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Brit | Scot | Maltese | Strategist | Author | Trustee | NED Happiest @ 34,000 feet 🇬🇧🇲🇹🇺🇸🇪🇪 eResident

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Joined September 2008
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5 months
@teslaownersSV Is this a parody ? I mean I encounter more hazardous conditions walking to the mailbox.
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@PolitlcsUK @mikeysmith What about increasing the threshold of number of days served as PM to qualify for PM benefits and status.
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@jbrendanfrazier Because the minute you’re on and in your seat that’s it. You’ve done your part, responsibility has been handed over and you can relax, read, nap.
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@DrProudman Charlotte if you can’t tell the difference maybe spending 6 months in Pyongyang would help.
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Sometimes I worry about my fellow Brits. He’s the Prime Minister of a G7 country, he is able to launch a nuclear strike, he’s working 18 hour days every day. Yet people want him to get a National Express bus between engagements.
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Wreath upside down, failing to sing the national anthem. Really don’t know why Stephen Flynn bothers turning up. The SNP, Scotland’s constant embarrassment. I suppose one upside is we are spared Ian Blackford and his strained kilt and waistcoat.
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@DaileKelleher I do it all the time when travelling with someone. Then move over to the middle seat. I’m next to my companion and the middle seater gets the aisle as a bonus. Everyone wins and of course occasionally the original plan works with an empty seat.
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@nigelmp What a gracious sign-off.
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@KateAndrs @spectator Oh dear. The response is “we are all Americans” - that’s it. Not some crazy political cult. Quite incredible you could be so wrong about something so elemental.
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@lornaslater Thankfully the only thing abolished was you.
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@wesstreeting The problem is Wes you were painting people like me with that brush. That’s why you lost so much credibility among open minded people who until that moment thought you were a better class of politician. But here you are, doubling down on it and just as guilty of polluting the
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@RosaZambonini You do realize your party created this mess ?
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@MatthewRycroft1 @ukhomeoffice @YvetteCooperMP I don’t know when the civil service started to adopt this patronizing jargon - you’re not “working in partnership”, you’re working under the direction of a minister of the crown. She’s a privy councillor not the department’s stationary supplier.
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@PippaCrerar And you’ve “done it again” - running the same inane article. Most of us are quite happy that the PM, doing the peoples business, is moving around efficiently and securely.
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@JimmyMcd62 Why wouldn’t Scotland want independence. Two words, IDIOTIC NATIONALISTS
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@LesleyRiddoch You really are the ultimate in negativity. You spend months calling for an election and then when it’s on you don’t want it !
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@kirstenoswald And yet this was fine ? We see you.
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@CharlieBaranski You clearly never listened to many speeches or debates with Senator McCain. Those are two separate points. No idea what your agenda is in conflating them.
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@FrankLuntz Frank what’s happened to you ? You used to be objective now this feels like shilling for Trump.
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@MairiannaClyde Obviously that PhD isn’t in maths.
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Rishi Sunak is on fire 🔥 This is the person I’ve supported over the last two years - focused, public spirited, rooted in policy AND HONEST.
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That wasn’t even close. PM head and shoulders above Starmer who was weak, vacuous with no grip of any of the issues.
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@RachelReevesMP On the backs of pensioners ?
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@GillKFerguson Belfast isn’t England.
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@NadineDorries @IsabelOakeshott Didn’t he spend a good deal of the 2019 campaign inside a fridge ?
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@DavidGHFrost Mate you’re one of the reasons we are behind. Please sit this campaign out.
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@DavidGHFrost Oh mate please. You’re allowed to let a day go past without one of your revisionist hot takes.
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Feet of clay after all ? Media applying scrutiny when it’s too late to matter.
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@EdConwaySky @bankofengland With every interview Truss does she makes it clearer and clearer why she was so unsuited for the role of Prime Minister and that the move against her was essential.
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@joymorrissey Another member of the anti-growth coalition. Utterly shameful.
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@CllrCarpenter We never lost him, he comprehensively failed at being a PM. And then unfortunately our fellow party members voted for Truss.
