Ellie Merton 🕷 #longcovid
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Independent campaigner on Palestine, human rights, music, NHS, mental health, cancer. See @EM4BRS for candidacy in Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk, Scotland.
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I’m a middle-aged white woman: Jewish agnostic on mother’s side; lapsed Roman Catholic on father’s; trenchant atheist myself & politically independent having refused to join any political party ever. I know them. I worked hard for 20 yrs as a City PA & am now an arts producer. 1/
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@syrpis
@scribblercat
Correct. He has not resigned from anything. There is no evidence from
@SirGrahamBrady
that he has actually resigned as Conservative party leader. And he definitely has not resigned as PM, nor even notified the Queen he intends to. Nothing has changed. And government is in chaos.
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What gets me every time I see pictures is the horrifying scale of the industry of extermination at Auschwitz. The knowledge and sight of how many thousands and thousands of beautiful, unique human beings were slaughtered systematically is too much.
#NeverAgain
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@AuschwitzMuseum
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How effing dare she say such repugnant things? As a woman of Jewish heritage, I will always be proud of being on the side of humanity, education, ancient culture & community by being pro-Palestinian. Being pro-Palestinian is the benchmark for ethics & moral integrity in politics.
Margaret Hodge suffers backlash from all sides after comparing Labour disciplinary to Nazi Germany
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Crying. GP has finally agreed to put
#LongCovid
syndrome on my sick certificate and refer me for better diagnostics. Seven months it’s taken to be recognised. I really appreciate his support.
#CountLongCovid
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@McDuff73
@PaulBrandITV
No, we have to understand who these terrorists are, and deal with them.
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That was excruciatingly embarrassing. The EU negotiators must be laughing their faces off. UK Govt clearly clueless & incompetent
#bbcqt
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Behind the scenes in Zelensky's modern HQ - BBC News
Well observed & written up by
@CliveMyrieBBC
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@SquireAlright
@lewis_goodall
@spectator
@afneil
Yes, there was a report Cummings had tested positive. There are so many inconsistencies in his narcissistic mea non culpa it was breathtakingly insulting to all of us.
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Watched the shitshow that is
@BorisJohnson
and am deeply appalled at his determination to kill the next >50k people in the UK. What an awful message: arbeit macht frei. Mercifully, in Scotland, we’re not so pathologically wedded to genocide. Time for Scottish border controls?
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@reider
Oh, how awful. I am so sad and angry that this has happened. It is even more tragic that more elderly people have been slaughtered in these poor people’s name. The whole thing is horrendous and my heart goes out to all families affected, wherever they live.
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We are on a pre-election footing, everyone. This was bound to happen. It’s what the Labour smears are all about. The pro-Apartheid Israel lobby jumped to the helm first, attempting to ram their fire ship of racism into the side of UK democracy. The others below are catching up.
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No. No no no. This hatred has to be stopped.
@theresa_may
@10DowningStreet
has to make a Jacinda-like statement to bring the country together against the rise of fascism in society, and bring the racist perpetrators of this violence to justice. Rapidly.
Reports of atleast five mosques vandalised over night in Birmingham. This one is on Witton road - had windows smashed.
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Wilfred Owen, killed today 100 years ago in WW1, exactly a week before Armistice.
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Bercow has pointed out MPs can table binding legislation, changes to statute. The ONLY surefire way to avoid No Deal is to table a Bill, a change to statute, to stop Brexit: Revoke Article 50. That is the only action that’s responsible and plausible.
#Remain
#RevokeArticle50
NEW Bercow reveals that Government extension motion for tomorrow proposes extension until June 30th
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@Afzal4Gorton
@ReutersUK
I am so deeply sorry on behalf of the entire UK that you are being treated like this. It’s sickening and unacceptable.
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Winning the internet for today: Young Sol, his family,
@itvnews
& the redoubtable
@alstewitn
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There’s being a genocidal libertarian tosser, and then there’s Toby Young.
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@exitthelemming
@TimothyWestNews
What a fantastic set of pics and so lovely to see. Your mum & my mum (who would have been 92 a few days ago) were at Moira House together, evacuated to Windermere during the war. We met your uncle at a reunion there. My mum remembered Prue as a “very serious little girl” 😁
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@michaelwhite
Keep up. He never resigned as PM. He only stood aside as cons party leader. He is staying in office as PM and trying to re-form a government that has resigned because of him. He is clinging on to power and will not leave.
