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You think Churchill was a racist? Just wait till you hear about the guy he defeated.
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Australia is offering us a free trade deal.🇦🇺
Brazil is offering us a free trade deal.🇧🇷
China is offering us a free trade deal.🇨🇳
The US is offering us a free trade deal.🇺🇸
In fact, the only major economy NOT offering us a free trade deal is the EU.🇪🇺
Time to switch partners?
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Seriously, Remainers, did you think 17.4 million of us didn’t mean it? That it was some sort of joke?
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Just a thought. Given that the roads are empty, shouldn’t councils be taking the opportunity to fix lots of potholes?
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My late mother was in Peking when student mobs smashed statues. She told me about the demented atmosphere of those days, the way respectable people cowered before rioters. I could never quite picture it. Until now.
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“Brexit chaos” makes it sound as though the mess in Westminster is the fault of 17.4 million Leave voters. It’s not. It’s the fault of those politicians who, after promising to respect the result, spent three years blocking it.
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One day in and so far:
❌No food riots
❌No medicine shortages
❌No gridlocked motorways
❌No migrant camps in Kent
❌No collapse in house prices
❌No emergency tax rises
❌No world war
Weren't we told that "It's not Project Fear, it's Project Reality"?
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Is there a sillier sight than British protesters chanting the “hands up don’t shoot” slogan at unarmed London coppers?
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If you campaigned against fracking, fine: it’s a democracy. If you opposed nuclear power, fine: we’re all entitled to our views. But please don’t now complain about rising energy bills.
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The police are fearless against people who don't wear masks on trains, or buy bottles of wine, or sit in their own gardens. But against protesters who wreck property, or prevent the distribution of a free press, or smash statues? Not so much.
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Twitter may regret de-verifying people of whom it disapproves. Until now, a blue tick simply meant authentication, but henceforth it implies endorsement. Suddenly, Twitter is in the ideology business.
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If only we hadn't had ten weeks of TV presenters stoking the hysteria....
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When the European Arrest Warrant was introduced, we were told it would be used to extradite terrorists, not elected regional politicians.
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My son is about the same age as Dominic’s. If this were going on outside my house, I would do anything necessary to move him somewhere else.
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Yes, he had his flaws, but let's also recognise
@BorisJohnson
's virtues. He was generous, brilliant, spirited, incapable of malice, infectiously optimistic, unable to hold grudges. He ended the constitutional chaos of 2018, defeated Corbyn and delivered Brexit. Not a bad record.
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The restrictions were supposed to be a temporary response to a one-off situation. Yet they are in danger of becoming a standard tool for governments. From my speech on "Plan B" today.
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I am prepared to listen to a wide range of views about the lockdowns. But I draw the line when broadcasters (or Labour MPs) who spent two years screaming for harsher restrictions now have the gall to turn around and complain about the suffering that was inflicted.
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I’m getting slightly tired of being told why I voted Leave by people who voted Remain.
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You want to argue that the risk of outdoor transmission is tiny? Fine. That non-vulnerable people should be free to take risks? Absolutely. That the lockdown was too harsh all along? I agree. But don't you dare tell me, after this, that shops and schools should stay closed.
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For the love of God, what is happening to this country?
'When you act like that, you act like Donald Trump'
An elderly supporter of the US president is pushed to the ground during anti-Trump protests in London
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Channel 4 News has given up any pretence at accuracy, seriousness or responsibly. I won’t appear on it again.
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It is happening even earlier than expected. People who supported the lockdown have now backdated the moment that they changed their minds, and are retrospectively furious about policies they demanded at the time.
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Ninety-six million people were murdered in the name of Marxism, some shot into pits, some starved as deliberate state policy, some arrested in the night and tortured to death. No other ideology comes close to being so lethal.
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I am so proud of my diffident, stubborn, bloody-minded countrymen right now. Despite all the pressure, all the bullying and hectoring, we rejected extremism and voted for a Conservative leader who pledged to deliver the referendum result. Democracy still means something here. 🇬🇧
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Boris did the deal to get us out that you thought he would never achieve. You then blocked it. Now you want to string out the uncertainty even more. Blame Boris? Just how stupid do you think we are?
Boris Johnson has spent months promising we'd leave the EU today. The failure to do so is his and his alone. Labour will get Brexit sorted by giving the people the final say within six months with the choice of a credible leave deal or remain. And we'll carry out what you decide.
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Odd how many people think that it's fine to have mass demonstrations, but not to reopen schools.
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Macron’s government has threatened to blockade the Channel Islands and to cut electricity supplies, and has formally asked Brussels to take tough action against the UK so as to make Brexit hurt. It is hardly unreasonable to question whether he is a friend to our country.
