David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 @DJSkelton Twitter profile

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

My new book 'The New Snobbery' is published today. You can buy it on Amazon here:

The New Snobbery: Taking on modern elitism and empowering the working class

www.amazon.co.uk

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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The Decathlon 1500m a reminder of one of my favourite sporting photos of all time. What a champion Daley was.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

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3 years

The idea that the Prime Minister shouldn’t be able to go on holiday is one of the more ludicrous concepts of the permanently offended.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

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2 years

A massive swing to the Tories in Enfield tonight, with big Conservative gains across the borough. Delighted that I was one of those elected. Looking forward to getting stuck in.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

Looking at the Hartlepool poll and the collapse of the Red Wall, surely Labour backing a second referendum was one of the biggest strategic mistakes ever made by a modern political party?

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

Do the anti BBC people on the right and left really look at the grim, polarised, collection of extremes that is US cable TV and think "I want something like that". The BBC isn't perfect, needs reform, but it's a great British institution and should be treasured.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

Amazing how many people on here *instinctively* think Britain is to blame when France threatens to cut off Jersey's electricity supply. Says it all really.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

This is TERRIBLE news. No question that BBC4 is the best channel available in the UK today.

TV Zone

@tvukzone

4 years

NEW: BBC executives have reportedly conceded that BBC Four will go off-air by the end of the year. The decision is reportedly driven by cost cutting due to the Coronavirus crisis. The majority of BBC Four's budget would be reassigned to BBC Three.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

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5 years

Managing to build a massive new Nightingale hospital so quickly is one hell of an impressive effort. Amazing that the people who were so dewy eyed about the Chinese government building new hospitals haven’t mentioned it.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

In the past three years, we’ve had our best World Cup performance for 28 years, followed by our best tournament performance for 55 years. It hurts like hell but this team is capable of anything, has the entire nation behind them and has a big point to prove in Qatar.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

For years, people said that Conservatives might never win a decent majority again. Then Boris, who turned a Labour city blue and played a decisive role in the Brexit referendum, won the biggest Tory majority for decades. He was an essential part in all of these electoral wins.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

5 years

Labour MPs knew their candidate had endorsed anti-semitic social media posts, but still rushed to endorse her "because she's Labour". They then crow about "defeating the forces of division", which seemingly doesn't include anti-semitic social media posts. Some anti racism. Grim.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

6 years

Attlee insisted on being a pall bearer at Churchill’s funeral, despite him being 82 years old. This is him watching as Churchill’s coffin left St Paul’s for Tower Pier.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

Not sure what the Police are playing at here. Really chilling.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

5 years

Brits more welcoming of (and tolerant to) immigrants than any other country in Europe according to new Pew Research. Rather gives the lie to the idea that Brits are somehow bigoted or narrow minded compared to rest of Europe.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

2 years

I’ve got an issue with this. Blaming Britain & the Empire for anti LGBT laws over 60 years after independence completely denies agency to countries that have had decades to change the laws. It’s a weird form of “progressive colonialism” to think it’s still the fault of Britain.

The Guardian

@guardian

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Tom Daley on his LGBTQ+ awakening: ‘I had my head in my hands. I felt so dark about being British’

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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Surely they should have had hundreds of consultations, given excess power to residents’ groups and then agreed to do nothing while growth stagnated?

Euro transit & urbanism

@euro_projects

1 month

1/2 They did it again! In just 121 hours (5 days), Lyon, France, built a tunnel under a highway used by 150k vehicles/day as part of the new tram line T10 project; fun fact, they even finished 28 hours ahead of schedule! This is how construction is done in world-class countries

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

We should be treating the national rollout of the vaccine as seriously as we treat wartime. And that doesn’t include taking Sundays off.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

“The republic will erase no trace or names of its history, it will forget none of its works, it will tear down none of its statues.” President Macron

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

And to think that people criticise our government for allowing us to get 7 free tests a day. The U.K. is light years ahead on this.

