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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

11 months

🎵Legionella -ella, -ella Hope this will do @trishgreenhalgh @MarinaPurkiss @1goodtern

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

11 months

TB was in the running but looks like Legionella got there first. Well done the Tories. Hint: stop caging people like animals.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Hit the road and pack, And don’t you come back, No more decor, get out that door. He’ll need a new flat, ‘Cause donors won’t pay no more. @coldwarsteve @Number10cat @snb19692 @HackedOffHugh @PickardJE @Tom___Scott Apologies to Ray Charles. #LeaveMeansLeave

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

5 months

Look how quickly measles has been normalised into a common winter virus. A disease eliminated in the UK 2016/17. In the What to Do section, not even an instruction to isolate. Tellingly SARS-CoV-2 absent from the entire article. #publichealthisdead

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

7 months

I am still seeing people not wearing their masks in an airborne pandemic. And when they stare, all 5ft 2 of me stares right back. Luckily you can still see my smile. Share masked selfies because representation matters. ✌️ To the trolls 😉

David Morgan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #StayFree

@david_r_morgan

7 months

I am still seeing people wearing masks. And every time I do, I give them the most awkward of stares. I want them to feel the way they made us feel when we chose not to wear the masks. I want them to understand what it’s like to be judged for a personal choice.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 Hey Rishi, we're not fine, we're not fine on the breadline, Hey Rishi! Richie Rishi. Hey Rishi please resign, all your mates got loans not mine. Hey rishi, smells fishy? Thanks @RobBfromDerby & @ShuaibKhan26 for the inspiration! Sorry @Toni_Basil @secrettory12 @lucysiegle

HENRY MORRIS

@mrhenrymorris

2 years

Say what you like about Rishi, he does a cracking impression of a billionaire who has never been in a shop before.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

🎵Sometimes, When you’re rich there’s clean air that you breathe… If some of the wealthiest enjoy protective measures at Davos, UK Houses of Parliament etc.Why can’t the rest of us? #Davossafe @chantz_y @1goodtern @trishgreenhalgh @TRyanGregory @fitterhappierAJ @YouAreLobbyLud

chantzy

@chantz_y

1 year

The billionaires at Davos are "learning to live with Covid" in its true sense: ventilation, HEPA filters, FFP2 respirators, mandatory PCR tests. Now the rest of us deserve to be #DavosSafe

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

@mattgreencomedy OK I couldn't sleep so I did it. Mashed up a combination. 🎵'N, n nobody told me that it was a party, That looked like a party' That he had on most days in lockdown of last year, Emails confidential, but they've got potential, Of crushing him into the ground

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

Day 18 still testing positive for Covid and feeling pretty wrecked. This is not a GP bashing post because it is thankless work, they are gems, but to be told after 10 days I could go out as not infectious, when I’m still +ve a week later I think might be part of why we’re screwed

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

10 months

🎵Come on Nadine, Thought you swore that you’d leave? This postponement’s obscene… Apologies to @DexysOfficial Thanks for the suggestion @ExcludedMugwump (sorry I made it PG) @mrjamesob @HenryRiley1 @PeterStefanovi2

James O'Brien

@mrjamesob

10 months

You can say that again…

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

10 months

🎵Hey babe, you can fall by the wayside Fauci came on TV yesterday, Hit the mic to say, ‘Surge is on it’s way’… Apologies to Lou Reed @NjbBari3 @danaparish @theAliceRoberts @SGriffin_Lab @YouAreLobbyLud

Dr Noor Bari

@NjbBari3

10 months

“The vulnerable will fall by the wayside.” I chose not to leave the vulnerable by the wayside. It’s not even a great hardship. A respirator and fresh air. I even get the benefit of better health for myself while I’m at it.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

Fly BA for unlimited BA.2 🎵Come fly mask free, might die, but that's OK. Thank you @Its_Airborne for suggestion 'Come die with me' @trishgreenhalgh @theAliceRoberts @chrischirp @danielgoyal @Sandyboots2020 @SGriffin_Lab @Unusual_Times @DavidPNoble63 @dgurdasani1 @amateuradam

British Airways

@British_Airways

2 years

From 16 March, our face mask policy is changing. Where we’re clear the destination you’re travelling to doesn’t require a face mask on board, it will become optional 😷 ✈️ Please continue to respect fellow passengers' mask preferences in these instances. #BritishAirways

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Nadine, Nadine, Nadine, Nadine, We're begging of you leave and take your man. Apologies @DollyParton Thank you @DavidPNoble63 @OxfordDiplomat & @PhilHaresGhost for the inspiration. I originally parodied in Nov 2020 for Vaccine, see below tweet. This is a different take.

Notes From Spain 🇪🇸

@notesfromspain

2 years

“What first attracted you to the pathological liar and millionaire Boris Johnson, Nadine?”

