Don McGowan
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@guardiannews
So huge corporates, banks and energy companies are not in recession then?
Just us plebs, eh?
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@PolitlcsUK
@thetimes
Ah, what a shame.
If they can afford £53,000 per year then I'm damn sure another ten grand won't even touch the sides.
Entitlement costs. Suck it up or cancel your Netflix.
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For anyone who doesn't realise, Reform UK [ltd.] and their MPs, Farage and Tice, are setting their followers up for a huge bait and switch.
The plea for money to fund their 'court case' in Manchester will start soon. They'll fleece tens of thousand of pounds from their followers
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@andreajenkyns
Impressive, Andrea.
There have been some truly terrible statements from your party in the last week but this one might just take the biscuit.
Simply:
if Santa went on strike on Christmas Eve then it would be impactful.
So you’d have him strike in June, I guess?
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@Peston
It's wildly offensive on several levels but, in essence, really quite racist.
The entire headline is borderline defamatory, calling, Starmer a gimp.
Still, he's got nothing to lose and gets paid by the clicks, I assume.
Rage farming is lucrative to people of his ilk.
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@nadhimzahawi
@MayorofLondon
Holy crap, Hot Horses.
You saw a person, clearly in terrible distress, and your first thought was to take a picture, stick it on Twitter and moan about Sadiq Kahn.
Maybe you can see why the Tories are not in power any longer.
Shameless and shameful.
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@PolitlcsUK
@mikeysmith
Of course she has.
A woman who grifts through life by making outrageous statements for attention.
It would be nice if, one day, the media just ignore her. She has zero relevance ultimately.
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@LBC
@AndrewMarr9
He raped a child.
Raped. A child.
Punish him at every possible occasion. For as long as possible.
This guy should NEVER be allowed to compete again.
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@BorisJohnson
Hey, look who’s piped up again.
Remember when London was on fire in 2011 and you were on holiday. It took huge media pressure to get you back to do your job?
I don’t think you’re in any place to criticise. Remember missing five Cobra meetings at the beginning of covid?
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@EstherMcVey1
This painting, by Spanish artist, Diego Velázquez depicts Venus and Cupid. It was painted in the 17th century.
Just a cursory glance at the actual painting would tell you it has nothing to do with the Suffragettes.
Quality journalism from the GB News/Tory hate mongers.
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@RishiSunak
Further cutting off of noses to spites one's face.
We lose countless millions in GDP, push foreign students to other countries and, while we're at it, decimate the university sector. A sector that Britain has been world leading in for hundreds of years.
Great start to the year.
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@RishiSunak
You certainly have achieved a lot:
Immigration backlog - up.
NHS waiting lists - up.
Cost of living - up.
Corruption - up.
Crime - up.
Please feel free to add any I may have missed but I’d say you’ve absolutely smashed it; the country that is. Smashed it to pieces.
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@RishiSunak
When you announced your policy in January, every commentator stated that:
a) this would always happen anyway
b) it has absolutely nothing to do with anything you've done
Well done on claiming credit for something you didn't do, I guess.
Now, call the election.
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@hmtreasury
A party political broadcast, brought to you by the
@Conservatives
.
Pretty sure this is against the rules, lads.
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@Peston
Presumably it’s the knowledge that most of the press are giving them a free ride and seem to have forgotten that they spent fourteen years taking the country to its knees.
That and the fact that they can lie with impunity and nobody will challenge them.
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@TRobinsonNewEra
Awe, Steve. You can’t play the victim now.
You’ve done it. Pushed too far.
The country … our country, not yours, is chomping at the bit to see you back home … safely tucked up in Belmarsh.
That’s your new life I’m afraid and you’ve got no one to blame but yourself.
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@RishiSunak
Absolutely NONE of that is true.
No mention of housing and no mention of the poverty that your citizens are falling into.
And do you honestly think a picture of you on a private jet is reading the room?
Out of touch is an understatement.
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@MichelleMone
@bbclaurak
If you are wealthy and a Tory, the law does not seem to apply.
Options available to wealthy, Tory suspects include: being able to go on TV to plead your case and having a professional video made around your 'story'.
Normal people have bailiffs at the door for Christmas.
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@RishiSunak
Photoshopping yourself into a stock image of some American teenagers makes you seem even less genuine, amazingly.
Plus, this has been in effect in New Zealand for quite some time. Don't take credit for others' work.
C-
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@thereclaimparty
@LozzaFox
What were the commands to get this AI image?
'Laurence Fox but as a world war two, nazi office administrator'.
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I don't think there is enough fury, as Boris Johnson blames care homes for the high death toll.
This was always coming but even I'm surprised by how soon they've started the blame game.