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Lockdowns might have been justified as an emergency response - a way to buy time and build capacity. But they are not an answer to an endemic virus. They offer no exit strategy. And, more to the point, they don’t work very well.
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Why should we listen to calls for another referendum from people who, by definition, don’t accept referendum results?
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“Hello? BT? I’d like someone to install broadband.”
“No problem, comrade. We can get an engineer to you on 20 March 2033.”
“Great! Can you make it the afternoon? I have the gas company coming in the morning.”
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If you backed green levies, don't complain about fuel poverty.
If you opposed trade deals that lifted tariffs on imported food, don't complain about food poverty.
If you wanted a longer and stricter lockdown, don't complain about the cost of living.
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So, according to Twitter.
Making an off-colour joke years ago disqualifies you from serving on a quango.
Supporting Hezbollah, the Soviet Union and the IRA qualifies you to be prime minister.
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My least favourite phrase in politics: "Doing nothing is not an option".
Doing nothing is always an option. Often, it is the best option.
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Unpopular opinion. I feel deeply uncomfortable imposing economic sanctions on people who have not been found guilty of breaking any laws. We are not Putin’s Russia, for Heaven’s sake.
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Two possibilities:
1. All the opinion polls are wrong, and 95 per cent of the country hates the Tories.
2. The BBC's audience is unrepresentative.
#bbcqt
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People are not stupid. If MPs vote to cancel Brexit, they won’t blame Brexiteers. They’ll blame the MPs who, you know, voted to cancel Brexit.
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You want to get rid of Boris because you hate Brexit, or because you’re pro-lockdown, or because you want to keep the BBC licence fee? Fair enough. But because he stepped into his garden while officials who had been working there every evening were drinking wine? Come off it.
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For half a century, Republicans accepted a Left-leaning Supreme Court without questioning its legitimacy. The moment the tables are turned, Democrats want to change the rules.
#SCOTUS
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Britain was not just early in abolishing slavery. It poured blood and treasure into extirpating the foul trade internationally. Even at the height of its life-and-death struggle with Bonaparte, it was diverting warships to hunt down the Atlantic slavers.
#WestAfricaSquadron
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Hmmm. Holding a second vote in Turkey is "dictatorship". But holding a second vote in the UK is democracy?
This outrageous decision highlights how Erdogan’s
#Turkey
is drifting towards a dictatorship. Under such leadership, accession talks are impossible. Full support to the Turkish people protesting for their democratic rights and for a free and open Turkey!
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Prof Ferguson's private life is none of my damn business. But the fact that he has condemned 65 million of us to house arrest on the basis of something he plainly can't believe in very strongly - that bothers me.
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We're leaving. You don't get to tell us how to conduct our domestic politics any more.
"Taking back control" has never looked so sinister. As a fellow parliamentarian, my solidarity with those fighting for their voices to be heard.
Suppressing debate on profound choices is unlikely to help deliver a stable future EU - UK relationship.
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Margaret Thatcher, who inherited a Britain that was poor and demoralised, and made it it rich and free, was toppled 30 years ago
#OTD
. She was brought down by people who felt we would be better off joining the euro. Who called that one right?
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Violent protestors should be dealt with in the same way, whether they are on the Right or the Left. Without impartial law, we cannot have an open society. I am astonished by how many people on both sides refuse to accept this - including, alas, Sadiq Khan.
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Did anyone pretending to be offended by the reference to the Surrender Act complain when Yanis Varoufakis made these widely publicised remarks? Anyone at all? No? Then your confected outrage is - what's the word I want? Oh yes: humbug.
‘This is a deal that a nation signs only after having been defeated at war’
Economist
@yanisvaroufakis
criticises Theresa May on Brexit.
#bbcqt
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It’s somehow symbolic of our age that Twitter has banned Donald Trump but not Vladimir Putin (
@KremlinRussia_E
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If you want another lockdown, with all the loss of liberty, livelihoods and, indeed, lives, the onus is on you to prove your case. "Better safe than sorry" won't cut it. You need to show that lockdowns bring big and incontestable health benefits. What's the evidence that they do?
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Beth Rigby never lets up, does she? So many useful and important things she could ask about concerning immunity, spread, the latest science. But, every day, it’s some attempted gotcha along the lines of “Shouldn’t you have said this...?”
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Eighty-six per cent of MPs were elected in 2017 on manifestos promising to honour the referendum result. Now Labour - helped by a handful of Tory Euro-zealots - have gone back on those promises. This goes beyond Brexit: they are delegitimising our system of government.
