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Neil Wootton

2 years

Thank you to the @histnovsoc for taking the time to read and review my book, Purge. I am thrilled you enjoyed it so much.

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2 years

'England, 1645. Fear and superstition plunges a town into the madness of a witch trail.' Editor's Choice: PURGE by Neil K. Wootton, review by J. Lynn Else #HistoricalFiction

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@brexitblog_info Remember the Global banking crash in 2008, brought on by reckless lending in the States? Well, that. It was Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling who devised the response that saved yours, and everybody else’s, savings and pensions. Awkward isn’t it when somebody knows the facts?

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@HHepplewhite Hello Heather. I’m 60. I remember Heath, and Wilson, and Callaghan, and Thatcher, and Major, and Blair, and Brown, and Cameron, and May, and Johnson, and Truss, and Sunak. The only time stuff actually worked properly was under Blair/Brown, so basically, garbage.

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@sophielouisecc So, punish the children by letting them fall into poverty? Is that pretty much it? Have you ever stopped to listen to yourself?

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@Peston “Also under investigation”? The investigation is substantively about Nick Read. The Henry Staunton element is a 6 line paragraph in an 80 page document. Disingenuous beyond belief. She needs to come back to the house and explain why she failed to mention that first time round.

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@SamCoatesSky Thus demonstrating that for them, this was all about politics and embarrassing Starmer - not about the substantive issue at all.

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@MikeWeb45523880 I imagine they have a very good idea. If your husband’s just walked a mile behind his Gran’s coffin, a demonstration of affection afterwards is pretty normal, isn’t it?

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@toadmeister It is perfectly legitimate to disapprove of somebody’s behaviour from a moral perspective. What is not acceptable is for a newspaper to infer illegality when there is none.

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@BulletBlueSky @HMRCgovuk He works for ITV, La Liga TV (in Spain) and Goalhanger film productions (his own production company), as well as promotions contracts with Walkers, TM Lewin, Vision Express, Ticker Insurance and various book and magazine deals. Basically, you need another line of attack.

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@andersleijersta This is a classic example of right-wing gaslighting: start with a false assertion - “they want us to stop calling it Christmas” - and then rail against the figment of your own imagination for thumbs up, and likes. It would be risible if it wasn’t so insidious.

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1 year

@ScottBentonMP That’s called curiosity, Scott. It’s really a very easy concept.

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@DPJHodges The very maximum CGT liability would be in the region of a £2k, but any spend improving the value of the property over the 8 years she owned it is deductible: so a garage, drive, lean-to, conservatory, car port, drive or home office etc would reduce the liability a big, fat £0.

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@kelvmackenzie A £53 billion school rebuilding programme, binned by the Tories in 2010, actually.

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@DPJHodges Because she doesn’t have to answer to you. On this matter, she has to answer to HMRC only. It is not credible that the salient facts will not have been shared with HMRC by her tax advisor given the potential sensitivity.

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@RowlinsonGareth @mrjamesob That already happened. O’Brien ran rings around him to the extent Farage had to be rescued by his team.

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@danwootton I have news: strokes are caused by blocked arteries or leaking blood vessels. They are not caused by having a tiff with your daughter.

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@AndrewMorganRCT @RhonddaBryant @KwasiKwarteng No way Truss can survive if he goes. He’s implemented what she spent two months trumpeting.

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@Femi_Sorry There is actually a really easy solution. We all know who the potential Tory rebels are so why not just ask them? If they say never, then Corbyn needs to defer to a unity candidate. If they say fine, then Jo Swinson accedes and whips to support Corbyn. Or is that too logical?

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@AnthonyAinsdale The first time you “haven’t voted Conservative” is the reason for the state of the country, which you now claim to be angry about. Have you never joined the dots?

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@NicholasTyrone Stephen Flynn is a very good performer. He’s an antidote to the shouting-over-you thing that seems to epitomise this campaign.

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@darrengrimes_ Absolutely. William Blake was a radical. He was influenced by the French and American revolutions, and revered John Milton: an eminent republican. Jerusalem is a an attack on capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. It is beautifully ironic how people get it so wrong.

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@thecoastguy Only populists believe there are simple explanations to complex questions. It is precisely how we’ve ended up where we are.

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@DPJHodges He was the Health Secretary, responsible for policy, when untested people were discharged from hospital into care homes. That was a catastrophic decision. You did not need to be an epidemiologist to work out that was a ridiculous thing to do.

