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Asking someone “what do you mean” is never an unreasonable question.
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Nicely put by
@campbellclaret
- There is another three-word Johnson lifetime philosophy at the heart of this “led by science” mantra – “cover my arse”.
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@SkyNews
If
#richysunak
has time management issues, perhaps he should call an election and we can relive him of these pressures 🤯
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@hugorifkind
Being the British Prime Minister and a football fan,
@Keir_Starmer
will have had plenty of experience preparing for changeable weather. This is what Brits do in the summer! 🙄
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@lewis_goodall
If it turns out Johnson knew that a Tier 4 lockdown was being called for before Wednesday last week, then he should be charged with misconduct in a public office offence and arrested. This is not incompetence it is conspiracy to subvert public order. Johnson is not above the law
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@afneil
To say that the rate of inflation ’fell’ is not accurate. The rate of increase slowed, but it’s still increasing. Disinflation is not deflation. Disinflation is still increasing prices and not falling prices. Perhaps there is no widespread outrage because the language is muddied!
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@Docstockk
@AmericanAnthro
@CASCATweet
This is oxymoronic. The purpose of anthropology is to examine and test the relationship between material social conditions and cultural expression. Anthropology provides insight into how past and present cultural identities are expressed, enacted and understood. To shut down
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@davidyelland
What I don’t understand is how can these newspapers be so eager to put their readers at risk? U.K. journalism really needs a kick up the pants sometimes 🤷🏻♂️
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@Peston
I almost suspect Sunak looked at all these things in the diary, and realised it would have been almost impossible to drag the Tory Party along to take them seriously. He knew it was a mountain too high for the immature rabble he had to front! I almost thought this…
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@KaylimDevon
@wesstreeting
Clearly you are not reading what
@weswestern
is saying. There is no evidence that PBs have any beneficial effect. The hyperbole about PBs saving lives is reckless and irresponsible.
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@Peston
It’s a bit rich seeing criticism now from a man who is supposed to be a journalist, who had a ring-side seat, but treated the governments response to the pandemic like it was a TV panel game 👏🏼
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@mrjamesob
perfect analysis this morning. The tiered lockdown bust up is another “psychodrama” of the Conservative party. Unfortunately we are simply bystanders as things implode!
#dodgyjohnson
is making things worse not better
#thingscangetworse
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"Getting people to re-engage with politics requires a more inspiring message than “we backed a deal we didn’t really like and which we knew would damage your future.”
@campbellclaret
's on why
@UKLabour
shouldn’t vote for any
#Brexit
deal is correct
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@BethRigby
@ShonaSomerville
An example of our news media pre-cooking the outcome of the election before any votes are counted and any new ministers have taken office. How about sticking to the facts rather than promoting supposition and fantasy
@BethRigby
@SkyNews
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@afneil
Trade Unions are some of the best freemarket capitalists around. They are a necessary shock absorber and rebalancer of many economic faults and disturbances in the economy. Congratulations on the train drivers having a union that achieves its aims without dragging in crazy social
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@campbellclaret
@Ofcom
@CommonsSpeaker
@RishiSunak
Complaints to
@Ofcom
can be made here
@campbellclaret
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@campbellclaret
When is the public inquiry being set up so we can start to get proper answers to these issues, not the fantasy stuff?
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@HJoyceGender
@BBCNews
has decidedly shifted into lifestyle reporting because it is cheap to produce, and can be sustained self-referentially. They create a loop of self-justification, despite being bound to be impartial on matters of public controversy 🤷🏻♂️
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@Artemisfornow
Can you point to the evidence that any of this is happening? This is misinformation and lies. I'm assuming you are a fantasist!
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“When today’s pseudo-libertarians complain about wearing masks, they are complaining about the loss of privilege, not of liberty.” Blistering reality check by
@NickCohen4
that
#dodgyjohnson
is the reason we can’t get to grips with
#CovidUK
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@simonjedge
The alarmist agitation about su*cide is a clear form of radicalisation that we need to challenge! It’s not based on evidence or fact. It is solely used to whip-up hatred! This kind of radicalisation needs to be covered by
#Prevent
.