Our 'government' is a disgrace.
#carehomes
#CareHomeScandal
#BorisHasFailedTheNation
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@Peston
@SuellaBraverman
I think it’s fair to say that Braverman is fully flirting with fascism now.
Sunak seems unwilling to shut her dangerous rhetoric down so I’m guessing he’s happy being led down that road by her.
A sad and worrying time until the election and they are removed.
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@PolitlcsUK
His answer to every question is 'immigration'.
Sorry, Nigel but the people looting shops and burning library's are not immigrants.
Morons? Yes.
Racists? Yes.
Thugs? Yes.
Two Tier Dickheads? Yes.
What they are not, are immigrants.
Security Risk - Go to jail. Do not pass Go.
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@marcolonghi4dn
@JohnnyMercerUK
Stay classy Tories.
Not long now and you’ll all be unemployed.
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@ITVNewsPolitics
Every single Tory MP who heartily laughed along with Sunak's transphobic jibe, should now be made to write a letter of apology to all of their constituents and explain why they did it.
@VictoriaAtkins
should be ashamed.
There is no excuse for this behaviour. It is disgusting.
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@toryboypierce
@MailOnline
Dr. Rachel is, approximately, 890,234 times a better human being than you could ever imagine to be.
You are one of life's losers, Andrew; a man paid to write hatred about others.
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@itvpeston
@SuellaBraverman
@AnushkaAsthana
@ITV
Doubling down and on the fascism I see.
Utterly disgraceful, performative cruelty.
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@RishiSunak
Gone full Trump now, have we?
Lie - get found out.
Lie - repeat the lie.
Get called out by the entire country's media - double down on the lie.
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@KemiBadenoch
So ... not a lie then. And the word 'forgot' doing ALL of the heavy lifting here.
Another top class government official who just 'forgets' to declare stuff,
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@SkyNews
Well … that’ll swing it for the Tories.
I’m sure everyone in the country, struggling to eat or heat their homes, will rest easy tonight in the knowledge that those cheeky, already rich, little scamps, the bankers, will be able to make even more cash.
Phew.
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@Peston
Of course it doesn’t occur to him to suspend them pending further investigation; as is usual practice in most workplaces.
Is Sunak riding the wave of notoriety? Trying to milk the ‘all publicity is good publicity’ tenet?
I’m pretty sure it’s not working.
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@SkyNews
@jonathansamuels
@EylonALevy
We’re going to look back on interviews with this guy when he’s tried for war crimes.
He’s a vile, bloodthirsty warmonger.
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@PolitlcsUK
@christopherhope
Give yourself lung cancer to own the libs.
Nice one Nigel. You absolute cretinous shoe.
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@SkyNews
More fantastic news from the government who brought you such amazing hits as:
The worst cost of living crisis in a generation
and ... a fully broken economy and infrastructure
All whilst pretending [lying] that everything is the exact opposite.
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@PolitlcsUK
@CarolynEley2
Good, but bigger.
Poor little wealthy people having to pay tax. How will they ever manage?
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@RishiSunak
Oh mate!
Starmer's speech was the clearest indication, in years, that we actually have a functioning government in the UK.
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@christopherhope
@GBNEWS
Most likely because ...
your 'channel' is actively inciting racial hatred.
your 'channel' employs bigots and genuinely dangerous individuals.
your 'channel' routinely breaks
@Ofcom
rules.
your 'channel' is, and I say this with genuine affection, shite.
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@BestForBritain
There’s a secret competition around the cabinet table, isn’t there!
Who can come up with the most ludicrous excuse for not doing their own jobs?
This wins by the way. The wrong type of rain wins.
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@Peston
Well that’s just the icing on the cake!
The Tories have been punching themselves in the face for about five weeks in a row.
What an embarrassment of a political party.
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@SkyNews
PM realises that he can't tell the police what to do.
At least something is still functioning in this country. Just.
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@Nigel_Farage
Yeah, your expenses must be real high, Nigey boy.
You somehow managed to grift 32 grand out of some poor sap for a trip to the US to console Trump. Except he didn't want to see you.
Please could you explain your expenses occurred by appearing on TV ...
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@RobertJenrick
You’ve gone full fascist, Bob.
Never go full fascist.
Are you suggesting that, for your personal crusade of removing a few asylum seekers from the UK, you’re prepared to collapse the Good Friday Agreement?
Absolutely pathetic mate. Beyond the pale.
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Well, well, well.
Andrew Castle doing a proper job in taking, actual fascist, Robert Jenrick, apart on
@lbc
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What a welcome change of pace.
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@grantshapps
@Keir_Starmer
Genuinely, Michael, this might be your best yet.
Up there with Greg Hands’ letter jape.
