Tim CB
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Dad, Fusilier, Gooner, business owner voracious reader, former Conservative member, voted Remain, now enthusiastic Leaver. I ignore bots.
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@Effiedeans
The Conservatives destroyed the Conservative party, they treated members and voters with contempt. They lost 8m voters, Reform had 4m and not all of them came from the Tories.
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According to
@Keir_Starmer
Apparently I ’m a ‘far right thug’
I want to follow fellow ‘far right thuggish’ ordinary UK citizens
Please like, repost and follow ❤️
#FarRightThugsUnite
#TwoTierKeir
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The Palace of Westminster is a grade 1 listed building and a UNESCO world heritage site. Anyone vandalising it needs a lengthy custodial sentence.
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Barry Gardiner on
@GBNEWS
talking about how to cope with raising fuel bills. He's not mentioned his preferred method of getting £500,000 from a Chinese spy yet.
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I'm seeing lots of tweets criticising Britain's response to Putin's invasion. None of those come from Ukrainians, they're all from people who always criticise Britain whilst simultaneously taking advantage of the comfortable life they have living here.
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It's hours since Michael Fabricant was abused arriving at the Tory party conference and despite several Labour MPs being ever present on Twitter not one has condemned it. I have checked
@UKLabour
@Keir_Starmer
@wesstreeting
@RhonddaBryant
@jessphillips
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Having a super injunction as PM is untenable. Every time you speak people will be thinking about what you're trying to hide.
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@eleanorsalter
@Right_2Roam
I think you're getting confused by cattle grids, they're not racist barriers, they're to stop livestock wandering off.
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Twice John Major resigned as leader of the Conservative party once whilst PM and once when LOTO. Both times he remained in post until the process was complete. It does not come across as honourable to demand Johnson does different.
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5 years ago I voted Remain. I accepted the result and fairly quickly came to think I'd voted the wrong way. Despite the duplicity and incompetence of much of the last parliament, the media, civil service and self appointed elites I'm still so glad that a majority voted Leave.
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@KingBobIIV
I voted Remain* but spoke to many Leavers before the vote. Summing up why they voted, it was sovereignty, none of the nonsense ascribed to them by their 'betters' who still haven't forgiven them for not doing they were told. Remoaners are horrible people. * I'd vote leave now.
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There would be something awfully poetic if Pippa Crerar had to resign when Boris Johnson hasn't.
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@chaedria
As I understand it your view is that it's bad that no one covered your story and then a journalist planned to cover it and asked politely to speak to you about it that was also bad?
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"These things happen" that's Sturgeon's ephitath.
Racism, xenophobia, sexism, disablism, discrimination, hatred happen.
Infrastructure breakdowns in ferries, bridges, hospitals happen.
Drugs, health, education, public services failure happen.
These things happen in SNP Scotland.
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@antoguerrera
If you've gone into a pub and asked for quinoa and then avocado salad then what you need to worry about is not what food is available but what the barman is doing to your pint.
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I moved from being a remain voter to preferring leave because my opinions changed. I moved from being a Conservative voter to a Reform voter because my opinions stayed the same.
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@DawnButlerBrent
That's the whole purpose isn't it? To irritate people, to virtue signal with the minimum cost to yourself possible, to grandstand whilst offering nothing positive. It shows the woeful state of our parliamentarians that you think this is an achievement.
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I look at this picture and see a man that doesn't even look influential in his own house.
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@haveigotnews
The meltdown of lefties in this thread that HIGNFY has actually said something critical of Labour is quite amusing.
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@BarristersHorse
The EU is acting like an ex who is screaming "You f*cking love me, you'll never get better than me!" Then throwing bricks through the window when they see you've moved and are doing fine without them. This is the time to get a restraining order.
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@jessphillips
Until you accept that he's far better than anyone on the Labour side and try to improve rather than rely on personal insults Labour will never have a chance of government.
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If a tree falls in a forest and no-one hears it, is it still Brexit's fault?
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Scotland's NHS is such a bad state that someone died waiting 40hrs for an ambulance, the British Army is being called in to help but what the SNP focus on is the Health Secretary's hurty feelings.
#TheseThingsHappen
I suggest everyone who has tweeted or retweeted with comment Humza Yousaf’s accidental fall while injured simply just deletes them
#decency
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I've resigned my Conservative party membership. No idea who I'll vote for at the next election.
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@RobertBarnes542
No, I voted as an unenthusiastic remainer but I'm now an enthusiastic leaver.
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@DeanMThomson
If the SNP can't run their own party finances how could they ever run a country's?
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The British Army regular strength is 82,230. Yesterday 1,185 illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel. At that rate even if none had already crossed they'd outnumber the Army in 70 days.
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@EmmaKennedy
Yes they decided not to expel Russia's 2 largest banks from Swift very quickly and only 5 years until they stop buying Russian oil and funding the war. Not to mention the sanctions they've implemented... Against Hungary and Poland. They really are the good guys.
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Who's hoping that Tobias Ellwood is the next Tory MP sliding into Starmer's DMs?
