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@MXOFO

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A pretty okay guy in his mid-40s. How groundbreaking.

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@MXOFO
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4 years
OMG, I am at the point of imploding about schools. You can NOT place an area in Tier 4 and have schools open. It’s crazy. Where’s the plan for vaccinating teachers? Oh, there isn’t one because as I’ve said before, no one gives a shit about them.
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I don’t feel like my gayness is relentless enough. I need to level up 😂 🦄 🧚‍♂️ 👸
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2 months
For a return from Newcastle to London. @LNER , are you out of your actual minds?!
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People, I didn’t expect this to blow up like it has but just to be clear, I promise I DO know about off-peak etc. The point is that train travel should NEVER be this expensive regardless of anything.
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2 months
For a return from Newcastle to London. @LNER , are you out of your actual minds?!
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3 years
I’m bored of this whole ‘We’re British, we survived the Blitz, we can survive food and fuel shortages’ bullshit. The difference is it’s now 2021 and no one is attacking us; we have decided to be the first country in history to inflict structural economic damage on OURSELVES.
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THREAD: I’ve something to say about the current sentimentalism around Boris Johnson’s illness. Back in 2013, I had a conversation with someone whose mother had a degenerative disability that prevented her from working. She had tried working part-time on the checkout at Tesco but
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3 years
Newcastle still doesn’t have a single Tory councillor. Can we get an Amen for that, please? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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3 years
Still a thing of beauty…
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3 years
My dear Nan was admitted to hospital in December last year. One family member was allowed to visit her on Christmas Day. She didn’t see anyone else between then and her death on 10th Feb. Yet we are expected to suck up Downing St hosting full-scale Xmas parties? I don’t think so.
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1 year
Just hours before this, there was a DJ and vomit on the walls of 10 Downing Street. Do not tell me Johnson is a victim. #JohnsonLiedToParliament
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1 year
I will never stop reminding those defending Boris Johnson that my amazing Nan died alone in hospital after six weeks without seeing a single loved one. Some of her grandchildren were forced to stand outside the church at her funeral. We live with that pain every day #JohnsonLied
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4 years
This hit me square between the eyes.
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2 years
Oh my God, this is just DELICIOUS! 😂😂😂
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2 years
211 Tory MPs, including mine, @GuyOpperman , have just endorsed a man who partied while people like my dear Nan died alone in hospital. Remember all of their names.
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4 years
As a gay man, I’m pretty bloody insulted that this far-right government would appropriate Alan Turing’s memory for a scheme designed to paint over the cracks of a jingoistic, isolationist, right-wing endeavour led by the country that chemically castrated him.
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3 years
The Prime Minister had a four-year affair and paid the woman public money and no one seems to be bothered.
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3 years
Hey @BorisJohnson , this is my Nan. She died of a cytokine storm caused by COVID-19. She wasn’t a ‘body on a pile’. She was a much-loved woman whose legacy of selflessness and charity is beyond your imagining. Resign.
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3 years
Reykjavík tonight ❤️
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5 years
The first pic is where you'll be free to live, work, study and retire after January 31st. The second is where we WERE able to do all those things before we decided that Freedom of Movement is a bad thing. Shove your friendship up your backside, @BorisJohnson
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1 year
Can we talk about how this 42 year-old gay man was written off immediately by a toxic youthcentric #Eurovision fandom but then stormed to 7th place?
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4 years
make a swift and full recovery but if/when I clap, it’ll be for the frontline NHS staff deprived of decent PPE and in support of those for whom “Operation Last Gasp” (to quote Johnson) was too little, too late. End of thread.
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3 years
I’m over the likes of Rees-Mogg, Oakeshott and Farage telling people like me from working class backgrounds that we have to just ‘get over’ both the loss of our free movement and the absolute shitstorm Brexit has caused. Those are the words of people who have never wanted for
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3 years
Boris Johnson was a shit journalist. Boris Johnson was a shit Mayor of London. Boris Johnson is a shit partner and father. Boris Johnson jumped on the Brexshit bandwagon to become PM, even though he had been very pro-EU. He has no discernible talents or redeeming features.
