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Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.
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That's an excellent deal.
1-2 alcoholic drinks a day may shorten life by 2 months, according to new research trib.al/SIPbgOY
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Anyone crossing the Channel in a rubber dinghy is in a state of acute desperation. I'm proud they think Britain is a place of hope. I feel sorry for those so incapable of empathy that they see them only as invaders.
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Quite saddened by the people I've had to unfollow the last 24 hours. Lots of decent campaigners and academics. But if you celebrate someone's death, there's something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
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Sometimes politics just blows your mind. Starmer's currently getting heat for a fine he hasn't received, over a party which didn't take place and which he did not lie about. The guy who did receive a fine, for parties which did take place, which he did fucking lie about? Nothing.
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If we replaced a prime minister during the Second World War I'm pretty fucking confident we can do it during this one.
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Worth spreading these videos as much as possible, the more humiliating the better. Part of the task of the next few days is messaging: you'll be arrested, you'll go to prison, you'll regret it for the rest of your life.
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Don't both sides this. They are not morally equivalent. The vandalism committed on Black Lives Matter protests, whether you approve of it or not, was in a campaign for equal rights for all. The violence today is for white supremacy.
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This is a brilliant idea, Liz. Maybe a.. shit I dunno... union of some sort
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Really don't have the words for my disgust at what Johnson said today. Been gnawing away at me.
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I do wish people would stop with this 'he's a fighter' thing when someone is ill. I know it's meant to be encouraging, but it does sort of lay the blame for those who die on their lack of commitment.
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I am looking after a child. I can confirm that Bluey is surprisingly witty and Peppa Pig is an absolute piece of shit.
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God. Imagine having to live without someone after being married to them for 74 years. I can't even begin to comprehend it.
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That Cabinet explanation in full: If you people really cared for your family, you'd have broken the rules too.
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That Johnson comeback in full: flew back from a luxury holiday, posed like a twat, begged his rivals, lied about his support, let down his allies and fell on his arse.
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This is devastating. Just utterly devastating.
This is the truth of what happens when @BorisJohnson visits your hospital. This has been written by an anonymous friend of mine. Please read. Please share. It is the truth about our #NHS - the lies cannot continue
@JonAshworth @OwenJones84 @shaunjlawson @jonworth @IanDunt
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Holy shit. He said the quiet part out loud.
EXCLUSIVE: In a leaked video, Rishi Sunak boasted to Conservative Party members that he was prepared to take public money out of “deprived urban areas” to help wealthy towns.
@REWearmouth reports: newstatesman.com/politics/co…
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Hello, this is your regular reminder that this site is rigged by its far-right owner to prioritise far-right content.
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Ian Blackford just called Johnson a liar in the Commons, without being sanctioned by the Speaker.
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Anyone with a Ukrainian passport should be granted asylum in this country. Anyone. No ifs, no buts, no income tests, no bureaucratic meddling. Let them in.
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Johnson leaves as he arrives: reeling off a list of imaginary achievements, telling unfunny jokes, lying, and failing to take responsible for his own actions.
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Elon Musk: No-one has ever spent so much money making sure everyone knows they're a total cunt.
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Preposterously sampleable. You can almost hear it kick in.
Please, please will someone sample @amolrajan saying: "I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid." 👊
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He's basically pissed, on the corner of a street, at 3am, screaming: fuck the lot of you. I'll fight any cunt I want.
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You can tell a lot about a person by their reaction to this kind of thing. Robinson gets some punches in. Farage blames his employees. Ed Miliband...
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Incredible really. Years of these guys banging on about flags and love of country. But behind closed doors they're getting shitfaced and dancing as the Queen mourns alone.
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Trying to control my anger over MPs trying to bring Johnson back and it's honestly a struggle.
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There is no refugee crisis. There is a small, semi-permanent flow of people seeking safety and hope here, through various forms of transport, from countries lost to war or economic and societal breakdown.
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A former government chief scientific adviser as science minister. A businessman with years of experience in rehabilitation as prisons minister. A barrister with years of experience as attorney general. A focus on specialism, domain knowledge and expertise.
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I get that this site communicates through jokes and also that lots of people aren't royalists. But this would be a good moment for restraint.
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Fucking awful morning. Awful. A government trying to ship out some of the neediest people in the world to Rwanda, attacking the European Convention of Human Rights, breaking its word on the Protocol, a lying law-breaking, shambolic morally deliquent laughing stock.
