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Robin Shipston

6 years

In recent times bad things have happened by very small margins, because people haven’t stood up to be counted or just couldn’t be bothered to engage. The consequences are real and lasting.

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Robin Shipston

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4 years

UK is struggling to get far up the international queues for procurement of PPE and clinical equipment. What does this tell us about our real standing as an international power outside of the EU?

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So we’re all just going to joke that the leader of the government is just a puppet and an unelected advisor calls the shots? This is not normal, and it has become normal.

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Mark Francois to Britain's top general: "Cummings is gonna come down and sort you out his own way and you won't like it" Confirming the country is under the control of an unelected dictator.

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@MattHancock @GoodLawProject That’s not correct, is it. The case was not heard due to a small administrative error that was taken advantage of to avoid scrutiny. Let’s see if the Supreme Court upholds justice. You have nothing to hide, right?

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@SuellaBraverman @10DowningStreet Are you not politicising it with this unnecessary tweet as AG?

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@DPJHodges You seem to have missed pilots, scientists, surgeons etc. There’s a huge BS issue here.

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Saw dentist on Tuesday, he left work an hour after seeing me having developed a fever, now confirmed as covid. Surgery call me just now, to re-arrange my appointment next week, not to warn me he had covid. We seem to be quite blasé about covid now.

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@JimMFelton @gormley_robert Never be nasty to your staff, especially those that write your speeches.

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@BethRigby An interesting way to announce his withdrawal from the contest.

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@secrettory12 @miffythegamer To be fair, he was only wrong by a full stop. “I don’t think. Hospitalisations will rise.”

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@SimonUbsdell The BBC had an important role to play, she made sure it couldn’t.

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@GarySambrook89 @BorisJohnson Those are the words of someone trapped in an abusive relationship. Seek help.

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2 years

@SkyNews I’m absolutely not suggesting exactly what I just said and to prove it I’ll say it a few more times.

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4 years

@ABridgen His wife wrote all about their experience in detail. Didn’t she tell the truth?

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5 years

@Steven_Swinford Why didn’t you mention Article 107(2)(d) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, that provides exemption for natural disasters and exceptional occurrences?

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@EdConwaySky @BorisJohnson I’d be fascinated to know how this benefits the people of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

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@Mark_J_Harper @trussliz @BrandonLewis @ConorBurnsUK You are wholly are incorrect. A minority of the UK voted to leave the EU based upon no specific knowledge of the implications and a wealth of false promises. There are issues with the NIP and WA that have significantly damaged the UK with no benefits to the general population.

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@BBradley_Mans It doesn’t require tax payer funding and isn’t asking for funding. It’s very successful already and is already strong competition, beating Netflix by quite a margin.

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@nadhimzahawi Oh stop it. If there was money to be made in selling her off you’d be voting for it.

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@NadineDorries C4 already funds these areas, day in day out. It’s part of its remit. A one time handout from sale will be an overall loss. A severe hit to culture and the arts in this country. There are no justifications for this sale beyond self-interest.

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@Peston @BorisJohnson He’s not a genius, not even remotely, he’s just never robustly challenged.

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@RishiSunak Can you imagine a world where your daughters go hungry and have to sleep in coats because their house is so cold? The world is watching the UK.

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@pritipatel The reason to legalise some drugs is because illegal drugs ruin communities, tear families apart and destroy lives.

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@DPJHodges Ah so it’s no longer about the law after days spent arguing about the law, the importance of it and slagging off lawyers. Do you even know which pitch your goal posts are now on?

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5 years

@DeborahMeaden Given that the EU has included us in their ventilator and test kit scheme, and we just found out you can control your borders, and we will need to all work together to recover from this... time to ask if we can do a cheeky fast rejoin.

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2 years

@JamesCleverly Whenever you say “move on” we know to look more closely. The issue here is not his wife, it’s him and whether he is conflicted. He chose to go into politics, he chose to be a minister, so he should accept the scrutiny that must go with that.

