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Faraz Kermani #FBPE

@faraz_kermani

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Former Journo, comms head, devoted dad, Liberal/Left rejoiner, #FBPE alpha to the dogs, woke to the point of insomnia, Views are my own 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪

Bürstadt, Deutschland
Joined March 2012
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
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@faraz_kermani
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@mhdksafa Even if that is the case, there is nothing wrong with Socialism. It works wonders in feeding the poor and protecting health in Europe.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@Rachael_Swindon @skwawkbox All I can see is a desperate attempt by the Tories to shift the focus away from the fact that they are taking us to Armageddon!
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@faraz_kermani
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3 years
@terrychristian An utter shame that people like Marcus have to fill the gaps left by this sorry excuse for a government - but well done nonetheless!
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@RemainOnly @SpanishDan1 If I had the cash, I’d buy it and turn it into an ultra-remain paper!
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
@implausibleblog Fantastic man! Kind, considerate, understanding…truly British!
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@newsboy23 Because Jacinda Arden is a compassionate and clever Lear and we have Jabba the Hutt on speed.
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@wmarybeard I understand your answer to this type of vile criticism, but I also think you are being far too polite...some people are just horrible publicity-seekers and social media is chance for them to get noticed.
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@faraz_kermani
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@BWallArthur Just call the police and report a crime - it’s disgusting
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@DeborahMeaden We’ve had that level of testing in Germany for over a month - look at the death rate here compared with the UK!!!
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@faraz_kermani
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@briantylercohen Unbelievable...he hasn’t even pumped himself full of Remdesivir or that foetus-derived Regeneron drug 🤣
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@cliodiaspora It's not just EU citizens who have been made to feel unwelcome. I am a UK citizen, born in Leeds....moved 6 months ago to Frankfurt. The reason? Brexit.
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
@clare_guinness @mikegalsworthy Isn’t the Single Market wonderful???
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@faraz_kermani
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@DrJEBall I just took this today! Also in the British Museum.
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@snb19692 @AlokSharma_RDG The good thing is that not even all of Tory MPs are buying this crap...it must be an exceedingly potent pile of shit!
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@faraz_kermani
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@ToddDavidForem1 @BrexitBin Our family moved to Germany in 2018 for exactly the same reasons- wife Austrian, kids half-Austrian/half-British. I miss the UK that was, but would not go back to what it has become now.
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@faraz_kermani
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
Why remove the cap on bankers’ bonuses? Surely we can just clap for them? #MiniBudget #ToriesOutNow
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@JulianWTO_UN @wto @usmissiongeneva @UKMissionGeneva Soon to be bonds of servitude, no doubt...
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
Classic claims about Truss and Sunak in Roundhay, Leeds: “They’re both just different brands of crap” and “When it comes to Liz Truss, there’s a space where her brain should be.”
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
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Truss says she will save taxpayers £11bn by cutting civil service time off, ending national pay deals and scrapping jobs aimed at increasing #inclusion and #diversity in the public sector - she’s verging on the fascist, isn’t she? #ToriesOut
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@faraz_kermani
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@ddalton40 No, you are wrong, as the vast majority of MEPs have pointed out. A despicable Chamberlain moment by your representatives. At least Europe’s minorities will understand now who and what you are.
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@faraz_kermani
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@Femi_Sorry @brentrobbo I was at a dinner meeting in Parliament with him, before Brexit, when he kept interrupting the anti-Brexit speaker, to shout about the shackles of the EU. YOU REAP THAT WHICH YOU SOW.
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@cliodiaspora Obviously the Trump school of geography...
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@saira_ramadan I live in Germany, we do this every time we enter confined spaces outside of the house. It is a simple act of solidarity.
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@faraz_kermani
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3 years
@HeikoMaas That is not how it is viewed. It is seen as a one-sided visit in support of Israel alone. While your anger at Hamas is totally justifiable, I wish you expressed the same moral outrage at ethic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
5 years
@keira_churchill @cirian75 @BorisJohnson Who is he invoking? Jabba the Hutt? If so, he has nailed it!
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@IsolatedBrit @Bertothefirst Yet another incident fueled by the poison that is #Brexit
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@faraz_kermani
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6 years
@DickKingSmith @PhilipPullman I wish I could train my dogs to do that to my son, whose relutance to shower beggars belief and forces us to walk ten paces in front of him...
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
2 years
@DrJEBall To be fair, even today, wine fountains are sadly missing from everywhere…
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
5 years
@jimmy_wales @adamboultonSKY Not only is this candidacy abhorrent, but from a political perspective it is also mindnumbingly dumb for Corbyn to promote it. What a choice: Corbyn or Johnson. So glad I moved to Germany last year...
