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Richard H

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Production journalist. Afro-European. Queer. Socialist. Sober. Happily single. Interests: politics, psychology, hiking, bikepacking, human connection

London, England

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Richard H

5 months

When I was at uni in Durban in 🇿🇦 a sociology lecturer said there was enough food in the world to feed everyone and hunger was a distribution problem. Grain was dumped in the sea to keep prices up, for example. It’s the same with wealth. There is enough for all of us if we share

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Richard H

2 years

Jonathan Gullis has just been incredibly irresponsible on #channel4news by fanning fear and hatred of asylum seekers and then saying his constituency has more than 800 with another 82 on the way - AND THEN NAMING THE HOTEL where they’ll be staying. Especially after yesterday

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2 years

I’ve not moved on, not one bit. I want resignations and, failing that, a general election

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3 years

So Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings before the first wave, welcomed the second in with open arms & has now not attended the past three Cobra meetings when it looks like we might be overwhelmed by another wave. How is he actually still the prime minister? This is not acceptable

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2 years

Sky News just interviewed an economist who was saying the true cost of public sector wage rises would be less than £10bn, not the £28bn Sunak has been saying, and that it would actually boost the economy and counter recession. So why are the Tories playing hardball over it?

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Richard H

2 years

Rees-Mogg would have 100% been a slave-driving plantation owner

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Richard H

5 months

Every time a result is announced on election night and it involves a Tory falling we’re gonna go outside and on our balconies and bang pots and pans right?

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Richard H

3 years

In a reply from the despatch box Johnson again refers to a woman MP (Layla Moran I believe) as “she” and “her”, swiftly followed by “my honourable friend” in reference to Rees-Mogg. He does this ALL the time, it’s disgusting, sexist and needs to be called out

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Richard H

5 months

After 47 years of prosperity we told the EU ‘thanks, we’ll take it from here’ and promptly drove the bus off a cliff. There was no consensus and no plan. It was all up to the driver, who quit the next day, followed by a succession of drivers, all worse than the last. What a state

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2 years

What would stop even Channel 4 News from reporting on the Zahawi tax scandal? A super injunction?

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Richard H

3 years

When I moved to the UK in 2003, people like Darren Grimes and Nigel Farage were not ‘mainstream’. Now they’re all over social media and TV picking fights with the RNLI over saving lives at sea. The RNLI?! That would have been inconceivable in 2003. I miss those days

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Richard H

3 months

I’ve realised that when people talk about no-go areas in London they mean areas they don’t want to go to, because they’re full of people who don’t look like them and the shops and food outlets don’t look like the ones in their areas. It’s racism and xenophobia, not a safety issue

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Richard H

2 years

Everyone who lives alone talks to themselves right?

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3 months

By the sound of this thread, Rupert Murdoch can stop any case going to court by offering more money in settlement than the claimant is likely to win. That sounds like rigged justice in favour of the rich. The UK stinks, it’s stacked against ordinary folk

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For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

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Richard H

2 years

I don’t quite understand how Rees-Mogg thinks Jesus is on his side and not on that of refugees and workers striking for a living wage 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Richard H

3 months

Let’s pay MPs in vouchers. For Lidl, or Iceland

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Richard H

5 months

Can we get back to firing Kemi Badenoch today? Feel like that slipped down the agenda

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Richard H

7 months

When an MP is standing up in the Commons declaring clams in the Thames a Brexit benefit and the PM pretends to take it seriously you know, you just know, there are no real Brexit benefits and they’ve lost the argument. Continue the farce if you must but Brexit is a bust

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Richard H

2 years

I’ve always paid @BritishGas on time but I’m late on a payment for the first time and have received a threatening email adding £13 to my bill and saying they’re handing over to debt collectors. Wow. No good feelings here. And bill is almost double what it used to be

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1 year

A PM forced to resign in disgrace. Two thirds of public wanted him out. Commons has sanctioned him for lying. Hasn’t complied with law over Covid inquiry. Questions over treason. Yet Tory MPs are falling over themselves to congratulate him on a baby. F*ck him, them and the system

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2 years

Why oh why is there always a right-wing shill on #BBCQuestionTime ? Like why?! Tonight it’s Isabel Oakeshott. Why not ever more centrist or even left-wing contributors?

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Richard H

8 months

Britain was fooled into pursuing Brexit by a stupid man who cannot understand basic graphs and concepts and who is a proven liar. Not a good look is it?