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The freedom to travel, to congregate, to buy and sell, to exercise property rights - these things are our birthright. They are not prizes to be earned through good behaviour as though we were prisoners applying for parole.
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A few commentators tried to warn during the lockdown that every day of it would mean more inflation, higher taxes and a slower recovery. They were called callous killers. Now, those who demanded the strictest possible restrictions rage about the consequences. Funny old world.
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Today, Theresa May went as far as any British leader could go to accommodate Brussels, offering money, acceptance of EU regulations and other one-sided concessions. She was rebuffed and trolled online by Donald Tusk - and some UK Remainers cheered. Now watch Leave support harden.
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"As a small country..." We are the world's fifth economy and fourth military power, a nuclear state and one of five permanent UN Security council members. We're home to the planet's greatest city and chief language. How much bigger must we be before we can govern ourselves?
Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse says the UK would be an 'irrelevant country outside the EU'
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Forty years ago
#OTD
, Margaret Thatcher inherited a country that was poor, indebted and pessimistic. Eleven years later, she left it rich, confident and free.
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No doubt John Major and Tony Blair see themselves as distinguished elder statesmen, and perhaps a few others share that view. But I'm pretty sure that most voters will see two politicians who spent their careers backing Brussels whether it was right or wrong doing so once again.
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A prorogation normally happens every autumn. This parliamentary session has lasted three years - the longest since the Civil War. What kind of screwed-up mindset do you need to see the long-overdue return of constitutional normality as "a coup"?
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Few have suffered more than the 18-year-olds - yanked out of school with no goodbyes, their leavers' celebrations cancelled, no final summer, a miserable university experience, a lifetime of debt repayment - all because of a disease that poses next to no danger to them.
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I have a horrible vision of every Tory MP losing his seat, a Lib-Lab government cancelling Brexit and scrapping the Lords, leaving me as the last Conservative standing - still in the sodding EU.
Westminster voting intention:
BREX: 26% (+1)
LAB: 22% (-4)
CON: 17% (-5)
LDEM: 16% (+4)
GRN: 11% (+7)
CHUK: 1% (-1)
UKIP: 1% (-1)
via
@OpiniumResearch
, 28 - 30 May
Chgs. w/ 20 May
First ever poll to put Brex ahead.
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A gentle reminder that 17.4 million is a bigger number than 550,000.
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Lenin enslaved an entire country, Charlotte.
Hi, pics of the Lenin statue in Seattle are being passed around among conservatives. A few quick notes:
1. It's privately owned and situated on private property.
2. It is has, in fact, been frequently vandalized.
3. Lenin was not a slaveowner, you Confederate apologist fucks.
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We are becoming demented. Not a single person is singing it with malicious intent. Not a single person has until now been hurt by hearing it. Why do people keep looking for reasons to be offended?
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2016: Goldman Sachs says Brexit would be a “disaster”which would force it to cut its UK presence.
2019: Goldman Sachs opens a billion pound new European head office in London.
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Does self employment confer COVID immunity? Lots of teachers, civil servants and airport workers seem to have been taking time off work. Very few café owners, cab drivers or builders.
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Quite something to hear
@Keir_Starmer
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@BBCr4today
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Of all the shocking innovations proposed over the past 3 years, by far the most outrageous is the idea of giving the vote to three million people who do not have UK citizenship. It would be scandalous even if it had been fully debated and proposed in a winning party's manifesto.
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Every year it rains in June. And every year, English people ask in apparent astonishment what has happened to the summer. Similarly, every year, September is beautiful, and every year English people revel in what they call an Indian summer. It isn’t. It’s a normal English summer.
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Either it's OK for people to demonstrate or it's not. It can't be OK if it's a BLM protest but wrong if it's an anti-lockdown protest.
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Pollsters, economists, epidemiologists. They are the mediaeval physicians of our age: clever at coming up with explanations for what has already happened, useless at forecasting the future.
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One party wants a general election. The other is both refusing an election and seeking to overturn a referendum. Which one does Kevin accuse of tyranny and coups?
Coup is increasingly apt when demotic tinpot tyrant Boris Johnson’s threatening to defy the law.
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The EU agreement delivers:
🇬🇧Supremacy of British law
🚛Independent UK trade policy
💰No annual tribute to Brussels
🚜Control of farming and fishing
🤝Good relations with our EU neighbours
All MPs elected in 2017 on pro-Brexit manifestoes - Labour, Tory and DUP - should back it.
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So many BBC presenters turn out to be rabidly anti-Tory the moment they leave. Yet we're supposed to accept that the people still there are paragons of impartiality.
