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Henry Porter The Convention.

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A lone woman stands in vigil outside the Russian Embassy to mark Alexei Navalny’s murder by Putin’s regime. You can join her - and now me - to honour a great man and a Russian hero.

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Unanswerable intervention by @CarolineLucas - if MPs are expected to change their minds over a matter of a few weeks, why can't the public change its mind over nearly three years? May returns with the rubbish about "honouring the result of the referendum." She looks broken.

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"Club of clever people" has achieved - Eradication of small pox; success in leprosy, polio, river blindness, chagas disease. Mass vaccination saving 100,000s of lives. Huge impact on public health, women's health, water quality & environmental threats.

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The World Health Organisation is just another club of ‘clever people’ who want to bully and tell us what to do. Ignore.

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If we excuse people like Colin because they were misled, or didn't know what they were doing, we infantilise a huge part of the electorate. They must own their decision. James O'Brien - Don't blame Colin, blame the leaders he believed - LBC @LBC

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I have a strange conviction that Brexit will be stopped. I hear the BBC for once telling the unvarnished truth about the deadening impact. People talk urgently in bus queues. Cab drivers no longer say - "lets just get on with it." Leavers grow silent. It won't happen. It can't.

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Notice that Sky News did this - not the BBC. Sky news is reporting the story properly., Sky news commissioned the vital polls this week. Never thought I'd say it, but Sky is outstripping BBC at very stage of the Brexit story.

Faisal Islam

@faisalislam

6 years

NEW: Sky News obtains under Freedom of Information 30 studies on Brexit impact by local councils across the UK making contingencies and expressing concerns as Brexit clock ticks down, from social care, to food/medicines availability, border checks, to “social unrest”...

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This man is killing our democracy. I believe he is the most dangerous individual to ever occupy a position of power in the UK in my lifetime.

Stefan Simanowitz

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4 years

David Frost - former Chief Brexit Negotiator & close Allie to PM, has jbeen confirmed as the new National Security Adviser. Mark Sedwell is out. The announcement includes the detail that this is a political appointment, not a civil service appointment.

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Former Speaker Betty Boothroyd thought her rallying days were over but in 90th year gets a standing ovation at Put it To the People event.

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Johnson withdrew the whip from 21 Tory MPs, including Philip Hammond, Justine Greening, David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and Rory Stewart, for opposing a no-deal Brexit. Five years later, Truss' s Far Right ramblings and dangerous racism from Braverman and Anderson go unpunished.

John O’Brennan

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Has any ex-UK Prime Minister ever done anything as embarrassing as this?

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The intellectual incoherence of Corbyn is staggering. He spurns Trump to speak at the anti-Trump rally although in truth he's supporting the Brexit that Trump wants, whatever the cost to the NHS. My problem with Corbyn and his team comes down to one word - stupidity

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Navalny protest outside the Russian Embassy. For those commenting on my earlier post and doubt Navslny’s influence, the chants and speeches are all Russian.

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Henry Porter The Convention.

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6 years

Unlike you, this guy hauled himself up on a 40-quid enterprise allowance, created a global brand, along with 1,000s of decently paid jobs, and is giving back to society in numerous ways - see donation to blue Maine Foundation. And by the way, he's not buying anyone with polling.

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Lisa Nandy is one of the most disappointing of the younger generation of Labour MPs. Her failure on Brexit is almost as bad as Corbyn's. The great breach of trust here is her reluctance to describe the Brexit disaster for her constituents' lives.

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Working class Labour voters in Wigan will see a second Brexit Referendum as the "final breach of trust" says its MP @lisanandy #r4today

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Yvette Cooper has consistently outclassed most of her colleagues. Worth RT-ing this. She is a future leader.

Yvette Cooper

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My speech from earlier on why No Deal & WTO tariffs would hit manufacturing, public services & hard pressed families - and why Govt needs to make sure we don’t end up with a No Deal cliff edge at end of March

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Utterly astonishing that @BBCNewsnight and @BBCNews are not all over this. The BBC under Tony Hall is failing the country on Brexit. Parliamentary Media Select Committee needs to investigate why the BBC is ignoring this significant story. And where the hell is @UKLabour ?

