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MichaelWhite

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2 years

Friend begs me not to retweet this photo ahead of French election

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No, jailed for inciting a riot. Do you know anything about North Korea ? No

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🚨🇬🇧 Man Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Social Media Post The UK is the New North Korea

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This understated Times column is the most sinister thing I have read about civil rights in this country for a very long IT PLEASE

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Tomorrow’s budget is not a budget because the law would thereby require that the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), a Tory innovation, deliver a verdict. Instead we’re getting what Putin would call a Special Financial Operation

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7 years

In a typically elegant way Robert Harris's Sunday Times essay sums up the nation's plight

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2 years

This looks like becoming a new BJ scandal - and rightly so (Times)

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Not sure if Angela Rayner had tax liability on her ex council house sale. But I am sure that Lord Ashcroft, who first floated this “scandal,” is a major tax dodger, legal or not. Not alone either eg fellow non dom. Lord Rothermere. Sheer typical hypocrisy

Rayner on the ropes: Labour's deputy leader flounders over housing row

Sir Keir Starmer backed his deputy over claims she may have dodged tax and even broken the law when she sold her former council house a decade ago.

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1 year

Ireland grapples with large budget surpluses. Are you thinking what I’m thinking ?

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4 months

Private Eye drops with good obvious joke we all missed

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3 years

Just listened to Gordon Brown on @BBCr4today appealing for humanitarian aid to prevent mass starvation in Taliban Afghanistan. He’s also called for better global help to Covid vaccinate Africa - in everyone’s shared interest. Very impressively serious stuff

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2 years

Boris has resigned but appointing a cabinet. Is he mad ?

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4 years

In recent days I have heard ex-cabinet veterans, Hague, Ken Clarke, Alistair Darling, Willetts, Ed Balls, Blair, Andy Burnham, all talking better on Covid-related strategy than any member of the Johnson team. A depressing thought

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3 years

Ho, ho ( Matt, DT)

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2 years

Markets can be harsh sometimes…..

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5 months

What a stitch up ! Farage actually owns 53% of Reform / UKIP but insists he’s not a politician and is a director but insists he has no legal responsibility. Wrong both times. Wake up, Ofcom (FT) 1/3

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6 years

A friend saw this ( cruel but fair) on Facebook :”Dear New Zealand, Please may we borrow your Prime Minister for a little while? Ours is broken, and we don’t have a spare. We promise we’ll look after her. Lots of love, the UK”

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6 years

Reading and listening to today’s obits / tributes to Paddy Ashdown is to be transported back to a kinder, gentler time before Brexit populism & Trump mendacity, years where we could respect political differences without resort to abuse. Anti social media is much to blame

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MichaelWhite

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5 years

Painful listening to Anglophile Dutch PM Mark Rutte talking through the realities that face post-Brexit Britain - sad, not angry. “ I have never understood why UK thinks it will get better trade deals with other countries than the EU.” Always a good point

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MichaelWhite

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6 years

Anti Brexit March poster: Here’s a coincidence I’d missed, mean but relevant. Decent people make bad choices for heart-felt reasons and often pay the price themselves

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4 years

I have listened to PMQs during nine premierships. None has so transparently shown such a lack of grip and detail as Blustering Boris. Surely the only thing he has in common with Mrs T is that both have dyed their hair ?

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5 years

John Humphrys has just confirmed his own Brexit tendencies on R4 Today. Said demands for a second refo amounts to calling voters too “thick” to understand. Patronising. Ditto on Trump+NHS. Good to hear Lab’s Andy MacDonald thumping him back

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4 years

The German who caught Cummings tweaking his blog to make himself look smarter. I’m surprised more attention wasn’t paid to this deception. But it will be in due course

Cummings and Johnson evil geniuses? Hardly, just lazy and incompetent | Nick Cohen

Boris Johnson and his aide are alike in their reliance on deception to prop up their vanity

www.theguardian.com

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MichaelWhite

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3 years

Today’s Times has detailed briefing of who said what in cabinet - a bad sign, effective cabinets can only be frank in privacy. It says Mogg told BJ to trust “ the people” over scientists, citing a Fraser Nelson (editor) article in Spectator challenging Vallance data. Arghh !!

