Tanita Tikaram💙
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🥳🙌On 28th June #Glastonbury weekend, the ' WEA/East West Albums 1988-1995' 5 albums remastered including my track-by-track annotations, + b-sides, radio edits & original material , rare photos & memorabilia is released ❤️ . Pre-Order 🙏 Love tanita
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Dear @BBCNews people are more concerned with today’s judgment that Matt Hancock & the government have broken the law & less about people losing titles. Your home page leads with Harry & Meghan , you are sidelining a huge story of corruption that affects us all .
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I will never understand a world in which we have to pay the legal expenses of Boris Johnson and @carolecadwalla has been ordered to pay £1.2 million in legal costs for telling the truth .
This is shocking sign of deep problems in UK system. “The very high costs award made against Carole despite her journalism having been found to be in the public interest is very concerning & has the potential to stifle freedom of expression in the UK.”
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The Dan Wootton story which took journalists 3 years to investigate isn't on the BBC news website, even UK section .The BBC led with the Edwards story for days , a story spoon fed to them from Murdoch's gossipy Sun newspaper to distract from Boris Johnson WhatsApp scandal 😳.
Should be leading every news running order: “Boris Johnson still in possession of his old mobile phone containing crucial WhatsApp messages despite strict deadline set by Covid inquiry. Sunak’s government unable to surrender phone by yesterday’s deadline.”
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It makes me despair that someone as woefully inadequate as #RishiSunak is leading this country ( when he can be bothered to turn up ) & an MP of the calibre of #MhairiBlack is leaving politics because Westminster is too toxic an environment for her to remain 😣 #ToriesOut.
Chris Bryant shreds Rishi Sunak. 6.5 minutes long. Watch all of it in utter shock. This is our PM. How our nation has fallen 🫤
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If you want to understand the sorry state of UK broadcasting Suella Braverman now has a spot on LBC & @SangitaMyska was removed for being a proper journalist 🥴 . .
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She’s a psychopath, so are all the news outlets fangirling her . How have we ended up here ? #RwandaNotInMyName #ToryCriminals.
It is depressing to see someone talk about the deportation of refugees with such happiness. For it to be the Home Secretary is repulsive.
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I have nothing clever to say about kemi Badenoch , it’s just truly depressing to watch her endlessly smirking & delivering crass , racist , hateful, misogynistic rhetoric & somehow in 2024 that qualifies her & passes for a political leadership campaign 😔#Tories.
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Funnily enough voters in London actually like breathing , free school meals & dislike 👎 unhinged racism. Congratulations #SadiqKhan He ran a positive campaign for a progressive, inclusive & diverse #London The London I love ❤️.
BREAKING: Sadiq Khan has won record third term as London mayor, beating Tory Susan Hall by 11.1 points (around 280,000 votes), final results confirm. It’s his biggest lead yet - Khan beat Shaun Bailey in 2021 by 4.7 points and Zac Goldsmith in 2016 by 9.2 points. Only one.
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This absurd appointment really symbolises where we are as a nation The government is openly corrupt but our political system is so antiquated we can’t stop them until the General Election All these awful , dodgy people will still be in power 😔 #ToryBritain.
Does anyone know why Boris Johnson made his former parliamentary assistant Charlotte Owen, 29, a life peer?
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Are any of these stories of #RishiSunak 's endless conflicts of interests making headline news ? Or are they all ' inadvertent ' 😳 ? Shameful how msm whanged on about Farage's bank account for weeks & Sunak's corruption is barely mentioned . It should be a national scandal .
This is corruption. Sunak presides over a policy of payments of £600 for childminders joining the profession. This doubles to £1.2k if they sign up through an agency. His wife is a shareholder of 1 of 6 chosen agencies. And….
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Uneasy with commentators hailing Sunak as PM a triumph for diversity. He’s re-appointed #braverman as Home Sec , she dreams of punishing already traumatised ( mostly ) people of colour Racism isn’t easier to swallow because it comes from fellow Asians it’s just more terrifying.