Sabby Sabs

@SabbySabs2

3 years

So the tests at Walgreens were $9.99 each. If you have a family of 5, that's ~$50. Now imagine if you're poor 🤷‍♀️.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

Against odds referendum win & biggest Tory majority for over 30 yrs stand as testament to Dom Cummings having a better understanding of the country than his left wing critics on here. Also think he's one of only a few on centre-right to understand level of anger w/ bankers in '08

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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There’s two points here. First the bullying towards Darren, who’s been bravely open about challenges, is vile. Second, the contempt that much of modern left has for what they regard as “menial” jobs and their use of these jobs as a bad punchline just sums up their snobbery.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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Sometimes the BBC don’t make life easy for their strong supporters, like me. Why invest in this nonsense whilst cutting back on excellent regional coverage?!?

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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You’d think she’d show a little bit of remorse and would even apologise for dragging @darrengrimes_ through hell for years on the back of a conspiracy theory. This doubling down is graceless at best.

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

4 years

Who he? Well exactly. But you’ve heard of Darren Grimes. The idea that either of them was mastermind behind plan was ridiculous. But theirs were the names on the forms so only they were referred to police, as @_EmmaGH pointed out here

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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The extraordinary power of the England football team! Kudos to @JYDenham for picking him up on it and receiving Delphic responses in return.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

5 years

Apparently gaining clicks is now more important than public health. Another piece of evidence for the moral vacuum of contrarian punditry.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

2 years

Boris is the Tory who reaches voters that other Tories simply can’t reach. He’s the biggest Tory election winner for decades - winning London twice, turning Labour heartlands blue & winning Brexit. A navel gazing leadership contest at a time like this wld be a strange distraction

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

Another example of why she shouldn’t be taken seriously by anyone. Cropping a chart to remove any sense of perspective isn’t what respectable journalists should be doing.

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

4 years

Two nations. Two leaders. Trump & Johnson. Leading the world...in COVID deaths. US & UK likely to end up no 1 & 2. Both ignored threat through February & 1/2 of March. Neither held to account for 2016’s electoral fraud/subversion. Will either be held to account for this??

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

5 years

A reminder that the shoddy bullying of @darrengrimes_ wasn’t restricted to a few anonymous FBPE accounts. Verdict comes on same day that a Labour MP stands down partially citing abuse from obsessive Remainers.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

@campbellclaret

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But she’ll visit you in prison - mums love their little rascals

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

Speaking as someone who does travel a lot, it has to be said that the snobbery in this tweet, the references to “decaying Britain” and “cretinous” provide a reminder of why people wanted to send a message to a smug elite in 2016.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

I sometimes wonder whether the more extreme FBPE types have actually been to continental Europe or just hold it up as a Narnia of their imagination. Their holding up Italian football as a bastion of tolerance to justify them opposing England on a massive day stretches credibility

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

1 year

This is one of the main stories on the BBC News site in the U.K. today. I don’t imagine more than 1% of people reading it will care. Strange sense of news priorities.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

1 year

Don Lemon, CNN anchor, fired after 17 years on the network

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Tremendous coverage from the BBC. Despite the moaning of a few obsessives on the left and right it’s events like the Olympics that remind us what a real national treasure the BBC is. Long may it continue. #Tokyo2020

BBC Sport

@BBCSport

3 years

What an incredible 16 days it's been! 🙌 Thank you for joining us for all the dramatic, historic and inspiring moments at #Tokyo2020 We've seen new sports, records broken - and a whole lot of talent! See you all in Paris? 😎 #bbcolympics

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

4 years

Very well said @darrengrimes_ The snobbery in some of the comments about Darren is all too obvious and too many journos seem intent on putting him and his family through hell for the sake of their politics.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

7 years

Amazing that so many strong supporters of PR seem shocked when deals have to be done after hung parliament. That would be norm under PR.