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1 year

How pathetic to latch onto the news story of the moment and make it part of his culture war while beating a nationalist drum. Grifter

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8 months

How can Sunak stay in post when both Whitty and Van Tam have now contradicted his statement over Eat Out To Help (the virus) Out? Like how? It surely killed people

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Richard H

5 months

There’s always gaps on the shelves at my Sainsbury’s in central London, ever since Brexit. Every time I tweet about it I’m told ‘not where I am’. Ok you’re lucky, maybe you’re not in a big city and get farmers’ stuff but it’s not enough to fill shelves here. Maybe all coincidence

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Richard H

4 months

Why aren’t we talking about this more? Why isn’t the MSM reporting on it? A British guy I told said it sounded like tin-hat stuff. Only place I’ve seen it discussed is here and in a government committee meeting. When people realise it’s not a conspiracy theory it’ll be too late

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4 months

Sunak is spending £4,92 billion of public money on 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs), and £300 million on 12 Freeports, BTW Teesside Freeport has had over half a billion pounds spent on it so far. Councils going bankrupt are by design. Michael Gove selling off public assets of

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1 year

I went to my first AA meeting yesterday. Then bought two bottles of wine on the way home and pissed the bed overnight. Not proud, nor embarrassed. Just being honest. It’s going to be a struggle. Still functional and holding down a job but not much of a life besides #RecoveryPosse

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1 year

I shit you not - one thing my landlord said when we first discussed the rent increase he wants on the phone a couple days ago (he’s coming in person later today) was that it’s getting to the point where it’d be more worthwhile for him to get a job than manage his portfolio (cont)

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7 months

If all the polls show the majority of the public want an election and the government won’t call one can you really call it a democracy?

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1 year

He started out as a right-to-own buyer, how’s that for good fortune. Now sends his kids to v expensive universities. There’s part of your missing workforce Tories - they’re managing the properties we can’t afford to buy but are paying off with our rent. The whole system’s fucked

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1 year

In order to burn a string of Pride flags Laurence Fox had to buy a string of Pride flags

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1 year

1. Why this story now? Old news surely. 2. Was punching holes in throats part of the Covid treatment arsenal during the pandemic? We heard a lot about patients being put on respirators but this is the first time I’ve heard something like this

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1 year

Pulling Lineker from Match of the Day until he agrees to co-operate is redolent of the way criticism was silenced in 1930s Germany #ImWithGary #GaryLinekerIsRight

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Richard H

2 years

@hiyol92 Bit of a mistake. Poor journalism

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1 year

Yuckety yuck, what the fuck

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1 year

@WestminsterWAG Che Guevara was politicised as a young medical student by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed in his country. How far do you want to take the comparison Sarah?

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Richard H

7 months

Oh look, France sells wine in 500ml bottles, one of the government’s proposed new sizes. France is in the EU. It isn’t a new freedom won by Brexit. It’s Tory bullshit

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@DanielLambert29 @kevinhollinrake You can buy 50cl in France. Kevin's researchers, and @CCHQPress have screwed up.

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3 months

We here in London didn’t disappoint you, people 👍🏼

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2 years

I’d prefer that nurses get a meaningful pay rise before Charles gets a full-scale pompous coronation 👑

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Richard H

1 year

Norway had a bit of oil, saved the proceeds and sits on a £1tr sovereign fund. The UK pillaged half the world’s wealth including commodities and has a £2tr debt. Where’s the money? In the back pockets of the establishment. But hold your nerve, they have a plan

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Richard H

3 years

First, we watched what was happening in Italy and did nothing, then we saw the scenes in India and did nothing, and now we’re seeing what’s happening in South Africa and still are not doing anything. Wave after wave knocking us over when we could see them coming

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Richard H

4 months

I got on a train at Kings Cross this morning and 3hrs later got off in Rotterdam. Just amazing. I’m back in my aunt’s spare bed. This is the aunt who speaks no English. I don’t speak Dutch. We get by. I have a hot water bottle and have been filled with food and love. Life is good

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Richard H

2 years

Attracting a few Tory supporters now. I think they realise if Johnson goes the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. It’s a cult

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Richard H

2 months

Let’s say the £2k tax line was true - it’s over a 4-year period, so £500 a year, and we’d know it’d go to: - cutting NHS waits - resolving public sector pay strikes - social care - nationalised energy and cheaper bills - education, youth services - etc And NOT corruption

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Richard H

1 year

Matt Hancock was slaughtered on GMB this morning. Absolutely crucified. I’d consider it a huge PR failure if I was on his team. Why doesn’t he just slink off in shame already

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2 years

He would have considered it his god-given right

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2 years

Next we’ll hear that Johnson has disbanded the 1922 committee

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1 year

Hi @NATO , UK here. We hear you have a job application from @BorisJohnson and are happy to provide a reference. He’s been sacked from every job for lying, apart from the Telegraph, where it was seen as a strength, and London mayor, where he used public money to shag a woman. Avoid

