Graham Applin @SkepticalHusky Twitter profile

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Graham Applin

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This is a page from Venetus A, the first complete copy of The Iliad in Greek. It was composed by scribes in Constantinople in the 10th Century AD c.950. Each page comprises of the text of The Iliad plus marginal notes.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

4 years

I think it's quite extraordinary that the murder of 3 gay men at the weekend has effectively vanished from the MSM.

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I wouldn't normally say this kind of thing but I'm glad that Lineker is being absolutely pilloried by people on here because he thoroughly deserves it.

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I think it’s quite clear that certain groups have gone around supermarkets buying up toilet roll, hand soap and other necessities, have then gone back to their own establishments and then put them on sale at exorbitant prices. These people should face prosecution.

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3 years

Very telling that on Andrew Neil’s Twitter feed there’s not a single mention of what’s occurring in Canada.

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@SkepticalHusky

4 years

What is unfolding outside that school is a perfect exemplar of who holds the power in this country. Will the teaching unions defend their member? No. Will the school defend their employee? No. Will those congregating outside in large numbers be prosecuted via CV legislation? No.

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@PaterIndomitus @StellaMcCartney I’ve had the same dinner jacket since 1993 and no-one has ever told me I’m a climate hero!

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

2 years

Islam is not a race. Economic migrants are not refugees. No man has ever given birth.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

2 years

It’s odd how everyone is losing it over allegations of historic sexual assault against a Tory MP but not against the mass “grooming” of young girls over a period of 20 years in many of our towns and cities.

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4 years

Can you imagine the courage it would take not to kneel? And can you imagine the consequences for your career if you didn’t? This is not voluntary this is compelled action. And it is setting a very dangerous precedent. This will now be expected. This is the new normal.

Carrie Brown 💙

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4 years

Absolute chills. On the blow of the whistle, every player takes a knee. #blacklivesmatter #AVLSHU

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Graham Applin

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3 years

I hope that by now it’s clear that all of our rights and liberties, all of our democratic freedoms hang by a thread.

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@SkepticalHusky

4 years

I find it almost unbelievable that major retail outlets like Sainsbury’s and Argos are basically telling their customers that if they don’t agree with black lives matter then they don’t want their custom.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

4 years

Naga Munchetty personifies everything that is wrong with the BBC.

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Graham Applin

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4 years

Biden will never escape the suspicion that he only got into the Oval Office because of malpractice. The stench of corruption will follow him everywhere. In my opinion.

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4 years

I come from a left-wing background. My father was a socialist and a trade union man all his life. Both my parents were members of the Labour Party. Is the behaviour of the modern Left pushing me ever right? Or is the Left is just more extreme and I haven’t moved?

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5 years

I think I’ve gone from kind of liking Johnny Mercer, to thinking him being ok, to being ambivalent about him, to being meh, to thinking he’s a bit of a tit, to not liking him that much, to thinking that he’s a total wanker in about 7 days.

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4 years

Do you get it folks? Is the penny dropping? No matter what we do, it will never be enough.

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

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“We should start at least by educating children in school about black culture and black history” This #bbcqt audience member says a government review into racism isn’t enough and it is “time for reform”.

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Graham Applin

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4 years

The ultimate act of rebellion now is to walk down the street without a mask. Think on that.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

5 years

Your phrase “Bollocks to Brexit” is of course the height of delicate sensibility which doesn’t disgrace or demean our political discourse in any way?

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@joswinson

5 years

Boris Johnson’s comments this evening were a total disgrace. He has demeaned the office of Prime Minister and he should apologise for them immediately.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

6 years

Is it me or is the Irish PM a bit of a dick?

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@SkepticalHusky

6 years

You’ve broken every single promise you have ever made. You have lied again and again and again. You have made a mockery of this country and bought your Party to it’s knees.

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

6 years

PM @Theresa_May explains what's happening with Brexit.

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Graham Applin

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You wouldn’t know working class if it bit you on the arse. You use the working classes when it suits you but when they don’t do what you say you call them Nazis. You sneer at working people, you look down your middle-class noses at them, judge them and find them wanting.

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@UKLabour

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Thatcher never cared about working people, and neither does Farage. Only a vote for Labour will protect working people.

