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Andrew Cooper

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6 years

The rottenness of Boris Johnson goes deeper even than his casual racism & his equally casual courting of fascism. He will advocate literally anything to play to the crowd of the moment. His career is a saga of moral emptiness & lies; pathetic, weak & needy; the opposite of strong

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The Prime Minister attending the *celebration* of the repulsive Paul Dacre's 25 years as editor of the disgusting Daily Mail is another depressing sign of the sickness at the heart of UK politics & the Tory Party weakly traipsing towards the edge of a cliff.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Trump on course to get the highest share of non-white voter for a Republican Presidential candidate since Nixon in 1960 - more than twice what Romney got in 2012, nearly three times what GW Bush got in 2000

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Andrew Cooper

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8 years

"Would we have won without £350m/NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests No" - Dominic Cummings, Director of Vote Leave

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

What the hell is wrong with these people? Do they have no moral compass at all?

Neil Henderson

@hendopolis

4 years

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH FRONT: Migrant boats to be stopped with nets and sent back #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Andrew Cooper

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6 years

Opposition to a People’s Vote is just the resentful, petulant realisation that the country has changed its mind & undemocratic determination to stop that fact being allowed to be seen.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

If none of the PM’s officials or political advisors made him aware yesterday of the Rashford campaign gaining such rapid momentum, raised in the Commons & explicitly rejected in his name by his official spokesperson, that suggests a completely dysfunctional & inept No10 operation

Lewis Goodall

@lewis_goodall

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Prime Minister says he only became aware of Marcus Rashford’s campaign on free school meals “very, very recently- in fact, today.”

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Andrew Cooper

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5 years

I have come to the same conclusion as Michael Heseltine, for exactly the same reasons - and will be voting @LibDems in Thursday’s European Parliament elections.

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Andrew Cooper

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5 years

If we weren’t so punchdrunk by the relentless awfulness & endless lies this would be - which it should be - a full-on national scandal. What good reason could there be for a PM to suppress a report on Russian meddling in UK elections?

Beth Rigby

@BethRigby

5 years

NEW: Dominic Grieve says he’s “extremely disappointed” the report on Russian ‘interference’ cannot be pub’d. Says cttee had made arrangements to print & lay report b4 parliament dissolved but blocked by PM. Says procedures need to change so this can’t happen again

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

This is the point: Johnson, Gove & their crew literally promised that we would never face these hard choices. They said the exact scenario we now face was Project Fear lies. They were certain the EU would give us a deal more or less as good as what we had. That’s why they won.

steve richards

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4 years

It’s worse than that... it’s a decision he and others pretended they would never have to make.

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6 years

It’s really not OK that the President of the European Commission is a drunk who can’t be allowed out in public after lunch. It’s not at all OK if he touches anyone inappropriately. A responsible, ethical institution would have zero tolerance. This is nothing to do with Brexit.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Brexit is & has always been an English Nationalist project, which was always bound to tear the UK apart.

Peter Foster

@pmdfoster

4 years

SO after furious complaint about @michaelgove refusing #Brexit extension, the Scottish and Welsh govts of @NicolaSturgeon and @fmwales Mark Drakeford refuse to take part in consultation ahead of @BorisJohnson meeting on Monday. Message: this will be an ENGLISH, TORY #Brexit .

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Johnson said: “Too many care homes didn’t really follow the procedures”. Like Trump he refuses to accept responsibility for anything. And like Trump the response of his government, when challenged on his appalling remarks, is plain lying.

Joe Pike

@joepike

4 years

No 10 have since said: ‘Throughout this crisis care homes have done a brilliant job under very difficult circumstances. ‘The PM was pointing out that nobody knew what the correct procedures were because the extent of asymptomatic transmission was not known at the time.’

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Andrew Cooper

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7 years

@SamCoatesTimes The most fundamental thing it means is that we now know there are only 62 Brexit-before-country Tory Nationalist MPs - less than a 5th of all Tory MPs. They can & must be ignored: big majority against them even among Tory MPs & massive majority across Parliament as a whole.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

7 years

What Bucks Fizz look like now

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

5 years

Boris Johnson’s first @IpsosMORI leader satisfaction rating, minus 7% net, is the worst for any party leader since they started collecting this data 40 years ago. Hague & Corbyn the only others to be in negative territory from month one.

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Andrew Cooper

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5 years

This is totally indefensible & profoundly irresponsible.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

5 years

The showreel of a narcissistic sociopath...

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Yes, of course. These people have no integrity whatsoever and got where they did by basically lying about everything. They have contempt for ordinary people & don’t think rules apply to them.