Who says right wing comedy doesn’t exist? *
*everyone
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@BBCBreakfast
Another antagonistic health secretary doing the rounds to whip up tensions and keep the focus away from the myriad catastrophic failings of government.
We'll all talk about her provocative language instead of the corruption in No. 10.
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@RishiSunak
How much did you pay the photographer to take a photo of you pretending to take a photo?
Asking as a taxpayer.
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@ChrisMasonBBC
@hzeffman
This is a weak excuse for an article.
I assume you are paid more than the PM? Farage is paid more than him, even Nick Ferrari will be paid more than this.
You have no point.
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@Nigel_Farage
Five MPs Nigel. You've got five MPs - out of 650.
That's 0.77% of all MPs in the Commons.
Where do you think you get off, assuming that you'll be party to all goings on? Your measly 'party' has less than 1% of the total.
It would be like me boycotting playing for Man Utd.
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@GillianKeegan
@Conservatives
High standards like ... punching people?
Or high standards like ... allowing schools to collapse?
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@Peston
So he sacked Braverman but is still under her control. I don’t see a coincidence that she put out some tweets and he’s jumped in line behind her statement.
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@OliverDowden
No it won’t, Olive.
It’ll stop kids going to university, scare the living daylights out of them and, most importantly …
… stop them ever voting Tory.
Keep calm and carry on old chap. You’re doing a spiffing job - of making people detest you even more.
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@DavidLammy
Why is this a surprise to you? It’s been a year already.
Stop sending them arms.
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@Conservatives
You don’t even realise that you’re creating monumental meme fodder and setting yourselves up for ridicule.
Keep em coming, losers.
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@Bren4Bassetlaw
F**king hell, Brenda.
Racists have just set fire to a hotel and you're making jokes about it.
No wonder you're an ex-MP.
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@ChrisClarksonMP
Really, Chris? REALLY?
This from the party who brought you:
Gavin Williamson as Education Secretary. Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary and featuring, old Hot Horses himself, Nadhim Zahawi as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Pipe down. This is embarrassing for you.
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@SuellaBraverman
There is a rumour abound that you were actually Home Sec. Twice.
So perhaps your vacuous clamouring should be treated with a touch of disdain.
The question is much more, why you didn't do the things you're asking of the new Home Sec.
Things became MUCH worse under your tenure.
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@LBC
@NickFerrariLBC
Feels a bit like the good ole Johnson days when ministers were regularly sent out to defend the indefensible.
MPs selling their souls to protect their ability to be racist on TV.
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@RicHolden
@Conservatives
@Keir_Starmer
You can't even lie properly.
Jebus, Ricky! Time to go for a nap I think.
Of course you left out the actual facts of the letter which said they were produced by Tory Spads.
So ... still a massive lie. Still not even a decent attempt at spin.
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@kateferguson4
You’ve never seen Reservoir Dogs, have you?
Unless of course they are planning a bloodbath and one of them is an undercover police officer, then I’m fairly sure this is a ludicrously misplaced analogy.
Perhaps just don’t try cultural references if you don’t know what they mean.
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@LBC
@Nigel_Farage
Farage has defended racists, nazis and homophobes in this interview.
There are some who will cheer him for this but, in reality, he's a toxic stain on the country.
Within three months, he'll disappear to the US.
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@LBC
@NickFerrariLBC
She then went on to say that two councils were arguing over the funding for Hammersmith Bridge.
Hammersmith and Fulham is one council.
She’s not fit to run a bath.
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@RishiSunak
You are pathetic.
Putting your own ego before honouring the memory of those real, brave people who fought on D-Day.
Take your apology and stick it, as far as you possibly can, right up there.
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@SkyNews
@darrenmccaffrey
Sunak, not content with looking like a drowned pillock whilst trying to whine over Steve Bray’s speakers, decides to throw out, Sky News from his campaign launch.
He’s absolutely shockingly bad at politics.
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@RishiSunak
Do people know that virtual ward beds are your own bed at home? That you may never actually see a doctor because, who'll take priority; a patient who is in hospital or someone on a screen that the doctor cannot make time for?
Do you know that waiting lists have risen? Again.
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@BethRigby
Can we assume, at this stage, that’s there was an official, on site, Downing Street bookie?
Following on from PartyGate, they decided to up the ante (!).
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Liz Truss had just said on
@LBC
, within the space of one minute, that RT shouldn't be shut down because, free speech, BUT the civil service shouldn't be allowed to support BLM because of 'identity politics'.
Just, wow. How do they keep getting away with it?
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@LBC
This is utterly misleading. Prices are still rising at double the target rate. Nobody will be saving money due to this inflation data.
