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@McookAli

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Lifter. Feminist. European. In no particular order. 🔸🇪🇺 Anti-Racism in all forms. Cricket 🏏 Rugby 🏉 Retweet or follow ≠ endorsement.

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2 years
@nadhimzahawi He was on holiday while you were Chancellor. He’s been on holiday again while Parliament has been sitting these last two weeks. He has his team lying about how many MPs are backing him. Nothing has changed, nothing will change. He is corrupt and lazy.
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@McookAli
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Twitter, I have just secured a job offer after six months of being unemployed, during a global pandemic. Have I opened the champagne? Hell yes.
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@dannyschof81 Once you get into your 40s you no longer give a shit what people think of you. It’s glorious.
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@MattHancock Children have died alone in hospital because those were the rules. And yet you defend this man’s actions? You disgust me. #sackcummimgs #SackDom #ToriesOut
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@SimonClarkeMP Cummings wife has a brother in London. No need to travel to Durham. He broke quarantine and needs to resign. People have died alone to obey the rules. #sackcummimgs #SackDom #ConservativeHypocrisy
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@KHarveyProctor Music in the UK has been horribly damaged by Brexit. The Proms is the perfect place to highlight that and protest.
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5 years
I think I am in Twitter jail - can people see this?
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@darrengrimes_ Jesus wept Darren. Gina Miller had a legal basis for her case, which she won. Trump is just having a tantrum. You worried the grift might be drying up?
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@mrjamesob Very much approve of the fact that the Cambridge kids are clearly allowed to run riot and fight and yell at home in a very normal way.
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@BBCPolitics And why are there no lorry drivers BBC? What’s that? I can’t hear you. Brexit? Is it because of Brexit? #BrexitFoodShortages
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@Channel4News It’s too much. I am raging. @MattHancock @Helen_Whately Can you swear you have done everything you could since January to minimise the risk of this happening? Can you? Herd immunity was a choice your government made, this poor woman and her family have paid for it.
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@danielmgmoylan @simoncoveney Northern Ireland keeps voting for a pro-EU position, an anti-Brexit position. It voted Remain, it has now voted for parties who support the Protocol. When are English Conservative politicians going to stop equating what the DUP want with what Northern Ireland wants?
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@MarcusRashford Half a pepper and cucumber? Pasta portioned? It probably costs more to spend the time dividing this up than to give whole packets or items. Disgusting and deliberate humiliation of the least fortunate. I feel sick.
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@lucyallan He is an actual fraud. Do some research before retweeting and endorsing known liars please Lucy. #JohnsonHasFailedTheNation
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@LizKershawDJ What a nasty thing to say Liz. Shame on you for being a racist bully.
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@OliverDowden @Keir_Starmer What a stupid letter. Especially that last part, what on earth? Johnson is widely believed to be a Putin sympathiser, as are many others in your party.
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@JamesCleverly James. If COBRA can function fully without the PM, why are we hearing that decisions can’t be taken until he is back from sick leave? Can’t have it both ways old bean, what?
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@Jenny_1884 @motorhomemike I thought Brexit was going to bring us cheaper food and fuel and higher wages? No-one voted to be poorer. What a fucked up tweet this is.
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@mxmclain Surely it gets all wrinkly?? An abomination!
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@lucyallan The government have broken the law, repeatedly. The PM has broken the law. We would like these things investigated. I consider it an excellent use of public money.
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@IsabelOakeshott I’ll vote for it. The world is moving on. Soon the Tory party will be a relic and people like you will be redundant. Can’t wait.
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@Channel4News Why can the PM find time to comment on this, but remain silent over something as important as the exam results disaster? He has his priorities wrong.
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@Daily_Express This is an actual lie, they were cheered! Unlike the PM..
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😂 John Redwood has blocked me. Fantastic.
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@timothy_stanley Shift workers, NHS staff on a four-on, four-off rotation, part time workers, carers, teachers during school holidays, the list goes on. Tim Stanley showing he doesn’t know anyone who works in a front line job.
