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John Holman

@JohnHol32019188

5 years

@campbellclaret @theobertram People have been brainwashed that immigration is the problem, nativism & anti-supranationalism the solution, when this only benefits the rich further, as the solution is countries pooling their lawmaking more to tax & regulate the rich. Who will say this and stand for Rejoining?

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John Holman

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4 months

@meralhece That reminds me of the Leaver who said to me 'if the EU was so great, America would be in it'. Geography is not their strongest subject, but the UK could probably win a bronze for racism (the gold and silver to Israel and US).

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2 years

Starmer has made it easier than ever before for English socialists and remainers - in good conscience - to vote Green or LD wherever they live and not Labour - because Starmer is daily stressing that a vote for Labour *is* a vote for Tory Brexit, fiscal plans and illiberal values

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@LBC @mattfrei @Edwina_Currie Leavers don't understand that Remainers never felt unfree to begin with nor unfriendly toward the EU. So they can't accept these two as supposed benefits. Instead they see only the evident, snowballing economic harm and diminution of rights and standards: all pain, no gain.

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@BarakRavid @axios If Genocide Joe keeps providing the support regardless, Netanyahu will just continue doing whatever he wants.

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@Cmcallister008 'Most voters are opposed to lifting fracking ban'. There, fixed it for you.

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@nickspencer74 @SamRamani2 Indeed. I had my friends round for dinner last night. Or as Russia would say, I was invaded by them.

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@Joealle83391495 Some, but far more will move north - I refer to English remainers seeking a better life in Scotland.

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@haaretzcom @LindaDayan9 Frankly, Israeli public opinion is irrelevant. The world created a State of Israel without Palestinian approval. And must now create a State of Palestine. Full stop.

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@BarakRavid @axios Targeting civilians in a refugee camp you mean.

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Tweet of the day cc. @campbellclaret @acgrayling @Femi_Sorry @Andrew_Adonis @nickreeves9876

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@Telegraph Victory for Sinn Fein stokes hope for a united Ireland. There, fixed it for you.

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@lewis_goodall Britishness was killed by Brexit, because for so many it included Europeanness and the progressive liberal values associated with that. Take that away and what's left is mean, backward-looking English nationalism.

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3 years

Caption competition:

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3 years

Yep. All turning out as remainers said it would.

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3 years

We've just spent billions making our lives worse haven't we. Billions.

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2 years

@William09733378 Did you honestly think Brexit would only mean EU citizens would no longer have the automatic right to live/stay in UK, and not also the other way around?

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5 months

@SaraAljamal3 Most of the world cries with you and rages against Israel and US.

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@MuntherIsaac That's how deep their evil is. They are literally happy to build villas on the bones of murdered children.

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John Holman

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2 years

@JamesCrisp6 So not Frost who negotiated it, Johnson who signed it, the Tory party who agreed to it, the Tory-voting public who in doing so approved it, and the UK parliament that ratified it?

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@hasoonassi I'm not a Muslim, or Arab, but a fellow global citizen. Strength and peace to you brother. In solidarity.

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@IanDunt Are we all clear now that Brexit was about taking back control FROM the people and their elected representatives in Brussels AND Westminster?

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@lisaocarroll Many pensioners and disabled people can do neither of course.

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@13sarahmurphy All interviewing of government ministers should be outsourced to foreign journalists

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3 years

@KirstieMAllsopp The problems caused by Brexit were all avoidable. Plus we recall Brexit was sold on the basis there would be no problems. People should be up in arms against this government for scamming and depriving them.

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2 years

@BladeoftheS The Tory philosophy is 'every man for himself' so presumably neither would want me to save them. That would be a 'woke' act they'd disapprove of.

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John Holman

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4 years

@BBCRealityCheck Now go on the 6pm and 10pm news and tell the public the truth. Expose the Johnson lies - all of them. We've been waiting 4 years for that but hey, better late than never.

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3 years

@PippaCrerar 'I'm sorry if you feel that the law has been broken'

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John Holman

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3 years

@councillorian 17.4m voted Leave, 16.1m voted Remain, 12.9m abstained. So only 37% of the electorate voted for change. And most people didn't vote for Brexit-pushing parties in either 2017 or 2019 (don't confuse with FPTP seats). Brexit never had majority support and doesn't now.