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2 years

Dear God, what a pompous outcry - second item on BBC. 6 pm TV news !! - over a very old woman engaged in a crass conversational discourtesy & the complainant point scoring at the old duck’s expense (who gets sacked). Everyone happy ?

Lady Susan Hussey quits over remarks to charity boss Ngozi Fulani

A palace aide steps down over remarks made to Ngozi Fulani at a reception hosted by the Queen Consort.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

The Brexit Bonus: here’s another extra cost we were told wouldn’t happen

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5 months

Because whatever Rayner did wrong - if she did - was utterly trivial compared with the tax dodging millionaires & their media oligarchs + stooges have done. Sheer rank hypocrisy

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5 months

@michaelwhite Why are you defending Raynor Michael?

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4 years

Didn’t Boris just duck/waffle Mirror’s excellent question asking why he relies on unreliable private contractors to handle T&T when using local NHS & council expertise would work better and pump long-term cash into NHS ? He did - and we all know why ! Cronies ! Donors! Ideology!

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5 years

Javid car crash: Important to remember that Johnson has never actually run anything, he’s just a cynical type of hack, he’s certainly not run the Spectator, the Leave campaign, the FCO (hollow laugh) etc. So he’s new to management and cocking it up even faster than expected

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1 year

I’ve just caught up with R4Today I/v with Grant Shapps (8.20): toe curling , cowardly, incoherent. He refused to say if HMG supports IDF to order 1 mn Gazans to move out of war zone TODAY. Cornered, this third rate hack then attacked BBC,but Mishal Husain stood up well to a bully

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MichaelWhite

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6 years

@ZacGoldsmith The same could be said about you, Zac, only more so. The last time I saw you,as London Mayoral candidate, you demeaned yourself by playing the Islamist card against Khan, doubtless on the advice of Dog Whistle Crosby, not because you believed it, any more than Boris does Brexit

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MichaelWhite

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7 months

In case you missed this

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1 year

Resignation Dishonours List (cont): why on Earth would Boris give a peerage to a leggy blonde in her 20s who didn’t do much at No 10 - or for long. Nope, it’s a real mystery - though the gossip isn’t quite what you might imagine

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MichaelWhite

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18 days

Worth passing on a Sun office joke about Kelvin McKenzie I just heard . Staff:”where’s the editor ?” Answer:”He’s on holiday doing what he does at work.” Staff:”what’s that?” Answer:” lying in the Sun.”

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MichaelWhite

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6 years

@Bergmann_Mat @robhwilliamson This thread is worth reading, coming from the German side it offers a grimmer and more liable version of WWII than the sanitised, armchair nostalgia cynically peddled by the Sunday Express and Sun.

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MichaelWhite

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7 years

I try to avoid glib use of F word. But 'Crush the saboteurs' is the language of fascism. The Mail has form

'Crush the saboteurs': British newspapers react to general election

The Daily Mail has an air of menace and the Sun and Telegraph trumpet Tory triumph, while the Times and Guardian see bid for political strength

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

I’m sure we all wish the royal baby well, but it gets the first 23 pages of the Daily Mail, under royal groupie editor, Geordie Greig. UN report on humanity’s threat to 1 million species is on page 34

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6 months

I can’t believe that Princess Katie’s illness still soaks up page one at a time when a European war takes a dangerous, paranoid turn after Moscow IS bombing. Are we frivolously sleepwalking into a world war? Not that the galaxy will even notice, but surely we should concentrate

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MichaelWhite

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3 years

Here’s a (Times) column I would like to have written. The casual, persistent ignorant damage which England has done to Ireland - and continues to do so