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5 years

By “far right” he means you and me.

Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

5 years

You can stop the far right today. #VoteLabour

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

3 years

Canada is now a totalitarian state. New Zealand isn’t far behind.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

3 years

Blair has not just been knighted; he has been made a Knight of the Garter by HMQ, the highest order of chivalry there is. And it is one of most exclusive clubs in the world limited to 24 members. Appointments are made solely at the discretion of the Queen.

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Graham Applin

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Quite frankly, any Party standing at the next GE against open borders, Trans Ideology, the sexualisation of infants, the Alphabet People, Net Zero, Identity politics or critical theory of any description will get my vote.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

3 years

I’ve just spent 15 minutes in my local Tesco express without a mask and I have never felt such a stranger in my own country. It’s like whole swathes of the British public have just rolled over and died.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

4 years

In 1861 the Royal Navy blockaded Lagos and deposed the ruler there who refused to give up the Slave Trade. Over a period of 60 years Britain freed c.160,000 slaves and prevented c.100,000 being sold into slavery.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

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So, by declaring that prorogation is justiciable the SC has: 1. Torn up 350 years of British constitutional law. 2. Politicised the entire British judicial establishment for remain. 3. Legitimised the actions of people like Gina Miller, thus proving that money trumps the vote.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

3 years

The efficacy of the cloth mask 😷 is one of the great lies of our age. It has no medical value. Governments love the mask because it is a symbol of uniformity and submission.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

3 years

@calvinrobinson @Char_2022 The collapse of Andrew Neil into a snivelling, bitter old reactionary has been one of the most notable events of the age of Covid.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

4 years

Did you light candles for the girls in Rochdale and Rotherham? Did you light candles for Emily Jones?

The Iona Community

@ionacommunity

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118 candles in the Oran Chapel, Iona Abbey: names of the women killed by men were read out, prayers said for their families & dearest ones who love them & miss them, for education, for perpetrators, for action against violence #ReclaimTheseStreets #ReclaimTheNight #SarahEverard

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Graham Applin

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6 years

Just think: Labour’s Women’s Officer is a 19 year old boy who lectures women on what it is like to be a woman. Think about it but don’t think about it too long otherwise you will go round the twist.

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@SkepticalHusky

4 years

Two words “Jussie” “Smollett”.

ITV News

@itvnews

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Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams has called on the Metropolitan Police "not to just always target the black people" after she and her partner were stopped and searched

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Graham Applin

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4 years

I actually think that the Parliamentary system that we’ve had in this country for the past 150 years is breaking down.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

6 years

In case anyone was still unsure, this is an image of a minute fraction of what Communism did to Cambodia between 1975 and 1979

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

5 years

“The thing about Socialism is that a lot of people don’t know what Socialism means”, people including Rebecca it would seem.

Rebecca Long-Bailey

@RLong_Bailey

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The whole point of socialism is to raise up people’s aspirations

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If the BBC has anything to do with the revival of Spitting Image then I am not interested. It will just be HIGNFY wirh latex puppets.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

3 years

@AlStewartOBE @GBNEWS You could not be more wrong.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

4 years

I think the nakedly partisan behaviour of the police today raises serious questions which can no longer be ignored.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

5 years

I see Douglas Murray is upsetting all the right people and showing once again that he’s not the correct form of gay.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

4 years

I have had no meaningful social interaction with anyone since Christmas.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

5 years

Mate I don't know what circles you move in but most normal people do not take Class A drugs.

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@tomhfh

5 years

turns out most politicians are basically normal people who have all dabbled in less than legal substances. the real question is who’s the dweeby leadership candidate who has never tried anything fun going to be?

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Graham Applin

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@SocialM85897394 It’s really strange. He’s spent years building up a modicum of goodwill since his Mirror days and in an instant has flushed it all down the toilet.

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Graham Applin

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4 years

How would we cope with food rationing like this...for 6 years?

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I think it’s very revealing that the BBC is all over Lenin like a rash but avoids mentioning St George like the plague.

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Graham Applin

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3 years

This is the actual quote from Goering at his trial at Nuremberg in 1946

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@SocialM85897394 These reductio ad absurdum arguments are the arguments of choice among the hard of thinking like Schofield. Remember Newman Vs Peterson?

