Brian Whelan @brianwhelanhack Twitter profile

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Brian Whelan

@brianwhelanhack

4 years

Does anyone know a good economist who can find out what the name of the economic system in Britain is and tell the newspapers... 🤔

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All the time I spend explaining to Irish people that the English are mostly a lovely bunch of eccentric but fair minded people. Down the drain...

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Apologies to Jezza, but the price of his house is proof that there’s something rotten in London. Nobody should have to be a millionaire to live in a post-war Lego gaff.

Lord Sugar

@Lord_Sugar

5 years

Mr Corbyn lives in an expensive house in Islington . I guess if you tot up all his assets he is worth more than £1m. He is a hypocrite and is peddling a robin hood story and fooling people like you . There was poverty under Labour back in the days I was referring to .

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Everyone thinks that they would have stood up against the Nazis. History suggests many wouldn’t. This kid who egged the anti-Islam politician in NZ is brave. I hope he’s ok.

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@brianwhelanhack

5 years

How about a moratorium period on journalists getting involved in politics, so they don’t go from overseeing election coverage at the BBC to being Dir of Comms at Number Ten in the same year?

Robbie Gibb

@RobbieGibb

5 years

Ch4’s decision to ban nonpolitical journalists from tweeting about politics is a step in the right direction and other broadcasters should follow its lead. However there is so much more that needs to be done to improve impartiality and accuracy in broadcasting. My checklist:

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9 years

Anti Muslim graffiti went up in Dublin this week - quickly amended

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4 years

If you do a search for 'Marx grave vandalised' on here, you will be shocked to learn statue lovers took the opposite line in February when a statue they didn't like was trashed.

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2 years

Tag a northerner

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3 years

Dawn Foster forever.

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3 years

Hello, it’s me, a person in England who never talks about Northern Ireland, just logging on to say whatever is happening in NI right now completely aligns with the political point I warned you all about. Ps - I have never been to Northern Ireland

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Brian Whelan

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1 year

Woke? Woke up the following morning and Maureen would have the fry on and I’d go at it again.

Cernovich

@Cernovich

1 year

Alcohol culture is woke. Boozing means participating in cultural rot. This is what the left wants. Liquor stores stayed open while gyms and churches shut down. Conservatives don’t want to admit this. Couple drinks here and there fine. Otherwise - WOKE.

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5 years

The island of Ireland is now an A/B test for covid containment. 26 counties; pubs closed, mass gatherings banned, schools shut 6 counties: herd immunity, hand washing 🤯

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3 years

Glad the bbc has put 90s one joke comedian Dom Joly on to give us political analysis you’d get in any YouTube comments section

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My son Fiach was born Tuesday morning, have been beaming ever since. I just wanted to share his tiny hand with the world.

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5 years

Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist who believed he she was a ‘traitor’ The best way to honour her memory is to pull up the roots of fascism and fight for a better world.

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5 years

Caroline Lucas on the Lib Dem’s, who she is in a pact with; • Swinson putting Party interests above national interests • Sending message to 17m people that they don’t ‘give a fuck’ what they say Watch in full:

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4 years

Should we tell them?

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@PoliticsJOE_UK @realDonaldTrump 😬

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3 years

Niko Omilana, a youtube prank candidate is beating Laurence Fox, UKIP and Brian Rose combined.

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@AdamBienkov

3 years

New London mayor poll: (Comres) Sadiq Khan (LAB): 41% Shaun Bailey (CON): 28% Luisa Porritt (Lib): 8% Sian Berry (GRN): 6% Niko Omilana (IND): 5% Farah London: (IND) : 2% Brian Rose: (IND): 2% Count Binface (CBP): 1% Peter Gammons (UKIP): 1% Laurence Fox (REC): 1%

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3 years

Have they tried not rinsing their dishes?

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@LuigiMastro_

3 years

Sul lago di Como sta succedendo un disastro. Siamo isolati, tutte le strade del lago sono chiuse per tantissime frane, i paesi sono invasi dal fango, molte famiglie sono sfollate. Diluvia ormai da tre giorni.

