Sean O'Grady
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Associate Editor at the @independent , formerly Economics Editor. Views my own. Also at @seanogrady @mtsdn .social
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@greenmiranda
Yes. And what’s with the “greeters” in the street telling folk to go away if they don’t have ID? And therefore not getting into the PS and fully recorded as being unable to vote for that reason? Vote rigging, franchise suppressing scandals. Need the Review,
@ElectoralCommUK
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@kelvmackenzie
Lots of night and weekend work in fact, marking, lesson plans, reports, admin. The schools are undermanned and they ask too much of the staff, same as nurses and soldiers. Standard practice in UK public sector. Ask a teacher. If you dare.
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Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, demonstrating the traditional generosity of the British to refugees from Eastern Europe.
Tory MP deletes Twitter account after claiming it would be ‘immoral’ to take more Ukrainian refugees
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Eyewitness account. Will Sue Gray interview him or take account of this testimony?
Updated blog: PM was told about the invite, he knew it was a drinks party, he lied to Parliament
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Tory sleaze is back – it’s like the 1990s all over again | Sean O’Grady
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It may be worse than we know…
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Leak of Javid statement;
- stuff you know already, masks
- might be nasty, might not
- cobra meeting
- working with devolved admins
- tweaking vaccine
- carry on with Xmas
- nothing ruled in/out
- now wash your hands
What he can’t say;
- Boris won’t let us do Plan B yet
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@darrengrimes_
It transmits dangerous antivaxx propaganda, foments hate and breaches the broadcasting laws on balance. Nearly every contributor is a serving Tory or Reclaim MP, plus more Reform, Reclaim and assorted hard right politicians. It’s a travesty.
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A 1* review of ‘Liz’s Adventures in Blunderland’
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NB. There’s no such thing in the constitution as a “caretaker prime minister”. Johnson continues to enjoy all prerogatives and powers of a PM.He could declare war if he wanted. Indeed, it would be a fine way of staying in power. You cannot trust him. Only Hard Boris Exit works
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@HayleyGrafton
@RishiSunak
In a few months, when the new laws are passed, some of those nurses may be sacked for going on strike. So,the hospitals will be even shorter of staff. Would an NHS Trust actually do that?
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Get ready for the no deal Brexit no-one voted for...
Opinion: The government just admitted it wants no-deal Brexit – and it could cause a recession
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@kelvmackenzie
@hiltonholloway
They tried, email unanswered. But the BBC can’t investigate such incidents outside work, still less prosecute and dispense justice. The police didn’t think anything was wrong, and don’t now, and neither does the young person. No story.
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@RhonddaBryant
Reggie Maudling, former Tory chancellor and rotund of build, trying to make a point about low output per worker in the British car industry, and Skinner yelling “how many can you make, fats?”
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@toadmeister
Maybe the point is that with such a relatively small number reasonable accommodations can be found on a pragmatic without too much friction. Or we can set up a culture war.
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@RhonddaBryant
What does
@LindsayHoyle_MP
think about the withdrawal of the usual courtesies to the Opposition? Suggests it’s flawed
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@LozzaFox
Lockdowns, masks, social distancing etc reduced transmission of flu (and colds and other transmissible respiratory diseases), and thus cases.
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Recommended
#TheWindsors
Coronation Special is an exceptionally witty, uproarious send-up: review
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The SDP-Illiberal Alliance is Born!
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@Dannythefink
If “they” came for the communists, Lozza would be cheering them on, making them drinks and shopping as many “woke lefties” as he could manage.
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@GinnyHBall
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
Winston Churchill
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On 9th July *last year* this story abiut
#Zahawi
was already in the public domain. It seems odd that such serious claims about a chancellor of the exchequer weren’t followed up inside government…either by Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak
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@Nigel_Farage
If we want to get rid of the eg Working Time DirectI’ve and have a new Employment Act don’t you think the replacement should be put to the people in a manifesto and then submitted to proper parliamentary scrutiny. Or shall we let Kemi make something up? Take Back Control!
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@DavidGauke
Patel says parliament should be recalled and speak with one voice. But doesn’t mention her party conference dancing partner.
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Top civil servant politely calls Sunak a liar
Would be good if journalists could be crystal clear here.
Sunak was simply lying about this, as this official statement from
@hmtreasury
makes clear.
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@ABridgen
It’s the wrong question, presumably posited on the usual base rate fallacy. You need adjusted % fatality rates from covid among vaccinated vs unvaccinated. The vaccines protect people from more serious illness than they’d otherwise suffer, and have saved millions of lives.
