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Hey @grok, which current UK political party leader received the most community notes for misinformation on their x posts in 2025?
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Know your place peasant, a Hotmail address without numbers is the calling card of the internet's landed gentry.
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Maybe someone could sit down with this moron, and very slowly and carefully use single syllable words to explain the Laffer Curve.
You cannot tax your way to growth.
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Every word of his inaugural speech is a direct contradiction of what you are doing in the UK.
His policies will make America richer, freer and more equal, while yours immiserate.
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False. What she actually said:
"Too many politicians haven't worked normal jobs or run proper businesses. Most of Starmer's cabinet have barely even worked for a business, let alone built one."
That's true, and the economy suffers the consequences of that lack of experience.
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Literally everything @Keir_Starmer touches turns to shit.
If Kamala wanted to win, she should have asked him to campaign for Trump.
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In the Iranian revolution, Marxists allied with the Ayatollah to remove the Shah.
They believed that the shared goals they had with the Islamists would mean that they could sideline the Ayatollah after achieving power to create a secular socialist state.
They were executed.
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You wrote a poem, tried your luck,
The country hates you, off you fuck.
Please understand, it isn't hard
Not a person wants your ID Card
You'll say it's not a means to spy
While using it to peek and pry
And when we call you out on it
You'll spew another load of shit.
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The problem Keir, is that nobody believes you anymore.
You promised growth and you're delivering a recession.
You promised secure borders, and there's more people entering illegally than ever before.
You promised to tread lightly people's lives, and you interfere.
Just go.
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You had a big majority though Priti.
That meant that Labour's votes in parliament were irrelevant.
The fact that under your lot the civil service acted against the government and got in the way of policy being enacted is a bigger issue, but again, it just says you were weak.
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Watching the exchange after Vance's interjection, it seems like this may have boiled up from English not being Zelensky's first language, but ultimately, it couldn't have gone worse for him or better for Putin.
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It was your lot and the teaching unions that demanded the 2021 lockdowns, and kept pushing for ever more Draconian restrictions that robbed children of their normal development.
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It's not an endorsement.
Person of the year is talking about the most consequential individual of the last 12 months.
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Colder and poorer is how you're leaving us Ed.
Just swallow your pride, admit that importing energy from France and buying oil from our own waters from Norway as a carbon dodge isn't sensible, and we can get a productive economy back.
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Deliberately misleading or ignorant.
The reason why the number of houses at risk of flooding will increase is because you're planning to build hundreds of thousands of houses on floodplains and on greenfield land that currently handles the run off when it rains.
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There's a way bigger lever than the aid budget Rupert.
In 2018, World Bank estimated £1.4 Billion in remittances sent from the UK to Pakistan. Other sources estimate £3.5 billion. Between 0.4-1.1% of their GDP.
Stick a 75% tariff on capital outflow and they'll bend the knee.
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Both the deportations and the clampdown in illegal workers are performative and don't reach anything close to the scale required.
Until there's an effective deterrent, people will continue to come.
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Do we know what these consultants specialise in?
Because they don't seem to be adding much value in terms of growth, border security, reducing government debt, or making people think Starmer is remotely likeable.
The nation might be entitled to a refund.
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Every time I think I don't hate the media enough, I remind myself with this piece from the BBC.
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Increasing employer NI at the same time as putting 10% on minimum wage along with business rate increases and higher energy costs is peak incompetence.
It's almost as if Reeves doesn't understand that businesses aren't funded in the same way as government.
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It's so nice to see the gratitude from the train drivers after Starmer sacrificed the pensioners to give them a pay rise.
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The fact that every labour MP with a centrally managed social media account is trotting the IMF story as a validation of their policies is hilarious, because whenever the same IMF published anything positive about the Tories, they'd dismiss it as unreliable propaganda
Linstantly.
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This is happening in classrooms all across the country, every day.
Kids shouldn't have to live under constant threat of violence.
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The BBC.
Globally renowned media organisation, notable for a variety of groundbreaking drama, documentaries, and the protection of nonces like Saville, Edwards, and Harris.
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Taxes growing faster than revenues, jobs about to crater, inflation about to rise, interest rates to follow, fields to be built on, disabled people to be impoverished.