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@sisboombahbah @prem_thakker And every adult member of the IDF if our grounds for saying so is the commission of war crimes.

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4 years

@drjawalsh It's like living in a Dickens novel. The mine collapses. The owners are losing money. It's still unsafe, but the miners must get back to work.

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@sisboombahbah @prem_thakker If you commit war crimes (and all those you attribute to Hamas are committed by IDF) you are bad guys. It matters not your country of origin and whether you are part of a regular army or a paramilitary group. Do I really need to say this: that good guys don't commit war crimes?

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@willshome I can. As Israel says it is doing it in the name of Jews though, Jews should be the loudest in condemning Israel's actions and participate in @PSCupdates events.

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1 year

@Haggis_UK So stop paying pensions to people who voted Leave? Get the bigoted old codgers out of their chairs to pick the fields and sing wartime songs?

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9 months

@SayeedaWarsi There's a genocide happening right now against Palestinians. Where's the action by the UK, US and other states to stop it and bring the perpetrators (Israel's leaders) to justice?

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3 months

@MichaelRosenYes Not that I've seen. They're waiting for Tel Aviv and Washington to write it for them.

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3 years

@joncstone Nope. He's doing badly in the polls because he is silent on the Brexit disaster and offers no vision distinct from the Tories.

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John Holman

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1 year

The astonishing thing is that LDs will of course work with Labour, but only if Starmer agrees to the very things that most Labour members and voters want, and indeed most of the public want, and which the country most needs, but which Starmer is opposed to: PR and SM membership.

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"The focus is getting rid of Conservative MPs" Lib Dem leader Ed Davey does not rule out a coalition between his party and Labour #BBCLauraK

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John Holman

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10 months

@tparsi Not just anger across the Arab world. Just about the whole world outside the West - and most of civil society within the West too.

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John Holman

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@Patrici89225734 @castlvillageman Gary is probably a dinghy-hunter whose house flies an England flag and who thinks France is the capital of Brussels.

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John Holman

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4 years

@Keir_Starmer The divisions are over? You haven't seen the polls for an independent Scotland, a united Ireland, and Rejoining the EU then?

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2 years

@Cat_n_Bagpipes @GFFN I'm English and supporting France.

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2 years

@oldtrotter @alexhallhall Been ranting since 23 June 2016 and like millions of others won't stop ranting until we're back in the EU and the perps held to account.

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1 year

@GMB For context: The UK is "below the average among EU countries for asylum applications per head of population, ranking 16th among EU27 countries plus the UK on this measure". (Source: UK Parliament House of Commons Library, March 2023)

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3 years

@ChewyBB I'm waiting for the Great British Sovereignty Cookbook. How to feed a family on turnips, xenophobia, Vera Lynn songs and thinking of England.

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3 years

@educationgovuk @1Britain1Nation It's not one nation though is it - it's four. And Brexiteers do not share the values of tolerance and kindness or respect for the four nations.

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@BethRigby Country First would mean undoing Brexit, reversing austerity cuts, renationalising water and energy, scrapping tuition fees, PR, and hundreds of billions of investment in green transformation and public infrastructure.

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@LailaAlarian @theintercept In Western media, Israelis were killed by Hamas, but Palestinians are killed by an unknown agent or 'lose their lives' (how clumsy of them). And in Western media It's a war between Israel and Hamas when of course it's not - it's a war on Gaza and a genocide against Palestinians.

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@ShehabKhan 'Can't have people opposed to genocide in my party', said Starmer.

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2 years

@JuliaHB1 General election. Government of national unity. You know, thinking of the national interest for a change?

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John Holman

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10 months

@PreetKGillMP @PritpalKD @DavidWestcross @DaveAndersonTLR @UKLabour @TheGreenParty @ZackPolanski @VirendraSharma @TanDhesi @SeemaMalhotra1 You didn't vote for the amendment that called for an immediate ceasefire. You put party allegiance before humanity. Feel free to apologise and seek our forgiveness.

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John Holman

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3 years

@BrugesGroup The democratic mandate was limited to and expired upon the act of leaving the EU on 31 Jan 2020. Leavers need to understand that 'leave' is just as dead as 'remain'. Today's and tomorrow's electorates are free to make whatever decisions they like including rejoining the SM or EU.

