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Husband & Father to 2 sons and 2 daughters, torn between my Essex upbringing and being a good leftie.

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@GregClinker
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1 year
After 38 years I have been expelled from Labour for showing support for my former MP, himself expelled by Kinnock on the day he was voted hardest working MP by his peers. I campaigned for Foot, Kinnock, Blair & Corbyn. I knocked on 2000 doors in 19. A badge of honour.
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@GregClinker
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4 years
Can someone ask Marcus Rashford to sort the A level results out.
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@GregClinker
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2 years
He must have seen a lot of action to get all those medals. My dad was bomber crew in WW2 and he only got one.
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@GregClinker
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Hopefully one day Prince Edward will write s book about his time in the Marines. From the medals he won it must have been a hell of a 4 weeks.
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@GregClinker
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4 years
Let me get this straight @Channel4News John Hume is a hero for 'talking to the IRA' but Jeremy Corbyn is a terrorist sympathiser?
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@GregClinker
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3 years
I have been suspended from @UKLabour for the following tweets, criticising the Apartheid Regime of Israel. I campaigned for every leader from Foot to Blair. I knocked on 2000 doors in the 19 GE. I didn't quite make 40 years. I consider the suspension a badge of honour.
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@GregClinker
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I don't believe for a second, Starmer's parents couldn't pay the phone bill on 2 incomes in the 70s. He's a liar.
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@GregClinker
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1 year
Centrism is about wanting something now you rejected when it was offered to you.
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@GregClinker
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5 years
I'm feeding my kids from a food bank where's my dignity, happiness and wealth?
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Jeremy Hunt
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This just shows what we’re up against. Corbyn at home, and people trying to subvert our values from abroad. Our democratic system based on rules, respect for individual rights & human dignity has created more happiness & wealth than any other way of life anywhere in the world.
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@GregClinker
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After they were famous. Luciana Berger - Edelman PR Chukka Umunna - Edelman PR/J P Morgan Angela Smith - private water Chris Leslie - debt collectors CEO Tom Waston - gambling Michael Dugher - gambling Jeremy Cobyn - back bench MP helps at local food bank.
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@GregClinker
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10 months
The list of shame of Labour MPs who didn't vote for a cease fire: Stephen Kinnock - Aberavon Mark Tami - Alyn and Deeside Angela Rayner - Ashton-under-Lyne Dame Margaret Hodge - Barking Dan Jarvis - Barnsley Central Stephanie Peacock - Barnsley East
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@GregClinker
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3 years
If Desmond Tutu had been active in British politics over the last 5 years he would have been smeared as an antisemite for his support of redistribution & Palestinian rights.
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@GregClinker
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2 years
Absolutely fuming at Starmer's insult at PMQs. "The Conservative Corbyn" This is integrity & leadership? He's not fit to clean Corbyn's shoes.
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@GregClinker
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1 year
The only party leader, in the last 40 years, who refused to kow-tow to Murdoch. #CorbynWasRight
@jeremycorbyn
Jeremy Corbyn
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Todays events demonstrate the danger of concentrating media ownership. Murdoch empire, and others, need to be broken up.
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@GregClinker
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4 years
I don't like Priti Patel. I do like Zara Sultana. Am I a racist?
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@LizKershawDJ @keirstarmer Their parents need to cancel Netflix, cut down on the takeaways, and learn to budget.
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@GregClinker
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7 months
Husam Zomlot in the London March. #CEASEFIRE_NOW
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@GregClinker
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3 years
You can remove my right to protest, take my citizenship away, give the security forces immunity from prosecution, privatise the NHS, allow 150,000 to die but I draw the line at an office party?
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14 year old daughter "we're doing the Cuban missile crisis at school next week" 16 year old son "America put missiles in Turkey first so why isn't it called the Turkish missile crisis?" So proud, my work is done.
