Peter Cross OBE @PeterTCross Twitter profile

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@Peston And he is wrong! The submarine was conceived by British mathematician William Bourne in 1578, but the first one actually built was that of Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel, which dove under the River Thames in 1620.

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2 years

@Champagnesocia8 @MichelleDewbs This is nothing whatsoever to do with the cost of living crisis. It’s criminal and they should be prosecuted and have their future employability seriously impacted.

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2 years

@BeetsEstrella @MrHarryCole 52% voted for it. Many of those have now changed their minds. Don’t forget the Vote Leave group we’re less academically qualified that Remain.

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@PeterTCross

10 years

Prince Harry. "I am like a proud Dad" with Invictus athletes. And so he should be! @HelpforHeroes @wiseshow

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5 months

@Dotan_Siti @COLRICHARDKEMP @IDF And IDF deliberately kills three surrendering Israeli hostages.

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@DanielKorski That’s a fascinating thread. Thank you. Unsurprising really, as I believe he really does want to have folks like you recognised for your excellent work in difficult and dangerous circumstances; and to an extent controversial too (but not your fault!).

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@willieckerslike @DavidGauke Not enough of us voted for the sensible option of Sunak. It’s not the first time the membership has selected the wrong candidate. Ed v David is another one. MPs generally do know better!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@mark_mtyler @13sarahmurphy What a very silly comment. Is that your best shot?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

These guards don’t strike and their drivers don’t get £60k +. High on reliability in a sticky situation too I reckon.

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@garbutt_frank @ConsPost Where the report on Russian influence on Brexit?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

7 months

@GlynnWill69 @GBNEWS But true

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@robertypob @RoryStewartUK When you have Tory donors betting against the £ for personal game irrespective of the damage done in the stock market to the value of ordinary people’s pensions, I truly think you should reconsider. I resigned my Conservative membership yesterday. The party has left me. Sadly.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@ShoNuf77 @mhmck They need to be careful and rest sensibly.

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@BritishAlba @trussliz @EmmanuelMacron That’s a ridiculous statement

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

10 months

@antisemitism @Kevin_Rockcock @CelticFC Given their behaviour when the Queen died, for instance, these people are below pond life.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@anno1540 What is going on in the US? This is madness!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@10DowningStreet @mercer_felicity @JohnnyMercerUK @cabinetofficeuk That’s simply one of the best appointments. Sunak is smashing this even though I don’t personally agree with all. Fab. @JohnnyMercerUK @mercer_felicity

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@_JessHayden You aren’t honestly saying that’s a level playing field are you?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@mercer_felicity @trussliz @RishiSunak @mercer_felicity I am afraid I have resigned my Conservative Party membership because I simply cannot continue to support an organisation where the key players act in such a reckless manner and their supporters are, frankly, so unpleasant in so many ways. The Party has left me.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@michaeldweiss @ELINTNews Bravo to the ‘smaller’ nations for punching above their weight. Germany - tanks!? Please!

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@UAWeapons Love the attack dog too!!!

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@10DowningStreet @tradegovuk @GEOgovuk Good call

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@SteveSheasby He made huge blunders through lack of judgment. He lost the confidence of Minsters and MPs as a consequence. Prorogue. Acruri. Wallpaper. Partygate. Paterson. Pincher. Just a few of his poor calls. You can’t run a Government without trust.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@JuliaHB1 No. That was Cameron having a Referendum.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@SWEEDTRADER @Parkingtickets1 @ragipsoylu It isn’t the right tank for them. Too difficult to maintain and huge logistic commitment. There will be better options.

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@PeterTCross

1 year

@buchanan17 @Peston So is my house

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@ThreshedThought First class analysis. Very well done. Embarrassed to think I doubted you with regards the potential Russian envelopment in Donbas. You were spot on. Have you in my trench any time !!!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@JE_codder @ChuckPfarrer Probably the most difficult combination of operations possible! Tough gig for a well trained Army. This will get very messy.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

6 months

This is a scandal that is yet to really explode. Probably on the scale of the Post Office in terms of physical, and possibly mental, damage done.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@peteratcmc I received this from a former Cabinet Minister. I disagree completely with Peter Cruddas's intervention. It's an attempt to undermine the next leader and create a betrayal narrative. Boris is to blame for his own demise.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@GavinBarwell Really worried about her total lack of statesmanship. Comments about first ministers in Wales and Scotland. And I hear her time as Minister with responsibility for Environment Agency drew similar comments.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

11 months

@secretsqrl123 Worse than British WW1 casualties as a rough guess. Awful.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@tea12cup @DmytroSolenko @Trollstoy88 The people you refer to probably couldn’t place a finger on an atlas and show where Ukraine is. I would suggest that their knowledge of the situation is rather limited.