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1 year

Is this big red banner shouting STOP THE BOATS really necessary? Seems so crass. This isn’t the country I first moved to anymore. Politics has been debased

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6 months

Oh my I’ve just seen the video of Therese Coffey getting arsey about Kigali / Rwanda in the Commons. How devastatingly embarrassing. It’s recorded in writing and video for ever now. I would just never speak in public again. What a prize turnip

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1 year

Wow. Just the sniff of this is worse than what Huw Edwards or Philip Schofield are reported to have done. And no media scandal? That’s very strange. And no media coverage of Charlotte Owen or follow-ups on Michelle Mone. What kind of country is this? Not corrupt says liar Johnson

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How 'Martin Branning’ blackmailed a man into making a covert sex video later found hidden behind the washing machine of GB News star Dan Wootton. 'Branning' threatened to send compromising material to their family and friends if they refused to cooperate.

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1 year

Personally I found it surprising that a Tory-hating community like Liverpool would be the first to respond to the fascist party’s dog-whistling … and I’m not sure I accept it at face value

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3 months

@Shara08991227 Ha, that is exactly where I live! And people are polite and civilised, it’s the safest I’ve felt in all the many places I’ve lived in London

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Richard H

2 months

Twitter’s gonna be an absolute cesspit until July 4, isn’t it?

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Richard H

1 month

@benphillips76 What a great visual and text! 👍🏼

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Richard H

3 years

If you’re considering voting Tory because you think they’ve got your back with Brexit and the vaccine, please just watch this first

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1 year

The Tories don’t own Britain. Nor do the royal family. You do. We do

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Richard H

2 years

@benjamincohen @starla_mo @NadineDorries How on earth can she say Channel 5 is a model for Channel 4, no disrespect to the former. She argues it’s an example of levelling up - isn’t that all Channel 4 does?! In terms of funding firms in the regions and representing minorities. We’ve been hijacked by clueless radicals

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2 months

Men travelling in groups and drinking, like for football, are fucking wankers, the lot of them. Noisy as fuck and in everyone’s faces and spaces in ways they’d never dream of doing when travelling alone with their partners. You have an issue with Pride once a year? This is always

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3 years

@PeterStefanovi2 @CommonsSpeaker How about starting with “members shouldn’t lie”

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3 years

@MartinRemains @bbclaurak And how long did those concerned staffers sit on this?

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5 months

It’s Brexit that solidified the Tories’ grip on power and, ultimately, Brexit that will have destroyed them Oh well. Couldn’t happen to nicer people Plus many more reasons of course, but that’s a big one

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16 days

Hello from a Dutch beach. The weather here is better than London this week for a change

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2 years

If the Tories think they can “bring back Boris” they have seriously misread the room

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4 months

After taking a break from his Caribbean break to fly to Venezuela for a hedge fund, Johnson went skiing in Europe. He should be in prison for what he did, not to the country (it chose that) but to the thousands who died due to his Covid failures. Not living large off corrupt cash

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Richard H

10 months

@jamesrbuk @gregoceallaigh Will it be sold at discounted rates to Tories who will profit from selling it on at market rates? I’m gonna say yeah, probably

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2 years

Rishi Sunak keeps saying he can’t solve everyone’s problems. Well, can we get a chancellor who can?

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11 months

I’m on day 2 after a 17-day relapse following 6 months of sobriety. And I’m on a train to catch a ferry to see family in the Netherlands for a week so I should get more days behind me. Relapsing took me straight back to hell. Don’t recommend #RecoveryPosse

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2 years

@sajidjavid @LCWF_TBK Then you must go too. Simples. How have you been helping the NHS anyway?

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2 years

@OxfordDiplomat It’s starting to look like the left wing respects democracy when the right are in power but the right just want to storm democracy and take power back when the left or centre wins

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3 months

@implausibleblog Farrukh, thank you for uploading so many clips, I appreciate your account as I don’t get too watch all these shows so it’s a great way to get the highlights and lowlights

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1 year

Channel 4’s Dispatches reports that UK security forces say they asked Holac to overrule Lebedev’s appointment while Johnson says they didn’t and it was done according to established processes. He’s a proven liar and that sounds like “there were no parties” so I know what I think

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6 months

Do we tune into the GB News pantomime tonight or avoid giving them the viewing numbers they crave? Tough call, I kinda wanna see it

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Richard H

2 years

Here it is if you wanna watch it

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2 years

@TheHoogie And saying that the Police don't want them to come there. 😡

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1 year

Priti Patel’s got nothing to offer this debate beyond “I have the right to speak”, “if I may so”, “quite frankly” and generally being an asshole with an arrogant smirk. She’s waffled on too long

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3 months

@LBC It’s all going a bit gulag. Is it even legal? Surely there are medical and labour laws governing this?