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@Mike_Fabricant This absolutely did not happen. The issue, as you well know, is not the cake or the wine, it is the principle and the fact that the population at large were not allowed to gather at all for any reason.
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@SimonClarkeMP Simon - voters at the time of the Ref were assured that we wouldn’t be leaving the single market. So this is what people voted for. The red lines came later.
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@KirstieMAllsopp Because people like you have voted for this, Kirsty. Freedom of movement was so precious, and you threw it away for all of us to have some imaginary control over refugees and asylum seekers coming here. Push for us to rejoin the single market.
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@JuliaHB1 @EdwardGLuce Julia must you demonstrate your absolute lack of class at every opportunity? What a determinedly ugly person you are.
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@BBCPolitics Disgraceful waste of our money. #JohnsonHasFailed
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@CatharineHoey @mrdanwalker Kate - the BBC gives a free ride to the Tories and Farage, and comes down hard on anyone centre/centre-left. The only reason that pensioners are hassled for the licence-fee, is because of a decision made by the government who put you in the Lords.
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Not really Jacob. Those will be consumer and worker protection, laws about data privacy, laws to keep people safe online. And of course we always had a veto on anything we didn’t like. You’re a liar and a traitor.
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Gosh I’m a bit overwhelmed by the response! ☺️😭🥂
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@BBCNews Coup?? They won a democratic election by a landslide. Dreadful reporting from the BBC.
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@Martin_Durkin It really isn’t. This is about the elite thinking they are better than us and the rules don’t apply. #SackDom
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@LBC @RachelSJohnson Rachel this is abject bollocks. I can work full time because I can work from home. I’ve doubled my salary since before the pandemic. I would have to reduce hours if I was in the office every day. We also don’t have huge childcare bills. It is freedom, empowerment.
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@NadineDorries @benjamincohen It isn’t a personal attack to point out where you are wrong. You make error after error Nadine, you clearly don’t understand your brief at all. It isn’t an attack to say it, just a statement of fact.
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@LotanJohn @NoContextBrits Why hate waitrose? The basics there are similar price to sainsbury’s, they are worker owned instead of giving massive profits to shareholders. Do they sell some more expensive stuff for people who want to spend more? Yes. Fail to see how that’s a crime.
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@Steven_Swinford Are you all going to let the lie that he had enough nominations stand?? He had no proof, no evidence. It’s absolutely plain he didn’t have the numbers, but unless the media call it out the myth will stand. #JohnsonTheLiar
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@KateAndrs Very much our business Kate. The last time the banks screwed up, the public had to bail them out. 15 years of wage stagnation and austerity later, we remember. I think perhaps you were still at school, so you may be hazy on the details.
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@toryboypierce £140m v £110bn lost in services trade. It isn’t even a drop in the ocean, Andrew. Brexit is a disaster.
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@lucyallan You voted against Theresa May in a vote of no confidence. Are you saying you acted in an anti-democratic way?
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Just two years ago we had this benefit across the continent. You took it away. How dare you try to claim some kind of win for Portugal giving it back.
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@BBCNewsPR @bbcquestiontime Fiona Bruce did not provide context, she provided the story of the abuser. Absolutely disgraceful behaviour. This is who should be ‘stepping down’, not Gary Lineker.
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@ACTBrigitte They were not. She wore a brooch Obama gave her when Trump made this state visit.
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@RobertJenrick No. Rule of law is undermined when governments break it. When they increase executive power. When they look to overrule court judgements against them, and to silence dissenting voices. There was a jury trial here, and they were found not guilty. The rule of law upheld.
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@DPJHodges What were you watching? Sunak wouldn’t answer the question, he also lied about police numbers, and defended a Home Sec who only resigned a week ago for breaching the ministerial code. It was a poor first outing for Sunak.
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@EdConwaySky And the public are left paying though the nose, while large corporations skim off the profits. Remind me again why we shouldn’t be nationalising gas and electricity?
