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8 years
BREAKING: Richard Branson of @VirginTrains reveals temporary staff member who combed CCTV for #traingate footage
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"Having already deliverd 40 imaginary hospitals, 2 imaginary bridges, & 1 imaginary airport under my predecessors, I can announce at #CPC23 we r now cancelling an imaginary high speed rail extension so that we can fund 7 smaller imaginary rail lines & 76 imaginary road schemes"😀
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@donmoyn @drjenndowd @melindacmills Blimey, Bergamo/Lodi is the modern version of Philadelphia/St Louis
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@UpshotTowers I assume you are all ready to just keep adding to this thread every few months?😀
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@NoContextBrits However she was later to discover he had used more than the front room as a place to sleep..... 😀
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@PopulismUpdates A Transylvanian Twist so to speak
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“Hi, I’m @RoryStewartUK & I’m standing for leader of the Conservatives. I am currently standing on Mount Everest & would love to hear your views. There is a small queue already, but don't let that put you off. It's a mere £50,000 nowadays for a trip to see me here" #RoryWalks
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@NoContextBrits Does it feature in a U.S. TV soap series called "Inauguration Street" by any chance?😀
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@AFP Just what we need to win over the vaccine hesitant at present!!!😀
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@BritainElects Tories lose overall control of Worthing. The South coast from Bournemouth to Hastings continues its very long-term shift from a place to settle for British Empire staff retirees to the London Riviera!😀
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@HannaLiubakova Russia's attempts at continuous "Gulf of Tonkin incidents" are so unbelievable as to quite ridiculous in the eyes of the world now!
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@joymorrissey When you are are in a deep hole of your own construction that you might not want to be in, the general advise is to stop digging!!😀
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@bbclaurak ....and now its your turn to be part of the story!
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@LOS_Fisher "The hostage PM is now under instructions to just repeat back the name of anyone they meet as an acknowledgment of their existence, but to say no more in case she spooks the markets again"
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@votepoliticsuk @StevePeers Will this deregulation cover CRB checks on relevant staff? Imagine the public will be very worried if that is the case?
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@Searchlight_mag "Altar Mitty" is one of the best ever framings in politics!😀
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Importnt 2 note @MarchForRejoin 's #RejoinMarch is part of wider movemnt which is far bigger than Brexit movement was post Maastricht. @StayEuropean has 180k supporters @euromove 21k membs, 200k supporters, & 100+ loc grps whilst @OpenBritainHQ still has mailing list of up to 500k
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@AdamRamsay @OwenJones84 @Ed_Miliband Proper traditional chaos though....caused by the opposition seizing the moment. None of this modern chaos stuff caused by a government with a majority of 80 self-destructing before our very eyes
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@AdamBienkov Tory Yorkshire electoral strategy going well then...
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@REWearmouth @UKandEU A classic of not knowing electoral geography. Probably not helpful for defending the Shipley and Keighley seats (2 out of 5 seats) within the Metropolitan Borough Of Bradford
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@OwenJones84 Billy Joel songs are getting darker....
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@CeliaRichards0n @RichardJMurphy Small State Conservatives seem to be very big on big state intervention when they don't get their own way!!
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@AaronBastani Absolutely correct. The bigger reality for all of us is the Tories have increased their vote share consistently for 6 consecutive elections. The question, painful as it is to ask, is why do more voters seem to like the Tory Party nowadays?
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@Peston In summary:
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"Having already deliverd 40 imaginary hospitals, 2 imaginary bridges, & 1 imaginary airport under my predecessors, I can announce at #CPC23 we r now cancelling an imaginary high speed rail extension so that we can fund 7 smaller imaginary rail lines & 76 imaginary road schemes"😀
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@ProfTimBale Direct Lib Dem v Green Bar Chart Battles are going to keep us all entertained over the next decade!😀
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@Dominic2306 Presumably next time you will be just a little more careful who you encourage to seize and increase the UK executive's powers?😀
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@KyivIndependent This action surely would have involved a tractor at some point?😀
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@karen_stenner @Acyn Basically the world is now relying on Rupert Murdoch and his team to conduct a careful hostage negotiation with a narcissistic infant with the nuclear codes to leave the White House. #Peak2020
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@David__Osland It seems she may have seen those "with no hope turning to drugs" a lot more recently...