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@PeterTCross

1 year

@BellaWallerstei He was Royal Patron of a charity I ran. He was outstanding. That was vintage Prince William. Totally authentic.

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@PeterTCross

1 year

@haynesdeborah @BritishArmy Do we finally have a CGS that has said enough is enough?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@KensingtonRoyal @HelpforHeroes Bryn was an amazing bloke. With Emma he changed the lexicon of Service charities. Was great to work with him to help wounded and sick veterans through @skillforce Sad news indeed.

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@PeterTCross

11 months

@TheUCS473 I have just watched 1.5 episodes. It isnt excruciating. It’s quite insightful about how things have changed (and haven’t too!). Avoid the ‘in my day’ mentality. There are some good kids there trying hard, just like we did (50) years ago.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@BrugesGroup It’s over. Finished. Now just retire. And reflect on the damage your ideologies have caused.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@djichuan @GirkinGirkin Yep. The correct formation for moving out of contact. Clearly no imminent threat but they look purposeful.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@benhabib6 @trussliz The libertarian jihadism is over.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@HenryTribe @Samfr @BorisJohnson Hague is a sensible person. People should listen to him

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@UAWeapons This is an area that every army should get smarter at. Use of camouflage and decoys is an art that isn’t well enough practised. Russians call is maskirovka. Good they have forgotten it!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@Isabell75543494 @SternhammerWulf @VinayaParvate @AndyBasildon @Peston Well said Isabelle. Same old, same old, some people never learn!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@dijkhuis_p @KensingtonRoyal @HelpforHeroes This is about the death of a thoroughly good bloke who helped our wounded, injured and sick Service Personnel. Your comment is positively sick. Crawl away.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@George36922673 @afneil Do you understand our electoral system? I fear not. We don’t elect Prime Ministers. We elect MPs. Parties chose their leaders with their own processes.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@DeusFoxy @Peston I resigned my membership for the opposite reason. I couldn’t stay in a party whose members were cheering on a clearly ridiculous economic policy that benefited the richest whilst huge numbers of folk have a cost of living crisis. And making poor leadership selections as we see.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@kennardmatt Supporting the IRA, Hamas etc. yep.

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@PeterTCross

1 year

@ArmchairW Saw that previously described as Russians surrendering!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@wigtoftfarmer Dig some small trenches on likely routes that are wide enough for wheels to drop in, cause these vehicles to stop immediately, and their occupants to ……… well who cares !?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@kishineff @SamRamani2 @EsauTheNomad You are hilarious.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@dave43law @emilyhewertson The cause of the current drama was the ridiculous mini budget adored by libertarian jihadists.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@mistermurph @JohnnyMercerUK Have you always been such low life? Or is it recent?

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@PeterTCross

1 year

@AvonandsomerRob @KEdge23 @medwar93 Trump! There’s a reliable commentator.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@Crusher_Craven @nytimes At least our Head of State is unlikely to be jailed for various offences including insurrection. How’s your wall going? Good value?

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@SkyZamaray @UAWeapons @GeromanAT Delivering food to the starving I hope.

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@PeterTCross

5 months

@IntercityFC Asleep at the wheel. It’s a tragedy in the making.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@brianmoore666 @Will___lloyd Were they all black players apart from Grealish that scored Brian? Pretty blooming good effort I would say. Three touch Rashford gets a goal. Some racists must be having a bad afternoon!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@mercer_felicity @JohnnyMercerUK @thetimes Not a good look @thequentinletts - keyboard warrior insulting a proper one. No shame? Probably not.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@RachelA1892 @ConsPost Yep. You have deposed three Conservative PMs, why not a fourth?

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@hartmikejs @_HenryBolton But was she wired to give that level of description?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@bearnotpear2 @zarahsultana Some state schools have really positive relationships with local independent schools for sharing facilities and the like. Those sorts of relationships will go too. Shame if that happens.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

7 years

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@DominicFarrell It’s for precisely those reasons that he and Corbyn were unelectable.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@LadyDetectives1 @Nigel_Farage @UKIP @GBNEWS All the basket cases in one basket. Perfect

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@jessphillips Talking of missing persons. Where is Nick Brown?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@PennyMordaunt @CommonsLeader That was a very fitting end to some wonderful tributes from across the House. You were most impressive.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@wotuupto @HelenMi84029314 Gone to ruin? I grew up in Wembley 60 years ago. Parents bought their house for £3K. Now worth £800K+ and I couldn’t afford to buy it. You just don’t like the change of who lives there.