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@BarryMcElduff Neutrality when it suits. Depends on the UK Navy and RAF to defend its shores and protect its subsea infrastructure. We see your hypocrisy. Oh and those counties you mention, fully a part of the UK.
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@Peston And you would not have posted one single word of this if Sunak had still been Prime Minister.
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@StevenEdginton But it certainly looks like justice in action.
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@AngelaRayner @Keir_Starmer You mean changing your leader ? We know ! He’s the Trojan horse.
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@CPhilpOfficial Chris what a disappointment you’ve turned out to be.
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This is why @Jeremy_Hunt re-election was not only good for his constituents and for him personally but also for the country - our democracy is strengthened by his contribution.
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Following statements made in the House, I have written to the Cabinet Secretary on the concerning contradiction between the Main Estimates put before Parliament last week and the document presented by the Chancellor today.
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@michaelsavage @OpiniumResearch This emperor really does have no clothes, despite Lord Ali.
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@MareeToddMSP You’re the ( checks notes ) “Minister for Mental Wellbeing” and here you are making this about you and not someone who has had the courage to disclose their condition and efforts. Little wonder Scotland is in such a state - the calibre and conduct of Ministers is shocking.
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@Peston I think most of us have a different understanding of the word “extraordinary”.
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@LandonJames84 You seem nice.
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@ChrisLawSNP Is this one of your colleagues ?
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@HannahB4LiviMP If only you applied a similar amount of scrutiny to the luxury motor home sitting outside the home of the mother of your ex CEO. Meanwhile that carriage is real history - not your Braveheart confected nonsense. I pity your constituents.
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@Peston Her own arrogance perhaps ?
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@TomTugendhat @Conservatives Why is Nigel Farage included ? He’s not a Conservative.
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@trussliz Sorry Liz even more questions are being asked as to how you became our leader. I remember sitting through the last hustings at Wembley and thinking “what a train wreck she is going to be”. I wasn’t wrong was I ?
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@Lisamboo Lisa you should work a little on being nicer. You’ll feel better for it and X will be a nicer place.
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8 months
In the absence of an election to turf the lot of them out, Scotland could do with Kate Forbes as First Minister. The lights are on and someone is home unlike the incumbent. #CovidInquiryUK
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@BenObeseJecty @SkyNews @YvetteCooperMP To be fair it’s about time that politicians of all parties stopped slavishly touring the morning studios. In particular Sky.
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@icelandrichard The other side to the story.
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@RoryStewartUK Because answers he has none. That’s the theme of this entire campaign. It really is the emperor’s new clothes. There is no policy heft.
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@MeghanMcCain How ironic. I feel the same way about you.
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@HumzaYousaf Nobodies listening to you mate outside of the cult.
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Well that’s now 54 trips around the sun for me ! 🥳 Not sure how I feel that my birthday is the anniversary of the first UK pandemic lockdown. Anyway 54 is the new 34.
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@DavidGHFrost Some silence from you would be the ideal corrective action.
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@SNPJoseph @thetimes Hey Joesph did you express a view on this ? Asking for a friend.
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@andrea_wulf Apply for citizenship. Probably take less effort than tweeting this nonsense.
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@TomTugendhat The problem is Tom you helped deliver a Truss premiership. You accelerated that loss of trust. Maybe you could clear things up by explaining why when you dropped out you rallied behind such a flawed person.
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@SuellaBraverman Not liberals. Decent mainstream Tories. Please join Reform.
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5 months
This tweet should haunt Wes for the rest of his political life. Starmer should be questioned and distanced himself from it and today, Londoners should vote for the candidate they think is best able to rid London of 7 years of torpor without fear of being labeled by the likes
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A win for Susan Hall and the Conservatives is a win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes the world over. Susan Hall’s campaign has been fought from the gutter with dangerous and divisive politics. London, we cannot let her win. Vote Sadiq.
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The search for a credible Conservative candidate for Mayor of London should begin today.
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@DavidGHFrost @Conservatives @Telegraph 6. A period of silence from you.
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If Conservative members (and MPs !) want to join Reform then that’s fine, if sad. They should then be subject to a 7 year block on rejoining - we made a huge mistake with UKIP entryism. As for merging with Reform. No. A toxic entity.