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@DrFrancesRyan
If you are a journalist, get out and follow this up, don't just pass judgement on people from afar. Have you made an effort to engage with people who live in places that have been affected by large-scale immigration?
Are you prepared to consider that they might not have the
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This is a well explained and thoughtful conversation between
@peterboghossian
with
@andrewdoyle_com
discussing the New Pride. No hyperbole, no pile-on, just clear sensemaking of the need to protect the rights of sex and sexual-orientation defined people
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@michaelpforan
Is this a solution? Changing rooms for women are for women only. In the absence of a mixed changing area, the next presumption is that the designated male changing room is accessible to anyone else. I’m not against mixed changing rooms myself per se, as long as the burden is not
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@RedMags60
"Organs he had in situ"... Am I alone in finding this phrase chilling? There is a pragmatic principle that we are all restrained by 'obdurate reality'. No matter how much we wish to identify as something else, or represent ourselves as something other than our biological reality,
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@D_Blanchflower
is this madness really being considered? “Without a U-turn by the government on trade restrictions and immigration policy, the BoE must shrink the economy.”
#wtf
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@implausibleblog
Suddenly we are back in the 19th Century with the words and sentiment of Edmund Burke lionising the British pragmatic push against continental idealism. “Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
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@blagden_david
All universities charged £9250 when they could have charged much less. A price cap is sensible for a semi-regulated education sector. The problem is the universities showered themselves in cash and squandered it on senior management pay, trophy buildings and international
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@mrjamesob
I think that
@VanJones68
of
@CNN
spoke for millions around the world and not just in the US when he expressed his relief that he can speak positively with his children about integrity in office now that
@JoeBiden
has won.
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@gsoh31
What, a PR spin spiv? That’s not a good qualification for government. Cameron is not elected, so has no credibility or authority for the decisions he takes and the consequences we live with 🤦🏻♂️
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@philbc3
@HullLecturer
Starmer has achieved a historic victory. Corbyn resulted in untamed Tory power. Starmer’s strategic brilliance has been to avoid hoarding votes in safe areas, and instead go for votes in marginal areas. It’s worked and the mandate is clear. Corbyn polarised people, so could never
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@Docstockk
“It’s my impression that the constant nagging and flagging from activists is making some onlookers, otherwise well-disposed to LGBT groups, feel distinctly resentful.” It’s not just your impression
@Docstockk
, my avoidance of any ‘pride’ related activities is longstanding, I just
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@soniasodha
The term ‘gender ideology’ is handy, but is it a coverall that stops any deeper reflection on what is happening and how this has come about? This ideology has taken root because society is increasingly fragmented, undereducated and awash in fantasy (the be the best version of
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@QueensSpeechUK
Which is why I want homosexuality to be clearly distinct in both public policy and public discussion. Same-sex attraction is not a mental illness or a social dysfunction that needs to be corrected. When we discuss sex and gender, we need to make sure we are discussing
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@BethRigby
@BethRigby
please remind your viewers that the Tories removed proportional voting for PPC & Mayoral elections, putting FPTP in place instead. It’s a brutal process, and stops smaller, insurgent parties from gaining ground - Corbyn has a personal following, but doesn’t lead a
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@paulkrugman
Inflation can’t come down. It can only increase less quickly, otherwise it is deflation 🤦🏻
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@Gaynotqueer1
What is the legal protection at work that is cited in the statement? The protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010 don’t specify a persons feelings. Is this a genuine publication from Stonewall, because it is misleading, perhaps not by intention, but certainly by
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@williamnhutton
We need to stop giving these chancers the benefit of the doubt & dismantle their shady networks of hidden think tanks, PR agencies & corporate media backers. Shine some light into the recesses where entitlement grows, and hold them to transparent civic standards of accountability
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I enjoyed
@andrewdoyle_com
New Puritans. It’s a cogent defence of liberal democracy. We need to flesh out what is meant by ‘ideology’, which is often used to name both a set of ideas and a cultural phenomenon. Doyle’s antidote to Puritanism is the classically liberal exhortation
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I've just finished reading Material Girls by
@Docstockk
. It falls in the British Empirical tradition, as a call for
#evidence
and a rejection of
#dogmatism
. I can't understand why so many people have recoiled from what is a sensible, incremental and well argued discussion about
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@bbcdoctorwho
I really don’t know if I watched the same episode as everyone else. It was terrible. An overuse of sentimentality to divert attention from thin and recycled story and plot. No mystery, just one stupid thing after another. What was the prison thing all about?
