Richard Hassall PhD #FBPE ๐ถ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ #RejoinEU
@RHHassall
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Ret'd clinical psychologist and Hon Research Fellow, Philosophy Dept, Nottingham University. Lifelong anti-Tory. Left of centre. Can be sweary and blunt.
#KTTO
You're a stupid dickhead, Albie.
@albieamankona
Mick Lynch has NOT called any strike. He's head of the RMT union, but the strike is by ASLEF! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Oh, you work for GBNews! That explains why you're stupid... ๐
When you have to get up at 4:30 to get an overpriced flight to Manchester for a family party because Mick Lynch has called a strike for jobs which could just be replaced by computers & weโd never have to worry about this again.
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I've now made a formal complaint to
@bbc
and
@BBCNews
about their failure to give any coverage to the march. I hope many others will do the same. This is how I've worded my complaint.
Richard Hassall PhD #FBPE ๐ถ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ #RejoinEU
There's been a big march in London today demanding we rejoin the EU. So why have you supposed "news" broadcasters at
@BBCNews
@itvnews
@Channel4News
&
@SkyNews
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I'm seeing several Tory MPs tweeting blatant lies about the Internal Market Bill on my timeline this morning. Of course a Tory MP lying is not at all unusual. But do I sense that they've been given a directive from on high to do some coordinated lying today?
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I'm puzzled about why right-wing bigots and racists think they speak for the majority of the population. Is it because they speak for the majority of people they meet at the pub or the golf club, and then somehow think the majority of other people also agree with them?? ๐ค
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The Tory PCC of Cheshire says: "I notice school girls in my area are all wearing very short skirts and this did not happen in the 1960s". Is this Tory stupid, seriously stupid, or totally and utterly braindead? ๐ค
Sigh... It looks like "Lord" Dimwit Daniel
@danielmgmoylan
has forgotten that Sinn Fรฉin MPs don't take their pay.
Has anyone explained to him the difference between them and Nadine Dorries, I wonder? And would anyone like to waste a few seconds trying to do so? ๐ค
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The Observer view on the high costs order against Carole Cadwalldr. Note that Banks only sued Carole, not the Observer or Ted. Typical behaviour of a bully wanting to suppress freedom of expression.
@SkyNews
I was beginning to think that Ben Wallace was a half-way intelligent cabinet minister compared with all the rest. Looks like I have to revise that assumption now. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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There's been a big march in London today demanding we rejoin the EU. So why have you supposed "news" broadcasters at
@BBCNews
@itvnews
@Channel4News
&
@SkyNews
not put anything about it on your websites? Are you trying to hide this news from the public for some strange reason? ๐ค
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@Councillorsuzie
What a feeble excuse, Susan! What's the war got to do with it? This country has changed its PM during war time often in the past and was usually right to do so. And we're not even directly fighting in this one. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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@SuellaBraverman
You really are an evil liar. It was the COURTS that blocked his deportation on legal grounds, not Labour MPs who, as you of course know, have no power to do that.
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This looks like real desperation and petulance from David Frost. If our government wants to walk away from the negotiations, Barnier will let them. He knows who will suffer most and it won't be the EU.
The UK is currently afflicted by *two* deadly plagues. One of them, COVID-19, is proving very difficult to fight.
The other is a plague of lying spread by pathological liars and lying newspapers. This is more chronic and is going to be equally hard to eradicate.
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@michael_merrick
Really Michael? Even though the Pope, the head of his faith, has made very clear how he thinks refugees should be treated? In the circumstances, "hypocrisy" is not too strong a word at all. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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@TheRetroExec
If you really think that keeping Brexit depends on keeping Johnson as PM, then that really shows how weak the support for Brexit has now become, doesn't it!
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@danielmgmoylan
@mrjamesob
@BorisJohnson
@Keir_Starmer
I'm neither an anonymous account nor a socialist. But I have pointed out to you (if you call that 'monstering'!) that you only object to Labour allegedly putting pressure on the police, but you don't mind ministers and the Mail doing so. Why don't you explain that, Daniel? ๐ค
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@MatthewStadlen
Except of course
@trussliz
hasn't changed her mind. She knows that what she said in 2016 was true, but she knows her career now depends upon her *pretending* to have changed her mind. Dishonesty and hypocrisy obviously don't pose any problem for her.