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@faraz_kermani
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@jeremycorbyn @adamboultonSKY So you want to work with people across Europe, but you still oppose free movement?
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@faraz_kermani
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7 years
@wmarybeard I think it’s a comment on Boris Johnson’s Brexit bus...
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@faraz_kermani
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3 years
@ehmglubber @uktoday @lee_b65 So fantastic of him really consider how it would affect future generations! I despise the “me” culture.
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@andrewhesselden Totally agree. In 12 days, I turn 50! Luckily I’m married to an Austrian, have dual-nationality children and live in Germany. Nevertheless, FOM has been the greatest gift in terms of booting mutual, cultural respect: reinstate it ASAP!
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@faraz_kermani
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@PimlicoPlumbers @talkRADIO I am totally shocked: Johnson is considering proroguing Parliament to ensure a no-deal Brexit and you are backing him??? The man is a serial liar and a racist and you are backing him??? He is incompetent in government and you are backing him???
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
4 years
@Mandoline_Blue @OooooAjay And I’m really fed up of people saying they come here for benefits. The system is so tight-fisted, they’d be shocked and disappointed - see this chart!
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@EdKrassen Err....and maybe not selling arms to countries bent on creating humanitarian disasters...?
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@georgeeaton @DavidHeadViews ...and all seven of the people who would vote for him...
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
2 years
Amazing story by the BBC on #NHS staff shortages, which somehow fails to mention #Brexit even once 🤣
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@InLimboBrexit @BritishInEurope We’re Anglo-Austrian, feel the same way and now live, with the family - and the dog - in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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@mrjamesob Incredible - why do we appoint Foreign Secretaries who are thicker than mince????
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@faraz_kermani
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7 years
@leeds_2023 The legislation states clearly that only “Member States” can apply, so stop whingeing and blaming the EU. It’s our own fault. Let’s start a national competition instead.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
4 years
@robdn @DavidHeadViews German press says he wasted 38 days.
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@faraz_kermani
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6 years
@cliodiaspora My wife is Austrian and we have three wonderful kids who carry both UK and Austrian passports. Brexit hounded us out of Britain and we now live in Germany - BUT I would at some point love to return, provided my wife - a former NHS worker - remains valued in the UK #HandsOff
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
11 months
@MatthiasMuell15 Question: is WhatsApp required to retain messages securely and could a court order force them to be handed over?
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@mikegalsworthy Agreed....at the same time, though, I was shocked when I heard he had taken up a post in this vile government...
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@RCorbettMEP It’s not just about money, it’s also about hope for a better future and pride in the state. It’s about equality and justice. It’s about respect and acceptance. It’s about health and education.None of these seem to matter anymore and that is why I moved to Germany two weeks ago.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
2 years
So embarrassing: Düsseldorf carnival float today! They think we are lunatics #BrexitBrokeBritain #ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
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@faraz_kermani
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@RCorbettMEP For God's sake remove the whip....how many times does Labour have to go through groundhog day????
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@faraz_kermani
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@Sillyshib I live here (Germany) and they are wonderful people!!!!
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@Femi_Sorry But PR with a minimum entry threshold, so extremists are held at bay!
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@MarinaHyde I actually meant “UK” not “Auskunft”…German spellcheck 🤣
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
4 years
@radi_georgi Thing is, so are other Tories, including: Liz Truss; Liam Fox; Priti Patel; Dominic Raab; Robert Jenrick; Matt Hancock; Alok Sharma; Gavin Williamson; Thérèse Coffey; Grant Shapps; Steve Barclay; Suella Braverman; and the idiot-in-Chief Johnson. The list is by no means exhaustive
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
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@kev21261 Zahawi’s mattress?
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@lpz3 @AllanGPaterson @GMB @Conservatives @BorisJohnson What I cannot understand: how the hell are they now on over 50% of the vote?????
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
2 years
Just this… #NHS
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@spconnolly Signed, but am resident in Germany. The government here has been ultra-supportive about the arts sector. Wonderful:
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@faraz_kermani
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@Sillyshib Who on earth are these acts????
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
Perfect
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@faraz_kermani
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@ProfBrianCox So sad! I grew up listening to and watching him. Such a down-to-earth human being. His Fawlty Towers appearance was priceless!!! 😭
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
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@richardodurrant Ok...perhaps not quite what you were looking for, but: Sarah Connolly.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
7 years
@ThatTimWalker @BBCr4today It wasn't just heckling...it was not permitting an alternate perspective. It was almost as if Humphrys was the guest...what an arse.