#wasteoftime
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Slasher George Osborn is the “big reason why Tory economics now has only two settings: cutting taxes for the rich, which never produces growth, or pursuing austerity that never brings prosperity.”
@chakrabortty
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@JohnJCrace
By
@JuliaHB1
’s own standards she therefore has no right to express an opinion, as she is unelected. Is she implying that anyone expressing independent thoughts might be committing a crime against the people? How dim does one have to be to get a media job these days?
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@gunsnrosesgirl3
All this shows is the kinetic force of the object hitting the elastic fabric is more intense than the Earths gravity at that point. Didn’t Einstein ask what would happen at a point where there is no observable gravitational effect? If we do this experiment in zero-G would the
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@charilaou_alex
@UKLabour
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual people don’t need to be demedicalised, so why is this a betrayal of a group of people you imagine should be conflated with this issue? Lesbians, gay men and bisexual people don’t face transphobia because they are are not gender dysphoric.
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@rafaelbehr
When the history of U.K. austerity is written, Ed Balls won’t come off well. Time to play the fool, time to run marathons, time to learn to play piano, but no time to organise an anti-austerity coalition aimed at preventing the slide into poverty and insecurity for millions
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@ed19mitch
@peterfrankopan
@maitlis
The point is that Johnson is not powerless. He chooses to apply those powers when it is too late. Social distancing & isolation has an effect regardless of mutability of the virus. If less people spread it, less people catch it, wether it mutated or not! This is incompetence!
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@ellinst
@campbellclaret
@SebastianEPayne
We really do need a better description than ‘free market’ What Johnson and Sunak practice is neither free or a market. It’s a stitch up with hidden oligarchs feathering their own nests 🤷🏻♂️
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@AlistairBurtUK
@NickCohen4
If you aren’t prepared to lose, don’t stand for office. Being a representative is not a vocation, it is an invocation of the will of the people, which can be taken away. If we are expected to be sympathetic to people who aspire to make a career out of politics as we cast our
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@simonjedge
The problem with all the latest Pride nonsense is that to be truly accepted in society, same-sex attracted people, gay men, lesbians and bisexuals, don’t need to draw attention to any differences they may experience. When I put my bins out or buy stuff in the supermarket, I don’t
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I’ve finished the sixth Dune book. I’ve not stayed up late reading for ages! It’s as much a Platonic Dialogue as much as it is an adventure l!
#dune
#scifi
#frankherbert
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@jungianLaura
Wow! Thanks
@jungianLaura
. I was only thinking earlier that I need to unplug from all the stimulation that modern media brings, and find a place to let go off all the external stimulants that tire me, and tune back into my own sense of self. I like what Jung says in Analytical
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@JournalismSEEN
From a purely analytic point of view, this is not actually a news story that relates to anything that has actually happened to any specific person. Journalistically, it is a clear example of 'fishing'. The report indicates that no one has been banned from competition, nor has any
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@AndrewGold_ok
@TullipR
@elonmusk
I watched this on
@YouTube
earlier this week. It is a powerful interview, centred on
@TullipR
’s direct experience of detransitioning.
@AndrewGold_ok
is balanced and avoids sensationalism. Well worth watching and supporting to we get to see more conversations of this kind
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@MForstater
I’m interested in what social infrastructure exists that enables a particular ideological view to propagate unchallenged. Was Stonewall successful because of their argument, or because they found a rich seam of fertile ground that enabled their views to take root? We need to
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There is a pattern to UK government failure on
#coronavirus
, and it includes how local public services have been sidelined. "Privatised Failure: The Conservatives Sidelined Public Health for the Market"
@GreenPartyMolly
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@SolHughesWriter
@meadwaj
The question is why are people still tuning in, and then tweeting about it?