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@SuellaBraverman
Exactly what Theresa May said when she was doing your job and sacking 20,000 officers.
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@john4brexit
58 of Boris’ own ministers, all Tories and many Brexiteers, quit because he was out of control - partygate, Pincher, lies, chaos, disaster elections. He couldn’t then form an administration in the name of the Queen. Truss blew up the gilts market & her position was untenable.
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@AdamBienkov
@chrischirp
The permanent secretary to the treasury refused to implement it unless formally directed by Sunak, such was the waste of public money.
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@miffythegamer
@Ofcom
Fairly straightforward libel. The
@Ofcom
interest would be that it‘s evidence that the extra training
@GBNEWS
promised isn’t working
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@_HenryBolton
@BorisJohnson
UK gets 3 per cent of its gas from Russia. So you’re 97 per cent wrong, much as you might wish it otherwise.
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@ABridgen
Almost every MP has cancelled you. The deputy speaker and the minister are obliged to be there. It’s because it’s anti-scientific nonsense
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@sophielouisecc
Must have been so easy being a Leaver, if anything went wrong, anything at all just blame the EU - a perfect life never having to take responsibility for anything
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@IsabelOakeshott
@Nigel_Farage
@CouttsandCo
I thought Coutts only had one branch (so no local managers) and didn’t do business accounts?
Fact remains Nigel Farage was offered a NatWest personal account by the group. No need to leave the UK.
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@darrengrimes_
He was offered a NatWest account, and that brand is equally keen on equal rights. He hasn’t been de-banked, he’s been…debunked. He‘s admitted it on GB News.
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@LizKershawDJ
@UKLabour
But Phillips, like all of us, had little to no say in which school they went to. Or have I misunderstood your point? Hypocrisy only works if you have choices.
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@Nigel_Farage
@BBCSimonJack
Did they offer you a NatWest personal account? If so, you’ve not been debanked. Just debunked.
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@afneil
Sally Jones of Ernst and Young: “Geography matters enormously. Everybody knows about the gravity model for goods, which says that you trade more with countries that are closer to you. The same is true for services, partly because business visits are just more expensive.” (HoLCtte
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@blythie7
The men who murdered Kriss in 2004 were all arrested, deported, tried and sentenced to life by the end of 2006. Some of Stephen’s murderers went free, others jailed far later and the botched police investigation proved institutional racism. So there are differences in the cases.
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@suzanne_moore
There was quite a bit of cross dressing and vaguely trans stuff in Shakespeare’s work. As you like it, though
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@darrengrimes_
Television remains a powerful medium. We can’t allow it to go the same way as the press and become dominated by rightist propaganda. It’s bad for democracy.
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@_HenryBolton
The point is that if he’d ever said to the Commons that people were busy, worn out, needed a drink and to relax, rules were bent a bit, sometimes guidance wasn’t as well observed as it should be or might be, he’d be OK. But he said the opposite. Lying to parliament matters.
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@afneil
Government’s own modelling shows that joining CPTPP is expected to boost UK trade, GDP and wages for UK workers by only a modest amount in the long run (after c. 15 years), with the est increase in GDP being 0.08%.(Tho bigger gains from CPTPP expansion to Thailand & S Korea)
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What happens if the Tories and Lib Dems tie on seats in the Commons? Who gets to be leader of the opposition?
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@thecoastguy
No - saved millions of lives. Reduces risk of serious illness & hospitalisation, thus helping keep covid cases out of NHS and relieving pressure on resources and the therefore helping to treat urgent non-covid cases eg cancer, heart disease.
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@JohnHou81512345
@theAliceRoberts
Bot. Slightly unnatural use of language. Plus they’re supposed be from Yorkshire but there are no accompanying chauvinistic images in the bio lags.
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How, for me, a life-long fan, the subversive humour of the Marx Brothers still works now
http://t.co/JJjNv4Qt76
http://t.co/PS3udnN3Ri
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@TheLabourLeftie
FWIW, a woman made the first proper car journey, and indeed helped develop the first ever motor car: Bertha Benz, business partner of Carl Benz, as in Mercedes-Benz. Drove herself and her three sons from Mannheim to Pforzheim, 66 miles, on 5 August 1888.
No casualties ensued.
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@CatharineHoey
That’s right. Newsroom hacks selling sterling led by Huw Edwards, who hates Britain obvs, in their secret trading bunker with all the licence fee cash being flogged for dollars. It’s a conspiracy isn’t it?