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

6 years

Huzzah. Better late than never. Three weeks on, the NY Times finally follows up our story on the Brexit boys’ Russian gold deal. Looks like you’re going to have to report them to the police too, @arron_banks .

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How many, like me, have completely lost faith in the BBC and have more or less stopped consuming its news and current affairs output over the last year?

No longer trust the BBC

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6 years

Interesting that the show's host who allows this appalling rant about child actors by Ann Coulter is none other than the creepy Brexiteer Steve Hilton, formerly of Cameron's Number Ten.

Jon Levine

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6 years

Ann Coulter on Fox News calls crying immigrant children "child actors" and looks directly into the camera to warn Trump not to fall for it.

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Here's that interesting leader in the Sunday Times.

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Paul Dacre at Ofcom, Charles Moore at the BBC, Andrew Neil starting a right wing TV bully pulpit. We all better start concentrating on the right wing take over of what is already a vastly unequal media landscape.

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My election heroes. @DominicGrieve1 @EmmaKennedy @abcpoppins @TomBaldwin66 @campbellclaret @HackedOffHugh @carolecadwalla @mrjamesob @JamesMelville @paulmasonnews @paulhilder @DeborahMeaden @lucianaberger @nickynoo007 @monicabeharding @OwenJones84 @jonlis1

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6 years

A fascinating insight - 1) he is basically admitting that Brexit has the potential for UK's ruination 2) he blames this on the people who opposed it. We must overturn it because it is clear even to ardent leavers that it cannot work.

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Rather more of us outside the Russian Embassy now.

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A friend in business, who voted Leave, grasped me and another pal by our hands - a very unusual thing for him to do - and walked us across a lawn before saying, "I want you to know that I have been thinking - I would now vote to Remain."

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7 years

This is worth a RT or two. Ken and Anna are the only ones prepared to say that the bill is daft and the major parties are riven

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Henry Porter The Convention.

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6 years

I know from sources independent of AA that he is right. The BBC was worried about carrying to much remain material and the film was ruthlessly suppressed. There are many in and outside the BBC who know exactly what happened. The BBC should stop wriggling and apologise.

Andrew Adonis

@Andrew_Adonis

6 years

This is dissembling by the BBC. The people’s vote documentary was in the process of being made with support of BBC editors - ie it was ‘commissioned’. It was then decommissioned’ by the BBC’s editorial committee - ie banned. Why can’t the BBC be honest about their own actions?

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Please listen - this is superb. James O'Brien Analysis Of David Davis' "No Deal" Letter Is Devastating - LBC @LBC

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Ken Clarke on Brexit: ‘I’ve never seen anything as mad or chaotic as this’

Ken Clarke on Brexit: ‘I’ve never seen anything as mad or chaotic as this’

Last week, the veteran parliamentarian was the only Tory to vote against triggering article 50, his passionate pro-Europe speech making him an unlikely hero of the remain left. So how bad does he...

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Watch. Very good stuff.

🐻The Emancipation of BB🐻

@Barrowboy77

4 years

Did he say @BorisJohnson has “f*cked it” making the big moments count! I’m here for this! #hesaidwhathesaid #dominiccummings #borisvoteofnoconfidence

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This is so dumb it makes it you weep. The only people who will survive Brexit are the very rich - everyone else is going to suffer. Jobs, freedoms, rights and protections will be lost. Get some experience, grow up and please stop spouting nonsense.

Matt Zarb-Cousin

@mattzarb

6 years

If Brexit is the biggest issue affecting your life then you must be doing alright. I’m happy for you. Most people have to worry about more pressing issues than the UK’s post-Brexit institutional arrangements. Stop confusing your only concern with the country’s main priority 🙄

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50 Brexit impact studies Davis refuses to publish are the people's property, not the government's. We have an absolute right to see them.