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There's something quite psychologically appealing about French two-round voting isn't there. Round One: Vote with your heart. How's that working out? Pretty scary isn't it. Round Two: Let's vote with our heads this time.
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Boris Johnson got the big calls right, like when he threw the UK into years of hatred and division so that we could change the regulations on hoovers.
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This shouldn't need saying, but Paterson's self-pitying resignation statement about the "cruel world" of politics is disingenuous horseshit. He took money from companies and then used his political position to act on their behalf.
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On Monday, the policing bill is being rushed through the Commons. It contains some of the most draconian crackdowns on the right of peaceful protest we've seen in our lifetime. politics.co.uk/comment/2021/…
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I always thought windfarms look quite pretty. Kind of baffled by the anger they produce. There's a silent gracefulness to the pace of their movement.
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Hancock should've been sacked yesterday instead of resigning today. The prime minister has no principle, no judgement, no belief in the basic standards of public life.
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Miliband really is tremendously likable.
#Marr: Is Sir Keir Starmer going to be a better Labour leader than you?
Ed Miliband: "Definitely. We've seen that already"
bbc.in/3g3dAhx
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So far today, the home secretary has resigned, a senior No.10 adviser has been suspended, the prime minister has double U-turned on pensions, and the government has called a vote of confidence in itself to coerce its MPs to vote against their own manifesto.
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Elon Musk is, at this point, quite obviously an online far-right campaigner. Those are the accounts he interacts with and those are the messages he transmits. The fact he liked the previous prime minister and despises this one speaks very highly of Keir Starmer.
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I find it hard to put into words the degree of contempt I have developed for the anti-lockdown brigade in the right-wing press. Just the most appalling, irresponsible, self-serving, morally bankrupt Luddite delinquents.
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It's inconceivable to me that anyone could experience Piers Morgan talking and then allow it to happen again. The idea people regularly tune in to watch him is beyond my emotional comprehension.
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In any sane world, Mogg's Grenfell comments would be followed by a resignation. There's no two ways about it. It's a resigning matter.
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One of the effects of Sunak's early departure is to cement the impression that only the Americans were involved in D-Day.
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One month to Brexit and the government is trying to work out if a scotch egg is a starter or a main meal.
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When we look back on this period, this country is going to be so dreadfully embarrassed that it had Boris Johnson as prime minister.
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I remain completely baffled by the notion that £81,000 isn't a decent salary. It's much more than the majority of people in this country will ever make.
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What a day. Four straight hours of of testimony from a self-interested narcissist who has weaponised falsehood challenging the record of a self-interested narcissist who has weaponised falsehood.
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Still getting over the fact that a lunatic can stand up in front of a crowd and scream about migrants eating cats and dogs and it gets him elected. Maybe I'll never get over it.
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I doubt there was a single Leaver who voted out so the UK would stop cooperating with Europe on pandemics. Downing Street is off its tits.
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What we're seeing today is an attempt to kill the system of standards in public life. Nothing less.
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Hindsight narrative is gaslighting on a national scale. I remember exactly what it was like in March 2020. The pressure was intense for the government to take action weeks before it did so.
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Despicable ignorant godawful rubbish. Germany is one of the most moral nations on earth precisely because it acknowledges the horrors of its past. That takes a degree of honesty and courage this man could only dream of.
Must have been an "awkward" moment for Angela Merkel to sit in ceremony as the Allies commemorated D-Day that broke the back of Nazi Germany.
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This is one of the most obscene things I've seen a western leader say since the war began. And I really couldn't give a goddamn what someone's view on Brexit is. No-one with integrity would make this comparison.
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"what, at the airport" is very very funny.
This video is a comically perfect example of “confirmation bias” - and should be shown in all schools as part of a course on political literacy.
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Consider for a moment the fact that it has taken until *today* for arrivals from red list countries to enter Heathrow through a dedicated terminal. Insane.
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Quite painful to watch. Varadkar conducting himself as a leader and grounding his comments in reality. Johnson looks like a child who won a Willy Wonka ticket to appear alongside him.
Irish Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar telling Boris Johnson some hard truths about Brexit, to his discomfort.
If only our own government were honest enough also to communicate this clear & blunt reality to the UK public.
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If you still don't know that the ECHR is different to the EU six years after the vote, I'm not sure I'm terribly interested in your view on what we should do about it.