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@MichaelRosenYes
@KirstieMAllsopp
Quite. Would Kirstie kindly identify *which* of us 670,000 deserve to get Covid, then?
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It’s a repeat of 30 years ago when student political colleagues & I got death threats from Labour student members of UJS for standing up for Palestinian rights, black rights & against South African apartheid during the demise of Conservative rule. Mandelson ran Labour at the time
The
@nusuk
just signalled total surrender to the Israel lobby.
They're announcing an open-ended "independent investigation" into "all public allegations" about "anti-Semitism" between March and the end of April.
Nothing less than a hostile takeover:
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@suzanne_moore
@AaronBastani
How the eff is Aaron shutting women up?! Don’t ever use us women as cover for your rank views. You cannot be feminist if you do not support Palestinian human rights, which is about supporting, empowering and freeing Palestinian women from daily Israeli harassment.
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@MichelBarnier
Please help us. We’re being slowly murdered with a herd immunity policy & driven to destitution by a fascist govt we cannot democratically get rid of because it’s now an unaccountable autocracy with a majority in Parliament. We are totally stuffed and have no way to stop No Deal.
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@astroehlein
The correct political terms are a clusterfuck or an omnishambles. But we really need
@Aiannucci
to create something unique to encapsulate all you describe.
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@herebytheway
@KateFlood
Adding safe space in Edinburgh or eastern side of Scottish Borders.
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@Peston
No. Starmer’s “purge” was primarily of Jews. Starmer didn’t “inherit”, he was elected on false promises. Labour wasn’t “riven” under Corbyn, it was huge, forward-thinking, popular, electable but undermined by the tiny team who organised Starmer’s purge of Jews: far-right Zionists
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Really important article about coping with multi-organ damage of
#LongCovid
in
#Scotland
and how
#NHSScotland
is not set up to cope with thousands that now need care.
@long_covid
@lesleymacniven
@Dr2NisreenAlwan
@devisridhar
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@simon_schama
Eh? What was it about these Jewish activists protesting for non-violence, an immediate ceasing of all killing, a saving of lives & avoiding any more genocide, that irks you more: that they’re Jewish, they’re not racist or they reject Israeli govt’s bonafide fascists & terrorists?
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Israel targeting Ireland and UN. Payback, as IDF announced. Sickening.
• An Israeli artillery shell has just rocked the United Nations Peacekeeping HQ in Southern Lebanon.
• The 123rd Battalion of the Irish Defence Forces 🇮🇪 are stationed there.
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Dear
@foreignoffice
, you know these boys inside out. You’ve helped them countless times as British aid workers & humanitarians. I’ve liaised with you to help them. Why do you let
@ukhomeoffice
act illegally to strip them of citizenship?
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Oh, Medea, I am so sorry you went through that and you have all my solidarity and love for maintaining your non-violent compassion in the face of what was said to you. You show enormous strength, bravery & courage. Thank you.
#JewsAgainstGenocide
There were some really nasty, hateful people at the pro-Israel rally. Check it out.
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@BTP
@JakeWSimons
@metpoliceuk
Hi
@BTPLondon
@MetCC
, the reporting person
@JakeWSimons
, is not a reliable witness as an alleged islamophobic/racist fringe journalist, seemingly associated with far right ideology, who is wasting police time. The call is for a workers revolution that incorporates Jewish workers.
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@jamiesusskind
Shame, you could have joined the huge Jewish Bloc on the march.
The scale of Jewish solidarity on the Palestine
#CeasefireNOW
march today is unprecedented.
This is what
@SuellaBraverman
doesn't want you to see. She will never divide us.
✊🏿✡️
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An accurate depiction. But he’s in no way special or extreme. Jeremy’s just what *used* to be a standard model for socialist Labour MPs: constitutionalist, campaigning, ethical, not corrupted by “donors” nor foreign state interests, nor bigoted, nor afraid to defend UK welfare.
Jeremy Corbyn's voting record:
💠6x against the Iraq war
💠7x for the hunting ban
💠12x for laws to promote human rights
💠23x for equal gay rights
💠16x against bedroom tax
💠5x for raising welfare with inflation
💠15x against disability cuts
💠47x against welfare cuts
#JC4PM
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@LBC
@IainDale
NO. MPs have to be brave this week.. force a public enquiry into May/Brexit/disinformation, pass a Bill revoking Article 50, start making rapid changes to electoral law and call for a General Election. Then we might get back on course. Plebiscites are too slow.