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@nexta_tv He is doing such a good job supporting Ukraine

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@thinkdefence It took the whole British Army to put two Armoured Brigades in the field in 1990/91. At that time we had four Divisions (in theory).

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

8 months

@TheLastDon222 @MarioNawfal In a small area with 2 million people it’s quite difficult to avoid civilians being in close proximity. Or is that a concept you find hard to grasp?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@WarUpdater @MindsEyeNFT Minefield breaching at night is a desperately difficult operation. Folks need to remember that.

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@PeterTCross

1 year

@addicted2newz The breakdown in political trust was caused in very large measure by Johnson.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@Susan_calvin @mercer_felicity @PPUtoday I rather hope you live in the minority bubble. I believe you do. Most folk respect our Armed Forces who do dangerous things that help keep us safe. I respect your right to express that view. I fought for it. But I dislike it. A lot.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@TomTugendhat You did well. Much appreciated your ‘no’ about Johnson honesty. But I do worry about climate change

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@peteratcmc You really do demonstrate the reason we need an elected second chamber.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

6 months

@PhilipIngMBE @Charlie533080 It might be solved if moderate politicians agreed a two state solution and fixed borders .

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@DCBMEP David. Johnson has as much chance of being PM as you have of becoming an MP given your track record.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@soyunpascual @sentdefender To win.

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@crispinfisher @ArchRose90 Crispin. I founded and run a charity for over 10 years. The ‘evidence’ provided suggests what she was running was really rather dubious. It’s quite right it comes under close scrutiny because, if true, it damages the sector. Badly.

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@PeterTCross

1 year

@Gabriel64869839 As long as it works better than in my narrowboat which has broken down 5 times in 2 years with the stuff!!!

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@MrRSimmonds @brianmoore666 I resigned my membership on Saturday. I can’t support such reckless and extreme politics.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@Malemematters @nicholadrummond @RAF_Regiment @RoyalAirForce Don’t understand how mortar and switchblade provide the same capability. Is there a new 81mm round that is smart and AT capable? Almost 45 years since I was a Mortar Officer!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@nexta_tv Morale looks pretty good to me!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@therealmissjo @jonsopel @NadineDorries @RishiSunak Pity he was so totally untrustworthy that his own MPs threw him out!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@AnnieB_H @christopherhope Making up new rules? Wonder whether they got that idea from……

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@nexta_tv Go well.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@secretsqrl123 @DavidSacks @RStatecraft Bad week for populists and their supporters. One dead, one resigned, one arrested!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@CarlEckett @LeeAndersonMP_ I lived on one of these for months in Port Stanley. If was perfectly satisfactory accommodation in the circumstances.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

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@glenninluton Wow. You really are an interesting character.

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@M_Steeples @jflan92ie @UjuAnya @Twitter It’s remarkable that someone can be allowed to be quite so insensitive and repulsive without sanction.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@sophielouisecc It’s actually quite hard. Because we have to live with what we know to be a tragic error. Frustrated because some people were influenced by signs on a bus which were deliberately misleading. Yet as democrats we accept it.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@downgerd @afneil 40 years ago today, two of them were instrumental in recovering the Falklands. And before that there were many operational in WW2. The French had rather fewer at that time!

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@Zagonel85 @secretsqrl123 What do you know about IFVs? Have you operated from one?

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

Every single poopy falling at Festival of Remembrance represents a dead soldier. Respect that

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

2 years

@SV1XV @ItaMilRadar No. They rejected a right wing insurrectionist.

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@rossgreum @AngusRobertson Perhaps because they think it’s a really bad idea?

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@PeterTCross

2 years

@LouiseMensch @DominicFarrell @Keir_Starmer @BorisJohnson He isn’t even going to be re-elected in his own constituency

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@PhilipIngMBE @wrightdi I have commanded. I can’t agree with you on this one Philip. That’s probably a first! Different Regiments and Corps do have a different ethos. None better than the other. Just different.

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Peter Cross OBE

@PeterTCross

1 year

@strangelyperpl1 @Peston How does it feel to be a complete plonker?

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2 years

@David_Buchanan @DCBMEP @BBCNews Minford did a great job advising Truss. That went well 😂

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