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@GregClinker
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2 years
"If you're a Jewish socialist you're 200 times more likely, than anyone else, to be expelled from the Labour party for hatred of Jews. What kind of Kafkaesque bollocks is that?" - Alexi Sayle
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3 years
Kier Starmer is thanking me for knocking on 2000 doors in the 19 GE, and trying to sell his PV, by kicking me out the party after 40 years. #Lab21
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@GregClinker
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Why does the BBC think it's "controversial" to support Palestinian rights, but it's entirely normal to support a genocide? BBC News - Charlotte Church denies antisemitism after pro-Palestinian chant
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2 months
Am I paranoid, or are @BBCNews ignoring Corbyn's win?
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1 year
The Labour triangulation computer will blow a fuse today trying to agree with Lineker, disagree with Corbyn & keep escalating the "stop the boats" rethoric all at the same time.
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4 years
@MichaelRosenYes Luciana Berger - Edelman PR Chukka Umunna - Edelman PR Angela Smith - private water Chris Leslie - debt collectors CEO Tom Waston - gambling Jeremy Corbyn - back bench MP, helping at local food bank
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@GregClinker
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1 year
This is my dad putting his life on the line to fight the Nazis. I'm glad he didn't live to see these wankers giving a former member of the Wafen SS a standing ovation.
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A 98-year old was given standing ovation by the Canadian parliament during Zelensky's speech. He was hailed as a hero for fighting against the Russians. Yaroslav Hunk fought for the 14th division of the Waffen SS.
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@GregClinker
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3 years
Wait until Margaret Hodge finds out a Labour MP is calling for mass expulsion of Jews it will be all over the media.
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@GregClinker
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3 years
My mum used to say, at funerals, did you buy them flowers when they were alive. So today if you're a politician & your lauding Desmond Tutu I'm asking did you oppose South African Apartheid & did you support Palestinian rights when he was asking you to? I did.
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@GregClinker
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@ayeshahazarika At least we won't have to endure hard left policies like free broad band, free education, the 6th lowest corp tax in the G7, a £2k tax rise for people earning £100k & public ownership of energy.
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Ken Clarke has said he'd accept Corbyn, just @LibDems blocking it now. BBC News - SNP hints at backing short-term Corbyn government
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"We will bring rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership to end the great privatisation rip-off and save you money on your fares and bills." - Labour 2019 Manifesto
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@GregClinker
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4 years
@Keir_Starmer on #JeremyVine admitting that he personally took the action to expel Corbyn. A direct breach of EHRC.
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@GregClinker
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2 years
Russia have imprisoned a journalist, without trial, in solitary confinement with the intention of destroying his mental health to the point of suicide, if that doesn't work they will render him to a foreign country for cruel and unusual punishment. Oh no wait that's the UK.
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Breaking : Ronnie Biggs to lead enquiry into Great Train Robbery
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@GregClinker
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Growing up as a teenager Ken Livingstone's "fair fares" made any single bus journey 2p. It was effectively free to go anywhere. Later he introduced the congestion charge & the bicycles. A great visionary. Best wishes to Ken & his family.
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@darrengrimes_ @MarcusRashford Marcus Rashford has scored 55 premier league goals for Manchester Untied. Darren Grimes' mum does his washing.
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@GregClinker
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1 year
Does anyone of the Labour front benchers rushing to the TV studios with their faux outrage about bullying think they may have bullied Jeremy Corbyn?
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@GregClinker
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4 years
A threat to national security
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@GregClinker
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@Peston Satire died again. Peston was a leading antisemitism scammer to prevent a Labour government coming to power to invest in public services, infrastructure and education. #ItWasAScam
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1 year
this you?
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Tom Tugendhat
1 year
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Paul Mason. @Glastonbury shouldn’t allow itself to be exploited by antisemitism-deniers seeking to peddle their vile conspiracy theories. I hope they change their mind and decide against screening this film.
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@GregClinker
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3 years
Tony Doherty making a presentation to Jeremy Corbyn in thanks for his Bloody Sunday Lecture.