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Woman at anti-immigrant protests in Ireland: “They are coming here, Albino, that’s a peaceful country.” “America too, they’re coming from Georgia and all.” I’m dead.

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8 years

Is this satire?

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3 years

How did we create a world where the cheapest travel option from Manchester to Dublin is a 10 hour stopover in Crete?

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2 years

If you keep telling young people that calling for more homes to be built is Marxism, you might not like what they do with that information

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@brianwhelanhack

4 years

Marcus is busy running the country mate, he doesn't have time to debate you.

Ben Bradley

@Ben_Bradley_32

4 years

Hi @MarcusRashford - no reply to this yet so far as I can see. You were very quick to reply to previous tweets... Would love to invite you to Oak Tree, to discuss the needs of the kids face to face, and why FSM is not the right approach. Drop me an email?

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If you think missing the pub was hard, wait til you find out about bereavement.

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Rebecca Bong Daily, amirite

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@brianwhelanhack

4 years

Richer countries buy up the vaccines. Poorer countries have to wait, the virus circulates, mutates. Remove the patents.

South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK

Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@brianwhelanhack

3 years

On Bloody Sunday, I think the worst element is ignorance of history from people who are well educated. I have been asked at least twice by English journalists why there wasn’t a peaceful civil rights style movement instead of the Provo’s armed campaign. 🤷

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Brian Whelan

@brianwhelanhack

4 years

How big?

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4 years

Probably need to drop some big news in the Sunday papers to make the Cummings story go away. Will it be - Pubs are back - Re-announcing our vaccine progress - everyone can go to Wales 🤷‍♂️

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2 years

They’ve put a Kristy Kreme in the iconic former Central Bank building You couldn’t make up how soulless and money grabbing Dublin has become

Love Temple Bar

@LoveTempleBar

2 years

The hoarding is finally down at Central Plaza Dublin! @KrispyKremeIRL are gearing up to launch their brand new flagship store on Wednesday the 17th 🥳🍩

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Sinéad O’Connor (right of shot) attending a protest against her - in disguise - in 1990 after she said she didn’t want the US national anthem played before her gig.

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4 years

So every pub I got to offers a substantial meal, like a salad for £5 or a tiny bowl of pasta, you then leave it in front of you and drink for the whole night. It is happening literally everywhere. Staff openly brief you. What is the purpose of the substantial meal rule?

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4 years

Some journalists would do well to start reporting on Britain the way they would a foreign nation. Compare the reports on the situation in Italy or Wuhan, with the relative calm about the mass deaths at home.

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2 years

The Irish far-right have flown in Tommy Robinson this week. I wonder will he be wearing his badge supporting the paras from Bloody Sunday?

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5 years

Fucking hell.

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5 years

Thank you @hopenothate

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5 years

Cool discussion... TV needs help.

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4 years

What’s an unlikely statue you’ve come across? The Giles statue of a Daily Express cartoon in Ipswich surprised me.

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5 years

When your mate comes in for a job interview

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Westboro Baptist church try to fly Irish flag upside down in protest, struggle with it

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This is brilliant.

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A good question we need to talk about in 2021 is who does the economy benefit, and why was it built that way?

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@ryanmichler - Written 100 lists - Sought constant validation from the public - Redefined pottering about the house tinkering with things as ‘renovation’ - Claimed I have a body fat percentage that even elite athletes can’t sustain - Still can’t find my razor tho 🪒

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3 years

Is it too late to jump on the ‘Friends got old’ thing. I had a busy week.

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6 years

The snowflake right pretend to be champions of free speech. They are only champions of the right to offend people. Public school boys with no principles egg them on in their newspaper columns, read by nobody under 50. Now the masks slips as they set about silencing others.

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

6 years

So, after speaking at today's @pplsassembly rally, I was mobbed by fascists trying to swing punches and who spat down my neck (I know right, yuck, fascist spit!) Thanks to the comrades who kept them at bay. Again, not intimidated by these fash, we are going to defeat you 💪🏻

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3 years

I quite like Harry, he rightly points out the vaccines were publicly funded and the patents should be removed.