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@Fox_Claire
The Final Say campaign didn’t storm parliament as far as I recall. Just a rather demure march & rally outside
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@SBarrettBar
Which law? Which constitutional convention? Where were the protests before they came out with the “wrong“ conclusions, according to the Tory pro-Boris Establishment MSM?
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Collapse of Lib Dem vote in South Swindon from 4,299 to 1,843 looks like strong evidence of tactical voting to boost Labour and
#GTTO
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@TomGribbin6
@hiltonholloway
Wragg, Ghani, Bridgen, Baker, Wakeford, Cummings, Davis, Loughton, Ross, Geidt, Max Hastings, the Tory press, and GB News all working for Brussels too, I presume. Quite the conspiracy.
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@Nigel_Farage
Britain very much in favour of Albanian independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1913. Churchill was in the Cabinet.
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Didn’t take long, did it?
EXCLUSIVE: Liz Truss's chief of staff has been interviewed by FBI agents about an alleged criminal plot to bribe a politician and influence a US election
Mark Fullbrook quizzed this year after detectives made secret request via Metropolitan Police and NCA
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@lewis_goodall
He doesn’t believe in accountability and refuses to go to select committees. Briefs anonymously and at length to friendly media, but blanks others. There’s a reason why he’s so shy of examination: He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.
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@lewis_goodall
Scrapping the BBC licence fee and freezing funding was not in the manifesto. Not even a review or a debate for that matter. No mandate for it
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@PolitlcsUK
@thetimes
If only. It’d be nice to have them phased. Raab, Johnson, Braverman, Zahawi, Hancock, Sharp, all rumbling away at once. like spinning plates.
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@JamesMelville
It hasn’t! The lockdowns kept pressure off the NHS and therefore allowed for more non covid cases to be treated. The vaccines saved millions of lives. The economy is open.
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"Oven ready" replacement for Harry:
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Should we turn Nadine Dorries into a subscription-only service rather than being funded by compulsory taxation?
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@rivkahbrown
We should stop dissing supply teachers - even more underpaid and overworked than their full-time counterparts
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Find out all about “Operation Catalufa”…
Revealed: Nadhim Zahawi’s legal threat to The Independent to stop tax revelations
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Make Your Vote Count
Behold the best election flyer in British political history. They’re hitting Uxbridge doormats at this very moment!
#VOTEBINFACE
#UxbridgeAndSouthRuislip
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Head bowed, Johnson behaving like naughty but insincere schoolboy in front of Headmistress Beth Rigby. Says he’s dead sorry but has his fingers crossed behind back. Mask hides autonomic smirks.
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@LadyDetectives1
Partly because he actually worked at Channel 4, so they were close to the story. Despite the corporate damage, they went with the story. Admirable.
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@timmyvoe
What do you do if you want to know what it’d be like after 12 years of Tory government? Just trying to visualise it
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Farage may be a politically exposed person, PEP. Under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, if a client is a PEP a bank must take adequate measures to establish the source of wealth and source of funds.
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Tory MPs in debate want to scrap licence fee/move to subscription *but* want to save radio, local telly, education, & presumably BBC Parliament etc, all unviable post-licence. Digital Cakeism
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@meerium
@castlefacts1
@JaneyGodley
I don’t think he’s doing the reputation of designers of photographic databases of the Medieval fortifications of England and Wales any good. You’d think designers of photographic databases of the Medieval fortifications of England and Wales might be kind; it’s all boiling oil tho
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@IsabelOakeshott
Excess deaths were the best measure of covid fatalities, which was obvious in the pandemic; just as the figure now suggests there must be some factors pushing the numbers up now. The authorities are analysing the numbers. Seems to be a combination of factors, non vaccine
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Voices: The Tory party as we know it will be extinct in two years
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@DavidGauke
I’m just waiting for the launch of the DCMS £1bn Oasis Ticket Price Guarantee. This will give households the certainty they need for two years during the unprecedented and unforeseen Oasis reunion crisis, a global phenomenon and not the fault of the present administration.
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The Icarus of the Conservatives, undone by the Sun…
Matt Hancock: The ambitious rising star who fell to earth
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@GregHands
Do you remember that note or something the last Labour chief sec left behind as a breezy joke back in 2010, albeit in risky taste? Any chance you could get a researcher to look it up and Tweet it out? Even at this last stage it could really turn things round for you.
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