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@SuellaBraverman Damn, so the ECHR is moonlighting as people traffickers? Yeah, it’ll definitely stop if you leave the ECHR, absolutely. Just those tricky treaties to get around, but hey just ignore them and they’ll go away right? Sovrinty innit.

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@GregHands @OliverDowden @Conservatives @CCHQPress The government still managed to find a good few billion to lose on fraud and looking after its mates.

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6 years

@theresa_may Excellent, so when’s the @peoplesvote_uk happening then?

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2 years

@GaryLineker Pretty sure the whole point Miranda Whelehan was trying to make is that she wishes all our clothes and products were not in some way dependent on oil. That has to be obvious surely, even to Madeley. Her sadness at the reactions was eloquent and dignified.

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@RishiSunak @andrealeadsom If you put Braverman or Patel in cabinet you won’t be uniting anyone.

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5 years

@allisonpearson He performed like the political lightweight he is, that’s not bias, he’s just not up to the job.

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@Q66Suzi Are you on the side of the meaningless slogan?

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@IsabelOakeshott @MaitlandGus Like Spain, which is errrrr…. a highly successful national health service modelled on the NHS. The NHS just needs un-breaking and the money wasted on serving private interests diverted to staffing and modernisation. Get lost with your expensive insurance based system.

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@ABridgen C4 is not a nationalised company. It’s really odd that this sell off can only be justified with misinformation. A bit like fracking, Brexit, Conservative manifesto…

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@NadineDorries Government doesn’t own C4 the state does. Nothing is holding them back. They are profitable and successful. The only reason to sell is party self-interest.

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@Nigel_Farage How can Brexit be constantly under threat when it’s such an amazing thing? Surely it’s so great that no one would ever want to reverse it.

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3 years

@MattHancock @GoodLawProject Maybe if the gov were more forthcoming with information that should be publicly available and didn’t keep “losing” so many communications, the complete innocence would shine through for all to see. Instead, things look pretty shifty.

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4 years

Epic level trolling from government to the UK people. Unelected bureaucrat appointed to continue to destroy relationship with organisation we left because we objected to unelected bureaucrats.

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4 years

I am hugely honoured to have been appointed Minister to take forward our relationship with the EU after Brexit. In doing so I stand on the shoulders of giants & particularly those of @michaelgove who did an extraordinary job for this country in talks with EU over the past year.

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@JuliaHB1 Maybe then you’ll finally stop enabling this grotesque thing the Conservative Party has turned into, so that the NHS can be re-enabled.

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@darrengrimes_ Taking the knee predates the unlawful killing of George Floyd by over 3 years. Is there no beginning to your understanding of anything?

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3 years

@Peston But it’s all effectively loans. Windfall tax rejected. VAT cut (which would affect the cash position of energy wholesalers) rejected. He protected the wholesalers at the cost of everyone else. Where’s the help for business energy costs?

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@AndrewBowie_MP No, they’re just bashing the people that are trying to destroy it for personal and political gain. We’re certainly not leading in economic recovery, or trade deals, where are we leading? Money laundering, tax evasion?

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@ABridgen @Daily_Express @JustinWelby @pritipatel Either you don’t understand the proposal or you’re being dishonest about it. On one hand we’re expected to accept it’s a wonderful opportunity being sent to Rwanda and at the same time it’s a deterrent. It’s not only economic migrants that are to be sent, it’s also asylum seekers

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@toryboypierce @JustinWelby What’s ungodly is the Home Office having deliberately made the problem worse and refusing to participate in a solution with the French. What’s ungodly is trying to avoid our obligations towards the refugees.

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4 years

@DeborahMeaden It’s odd that so many will protest against temporary restrictions that are going to be lifted soon, yet not the more permanent restrictions on their rights planned by the government.

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3 years

@Digbylj If this regional variation annoys you so much, why would you not be ranting about the Home Secretary all the time?