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There's no more deserving case for tactical voting. His 14,700 majority might be overturned by a combination of Labour Lib Dem voters. Imagine the delight when this phoney upper class fascist is shown the door on election night.

Peston

@itvpeston

5 months

“I would rather have Donald Trump than President Biden” Conservative @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says that it would be better for the UK if Trump were President, as Biden has “shown his dislike for the United Kingdom” Watch the full interview at 10.45pm on ITV #Peston

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Murdoch has damaged this country more than ever Corbyn could. The harm over 50 years is incalculable.

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If the 58 impact statements do not exist, David Davis is guilty not only of deceit, but of the grossest possible dereliction of his office.

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Priti Patel should be condemned by her own party and removed from public life.

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6 years

"Vote Leave's cheating may well have swung the Referendum result." Wylie tells Parliamentary select committee. NOT covered on @BBCNews site which instead is carrying the fact that Zuckerberg won't appear in front the committee.

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1/9 Literally the only thing this Tory government is good at is cancelling your ancient rights and liberties. With the distraction of the pandemic and many erosions of individual autonomy, Johnson and Patel are now moving against the basic freedom of peaceful protest.

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Henry Porter The Convention.

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6 years

Parliament is supreme - that's the key part of our constitution. The executive's defiance of the wishes of Parliament would amount to a coup. That is now the reality we face.

The Independent

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Britain will leave the EU even if Parliament votes against Brexit, Downing Street confirms

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The big story of the day - Wylie at the PSC - is still bafflingly omitted from the BBC home page. An investigation into news values and decision making at BBC news and current affairs is long overdue. Leaks from the BBC would be welcome.

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Me on the BBC shutting down the story on Brexit.

Is the BBC abdicating its responsibilities over Brexit? | Henry Porter

Just when we need the broadcaster’s guidance, it seems unwilling to ask difficult questions

www.theguardian.com

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I think there is now no doubt that John Humphrys is a hardline Brexiteer and can no longer be trusted - a disgraceful performance this morning with Blair. @BBCr4today

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6 years

Tony Hall proposes new measures to attract young to BBC audience. Here's a tip - about 80 per cent of under-25s support EU membership and a PV. Represent their views and show concern for their future.

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Clipped this from the wife's Instagram account - I had no clear picture of the relatively tiny cost of EU membership.

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Henry Porter The Convention.

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Why is @BBCNews allowing the Chancellor's advice to be defined by right wing extremists? An utter disgrace. Conservative anger at Philip Hammond's 'dodgy project fear'

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The UK is a country of mostly reasonable people who are being led by a wall-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth suicide cult. It needs to be stopped.

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Hearing Mo say he was proud to win for his country, I realised most of us still prefer Farah's to Farage's Britain.

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7 years

Both the Mail and the Sun are using the Manchester attack for their own political purposes. Their behaviour is a national disgrace.

The DM Reporter

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7 years

GRUBBY PREDICTABILITY: With the dead not yet all named, The Mail chooses to blame opponents of the Conservatives for the Manchester attack.

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A very important Tweet. It is imperative that the Guardian and the Observer come out strongly in support of Carole, not only to put pressure on the police but to counter the crap coming from these sites. Should be an absolute priority.

Carole Cadwalladr

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6 years

Every day. "Loony" "Crazy" "Cuckoo" "Reported you to the police" "Soros". And on and on. Aided & abetted by Guido, Westmonster, Raheem Kassam. Bannon never far behind. They succeed in making this look like a "spat". It's not. It's an attempt to report on institutional failure.

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@JuliaHB1 You are making yourself look rather petulant and arrogant. Having argued to leave so fiercely, you really need to properly address the impacts we are seeing. Growth, inward investment, migration of skills, creativity and money are things you cannot dodge any longer.

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Thought experiment. Imagine Tory party and press if a Labour Gov were about to lose Gib and the Union and reduce the economy to ashes.