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@DJSkelton

1 year

Putting politics aside, I think we should be enormously grateful that Keir Starmer is Labour leader at a moment like this, rather than the man who was speaking at that march in central london earlier.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

1 year

A week ago we awoke to the unimaginable and heartbreaking news of terrorist attacks on Israel from Gaza by Hamas. We repeat our call for Hamas to release all hostages immediately, and for the protection of innocent civilian lives in Israel and Gaza. My statement:

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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Many on right too committed to economic liberalism to address economic concerns that led to Brexit. Left too committed to identity liberalism to address cultural concerns that led to vote. Leads to politics being stuck in a dogmatic rut that doesn't reflect concerns of people.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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This is grim. What the hell were the Police doing?

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@DJSkelton

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This is so obviously and utterly untrue. It belittles the name of a great newspaper to have their correspondent saying these things.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

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@darrengrimes_ I'm sure most US voters won't give a shit what Dominic West thinks or says either way. It's still distasteful though.

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@DJSkelton

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This is grim. Hope people from across the political divide will agree that this is unacceptable.

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@DJSkelton

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In 1906, the 29 newly elected Labour MPs were asked to name their favourite book. 14 chose the Bible. 9 chose Bunyan. None of them chose Marx. A reminder that the Labour Party, as Wilson said, owes a lot more to Methodism than to Marx. Via @northumbriana

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@DJSkelton

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Libertarianism is, at best, a minority ideology. There's no real love for it amongst the electorate. But its voices are disproportionately heard on TV politics shows, in Whitehall (and DC) and in newspaper columns.

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@DJSkelton

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This certainly comes number 1 in a list of tin eared elite disdain. And Remain still wonder why they lost.

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@DJSkelton

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Same with members of my family. One of my relatives was Labour to the bone, called Blair “our Tony” and loathed Tories as recently as Cameron. Turned off by Miliband but still voted for him, horrified by Corbyn, voted Brexit and now love Boris. Hard to put genie back in bottle

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@DJSkelton

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So this is one of the prominent voices in the continuity Remain campaign taking the piss out of ordinary voters for not being able to recite WTO rules. I don’t think they realise how bad this looks. Which is why they lost last time and would lose again.

Our Future, Our Choice

@OFOCBrexit

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You're gonna want to watch this... Our @Femi_Sorry struggled to convince this man that a No-Deal / WTO Brexit is a bad idea... #OFOCBattleBus #York

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@DJSkelton

4 years

Imagine if a Tory had tweeted this about a female, BAME Labour Minister.

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

4 years

Hey @skynewsniall , good luck with Priti Patel this morning... Remember that when you're spraying down the studio after, it's holy water, not dettol.

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@DJSkelton

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It’s ludicrous that this guy was once regarded as a commentator worthy of a ridiculous amount of Media attention.

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

4 years

To @Keir_Starmer 's team... Fair warning... I'm currently writing an article which it's in your interest to stop me from writing, by convincing me I don't need to. You have my number. You've got a few days to use it.

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Slightly perplexed at the harsh criticism that @OwenJones84 is getting for his column yesterday. Argument seems to be that left should be constructive towards Starmer, rather than engaging in outright opposition that would be futile. What did people expect him to say?

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@DJSkelton

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Never tire of this view. One of the best in the world.

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@DJSkelton

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Always thought the Mash Report was smug bollocks. Middle class people making working class Leave voters the butt of their jokes. Their graceless parting shot rather sums up their problem.

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@DJSkelton

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Why is it that certain political topics (Israel/ Palestine, BLM protests) become Instagram politics for people who are normally not political but other topics like Xinjiang, Syria don’t get the same attention? Is it groupthink or simply a case of only having so many causes?

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@DJSkelton

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Ken Clarke reminding us that he's the most talented Tory of his generation. Would have been a fine Tory leader.

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@DJSkelton

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A “national unity” government, brokered by the sole MP of a tiny minority party. A unity government that is all white (very much unlike the real cabinet) and composed entirely of people who campaigned for Remain. This is the biggest fantasist absurdity discussed so far.