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@dieworkwear Yet bizarrely it works.
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@MhairiHunter That’s right Mhairi ! It’s taken a wee while but you are finally grasping the benefits of our precious Union.
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@WOlookingitup One solemn, one smiling. It’s called a facial expression and it changes. You need a wee lie down and time to reflect on being less vile.
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@LesleyRiddoch So you’re saying that although I was born and educated in Dunfermline and then Aberdeen, and didn’t leave Scotland until I was 29 (to work for a Scottish exporter overseas) I am NOT Scottish because I live in London. What nonsense.
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@JonAshworth You taken a look at your fellow Labour MPs sitting around you ?
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@AngusRobertson @Douglas4Moray @ScotTories Enough members to ensure you lost your Westminster seat.
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@RachelReevesMP This used to be a banking hub until your party crashed the economy. Remember ?
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@JohnLeFevre Clearly you don’t know much about Scottish university rankings - St Andrew‘s way more prestigious than Edinburgh.
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@airlinerslive Not even close.
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@sbstryker You’ve certainly proved point (1) with this tweet.
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In November 1998 I moved into my apartment in Manhattan and took this Polaroid of my view. It was my home for almost the next 10 years - the view changed dramatically but the spirit of New Yorkers 🗽and Americans 🇺🇸 did not. #September11 #WTC #NeverForget
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@holyroodmandy @BBCr4today Isn’t he the one who has weaponised and politicised the report ?
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@StevenBonnarSNP The only thing being abolished is your place in Parliament !
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Whoever you support Adam nails it here. Public service and transparent democracy - we take it for granted, and take a cynical view at every turn and yet here we have it in all its ex-prime ministerial glory on a housing estate in Perthshire !
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Say what you like about Britain and it’s politics .. but there ain’t many western democracies where you’d get a former Prime Minister leaving a lovely little message on your ring doorbell. 💁‍♀️🇬🇧
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Vote Reform, get this ? No thanks !
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Here - Reform candidate says UK should have been neutral against Hitler
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Everyone is a star today but @PennyMordaunt has twice now found herself at the very centre of ceremony and both times been cool, poised and iconic #Coronation
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@mrevgenylebedev You mean “Russophobia” stemming from the fact Russian invaded Ukraine ? You should address this in the House of Lords, that is when you get round to actually speaking in that chamber.
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Never mind a public inquiry into #LucyLetby there needs to be a criminal inquiry into the management of that hospital.
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@davidyelland Of course he did.
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Never heard of him. And I suspect we never will again. Meanwhile the PM is getting on with the job.
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@LesleyRiddoch Oh we still have that Lesley when dozens of grifting SNP MPs lose their seats. We are all looking forward to those McPortillo moments !
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The postman has just been and delivered my first Maltese passport. A very exciting moment and tribute to my grandfather who joined the British Royal Navy in Valetta in 1939 to ensure all of our futures. #malta 🇲🇹 #dualcitizen
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@staylorish One could argue that a significant reason for the Scottish Parliament being so feeble with scrutiny is a weak and compliant Presiding Officer.
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@alexgill_ Interesting you don’t talk about SNP ideas and vision but only about “crushing Tories”. Sad but comforting, it’s why you’ll always fail.
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One of the things I love about politics, anywhere and anytime is how things can “turn on a dime” - here Harris gives not only the speech she needed to give at this time but the speech her detractors thought she was incapable of.
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@SophieDelquie It’s just you. Desperately trying to cope.
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@HumzaYousaf “Line of Duty” good tie in with your No 1 fan Martin Compston…oh and alleged corruption in your party.
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@trussliz @NikkeiAsia “Economic NATO” mmmm well there is one in Europe called the EU.
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@theJeremyVine @JoeBiden Oh Jeremy you need to delete this.
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@christopherhope When it’s a random stream of consciousness that you know the media (especially client journalists like you) will never hold them to account on it’s very easy to fill time.
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@maitlis You need to stop tweeting on a Sunday. Your takes are always off - he’s in post until the inauguration in January 2025.
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@DavidGHFrost Prayer as an act of intimidation. You sink further.
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