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4 years
We can mock @BorisJohnson and it’s not without justification but he’s actually a profoundly dangerous individual who is openly lying and indulging in corruption on an unprecedented scale. Everything else aside, we should all be deeply concerned for our democracy.
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3 years
So, Michael Gove gets to take his son to the football in Portugal and Portugal is then added to the amber list once they’re home. Interesting.
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4 years
I have beef with @darrengrimes_ and here’s why. I live and work in the region he comes from. I’ve educated some of its children. My dad’s family is from the most deprived part of Newcastle. My dad, sadly, is a racist sexist pig. My Mum also had a working class upbringing as the
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3 years
If you’re not asking yourself why our ‘government’ gave parliament 5 hours to debate the Brexit deal and why they’ve since abolished the committee that would have scrutinised it then you should be.
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I got told off the other day for holding the door open for a woman and saying ‘after you’. She said it was sexist. I literally hold the door for *anyone* - I thought it was just polite.
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Nan quietly and modestly raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. She never sought praise for this. But I want the world to know about her today, the day we lay her to rest. I’d be so grateful if you would Retweet for Iris Lilian Williscroft, 1935-2021.
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I’m sorry, I know this is very emotive for me right now, but my Nan died alone in hospital after six weeks of not seeing a single member of her family due to Covid restrictions. Why is it different for the Royal Family?
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3 years
Tell me @Morrisons that this is not real. Your response will dictate whether or not I ever shop at your stores again.
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1 year
In response to my tweet about my Nan who died alone during the covid lockdown, a @BorisJohnson fanboy added me to a list called ‘Daft Cunts’. These people really are the worst of the worst, aren’t they?
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4 years
Suddenly, farmers are saying they’d rather remain in the EU because they see they’ve been played for fools. Everyone told them before the referendum this would happen. Everyone apart from the rich stands to lose out from this shambles.
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2 years
Good God #Eurovision
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3 years
I saw almost total compliance with lockdown until May, when Cummings went on his jolly up north. It’s never been the same since. Maybe reflect on that, @MattHancock , @BorisJohnson , @pritipatel ?
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4 years
Retweet if you will not allow yourself to be manipulated into forgetting that Dominic Cummings blatantly broke the rules and should be fired.
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3 years
Brexit ⬇️
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2 years
On 13th April, I wrote to my MP, @GuyOpperman , to explain how Johnson’s actions had compounded my family’s grief after my beloved Nan died alone in hospital after 6 weeks of not seeing a single loved one. He doesn’t deem it worthy of a response, apparently.
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@alenadundas @LNER No. It’s for Tuesday to Thursday next week, 7 days away.
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We all know why the Tories and their client media are coming so hard for Angela Rayner. She represents the antithesis of their phoney populism. A working-class woman with opinions. That’s unacceptable to the Rees-Moggs and Wraggs of the world.
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STOP REFERRING TO BORIS JOHNSON AS ‘BORIS’. HE IS NOT AN ECCENTRIC UNCLE OR FAMILY FRIEND.
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The fact you didn’t is on you.
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ill-thought-out, often entirely fabricated pronouncements is met with an instant cry of “You’re looking down on me because I’m a working class northerner who didn’t go to uni”. No, Darren, we are countering your untruths and unmasking you as a grifter and a fascist enabler.
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I genuinely believe that Monday’s wholesale lifting of restrictions and the inevitable reimposition given the terrifying case numbers will be the start of the end for @BorisJohnson .
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4 years
people are critical of you because of your background. They’re critical of you because you choose to be stupid. You choose to be a mascot to Johnson and Farage and that’s stupid. Working class people, like anyone else, can and do educate themselves out of being stupid.
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I’ve been in France a month. There is no disruption to supply chains. None. Do not allow the Brextremists to tell you the disruption in the UK is down to anything other than Brexshit.
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3 years
Matt Hancock has resigned. Good. But remember this; Boris Johnson wasn’t prepared to sack him. The PM has no moral compass and no authority.