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4 years

It’s a bit pathetic for all these bodies to drop Starkey in a tizz now when everyone has known he’s been an obnoxious shit (& very second rate historian) for decades

David Starkey dropped by publisher and university after racist remarks

HarperCollins will no longer publish the historian and Canterbury Christ Church University terminates his role after he said ‘slavery was not genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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MichaelWhite

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6 years

Only weeks after his burka “ letter box” jibe, Down Trousers Boris likens May to a Brexit suicide bomber, appalling, bad taste & hyperbolic nonsense that confirms he has no more control over his mouth than over his dick

Tories in civil war after Boris Johnson Brexit 'suicide vest' remarks

Criticism of ex-minister’s attack on Chequers plan prompts counter-accusations of ‘project smear’ by No 10

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

Deleting photos on my phone I cam across this useful reminder of glib Brexit promises. Best to save it, I think

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4 years

Private Eye has arrived, dripping justified malice at the fat boy’s Dishonours List

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5 months

Just listened to self styled victim of Met treatment. Gideon Falter, in (too) long I/v on R4 World This Weekend. My sympathy is with the Met as all sides - not least Falter- cash in ahead of London mayoral poll. Real victims are in Gaza & Israel, not here

Met Police: PM appalled by way police treated Jewish man, says No 10

A No 10 source says police "mishandled" its interaction with a Jewish man at pro-Palestinian protest.

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1 year

Boris’s ex, clever & decent KC, Marina, is to become Starmer’s sex harassment adviser. Chance for a smile on a grim day

Boris Johnson's ex-wife Marina Wheeler is Labour's sexual harassment adviser

Marina Wheeler KC is looking at how to strengthen the law to protect women who are bullied at work.

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6 months

Rayner tax probe : whatever the cops eventually decide here, this is a smear by an anti-tax party & dodgers, legal and not, orchestrated by this man

Angela Rayner says she will step down if found to have committed crime

Deputy Labour leader has faced questions over sale of former council house before she became MP

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MichaelWhite

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4 years

Am listening to Gavin Williamson, who should never have been allowed back into cabinet, failing hopelessly to defend Boris/Cummings. Painful irony is that this feeble cabinet was picked for compliance, not competence - and most are useless as a Praetorian Guard

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5 years

Johnson’s petulant war on BBC means that his vassal Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, isn’t allowed to discuss Corona precautions on @BBCr4today . Fortuntately his ousted predecessor, J Hunt, is free to give a calmer, well informed summary of NHS options - a good system to cope

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5 years

Boris Johnson in new role as second hand car salesman keen to offload vehicle with dodgy mileage etc : “ no need to test drive it, Guv’ner, would I lie to you? Cash only if you don’t mind.”

Brexit: Boris Johnson in final push to ram through deal

PM will seek to win two crucial votes on Tuesday in bid to leave EU by 31 October deadline

www.theguardian.com

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8 years

Farage complains that May has "no plan for Brexit." But Farage has been campaigning for Brexit for 25 years without a clue what to do next

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4 years

Gosh, who’d have guessed this one ? ( from today’s Times)

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2 years

I don’t approve all Times campaigns - eg against BBC - but do its tenacious highlighting the increasingly illiberal sexual politics of Stonewall

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4 years

Tragically predictable that chauvinistic Fleet St is still dining off EU’s vaccine gaffe, telling itself EU is in crisis, hopeless etc. No room - again - to mention UK’s pandemic failures and the highest per capita death rate. Even Gove recoils from it

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Let’s get this right. Tories knew Elphicke had intervened improperly but kept quiet about it until the MP defected to Labour. I’m sure voters can see she was more loyal to her ex than to the party, but desperate Tories think thus damages Labour. I had expected better of Buckland

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1 year

This claim is self evidently untrue, which means Moggster is either a fool, a liar or both. You decide

Jacob Rees-Mogg claims Brexit prevented success of Russian invasion of Ukraine

Hardline Tory Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-mogg suggested a 'mucky compromise' would have been made with the Kremlin if the UK had still been tied to Brussels when Russia invaded Ukraine

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1 year

I’ve noticed very little comment here on the disappearance of our friendly blue bird. Most recent changes are cosmetic & trivial, but I find the forbidding black x disconcerting and oddly negative . Yes/no ?