#RevokeA50
#Remain
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@DalrympleWill
@bolbacchan
@Ashwin5s
You’re right. The atrocities against Israelis are horrific, heartbreaking, unjustifiable, incomprehensible. What makes it stark: we never normally see this level of coverage of child deaths in the region coz hundreds of Palestinian children slaughtered by Israel go unseen on MSM.
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Actually, it’s against *all* war and *all* nuclear arms. Quite a simple thing for you to grasp.
If you’re wondering what Jeremy Corbyn is doing today..he’s attending a protest against NATO today as a speaker.
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@tompeck
It’s actually an horrific breach of national security by malign agents.
@GCHQ
@ukhomeoffice
@pritipatel
have a lot of answering to do over maintaining government building security.
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@evanhill
Really good bit of reporting. And very brave. Please ensure everything is appropriately available for ICC follow up.
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@GaryLineker
Correct. But what can we do in UK beyond crying, as I am, distraught about millions of beautiful lives being decimated in Gaza?
@David_Cameron
@RishiSunak
@Keir_Starmer
@DavidLammy
still state “Israel has a right” to bludgeon into oblivion IHL/IL/LoW/Geneva/Vienna conventions.
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@EmmaKennedy
Yes, the ‘figures on child infection rates’ are out. Plus the ‘immunity may only last six months’ report is out. Basically, unsafe for schools to go back and second wave of much worse levels of death across all ages due in September.
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@poppy_11
@alrightPET
@NBrightonBelle
Routine tests must be confirmed with the patient. There is no point in just sending out an appt time & thinking that’s enough. There has to be a patient response to confirm they can attend.
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@EmmaKennedy
Because he refuses to leave as PM. He is remaining in power as PM and staying as leader of Conservative Party, from what anyone can tell because there is no physical evidence he has agreed in writing to resign from that role either. Nor has
@SirGrahamBrady
confirmed any facts.
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Crumbs.
#Channel4News
not sitting on any fences or pulling its punches about Russian invasion of Ukraine.
@mattfrei
being rational, and speaking truth to power. Very moving.
#Ukraine
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@Peston
Should
@CommonsSpeaker
advise the Queen that Boris is no longer able to command the confidence of Parliament and has not enough functioning government left?
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@DemelzaKlass
@PaulBenbow11
@steveharvey2001
@Aidan_Regan
Roses are red
Passports are black
Brexit has pushed us
Right to the back
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@grahamsbino
@CardinalNichols
The Pope already does. He’s been to the West Bank and let the Wall do the speaking for him:
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@JamesMelville
Bollocks. Temporarily we are taking limiting action on our social interactions because the government refused to protect us from a lethal and debilitating pandemic a year ago. That is neither destroying things nor done out of fear but a pause based on rational recognition of risk
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I like being boringly repetitive saying we STILL must
#RevokeArticle50
now to
#StopBrexit
.
So here’s
@madgie1941
’s brilliant petition again with over 6.07m beautiful signatures. Have YOU signed? Please do & email your MP at
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@greg_herriett
@DanielFooksArt
@helensclegel
@coyleneil
Oh. So the Labour movement, heavily supported by Jewish diaspora socialists, must now purge itself of Jewish diaspora socialists? Apartheid has got a grip of UK democracy with a vengeance.
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@HiboWardere
@ActionAidUK
I want to be clear. I am proud to be a woman, born & bred. I‘ve been through hell & back due to my female-specific biology & genetics, & the misogyny, victimisation & entitlement of men. I refuse to have my survival degraded, women disempowered & be redefined as something I‘m not
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@PeterStefanovi2
He has not resigned. There is no evidence he has resigned from being party leader. He has definitely not resigned as PM.
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You, Conservative voters, you're voting for this. You want human rights violations. You want a degraded lifestyle. You want hatred & poverty
OK. None of the UK MSM has even bothered reporting this. So it's left to me and .
@TheCanarySays
. You must read this
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@LBC
@GlobalPlayer
He’s not actually resigned. There is no evidence he has resigned from being leader of the Conservative party, and he definitely has not gone to the Queen, so he’s not resigned as PM. He’s still in both offices. And it’s horrendous.