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@archeohistories I think I sat on that when I was 8!
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@PimlicoPlumbers No he is not! He is a liar and a charlatan and we have reams of evidence that support these facts. Wow, you've changed your tune!
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@Chrisballingall Rest assured, we Brits on the continent will make our voices heard!!!! Today’s events have me on the verge of tears of anger and frustration.
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@faraz_kermani
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@PimlicoPlumbers I think you have to define why he is the best one for the job: as far as I can see, he is an incompetent buffon, a charlatan and a coward. Is is because ther est of them are all crap too????
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@faraz_kermani
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@PhilMyers53 @johnredwood @Conservatives Is this the time we tell him about track and trace…? It’ll come as such a shock…
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@haaniyah_ @RosaSelvagem93 It’s a fu**ing disgrace. And the western countries go on about China and Iran without looking at the crimes in their own back yards.
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@faraz_kermani
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@mrjamesob What gets me is the resilience of Nosferatu...how can she still continue???? A total lack of shame and, apparently, no sword on which to fall...
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
3 years
@Emms2021 I live here, I’m British, not white and had nothing but respect, wonderful country!
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@MuchaMoon Yes, he doesn’t have a fridge or freezer at home. He just wanders round the kitchen, touching things.
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@faraz_kermani
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3 years
@80_mcswan I can’t type one word. My blood would have to curdle, the skin peel itself from my body, my mouth devour my tongue and my eyes implode before I would even consider it….so “no”…
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@williamnhutton ....but it's not Britain....it's England they want....
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
Genius!
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Possibly the best video I have ever seen, ever… whoever made this did an amazing job. #johnson #NadineDorries #BorisJohnson
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@faraz_kermani
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@JuliaHB1 @sundersays Do you even understand what you write??? You have done exactly that. All you want to do is stoke race hatred. Just nasty - own it.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
Fantastic news and truly well-earned! BBC News - Landmark cancer therapy wins Nobel prize
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@faraz_kermani
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@derekjames150 Don't forget: chasing away EU healthcare professionals.
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@OwenSmith_MP The Brexit debate has always been a choice of losing either Scotland or Northern Ireland. Let's just remain and keep the country together.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
6 years
@mikegalsworthy France has said it will vote against unless "Theresa May has a plan"....which she doesn't and has never had...
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
@snb19692 I’d love to, but the German population would be a little perplexed…🤣
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
Join me and add your name to the petition demanding a proper pay rise for NHS staff, bigger than 1%:
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@faraz_kermani
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6 years
@IamHappyToast So they’re the guys who nicked the plastic chairs from my garden...
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
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@DeborahMeaden I, as a UK national residing in Germany, could fly to London and then onto DC, bringing with a me a hefty amount of nasal and oral mucus...ludicrous!
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@faraz_kermani
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6 years
Congratulations to @wmarybeard on the occasion of her knighthood! Long-overdue and thoroughly deserved!
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
@MarinaHyde I really miss the Auskunft, but when I read this type of stuff, it makes me so happy to have moved to Germany after the crappy Brexit that is rotting the country🙄
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@MrKennethClarke I have never voted Tory, but you were always my favorite Conservative MP!
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@faraz_kermani
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6 years
Beggars belief @Brexit vote was so close, but sanity prevails as UK votes to stay in European Medicines Agency @EMA_News if they let us #FBPE . Yippee, fewer people will now die!
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@faraz_kermani
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1 year
It’s my beautiful boy‘s 8th birthday! Happy birthday, Seamus!!!
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@faraz_kermani
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2 years
@MarinaPurkiss As a young man, I used to hold up the UK high as a beacon of ethical responsibility. As an older, wiser man, I see the fish rotting from the head down.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
5 years
@GeorginaEWright @StevePeers @BorisJohnson Errr....he's threatening to withhold payment of GBP 39 billion and he thinks negotiations will be amicable????
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@faraz_kermani
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4 years
@wmarybeard Is this all because of your factual statements on Ancient Rome??? Oh my God, some people are despicable idiots.
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@faraz_kermani
Faraz Kermani #FBPE
5 years
@JohnJCrace How about scrapping A&E altogether so we don't have to report on it? Or scrapping the NHS? Oh...wait a minute....that already seems to be government policy...
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@faraz_kermani
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5 years
@martin_lowe @cirian75 All I can see is a bunch of knobs...
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1 year
Outside an ice cream shop in Worms, Germany… #Dog
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