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The BBC /MSM view is that Johnson will ride this one out, that people only care about the vaccination programme and don't give a damned about how we're governed, or the standards and character of the people in power. I hope that's not true. If it is, we are truly f**ked.

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A completely untrustworthy person. Her patronising disdain of @carolecadwalla investigations on BBC TV seems astonishing now we know she was in possession of evidence of Russian meetings. Utterly contemptible behaviour for a journalist.

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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Hold on, pal. He's simply relaying to the British public the clear and present danger of your lunatic scheme. He has no skin in the game - he goes back to Canada after this debacle. But right now he is calling it for what it is - madness.

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A chill settled on the subject of Brexit in January. It's still the dumbest thing this country has done in two or three centuries, apart, perhaps, from electing Johnson to office. It's wrong and destructive and it will hurt us all. No reason not to keep saying that.

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As of this evening, Italy has 41,000 people with the virus and has suffered 3405 deaths, while Germany has 14,000 cases and has lost 43 people. To explain this disparity is vital.

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I recommend this. James O'Brien's Must-Watch Take On The Tories Trying To Topple Theresa May - LBC @LBC

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Blair ( without John Humphrys interrupting) making crystal clear sense.

Channel 4 News

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6 years

"[People] believed if you voted Brexit you were going to get money for the health service." Former British PM Tony Blair gives his view that people in Britain were falsely promised money for the NHS before the EU referendum.

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Britain could slash environmental and safety standards 'a very long way' after Brexit, Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg says

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More than £160m worth of the English quota is in the hands of vessels owned by companies based in Iceland, Spain and the Netherlands, thanks to a practice known as "quota-hopping". We sold our quotas! Just straight lies here.

John Redwood

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The plundering of our fish stocks was one of the worst features of our EU membership. It combined large environmental damage with large economic loss for the U.K. This must end in December. We want a fishing policy that is kinder to our fish and our fishing industry.

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Ah ! The BBC has woken up to the Cambridge Analytica story - a disgraceful 36 hours late. Fascinating how timid the BBC has become.

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The Tories can’t even do an election video without stealing.

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

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5 years

I won't be retweeting it - but Boris Johnson has copied my #ElectionActually video. Tanks. On. The. Lawn. Don't share his version in outrage - instead, share my original version. It's us versus Cummings, Johnson, Trump and Farage - retweet this and spread the word!

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As I have pointed out to other spluttering Leavers, Grieve's actions support the very thing you were fighting for - the sovereignty of Parliament.

chris johnson

@viewer68

7 years

Dominic Grieve MP to name a few, voting against the people of the UK who made there decision for Brexit, will probably find out he’s on the EU gravy train!

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The actual news is that Boris Johnson screwed up. 1 Failed to take COVID seriously 2 Failed the NHS on PPE 3 Failed on ventilators 4 Failed to lockdown Britain sooner 5 Failed to recognise herd immunity as typically heartless and impractical right wing nonsense.

John Stevens

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More good news on Boris Johnson’s recovery... I’m told he’s now doing su doku puzzles and has been watching films, including Lord of the Rings and Withnail & I... Full details in tomorrow’s @DailyMailUK

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DD has turned out to be the worse kind of blithering British idiot -slack on detail, mouthy, arrogant and utterly unaware of his own failings.

BrexiTories out!

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Brilliant reporting #FBPE Six of Theresa May’s cabinet are paid up “members” of secret group demanding a total break from the European Union | openDemocracy

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The people destroying our country. Last week when the Liar suspended Parliament he attended a small dinner party with his girlfriend. It was held by billionaire Brexit funder Anthony Bamford and his wife Carole They were joined by Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall.

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After much reflection, I have looked at my majority of just over 9,000 and realise I am toast ...

James Heappey

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3 months

Some news from me: A painful decision but the next election is the time for me to step away from politics, prioritise my family and pursue a new career. I’ll forever be grateful for the incredible opportunity to serve this amazing constituency in Westminster.