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4 years

Be under no illusions: BLM is a hard Left Marxist organisation and so to excuse its behaviour by saying it has been infiltrated by the hard Left is both delusional and specious.

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Graham Applin

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4 years

Apparently standing in front of a church holding a Bible now qualifies you as a fascist. But burning down people’s homes, torching and looting their businesses and beating up people on the street who disagree with you doesn’t.

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Graham Applin

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@Adrian_Hilton @WestYorksPolice @AkefAkbar This is shocking beyond belief. Have things gone so far? Apparently so.

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@SkepticalHusky

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@Cambridge_Uni Hypocrites!

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@BBC The BBC is obsessed to the point of mania with “diversity” yet across the whole Corporation there is a singular lack of any diversity of opinion.

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Graham Applin

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3 years

If you call your Mother a “birthing person” on Mother’s Day, just unfollow me please.

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Graham Applin

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6 years

@afneil I think the United Kingdom has been labouring under a false premise, that the EU was interested in negotiating an amicable withdrawal. They are not and never have been.

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Graham Applin

@SkepticalHusky

4 years

No room for racism unless it’s against white people then that’s alright.

Premier League

@premierleague

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For the opening matches of the Premier League, player names on shirts will be replaced by Black Lives Matter. A sleeve patch will feature on shirts for the rest of the season. There is #NoRoomForRacism , anywhere ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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@PaterIndomitus @jessbrammar And yet they don’t bat an eyelid to a bunch of green haired Yahoos mincing down Oxford Street playing the panpipes having a collective nervous breakdown over the weather.

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4 years

Apparently this storm Darcy is “a once in a decade” event. We had pretty heavy snow around here last year and the year before that. Why does everyone deal in hyperbole these days? Even the seasons have to be politicised!

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I absolutely refuse to take any lectures in identity politics from a bishop in the Church of England.

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London coping with yet another night of largely peaceful aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe #CNNFakeNewsPropaganda

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@KarlTurnerMP @darrengrimes_ @ReasonedUK @SpeechUnion @metpoliceuk In actual fact that is exactly what freedom of speech means you ignoramus. You are an MP and yet you have no idea what the concept of democracy means. You are a lawmaker, yet you don’t know what that means. There is no right not to be offended.

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The current Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Stephen Toop, is on a salary of £431k per annum. He specialises in Human Rights Law and loves the UN.

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@NorwichCC

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Since when has Sadiq Khan been a “celebrity”?

Sky News

@SkyNews

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'We will no longer engage with online trolls', say celebrities including Gary Lineker, Rachel Riley and Sadiq Khan

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I’m sure the gestapo said something similar....

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@BBCPolitics

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"Of course people should call the police. Of course people should gather evidence. And of course people should try and intervene" Labour's @JessPhillips accuses MPs of "moving back the dial" on domestic abuse, saying it is "never a personal family matter"

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I hope we all realise that when Owen Jones talks of “dark forces” and “the far right” he means Frank Field and Kate Hoey.

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@SocialM85897394 They have burnt their bridges, she has made absolutely sure of that. He is now hers and she controls him. The foolish foolish boy.

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@KiszelyPhilip Have you noticed Philip, the preponderance of young women spouting this anti-Semitic racist filth?

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We sorely need a Dave Allen in this day and age, because no one could poke fun at sacred cows like him. No one could reveal the inanities and pretences of life and burst the bubbles of the self righteous like Dave Allen. Humour is a great safety valve.

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Graham Applin

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4 years

One wonders what would satisfy this imbecile

Richard Burgon MP

@RichardBurgon

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If there is a second spike of Coronavirus cases, then the Government will be responsible for that loss of life. Its push to ease lockdown is dangerous and reckless.

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While watching Get Carter (1971) here is a list of bar prices. Average earnings at the time would’ve been in the region of £30 a week.

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@B_HQ @bbccomedy @sophiedukebox This is absolutely unacceptable content from the BBC.

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Way way back in March (who remembers March?) I was firmly of the view that lockdown was the only way to deal with this. Two things I’ve changed my mind: 1, Neil Ferguson and 2, Sweden.