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4 years
backing to an inhumane, contemptible system that caused the deaths of countless individuals, all of whom were as loved by their families as Johnson is by his. Pointing out these realities doesn’t make us heartless but compassion should be universal. Yes, the Tories have
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3 years
Ouch 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Essentially, right-wing grifters are coming for @MarinaPurkiss because they can’t handle the fact that she shredded @Jacob_Rees_Mogg and didn’t allow him to use his veneer of upper class intellect and ‘politeness’ to distract her. We need more people like her.
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4 years
Alok Sharma totally has coronavirus, doesn’t he?
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186 deaths today. Beaches are packed. People are literally having parties. WTF is going on?!
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3 years
I will never, ever accept the arbitrary removal of my EU citizenship and free movement.
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You can blame the EU, you can blame Macron, you can blame Merkel, you can blame ‘extreme Remoaners’, you can blame others all you want but at the end of the day, this Brexit clusterfuck is the sole responsibility of those who voted for it. No one else. Suck it up.
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miraculously located the ‘magic money tree’ they swore didn’t exist but that only proved that it was always there - they just chose to section it off for picking by their friends and associates. So, yes, of course I hope Johnson and all others suffering from this dreadful virus
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3 years
Just walked down Blackett St in Newcastle - where a lot of buses stop - and every single person I could see on the buses was wearing a mask. Good job, Newcastle!
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4 years
The @Conservatives patting themselves on the back for ‘ending free movement’ make me sick to my stomach. Think about it: a government literally boasting about curtailing its people’s freedoms. Think about how crazy that is. One of the darkest days in our history.
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truth watched in horror as the rate of suicide and attempted suicide rocketed, and one person, Mark Wood, starved to death in his home after having his benefits cut by Atos. A UN special rapporteur concluded in a report that “The UK's social safety net has been "deliberately
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removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos". Now, some of us marched on several occasions against austerity. We knew that it was cruel and unnecessary. We knew that there were other ways of tackling the financial crisis and that the Tories had CHOSEN austerity for
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ideological reasons. Tories cheered this disastrous policy on or supported it with their silent complicity. Boris Johnson was one such person. As a prominent Conservative throughout this period and the mayor of one of the cities where the divide between rich and poor has always
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been shockingly high, he said nothing. Fast forward to the current crisis and he sadly finds himself very ill. I wish him a speedy recovery, as I would anyone in his position. But many of those standing on their doorsteps and clapping for him will have also given their implicit
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EU citizenship for themselves while slamming the door shut in the rest of our faces. Hence why I will never EVER give up the fight to regain what’s been taken from me. Who’s with me?
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eldest of 8 kids but is the most open-minded, outward looking woman I know. She made sure my siblings and I turned out the same. Grimes wields his working class upbringing as a shield against legitimate criticism of his sycophantic worship of the alt-right. Any criticism of his
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A fellow teacher I know (a deputy head) received five emails from parents yesterday threatening legal action against the school if they try to make their kid comply with ANY Covid safety measures. You sometimes wonder why we bother TBH.
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You’re not a victim, Grimes. You were a pro-Remain Liberal Democrat until you felt your squeals weren’t being heeded in those circles so switched to full-blown Farage worship and morphed into a Brexshiteer with nothing to add to the conversation. But you’re wrong when you claim
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of the room to the other. When she struggled to even lift the bag an inch off the ground, she fled the assessment in tears and told her daughter she’d rather lose her benefits than be put through that humiliation again. Hers wasn’t an exceptional story. People who had severe,
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life-limiting illnesses like muscular dystrophy and people with serious learning difficulties were called in for assessments. There were even people with terminal cancer who were asked to prove they were unable to work. Those of us who choose not to turn our faces away from the
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I know this sounds absolutely nuts but the way this country is going, I can honestly see people eventually being able to claim asylum in the EU due to political persecution.
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To think we gave this up for no good reason.
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A reminder, 5 years after the referendum, that Nigel Farage can draw an EU pension in return for depriving the rest of us our Freedom of Movement.