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It seems clear, in retrospect, that we should have concentrated on shielding the elderly and vulnerable - paying carers to live in if needed - and let those not at risk go about their business. Are we really going to impose new restrictions rather than admitting to a mistake?
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When I see “antifa” thugs glorifying violence, attacking parliamentary democracy, wearing black shirts and saying things like “Burn Israel!” they don’t look to me like anti-fascists. Real anti-fascists - people who actually fought fascism - look rather more like this.
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Opposition MPs gridlock Parliament, then say "Brexit isn't working!"
They refuse to implement the referendum, then say "Trust the people!"
They block a general election, then say "Bring it on!"
Do they really think we're that stupid?
#DemocracyDodgers
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We are now told that an agreement between the UK and the EU to defer the exit date trumps our domestic legislation. So much for the idea that Parliament was sovereign all along.
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I would like to see a Republican Party unequivocally committed to:
✅Limited government
✅Restraints on on the executive
✅States' rights
✅Low taxes
✅Free trade
✅Constitutional propriety
✅Civil liberties
✅Strict adherence to the Constitution
How about it,
@GOP
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Thirty years ago today, it looked as though socialism was finished for good. It had brought squalor and oppression in every place it had been tried. I would never have imagined, back then, that it would come back into fashion.
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Many young people live in rented rooms or tiny flats. Their chances of a job after all this are slim. They face a lifetime of paying off the debts we have run up over the past eight weeks. Do we really need to scream at them for sitting in a park?
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Hmm. Jews invented teddy bears, anthropology, biros, nuclear physics, remote controls, psychoanalysis, cheesecake and traffic lights. Also, in the person of Moses, moral law. Oh, and with 0.2% of the world population, Jews won 23% of Nobel Prizes. Not bad.
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I’m normally a
#Marr
fan, but he let himself down there. What is the point of asking someone onto your programme - let alone the PM - if you’re going to start talking across them two words into every answer they give?
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I feel so proud to be British this morning. The hectoring, the bullying, the scare-stories failed to dent our resolve.
#IndependenceDay
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Labour wanted a stricter lockdown, opposed every loosening of the restrictions and favours more eco-taxes. Yet it has the nerve to complain about inflation.
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Thousands of young men came from Africa and the Caribbean to defend Britain in two world wars, every one of them a volunteer. Today, protesters vandalised the memorial to all the men, black, brown and white, who fell in those conflicts. Their lives mattered, too.
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Heaven knows I have my criticisms of this administration. But the idea that it is scandalous for the PM to be photographed in proximity to tinsel and alcohol is beyond absurd. How we shall shake our heads in years to come, wondering what the fuss was about.
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My concern since March has been that restrictions are easier to apply than to remove. We need to be clear that, once the vaccine has been made available to at-risk groups, the country must reopen fully and immediately.
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Wokies who call
@HonTonyAbbott
"misogynist" or "homophobic" really mean that he is a practising Catholic. Tony is a good and generous man who still works tirelessly for Australia's indigenous communities. He knows how to get ambitious trade deals done. We are lucky to have him.
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By the end of next month, we will have had around two thirds of the entire time it took to fight the First World War to prepare for Brexit. If we're really not ready, what does that say about the state of the government machine?
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The time has come,
The time is now.
Just go, go, go!
I don’t care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Theresa May,
will you please go now!
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This is unpopular every time I say it, but sanctions never work. If you're serious about defending Ukraine, send arms, provide air-cover, deploy troops, whatever. If not, let it go and throw an iron ring around NATO. But don't pretend that dictators are scared of trade embargoes.
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This should be the last day that we need to wear masks. As of midnight, we become the freest place in Europe.
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Corbyn is happy to welcome:
✅Hamas
✅The IRA
✅Fidel Castro
✅Hezbollah
✅Hugo Chávez
Corbyn is not happy to welcome
❌ The leader of our most important ally
Theresa May should not be rolling out the red carpet for a state visit to honour a President who rips up vital international treaties, backs climate change denial and uses racist and misogynist rhetoric.
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Now that Covid has been crowded out of the news by a more immediate story, can we finally admit that some of the restrictions were a tad over-the-top?
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The Withdrawal Agreement was accompanied by the promise of a trade deal in 2020. Far from negotiating such a deal, the EU was using it to threaten tariffs and barriers within the UK. No responsible British government could leave that threat unaddressed.
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Did I miss the Tweet where Sadiq said the BLM and anti-statue protests were "not acceptable"?
This is not acceptable. I urge all protestors to leave now. Large gatherings are banned for a reason - you are putting the safety of our city at risk.
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Labour: "Shocking to jail Catalan politicians for demanding independence."
Also Labour: "If Boris won't send a letter cancelling independence, he should be jailed!"
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