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5 years

It’s unsavoury, but these are the workers Extinction Rebellion never bothered to build a base of support with. If they had - they wouldn’t need to be acting as an elite vanguard.

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6 years

@carldinnen Mate, this is a bad look.

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10 years

That Tory poster showing the road to recovery? We contacted the photographer, he says it runs through Germany #c4news http://t.co/iRQ8IDTOmJ

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4 years

Look at this fucking bonkers protest in Dublin. They are going nuts because the new children’s minister is a gay man.

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5 years

Even Sugar seemingly has to go to Zone 6 to get enough space for his modest home

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5 years

The mad rush to close the Overton window People who I respect sharing this, embarrassed for you, scared of ideas

Ayesha Hazarika

@ayeshahazarika

5 years

Absolutely agree with this. Serious current affairs shows must stop giving time to extremists on the left & right, or from any mad fringe group, just to get a viral moment or cos they demand to be on. Big twitter followings & being mad/ranty doesn’t make you a legitimate voice.

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5 years

The man at 2:30 who calls Buckingham Palace a ‘big council house’ has clearly been on the Wolfe Tones all day.

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4 years

An interesting fact, for me, is that I am the same age as Paul Golding and despite years of boozing do not look half as fucked as years of hatred has made him look.

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10,000 reported deaths, many more dead not included in the official toll. How three months of indecision, confusion and bluster has taken Britain to the brink.

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4 years

Oh my god he’s built himself a little fake news studio

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4 years

We have a crisis of leadership in this country.

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4 years

I genuinely believe only the British people, whose position on this disease is far more risk averse than Boris (according to all polling since last March), can stop this macabre Basil Fawlty cycle of blunders. They lock down too late and lift restrictions too quickly, every time

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8 months

Imagine being 61 years old, and being so filled with brainworms by algorithms you're setting fire to a public tram to 'stop immigration' into Ireland.

Man (61) charged over arson attack on Luas is activist with far right ‘National Party’

A 61-year-old man charged in connection with an arson attack on a Luas on the night of the Dublin Riots is an activist with the Far Right ‘National Party.’

www.sundayworld.com

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4 years

The war on woke won’t be won until Toby Young re-runs his stag do and this time people show up.

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Ireland has had no new deaths from Covid-19 for 24hours, what brilliant news.

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Not sure anyone thought on Jan 1st that 4 months in we’d be watching a battalion of socialist doctors flying into Europe to save lives.

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The final Tweet of my mother in law. We lost Angela yesterday. A printer by trade. Life-long revolutionary, feminist, poet and artist. One less brilliant voice in the world.

Angela G Byrne

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‘Waiting for The Green’ The old & the new side by side the mountains timeless following an uppity down road a bypass off a bypass #poem for winter #Connemara

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This map of child hunger in the UK shows how London and the South of England have major problems with poverty. It utterly refutes the idea that London is just filled with latte-sipping millionaires or whatever. from @SMFthinktank

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English friends: right now Ireland’s national broadcaster is hosting a 90minute discussion with all the major parties about a United Ireland

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Bijî Kurdistan

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Coolock is where my dad worked as a community psychiatric nurse. It’s where I studied journalism, and part of the first patch I covered as a reporter, for two years with @dublinpeople There are great people in these communities who do good work these lads are arseholes 👇

Keith.!🇮🇪

@Lad10Irish

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The people of Coolock and Ireland say no this government is causing civil unrest #IrelandisFull

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Mandela was a revolutionary. Riley seems to be cherry picking many parts of history that suit and discarding the rest.

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3 years

Well, well, well. If it isn’t the country that stole all our vegetables in 1847.

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Biden photographed with divisive figure from Ireland’s troubled past 😆

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5 years

Hello, the pot? Yeh, it’s me, the fucking kettle...

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Many folks don’t think you were impartial when you were speaker.