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Can anyone explain why right-wing people get so worked up about transgender people? What is it about being right-wing that makes this such a burning issue for them?
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That's simply not true and you know it. For example, Mrs Thatcher had a huge influence in the EU in creating the single market.
The fact that you feel you need to tell a silly lie about this only shows how weak your case really is.
@Arron_banks
@NileGardiner
You are a nasty little liar, aren't you Nile. Lineker did NOT compare Britain to Nazi Germany in the 1930s. But any old lie will do for you, won't it! ๐
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@pritipatel
You have no moral right to lecture other people about democracy. Your campaign felt it necessary to break the law in order to win the referendum. That in itself undermined its democratic legitimacy.
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@NickBoles
After 13 or 14 years of Tory government, and especially 3 or 4 of Johnson, the public will quite likely welcome someone without charisma, but who can actually work hard. I recall it being said that Clement Atlee was a charisma-free zone in 1945.
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@trussliz
@MarosSefcovic
But your predecessor negotiated an "excellent deal" just a year ago and you voted for it in Parliament. So what exactly is it that you now need to "resolve", Liz? ๐ค๐ค
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I've just seen this hilarious tweet that
@andreajenkyns
has posted. At first I thought it was from a parody account! Are all far-right Tories as ridiculous as this one? ๐ค
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@Joe_Mayes
Which is about as good an admission from a Brexiter as we're likely to get, that they don't actually know what these "post-Brexit opportunities" are. ๐
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@AdamBienkov
The Brexiters who voted to "restore" sovereignty to Parliament, which it had never lost anyway, are now doing their best to deprive it of sovereignty. Brexit is nothing but deceit and hypocrisy.
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Can you remind us, Penny, which party it was that drastically reduced spending on our armed forces and saw our army fall to a low of 75,000 soldiers in the last 14 years?
@PennyMordaunt
Hint: it wasn't Labour!
@ocrossborder
@AdamBienkov
Perhaps you're too young to remember the days when prime ministers took their job seriously enough not to behave in this sort of way in Parliament, Olivia? ๐ค
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I seem to be getting blocked regularly by both far-right bigots and members of the loony left who hate Starmer so much that they're willing to contemplate another 5 years of Tory government. What am I doing wrong? ๐ค
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@NileGardiner
The message it sends is that there is now peace on the island of Ireland, Nile! Evidently, with your predilection for stirring up hate whenever you can, that's not a message that you like hearing... ๐
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Now vile Nile
@NileGardiner
is "appalled" that St Pauls Cathedral has had the temerity to state a known fact!
But Churchill really was a white supremacist and unashamed imperialist. So would anyone like to explain to Nile that it's actually OK to tell the truth? ๐ค
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@DPJHodges
Do you think that Starmer doesn't check his facts very carefully before making such accusations, Dan?
And do you think that Johnson often checks his facts very carefully? ๐ค๐ค
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@toryboypierce
@SadiqKhan
Shock!! Horror!! Sadiq Khan wants to do something to improve our trading relationship with Europe in order to bolster our economy! How terrible!!
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@Haggis_UK
And note how Starmer states that the Tories post-Brexit have "erected unnecessary barriers"! Is this an indication that he wants to start dismantling these barriers? He obviously knows what's caused these barriers. ๐ค
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Now "Lord" Moylan
@danielmgmoylan
claims the former BofE Governor has "no understanding of monetary policy at all", just because Carney criticised Brexit.
But does Moylan seriously expect us to believe HE has any understanding of monetary policy? Does he actually have any?? ๐ค
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@sharrond62
@philmids
But you are making up nonsense about Labour supposedly planning to charge people CGT when selling their main residence, aren't you!
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@andrealeadsom
Should "democrats" also respect a vote that was achieved after the Leave campaign broke the law in order to win, Andrea? Genuine democrats only respect results that were achieved lawfully.
And anyway if a country is not allowed to change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.
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I've just reported this nasty individual for this tweet. I hope others will do the same. If this isn't an invitation to harass someone, I don't know what is.
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@amandajplatell
@GaryLineker
You shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers, Amanda - particularly not if it's in the Daily Mail!
And you should know - you regularly write a load for lies in it! ๐
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Just wanted to check with
@JuliaHB1
- do you accept the result of the 2014 World Cup? Germany won the world cup in 2014, so they should keep it indefinitely, shouldn't they?