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That’s odd. The Mail thinks a 52% win by Melrose for GKN is “incredibly close” - and a scandal - but a 52% win for Brexit takeover scamsters is the “will of the British people”

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5 years

Puzzling paradox? 24 hours after distinguished BBC veteran - and Tory - gets extravagantly generous retirement send off ( from BBC) he savages its “liberal bias.” Where does he do this ? In the Daily Mail

John Humphrys lifts lid on 'institutional liberal bias' at the BBC

In an explosive memoir serialised from today in the Daily Mail, Remain-voting Humphrys pulls no punches after decades of being constrained by rules that stop journalists expressing opinions.

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3 years

Mogg picks fight with Handel: it’s the lethal combination of lazy arrogance & ignorance that is so alarming. An Eton education is v expensive, yet their brains & much vaunted leadership skills rarely succeed in politics. Mediocre & over entitled

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But that can’t be true, George. Boris purged Remainers and got a majority of 80. It was his own picked Brexit duffers who messed up the negotiation. Didn’t do their homework despite boasting. Lazy - just like Boris

George

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Brexit was sabotaged by remainer mp’s of all parties But in the main Tory!

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4 years

And here’s a little gem from the Times about Dodgy Bob

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MichaelWhite

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5 years

What fun. Telegraph has been printing lies by Boris for 25 years. Now it defends his £275k a year column as “ not serious in depth analysis “

Telegraph forced to correct false Brexit claim by Boris Johnson

Newspaper removes claim but defends MP saying his piece ‘could not be reasonably read as a serious, in-depth analysis’

www.theguardian.com

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MichaelWhite

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4 years

Several readers have kindly asked if I’m ok. Not quite as ok as I’d like. After a 50 year run with no health drama I had two crashes in a week. Nasty but I’ve been lucky. Now resting sensibly in Twitter-free zone and on the mend. Festive greetings to you all

Aubrey 'Gus' Jones

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@michaelwhite second week with no article in the New European. Hope you are ok?

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The point about this chap is that, in addition to the burdens of having a high-achieving father, he’s instinctively nasty - but not bright enough to get away with it. Obviously a Boris kind of pal

Toby Young apologises for accusing Hammond of antisemitism

Former chancellor has threatened Young with legal action over accusation

www.theguardian.com

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7 months

What an unpleasant and ignorant lout is Tory MP Lee Anderson

Tory MP Lee Anderson claims ‘Islamists’ have got control of Sadiq Khan

Ex-deputy party chair says on GB News Islamists control London as well as its mayor, prompting calls for him to lose the whip

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Arron “Ronski” Banks, Farage’s bagman & friend of Trump/Putin buddies, was boasting here about damage he did to Carole Cadwalladr in his richman’s law suit: here’s what Ronski did to the rest of us

OPINION: What Carole Cadwalladr’s case means for journalism

Only the rich get to sue for libel. It’s a shame that a few ill-judged tweets have overshadowed such vital journalism

www.opendemocracy.net

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6 years

Corbyn’s “I was present but don't think I was involved” could also be a fair summary of his leadership of the Labour Party since 2015

Jeremy Corbyn: I was present at wreath-laying but don't think I was involved

Labour leader rows with Israeli PM over ceremony for individuals from group behind Munich massacre

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6 years

Alas, “Brexit Bulldog” Davis is serial resigner & waste of political space. Has no answers (DexEU sec for two years !), but urges ex-cabinet colleagues still in the trenches to go over the top while he struts his stuff in safety at ERG’s chateau. Lazy sod