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@EmilyThornberry
Do you think that making silly comments like this and the fact Tories are likely to elect their 3rd female leader whereas Labour have never even had a leadership contest where any of the women in it weren't eliminated before any of the men.
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I've seen several tweets demanding the electoral system be changed. People realising their attempt to oust the PM by media has failed want to do it by other means. Doesn't occur to them to use credible people to promote credible policies and get voted in.
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@mjeslfc
The implication being that children who believe in gender woo-woo have worked it out for themselves and should be listened to but children who oppose gender woo-woo have been pressured into it and shouldn't be listened to.
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@BarristersHorse
A good summary. I voted remain, mainly because I thought the great and the good knew what they talking about. When the vote was leave and the sky didn't fall in I actually found out more about it and I'm now an enthusiastic leaver.
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@KulganofCrydee
@PippaCrerar
Piers Morgan resigned from the Mirror for publishing fake pictures. I wonder if Pippa will do the honourable thing and follow suit.
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@jeremycorbyn
I always remember when you and your shadow cabinet used to rail against millionaires then one day you switched to billionaires. Was that when someone realised you were all millionaires and had made that through politics?
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@AyoCaesar
Believes in property rights and personal responsibility, no wonder he left Labour.
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@jessphillips
Brave of you to confront Unite's dodgy dealing and risk their funding although with the hotel being in Birmingham it is right that you should.
Oh, my mistake you're attacking someone based purely on who her husband is. Standing up for women as always.
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Johnson getting a £50 fine certainly puts Blair invading Iraq and Afghanistan into perspective.
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@afneil
This is about Labour attacking Badenoch as a potential Sunak replacement rather than caring about the post office scandal.
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@Edwina_Currie
What incentive is there for me a former Conservative member to vote for this government? They're high tax, uncontrolled immigration, anti enterprise, anti house building, let protest groups do what they want, fund to the tune of billions NGOs that fight against what I believe.
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@Bobbofitz
@HumzaYousaf
@NicolaSturgeon
@patrickharvie
Where have you seen that? Definitely a resignation issue if so, although a Justice Minister inciting mob rule over the rule of law should be a resignation issue.
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@OxfordDiplomat
Stop embarrassing yourself. Editing down a clip to fraction of its original length to desperately fit your narrative doesn't make it real.
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@HTScotPol
It takes a special sort of incompetence to pre-scipt a question and answer and not being able the match them up.
#TheseThingsHappen
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@RhonddaBryant
You constantly spew hate. It's possible to disagree without being rude and unpleasant but you always choose to insult.
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@janinemas0n
Groups like this can be a nightmare. People that care far more about process and their own ego (their way is the only way) than the end result of doing something positive for their community.
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@JogaBonito888
It's very entertaining and you'll learn far more about farming than on countryfile.
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@BarristersHorse
I think we need to leave without a trade deal as I don't think a deal will give us the level of sovereignty we want and I don't trust the EU not misuse the terms of anything decided as they have a long history of that.
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I was followed by a lot of people after posting this. If you're following me and I haven't followed back and you'd like me to please nudge me and I will do so.
According to
@Keir_Starmer
Apparently I ’m a ‘far right thug’
I want to follow fellow ‘far right thuggish’ ordinary UK citizens
Please like, repost and follow ❤️
#FarRightThugsUnite
#TwoTierKeir
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@GyllKing
You need to be honest with yourself and see that you have a problem with only being able to see people by their race. Do you really think the manager was picking a team based skin colour rather than those best placed to win the final of a major tournament?
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@MarkVipond
@AllisonPearson
@Telegraph
When Labour win, it will 100% be the fault of the Conservatives. An 80 seat majority and did nothing conservative. Elected to lower taxes, immigration, increase growth and they've done the opposite. They hold their members, of which I was one, and their voters in contempt.
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@zarahsultana
Conservative MPs voted to be in charge of UK tax rather than an external unelected body. You could push this one but I suggest it the Conservative stance would be more popular with voters than yours but that's never stopped Labour before.
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@passionate_xx
To master it you need to understand bollocks (testicles)
Bollocks = bad
The (dogs) bollocks = good
Talking bollocks = nonsense
It's bollocksed = broken
He's got bollocks = brave
Dropped a bollock = made a big mistake
Bollocks to that = absolutely no
Bollocking = big telling off
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@themajorityscot
There's something beautifully Shakespearian about Nicola Sturgeon slowly destroying the Separatist movement upon the altar of her own ego.
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I don't know if Reform is the answer but I do know that the Conservatives and Labour definitely aren't.
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@BucketsOf_Rain
It seems unenforceable to me. "You were staring at me" "No I was staring vacantly into space and you happen to be opposite to me" where does it go from there?
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@MirrorPolitics
Haha look at the plebs, haha. Mirror in lockstep with Labour in sneering at the working classes.
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@weirdterrifying
Saw the gorillas in Rwanda several years ago. A female charged us and the silver leapt up and backhanded her as if to say "I said it's okay they're here" Very intense!
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@DavidLammy
You either don't know this isn't true and are therefore incompetent or you know this isn't true and you are a liar.