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The same Badenoch who dismissed the row over Tory donor Hester’s comments about Diane Abbott ( Abbott made you “want to hate all black women” & she “should be shot”) as “trivia” & insisted the Conservative Party shouldn't return his £10m donation. Er. solidarity sister.
I will not shut up. I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls. A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly.
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Is there a more hollow man than Rishi Sunak who will do anything for money & power ? Be more racist, heartless , destructive justifying his abuse of the planet in a snooty tetchy voice that he learned at public school & Oxbridge. He is the modern #Tory party 🇬🇧😣#ToryCorruption.
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Please @BBC don’t do this . If we stop using language honestly we are lost Lee Anderson has been suspended for his racism. A headline like this suggests it’s a free speech issue , but maybe that was your intention #ToryGaslighting
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Is there any official response from the BBC about Raffi Berg ? A sacking , the BBC director resigning ? Or will they continue to hide that someone is responsible for something utterly horrifying & shameful in the same way they do in their coverage of the genocide in Gaza ?.
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I don't want to be controversial but I'm not sure this person has the intellectual curiosity & social / political awareness that warrants a column in a national newspaper 🥴 . #toryhack
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What sort pf person pretends to be poor when they are actually worth £ 200 million & married to a billionaire 😳 ? The sort of person who creates a budget that will push 1.3 million people into poverty including 500000 children #RishiSunak #SpringStatement.
EXCL: Rishi Sunak told MPs today he drives an ageing VW Golf… turns out he’s got three more luxury cars in the garage.
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To help Laura Kuenssberg giddy with excitement for her upcoming interview with Boris Johnson, here is some material to prep for it which she somehow overlooked while he was in power 👇🏼.
In the middle of everything else going on last week, Boris Johnson told MPs he met Russian oligarch and ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev without officials present. If you've not followed this story in detail, we've pulled the different strands together.
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2 men jailed today 4 social media posts that stirred up the recent far-right violence . So why is the BBC interviewing Douglas Murray seated in a Chesterfield spouting the same vile nonsense ? Is a condescending posh accent still a Get Out of Jail Free Card in the UK ?.
I hope @BBCPolitics will confirm that Douglas Murray will no longer be invited to contribute to any of their programming following this openly racist and xenophobic monologue. "If the army will not be sent in, then the public will have to sort this out themselves, and it'll be
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You support an actual rapist, don't use the sexual abuse of children & the church's long & shameful history of covering up abuse to pretend you care about values . You really are halitosis made flesh.
Archbishop Welby has gone, thank the Lord. Perhaps the Anglican Church will now appoint a leader that believes in Christian values?.
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Never forget UK broadcasting 's complicity with the Far Right - LBC gave Farage & his awful racist views a lucrative contract for his own show & the BBC invited him on QT 36 times . Previously , he'd been employed on the Russian government funded channel Russia Today .
I'm sorry I was under the impression that you were the people who employed Nigel Farage but I guess I'm mistaken.
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‘ A leading businesswoman married to the policing minister, Chris Philp, has been reported to the CPS by a former employer & is being sued in the high court over allegations of corporate espionage. ‘ just another normal day in #Tory Land 🥴
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I’m so tired of obscenely rich men acting in the interests of other obscenely rich people pretending they are doing it for the benefit of all 🥴#RishiSunak #ToriesOut.
This afternoon I met police chiefs to make it clear that they have my full support in acting decisively to clamp down on illegal protests. The public have had enough of this disruption and those breaking the law should expect to feel the full force of it. #PublicOrderBill
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Can we all agree now that #whiteprivilege is frighteningly real ? Although , not sure why it's dressed as Jamiroquai 😳 ?
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Hey @Ofcom Would it help you grasp that something untoward is happening in UK broadcasting & the codes of due impartiality & due accuracy if GB News had a more subtle name like ‘ Tory 24 Hours ‘ 🙄 ? #ToryGaslighting #ToryCorruption.
After an hour of uninterrupted air time for Rishi Sunak, GB News cuts away to hear reactions from. the Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party.
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Just driven with my partner who isn’t English to Bristol to stay over before performing at #glastonbury2024 As we passed a sign on the motorway for ‘ Reading Service ‘ she said seriously what’s that , is that where you can stop to read ? And I thought that’s why I love you🧡📚.