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5 months

@bbclaurak @SuellaBraverman @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer Why no-one from the party that came second in the local elections - Lib Dems, or the party that had the highest growth in councillors - Greens?

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John Holman

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6 months

@SaulStaniforth What about the scale of Israel's response to Hamas' attack Dave? Would Britain have responded by starving two million people, killing 40,000 civilians including 15,000 children, and destoying the infrastructure and natural environment of an entire region that has no air defences?

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John Holman

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3 years

@KimSJ @joeinlondontown @JeremyVineOn5 @OwenJones84 @thecarolemalone Yes. And as the OBR said, we put in around £8bn a year net, and the Treasury got back around £15bn a year net. So if there was any case for leaving, it certainly wasn't to save money.

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3 years

@amrakunj One to change it, the others to lie that it was only possible to change it because of leaving the EU and it is a world-leading change that will miraculously level up.

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John Holman

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7 months

@RichardJMurphy First, the superwealthy are not wealth creators - workers and SMEs are. Second, many countries have wealth taxes (such as Spain, Norway and Switzerland) and wouldn't have persisted with them if they generated loss in tax revenue.

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@SamRamani2 The free world must stand together. Japan should step up too.

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@JasonGroves1 Reminder: amongst other things, the ECHR provides for the right to life, to a fair trial, to not being tortured, and to not being enslaved.

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@Paulieraw UK who? Oh that declining middle power between Ireland and France.

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@JMPSimor No thanks, says Zelenskyy, we're trying to get rid of the Russians.

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@LKTranslator According to the West, it's illegitimate if there are European Christian folks there, but legitimate if there are Arab Muslim folks there.

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1 year

@LBC @GwynneMP @AndrewCastle63 Labour made no effort to stop the anti-protest law. And David Lammy yesterday was clear Labour would not repeal the anti-protest law. So basically we have two right-wing authoritarian parties.

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4 years

@Life_Disrupted I once saw an interview with a Danish politician. He was asked: Do you think Denmark will ever leave the EU like the UK? Oh no, he replied, because we have higher living standards, we teach our children about the EU, and we have no Empire hang-up.

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@haaretzcom More evidence for the case against Israel at the ICJ.

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@adampayne26 More of @joannaccherry I say

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@GirlGiada It's off the charts under Johnson

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@MouinRabbani They're good against defenceless children, not against armed men.

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@drphilhammond @UKLabour @wesstreeting Policies enabling this would include lifting the two-child benefit cap, providing free school meals, nationalising dental services, triple locking NHS pay, scrapping tuition fees and restoring freedom of movement.

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@LeftieStats @Moreincommon_ Good. It needs to fall further though, neither a Tory or Labour majority is any good for us.

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@Keir_Starmer The one thing above all else that has undermined Britain's standing on the world stage is Brexit. The one thing above all else that will secure Britain's economy and get us out of this mess is rejoining the single market. Tell the public the truth.

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@trussliz @MarosSefcovic You want the UK to rejoin the SM+CU then? Great choice. Make it so.

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@RuthDE Half the UK (who voted remain) never felt unproud and unfree - just like most people in France, Germany etc.

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@SimplyRedHQ Money's too tight to mention...thanks to Tories and Brexit.

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@TimothyDSnyder Yes. And it's what most Brits want.

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@timfarron Strikes me this is really about being against work-life balance i.e. progress. The govt is seemingly against social and political progress in all forms ranging from equality and diversity and human rights to supranationalism (EU membership) and the rule of law.

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@TomLondon6 Keir Hardie would be deselected by Starmer.

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@UKdemocrat They're not prevaricating. They're ruling it out. They're opposed to it in principle. They're saying there's no case for it (lie), it would be destabilising (lie), there'd need to be a referendum (lie). The natural home for you now would be the Lib Dems.

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John Holman

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3 years

Foreign media: 'It's raining in the UK' British media: 'The government says it's sunny thanks to leaving the EU. Opponents claim it's raining. Let us know what you think' This appalling state of British media has been with us since and starting with the EU referendum campaign.