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@PhillipsPOBrien
I've read elsewhere that Russian commanders aren't risking vehicles to aid wounded soldiers. If true it will cause morale to break. You put your life on the line knowing that the system will do everything possible to medevac you. Soldiers will refuse to act offensively.
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@JMPSimor
Do you ever think that maybe you get far too bothered about the wrong things and that if you stopped and thought about them for a moment you could work it out for yourself?
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Congratulations
@trussliz
a promotion is well deserved on the back of all the trade deals done.
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@thisfarmlife
@JustStop_Oil
Well said, it's always been clear that
@JustStop_Oil
has no interest in the environment only virtue signalling and disrupting people's lives and this further proves that.
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@poshkev1963
@JohnCleese
If you do the maths
@JohnCleese
gets a similar number of followers a day than you have managed in 11 years of being on Twitter so maybe it is.
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@AnnelieseDodds
Why make this about race? It's disgraceful the way Labour look at black people and only see victims rather than individuals.
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@KayBurley
@Simonhartmp
They weren't in Downing Street, you know that, they were in 70 Whitehall and it was civil servants.
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@mrmarksteel
Were you drunk when you tweeted this or have you fallen this far even when sober?
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@JAHeale
As a Reserve officer I trained soldiers who were born after I'd enlisted. That always made me feel old but not as old as when I tried to run as fast as them.
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@DataAnalyticEPL
My summary from the various slides you've tweeted today is that Arsenal really are quite good at football.
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@CatharineHoey
@J_Bloodworth
@paulmasonnews
I was working class and I'm now middle class. I wasn't sweary and rude then and I'm not now. This disdainful parodying of working class people is insulting and the people doing it don't care about them other than as a tool to be used.
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@jackiekemp
@NicolaSturgeon
So you have sympathy for the woman who put violent, predatory men into women's prisons but not the women living in permanent fear because of it?
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@MunezaEmmanuel
@DailyMirror
@mikeysmith
@AERGFAMILY
Unfortunately it's a paper with a long history of making things up to further its political ends.
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Ian Blackford is on the BBC and is outraged. Don't know what about, I'm not listening but he decides to be outraged first then works out what he's outraged about second.
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I predict the media outrage over Kier Starmer being harangued will last longer than the outrage over David Amess being murdered.
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@afneil
There is something quite special about setting up a national wealth fund, which in every other country is funded by oil profits and banning oil extraction in the same week. Truly clueless.
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@BarristersHorse
@jeu_desprit
@Marc_Again
@Keir_Starmer
He is unpleasantly personal in his attacks on the PM and is very thin skinned in return. The outrage when his performance as DPP was brought up was ridiculous.
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Bridget Phillipson claiming that a cost of the Winter Fuel Allowance at £1.5bn could have caused a run on the pound means that any uncosted expenditure above that can't be allowed by the Treasury. That's the end of Net Zero.
'Do you think that might have happened?'
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson was asked on
#BBCBreakfast
about claims there could have been a "run on the pound" had the government not taken action on public finances such as scrapping automatic Winter Fuel payments for
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Whenever people say tax the rich they always mean people richer than themselves, especially if it's a millionaire socialist politician who is richer than 98% of the population saying it.
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One of the unexpected side effects of today's events is I now follow the World Bollard Association
@WorldBollard
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@michrismason
P&O ferries and P&O cruises are completely different companies. If you support the sacked staff of one don't try to cause redundancies in the staff of the other.
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@PaulEmbery
@fbunational
Congratulations, it's disgraceful that it happened in the first place and equally disgraceful that they didn't do the right thing and apologise earlier.
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@afneil
Having shot themselves in both feet in the past week, the EU are desperately looking for another someone else to do something stupid and distract from them. A fine list of volunteers there.
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@RachelReevesMP
Get a grip of what? The state has pumped billion upon billion into the economy over the last 2 years in response to Covid and your stance throughout was they should spend more. Of course there's inflation, you actively supported it.
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@oflynnsocial
Seeing calls for the army to be brought in for support of the police, that's fine but the soldiers need assurance that they're safe from prosecution. I've seen both the police and the army do crowd control. The army does it like people trained for war, there will be broken heads.
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@Ed_Miliband
This isn't an unexpected consequence of your actions it is a deliberate consequence of government policies led by you. To say you don't want this is bizarre.
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I wish commentators wouldn't act like John Major's opinions mattered. He stopped being relevant after the ERM. Unfortunately he was PM for another 4 years.
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@OldRoberts953
I worked in McDonald's in Bath in the 90s, trying to smile when the 100th person that day said "it's alright I printed it this morning" as you check a note was exhausting.
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@runthinkwrite
The left has always been misogynist and antisemitic but it's good that more and more people are starting to see it.
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I really think she'll regret saying this, it'll define her, uncaring, hubristic, nationalism trumps decency.
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@afneil
Appeasing despotic regimes only ever delays confronting them when they are in a stronger position. A lesson our governments seem to need to learn over and over.
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@anmurty
Akshata, sorry you've been dragged into this. I think it's disgraceful that you've been bullied, particularly as it feels like misogyny and racism has been part of it.
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