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

@JaneyGodley They want to get back to the good old days. When passports were blue and sea brown.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

Boris Johnson resigned, but is still in the job as a caretaker. The important word there being care. I don’t think he knows the meaning of the word.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

4 months

@StephenKing I know you're unlikely to see this, but after your previous tweet I had some inspiration 🎶It will always be twitter to me

Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

4 months

Dear Stephen, It will always be. 🎵Some tweets are so kind, Others terribly cruel Elon can do as he pleases, We know he’s a fool The bird got evicted, Now some pay a fee… @StephenKing Apologies to @billyjoel

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

🎵Don’t need no bare necessities, No cheese sandwiches, if you please. Shut up about your worries and your strife🎵 @Haggis_UK @carolvorders @Feargal_Sharkey Apologies to Terry Gilkyson

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Haggis_UK

1 year

Jo Coburn: What do you say to people who can't literally afford basic food items... like that cheese sandwich? Ann Widdecombe(Reform): Don't have the cheese sandwich Rachel Cunliffe(New Statesman): So you would let the children go hungry #PoliticsLive

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

6 months

🎵In this bleak midwinter, Please think of Michelle Mone Thank you to @coldwarsteve for his collage @carolvorders @GoodLawProject & @guardiannews for not backing down and exposing the truth @danielgoyal @doctor_oxford @CovidMemorialUK

Carol Vorderman

@carolvorders

6 months

Michelle Mone on #bbclaurak I remember a year ago when I spoke to some journos about why they weren't printing material about her, and they told me they'd received threatening letters from her lawyers. I decided to start tweeting about it anyway, and I'm glad I did. They've

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Sunak got out Saj followed, Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, More’ll be gone. (10 and counting…) @IamHappyToast @BenChu_ @taylor1612 @TmorrowsPapers #getexitdone #ByeByeBoris

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

5 months

To keep me and my students safe I always teach in an ffp3. Today I've been listening outside a packed auditorium as some of them compete in a music festival. So much more could be done to protect these young musicians. #WearARespie #CleanAir

Ben King 🌏

@benking01

5 months

A year ago, an estimated 4% (1 in 25) of #teachers and #education staff in the UK had #LongCovid . Of course the figures for those in Health and Social Care were even higher. Anecdotal evidence tells me that the figures are higher now. Thanks to @jneill for the graph.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

It’s Twitter so there will be the extremes on both ends of the spectrum today. But I defy anyone not to be moved when they remember this.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

How long will he survive? 🎵 A burst of new aides, and we're petrified. Thinking you might never leave your post and stand aside. Thanks to @shoshanade 's request & @SfpLouise 's insistence, + support from @sharron_honey Sorry @gloriagaynor

Laura Kuenssberg

@bbclaurak

2 years

"I walked in, I gave him a salute and said ‘Prime Minister, Guto Harri reporting for duty’ and he stood up from behind his desk and started to salute but then said ‘What am I doing, I should take the knee for you."....

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

Worth staying up for. 🎵Sex Pests and Liars The voters are swaying, I like how that sounds, The news we are watching, Yeah we're watching. Hello all nighters @BlokeOnWheels @sharron_honey @supertanskiii @SimonBaumMusic @NoMoreGreed @RussInCheshire

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

4 months

🎵Peter Bone’s on his way, Helen had no sway. You can call it, A Tory lonely day. Apologies to @fleetwoodmac @BlokeOnWheels @sharron_honey @TheTrawlPodcast

Beth Rigby

@BethRigby

4 months

Disastrous night for Tories as Lab overturn majorities of 18k & 11k to win Wellingborough & Kingswood. This govt seen most by-elex losses of any Tory admin since WW2. Swing to Lab in Wellingborough 2nd largest of all time. KS at moment on course 4 next PM

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Mad World. Truly begins today. Good luck. Who knew freedom felt so bad? Please #carryonmasking Sorry @tearsforfears & @garyjulesmusic @doctor_oxford @chrischirp @theAliceRoberts @danielgoyal @trishgreenhalgh @dgurdasani1 @Sandyboots2020 @SGriffin_Lab @_f4vl @Kit_Yates_Maths

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

🎵No water blue, It’s full of raw faeces all along the shore. From your loo, Promise of sludge you won’t swim no more🎵 @Feargal_Sharkey @MattStaniek @sascampaigns

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

1 year

"Comedians back campaign against Lake Windermere sewage pollution."