Matthew Stadlen

@MatthewStadlen

4 years

After Professor Neil Ferguson broke lockdown rules, @MattHancock said: ‘I think he took the right decision to resign.’ Will it be one rule for Ferguson and another for Dominic Cummings?

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Andrew Cooper

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6 years

@michaelgove @BorisJohnson Your people. Your mob. If you had any integrity at all you’d be ashamed.

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Andrew Cooper

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8 years

Fascinating insight from @YouGov : Remain voters trust experts, Leave voters don't trust anyone.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

6 years

Leavers do not own the right to define the detail of Brexit. They could’ve campaigned for a specific idea of what Brexit meant. They could’ve sought a mandate for ‘No deal better than bad deal’/Brexit-regardless-of-cost. They didn’t - because they knew that would lose.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Truth blurt: Chief Brexit propagandist @michaelgove accidentally acknowledging that Scotland is worse off because of Brexit.

Michael Gove

@michaelgove

4 years

Independence would cost Scotland far more than Brexit, study finds

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Measured, precise, devastating - the superb @DavidGauke sums up what’s wrong with the Tories (who kicked out him and me).

David Gauke: The Prime Minister will regret not requiring Cummings' resignation | Conservative Home

A Government that shows humility and honesty will retain the benefit of the doubt, but that runs counter to a ‘never apologise, never explain’ ethos.

conservativehome.com

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

7 years

It is very hard now to argue that 'austerity hasn't worked'. Its point was to eliminate the deficit & it has. @David_Cameron and @George_Osborne deserve immense credit for this.

Oliver Cooper

@OliverCooper

7 years

The UK is now running a current budget surplus - that is, we no longer borrow to fund day-to-day spending - for the first time since 2002. Britain is back in the black.

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Andrew Cooper

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7 years

Voters overwhelmingly now remember only two arguments being made in favour of Brexit before the referendum: curb immigration & more money for the NHS.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

6 years

This looks like by far the most robust analysis of changes in public opinion since the referendum - big sample, proven cutting edge methodology & sophisticated modelling by the impeccably strong team at focaldata

Michael Savage

@michaelsavage

6 years

Tomorrow’s @ObserverUK ... More than 100 Leave seats now back Remain - new analysis.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

5 years

The Commonwealth of Virginia has changed from completely Republican to completely Democrat in a single generation - because the demographic structure of party support has rotated (almost everywhere, not just there) driven by identity & open/closed values.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Biden leads Trump by 22% among white voters with a degree. Trump leads Biden by 26% among white voters without a degree.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

7 years

@michaelgove Yes - his educational track record qualifies him. But values matter too, in public servants. And unfortunately his long back-catalogue of obnoxious hateful and misogynistic public statements disqualify him (and taint the Tories who back him).

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 months

@MattChorley You can't ban polls, only their publication. That would mean campaigns & hedge funds would know what was going on, but voters wouldn't.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Utterly shocking. @greg_doucette has posted a seemingly endless sequence of similarly grotesque and indefensible examples. As he concludes, it’s the police who are doing the rioting.

T. Greg Doucette

@greg_doucette

4 years

2️⃣8️⃣2️⃣ Buffalo, NY: casual attempted homicide, as police shove an elderly man until he falls and cracks his skull on the concrete

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Andrew Cooper

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7 years

Vote Leave made a Farageist, not *liberal* case for Brexit. Cutting immigration & boosting the NHS is what Johnson, Gove & co. sold to the British people. Deeply cynical & dishonest for Johnson to try to re-frame Brexit as *liberal* now.

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Andrew Cooper

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10 years

Calm, proportionate reporting by British newspapers played its part in these European election results http://t.co/YBQmBp3GNt

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

The US Senate is split 50/50 for only the 4th time in history. The 50 Democrat Senators were elected by 83 million voters & represent 201 million people. The 50 Republican Senators were elected by 63 million voters & represent 161 million people.

The Recount

@therecount

4 years

The Senate is split equally for the first time in 20 years, and for only the fourth time in history. But the 50/50 division only further highlights the body’s ever-growing representation gap — and deep structural flaws.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

6 years

Context: Jaguar-Land Rover annual profit = £1.6bn in 2017, £1.5bn in 2018.

FT UK Politics

@ftukpolitics

6 years

Jaguar Land Rover says hard Brexit will cost it £1.2bn a year

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

The whole bloody point is that quarantining after possible exposure isn’t a choice.

Shimon Prokupecz

@ShimonPro

4 years

Attorney General Barr chooses not to quarantine despite possible exposure to Covid-19

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Andrew Cooper

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10 years

Twyman's Law: any statistic that looks interesting or surprising is almost certainly wrong

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

A lie to support a lie to defend a lie to explain a lie to deflect a lie to deflect attention from a lie.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

4 years

Tomorrow’s Telegraph front page: “Johnson: EU a threat to integrity of the UK” #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

5 years

In Copenhagen, Brexit as literal pantomime.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Boris Johnson just said 'black lives matter' – but here's 10 of his most racist quotes

This week, the issue of racial inequality has taken centre stage as people across the world protest against police brutality after the death of George Floyd.Today, many people wearily tuned in to...