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@SkyNews
@SophyRidgeSky
@johnmcdonnellMP
Corbyn has no place in
@UKLabour
anymore. If he wanted to retain membership, he shouldn’t stand against the party. Outside the party he can say what he likes. Inside the party he is bound by collective responsibility. Corbyn is a perpetual protester
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This is a sobering assessment of the UK's
#decline
.
@NickCohen4
is right, we see our decline everywhere in the shabbiness of our streets and parlour of the faces we walk past. I thought this was me being oversensitive, but the evidence is all around us
#declineism
#qualityoflife
"Tories in denial about the steepest national decline in 250 years"
Piece on my Substack about everyone from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to right-wing think tanks waving the flag and beating their chests as Britain sinks into the sea
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@williamnhutton
What happened to Tories keeping politics out of business? It seems they are happy to be the nanny state after all!
#toryhypocrisy
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@georgeeaton
I’m more concerned that I have bills to pay, taxes to pay, and my public services are getting worse every day. I don’t care who rich people bank with as long as it is legal and they pay their taxes…. Oops, there’s the rub… will Farage publish his tax returns?
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@afneil
Except, this has not happened by accident, it is a deliberate choice to let the worst in society run amok by sticking to a failed lesser-fair mindset from people who actually detest the British people and don’t believe they deserve a good quality of life. There is more to life
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@BBCr4today
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
@bbcnickrobinson
So if Mogg can change his mind, why can’t the rest of us? And if we stay, surely we keep the full loaf?
#stopbrexit
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@redrumlisa
From the reports I can gather, no sentences have been imposed for children. You are staring up hate by making these remarks. Where are your links to legitimate news organisations that confirm these stories? This isn’t just hyperbole, you are being provocative in order to stir up
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@SexMattersOrg
“There’s endless coverage of drag and Pride, which wouldn’t matter if the serious stories were also being covered alongside the froth. But it seems that a breathless celebration of gender-bending has supplanted any serious coverage.”
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@DAaronovitch
It's a cliché to say, but
@NeilDotObrien
seems to know the 'price of everything, but the value of nothing!' How much of Western Culture would have been laid waste if we'd only considered how art and culture can make a return for the taxpayer? Cultural Philistines!
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Johnson: “How laughable to desert Trump for lighting the match this week, when you stood by and applauded as he built up the bonfire and drenched it in gasoline every day since the November election and for the previous four years.”
@Freedland
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@FaiselSadiq
@AudreySuffolk
@FaiselSadiq
English working class aggression and violence has been a central problem for many years, and isn’t simply defined by attitudes towards race. The fear of the mob has been a theme in British politics for centuries.
Working class men have always been a threat to the
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@BevJacksonAuth
You are correct
@BevJacksonAuth
. The homophobia that gets passed-off as progressive is entirely the opposite. I'm concerned that the public recognition of my homosexuality, or my same-sex attraction, is being disrupted by regressive forms of fashionable personality expression.
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@FinancialTimes
I’ll gloat while I’m standing in a queue at the supermarket hoping for a glimpsing of empty shelves, and being put on a waiting list for any medication I need, or paying for health insurance & phone roaming charges, or applying for a visa to visit the EU for work
#brexitshambles
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@ProfLAppleby
You seem to be confusing cause and effect. All the contributing factors your describe are manifesting as dysphoria, or to use a better term, are expressed as a ‘complex’ whereby these matters then constellate around gender identity. The world is filled with conflict, fragmentary
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Not only is the Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan a funny account of his life's work making people laugh, but it's also a testament to his moral courage in pushing back against extreme forms of identity activism. Well worth getting
@Glinner
's side of the story
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@LesbianLabour
The penny has dropped for me, and I now see how my identity as a gay man is at risk as a same-sex attracted homosexual, and how the obsfucating nonsense peddled by Stonewall is regressive, homophobic and misogynistic.