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This just happened to a friend of mine. She’s German, has lived here for years, has a family, applied to the EU settlement scheme etc. Why on earth are we allowing this to happen? #RejoinSM @acgrayling @Femi_Sorry @BorisJohnson @Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey
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the pain of sitting still in one position for any period of time was excruciating for her. Up to that point, she had worked all her adult life. She was called in for a work capability assessment. As part of this, she was asked to try to carry a large sack of potatoes from one end
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I’m not generally an advocate of violence but 🤷🏼‍♂️
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I’m not being funny right but if the fresh food shortages in the UK are down to poor weather in Europe and Africa, why are the shelves of every supermarket I’ve been in here in France absolutely full? We are being gaslit on a criminal scale.
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There is a blatant media blackout on the growing shitstorm resulting from Brexit and it’s incumbent on us all to keep talking about it at every opportunity.
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Erm, I’ve been elected 😱
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We are being gaslighted on a huge scale. We could have a processing centre in France. We should focus on clearing the asylum backlog. We should be investing in health and social care. Repeatedly telling us ‘the British people’ want asylum seekers sent to Rwanda doesn’t wash.
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In which Piers Morgan, one of the mob that likes to label anyone offended by bigotry ‘snowflakes’, literally storms off in a huff when someone spills the tea
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WHY DOES JOHNSON KEEP SAYING SCHOOLS ARE SAFE? WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? IS HE BROKEN?
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The penny just dropped. They want us all to be so outraged by this that we start breaking lockdown too. It’s part of their plan to absolve themselves of responsibility for the whole thing failing. It’ll be our fault.
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Sorry, are some people pretending Labour’s vote plummeting in #CheshamAndAmersham was because everyone hates Starmer rather than the fact that people used their noggins and voted tactically?!
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People blaming Remainers for Brexit and Labour for 11 years of shit leaves me thinking we are now truly down the effing rabbit hole as a country.
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It might only be a town council but in Hexham, the independent, Labour and Lib Dem councillors are working TOGETHER on progressive policies and projects. It can and should be done at every level.
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I’m honestly furious with @OwenJones84 for turning on Remainers rather than directing his bile where it belongs. Does he not get that no compromises were ever offered and that they were explicitly ruled out from the very start? Is he really that dense?
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Victoria Derbyshire struggling to get her shoes on before reading the news has given me life today 😂
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I will never stop reminding those defending Boris Johnson that my amazing Nan died alone in hospital after six weeks without seeing a single loved one. Some of her grandchildren were forced to stand outside the church at her funeral. We live with that pain every day #JohnsonLied
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Please vote for #GBR so that we are forced to hold a pan-European music festival during Brexit negotiations. Thank you #Eurovision
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I just…. ca…. wa…. WTF
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Retweet if you’re English and support Scottish independence #BorisHasFailedTheUK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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😂😂😂
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Hexham Abbey has created this canopy of angels to remember all those lost during the pandemic and it’s absolutely beautiful.
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OMG, a fully vegan patisserie in Paris. Ridiculously excited.
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Siri, show me alternative methods of contraception.
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Sorry but I’m alone and I need to talk about my Nan. Feel free to mute for a while. I love this photo of her from 2018 when we had afternoon tea on a canal barge.
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Is it just me or is Hoyle a useless speaker?
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Oh @UKIP . You really are astoundingly stupid. @Nigel_Farage #UKIP
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Can I just point out that not all Brits who have second homes in EU countries are Brexit-voting gammons? This constant ‘you deserve what’s coming to you’ narrative is pretty harsh for people like me.
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THREAD: The #coronavirus crisis has shown this country for the cowed, servile, nauseatingly sycophantic nation that it is. When Italy passed the tragic milestone of 10,000 deaths, we rightly looked on in horror and lamented such large-scale loss of life. We have 'achieved' that
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Something is happening, folks. The Daily Mail has named Brexit as the cause of some of the issues with supply chains and the Daily Express has tacitly acknowledged it. This isn’t the time to slam the brakes on the campaign to rejoin the SM/CU.
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Sorry, I’m not coping very well. I’m lucky to be 41 and to have still had 3 grandparents until today but it also means I haven’t had to handle grief before and I’m not handling it well at all.
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anything. I had to work for everything I now have. We were the definition of working poor as a family. I worked my ass off at uni to get the first class degree I so desperately wanted. I had shitty jobs to support myself. But my degree was a European one with two years in France
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