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2 years

@AndrewBrookLdn @Dawn117147265 Anyone with “hates woke” in their bio has had a lobotomy and been trepanned

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2 years

Lol Johnson’s a Remainer after all

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Britain is 83% in favour of leave, but Johnson is stubbornly remaining in Downing Street.

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2 years

@completechimp @Patrici89225734 It’s shameful that our general knowledge about unions, industrial action and labour law has declined so much or not become more widespread. We work 40 hours a week every frikkin week so it’s not a small deal

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2 years

What were those papers Johnson was flicking through while seated across a table from Zelensky today? Case work for constituents from Uxbridge? Cos that’s his brief and what he’s supposed to be concerned with

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1 year

My husband and I followed the rules throughout the pandemic, didn’t so much as bend them. How about you?

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Richard H

2 years

@estherk_k Oh my god do you listen to yourselves or read your tweets before posting - welfare is a last-gasp net, these are the most vulnerable people - and you’re worried about rewards on your investments?! Where did you go wrong?

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Richard H

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This is Sunak’s face listening to Piers Morgan talk about his mom’s heart attack and stay in A&E. He’s bored shitless and yet slightly amused that someone as wealthy as Morgan has such a pedestrian complaint

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2 years

Stop moaning about being cold and hungry and start reciting your times tables

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Richard H

3 years

You can catch covid more than once, and with the vaccines waning over time, restrictions easing and new variants possible just how are we learning to live with it exactly? I’m not even being facetious, I’d really like a proper sciency person to explain to the public our aims here

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@JohnSimpsonNews We had a baby for PM during a once-in-a-century health crisis. We allowed a baby PM to take us out of the EU, during the same health crisis. That same baby destroyed any trust in politics and fostered division that still rankles today. The two excerpts I’ve read are disturbing

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@Zero_4 Oh wouldn’t it be nice to be represented by adults who discussed things seriously in a collaborative way rather than the divisive politics we have here

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2 years

When is a party a party? When Boris Johnson leaves, apparently. I know that’s when I’ll be having one

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@PoliticsJOE_UK Lee Anderson’s behaviour was disgusting and unbecoming of a member of Parliament - whoever that was chairing the committee did not do much better by condoning it

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8 months

@Eyeswideopen69 Incarcerated is the right word. That barge looks like a maximum security prison

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2 years

Oh here we go again. Tory MPs speaking in the Commons in response to an urgent question over Zahawi’s tax affairs are playing the ‘Sue Gray defence’ by suggesting we all wait for the outcome of the ethics adviser’s investigation

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@MartinDaubney What a shameful day that was, your behaviour was embarrassing

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6 months

Do we pay more because … we’re better?

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Average energy costs in the UK are €2,960, €650 in France and Belgium, €620 in Spain, €558 in Germany and Denmark, €546 in Holland, €545 in Austria and ��543 in Norway, €476 in Finland and €174 in Poland.

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So, while I feel Johnson uses pronouns only more (proportionally) when addressing women MPs, it has been pointed out that he does it to male MPs too. We can’t use Hansard to verify this as entries are edited to insert the appropriate titles he should be using. I stand corrected

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@mrjamesob Ok I’m reading it now but already I object to the two “lords” being described as decent men - one was willing to participate in cash for access, possibly corruption, and the other failed in his duty to hold the PM to account on ministerial standards

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I’m in the bath. It’s my first since I quit drinking 166 days ago. Been showering since as I used to enjoy a drink in the bath. Also just passed the £2k mark in savings on a conservative estimate. Nice #RecoveryPosse

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The country is on fucking fire and Sunak is on TalkTV telling Piers Morgan that it’s a great privilege championing British institutions like the royal family and the coronation is going to be superb … there is such a huge disconnect between the establishment and general public

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2 years

Just today an ENTIRE day has been wasted by our government trying to save Big Dog. In the midst of a cost of living crisis while we’re still dealing with a pandemic. It’s unforgivable and ‘moving on’ is not the solution. The people who need to move on are Johnson and his backers

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@NadineDorries @ShepherdWales So he was partying at Chequers then? We know his sister and Rees-Mogg and his kids visited against the rules - did you Dorries?

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@mrmarksteel He tried. He knew it was just a matter of time when the BBC interviewed him a few months earlier about the queen’s life in the past tense. And he played for that time didn’t he? But the Queen played harder and beat him

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