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

5 months

The common winter illness list in full: Asthma Measles Cold Sores Psoriasis Coughs and Colds (no mention of Covid or flu) Conjunctivitis And… Heart attacks. Just one of those pesky winter heart attacks.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

5 months

How it started. How it's going.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Rishi, Rishi, Rishi, Rishi How long till you resign? Well do ya do ya do ya do ya, Forget that you were fined?🎵 Can’t understand how he was able to run for PM once let alone twice. Do those Covid-19 rules & deaths mean so little? #EatOutToHelpOut Apologies @KaiserChiefs

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

7 months

🎵I don’t want your cough this Christmas The air is full of your last sneeze I despair we’ve learnt no lessons As we reach Christmas ‘23🎵 It was going to be All I Want for Christmas no ‘flu’ but keep listening… Apologies @MariahCarey @YouAreLobbyLud @NjbBari3 @DALupton

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@SMpwrgr

7 months

Christmas carols, Christmas cake, Christmas crackers, now … 🎵 all I want for Christmas, is … a cough?? 🎶 🤒 Australian breakfast tv are just the most appalling gaslighters, who else would come up with “Christmas cough”? 🤦‍♀️ Just stop it 🙄

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵So Boris drinks in Chequers, (But it’s not THAT wedding party, he cancelled) Cobra makes him sad and depressed, (A heatwave is a minor stress) More bodies line up, is this déjà vu? Maybe, start the next inquest. [Let the bodies pile high] @HackedOffHugh Apologies @CarlySimonHQ

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

7 months

We’re officially in year 5 of the pandemic. Perhaps if NHS put as much effort into reducing airborne transmission as they did for fomite, there would be considerably less pressure on healthcare services. 🎵They’re gonna wash their hands

NHS

@NHSuk

7 months

Washing your hands with soap and water is one of the easiest ways to protect yourself and others from viruses like norovirus, flu and COVID-19 - and it helps reduce pressures on healthcare services. ➡️

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

@brownecfm I saw this and thought of you.

Geoff Berner

@geoffberner

2 years

Toxic Positivity is the defining horror of this era. All this eagerness to "see people smile again". Maybe I'm an outlier, but there's nothing I find more eerie than public, performed happiness.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

The thought of having to sing about Johnson again has nearly driven me over the edge. Needed a long walk today. Stay sane people.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

@DrSelvarajah 🎵Where's Chris Whitty? Search the city? It's a pity, cos Whitty could say, Yeah, it's sh****, but the virus has not gone away. I do not envy Whitty, Vallance etc, but someone needs to speak up. JVT got out at the right time. Sorry kids and parents, rhyme drought.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 One woman in her lonely spare room, The case sitting by her side. Those lies going cold, she's silent It's clear there's so much to hide. (No surprise) Ah we await Sue Gray (So much delay) Ah where is Sue Gray? Où est Sue Gray? (GCSE French). @Kit_Yates_Maths Sorry to Visage

Kit Yates

@Kit_Yates_Maths

2 years

Anyone else wondering what's happened to the @metpoliceuk 's investigation into the Downing Street parties? All gone a bit quiet on that front hasn't it?

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

11 months

🎵They find themselves in times of trouble, ‘Board the Bibby when a man called Lee, Speaks his words of wisdom, (sorry) profanity🎵 Apologies to @thebeatles @mrjamesob @carolvorders

James O'Brien

@mrjamesob

11 months

You might believe, as much of the government pretends to do, that there is a legal or logical basis to the claim that refugees should stay in France. But language like 30p Lee's is deliberately designed make ignorance & bigotry mainstream Tory policy. And it's all on @RishiSunak .

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

🎵Tax Bomb, Nads was wrong, But he’s not a Non-Dom. It’s funny how some news channels just haven’t cottoned on?! @carolvorders @DanNeidle @MarinaPurkiss @PeterStefanovi2 @guardian @Independent @LondonEconomic

Carol Vorderman

@carolvorders

1 year

ZAHAWI You all supported this tweet 2 wks ago saying more news coming, & it came @DanNeidle I strongly believe that we can bring down the corrupt. If you believe too, then it will happen. Don't say 'they always get away with it' because then they will. Let's fight this together?

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

4 months

A Valentine’s public health message you never knew you needed. 🎵Covid’s in the air, It’s everywhere, it’s all around. Lurking in the air, Out of sight until you drown. @1goodtern @scott_squires @YouAreLobbyLud Apologies to John Paul Young

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@1goodtern

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🎼Covid's in the air Everywhere I look around Covid's in the air In exhaled air it can be found 🎶 And I don't know if I'm being foolish I don't know if I'm being wise But I'm wearing a new respirator To trap all the bugs from your sighs 🎵

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵She has a dream, of planes flying No help nor hope, from this Right Wing It really makes you wonder, if she’ll write for the Daily Mail. Cos looking to the future, soon they all must fail Apologies to @ABBA @BillyVacant @PhantomPower14 @DrNeenaJha @DrWaheedArian @Haggis_UK

Notes From Spain 🇪🇸

@notesfromspain

2 years

Suella Braverman’s “dream” is to see many flights taking off to Rwanda. What an absolute horror she is. She manages to make Priti Patel seem liking a caring shoulder to cry on. What a relief it will be when normal people are running the country again.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