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@KingBobIIV @DavidGHFrost Just how much unsubstantiated codswallop is it possible to cram into a single tweet? Put your Daily Mail down for a few seconds and go and see what really happens in the NHS. Spoiler alert: it’s nothing like you describe.

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@HHepplewhite Which is grounded in fact.

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@DPJHodges When did Keir Starmer say she couldn’t? I recall him saying she hasn’t been barred.

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@THEJamesWhale If I’m from Somalia, and my village has been razed to the ground and my family slaughtered, how do I claim asylum here “legally” exactly?

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@russellquirk @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @NewHallSchool They will be exempt from VAT if they are state funded. There are currently only 7 state-funded Muslim faith schools. That compares with 4700 CoE schools, 2100 Catholic schools, 37 Jewish schools and 28 Methodist schools; all of them state funded and VAT exempt. Next question?

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@Nigel_Farage No he doesn’t. He hates you and Johnson.

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@RevRichardColes The Sun is a disgrace. The people of Liverpool worked that out 34 years ago. It’s why they sell zero copies of the rag on Merseyside.

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@spectator @afneil I agree; however, had the Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a picture subsequently found to have been digitally enhanced by Meghan, the Mail, Express, Sun, Telegraph et al would be banging on about it constantly, and that smells of hypocrisy.

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@thejassingh @Nigel_Farage I pay my taxes. I welcome them all because if there is anything “great” about this country, it is our sense of humanity.

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@JuliaHB1 It is perfectly possible to deplore the horrendous conditions in which Palestinians on the Gaza are forced to live, whilst condemning unequivocally the savage actions of Hamas terrorists. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

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@EJ_McGuinness @MrHarryCole @Keir_Starmer I’m not sure “Starmer was a principled and effective barrister” is quite the attack line @MrHarryCole imagines; especially given his own paper’s editorial stance is anti death penalty.

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@franceshinde If they can't win in Peterborough, at a by-election and at peak Brexit angst, then I think the tide has turned on them. @Nigel_Farage is deafeningly silent on Twitter this morning. He knows it too.

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2 years

@emmamrevell If you need a vibrant economy, you need public sector wage rises. You see, makes more sense that way round.

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@AllisonPearson There was no pandemic plan. That is the entire point.

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@GazHigh @SimonCalder @brooktech @JennyIronside @MartinSLewis @lastminute_com That simply is not true. Martin Lewis has urged everybody who can afford it to take a credit voucher or a later booking precisely to support struggling businesses. I have heard him say it repeatedly. I’m sorry but on this you are just wrong and you owe him an apology, I suggest.

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@Andrew_Adonis I have worked alongside workplace bullies. The most distinguishing, common trait is how deferential and fawning they always are to their own superiors. It is why those superiors almost always fail to recognise the bullying behaviour reported to them.

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@RevRichardColes Agreed. I am a republican and also an atheist. I would no sooner consider using a funeral procession to make my point on the former as I would using a religious festival to make a point re the latter. It just seems disrespectful and a little bit crass to me.

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@RevRichardColes Isn’t the point no species exists to benefit humans? I’d be taking the opportunity to have a conversation with her about anthropocentrism.

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@RevRichardColes My guess is that they’d invested so much time and money into implementing a flawed system that the repercussions of admitting defeat became unconscionable. The rest is probably explained by corporate group-think, which is a very real thing in large organisations.

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@darrengrimes_ Albanians can’t buy nice cars? You really are a spiteful piece of work.

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@uk_sf_writer In other news, police deployed 14 officers to investigate the case on the basis of a vexatious complaint from a Tory MP under parliamentary privilege (because vexatious complaint is itself a criminal matter, as he well knows), and found zero evidence on which to prosecute her.

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@Askrigg_lad Funny thing is, somebody else was “down the pub with his mates” a couple of days ago, and not only came up with the same list as you, but wrote the same Tweet verbatim. What are the chances of that?

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@kelvmackenzie Wow, it’s going up 10,000 every half an hour. It’s almost as though you’re making it up.

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@DCBMEP @DavidGHFrost David Frost is a member of the House of Lords and is constitutionally excluded. This is really basic stuff.

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@NileGardiner You reckon? Strange then that opinion polls taken since the controversy erupted show a significant widening of Labour’s lead, not a narrowing. You have read this all wrong from the start.