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@piersmorgan Project Fear continues its relentless progression into Project Reality.

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@JolyonMaugham Seems wholly unreasonable that the vote to end remote voting isn’t itself done by remote voting, given the lack of pressing need to do otherwise.

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@tomhfh It’s what you advocated for, enjoy the victory

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@AllisonPearson Lockdown didn’t stop people getting treated. Not locking down quickly enough did. Please do show us where you warned of it though.

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@jessicaelgot She seemed quite taken aback by the very notion of democracy. Interesting insight into the bubble she lives in.

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@Bob4Beckenham You voted as instructed. Strangely it wasn’t so necessary to pollute our waters whilst we were in the EU and there were penalties.

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3 years

@mikegalsworthy Someone in the office was on the phone to the psych ward asking if they’ve done a head count recently.

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3 years

@TheSun Clearly this happens on every ambulance on every shift in every part of the country 🙄Maybe those outraged should try doing the job for a while and they might feel the need to have a bit of light relief once in a while between calls and cleaning up the back of the ambulance.

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@darrengrimes_ It’s remit is incompatible with private sector ownership. Thatcher knew that. It is a perfect model of state owned enterprise to fund the arts. The model should be replicated not destroyed. Your life is considerably better as a result of C4.

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@darrengrimes_ I thought you might spare yourself the embarrassment of attempting a budget analysis, but here we are.

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@bmay Disappointed he didn’t manage to fit “cancelled” in there too, but pretty good word salad 7/10

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@_HenryBolton @acgrayling If all it takes to stop your Brexit miracle is people criticising it, then it sounds a lot like a fantasy.

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@implausibleblog 😂 and people ask why the witness questioning isn’t all day every day. Meticulous preparation in action.

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@gregsmith_uk Please educate yourself about the things you’re voting on.

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2 years

@Mike_Fabricant @trussliz Absolute disgrace. Of all the problems facing this country, worsened by your own party’s total ineptness, you celebrate adding cost and complexity for zero, zero frikin benefit. Shame on you.

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5 years

@BBCTalkback John Craven’s Newsround used to give more in depth analysis than what we get now.

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@JuliaHB1 Who said they cut the number of staff. The port just put in additional booths and did deal with France to supply 50% more staff. It takes longer to process passports because of leaving the EU, that is a fact.

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@MarinaPurkiss No one seems to ask the question as to why this wasn’t such a big issue whilst we were under EU regulation.

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@implausibleblog I listened harder today when I heard Keith sounding particularly calm and understanding. Lethal interrogator.

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3 years

@OliverDowden This is desperate. Seriously embarrassing.

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4 years

@mrjamesob I miss the days of having a Prime Minister that could construct proper sentences using their own words.

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5 years

@BBCTalkback BBC current affairs editorial team no longer knows what balance is. Reporting verbatim from “sources” with no analysis, checking, challenge, context or commentary from alternative views is neither balance nor good journalism. Two extremes don’t give a full picture.

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2 years

@Ofcom You should take this as a clear indication that your current terms of reference or how they are applied are seen as being inadequate and that Ofcom should be seen to be effectively trying to change that.

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@Peston @MattHancock You didn’t get “it” wrong, the thing you got wrong is blindly repeating whatever you’re told uncorroborated by people that are known to make misleading and dishonest statements.

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@JamesCleverly Minister: We have nothing but words but here’s an idea to further increase inflation. Just ignore the fact that we’re targeting immigration to fill better paid jobs now because we don’t actually have joined up policy for anything, but we’ll keep lying about record employment.

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@BarristerSecret Doesn’t a summons create unnecessary journeys and contact?

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@darrengrimes_ @RishiSunak Why do you need to fight for something that is so wonderful? Surely you just need to list the benefits and opportunities.

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@PatsyeStevenson How did challenging and arresting some of the women reduce the perceived risk? They appear to have escalated at every step.

