a hustings.
Cashman has been a Labour legislator since 1999 (MEP until 2014, now Lord).
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The shocking thing about media danger Giles Coren dancing on Dawn Foster's grave and 100% getting away with it wasn't that his Times colleagues didn't say anything (I expect nothing from them) but also how few of Dawn's former Guardian colleagues said anything.
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Notice how Rosie Duffield's latest outburst doesn't even specifically involve trans people. She just saw a pride flag and became immediately furious, Lawrence Fox style. There is a word for such people.
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We are constantly told Farage is the avatar of Ordinary People, and yet Ordinary People keep throwing stuff at him, while wealthy elites scold them and rush to protect him.
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I really don't understand how people square "lesser evil" arguments with Labour saying: quite explicitly "we don't think the Tories have been bad enough and we promise to be worse"
What a compassionate and nuanced way for Labour to describe people too sick to work! Just very nice to read!
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The Chancellor being interviewed by two Tory MPs on a privately owned far right news channel and using official government accounts to advertise it certainly feels like a shift in the separation of press and state.
Tomorrow Chancellor
@Jeremy_Hunt
will appear on Saturday Morning with Esther & Philip on
@GBNEWS
where he'll discuss next week’s Budget, and the government's plan to halve inflation, reduce debt & grow the economy.
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