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@GregClinker
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10 months
Zionism is a political ideology, not an ethnicity. Not all Jews are Zionists. Most Zionists are not Jews and some of the most famous Zionists in history were virently antisemitic.
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Simon Schama
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Do NOT tell me that anti- Zionism is not deeply stained with anti- semitism
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@GregClinker
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3 years
The Labour party has expelled or suspended 2 of the most genuine, humble, decent & dedicated Socialists of my lifetime. Jeremy Corbyn & Ken Loach. Meanwhile the architects of the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are lauded and sit on the front bench. Disgusting
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@GregClinker
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What's the difference between Reform calling people P****, Sunak demonising asylum seekers, and Starmer saying he'll deport Bangladeshis? They're all the same, pandering to the right wing and gutter press. The reality is we need immigrantaion.
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@GregClinker
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4 years
Funny that because my history books say she took us into the EU by negotiating the Maastricht Treaty. Shocking level of education at grammar schools!
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4 years
Whilst Margaret didn’t live long enough to see this day, I am sure that she is rejoicing in heaven. At last we ‘got Brexit done’!
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@GregClinker
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3 years
Breaking : Labour announce they'd put a Union flag outside every food bank to demonstrate our shared values and respect.
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Dominic Raab says 'no one' saw Afghanistan crisis coming
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@GregClinker
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14 yr old daughter said she was learning about Communism at school "I think it's a good idea but I don't like there's no democracy." 16 yr old son jumped in "nowhere in the Communist Manifesto does it say that one person has to be in charge" Coming along nicely that boy.
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@GregClinker
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3 years
Will quick witted journalists be asking Peter Mandelson why he called Jeffery Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell friends?
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@Keir_Starmer He opposed both South African & Israeli Apartheid regimes. As a supporter of Palestinian rights & BDS he'd be expelled if he were a member of the current Labour party.
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@GregClinker
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2 years
Remember folks @mrjamesob spent 5 years smearing a man that rode a bicycle, made jam & wanted to house homeless children and fund the NHS and wasn't willing to start a nuclear war.
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@GregClinker
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"High quality candidates"
@ScotNational
The National
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NEW: A Labour MP has apologised for a series of unearthed tweets in which she insults Estonians, Pakistanis and admits to elbowing a homeless man in the ribs. 🗣“They were a significant error of judgement on my part"
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@GregClinker
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5 years
I'm feeding my kids from a foodbank, what I want from the media is 20 min special about why 0.06% of the members of Labour are alleged to have said something AS.
@krishgm
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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The Labour Party is now unable to find anyone prepared to come on #c4news tonight to answer questions about antisemitism and the ad taken out by over 60 Labour Peers today telling Jeremy Corbyn he had failed to defend the party's values.
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@GregClinker
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11 months
If only Palestinians could reach the exulted status of civilians.
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The killing, kidnapping, abuse and torture of innocent civilians is not a nuanced issue.
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@GregClinker
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@LBC @mrjamesob I cared so much about 'objective morality' I smeared and lied about the only candidate for primeminister ever to release his tax return. In doing so I helped the most right wing government in history into power. Mostly because he wouldn't come on my 'shock jock' show.
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@GregClinker
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3 years
Breaking: truck drivers more useful to society than investment bankers.
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@GregClinker
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3 years
Since you've suspended me after nearly 40 years for criticising the Israeli regime I don't think I'll be turning up.
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@GregClinker
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Ken Loach has been expelled for saying others shouldn't be. McCarthyism in a nutshell.
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@GregClinker
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Sorry Charlotte I won't be able to help, I've been suspended, after 40 years, for criticising Alistair Campbell & the Israeli regime.
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I've been a member of @UKLabour for 35 years, after Iraq I gave up. Because of Jeremy Corbyn I knocked on 2000 doors last December. On election day I got so cold knocking up I couldn't turn the key in my car. #WeSupportJeremyCorbyn
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@GregClinker
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5 months
Corbyn made Labour the richest party without a single large donor. Remember that when Labour are in government and working for their sponsors.