@Keir_Starmer
time to root out this nonsense
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@pmdfoster
What do you think Biden has said to Johnson that has thrown a spanner in their works? A cold hard glimpse of reality that there is no quick free trade deal with the EU, and there won’t be a border in NI? The rats have no other option but to bail 😳
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Nice to see good use being made of the new space at the junction of Braunstone Gate and Narborough Road. It just shows what happens when people are put ahead of cars
@OweniteAdam
@Sarah_Westcotes
#leicester
#westend
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@peterboghossian
Excellent discussion about biological reality
@peterboghossian
. What do you think would happen if we changed the terms of the discussion and stopped using the word ‘identity’ and used the word ‘character’ instead? Do you think it would be helpful to use the phrase ‘character’ to
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@johnmcternan
I’m more concerned that the connection running through these protests is the adoption by the protesters of overpriced sportswear! Is the solution to close down DJ Sports and North Face?
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@fairplaywomen
It's not like there hasn't been problems in the past that the
@iocmedia
can learn from...
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@hifilarry
@ThatTimWalker
By voting for this terrible deal
@UKLabour
will never get a foothold back in Scotland.
@Keir_Starmer
should deal with that issue first, then worry about so-called red wall seats. A policy to reclaim the so-called heartlands will be a disaster. A new coalition needs to be built
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Damn right we should rejoin the EU! As soon as possible. Our security and prosperity are dependent on a being part of an integrated, democratic EU. Not standing on the sidelines being pushed around by the global winds
#rejoineunow
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“Raising interest rates as the UK is facing its longest recession since records began is no way to repair the damage done by Trussonomics and the longer effect of George Osborne’s crippling austerity.” Well said
@pollytoynbee
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@DAaronovitch
The sooner we can rejoin the EU the better. I’m not dogmatic about this, just practical. The people who are running this country are just not very good at it, and don’t seem to want to improve the quality of our lives. Time for a rethink and reset!
#nothingseemstowork
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@DavidLammy
It’s a logical decision. The trading conditions & terms in the EU are more favourable and consistent than here in the U.K. Please ensure
@DavidLammy
that there is a clear alternative expressed in parliament by
@UKLabour
No fence-sitting or hedging. The Tories must own
#brexit
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@DAaronovitch
We also have to rebuild our media from the bottom up so it facilitates community dialogue and community cohesion on a way that is accountable, open and transparent, avoiding top-down control by either the state or commercial interests. We’ve forgotten that citizens should have
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@dave43law
The Conservative Party is toast! They should pack up and close down. Once you get your head around what happened in 2022/23 then any claims to virtue or concern expressed by any Conservative Party member should be met with the derision and contempt it deserves.
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@BBCr4today
@MattHancock
This is so hopeless it beggars belief. It was never challenged!
@BBCr4today
is clearly not fit for purpose. Time for
@TonyHallBBCDG
to step in and take back control from in-house BBC Brexit bias, insist on journalistic independence rather than Brexit propaganda!
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@paulmasonnews
Nothing particularly Marxist
@paulmasonnews
about what you say. It’s pretty much what John Major said the other day. This dynamic is between the disrupters and the institution builders, so even left vs right is relegated.
@Keir_Starmer
seems like an institution builder to me 🤷🏻♂️
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@bunter888
@campbellclaret
When you’re in the trenches, and the enemy is firing on you, and you are getting slaughtered, wouldn’t you expect a review of your approach? If the policies are set by people acting with impunity, then more will die. An enquiry is essential, and needs to start now
#Covid19UK
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@LabWomenDec
Now we need clarity that
@uklabour
understand that lesbian, gay and bisexual people do not need to be conflated with any form of imagined identity, representation or legal interpretation that implies, or is associated with, a medical diagnosis or a feeling of gender dysphoria,
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In the UK the poor have double the death rate as the wealthy, as
@pollytoynbee
points out, "their coffins soon piling up twice as fast in Blackpool or Middlesbrough as in the richest parts of the country"
#lockdownuk
#coronavirusuk
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