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@seanjonesqc
My friend at college had a friend in her halls of residence who went out with Cilla Black’s son.
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@DalrympleWill
@bolbacchan
@Ashwin5s
Hamas and the Gazan militias do not represent the majority of Palestinians, in the same way Netanyahu and his right-wing horror show do not represent most Israelis and Israel does not represent most Jewish-identifying people. Never conflate & never give credence to propaganda.
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@DalrympleWill
@MishalHusain
Question is *why* Shapps & Cameron et al have ‘no idea’ about Israeli minister genocidal statements that have a direct bearing on UK security & military hardware & intelligence supply policies. WTAF are staff at
@FCDOGovUK
@DefenceHQ
doing failing adequately to brief ministers?
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@Vincent_Rowlatt
No, no no. All the workcoach needs to do is provide a ‘document upload’ and your neighbour just gets help uploading a scan of the doc through the ‘document upload’ to the work coach. He does not need to visit in person.
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@miriamsoprano
Absolutely amazing. Well done all six of you. Together as a quartet of singers you had nowhere to hide but carried the entire service with huge professionalism, skill and aplomb. It was deeply impressive and everyone in music is overwhelmingly proud of you all.
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@diana_strasser
@andymoz78
Yes. This. The fact Govt has deliberately exposed millions to a killer disease, leaving tens of thousands in jeopardy, at the mercy of whatever medical assistance is available for them & at risk of requiring CPR. Sadly, most recipients interpret the DNR letters as ‘do not treat’.
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Jeez. That graph is horrific.
The overwhelming narrative today at
#DowningStreetBriefing
was we're in a much better place because of vaccines. Agree. However, other countries also have similar rates of vaccinations among population BUT much lower
#covid
rates bec they *still* use facemasks & other protections
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@whyohwhyfather
@EmmaKennedy
@hughes1_graham
@AmandaRamsay
@Dannythefink
@zoesqwilliams
How can anyone forget the “take it on the chin” interview, trying to explain the benefits of herd immunity...?
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Can’t stand Peter Hitchens. But on a point of law, logic, principle and integrity, he’s not wrong here.
Journalist and author Peter Hitchens (
@ClarkeMicah
)
argues that
@wikileaks
founder Julian Assange has been unjustly detained, and that journalists should be not be harassed for publishing embarrassing information that is in the public interest.
#Assange
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Yes. That is why SOME OF US ONE-IN-TWO WOMEN DEALING WITH A CANCER DIAGNOSIS are a tad angry about
@theresa_may
@10DowningStreet
& all dimwits pushing Brexit. ONLY responsible action immediately is to
#RevokeArticle50
. Dear
@HouseofCommons
make it so. Thanks 😘💕💪
@BitchesvBrexit
“There will inevitably be delays to cancer treatment as a result of the Brexit process.”
- Royal College of Radiologists
This is truly and utterly disgraceful.
@theresa_may
is putting politics above patients’ lives.
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@Peston
YES! Revoke revoke revoke. Remain. General election. Rebuild UK. Full inquiry into Brexit and the referendum. And massive changes to electoral law.
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Okay. I have to go outside and go for a long walk to calm down now. Still slightly holding my breath in awe of zen Lord Pannick’s brilliance in easing the SC judges into a place of simple and effective inaction. Totally brilliant.
#MindfulPannick
#SupremeCourt
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@Meister71
@faisalislam
Parliament is fine.
@10DowningStreet
is an aberration of Govt, caring not for the country, only for
@Conservatives
.
@theresa_may
’s putting all Brits and entire UK at serious risk just to keep her political party together. That’s the problem.
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@WarmongerHodges
@jeremycorbyn
@Peston
Calm. For many of us who‘ve supported Palestinian human rights for decades, we‘ve been through these cycles endlessly before & know the current hysteria will vaporise after forthcoming Israeli & UK elections. Ignore crap & conflation, & support UK & worldwide Jewish BDS groups.
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The thing that gets me about this bit of ultimate stupid is this complete failure to understand basic air transmission & the ways SARS-CoV-2 infects (still? After how many months?) and what masks do (duh!). It’s so pea brained as to be laughable. Were it not so dangerously tragic
We should have the choice to take the vaccine and after it has been rolled out, we should choose whether to continue wearing masks, socially distance or isolate. After the vaccine, all legal restrictions should end and the individual should decide their own approach to Covid.