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Really takes a special kind of delusion to think you'll get a better deal from the guy whose motto is 'America First' than you will from the people who run a union of nations.
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Don't bother expending any energy trying to understand those people in London right now. It's not complicated. They're thug cunt white supremacists. It's as simple as that. And they should be treated accordingly.
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Starting to become quite concerned by the amount of vitriol aimed at people in parks. They are allowed to walk in parks. And for families with kids living in small properties without gardens, a walk in the park is a lifeline.
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I am growing somewhat tired of being governed by the most morally and intellectually inadequate people in the country.
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Idea of 'activist lawyers' quickly becoming normalised, so it bears repeating that what they mean by that are lawyers who stop the government breaking the law.
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Is Djokovic is about to invade a sovereign state? Because if not, his prominence in the news bulletins is insane.
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Heroic work tonight by refugee groups. And yes, tomorrow the government will use this for their latest culture war obscenities. But what matters is that the flight was stopped. They held the line.
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The Sun acts like it's this mischievous anarchic tell-it-as-is rabble-rouser. In fact, it's as establishment as it gets. Slack goes straight from No.10 to the paper, then withholds stories embarrassing to the government because he's implicated in then.
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The simple fact is that Boris Johnson isn't up to the job. It's no more complicated than that. And in their hearts, even his staunchest supporters know it's true.
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Quick reminder that it was open to the government to extend transition. We didn't have to face covid and Brexit simultaneously. Of all the terribly stupid and irresponsible things they've done, that deserves the number one spot.
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I remain confused by how publishing the report in full prejudices a police investigation, given the offences being discussed do not warrant a jury trial.
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Tremendous relief that today is Corbyn's last PMQs. Five years of utterly ineffective opposition, allowing historically shambolic Tory governments to get away with whatever the hell they want. What a tragic, wasteful, piss-poor experiment in delusion this has been.
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The punchline to this whole section is that Tony Abbott isn't even an expert on trade.
“Tony Abbott is a homophobe and a misogynist”
Health Sec @MattHancock: “He’s also an expert on trade”
#KayBurley
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More upset by what's happening in Afghanistan than by any news story for a long time. A kind of moral nausea.
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Divisive, hateful crap from a man who peddles little else. No matter what happens this week, we don't let up the fight on this. EU citizens are our friends. This is their home. We stand beside them.
EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign. thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/…
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The next couple of weeks will involve experts telling the government to close the schools in January, which it will strongly reject before agreeing to it.
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It's just an avalanche of lies from No.10. The act itself, the story about it, the claims of fake news, the complete reversal of the lock-down messaging, and now even the silly details of his blog posts. They are functionally incapable of telling the truth.
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There is a significant problem with calming the rhetoric against Trump. The problem is that he is a threat to democracy. He is a threat to European security and freedom against Russian imperialism. And these things do not cease to be true because some nutter tried to kill him.
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We pissed away the summer. No attempt to get numbers down while the weather was good. No attempt to ventilate offices or schools. No support for isolation. No effort at all to get us into a better place before the cold weather arrives.
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They're fucked whatever happens. They're fucked if they stick with Truss and fucked if they switch leader. They're fucked if they U-turn and fucked if they don't. They're fucked if they hold a general election and fucked if they delay it.
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Stabbing moments of realisation that Boris Johnson will almost certainly be prime minister soon. Painful sense of national shame. General horror.
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You made it clear you don't support them. If you had your way half the team wouldn't even be here. At least have the courage of your dreadful convictions.
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So to summarise the Sunak story: he's a tax-dodging billionaire who doesn't even want to live in Britain, but he insists there's not enough money to help people in a cost of living crisis
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No.10 getting the spanking of its fucking life on the front pages. You absolutely love to see it.
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This can get in the fucking bin. And then we can kick the shit out of the bin, set fire to it and throw it over a fucking cliff. thetimes.co.uk/article/shoul…
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The masks, sweet Jesus. It's so basic. They help a bit and they're perfectly convenient. And yet the government somehow managed to get itself into a micro-brain culture war over them. Fucking unthinkable. The pure, triple-distilled idiocy of it.
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Someday soon, it will be hard to even find people who admit to ever having supported Brexit in the first place. It will join Suez and Iraq in the pantheon of catastrophic British errors inews.co.uk/opinion/brexit-j…
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