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Prediction: 20 or 30 years from now, Boris Johnson's name will be firmly in the conversation about who has been the worst Prime Minister in UK history.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

The Prime Minister’s new Director of Communications was responsible for one of the most inflammatory & divisive contributions in the whole Brexit saga.

Laura Kuenssberg

@bbclaurak

4 years

Lee Cain is resigning from Downing Street - James Slack to become the new Director of Communications - official statements expected soon

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Andrew Cooper

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7 years

Having a Free School entrepreneur & Conservative on the Office for Students is an excellent idea. But surely they could have found one who doesn't also have a trail of vile, leering nastiness. Latest example of the Tory values failure, which is killing them.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

@DavidGauke Complete truth as always from @DavidGauke . Many people believed these Brexiteer arguments & voted because of them. Remain campaign polling showed most people thought leaving the EU would mean staying in the single market, or something v close to it, & keeping other EU benefits.

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Andrew Cooper

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7 years

@DAaronovitch Research during the referendum found most voters definitely didn't think we'd be outside the single market; thought it was 'project fear'.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

8 years

More or less every single serious person in the world thinks leaving the EU is a stupid idea. On the other hand Boris reckons it'll be fine.

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Andrew Cooper

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6 years

The retirement of one of the greatest ever British sportsmen should obviously have been the headline on the Andy Murray story; weird, wrong & profoundly out of touch of @bbcnews , all day, to headline ‘He broke down in tears’ (as if that was not a totally natural human reaction).

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

42% of Republican voters will definitely or probably not get the vaccine. The traction of anti-science on the right is deeply troubling.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

8 years

'Take back control' is childish pre-globalisation language. 'Control' depends on economic strength & influence in the world: so, stronger in

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

AOC = Corbynism. The Democrats lost seats in the House - while middle-ground Joe Biden was piling up record votes - because centrist & independent voters were scared by ‘defund the police’ & the implications for middle America of AOC/Sanders ‘democratic socialism’.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

4 years

I saw party consultants take over a Congressional swing campaign operation this year and was it wasn’t good. The blind impulse to blame activists and the left both demoralizes a key constituency and distracts from asking real Qs & fixing serious operational issues.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 months

The Sunak/Tory conviction that the immediate payoff Britain wants from a stronger economy is lower taxes, rather than investment shows how wildly out of touch they are - or perhaps just what a narrow Tory core their campaign is aimed at.

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Andrew Cooper

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9 years

David Cameron is the first PM since Lord Salisbury in 1900 to increase vote share at next election after being PM for more than 18 months

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

If we didn’t test so much and so successfully for pregnancy, we would have very few babies

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Cases, Cases, Cases! If we didn’t test so much and so successfully, we would have very few cases. If you test 40,000,000 people, you are going to have many cases that, without the testing (like other countries), would not show up every night on the Fake Evening News.....

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Andrew Cooper

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6 years

CCHQ could and should have intervened to protect @NickBoles - who has been tirelessly loyal and repeatedly voted for Brexit - from local extremists. The Conservative Party’s lurch towards nasty, narrow nationalism continues. Apres Nick, le deluge.

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Andrew Cooper

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10 years

15% of recent marriages in the USA were multi-racial; in 1960 it was 0.4%. http://t.co/YKGkLgesGi

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Interesting to remember now that Donald Trump was so desperate to avoid Joe Biden being his opponent that he literally got impeached by the House of Representatives for his efforts to stop it.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

5 years

Every time Johnson et al say that not leaving the EU by 31/10 would betray democracy/destroy confidence in politics, they should be confronted with their prior promises:”We didn’t vote to Leave with No Deal” (Gove) “There will continue to be access to the single market” (Johnson)

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Andrew Cooper

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6 years

@GeorgeTrefgarne Or, perhaps , you were just ridiculously naive & it was an utterly stupid idea from the outset; foolish, irresponsible & completely disconnected from the truths - however regrettable you think them - of how economies work in the era of globalisation.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

As an A-level English student studying Stoppard plays, I wrote to him asking why the colour yellow recurred so often in his work & (magnificently) he replied & he (magnificently) said: “I’m afraid I just picked a colour”.