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Sad about this - a very good independent journalist who has been so rigorous on Brexit is about to be swallowed by @BBCNews which wouldn't have allowed the majority of his analysis and reporting over the last couple of years.

BBC News Press Team

@BBCNewsPR

6 years

We are delighted to announce that @faisalislam has been appointed the new BBC Economics Editor. He will take up the role in the new year. Press release to follow.

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If you need a symbol of the decline and lassitude of the Tory era, look no further than the pollution of our waterways, particularly the record of the CEO of Severn Trent @stwater Liv Garfield, who's earned £17.3m since 2014 and, in 2020, was paid £2.8m – £1.9m in bonuses.

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This is right. Andrew Neils's position at the BBC after this pattern of bullying is untenable. The female MPs who appear on his programme should perhaps consider boycotting it in support of @carolecadwalla

Peter Jukes

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6 years

Worth adding, I don't want a right of reply for myself but for @carolecadwalla who - for landing scoop afrer scoop - has been subjected to systematic misogynistic bullying for nearly two years, wilfully ignored by, and now aided by our public service broadcaster.

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@brexit_party_nw Anyone who starts a sentence with "I am not a racist" goes on to prove they are. By the way, EU net migration is currently 74,000 compared to 232,000 from outside the EU. The second figure continues to grow, so your Brexit vote doesn't even help your dismal, dim-witted agenda.

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Take a moment to think of the enormous courage it takes MPs like Dominic Grieve and Anna Soubry to stand up to the threats from within and outside Parliament. May is soft soaping some of the likely rebels today. They should stand firm, but they need our support and our gratitude.

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This is exactly right. Really important that Labour grasps the truth of what the government is doing and runs with this line of attack.

The Citizens

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NEW: ‘What we have is a government that is pursuing an ideologically driven commitment to force the population to accept a level of mortality and disability.' Powerful words from Lancet's editor-in-chief @richardhorton1

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Pollster Peter Kellner's lead letter in the Times. 75 per cent of the public thinks the deal bears no resemblance to what was on offer in 2016. A new referendum would win public approval and give young people a chance to vote on their future.

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Bloody hell - Sunderland!

Britain Elects

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6 years

Pallion (Sunderland) result: LDem: 60.1% (+57.0) Lab: 29.4% (-18.4) Con: 7.3% (-7.0) Grn: 3.1% (-1.7) LDem GAIN. No UKIP (-30.1) as prev.

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Crucial part of the story is the suppression by the BBC of legitimate and damaging story. The man who buckled or obliged was Robbie Gibb, formerly of the BBC and now in No 10. BBC journalists need to come forward with information on this and other stories. It's called journalism.

Channel 4 News

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5 years

Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists

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The majority of MPs have quite simply betrayed our democracy - that must never forgotten

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I struggle to name the dimmest cabinet member of 2021. One day it’s Nadine; the next it seems like Truss has no competition. But I have to say Raab is lately making a very strong and consistent case for himself.

robert

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Raab, "The police don't normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago"

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BBC leads with "May Shed a Tear" while real news organisations lead on Brexit bill's executive power grab. BBC falls for it yet again.

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‘The Brexit gang got what they wanted- the chaos is theirs and yet, somehow, it’s not their fault. Nothing is ever, ever their fault.’

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When the fog of Brexit clears, one thing is guaranteed - people will come to view the Tories with unprecedented revulsion. Any MP who facilitated Brexit, did not do enough to oppose it, or simply relied on the alibi of a constituency Leave majority won't escape the blowback.

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At what stage can the legitimacy of this government be called into question? The failure to respond quickly, the lying, obfuscation, sloppiness, mixed messages, and profound absence of leadership have resulted in 1,000s of deaths. At what moment do we say enough?

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We've done 900 days since the referendum - 900 days of wasted time, of psychic and psychological disorder, of posturing and the breaking of bonds and friendships, and - most important - 900 days ignoring climate change and the extinction off species. Brexit is antimatter.

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7 years

Leave Director admitted the Brexit referendum was won by lying to the public.