David Davis calls on ministers to rebel against Brexit deal

Ex-minister says PM’s plan is ‘unacceptable’ as she tries to appease DUP and Tory Brexiters

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Well done,privileges committee for slapping down riffraff Tory MPs & peers: a grim crew of vassal courtiers. And remember, they also rubbished Harman despite No 10 being expressly approving her chairmanship. Cynical & craven. I hope it’s tanked Mogg future

Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of interfering with Partygate probe

Nadine Dorries and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg are among MPs criticised for attacking investigation into ex-PM.

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5 years

Tell us, Mr Mayor, what was it about this 27-year-old blonde & fellow-American that first impressed you? Who forced you to take her on trade missions against you will and to give her our money ? Why, oh why!! We are all mystified

Boris Johnson urged to justify 'awarding public funds to close friend'

PM allegedly allocated money to Jennifer Arcuri while mayor, with ex-watchdog chair saying he has case to answer

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4 years

Peter Brookes, Times cartoonist, appears to share my concern that the PM may not be up to the job he craved. Be careful what you wish for, Boris....

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6 years

This is what decent folk of all political persuasions are up against: rich US alt-right groups funding storm troopers like aka “Tommy” in other people’s “sovereign” jurisdiction. Putin does the same

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@Nigel_Farage What Nigel knows about "American history " could safely be written on the back of an MEP's expenses claim. Doesn't know much about ours too

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4 months

Expected bottling out,but startling, Brexit isn’t done (Farage knows it), so having messed up UK Nigel who owns Ukip/Reform is prioritising helping (foreign interference?) Trump mess up US. It sounds like “follow the money, Nige” as usual. “Sovereignty”?

Nigel Farage says he will not stand in UK general election

Blow to Reform as Farage says he needs to be free to focus on helping Donald Trump’s election campaign

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Guardian has run a damning series on Boris’s career all week. But the FCO’s verdict - link here - is lethal. Lazy, short attention span, “wings it” and - worst ? - he “ likes to be liked.” Those who know him say he can’t do the job of PM

Boris Johnson refuses to answer questions over party in Lebedev mansion

Potential PM will not say whether he had police protection during weekend in Italy while foreign secretary

www.theguardian.com

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Andrea Leadsom's Charity Is Bankrolled By Her patriotic Offshore Banker Brother-In-Law

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Here’s why Labour so often loses especially when people expect Labour to win ……1970, 1992, 2015

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@AyoCaesar Because Labour's lead is so big we can vote with our consciences this time. I certainly intend to.

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Still disturbed by weaponisation is AS issue by cynical Tory media against Labour. Also by Labour Jewish activists demanding investigation of anyone present at Ali/Jones meeting who failed to challenge them. So now it’s a crime to listen? This is madness

Starmer urged to suspend councillors at meeting that heard Israel comments

Labour leader under pressure over claims Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali’s remarks went unchallenged at event

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5 years

@Nigel_Farage “ What’s the difference?” The difference is so great that to suggest otherwise makes you either a fool or a liar . You choose, but I’ve already made my choice

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5 years

I rare HoC visit to see Boris do PMQs, pretty third rate bluster & noisily vague defence of Patel. But why was Andrea Leadsom allowed a (vacuous) personal resignation statement when she was sacked? An abuse of procedure, one wasted on self-indulgent ingratiation. Sack her again!

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2 years

This farce gets worse, I fear. The MoS is now claiming that Rayner herself was the origin of the Sharon Stone tactic during PMQs. Oh dear

Mail on Sunday editor rejects meeting with Speaker over Angela Rayner story

David Dillon had been called to a meeting with Sir Lindsay Hoyle after running a story widely condemned as sexist

www.theguardian.com

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MichaelWhite

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7 years

At 84 Heseltine on R4 shows more energy & coherence on tackling housing crisis than whole cabinet + shadow put together.