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@DJSkelton

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It’s a myth that left wing opposition to the EU has been predominantly about it being a “capitalist club” or all about state aid rules. The truth is that the Benn/ Foot/ Bevan/ Shore/ Castle, even Bevan/ Gaitskell/ Attlee critique of EU integration was on democratic grounds.

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@DJSkelton

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Corbyn adding the “bankers” to Brexit to hide the fact he’s abandoning a lifetime of principled opposition to the lack of democracy in the EU for the sake of mistaken political calculation.

The Independent

@Independent

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EXCLUSIVE: I will do everything I can to stop this no-deal bankers’ Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn writes

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Feel that the sad death of the glorious Barbara Windsor marks the end of an era. An era where Brits knew we were lucky but didn't take ourselves too seriously. An era where working class voices dominated showbusiness. Thanks for all the laughs, Babs. #BarbaraWindsor

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@DJSkelton

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Has Fintan O’Toole written a piece yet about why the French haven’t got over their Empire?

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@DJSkelton

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The Italian government is on the verge of collapse. The race to succeed Merkel is getting very interesting. And still barely a whisper about either in the UK press, which even in normal times prefers to dedicate too much coverage to US politics and not enough to Europe.

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@DJSkelton

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Can we at least acknowledge that Australia isn’t only country to have hotel quarantine. It’s a blunt but effective weapon against Covid and Singapore and other Asian nations have done it effectively (I’ve been through it). Media almost allergic to using Asian examples re Covid.

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@DJSkelton

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Tony Blair won North West Durham with majorities of between 13,400 and 25,000 when he was PM. Pretty unclear how he is apparently to blame for Labour losing the seat 12 years after he resigned.

Laura Pidcock

@LauraPidcock

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Vital to learn the lessons of Labour’s #GE2019 defeat. However, the answers will not be found at the door of New Labour’s architects. Blair’s legacy still hangs around this party like a millstone, especially in the North East. I heard it time & time again:

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@DJSkelton

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A storming few days for Prince Harry. Insults his family in public. Insults his new hosts. A staggering lack of acknowledgement of his actual class privilege in all his public utterances.

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@DJSkelton

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Sorry for banging this drum again but the whole Lionesses triumph capturing the imagination of the nation is another reminder of the phenomenal power of terrestrial TV. Hope the ECB are watching.

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@DJSkelton

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@darrengrimes_ I don’t think it’s just the BBC. It’s the entire cultural sector, with a very odd worldview that’s utterly out of touch with the majority of the population. Constant lecturing and hectoring.

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@DJSkelton

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This is ludicrous. Having read and enjoyed @PaulEmbery ’s book, there’s nothing “far right” about it. This is just a petty, self-important attempt to shut down legitimate debate.

Cas Mudde

@CasMudde

4 years

Publishing "The Far Right Today" with @politybooks has been dream come true. I am therefore truly saddened and upset by Polity's decision to publish "Despised" - a decision that painfully illustrates my book's argument about mainstreaming & normalization of far right ideas

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@DJSkelton

4 years

In all seriousness, Macron impresses more by the day. Real moral leadership in foreign policy. An ability to intellectualise policy positions. A Gaullist concept of the grandeur of France and being happy to push back on year zero protestors. Becoming a preeminent global leader.

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@DJSkelton

5 years

Like Darren, I went to a County Durham comprehensive. But my school was transformed from the worst in the county when I was there, to one of the best by the reforms of Blair and @michaelgove . It’s a shame that Labour have chosen cheap symbolism over actually improving schools.

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@DJSkelton

5 years

Never had any doubt that @LindsayHoyle_MP is a man of great authority and exceptional knowledge of Erskine May and Parliamentary procedure. He's shown again what an impartial, rules based and authoritative Speaker looks like.

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@DJSkelton

4 years

Incredible stuff!