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@nationaltrust @UNESCO So, apart from wringing your hands & virtue signalling massively over something you’ve got no control over what do you propose? Destroying those artefacts & buildings that you feel are associated with the Atlantic slave trade? Or making a huge donation to BLM? Take your time.

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I swear there are certain sections of the 16 to 25 year old age group who have no concept of how the democratic process works.

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People are saying that this fuss over the Last Night is a storm in a teacup. I disagree. This is the BBC using the figleaf of BLM to fundamentally alter a national institution which they hate and which they have been seeking for years to change.

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I think the establishment in this country has gravely underestimated how much anger was generated by the actions of the police last week.

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If you’ve never watched Frasier, do yourself a favour and do so at once.

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@SadiqKhan Is this the same “Christian community” that goes back 1500 years or is it some other “Christian community”?

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@SkepticalHusky

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Disingenuous bollocks. I don’t need you to tell me what I voted for.

Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

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To those who voted for Brexit and say they have been “betrayed” - you were promised “sunlit uplands” and “easiest trade deals” and “have cake and eat it.” These were false promises - from those who sold us Brexit. They misled us all once. No more. #StopBrexitFixBritain

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The Trans Mafia losing their shit yet again over J K Rowling is hilarious. Never before in history have 0.005% of our species offered up such great entertainment value.

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I wondered when this old bastard would put the boot in.

LBC

@LBC

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Lord Heseltine has said that Boris Johnson must speak out today on Dominic Cummings to show he is in charge

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So, Bonnie Greer met Lawrence Fox at the British Museum over a coffee and now Bonnie is being savaged by the regressive Left? I hope that’s an object lesson for them both.

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Somewhere in this city my father is 9 years old.

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@Antipolluters @MailOnline I suspect it’s not Muslims who are offended but the Labour Councillor who proposed the motion and the council were too craven to oppose it. And for the life of me I cannot think why the flag of St George should be considered offensive to Muslims but the LGBT flag isn’t.

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We are bloated and gluttonous beyond our grandparents’ dreams #WorldObesityDay

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The BBC thinks that someone who has lived here all of 15 years is entitled to tell me what being British means.

BBC Sounds - United Zingdom

Zing Tsjeng wants to know what being British is all about.

www.bbc.co.uk

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And you are more righteous how? From the moment you endorsed the police kneeling in submission before BLM, you lost what little moral authority you possessed. So you yourself have endorsed surrender and thus you have no basis on which to accuse someone else.

Shaun Bailey

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This weekend, the Mayor surrendered in the face of the mob. When we betray the memory of the best among us, we become small and fearful in the face of adversity. Why is Winston Churchill still boarded up @SadiqKhan ?

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I think the whole idea of making a drama about Jimmy Savile is in very questionable taste. But for the BBC to be involved is just plain vulgar.

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If you want an example of sheer naked racism in full view today in this country look no further than that letter sent by Labour MPs to Priti Patel. It drips contempt and venom from every word. Those MPs think they can hide behind their own race. Not any more.

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@nadhimzahawi @TheIHRA You do realise that this is in the worst possible taste for a myriad of reasons? No, of course you don’t.

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@RachelRileyRR You don't get to decide what I can and cannot see.

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@GaryPearse1 @SocialM85897394 No matter what Labour do, I will never vote for them again. My dad would be ashamed of them.

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Notice anything about this? This is a society which has completely vanished in my lifetime.

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London pubs, 1960s. Lots of great British characters here. 🇬🇧

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@SocialM85897394 If she is looking for thugs in British politics she need look no further than her own party.

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I see @BBCNews received 40,000 complaints in two days regarding Maitlis.

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@SocialM85897394 Do not join the National Trust, if a member cease membership forthwith and under no circumstances leave bequests to the National Trust in your will.

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This has about as much to do with British society as the Trooping of The Colour has to Iranian society.

Urban Pictures

@Urban_Pictures

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Thousands march along Oxford St, London, to mark Day of Ashura - when Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, was martyred. Despite social distancing restrictions, many gathered to show their devotion. #Ashura2020 #Ashura #London #Hussain #whoishussain