Sometimes you can't 🎵Let it be Edward Leigh's speech on Tue is still on my mind. I grew up in Lincolnshire, he's not my MP but with friends and family in Lincs I know he doesn't speak for the majority. Apologies to @thebeatles @PaulMcCartney @ringostarrmusic @PoliticsJOE_UK

PoliticsJOE

@PoliticsJOE_UK

2 years

Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh says Lincolnshire is too full for Ukrainians He says in Lincolnshire "we've done our bit with migration from Eastern Europe"

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

3 years

#Covidsintheair Merry Xmas & Happy New Wave #ffp2 @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp @Dr2NisreenAlwan @Kit_Yates_Maths @theAliceRoberts @trishgreenhalgh @DrNeilStone @doctor_oxford @carolecadwalla @AlisonGeorge10 @JujuliaGrace @Sandyboots2020 @HoppySaul @_f4vl @Unusual_Times @SGriffin_Lab

Dr Duncan Robertson

@Dr_D_Robertson

3 years

Critical workers should be given FFP3/FFP2 masks. The public should be given FFP2 masks. 'Face coverings' don't cut it.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

7 months

🎵They’ll blame working online, (Lockdowns!) They’ll blame it on the vax site (5G?!) World health on the decline… But don’t blame it on you know what.

Sabina Vohra-Miller

@SabiVM

2 years

The amazing @DrSamiraJeimy and I collaborated on a post because we are both tired of seeing the term ‘immunity debt’ being thrown around. We also get into why we are seeing a record number of pediatric hospitalizations, so stick with us. 🧵(1/8)

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 Carrie are you OK? Times full of hearsay. Another bad day Carrie. Nearly bumper payday. Salary 100k. Someone said, 'No way Carrie!' I don't think it's OK, Papers shouldn't be swayed. Ethics decayed badly. We've been hit by. We've been struck by Tory Criminals. @jenwah24

Trenchy24🇪🇺

@jenwah24

2 years

This Is Not Ok No 10 admits pressuring The Times to drop Carrie Johnson story

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵How much is that doggie in the window? So @AliRacaniere @Roosilli1 and @northernlad18 persuaded me, haven’t yet worked out how to add moving gifs so a screenshot of @MrJonNewton ’s genius will have to suffice. How many more wounds more will there be to lick? #NotMovingOn

Colin the Dachshund

@DachshundColin

2 years

I see the Fabridougal's tail wasn't in control today.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

9 months

Sept has been pretty awful with my first infection since Covid in Jan. If you miss my singing please do me a massive favour & sign this petition. I (& many others) would like to access health care with a bit less worry of also being infected with Covid 🙏

Petition: Protect the NHS and All Healthcare: Require #MasksInHealthcare

We urge the Government to implement a policy requiring mask wearing in all healthcare settings including hospitals, clinics and GP practices for staff, visitors and patients. An FFP2 minimum should...

petition.parliament.uk

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Don’t cry for them Matt and Gina An old parody but I was green & didn’t share properly at the time on Twitter, but that god awful interview means now seems as good a time as any. ‘We all want solace, but we kept our distance’ sums it up Apologies @OfficialALW @13sarahmurphy

sarah murphy

@13sarahmurphy

2 years

Oh Jesus god. I’ve just seen polo-necked Matt Hancock explaining that he broke the social distancing rules because he ‘fell in love’. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a nauseatingly self-indulgent clip. It could be worse than his snog video.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵If you knew leaky Sue, Then you’ll know why Rishi feels so blue Thank you to @exexexexcc for the suggestion this morning, followed by @NHagendyk Will this do @gemmagould ? Sorry for puking on Heaven’s door Buddy Holly ( @cai43245335 ) Thanks to @IamHappyToast for the tofu pic.

Neil Hagendyk

@NHagendyk

2 years

@gemmagould Leaky Sue to the tune of Peggy Sue?

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 Gavin's hard work comes right, Despite being twice sacked from his job. (It happens to us all) It's not hard to make him a Knight. He's got the dirt all catalogued. Failing kids is so cool. The leaks weren't that criminal. So knighthood feels alright Sorry again to @thebeatles

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

2 years

Gavin Williamson, twice sacked as a minister, has been given a knighthood One Labour MP said 'presumably it's for services to failure in managing two sets of exam results?'

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

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@mattgreencomedy Temptation too much...I am your parasitic parody pianist. Do I owe you royalties or commission? 🎵Cos you had a SpAd day, Another one down, I think I've lost count it's a quick turn around. What do they all know? You say, you don't lie. (Haha!) You smirk while you work...

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

UK is in a heatwave, but it's never too hot to protect the next generation of musicians and myself!