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7 years

Labour has a few weeks to change its mind. If it cannot support EU and British national interest, then there will be huge numbers who won't support Corbyn.

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6 years

Number Ten insists that the UK will leave the Customs Union and Single Market. Naturally that's not what Leavers promised ahead of the vote. We need another go at this now Leave lies exposed - a final say.

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7 years

May hasn't got time or will to read the 50 impact studies, so give them to the public and we'll do the reading and make up our own minds.

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6 years

A majority of voters in all 259 Labour seats across Britain now back the idea of the public being given the final say on the outcome of Brexit negotiations, according to a vast new YouGov study based on polling of almost 26,000 people.

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7 years

The BBC has lost it.Totally bought in to the fanatics's case.

Kevin Schofield

@KevinASchofield

7 years

Iain Duncan Smith tells Brexit-sceptic UK companies to suck it up: “British businesses will have to learn to get by in a different world.” #r4today

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YouGov Poll. Imagine there was a new referendum with options of remaining in Europe or leaving with proposed deal. Remain in the EU 47 Leave with deal 29 Would not vote 12 Don't know 12

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5 years

My loathing for your party increases by the hour. Every time I think I've reached peak animosity, you step into the breach with one of your heartless little ideas.

Iain Duncan Smith - Chingford & Woodford Green

@MPIainDS

5 years

Removing barriers for older people to working longer has the potential to improve health and wellbeing, increase retirement savings & ensure the full functioning of public services for all. CSJ report argues for more support for older workers: better healthcare support....1/2

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7 years

Pay attention to Dominic Grieve - he knows what he is talking about and is twice as bright as anyone in the cabinet.

Paul Unwin

@UnwinPaul

7 years

Tory rebel calls Theresa May's latest Brexit plan 'thoroughly stupid'

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6 years

The BBC faces an "existential threat" not just from streaming services but from journalistic failure. People don't want to have to abandon trusted programmes. BBC's Today programme sheds 800,000 listeners

BBC's Today programme sheds 800,000 listeners

Decline in numbers comes amid criticism of the flagship Radio 4 show

www.theguardian.com

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Endorsed by Farage and Hopkins, applauded by Telegraph and secretly loved by Tory Brexiteers, Corbyn says he challenges the Establishment

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It must be clear to everyone who values future of UK that we are not in a position to negotiate Brexit and shd ask for a suspension of A 50

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6 years

I'm honestly beginning to wonder whether leading Brexiteer goons should be tried for some kind of High Treason. Ministers admit almost 65 existing trade deals with non-EU countries are ‘at risk because of Brexit’

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4 years

Tory MPs say extending free school meals increases dependency on the state. Does that also apply to MPs who claim around £1.1million per annum in free parliamentary meals?

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6 years

The greatest boost to the radical right has been Labour's failure to properly oppose the government policies or take notice of the majority of labour supporters who are against Brexit. Simply a catastrophic failure of leadership and principle.

Owen Jones

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6 years

Unpopular opinion time! I fear a second EU referendum would be a huge boost for the radical right. The first gave them a massive boost as it is. A second vote would be framed as an Establishment plot to thwart the first, and would be an even more viciously poisonous campaign.

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Henry Porter The Convention.

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7 years

Brexit was millionaire's project to persuade ordinary people to vote against their prosperity and welfare. It can and must be reversed.

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Henry Porter The Convention.

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6 years

@JuliaHB1 Here's a graph for you, Julia. It shows investment flows since 2005. Note the trends on the right. If Brexit happens the way you want, never mind California- we'll be competing with Micronesia.

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Henry Porter The Convention.

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Quite interesting to speculate where Britain would be today if we'd had a leader like Merkel for just half the time she lead Germany. A much better place, that's for sure.

Brendan May

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3 years

Farewell to #AngelaMerkel A dignified departure with tributes from all sides, befitting of a calm, sober, intelligent, internationalist leader committed to citizenship, culture, science, Europe, and the less fortunate. We desperately need that here.

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