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Every politician that wraps themselves in the flag and panders to anti immigrant rhetoric is part of the problem.
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@GregClinker
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@MarcoCSermoneta I'm old enough to remember when Apartheid states were prohibited from taking part in international football tournaments.
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@GregClinker
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Thatcher's settlement is safe. The whole country will turn into a massive PFI scheme.
@LeftieStats
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️
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🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms that the new government won't build any council homes. Reeves told a press conference: "We need the private sector to build homes. We're not going to be in the business of building those homes directly". (Source: BBC News)
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@AngelaRayner @GordonBrown I'm old enough to remember when Jeremy Corbyn was one great friend of yours.
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@GregClinker
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This is fascism, supported by both front benches.
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Netanyahu: “We will not allow humanitarian assistance in the form of food and medicines from our territory to the Gaza strip”
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This is what happens when a political career means more than children being blown to bits.
@kimleadbeater
Kim Leadbeater MBE MP
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An update on how I will be voting this evening ⬇️
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@GregClinker
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@LBC @mrjamesob "We will stop MPs from taking paid second jobs, with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing." - 2019 Labour manifesto that @mrjamesob campaigned against.
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@GregClinker
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@Keir_Starmer Exactly what I was thinking on the food bank queue this morning. We need British bombs made in British factories with British workers. .. to drop on poor children in the Yemen. Securing communities.
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@GregClinker
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@Lord_Sugar @elonmusk Your obsession with people working from home says more about you than anyone else. I work from home for a big bank, I regularly log back on after dinner and do extra hours I wouldn't do if I was in an office.
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@GregClinker
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4 years
Both have Union Jacks, both going to 'level up', both 'believe in Britain', both beholden to rich donors. What's the fundamental difference?
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@GregClinker
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10 months
Have you lost the argument? Are you morally bankrupt? don't worry: 1) accuse everyone of being a misogynist. 2) accuse everyone of being antisemitic 3) accuse everyone of being violent 4) play the victim
@Siobhain_Mc
Siobhain McDonagh
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My statement about Labour women being threatened, intimidated or having their offices vandalised:
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@GregClinker
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Luciana Berger joined the Shadow Cabinet of a man she believed to be AS, then she was hounded out along with 44 others on the same day, then she was hounded out of Labour, then she was hounded out of Change UK, then she was constructively dismissed by the voters as a Lib Dem?
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My mum who was a primary school teacher for 30 years, was completely against testing, she used to say 'a child never got taller by measuring them'.
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Siobhain McDonagh
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So we’re back to not measuring the progress made by poor kids at primary school. They start 18 months behind their well off classmates and now we’re not going to even bother to find out how they’re doing by the end.
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@GregClinker
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Here's Blair on how proud he was to extend Thatcher's privatisation & anti trade union laws. The legacy is insecure 0 hours contracts and a housing crisis. Think of all the distress & misery caused not to mention the impact of a low skilled low paid economy to UK PLC.
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@_KerriPrince What do you say when they ask you what Labour's policies are?
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@GregClinker
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@MatthewStadlen Thankfully you helped save us from free broadband, 2010 levels of corp tax, a nationwide infrastructure program zero tuition fees, a soft Brexit and the only candidate ever to run for PM that released his tax returns.
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@GregClinker
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We all miss liberal values like 90 days detention, torture, rendition, Murdoch making policy via the back door of No 10, illegal wars, spin. When are we going to get back to sensitive liberal values instead of extremism like funding the NHS and getting decent trains?
@DMiliband
David Miliband
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This is a very sensitive piece by ⁦ @stephenkb ⁩. It made me think about whether I have been complacent. The Johnson/burka aftermath, the stories about far right terrorism, the Corbyn blind spot on anti-semitism - all say liberal values need defence.