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Another fine night tonight Thank you @AdamFowle for the inspiration a while back, the fines keep coming #NotMovingOn @doctor_oxford @SGriffin_Lab @danielgoyal @chrischirp @itosettiMD_MBA @trishgreenhalgh @Kit_Yates_Maths @Sandyboots2020 @_f4vl @cv_cev @fearnley_k @CallChiara

Dr Rachel Clarke

@doctor_oxford

2 years

50 more fines - making @10DowningStreet the worst law-breaking venue in Britain. NHS staff risked everything. Families suffered horribly. But Johnson? Oh how he partied. Anger doesn't even come close to how I feel about this travesty of a prime minister.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

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🎵Time to say goodbye, Excuses are never far. He partied while they died alone. Still no remorse he has shown… Images Jonathon Brady @doctor_oxford @coldwarsteve Video @DanielHugill Apologies to Francesco Sartori and Lucio Quarantotto,

Dr Rachel Clarke

@doctor_oxford

1 year

So you’re “bewildered & appalled” are you, @BorisJohnson ? Let me tell you what appals me. Your parties. Your quiz nights. Your brazen lies. Your champagne. You cavorted & boozed. While we watched patients in their 1000s - some of them our colleagues - die. You make me sick.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

5 months

Interesting how headlines pivot This was Nov 2023 and then end of Jan 2024. At least they previously mentioned both deadly and most infectious. With a mention of 21 days isolation for kids unvaccinated who come into contact with a case.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

3 years

Over 100 kids have died from Covid in the UK. Hundreds hospitalised since September and thousands suffering from Long Covid. JCVI minutes finally appeared @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp @Dr2NisreenAlwan @Kit_Yates_Maths @ProfColinDavis @theAliceRoberts @LongCovidKids @MitigationsSchl

Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

On Friday afternoon, just as COP26 was about to start, JCVI finally released its minutes, going back 8 months. This is not transparency. Did they hope we wouldn’t notice? What the minutes reveal about JCVI’s approach to children being infected is shocking.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

11 months

Public Health Announcement 🎵I just called to say… As the governments of UK, USA, Canada et al seem to have forgotten that effective health communication is their responsibility - reminder summer flu isn’t a thing. @NohaAboelataMD @DrFrancesRyan @DaliaHasanMD

Noha Aboelata, MD

@NohaAboelataMD

11 months

Thanks Insider for interviewing me for this story on the current rise in covid (no, it's not the flu). I was surprised to have a few reporters reach out to me this week to talk about the covid increase. #CovidIsNotOver , seems that's being recognized.

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@AugustaLees

5 months

Toxic positivity turns away from grief & death. I grieved family as a child, losing health in my teens, a marriage in my twenties & the world as we knew it in thirties (climate & Sars2). The most resilient are the ones who face & sit with their grief in this world #weknowgrief

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@Tweettwoo0

5 months

I'm wondering if people who are still covid cautious & never dropped mitigations are actually people who understand grief on another level. I grieved the world changing in 2020 & have been able to continue mitigations without denial. Maybe we're the people who grieved?

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

Times Like These I, I'm a one way motorway I'm the one that drives away Then follows you back home I, I'm a street light shining I'm a white light blinding bright Burning off and on. Taylor Hawkins 🌠

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

10 months

CDC - Jurassic Farce 🎵They’re gonna wash their hands but what’s in the air? Our Govs have washed their hands of prevention healthcare N95s & fans* get yourself some clean air… @CorsIAQ @JimRosenthal4 sorry *Corsi-Rosenthal box didn’t fit @YouAreLobbyLud @1goodtern @joaquinlife

CDC's Project Firstline

@CDC_Firstline

10 months

Proper hand hygiene is a must for healthcare workers! Let's raise awareness about its importance as we approach this respiratory virus season. #HandHygiene #HealthcareSafety

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

@DrAmirKhanGP I tinkered with your idea @DrAmirKhanGP Hope you like it. 🎵Don’t go bathing in waterfalls, Please avoid the rivers and the lakes, they are full of poo.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

🎵Dr Boro Thank you @StorytellerSean for your amazing song & story of Dr Lone. Doctor, football fan and Middlesbrough legend. Apologies for butchering it into a tweet’s length. Everyone please listen to the original in the thread. Thank you @themarkrad #21stcenturyfolk @BBCRadio2

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Letuce leaf will entertain you Apologies to @robbiewilliams and @guyachambers Thanks to @dailystar for the best ‘BLT’ (She’s Bacon Liz Truss) Don’t mention Pork Markets. @AdamBienkov

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

2 years

Update.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

4 months

Dear Stephen, It will always be. 🎵Some tweets are so kind, Others terribly cruel Elon can do as he pleases, We know he’s a fool The bird got evicted, Now some pay a fee… @StephenKing Apologies to @billyjoel

Stephen King

@StephenKing

4 months

Dear Elon: Twitter. Twitter, Twitter. Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. And so on. Fuck your need to put your personal brand on everything.

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@AugustaLees

5 months

When I raise the idea of clean air with friends who have kids, or my student's parents, I am mostly faced with apathy & a dash of hostility. If they clean the air they admit there's a problem. The resurgence of measles could galvanise parents to finally act, without saying C***d.