The New Yorker

@NewYorker

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Is the monkey in Haruki Murakami’s new story a symbol or a metaphor for something? “That’s entirely up to the reader,” Murakami says.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Every word of this is completely true. It's depressing how many Tory MPs & senior figures accept this privately but don't have the guts to say so publicly. Party before country is the new Tory instinct. The Tory icons they claim to revere would not recognise this as Conservatism

Ed Miliband

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4 years

What incompetence. What failure of governance. Boris Johnson can't blame Theresa May, he can't blame John Major, he can't blame judges, he can't blame civil servants, he can't sack the Cabinet Secretary again. There's only one person responsible - him. Me in the Commons today:

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Big part of the Tory Party’s problem with BAME voters is that the few people of colour who do rise through its ranks so often then say that because they got to the top racism isn’t a barrier to anyone else in other walks of life. Hard to believe they don’t all know that’s a lie.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

I can’t respond to Hannan because he’s blocked me (fair enough). But he didn’t just ‘hope & believe’ the EU would agree to a good deal, that insistence was his whole basis for supporting Brexit. He attacked the motives & integrity of all who (correctly) questioned that assumption

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Andrew Cooper

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6 years

The repulsive Daily Mail unsurprisingly chooses to boost Trump - the embodiment of hate, lies, racism, bigotry, misogynist & intolerance - and in so doing, badly misjudges what mainstream Britain thinks.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Gove/Cummings/Johnson government has much more in common with Trump than with FDR.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Trumpism vs. COVID-19. From excellent @ProjectLincoln

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

As Tony Blair said: "The single hardest thing for a politician to understand is that most people don't give politics a first thought all day long". He added that the reason this matters so much is that it makes them focus on the small, not the big picture"

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

We *were* winning Pennsylvania big at a randomly chosen moment during the counting of votes, which ended up with *us* losing. My team *was* winning big, but the referee insisted several further goals against me also had to count in the final score.

Donald J. Trump

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We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are “Millions of ballots left to be counted.”

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Andrew Cooper

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5 years

Truth is the govt DID act on scientific advice, just not THIS advice. They said scientists were united when they weren't & it turned out they'd gone with the wrong advice & as a result we locked down 11 days later than we could & should have done.

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Andrew Cooper

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7 years

@rhysblakely Think Steve Hilton is muddling up what David Cameron thought of Barack Obama with what he (& most of his team) thought of Steve Hilton.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

6 years

77% of voters identify very or fairly strongly as either Remainers or Leavers. Only 37% identify very or fairly strongly with any political party. Telling analysis from @whatukthinks showing how deep & enduring the Brexit division is

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Andrew Cooper

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8 years

Nearly half a million people applied to register to vote in the 48 hours the deadline was extended - and nearly 60% of them are under 35.

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

“I accept the finality of this outcome...For the sake of unity of the people & the strength of our democracy I offer my concession & accept my responsibility, which I'll discharge unconditionally, to honor the new President &...help him bring Americans together" Al Gore 13/12/00

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Trump literally accusing doctors of falsifying death certificates for personal financial gain - and in the process asserting, madly, that doctors get paid on the basis of what their patients die of. As he nears his end he gets more desperate and more disgusting.

Tim Hogan

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TRUMP: “You know, our doctors get more money if someone dies from COVID, you know that right?” Beyond reprehensible.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

@PCollinsTimes once explained this to me (because I kept making this mistake): you can't believe literally anything @BorisJohnson says about anything. All flawed analysis starts by assuming he might have once meant something he said.

Guy Stallard 🇺🇦

@Guy_Stallard

4 years

I was strong advocate of @BorisJohnson genuine concern re in work poverty - he always said when speaking at @LivingWageUK events that all @Conservatives really worried if work meant living in poverty This means I am really struggling with his lack of support 4 @MarcusRashford

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@dats

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Andrew Cooper

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4 years

Trump, with malice aforethought, separated children from parents. Now they can’t find the parents of over 500 of the children. If you support or condone Trump, this is what you stand for.

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Andrew Cooper

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4 months

I’m getting back into door-knocking for the first time in ages because, like so many other former Conservatives, I want to support @monicabeharding in this campaign. She is going to be a great MP for Esher & Walton and a strong, refreshing addition to our national politics.

Monica Harding MP

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4 months

☕ Lovely to take a break from chatting to commuters at #Hersham station this morning about my better railways campaign and to drop in to the bustling Archway Cafe next door. I have to say their window is looking particularly fine. 😉🔶 #FreshStart #MakeItMonica #EsherAndWalton

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

8 years

Different times (sadly): the note that departing President George HW Bush left for newly-inaugurated President Bill Clinton #class

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Andrew Cooper

@AndrewCooper__

4 years

Everyone should read this by @SamGyimah . He is one of the sharpest & most positive people we've had in our politics in a long time. It's to the shame of the Tory Party that their world has become so narrow he had to leave it.