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@olliecarroll Sounds like trying to engage with Brexit or Trump voters or, I imagine, Orban voters.

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2 years

@danbloom1 Pure xenophobic policy which just harms everyone. What is wrong with having a Spanish social worker, an Estonian engineer, a French florist, a Romanian restauranteur, a Norwegian nurse, freely coming to UK and paying taxes which fund our public services? Nothing. Nothing at all.

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John Holman

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4 years

@trussliz Just so everyone is clear: When Ms Truss says 'our' interests, she does not mean the interest of British businesses, farmers and consumers. The 'our' refers to the interests of Tory MPs and their oligarch and billionaire backers of whatever nationality.

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John Holman

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@SirSocks UK always had an obligation to the island of Ireland, where people in both the south (Ireland) and the north (NI) didn't vote for Brexit, and just wanted/want their lives to carry on as normal. That meant the UK was free to leave the EU but was duty bound to stay in SM+CU.

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As the EU would like to say but is too polite to do so, when will the UK stop taking the piss and finally understand that you can't have the benefits of membership without the obligations of membership.

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Oh look ! Labour, on the quiet, ditching its "the Tories negotiated a bad Brexit deal" mantra (Starmer and Reeves usual cop-out) There is no "good" Brexit deal to be had. No Labour cherrypicking. The sooner they start being honest with people about Brexit, the better

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@ZBudych There are no foreigners, just fellow global citizens.

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1 year

Just as Remainers warned.

UK no longer following EU guides on cutting safe levels of BPA plastic containers

As a result, the safe level of BPA in plastic containers in the UK is now 20,000 times higher than in Europe.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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@ShippersUnbound Saying things that are true, like a friend speaking the truth, is what an ally does.

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@The_TUC That would more than cover scrapping the two-child benefit cap. But neither Tories or Labour will do that. Lib Dems would. Greens would. Both also voted for a ceasefire, so are are the only two parties - in England - any decent person can vote for.

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@RachelReevesMP Saying you are pro-business but being against single market membership, is like saying you are an environmentalist but being against cutting carbon emissions.

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@MarieAnnUK That made me burst out laughing, thank you

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@GeorgeWParker @trussliz @pmdfoster We must always remember Brexit was never about the national interest but private interests, and that particularly applies to such trade deals.

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@huwbbc Go on Huw, retweet this:

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@campbellclaret Starmer's not offering radical change. He's not offering change at all. Where's PR? Where's rejoining EU? Where's reversing austerity? Where's renationalising services? Where's a GND, wealth tax, UBI, Indyref2? Where's scrapping tuition fees? Where's repealing/undoing ANYTHING?

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@JeremyVineOn5 Yes.

Save British Farming 🇬🇧

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The reason we have #foodshortages in Britain is because of this @Conservatives govt and their #Brexit and it’s not because of Spanish weather! Our chair @LizWebsterLD explains what’s happening and how there is a a quick fix which will solve most of the issues.

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@gershonbaskin It doesn't work like that. The IRA laid down its weapons as part of and following the Good Friday Agreement. Hamas have said they would do the same as part of and following a two-state agreement. That is the sequence: negotiations-agreement-disarmament. Not the other way around.

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@SaulStaniforth Germany's ICJ appearance for complicity in genocide is next week.

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@jfdta @Conservatives @BorisJohnson If there were any benefits to be had from leaving the European Union, other member states - Germany, France, Netherlands etc - would have done it. Hopefully you now realize the con as well as disaster of Brexit and will join remainers in campaigning to rejoin the EU.

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@nickreeves9876 Yep. The next election isn't about Labour winning. It's about democracy and goodness winning, with Labour playing their part in a wider coalition, just as Sanders supporters played their part in Biden winning. We note Biden did not court, and did not need to, Trump supporters.

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@SkyNews It was never 'NHS' Test and Trace. If it was, it would have been a success (and not cost £37bn).

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@MartinKonecny And we want Gallant arrested and tried for war crimes.

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@Andrew_Adonis Page 5 of 2019 Conservative election manifesto to be precise committed to: 1. The 'signed, sealed and ready' agreement already negotiated and 2. A trade deal with the EU in 2020 (not a trade deal or no deal) Pass it on to other peers

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