Conor Browne

@brownecfm

5 months

And also tells you exactly that Covid has *not* been normalised. Quite the opposite, in fact - if Covid truly had been normalised, the word would, by definition, not be taboo. Not mentioning the word tells me how much the disease is still considered exceptional.

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵She had air-time, lost her grip on power (already) Those journos had their finest hour (in 5 mins) Local Radio (Worth the license fee alone) All is clear, this lady is gaga… @therimaahmed @johnacres48 @GrahamLiver @jhansonradio @annacookson @BestForBritain Apologies to Queen

Best for Britain

@BestForBritain

2 years

Liz Truss, embarrassing herself on local radio, condensed down to three awful, squirming, awkward, delicious minutes. Everyone should hear this. ~AA

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

Even if I had been well enough, I still wouldn’t have been out, in case I’ve been cooking an extra tasty variant 🤦‍♀️but I despair that the precautionary principle seems to have gone extinct.

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Oh Lizzy, Lizzy It looks like the public know, (can’t hide this one) That something isn’t right here. Sorry @bbcnickrobinson and @BBCTheOneShow that I didn’t get this out earlier, you could have shared this in your time filling segment 😉 Apologies to @britneyspears .

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@bbcnickrobinson

2 years

Was pleased to secure an in-depth interview with @trussliz on BBC1. I am disappointed & frustrated it’s been cancelled

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@AugustaLees

2 years

Happy All Hallows’ Eve My Pretties Throwback to before I had thought of my first parody and was amusing myself singing songs in tunnels late at night instead. Oct 2020. Let me lure you to the dying seconds.

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@AugustaLees

4 months

A year tomorrow start of 36hours in a&e, the scariest 18hours were on a bed alone in a corridor waiting for a ward unable to move. I was going to write a thread, but I exhausted myself having a sing instead I wish so many here better health So 🎵Here’s a Health to the Company

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@AugustaLees

4 months

🎵Cry Me a River The arts are the worst for ‘powering through’ & the ‘show must go on’, but at what cost for artists & audience? I had really hoped a pandemic would make people realise spreading illness is not good. H/T @danaparish JT video deleted @chantzy for Rolling Stone.

AdoreJT

@adorejt_ig

4 months

Sneak Peek of Justin Timberlake on The Graham Norton Show!! 🎥 : Airs Tomorrow!

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

Thanks @RussInCheshire for the inspired Margarine Thatcher and everyone who replied last night that Jolene should get it’s 3rd outing ❤️apologies to @DollyParton again. 🎵Obscene, Margarine, thick-spread Thatcher has-been, We’re begging of you please don’t break this land…

Russ Jones

@RussInCheshire

2 years

I'm not saying people are becoming more politically aware, but my most recent Week In Tory has had 4 million Twitter impressions and been shared on Facebook 3.2 million times. That's a LOT of people learning the phrase "Margarine Thatcher"

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Recession. Depression. (Tories ask…’Next question’) Apologies to Fiddler on the Roof team Bock & Harnick. Headlines from @TmorrowsPapers Amazing artwork @coldwarsteve Tweets from @SkyNews @JolyonMaugham @mikegalsworthy

Mike Galsworthy

@mikegalsworthy

2 years

Inflation to hit 13% Interest rate jump. Forecasts of a recession. The Tories have woefully mismanaged the economy; austerity, playing around with a destructive Brexit like a game, wasting £37bn on Test & Trace and shipping £bns to mates in dodgy contracts. Now it all bites.

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@AugustaLees

5 months

With diseases and illnesses being minimised the special pleading fallacy comes out to play. Covinormativity branches out into all of medicine and healthcare.

Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

5 months

"Covid Brain" The cultural (ethical?) blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about Covid. Covinormativity: How social norms hide a major public health hazard. Read the thread ⬆️ & you can't help but see the same glaring inconsistencies with Covid

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

It’s official. Liz Truss is PM. 🎵Signed, sealed, deliver…

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

2 years

Liz Truss is now UK prime minister after meeting the Queen at Balmoral Castle

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 All done behind closed doors, Is the loser sweaty? Please, please don't sue me. Spend a few million more, An abuser, maybe? But you can't say he's guilty... Sorry @beck Who's paying again? @mrjamesob @SpeakingSatan @GaryLineker @PickardJE @JonathanPieNews

Satan

@SpeakingSatan

2 years

Nothing says, "I'm innocent", like an out of court settlement

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Kwasi’s sacked. His budget’s crap. Liz Trussed him up for good. @GoodLawProject Apologies to @takethat Thank you @coldwarsteve for always having the perfect collage ready.

Good Law Project

@GoodLawProject

2 years

There's a pint of milk in the Good Law Project office fridge that's lasted longer than Kwasi Kwarteng's chancellorship

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Bojo is a man who likes a Russian donor, On his hols he had a blast. (Twice! I wonder who paid?) Slovenia. Greece. Chequers. Échec et mat. @MichaelRosenYes @EmmaKennedy Apologies to @thebeatles @MarkHazio & @SimonAT53756041 as requested.