Oh! You mean in football the teams DO get a chance to replay. But not in our democracy apparently.....
Just wanted to check with
#FBPE
folk trying to stop Brexit whether they accept the result of last nightโs
#EnglandvsColombia
game?
After all, 4-3 is such a narrow margin of victory, isnโt it...?
#justasking
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@KateWilton1
@lucyallan
@UKLabour
I think Lucy needs to be reminded that
#JohnsonVariant
has been trending on Twitter and there's a good reason why. It's because party politics always matters more to Tory governments than tackling a global crisis.
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This is a quite unbelievably stupid claim
@OwenJones84
and your argument for it is very flimsy. There never was a soft Brexit on offer, if you check the historical record properly.
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@Peston
@RichardBentall
The reason Johnson didn't think it was a breach of the rules is because he didn't actually *think* about it at all. And he didn't think about it at all, because he didn't actually *care*. That's the point.
#JohnsonOut78
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@DPJHodges
So you don't think someone who can seriously claim that barking dogs deter drones is just a little on the "thick" side, eh Dan? This is from your OWN paper! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
@trussliz
If you're *genuinely* concerned about the economy, why did you change your mind about what would be best for it? You seemed to have a clear and principled view about that a few years ago. It wasn't the prospect of advancing your career that made you do so, was it Liz? ๐ค
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@fascinatorfun
@DavidGHFrost
@vonderleyen
He's only feigning surprise and disappointment. He's known perfectly well for a long time what the EU's position is. He's really just lying when he pretends otherwise.
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@mikegalsworthy
@BBCNews
It's more than just a "shame". It's an act of deliberate censorship. I've now made a formal complaint to
@bbc
and
@BBCNews
about their failure to give any coverage to the march. I hope many others will do the same. This is how I've worded my complaint.
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@john4brexit
Is this a situation that you would describe as "the pound has jumped in value", John? ๐ค
If so, you must have pretty low standards for what now counts as "value" for the pound... ๐
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@helen_spirit1
Don't be such a silly girl, Helen! Have you really not cottoned on to the fact that tactical voting happened in *both* places? ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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@DCBMEP
No David. You and your friends actually chose to *take away* freedom from us. You can lie about that all you like, but it doesn't change the fact about what you've taken from us.
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@aishpant
I wonder whether the
@metpoliceuk
will treat these protestors in the same way as they did the women who held a vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common. ๐ค
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@JuliaHB1
@DAaronovitch
This bit, Julia: 'This must be the "cultural enrichment" we've heard so much about'. As good an example of a racist dog-whistle as any I've seen for some time.
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I never cease to be amazed by how many Conservatives assume other British people "hate the country they live in" and attribute this to some mysterious thing called "wokery". Could it be that these Conservatives can't tolerate ANY criticism of what they've done to their country?
I never cease to be amazed at how many British people hate the country they live in.
Iโm not talking about immigrants but the indigenous population.
Since when did wokery dictate that you have to spew bile about how much you detest your country of birth and all the associated
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@latentexistence
I wonder if we're supposed to draw comfort from the fact that British fascism is so much more refined and politely expressed than the Nazi variety? ๐ค๐ค
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Just in case
@Arron_banks
continues to try to claim that Carole Cadwalladr's story was all wrong, let's just remind ourselves of what the High Court established beyond dispute! People will naturally draw their own conclusions.
Indeed,completely self inflicted. I tried to settle 5 times with her. A simple apology would have done & walk away. This is nothing to do press freedom but not having any facts to back up what turned out to be lies.
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@ChrissieGrech
@tommycfcharris
Actually Tommy is quite right. I find it very hard to think of anyone else who could do a better job than Bozo of f*cking up our great country.
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@Nikkipage44
@Tobias_Ellwood
And I hope you watched the crowds for the pro-EU marches in 2019, Nikki, and understand how deep rooted the desire for a healthy economy and a frictionless trading relationship with our nearest geographical neighbours is in the British people! ๐
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When are you going to be honest, Laura, and admit you're heavily biased towards the Tories? Everyone knows it and any pretence you might have towards impartiality is fooling nobody.
@bbclaurak
I've just been given an honorary research fellowship in the philosophy department at Nottingham University, which I'm really pleased about.
But now I'm experiencing a strong feeling of imposter syndrome! How do I get over that? ๐ณ