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@GregClinker
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@RobbieRinder Now, do figures for the British empire? The hammer & sickle isn't a national flag.
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Dr. Myriam Francois is a hero.
@sahouraxo
sarah
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“How dare we have a conversation about trade when there are children right now being treated without anaesthetic.” Dr Myriam François rips Western hypocrisy as US-UK bombs rain on the poorest country in the world, Yemen, while there is a genocide in Gaza.
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@MatthewStadlen Did you tell her you spent 5 years smearing the man who would have fixed homelessness? #ItWasAScam
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@lisanandy @TzipiHotovely I'm old enough to remember when the whole world boycotted and no platformed Apartheid.
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Does anyone know who liberated Auschwitz on 27th Jan 1945?
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@Independent "All attacks are wrong" - Jeremy Corbyn "Do you condemn Hamas" would be a valid question if the press asked David Lammy, "Do you condemn Israel," every time they interviewed him.
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I am under investigation for anti-Semitism for the follow tweets. I joined the Labour party, as a 16 year old, inspired, by Michael Foot to fight Thatcher who I watched destroy society. Unfortunately she won & as she said New Labour is her biggest achievement.
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No one on Labour's front bench voted against Windrush which resulted in black British citizens being denied cancer treatment. They will be falling over themselves to "stand in solidarity" against AS. Many will neglect to mention Irish & GRT. That's the hierarchy of racism.
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I remember the 70s, we had well paid high skilled jobs, high pensions, affordable housing, you could leave school and walk into an apprenticeship, I got a grant of £60/week to go to university, didn't even know what tuition fees were, never heard of a food bank. And the music..
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Julian Elmo
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@ItCorbyn @jeremycorbyn The 1970’s culture all over again. Outdated, union inspired misery, “everybody out”!!!!
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Just 6 Labour MPs voted against Windrush. I won't bore you with the names, suffice to say none of them are on the front bench & 2 of them have been removed for "racism".
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@GregClinker
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5 years
Corbyn apologises for the first time since he last apologised. Why hasn't he apologised since he last apologised?
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5 years
I remember in the 80s when Ken Livingstone ran the GLC and had the 'fair fares', I think it was called. 4p to go anywhere on a red bus, so 2p half fair for us kids to go swimming. The buses were packed. How many cars did it take off the road?
@JohnRentoul
John Rentoul
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This isn’t politics. This is a liquidation sale
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Essex Boy
5 years
My mum who was a primary school teacher for 30 years, was completely against testing, she used to say 'a child never got taller by measuring them'. I've had 4 kids do SATs, haven't met a teacher or parent who thinks they're a good idea.
@NickGibbUK
Nick Gibb
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Putting Corbyn in charge of primary education (where he’d replace high quality SATs with teacher assessment) would lower standards, increase teacher workload and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest pupils. It should fill us all with dread:
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Is there anything more obscene than a professional politician wearing a poppy cheering on a genocide. A position that he's spent 3 days to arrive at based on his career? I will never vote for these lunatics.
@SkyNews
Sky News
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'Hamas' aim on 7 October was not just to kill Jews, it was to bring death upon their fellow Muslims in Gaza.' Sir Keir Starmer warns Israel "not to be blinded" by rage and ensure innocent civilians are protected. 📺 Sky 501
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@GoodwinMJ Terrorist is a meaningless word. A few from history include Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Paul Revere, The French Resistance But a drone pilot sitting in an air conditioned room on Baltimore that wipes out an Afghan wedding party is a brave solider.
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Breaking: Labour leader Keir Starmer has sacked the electorate
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How it started How it's going
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@Tony_Robinson Here's some of the shenanigans were they lied about what a Jewish member said to maker her look antisemitic?
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Corbyn on a Monday afternoon, no ficus group, no BBC propagandist.
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@Keir_Starmer @AnasSarwar You've suspended me after 40 years for supporting Palestinian rights. Along with many others. I knocked on 2000 doors in 2019.
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