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓

@MichaelRosenYes

2 years

Dear Mogg Can't be arsed to do any more PMing. We're heading off to our home at Chequers. If Raab can remember where London is, he can fly the ship of state. We are the 'Quinquireme of Nineveh' from Rudyard Kipling's great poem, 'rowing home to heaven.' Pex in umbro Boris

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@AugustaLees

5 months

My 1st Covidaversary today 🎂 let me blow some candles and wish more people were Cøvid averse. Exquisite timing when I was +ve 24hrs after posting the video below. I'm struggling & would love to have a bit more of my brain & body back to fight (& sing) for cleaner air for all 1/

Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

1 year

🎵Sometimes, When you’re rich there’s clean air that you breathe… If some of the wealthiest enjoy protective measures at Davos, UK Houses of Parliament etc.Why can’t the rest of us? #Davossafe @chantz_y @1goodtern @trishgreenhalgh @TRyanGregory @fitterhappierAJ @YouAreLobbyLud

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@AugustaLees

7 months

@NHSuk Hand washing is an excellent tool for prevention in healthcare. However considering the primary transmission route for Covid and other infections is through the air, you might like to do a post about that?

Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

7 months

We’re officially in year 5 of the pandemic. Perhaps if NHS put as much effort into reducing airborne transmission as they did for fomite, there would be considerably less pressure on healthcare services. 🎵They’re gonna wash their hands

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 They drank red wine, (By the suitcase load.) Justice is dead, (Fifty pounds.) We won't forget that, why? (Really why?) Are the sums so low? (I wonder.) Sorry @UB40OFFICIAL @Coldwar_Steve @snb19692 @DeborahMeaden @AngelaRayner

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@coldwarsteve

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Dom, Dim, Dim Dom... Thank you so so much @NickCoffeeRun for putting the pictures over me 👌 @LondonTitan for the idea, sorry I changed to Chopin's Funeral March rather than Imperial March. And of course @MajorPazuzu for your original genius idea. Team work ❤

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@MajorPazuzu

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

10 months

A number of schools close at the beginning of term, due to dangerous building materials. Is this not a perfect opportunity to update ventilation, so that schools are doubly safer when kids return?

Sam🐟❤🌈😷🌍🇵🇸

@CounsellingSam

10 months

Isn't a falling down school the perfect metaphor for 13 years of Conservative Government? Ministers face calls to explain delay in closing schools over concrete crisis

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

I was finding the news too difficult to parody, and then Hancock reared his ugly head for a quick recycle... But for something a little different and to mark the first day of meteorological spring @LudovicoEinaud 's Primavera (Or as much as Twitter will let me)

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@AugustaLees

4 months

@Adele Thank you for wearing a respirator recently. As a singer I know how scary it is when your voice isn't working as it should. Please be a clean air advocate for everyone. Your influence would make an incredible difference. Hope you're feeling much better soon ❤️

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@AugustaLees

4 months

@MrMatthewTodd Thank you for mentioning the ongoing pandemic! Climate and covid activists need to join forces, they are so intertwined.

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@AugustaLees

4 months

Pain and bleeding a bit too much, so might be on here a little less again. Just like these snowdrops it won't last forever.

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Rishi, Rishi, Rishi, Rishi, Where did £4 billion go? Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya, Think tax payers should know? Know what you're doing, doing to me. My pay now takes the hit. Rishi, Rishi, Rishi, Rishi, Your NI rise is sh... Shocking really isn't it? What an odd magic money 🌳

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@AugustaLees

2 years

Superior comedy perch 👌

Matt Green

@mattgreencomedy

2 years

Boris Johnson’s resignation speech! (part 1) See the full extended cut at:

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Detain down in Africa Priti's gonna drag refugees away from view, It will only cost a few hundred mil, It's the least that she can do... Another quiet news day.

Tom London

@TomLondon6

2 years

The regime in Rwanda is dictatorial. There is no Rule of Law Refugees come FROM Rwanda to UK as they fear death or persecution The scheme to send vulnerable refugees TO Rwanda is not LAWFUL either in UK law or international law This far-right regime breaks the law at will

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 It's his party and he'll lie if he wants to... @PaulBrandITV @krishgm @Femi_Sorry @supertanskiii @DeborahMeaden @VictoriaCoren @CarolineLucas @EdwardJDavey @Keir_Starmer @campbellclaret @henrymance @PippaCrerar @JMPSimor @IanDunt @MichaelRosenYes @brokenbottleboy @bmay @_f4vl

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

@krishgm

2 years

The Downing Street BYOB Party needs to be seen in the context of the time - us being told to only meet one person outside, massive restrictions, massive deaths, the Cummings scandal about to break.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