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@NadineDorries Stop deluding yourself, and stop lying. There were live cameras and microphones, we all heard it. He is hated. And when he goes, so do you. #BoosforBoris
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@PaulBrandITV Every Tory MP is culpable. Every single one. This is nothing to do with the concept of a lockdown, and everything to do with being decent and truthful. Something this government is incapable of.
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@AndyBurnhamGM It’s so completely weird. I am very close to the same age as Liz, very similar upbringing. Thatcher’s name was dirt in our house, and remains so. I hate that my kids are growing up under another Tory government.
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@EssexPR Throwing insults isn’t destroying. Lying through your teeth doesn’t make you look strong.
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@ParisDaguerre Yes I would. And once vaccinated, I would volunteer to help with the rollout for others. We need a team effort here.
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@sophielouisecc With his wife and his decorator. And then later his family. You are embarrassing yourself trying to defend this.
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@jayrayner1 @FeverTreeMixers @Starbucks Ugh Fever Tree this is not ok. Love your tonics but we will find another option now.
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@toryboypierce How does that work Andrew? Can you explain please?
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@lucyallan How have we led the way? We are behind with refugees, EU are moving extremely rapidly on military spending and sanctions. We have oligarchs moving freely in and out of the UK, but we won’t let Ukrainian family of British residents come in.
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@toryboypierce Read what you’ve written, really slowly. If human rights lawyers are able to block the flight, what will it mean? It will mean that the Home Office are acting illegally.
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@BBCPolitics Pidock had a safe Labour seat and managed to lose it. I don’t think we should be looking to her as a barometer of what the electorate want.
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@MetzlerMD The Queen did not like Trump at all. No idea where you people get these weird ideas from. She did like the Obamas, a lot.
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@DanielJHannan 170,000 people dead. Inflation at 5+%. Energy bills due to double. 10% NI hike to pay for Brexit. Brexit. Living in an abusive relationship with our own government. 170,000 dead. It bears repeating. We are grieving.
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@CatharineHoey @trussliz We stood alone? We certainly did not. When will you people stop rewriting history and making up nonsense to support your position?
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@Steven_Swinford This makes me so angry. We are paying their salaries, so that they can run the country. We have war looming with Russia, and a domestic cost of living crisis that threatens to harm all but the most comfortable segments of the population. And this is how they spend their time.
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@RobBurl It wasn’t lame. He spoke for millions. You people need to step outside your bubble. Media have entirely failed to hold the government accountable over the last 12 years. You have allowed them to lie unchallenged, to deny things they have previously said. We want better.
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@EstherMcVey1 People are allowed to work part time, and will therefore be paid accordingly. You do understand that?
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@MPFed You are not fit for purpose. No-one has faith in you, so your opinion on the Mayor is not needed.
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@KirstieMAllsopp It’s not about the flag. It’s about this government using the flag as fake patriotism while they undermine this country, our institutions and our international standing.
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@trussliz @MarosSefcovic FFS. Stop it. NI economy is looking in good shape, because they are inside the Single Market. The rest of the UK needs to be inside too. #FreeNazanin
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@Telegraph Disgusting and inhuman headline from the Telegraph. My sons have asthma. Would they be considered acceptable collateral so that other people don’t have to wear a mask?
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@trussliz What about Nazanin? What about the Afghans? Also, you’re not the Queen.
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I just joined the Liberal Democrats - join me here: Finally took the plunge. I want to see a Lib Dem government and know that I helped put it there.
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@john4brexit John you’re wrong. Brexit is a disaster, and every day that people like you deny it the mess gets worse.
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@BBCPolitics Andrew Bowie was lying. There is no chronic labour shortage elsewhere in Europe.
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@BBCNews Undignified and inaccurate dig at the Sussexes there BBC. They bought their house themselves. Cambridges have this large house (not cottage) in addition to two other, larger, tax payer funded houses.
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@AllisterHeath Tories have had majority governments for the majority of the time since the war. The mess is on you. Especially after the last 12 years.