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@KEdge23 I’m a member of the public and I think the policy stinks like a turd. Oh, and it was the Mail, Telegraph, Express and Tory MPs who made it an overblown story: nobody else. It then started backfiring spectacularly and they are rattled.

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@JMPSimor I’m not sure it has anything to do with the country. He chooses controversy because he wants to prove he is cleverer than those around him and can shape things at will. The cause is irrelevant. It is ego: nothing more and nothing less.

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4 years

@NadineDorries She resigned. You are on a sticky wicket with that one. Carry on digging though.

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6 years

@bbc5live Can we please just drop language like "EU bully boys"? They have been consistent throughout. It wasn't the EU that ruled out a customs union. It was May. The backstop wasn't their suggestion. It was May's. It is not the EU shifting position daily. It is May. #BrexitBarometer

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3 years

@GuidoFawkes Isn’t it a reasonable definition of tolerance and freedom that a group of people can decide, for themselves, what pictures they want on their wall?

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5 years

@Peston Which is why my wife summed it up so well the morning after the last election. Emerging from our bedroom, bleary eyed and blinking at the TV. "Well, that's p*ssed on her bonfire, hasn't it?"

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@AllisonPearson @Channel4News @Ofcom @GBNEWS Perhaps, instead of assuming a studio audience is wrong, ponder the possibility that it might be you who is wrong. Self-awareness can be incredibly liberating.

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@DPJHodges @Daves1412 No. What you saw was the ministers of state addressing the public to convey government policy and instructions, and the chief scientific advisor and the chief medical officer presenting data and responding to technical questions. Weren’t you paying attention?

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@sophielouisecc Hello Sophie. I am 58. I work very hard and pay a lot more tax than you. I don’t resent a penny of it: why should you?

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@darrengrimes_ Since when did you presume to speak for the rest of the country? That man is a total disgrace and anybody that thinks otherwise needs to have a long hard look at themselves - he’s in the actual government of the United Kingdom, for goodness sake.

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@FeartheBeardy One million Indian troops fought overseas for Britain in WW1 alone. 75,000 of them died in the trenches in France.

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@NeilDotObrien It appears you are my parents’ MP. They once met your predecessor but one, Sir John Farr, and were so impressed by what a gentleman he was, they still talk about it to this day. I will let them know what sort of language his successor chooses to use on a public forum.

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@JohnSimpsonNews @maitlis I am sure she wouldn’t disagree with you. As part of that though, her point is that where there are 100 economists with one view, and they have to scrabble around for one with the opposite view, there is a duty to point that out; not present them as equally represented views.

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@DPJHodges Day 3 and Dan Hodges still trying to reinterpret the words “no further action”.

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@DavidGHFrost I believe the bond and currency markets begged to differ, but you soldier on.

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@Bastiaanklerk @DPJHodges It is perfectly credible that no money at all is owed. It is also credible that a small sum may be owed - but that does not make it evasion. For it to be evasion, HMRC would have to prove there was a deliberate effort to hide the fact that money is owed. Error is not evasion.

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@NicholasTyrone I said at the time - acquaintances will verify - the penny will only start to drop when they’re stuck in a 2 hour queue at Malaga airport.

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@AdrianYalland @Bren4Bassetlaw Well done, Adrian. I doff my left-of-centre cap to you as a right-of-centre gentleman.

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@NileGardiner Oh, shame about the one letter typo, Nile. Don't worry, I've fixed it for you. "Electing Truss was a terrible mistake".

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@afneil Pretty sure that’s not what people are saying. Both economies are in recession; the point is that the UK one comes after 15 years of stagnation. The German one does not. The UK one therefore suggests a systemic issue; the German one does not.

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@KirstieMAllsopp We don’t have enough information to judge, so unwise to do so. Quite conceivable the Sun saw what the Schofield story did for the Daily Mail, though, and thought “we need a story like that.”

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@AdamClery The impressive thing is - and this hasn’t been mentioned - he never once looked up. Total instinct.

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@DeborahMeaden Good God! We have become the sort of country where the UN feels the need to intervene? I actually feel ashamed.

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@kelvmackenzie More jobs than people to fill them is not a good thing. It means a stagnating economy falling further and further behind its competitors.

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@darrengrimes_ Oh dear, Darren. 65% of all book sales are made by Amazon. It is No.1 in their sales ranking.

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@mrjamesob It’s like having that conversation with your aging parents - “I think it might be time you sold the car, Dad.”