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"I've seen people with no hope turning to drugs. Just last night, actually, at a fringe meeting."
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@GuidoFawkes I imagine you will still be arguing over this issue in 2030 far more than demanding to know why the 40 imaginary hospitals, 2 imaginary bridges and 1 imaginary airport have not been built! 😀
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@JAHeale Another "you never had it so good" era it now seems!😀
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@edballs Thank you for creating an institution that gets bigger and better each year!
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@caitlinmoran The predictive abilities of @vizcomic in spotting a future PM!😀
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@AaronBastani @SkyNewsBreak Was the letter written from a place of self-isolation on Necker Island, I wonder?
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@SadiqKhan @LondonLabour Has to be said that is a great picture of @LondonLabour at #Lab24
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@BorderKent @michaelgove Congratulations for setting up so fast! I imagine you and @BorderIrishSea @BorderIrish @BelfastAgmt & @ScotBorderOG are going to get on like a border post on fire!:)
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@piersmorgan @RMTunion It’s a puppet and not real!! 😀You also do not seem to understand the concept of self-deprecation and a joke between mates that most of the public would have no problem at all with understanding!!
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Exciting news for tourists when they return to London. A brand new British tradition now seems to be the Changing of the Guard at the Churchill Statue!:)
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@Coldwar_Steve Maybe you should next do a Boris as Richard II saying "Never mind the Black Death, we should all be pleased Peasant Agricultural Wages will rise with around 50% less people alive"!!
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@OprosUK @susanp_80 @JLPartnersPolls Perhaps a significant shift? Starting to wonder how Brexit polling may shift too as a "Europe banding together" narrative might develop as it did in the Cold War which is why the Common Market was not just seen in trade terms then
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@paulmasonnews @Jacob_Rees_Mogg "What have the Romans ever done for us?" "Erudite Twitter spats?":)
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@CeliaRichards0n @nationaltrust This was at least 30 years before the Clangers fully mapped all of Grime's Graves for @EnglishHeritage !😀
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@Nigel_Farage You are going to get a big surprise when you find out where Cochineal extract, candy glaze, resin glaze, natural food glaze, confectioner's glaze, confectioner's resin, Lac resin, Lacca, or gum lac come from?😀Also dried figs may give you a surprise too!😀
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@susana_mendonca @londonelects @BBCRadioLondon Bearing in mind other parties were completing nom forms in 2nd week of March a cynic might think its a good way 2 both save a lot of money & have a narrative of the "deep state stopped u" whilst getting publicity & still standing more cheaply 4 London Assembly. Surely not though?
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@LinManuelBiao Was this an earlier or later version of that style from the same publisher?
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Thank you to @siennamarla & @LabourList for giving me the space to do some analysis of the recent @UKLabour NEC elections. I hope people feel it contributes to better understanding of Labour internal politics at present
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@GeneralBoles "I'm undercover and I'm OK I sleep all night, I arrest all day"
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@alexnunns She really won reselection about 4 branch meetings ago in view of how affiliates under whichever leader tend to vote to re-select. What is now forgotten is her and fellow Coventry MP Taiwo Owatemi were speculated for deselection and neither happened
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@nexta_tv But how will they frame a short-termist regional "special operation" as now needing a country-wide crackdown. That will be seen as a failure and so adds to the potential tipping point
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@PpollingNumbers "Landslide territory" if this trend continues especially when 7m have already voted and it was only 9m votes in the state in 2016
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@peterwalker99 Will @MOPACLdn Police Committee now demand an investigation into decision over issue of public consistency and is there also going to be a @LondonAssembly Standards investigation into this too to see if any potential breach of the Member Code of Conduct?