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7 years

BBC World notes that. Bombardier Boeing tariff story is big in UK & Canada, but zilch in US. That's how trade deals with US work, Liam Fox

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4 years

Polished cynicism, Gove’s Sun Tel article shows he still takes us all for fools. Clue is pledge to create “world’s most effective border.” Most of us are happy to let North Korea win that prize. Govey’s words no longer have meaning

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4 years

Room in the Lords (Sun Times) for Lord Roubles and Lady Semtex, but not for Sentamu, a remarkable man of faith. Very Boris

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4 years

Just watched BBC’s Murdoch profile to see whether we get shafted more by the Russians, Chinese or by Rupert. What a grotesque gallery of creeps. But you can see why the “sovereignty” posse all hate the EU. It was our best bet for standing up to the circling monsters - all of them

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3 years

Listening to modest Gareth Southgate I’m struck again that he is thoughtful, considerate, under promises & over delivers, a grounded team player who learns from experience. Does he ever use the boastful claim “world beating?” No, I don’t think he does

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Hear the tape? No, should I bother? I am much more interested in who taped the session, how and why the Mail got hold of it and sat on this “ wicked remarks” for weeks before leaking it to damage Starmer and shield Sunak. Disappointed that few ask these questions

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@michaelwhite Did you hear the tape??

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Warning : some readers should know that this article contains facts, some of which they may find disturbing, especially if they are UK beef voters - or Brexit voters

How Boris Johnson sold out Britain’s farmers over dinner with the Australian PM

As the UK-Australia trade deal comes into force, those close to the negotiations reflect on their dramatic — and farcical — climax.

www.politico.eu

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MichaelWhite

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@KateHoeyMP No, Kate, your reading of Tusk which encourages others less educated and experienced that yourself to make the same mistake, is shameful & dishonest from a woman who grew up amid dangerous politics & should know better. Tusk was attacking bad leaders, not their voters

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

6 years

@DavidDavisMP @BenedictMPWhite Did US trade officials indicate whether they see you as breakfast - or just a snack. Most people who know about FTAs say that tough US trade teams will want access to a) UK food markets b)UK health market. Given what we know of most US food & much US health care, not a good idea

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

7 years

BBC news is sometimes open to criticism for being flaccid. Decision to sell US Embassy site in London was taken by GW Bush administration. Neither James Landale nor John Humphrys pointed out Trump’s ( characteristically crass, vindictive) error

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

4 years

Listening to Grant Shapps on ⁦ @BBCr4today ⁩ followed by Tony Blair is enough to make one weep. TB has grip on testing policy+strategy in ways that shame Blustering Boris

Changing the Game on Testing

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

6 years

Just watching DUP’s Sammy Wilson giving spurious reasons for not backing May despite Geoffrey Cox’s advice to vote for it. Posterity will wonder how these self absorbed ninnies with no Ulster mandate & no Stormont held these islands to ransom. In way over his head, the humbug

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

4 years

When Michael Howard denounces Boris’s Outlaw fantasy you know he’s messed up again. But Howard has no excuse, despite sacking him for lying he was one of Boris’s enablers

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

4 years

Ah,yes. That missing Private Eye cover : found it at last

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

4 years

Boris Johnson gives a “ build, build, “ interview to new Times Radio, latest addition to shock jock market. Generous of Boris, the Times was the first employer to sack him for lying. I hope to survive Covid & be a small part of his next such dismissal

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

7 years

Who promoted a UK/EU customs union after Brexit ? Why Liam Fox (2012, Mail on Sunday). Now he calls that “betrayal.” Some of these people are so shallow you couldn’t drown a kitten in them

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MichaelWhite

@michaelwhite

3 years

Who does this man think he is ? A lower middling ex ambassador who got over promoted & bottled out. Is he having a Craig Murray kind of midlife crisis after facing the futility of his career? He should keep it to himself like everyone else

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