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@MichaelRosenYes
@theRealRayThomp
@Normanjam67
Exactly. And as a stay-at-homer, my health was not protected when I got the bug in Western England in the first week of March, when Boris already knew we should have been locking down in February, but chose genocidal herd immunity as a hoped for ‘cheaper’ option.
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@David_Cameron
Delightful. And woefully inadequate. Pretty pathetic
#AidWashing
UK’s part in the unimaginable atrocities being carried out by Israel & allies each minute against the Palestinian people.
Now list UK/Israel arms, intelligence, military training, mercenary etc. sales & contracts.
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@hugobachega
This is absolutely horrific. At least 800 women, children, babies dying slowly in a bomb shelter under the theatre stage? It’s beyond awful. And what about the Mariupol swimming pool that was also hit on the same day, with around 1,000 women, children and babies sheltering there?
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I know. It’s utter tosh and
@10DowningStreet
@theresa_may
should be truly ashamed at equating Remain spending with Leave illegalities. Astonishing paragraph. My god, this Govt is desperately twisted.
#Revoke
#Remain
#HoldAnElection
The Cabinet Office has just issued its response to the “Halt Brexit For A Public Inquiry” petition.
It really is quite a read. 🤦🏻♂️1/
#StopBrexit
#Brexitinquiry
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@Andrew_Adonis
Get a grip
@Andrew_Adonis
. C3R is Head of State for 14 other countries, several facing major ecological disasters, and Head of Commonwealth. He has to go to COP to represent them. Plus UK Parliament is sovereign and he has to represent and apply their laws, not the Executive.
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@PSCupdates
Solidarity and huge congrats on expressing the humanity and desperation to save lives and protect civilians that the huge majority of the British population feels.
Thank you for amplifying our call for
#CeasefireNOW
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#StopTheKilling
#StopTheHate
#SaveGaza
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@Number10cat
@Nigel_Farage
As the repugnant fascist that Farage is, would
@pritipatel
@ukhomeoffice
@DominicRaab
@foreignoffice
revoke Farage’s passport and British citizenship and leave him to rot in the US? You do it to mainly BAME UK nationals, so how about a bonafide white supremacy terrorist toad? Ta.
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@MichaelRosenYes
What matters is that the unconditional love you feel for your son is as strong now as it ever was: the sense of him has not left you even if his person has. Little details gradually fade from prominence but the imprint every moment of his life has left on you will always remain.
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@LibyaLiberty
The explicit racism in the article appears to be standard, unhinged, Brexit fascism. UK is crying out for more migrants of any skin colour or nationality to make all our infrastructure & welfare, hospitality & other industries, function because “white” Britons won’t do that work.
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@lloyd_rm
@nickdearden75
MPs have to be brave this week.. force a public enquiry into May/Brexit/disinformation, pass a Bill revoking Article 50, start making rapid changes to electoral law and call for a General Election. Then we might get back on course. Plebiscites are too slow.
#RevokeA50
#Remain
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@KateWilton1
Precisely. That’s exactly what Scottish independence and Irish reunification are for.
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@AVFCPerspective
@SkySportsNews
Bollocks. Southgate has been the making of this team and achieved more than any England manager has in over half a century. He *must* continue.
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@stavvers
Yup. All these should be paid & given employment/insurance cover. Transportation is high risk viral vector role: patients leaving hospital still being infectious & volunteers being infectious. Same with all deliveries, shopping etc. Without TESTING & proper PPE, risks too high.
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Appalling, bullying treatment by
@KirstyWark
of Jenny from Jewish left wing UK diaspora
@JVoiceLabour
. Tone deaf
#Newsnight
. You should be deeply ashamed of using verbal battering & intimidation against gentle, rational, humane & balanced Jewish views: the epitome of antisemitism
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This. Palestinians are proud of their multi-denominational history & demographic make-up. They are proud of their Palestinian Jewish heritage (eradicated by Israel) along with their still strong Palestinian Christian & Palestinian Muslim & Palestinian everything else heritage.
🧵Palestinians do not view their plight for freedom as a Muslim vs. Jewish war. 1) If Israel defined itself as a Muslim state, Palestinians would still oppose its occupation & oppression. 2) The Israeli establishment, especially the right insists on fomenting religious fervor...
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