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@liamyoung @commonslibrary One NEC member say our membership at end July was 510k and another said it was 530k. My own usually accurate estimate based on tracking some CLP trends over a decade was 520k. It looks like we have risen perhaps by 10k in August due to media coverage so prob in 520k-540k mark
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@electpoliticsuk So the first UK Prime Minister to be fined twice! The original record holder did not last long!!
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@AdamBienkov I am sure the recently burned out residents of Jaywick - the poorest part of his seat - will appreciate such high level representation
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@LouHaigh In summary:
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"Having already deliverd 40 imaginary hospitals, 2 imaginary bridges, & 1 imaginary airport under my predecessors, I can announce at #CPC23 we r now cancelling an imaginary high speed rail extension so that we can fund 7 smaller imaginary rail lines & 76 imaginary road schemes"😀
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@xtophercook Who needs any "Portillo moment" now, it's the arrests at the end of the election counts, I am now looking forward to!😀
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@ABridgen It might come as a bit of a surprise to you that your Party has spent 3 centuries ensuring the super wealthy elite are still called the super wealthy elite nowadays. Not sure what Tory plans are for Big Pharma, but it is very likely to remain "Big" & shareholder beneficial
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@lewis_goodall I suspect a lot of Tory MPs have realised losing their seat in 1997 like a Portillo was just a few repeated TV clips then, whereas nowadays it will become a multi-repeated social media meme for months so less will want to go through that & will stand down instead
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@michaeljswalker This boy speaks for us all!
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@AdamBienkov Who needs any "Portillo moment" now, it's the arrests at the end of the election counts I am now looking forward to!😀
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@simongerman600 I think you mean the other way round. It's reflected in their politics (& possibly their politics impacts on level of belief) with Communists (CDU) strong in the rural Alentejo in the south & their principal right-wing party (PSD) strong in the politically conservative North
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@richardwadams @robfordmancs I first wrote a paper on the "Boris, he's a bit of a larf" phenomenon in 2008 after he won the Mayoral election. It would be fascinating to segment the type of voter who holds this type of view
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@ByDonkeys @mikegalsworthy @OliverBullough This @ByDonkeys video also reminds us how prescient the noted investigative political commentator @robbiewilliams was with his warning to us in 2016 through his song "Party like a Russian"!😀
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@christopherhope We have seized the Treasury Building and the BBC. The PM is holed up in COBRA but that will inevitably fall soon. We expect that @scullyp as her "radio operator" is likely to be the last to leave the building...
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@REWearmouth @UKandEU A classic of not knowing electoral geography. Probably not helpful for defending the Shipley and Keighley seats (2 out of 5 seats) within the Metropolitan Borough Of Bradford
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@David__Osland By far the biggest group of active lawless extremists doing "beheadings" within the capital are ULEZ Blade Runners' chain sawing traffic cameras!
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@thhamilton I thought Brexit was going to be tough on them but did so many farmers have to die?
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@diamondgeezer On top of that it will generate long-term blight & short-term thinking around the supposed Euston Development Zone if business think there could ever be a phase 2 even if there is not
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@corjayperks0 @YouGov What you are saying is Liz Truss currently has a lower popularity rating than Prince Andrew....
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@tnewtondunn Does this mean if you order an unlimited refill coffee from Wetherspoons it will keep coming?
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#LonLab21 Conf results. CLP Divisions: 12 @labtowin & 2 @PeoplesMomentum . @labtowin make 11 gains & also gain the 2 London-wide seats
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@OwenJones84 In any case she going to be in breach of Party rules for advocating support for another Party during an election campaign
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@Nostalgic_Thing That was the 90's supergroup "Science Department", made up of former members of Suede, with their track "Sodium Nitrate" from their new concept album "Life in a Midlands Secondary School"!😀
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@bhatti_saqib Why don't you tell us all what "working practices" you actually want to see reformed then rather than just moan about it? Or is this just 1979 kneejerkism in an era when TU are twice as popular as then?