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@BernieSpofforth One of the reasons that cobalt is being phased out. New batteries are already on the market that don’t use it. Consumers need to start asking for cobalt free batteries.

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3 years

@DeborahMeaden So they showed up to vote for more sewage but not for debate on corruption.

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2 years

@davidallengreen But isn’t it wonderful to see all these people no one ever knew existed resigning from positions no one ever knew they had. Starting to think some of them are agency staff, brought in just to resign.

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@GBNEWS Mercilessly embarrasses himself

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@ScottBentonMP Where is your mandate for this policy? Your mandate was to reduce illegal immigration not persecute asylum seekers. You have failed on all your mandates.

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@RosieisaHolt @NadineDorries It’s rare to be a national treasure at such a young age. We thank you.

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@DPJHodges When we have politicians and people closely connected with them taking advantage of law that permits offshore structures to entirely lawfully avoid tax in the UK, then those politicians naturally have an enormous conflict when dealing with our tax laws.

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@michaelgove It was a “no show”, not a “no platform”. Your leader denied us the spectacle of him trying to debate climate change by repeating “get brexit done” for an hour.

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@BorisJohnson You lost them at the pay review after already failing to provide adequate equipment in time and poor management of the crisis. They’ll do it, but for us, not you.

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@fascinatorfun @bbcquestiontime Know what we want, yet can’t quite ever explain why, or what the benefits are.

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@JoePorterUK @BorisJohnson Where do you start with the internal inconsistencies and falsities of this tweet. It’s quite possibly at a level of art.

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@christopherhope Adding a new layer of complexity, cost and red tape to companies that will still have to adhere to existing GDPR standards anyway. Pointless fannying around avoiding doing anything useful.

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@BritishAlba @PaulBrandITV It will reinforce why the Home Office has got to act within the laws that Parliament creates and conduct itself properly. The UK is, at least this week, still a democracy. To state that courts undermine the rule of law pretty much sums up this account’s understanding of the law.

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@IsabelOakeshott You know what’s really sad? If it had not been for the failed Brexit, UK would have had one of the lowest, if not the lowest inflation rate in the G7. At every turn Brexit hampers growth and recovery. Own it, you said it was all going to be worth it.

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@DPJHodges It’s not actually.Let me pose a pretty basic journalistic question - where is she tax resident? Her citizenship was confirmed, but not her residency or tax residency. Odd that. Is she using our tax laws that enable tax residency in a tax haven, or is she paying her tax in India?

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@AdamWagner1 One might imagine she only asks questions that she already has a pretty good idea of the answers to.

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@nadhimzahawi It’s a very sad day, when government ministers all have to reference Churchill in synchronicity to try and identify with someone of capabilities given the scarcity around them.

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@MrHarryCole Most of the country doesn’t find it funny to have dishonest and ineffective leadership. Most of the country are paying the price for it.

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@DPJHodges What if there’s no problem and it’s all manufactured baiting to justify withdrawing from ECHR for other reasons?

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@TVKev The NHS is more amazing than ever. How on earth it continues to provide care despite a long coordinated attack from the private healthcare sponsored Conservatives is quite something.

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@toryboypierce This makes no sense at all. You are saying that people currently avoiding tax will now pay more tax because tax has been lowered. They’ll just be avoiding less and paying the same!

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@EstherMcVey1 Yes, aren’t you aware of the cost of living crisis and what’s going on in the world in general? UK represents a small percentage of viewers.

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@thecarolemalone What’s aspirational about it? All kids should have a good education, right?

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@andrealeadsom Overall you have reduced opportunities. Overall your government have introduced more barriers to trade than any other in living memory. You are anti-free trade and anti-mobility with Europe. The effect is that opportunities are only for those that can afford them.

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@NadineDorries What does C4 say? The people that actually understand the business. Because none of your arguments stack up.

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@SuellaBraverman And this is useful how?

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