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To understand Truss’ bizarre & shameless article in Telegraph a reminder of the extreme right ‘ libertarians ‘ she is beholden to 👉🏽Liz Truss: The Tufton Street Candidate – Byline Times @BylineTimes
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I attended the protest yesterday. This is absolutely surreal from Cooper . It was a peaceful protest to show solidarity with victims of genocide & the ceasefire .We brought children’s clothes , toys & flowers to remember victims ❤️🩹 . Everyone should be able to protest in peace.
Everyone should be able to worship in peace. @metpoliceuk have my support in ensuring that synagogues were not disrupted today.
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What would you do if your lying , cheating , incompetence & disdain for democracy was continually rewarded 🤔? You’d keep doing it of course 🙌🏼The British class system explained in a tweet 🐣 🇬🇧You’re welcome 🙏🏼😇 #ToryCorruption #BorisJohnson
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Just a wild guess but the Tory party’s biggest donor probably hated all black women way before he ever set eyes on MP Diane Abbott .
EXCL: The Conservative party’s biggest donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and the MP “should be shot” - by @rowenamason @matthew_weaver @Direthoughts
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Whata bizarre response from Laura kuenssberg . O'farrell makes important points about how the news is constructed & editorial choices of apparently 'serious ' broadcasters are being shaped by tabloids & she makes some random comment about the police not being pussycats 😳🐈#bias.
John O'Farrell on Rayner: "For the BBC to say we have to cover this because the Mail keep covering it. It's not a story just because the Mail says it is". Laura Kuenssberg: "The Police aren't a bunch of pussycats who just investigate something because a Tory MP tells them to. "
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She’s also spent most of her career blaming Muslims for the end of Western civilisation . she does realise UAE 🇦🇪 is a Muslim country right 🤔 ?.
Isabel Oakeshott who spent years complaining of immigrants coming to the UK and not speaking English. Has moved to Dubai, where she's an immigrant, and doesn't speak Arabic 🤷♂️
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UK voters have firmly rejected the politics of cruelty & division so why does the BBC continue to silence so many moderate & deserving voices & amplify the extremism of MPs like #SuellaBraverman ? Such editorial choices feel like they’ve chosen a side .
Incredible. Conservatives trounced in the local elections, but the bbc flagship politicial programme #bbclaurak lead “interview” is an unchallenged rant from the delusional, divisive, twice-sacked, right wing crank, Suella Braverman. Why was she platformed?. #LauraKuenssberg
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🇬🇧 UK media knew about Farage 🇷🇺& Russia instead of holding the traitor to account he was paid £ 1.5 million to appear on I'm a Celebrity making him the highest paid contestant ever & the go to for every radio/tv booker to share his enlightened views on ‘immigration’. 🥴.
Britain has a Russia problem. And his name is Nigel Farage. Today, Ofcom finally banned RT. 8 long years after Russia illegally invaded Crimea. But this is their man. RT - whose editor described it as a "weapon" of the Russian state - is what made Farage into who is today. 1/
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Starmer’s support for Israel is shameful. He’s my local MP & I voted for him in the GE but it feels like Tony Blair’s support for the Iraq war all over again . I think many Labour voters will be asking the same question as me ,how can I vote for a party that supports genocide ?.
After fourteen months of genocide in Gaza, Keir Starmer was the guest of honour at Labour Friends of Israel's annual lunch this week.
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I thought removing the Mickey Mouse murals was bad enough !.'In his ruling, Mr Justice Swift found that the home secretary broke the law in withholding payments of £3 a week to provide healthy food for children aged 1 to 3 & pregnant women' #Tory
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Finally , someone in public life , a #Tory no less , has the guts to say it out loud 👊🏽#racism The colour of our skin , sexuality or religion doesn’t magically enlighten us & mean we aren’t bigoted or self hating & capable of doing terrible things against others & our own 😞.
'I am calling her rhetoric racist, I am.'. Tory peer Baroness @SayeedaWarsi condemns Suella Braverman's language and tells @mrjamesob we need a grown-up as Home Secretary, not a 'Trump tribute act'.