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@DJSkelton

4 years

Just spoken to my folks, who've both been vaccinated this afternoon. Obviously a great relief. Nothing but praise for the NHS staff. Tremendous leadership from @nadhimzahawi and others to move vaccination forward at such an impressive rate.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

Personal news 📣🚨Delighted to say that I’ve signed with @BitebackPub to write a book about the growth in snobbery since the EU referendum and the rise of woke. Coming very soon...

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@DJSkelton

4 years

Momentum is now chaired by a climate activist based in New York, who is an active member of Socialists Of America. Talk about pricing the point that the left has become detached from the British working class and is getting its ideas, slogans and now leaders, from the US.

LabourList

@LabourList

4 years

NEW: Momentum replaces co-founder and former Jon Lansman with new co-chairs, climate activist Gaya Sriskanthan and FBU firefighter Andrew Scattergood:

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@DJSkelton

4 years

France and Germany both going back into lockdown. The whole of Europe seems to have acted too late because of a false dichotomy between tackling the virus and supporting the economy. The truth remains that the earlier you tackle the virus the less the total impact on the economy.

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@DJSkelton

4 years

What a shock. Turns out that this was another scare story during the campaign:

Brits travelling in Europe will not have to pay mobile roaming charges

MOBILE phone operators will not bring back roaming charges for Brits travelling in Europe. Remain campaigners had warned Brexit would lead to an end of the EU “Roam Like At Home” rules. ⚠️ Read our…

www.thesun.co.uk

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@DJSkelton

5 years

Astonishing that pretty respected people have been spreading outright distortions and fake news about Michael Gove’s very respectful and thoughtful speech.

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@DJSkelton

3 years

Has anyone asked the fans why they’re booing the continued knee taking or are we going to continue making unfair presumptions? Fighting racism in football is essential. Question is whether knee taking is the best way of doing that or a US import that feels forced on fans.

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@DJSkelton

1 year

Can’t help but think that: i) Strategies aimed at “appealing to the red wall” are often developed without an instinctive understanding of sophistication of working class voters. ii) Strategies based on a response to one by election result have historically had a bad track record

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@DJSkelton

5 years

@tomhfh In almost every poll like this, the UK comes out best or almost best. A shame that, for political reasons, so many seek to deny the fundamental truth of British decency.

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@DJSkelton

11 years

Tony Benn's "five questions to the powerful". We should never forget these. #TonyBenn http://t.co/7PpLT8NgEh

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@DJSkelton

5 years

Political Twitter back to its polarised worst this morning. Can we have the decency to agree that the grim attack on @OwenJones84 was an act of vile scumbaggery. No need for any hot takes or “ifs and buts” on top of that.

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@DJSkelton

6 years

If Brexit is killed or dramatically softened it will be the hardcore Brexiteers who caused that to happen. Hope it was worth it for the showboating, media gigs and social media likes.

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@DJSkelton

4 years

Notable to see some anti lockdown people on right now particularly concerned about poor quality housing, working class education and mental health for young people. Only fair to hold them to this and make sure that they maintain this concern after Covid too.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

3 years

@Will_Tanner Singapore by Thames is also often pursued by people who don’t really understand Singapore either.

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@DJSkelton

3 months

Definitely feels like BBC is missing @afneil tonight. ITV using heavyweight ex politicians as pundits really working for them.

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@DJSkelton

3 years

I’m sorry, but blaming “colonial times” for the brutal homophobia in modern Palestine is utterly inadequate and flawed and it’s ridiculous that @gaytimes are pumping this out on their social media channels.

GAY TIMES

@gaytimes

3 years

Breaking down the biggest questions surrounding Palestine and how the LGBTQ+ community can show solidarity.

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@DJSkelton

4 years

The BBC is one of Britain’s great gifts to the world. A wonderful, unifying cultural institution that should be treasured and preserved. I worry that, at times, it seems more concerned with pacifying a noisy minority that will never be pacified than telling our national story.

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@DJSkelton

3 months

Spot on from @stephenkb - the lack of actual declarations was astonishing. Friday should be the day for the bulk of the “what next” analysis. Otherwise you risk missing the sheer human drama of election night.

Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

3 months

But to classlessly return to grousing about the election night TV - the BBC didn’t even cover the count from *Swindon South*, the first marginal to declare!

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@DJSkelton

7 months

Something that Tories across the “broad church” used to believe in was personal responsibility. Now former PMs are going to overseas events to blame *everybody else* for their failures. Astonishing lack of a grip of reality.

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@DJSkelton

4 years

Interesting from @darrengrimes_ . I'd wager that plenty of the people who end up serving on the boards of the BBC or the British Library aren't from left behind towns and seldom represent the views of the majority on a wide range of issues.

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@DJSkelton

3 years

Secret of Tory success is constant ability to renew. Hence: 👉Disraeli’s anti liberalism 👉Salisbury’s anti socialism 👉Macmillan’s statism 👉Thatcher’s liberalism 👉Cameron’s bourgeois liberalism 👉Boris’s One Nation pro worker politics Labour are still rowing over 1929.

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@DJSkelton

6 years

This quote from Sir Peter Tapsell sums up, in a nutshell, how Toryism has been diminished by the retreat and economic surrender of the one nation tradition. Monetarism failed but is regarded everywhere as a success

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@DJSkelton

4 years

At some point we need to rethink the fetish for outsourcing that has overcome governments of all parties since the 1980s. If we want to empower local people, we should also empower local authorities to actually run some local services. Outsourcers seem best at winning contracts

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@DJSkelton

6 years

The Carole Cadwalladr model seems to be: make sweeping conspiracy theories > tweet borderline fake news > wait for praise/ retweets/ awards > go silent following inevitable corrections. Amazing she’s given so much credibility by sensible people.

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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

@DJSkelton

7 months

Every party should have in their manifesto a fine for playing their phone or iPad out loud without headphones, especially on trains etc. So selfish. Including when parents encourage their kids to it. Peak Blair would have been all over this anti social menace.

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@DJSkelton

3 years

This is clearly an example of a non football fan joining a bandwagon (or a football fan ignoring the evidence). I don’t like it, but England fans have booed opposition anthems for as long as I can remember. I don’t like it, but blaming it on Brexit is crackers.

Will Hutton

@williamnhutton

3 years

The minority of English fans booing other countries’ national anthems at the Euros is another of the multiple downward lurches we’ve taken as a country since the Brexit boors dominated our culture. We take the knee: we don’t boo. And we end as better winners.Gary Lineker is right

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@DJSkelton

3 years

@BBCJonSopel @washingtonpost @geoffedgers This huge essay into that 70s rant, as well as his vaccine politics, was literally published a month before this WP piece too:

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@DJSkelton

5 years

“The leftwing case for Brexit is strategic and clear. The EU is not – and cannot become – a democracy. Instead, it provides the most hospitable ecosystem in the developed world for rentier monopoly corporations, tax-dodging elites and organised crime.” Paul Mason, 2016

Paul Mason

@paulmasonnews

5 years

Labour draft leaflet sent out without Shadow Cabinet approval... makes illogical promise to "do a better deal with Europe" while actually being elected as MEPs in the European Parliament - I won't be using that on doorsteps, sorry...

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@DJSkelton

6 years

Between 2010 and 2016, cumulative economic growth for London was 22%. For the North East it was 4%. Yet another reason why “rebalancing” must be a priority.

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@DJSkelton

5 years

Wow. Labour members are SO out of step with the British public it’s scary.

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

5 years

fascinating YouGov poll of Labour membership

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@DJSkelton

4 years

It’s incumbent on everyone who sees complexity and nuance in this argument to argue back and make clear that British history is not one long trail of negativity. If we don’t argue back then you end up with the ridiculous situation of Gladstone being cancelled.

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@DJSkelton

5 years

Paul - an actual working class hero, belittled by the idiots who masterminded Labour’s electoral strategy.

Paul Embery

@PaulEmbery

5 years

Workington, a northern stronghold for Labour, voted 61% Leave, falls to the Tories.

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