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@George_Osborne @Phil_Jones01 I wouldn’t pat yourself on the back too hard George. Austerity was cruel and unnecessary, and laid the groundwork for a lot of the horrors we see these days. Including Brexit. If people hadn’t felt so ground down and hopeless, Farage couldn’t have turned them.
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@abbyhoffmann This may get shouted down, but it is very possible to care deeply about social inequality and still have deep deep misgivings about JC as PM.
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@EU_NO_MORE So the UK will go back to the 50’s while the rest of the world moves on? No thanks.
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@thecoastguy Grifter admits why they spout bollocks all day long.
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@5_News @mrdanwalker Um, are you very young? Ben Elton is of course a political commentator. Those of us aged 45-55 probably heard our first critique of Thatcher out of his mouth!
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@Mike_Fabricant Thank you for saying this Michael. I disagree with you about as much as is possible politically, but I appreciate you correcting the lie here.
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@ABridgen We did the same to Denmark when the mink strain was discovered? We aren’t the only nation allowed to exercise our sovereignty, Andrew. #JohnsonHasFailedTheNation
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@trussliz @ZelenskyyUa Are you going to deal with the economic crisis you have triggered here in the UK? People’s lives are already being ruined. Pensions reduced for those about to retire, house moves cancelled and lives turned upside down. You are a traitor to the British people.
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@DPJHodges He killed people with his policies, while shovelling money into the pockets of his friends. It isn’t a celebrity’s job to save lives, Hancock was the actual Health Minister and it was his number one priority, or it should have been.
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@hzeffman His comments were entirely around her being a black woman, and extrapolating hatred towards all black women on the basis of his hatred of Abbot. How can that not be construed as gender and race based?
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@ABridgen Andrew, do you mean that the PM and Chancellor have been found guilty of law breaking on more than one occasion, but we only know about a second or subsequent offence because a fine has been given? @peterjukes @UKLabour @mrjamesob @BylineTimes
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@AlStewartOBE And state school funding would begin to rise almost immediately. There is no successful moral arguement for private schools holding charitable status.
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@metpoliceuk Why was Couzens still serving after the allegations that had previously been made against him? Why are you putting the onus on women to protect themselves, rather than on men to stop being sexually violent?
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@sophielouisecc Why Sophie? Can you list some concrete benefits?
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@Nigel_Farage Because he is President of the US. What a bizarre question.
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@alexwickham Nearly every company had Christmas parties booked in which then had to be cancelled. If you remember at the time Alex, the government were so desperate not to have to support hospitality directly that they encouraged people not to cancel, insisting they could go ahead.
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@dinosofos @harmonicAndy @GrahamLiver @BBCLancashire This is brilliant questioning. Brilliant. @BBCRadio4 are you listening?
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@AllisterHeath Al listed in case you haven’t noticed, taxes are at their highest in decades, under a Tory government. Trade is falling, the economy is stuck in the doldrums while interest rates rise. Schools are on their knees because of funding cuts, also see hospitals. Tories broke Britain.
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@mariacaulfield The BBC are not the problem, the Tory party are.
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@JamesCleverly What does the ministerial code have to say about this James? This is nothing to do with wives being extensions of their husbands, it is to do with the Chancellor increasing taxes for ordinary people, while exempting his own wife.
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@hzeffman At the end, Iago is the only man standing. Does Johnson ever actually read any Shakespeare or does he just look at a crib sheet? This isn’t the first time he’s misquoted/missed the point entirely.
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@Conservatives We want minimum service level from our MPs. No second jobs, less parliamentary recess. No holidays when Parliament is sitting. We pay your wages. #SupportTheStrikes
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@HackneyAbbott Have you tried campaigning for Labour instead of the Tories, Diane?
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@TelePolitics What the hell? @DamianHinds are you happy with your constituents eating this?
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@toryboypierce Daft isn’t it? Nearly as daft as putting up trade barriers with our closest neighbours and thinking that a deal with a country 8500 miles away is going to plug the gap.
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