10 months

A walk in the country was made even better finding an empty open church and some fortuitous spot lighting last week. I might miss singing inside with others but I’d much rather protect my voice for the future. Bring on some more empty churches🤣

Steve Bradshaw

@SteveBradJourno

10 months

@AugustaLees @implausibleblog A recording of several.folk songs is what I'd like! Don't want to come over like Lomax or Grossman but ain't that a possibility? Scant recompense available but happy to swap for my recording of John Martyn doing Singing in the Rain for me er except its BBC copyright oops.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

8 months

I think about the tweet below often. Obviously heightened again. I feel like I can add very little but I can sing this on the nature of conflict. Theme to Harry’s Game @ClannadMusic not the easiest to translate, more in thread, fada & some subs may be incorrect. Tá brón orm*

Conor Browne

@brownecfm

2 years

War is brutal, and squalid, and terrifying. Tweet your maps, and your force analysis, and your flags, but never forget the core of war is shattered human beings bleeding out into the dirt.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Robbing good, in your hood, piles it into Kent. Rishi hood, odds not good, winning number 10. Stolen and tinkered with, with permission from @IamHappyToast , follow them for more brilliance.

HappyToast★

@IamHappyToast

2 years

Rishi Hood, Rishi Hood riding through the glen. Rishi Hood, Rishi Hood wanting Number 10. Gives to the bad what he steals from the good. Rishi Hood, Rishi Hood, Rishi Hood.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

@MarinaPurkiss @FHouseIfS Why does this not surprise me, I’ll sing it again…

Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

Sometimes you can't 🎵Let it be Edward Leigh's speech on Tue is still on my mind. I grew up in Lincolnshire, he's not my MP but with friends and family in Lincs I know he doesn't speak for the majority. Apologies to @thebeatles @PaulMcCartney @ringostarrmusic @PoliticsJOE_UK

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

@Ern400 Love ❤️ Mole Gallagher and his contribution to the hits Wondermole, Digging Back in Anger, and Rock n Mole Star.

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@AugustaLees

2 years

Don't thank me for the music of Tory sinning. Apologies to @ABBA 🎵 Gimme, gimme, gimme a party at midnight Again the news gets eaten up by party gate but for every regret at keeping to the rules remember: We made a difference. #BorisJohnsonMustGo #BorisJohnsonOut #abbaparty

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

2 years

🔴EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson was in his Downing Street flat the night ‘Abba-themed party’ was held

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@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵 Stuck in the M20 queue @vanmaneuro and @JRLOakley have tweeted constantly about how bad the situation is in Dover. But obviously new checks in 2022 just made it even worse. Just imagine sitting in queues for hours & not getting paid. You are all amazing. #brexit #FBPE song?

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@vanmaneuro

2 years

So many experts now showing a Saturday evening image of a junction on the m20 claiming to know about road haulage/export documents/GVMS and carnets . They in fact don’t have a clue . Try driving a commercial consignment abroad for a living instead of being a Twitter expert

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

4 months

The relentless posts framing the pandemic in the past because of Breathless is difficult to read. So for every one of you calling it out, thank you, even more so if you're in the heart of the medical community, a difficult space to take that stand. I send you flowers from afar.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

2 years

🎵Kwasi Kwasi Kwasi Kwasi Kwasi contrarion (Sorry parliamentarian) He comes and goes… Apologies to Culture Club and @BoyGeorge Thanks to @_David_J_White_ for the suggestion a few days ago tinkered with permission. Sorry @MikeCashman1 for not seeing your version soon enough 🤦‍♀️

Have I Got News For You

@haveigotnews

2 years

Kwasi Kwarteng admits there was ‘a little turbulence’ with his mini-budget, much in the same way the Hindenburg had 'some fire safety issues'.

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Augusta Lees

@AugustaLees

9 months

It's been a hospital & GP heavy week, as my periods have gone even more barmy, with over a month of bleeding now. Out of all the drs & nurses I've seen, only 1 nurse in a surgical mask, & cherry on top was 2 air purifiers side by side with neither plugged in🤦‍♀️ Let's do better🙏

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

9 months

🚨 BREAKING: Plymouth Hospitals Trust has declared a critical incident today. It saw 389 patients in A&E at Derriford yesterday and had 22 ambulances waiting outside at 9am this morning. In recent weeks there have been times when there were 30 ambulances waiting:

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@AugustaLees

1 year

🎵Look who’s riding in that car, Probably a Jaguar. He thought no problem with The Bill, ‘Cause he’s a bloke with a few mil. Apologies to @MadnessNews @Femi_Sorry @SimplyRedHQ @guardian @IndyArts @secrettory12 @Parody_PM

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

1 year

It's so STUPID! Because yeah, I get the strategy... Get everyone talking about how you're not wearing a seatbelt, to distract people from the economic harm you've inflicted on people... But all this does is remind people that Rishi Sunak was a law breaker during lockdown too!

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