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Astonishing picture of #BorisNemtsov murder scene http://t.co/uXjyOWFBkI

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1. You’ve made a career out of running down the Labour Party for nearly a decade. 2. Well done on appropriating the language used by the Soviets to lock up 130k intellectuals, dissidents and refuseniks in the 60s. 👍

(((Dan Hodges)))

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Labour doesn't need to unite. It needs to drive the Corbynite parasites out of the party for good > Mail On Sunday >

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Because of European fireproofing regulations, this Italian flag won’t burn

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SF activists have all received this email telling them to behave on social today 👀

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Sad to see how badly the UK is handling Covid right now, lack of confident decision making, lack of long term vision. Sounds familiar. Hard to think how we will cope with the environmental crises that are coming in any meaningful way.

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@Culture_Crit You run a twitter account, builders still exist, wind your neck in.

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4 years

The media aren’t helping, instead of talking about the 400k pieces of dud lifesaving equipment James should talk about the 400k pieces of equipment we are going to buy at some point in the future that could work.

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Perhaps ‘believing’ that those gowns are fit for purpose would help?

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I don’t feel like there’s an inconsistency between supporting lockdown measures that save lives and supporting to right of women to hold a distanced rally in defiance of a culture that seemingly doesn’t value their safety.

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This is my local, lol

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With a tiny team all creating their video content from scratch we are third only to the Mail and BBC for the last 30 days on FB for uk news views. 🤝 @JOE_co_uk

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oof.

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We need to talk about the radicalisation of 40-70 year old, suburban homeowners who struggle with digital literacy.

Facebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platforms

The social network is deleting groups, pages and accounts linked to the conspiracy theory movement.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robin Williams on picket lines during 2007 writers' strike http://t.co/SkhIWIEReo

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Whitechapel is home to a bookshop started in the 19th century by Kropotkin and other anarchists. It’s still there in Angel alley. A local Hilton hotel has taken the utterly bizarre move of stealing their name and branding for a cocktail bar.

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🚨 Some professional news: I joined @thejournal_ie today. I’m working on an exciting new project, and will tell you more as it progresses. Major thanks to @SineadOCarroll & @BiddyEarly for bringing me back to Ireland.

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Get in loser, we’re going to Durham. Twice.

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As part of my job people Whatsapp me with questions or to tell me their stories Over the last two weeks I've heard some of the most heartbreaking stories about housing in Ireland. The worst is a landlord offering 'sex instead of rent' to a tenant fleeing domestic abuse

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I just think Piers Morgan is neat

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@gemmaod1 @broadsheet_ie The handwriting on four of those ballots seem to be identical.

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How Steve Coogan got Come Out Ye Black and Tans onto the BBC

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Hi I’m Matt Hancock I’ve got my coffee I’m excited

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@carldinnen You can drink tea at home, there are important questions to be asked.

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There's fewer more distressing sights than that of an Englishman in a MAGA cap

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Lee Ryan from Blue calling out Marco Pierre White for using the ethnic slur 'pikey' is absolutely brilliant Can't believe I never saw this, thanks for showing me @BeardedGenius

MARCO PIERRE WHITE DEALING WITH LEE RYAN OVER THE PIKEYS PICNIC...

MARCO PIERRE WHITE DEALING WITH LEE RYAN OVER THE PIKEYS PICNIC INCIDENT!!!

www.dailymotion.com

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3 years

From beginning to end, a terrifying paragraph. Be safe this weekend folks.

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Politician is actually Australian, Fraser Anning. Bravery of the young lad remains.

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2 years

Press conference on economic policy from the party likely to be in power very shortly 🙋🏻‍♂️ - ‘when was the last time you went to mass, the three of you?’

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Salt bae is brilliant, he's a symbol of everything awful about the 2010s. Disposable viral moments inflated way beyond their value. Huge carbon footprint. Where are his restaurants? Abu Dhabi, Doha, Jeddah, Miami, Beverly Hills and London. Uncool cities that are big on Insta.

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