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1 year

@Anna_Soubry This story is exasperating, Nobody seems to understand how banks work. Decisions are made on the basis of risk appetite - that’s all. Farage was clearly adjudged to be outside that bank’s appetite. Nobody gets to set a bank’s risk appetite unless they also underwrite the losses.

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@MartinDaubney Good grief, let’s put this to bed right now. The BBC has people reporting from a war zone, risking their lives to keep us informed. If using one descriptive phrase rather than another helps to keep them safe, and stops them becoming a kidnap target, then so be it.

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@KEdge23 No, and if you can’t see the difference, that’s your problem.

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@mariacaulfield Let’s be absolutely clear: anybody looking to make political capital out of the horrific events in Israel and Gaza frankly needs to grow up a bit.

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@Mike_Fabricant Only G7 country not to have recovered to pre-pandemic GDP. Why do you always fail to mention that?

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2 years

@sophielouisecc That is not correct. It is criminal barristers who are going on strike. The average salary for a criminal barrister is £47k, with many juniors earning less than £12k. You are confusing criminal and commercial practitioners, but then attention to detail is not your strong suit.

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@Iromg 1. I don’t. I’m Neil Wootton. 2. I don’t. Slight stubble at most. 3. Most cyclists are also motorists. 4. Innocent until proved guilty, but let’s be honest, not a great look. 5. ULEZ introduced by Boris Johnson and extension mandated by Grant Shapps. Other than that, top marks.

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@AllisonPearson They are reporting from a war zone, risking their lives to keep us informed on what is going on. If using one descriptive phrase rather than another helps to keep them safe, and stops them becoming more of a target, then so be it. This is real war - not your tiresome culture war.

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@NileGardiner It goes nowhere near Whitehall and is scheduled 2 hours later. It is on Saturday, not Sunday when the official armistice commemoration takes place, as it does every year. Other than that, bang on with her attention to detail.

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@NJ_Timothy Oh dear. Canada and New Zealand are not in Europe and therefore disqualified by dint of location. It is a European convention comprising European countries. Of the European nations, only Russia and Belarus are not members.

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@darrengrimes_ You see, I’m a fair man, but there’s no way to interpret that Tweet other than just bloody racist.

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@Nigel_Farage There’s a lot of nonsense from people who don’t understand how banks work. Banks make decisions on the basis of risk appetite - nothing else. That might be credit risk, liquidity risk, regulatory risk, reputation risk etc. Your a/c was clearly deemed outside appetite. That’s it.

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@darrengrimes_ Unions are literally the working people that join them, and guess what: they’re also voters, smart Alec.

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@RobertJenrick Nightmare, isn’t it, when you ask an eminently qualified commission to examine all the evidence - which they did very diligently - and you don’t get the answer you wanted?

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@IanDunt You should see Waterstones in Bradford then.

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@calvinrobinson You see, this is typical of right wing gaslighting. Start with a false assertion, and then rail against it for clicks and likes. Nobody finds the Bible offensive; they increasingly find it anachronistic and irrelevant, and that is actually your real problem.

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@_HenryBolton @stellacreasy @SuellaBraverman That wasn’t the point being made. They are both international bodies covered by treaties to which we are signatories. So renege on ECHR, what is to stop allies thinking we may also drop other obligations - like NATO - at the drop of a hat. THAT was the point being made.

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@RevRichardColes I am also struck by those who claim never to watch it, but also that it is biased. How would they know if they never watch or listen?

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@ByLucyJones I thought we were in favour of personal choice. Since when did this discussion move from “don’t make me wear a mask” to “and you can’t wear one either”?

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@BorisJohnson Sorry, old chap. You’ve been found out.

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@LeaveEUOfficial I have an idea. Why not listen to medical experts and scientists rather than ex airforce engineer, Steve Baker? Just a thought.

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@DPJHodges @SJL2729 It seems fairly clear that someone has been mischief-making. If you imagine that everyone on Abbott’s wing of the party want to see a Starmer victory, then you haven’t been paying attention.

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@DPJHodges So basically, no “gotcha” is it? Partygate report published in May, which is 5 full months before this alleged first contact.

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10 months

@sophielouisecc No. Incitement to break the law is, itself, a criminal offence. Theorising about whether it is justifiable to break the law, and under what circumstances, is not.

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@DCBMEP No. We should stop posting fatuous tweets and accept that rich nations ought to help poor ones, for the benefit of us all.

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