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@NoContextBrits Is this the notorious Frank “the stake” Bake by any chance?😀
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@jonlis1 @jonworth Maybe he never noticed because it was quite low key?😀
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@josiahmortimer MPs take an oath and follow a standards regime so on data handling “reasonableness” it’s no different to civil servants doing a handover. In any live case she cd also simply email everyone left on her books and say “do you want your case handed over”?
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@jljzen @EliotHiggins Chinese Embassy statement: "The Russians assured us these missiles from stock were very accurate and the red/brown stains all over them, except for the USSR side description, were camouflage"!
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@NoContextBrits "I told you there was a rational explanation" says a more than relieved Ron Hayward!😀
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@David__Osland "Dome was rebuilt in a day" will be a statement for the ages!😀
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@duncanrobinson This is all because MPs don't want to move out from the seat of power for any period. Why don't they just take over QE11 conf centre and maybe also hire Westminster Central Hall 2 for a few years. There are also likely to be pretty empty office blocks in Victoria St too
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@abcnews Whole world sighs with relief. It would be terrible if anything had happened to the pilot!
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@GuidoFawkes You seem to have come up with 267 words just to avoid saying the equally appalling 3 words you seem to really mean: "pull yourself together". This really is not politics, goes against all modern mental health advice and you should be ashamed of what you have written here!
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@APHClarkson @drjennings "We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper." "The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth." "But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor."
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@PopulismUpdates An elder of the North Sentinel Island tribe in the Andaman archipelago currently coming up with what they believe to be a reasonable explanation whenever they see the International Space Station or a new fleet of Starlink satellites cross the sky?
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@Samfr @AnnieEaves His brother Maximum Payne is currently Rishi Sunak's campaign diary scheduler and events planner!😀
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@Gabriel_Pogrund "My comment was out of context" if used in a legal case will see even more of the whatsapp messages scrutinised in order to see what the "context" was. Whilst more text will prob b less nasty it may just show staff were simply factionally politicking when meant 2 b serving party
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@MediaGuido Whereas any 20 year old adult might now well ask: "Whilst even estranged parents clearly have a legal right to go to the Police about me, do they have any 'right' over me to go to a tabloid newspaper if its claimed the Police have decided not to investigate the case?"
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@tonyroe @LibDems @bbcemt I assume they have now produced a bar chart showing leaflets delivered and leaflets not delivered?😀
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@PrivateEyeNews @AngelaRayner Surely @DPJHodges will be writing a series of articles to follow up on that important allegation in the news about an influential person within the body politic?😀
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@newschambers @VirginMediaNews Mindful of not wanting to go far beyond its usual neutrality the Republic of Ireland decides not to send anti-tank weapons, but instead sends ear plugs for soldiers & 30 communion supply trucks led by a crack team of Golden Cleric awarded priests!😀
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@ThatTimWalker They could have just posted this meme
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@ElectionMapsUK @PeoplePolling Tory numbers getting close to early 1995 18.5% poll nadir and their 17% poll nadir in June 2019
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@LiamThorpECHO We have literally got to the stage already when Labour and the public laugh rather than be scared when they hear a mad Tory policy!
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@PickardJE The Ecky Thump Association Committee, the custodians of the ancient and traditional martial art originating from Lancashire, have just announced the winner of 2021's "Black Pudding Tosser of the year" award?😀
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@Osinttechnical Next: "The armoured railway trains are nothing to what comes next. Our steampunk airships are the best in world and you should see all our longbowmen take aim"!😀
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@bbclaurak Is this to aim at the squirrels?:)
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@susie_dent Presumably you have an old word for "lack of backbone" ready just in case for tomorrow?😀
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@CeliaRichards0n NT's forensic team have discovered that the current Stone of Scone is actually a very old tub of 1951 Margarine disguised as a stone after the original was accidently lost?😀
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@emcnally96 The implications of "Danczuk precedent" is that the decision on a sitting MP candidate is a matter for NEC not PLP, thus a PLP suspended candidate cd stand as Lab candidate & remain suspended by PLP after. 2 separate disciplinary processes. Not sure PLP & NEC have thought thru
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