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Maybe if the Green Party had halitosis & was horribly racist The BBC would be championing them too 🥴.
Why Nigel Farage’s return to the fray matters — a quick read from me @BBCNews:
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Will the UK 🇬🇧 media now stop pretending Farage & his Reform company are a party of the disillusioned working class & start asking him why he’s being financed by billionaire Nazis ? Or can’t they do that because they’re financed by billionaire Nazis too 🥴 ?.
AfD is a German far right party. They're Nazis who can't say they're Nazis because of restrictions under German law. Glad we can finally stop dancing around what Musk's politics really are.
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How can anyone be proud of tearing the families apart of people who do one of the most undervalued & hardest jobs on the planet ? James Cleverly , a true #Tory punishing the poor with a smile on his face #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern.
Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants. This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration 👇
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Dear world media ( the bit not owned by bonkers billionaires ) , please don’t report this in a detached, I’m so comfortable & middle class the novelty of fascism is oddly titillating, way . take sides & call the evil maniac out every minute of the day .
Trump: “Get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore. In four years you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good your not gonna have to vote.”
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‘ Living in a tent ⛺️ in the middle of winter as a ‘ lifestyle’ choice ‘ .Just when you think the #Tories can’t get any worse you wake up to #SuellaBraverman trying to convince us that being homeless is like glamping at Glastonbury. #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern.
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4.
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Can you spare some more disgust for Rishi Sunak ? He appointed her less than a week after she was forced to resign for breaking the ministerial code / security lapse . That puts Sunak in the rare & weird position of having less integrity than Liz Truss 😳#ToriesUnfitToGovern.
@SuellaBraverman This woman disgusts me.
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No idea who the subject of tonight’s Channel 4 #Dispatches is ,but if your opinion of the show has been formed by Russell Brand it’s worth noting #Dispatches’ history of holding power to account & challenging the establishment .Bit like Brand but with research & accountability.
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Why was this not investigated at the time ? I don’t think people outside of UK can understand or believe the industrial scale corruption of this #tory government & how they continue to get away with it 🥴. #MattHancock #torycorruption.
Remember this great news for Matt Hancock and family. His sister owns a company called Topwood, and it was given £300,000 in NHS contracts. Luckily for Matt, he has a 15% share in the company. Lovely stuff. #MichelleMone #ToryCorruption #PPEscandal
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What do you have to do in this country to get unbiased news ,how could any serious journalist write this after such a huge defeat for the Tories in the local elections ? Shouldn’t it be a minimum requirement for a journalist to tell the truth even if they don’t like it ?.
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The fake empathy of a man who ‘ personally intervened to stop the scrapping of a contract providing VIP helicopter 🚁 transport for himself & senior ministers’ . #Sunak’s campaign slogan should be Your Pain is my Gain . what an absolute shell of a human .
SUNAK: "I will never dismiss or downplay the illnesses people have.". SUNAK (53 seconds later): Rising numbers with depression and anxiety are down to an "over-medicalising everyday challenges". 🤔~AA
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England isn’t sleepwalking into fascism it’s welcomed it with open arms . Farage has appeared on Question Time 35 times , had his own radio & TV shows & newspaper columns . Instead of asking who finances him , which extremist groups he is connected with , analysing his ideas.
Nigel Farage has spoken and it might be good to listen to the things he said, which CPAC Dallas cheered to the absolute rafters. Here's what he said:.
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Just for providing universal free school meals , Sadiq Khan rightly receives an honour . Ok , I know it’s not the same as donating to a political party or being related to Boris Johnson but the honours system has got to let some of the riff raff through !.
The Tory Government won't step up and provide free school meals for all primary school children. So Labour in City Hall will.
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Nah . the BBC has a Laura Kuenssberg & Robbie Gibb problem Surely, somewhere ,someone in BBC current affairs feels a tiny bit ashamed about working in a department that churns out ‘content’ like this.
Does Keir Starmer have a "lads" problem in government?. Hear more from Laura Kuenssberg on Rosie Duffield's resignation in the latest #BBCNewscast.