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@ChrisMasonBBC
@JimMFelton
There’s got to be some sort of insider sweepstakes to see how badly they can run the election.
The rank corruption is incredible.
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@RishiSunak
If your social team are watching then please …
stop being an annoying little boy and talking over everyone.
I tell my son that it’s rude to interrupt, I’d expect the prime minister to know this as well.
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@DPJHodges
You've wilfully misinterpreted the Ofcom ruling ... but you know that.
Sunak punted, unchallenged, policy. Starmer was on a chat show.
Will you be ranting about, Sunak's appearance on Loose Women last week? When he had his arse handed to him?
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@AdamBienkov
Imagine that. Dan Wootton making stuff up for attention.
He's, genuinely, a damaged individual.
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@Peston
Or … Starmer is rising to his detractors and making it clear that Labour don’t want the racists. Not anymore.
He’s happy for Reform and the Tories to fight over the scraps.
A very solid and commendable position, I’d say.
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@DPJHodges
Dan, settle down.
I've found myself agreeing with you and liking some of your tweets recently.
It's very disconcerting!
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@RishiSunak
We don't take your word for it. Every word that comes out of your mouth is a whopping great lie.
All the best, the UK.
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@BorisJohnson
I rarely swear on Twitter, Boris. So take this as a badge of honour ...
please, with all sincerity, fuck off.
You have done more damage to this country than the plague. And yet, you have no awareness of it.
As my late father would have said ... get tae fuck.
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@guardiannews
@Susan5918
This is going to be incredible when they try to bribe Elon Musk to pretend to be Mark Matlock.
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@10DowningStreet
This is, as my nine year old son would say, completely cringe.
What the hell is going on in the heart of government when you think that this is the answer.
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@BBCBreaking
Amazing what can happen when you wildly underpay your workforce and allow public services to fall into the gutter.
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More far-right, Tufton Street bollocks this morning.
If the UK disconnects from the ECHR, then we'd be in breach of the Good Friday Agreement. This can't and won't happen. We'd lose out on multiple security agreements with the EU and stand alongside Russia and Belarus.
@lbc
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@Bren4Bassetlaw
Oh, Brenda.
You're going to need a lie down and an ice lolly to recover from this, I can see.
It's a grief reaction; denial. We all experience it eventually but you have to move on. He's gone mate.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but, it's over.
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@Peston
It's not that odd really.
Sunak has proved himself, utterly devoid, of strength with every decision he has made, or failed to make.
He only got the job as chancellor because he had less morals than Sajid Javid. He was a Cummings puppet back then.
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@JohnnyMercerUK
Nice of you to double down on something which is clearly so trivial to you.
Perhaps, instead of being arrogant and flippant around starving people in your constituency and across the wider country, you could show some contrition and offer to help out at a food bank? You'll see.
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@AdamBienkov
He is, and always was, a racist. The only thing that's changed is he feels emboldened to say it on live TV now.
On a channel owned by a racist.
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@JohnnyMercerUK
You don't have a force field around you [that I'm aware of].
You are a public figure [for some reason].
If you don't keep private stuff private, then it's on you. No one else.
PS. How's that eradication of veteran's homelessness coming along?
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@SamCoatesSky
This is just sad.
How utterly depressing that our ruling party 'despair' of chucking out sex offenders from the House of Commons.
This election is needed now, more than ever. These reprobates have to be removed.
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@bbclaurak
Caught up in the PPE scandal? I think we can already see the hard hitting tone of this interview.
TWO HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS
Caught up in it; she’s up to her neck in it … allegedly.
Were they, accidentally, given money for PPE that didn’t work or exist?
*may contain sarcasm
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@TiceRichard
@Ed_Miliband
Blasted, Dick? Blasted.
He put you on your arse matey.
Big Ed just showed you up for what you really are ... a defective, third rate blowhard with zero credibility or knowledge.
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@JamesCleverly
@YvetteCooperMP
And just like that, any credibility you ever had, or hoped to have, has disappeared like so many clouds on a windy afternoon.
Using the S*n as a source, for anything, is a nonsense.
Are you auditioning for a presenter role at GB News?
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@LBC
@NickFerrariLBC
Is the answer because he never had any intention of doing it?
Or, he'd rather be seen dead than in Clacton?
Or, that he's paid much more in the US?
Or, that he's a lying sack of shit?
Or, that his grifting career is really taking off?
Or, all of the above?
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@RishiSunak
Picking the wrong battles again, Rishi.
Loving it. Keep up the culture wars crap, it's doing Labour's work for them.
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@TheNorfolkLion
Not even bright enough to find a picture of a mosque for your racist tweet, huh?
Shows the levels that we're dealing with.
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