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I wish Hoyle had reacted like this before in the multiple times when government has lied & shown contempt for parliament . Kemi Badenoch is what happens when you don't .
"Who do you think you're speaking to?. I am not going to be spoken to by a Secretary of State who is absolutely not accepting my ruling". Sir Lindsay Hoyle rebukes Kemi Badenoch over announcing changes to Retained EU Law Bill to the media.
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Having a hard time accepting that the guys who brought you #brexit the biggest act of self harm in 🇬🇧 history & now extoll the virtues of setting fires to libraries, homes &mosques as expressing legitimate concerns over migration really have the nation’s best interests at heart.
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What are the consequences for someone in 🇬🇧society whose lies have brought such hardship & ruin to his fellow countrymen & women 🤔? Does he lose his position , job , reputation ? Nah , he ‘s conferred a life peerage after a nomination by Boris Johnson obvs 🙄 #ToryCorruption.
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Johnson & Arcuri happened & he became PM & when the story came out when he was PM the BBC didn't think it was ' newsworthy ' @Hardeep_Matharu 's report is a timely reminder of #Tory impunity . maybe if he'd just wrongly reported his work mobile phone stolen 😧.
Boris Johnson & The Curious Case of Jennifer Arcuri. There's no CCTV but there is £100,000 of taxpayers' money @Hardeep_Matharu
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In between jetting to his Malibu home & overheating his new swimming pool the more corruption there is in @RishiSunak ‘s government, the more Sunak will attack the weakest in society. Last week refugees, this week the homeless. Not strong , desperate The man is despicable #Tory.
People begging on Britain's streets will be targeted as part of new proposals to crack down on anti-social behavior. It comes as the PM prepares to announce new powers to deal with people who are said to be causing the public distress.
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As the UK government becomes increasingly authoritarian it’s chilling to see how #bbcnews has been with them every step of the way . what happened today in Glasgow was a huge story of community & solidarity , it’s shameful to reduce it to this soundbite #KenmureStreet.
Here's the entire thirty seconds of sanitised coverage that #BBCNews at Six dedicated to the protests at #KenmureStreet #Pollokshields in #Glasgow today. Watch it and see for yourself that the BBC is just a propaganda mouthpiece for the #Tories at Westminster.
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All the Angela Rayner story proves is that a large part of the media & political class is deeply committed to the class war but unless your wealth has been inherited or created by betting on everyone else losing they won't be fighting for you #ToryCorruption #ToryGaslighting.
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The most vulnerable in society are being targeted so the #Tories can swan around enjoying their obscene wealth & ‘ lifestyle’ . Has there ever been a more despicable & corrupt UK government ? #ToryGaslighting #ToryCriminals.
A reminder that this is the same government that is currently promising to clamp down on what it describes as "immoral" waste in the civil service
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If you want to understand entitlement & class privilege watch this clip . Boris Johnson helped f@ck up the UK economy & undermine UK democracy, instead of facing consequences he’s paid to tour the world & gloat about 🇬🇧 decline pretending it was nothing to do with him .
What’s mind-blowing about this clip is that Boris Johnson essentially tells you here that Brexit was a horrible mistake without actually saying those words - but this is as close as we might ever come:.
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True story The only time I saw Richard Tice was outside a posh Mayfair restaurant He was waiting for his valet parked Uber SUV . He somehow sort of tripped on a gutter & looked at me as if It was my fault ! Which basically sums up the Reform party . .
The only time I saw Farage in person he was walking out of one of the most expensive restaurants in London (Wiltons on Jermyn Street). So him and Tice probably don't realise you can get a latte in McDonald's.
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Why isn’t this illegal ? Aren’t there some basic rules & standards to follow in an election campaign ? It’s so depressing & I imagine the data will be used to target susceptible voters with even more outlandish lies & divisive language 😟 #ToryGaslighting.
These are the leaflets the Conservative Party is currently putting out in London. Just straightforward disinformation, designed to trick people into handing over their data.
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The glorious future we have to look forward to if the #Tories achieve their goal of withdrawing from the European Court of Human Rights 😧 #ToryCorruption.
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