And we wouldn't need to increase defence spending if you sought peace instead of prolonging wars.
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Who should own them Jeremy?
Does it make it OK if the CCP owns a social media platform like TikTok? How about if a millionaire owns one - is that OK?
How about something like Facebook, which has made Zuck into a billionaire, should he just give it away to you?
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I wouldn't want to be canvassing for Labour when the May local elections come around. The doorstep experience is going to be harrowing.
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As a country we spent £111 Billion on education in 2023-4.
Government figures say adding VAT to private school fees will raise £460 million in 2024-5 (0.41%) and £1.5 (1.35%) billion in 2025-6.
It's about £6k per school.
SFA as a share of gov spending. It's pure spite.
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Worse?
How? The economy was growing, the country was attracting investment (that you claimed credit for); we had a decent relationship with the USA; and we weren't balls deep in recession.
The Tories were incompetent you're vindictive.
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This can't be right.
Surely it must have been along the lines of 1,063 *new* health care workers, and 10,670 dependents joining *existing* visa holders already in the country?
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True.
Successive governments promised this.
Australian style
Points based
Targeted
Brexit should have delivered this.
It didn't because it was done in a way that punished the country and meant the world's brightest and best took one look, said "Fuck that" and went elsewhere.
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This is Starmer completing Blair's work of siphoning legislation out of the elected parliament and into the hands of his lickspittles.
A permanent class of pseudo-politicians to maintain an over-regulated environment that is designed to control power forever.
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Honestly, it looks as though the gov are trying to heap as much pain into the first few months of their term to try and claw things back later under a different leader.
Not sure that's going to work out as they might hope - see Truss/Sunak.
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Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire killed around 11% of the world's population in a 200 year period including every male Tartar.
Little Owen probably thinks they came from Somerset.
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Always 3 paragraphs.
Always someone else's fault.
Always a vague promise that can't be measured.
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Didn't @LauraTrottMP have to help you rewrite the schools bill because you got your sums wrong and would have given teachers a pay cut?
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You'd think that there would be extra stringent background checks about possible corruption before appointing someone as the anti-corruption minister.
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Why should someone receive a different sentence for a crime based on what's in their underpants?
Is a man's role in a family not important enough to keep them out of prison?
Children from a home without a male role model are 17% more likely to commit a crime than otherwise.
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She's so far out of her depth it's embarrassing.
If she wasn't about to wreck the lives of millions of people it would be funny, but it isn't, it's horrifying.
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Can't blame them.
Successive governments have hollowed out forces; failed to provide support and protection during and after service; and undermined the country to the point that they no longer feel it's worth fighting for.
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The slow drip of inevitability.
Feels like someone in Number 10 may be laying the foundations for Reeves to spend more time with her imagination.
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The paperwork isn't the problem Angela.
Not being able to use docusign for the purchase contract isn't stopping people buying a home.
It's excess demand driving prices up, and you lot skimming even more off the top with stamp duty.
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There's about 10,000 religions globally and 76% of the planet's population disagree with you.
Maybe they're wrong and you're right, but I don't recall the last time a Zoroastrian was so insecure about their imaginary friend that they blew up a plane to reassure themselves.
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You know what would help companies invest?
Not raising taxes to a point where you eradicate profits.
Each pound you steal to give to Mauritius, Ukraine, and Dale Vince is a pound not spent on staff training and technology that would mean more for the treasury in the long run.
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By the "free democratic world", do you mean the EU, which has a history of repeating votes until it gets the answer it wants, and making demands on member states?
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You sound like a conspiracy theorist Kevin. Imagine how you'd respond to the following:
Far Left global megalomaniac Klaus Schwab is now leader of Britain's Labour and Green parties, Starmer and Denyer his glove puppets.
You used to be a journalist.
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Releases a budget filled with inflationary policies, is surprised that it increases inflation.
Still claims to be an economist.
Literally every thing you touch turns to shit.
Resign.
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If the company belongs to the British people, do we as stakeholders have a vote in who sits on the board and how the directors are remunerated, or is it just a way to help the usual grifters get their snouts in the trough at our expense?
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That doesn't sound like a resounding vote of confidence in the PM's judgement in appointing her to the role...
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Per capita GDP likely fell on those stats.
When that's combined with rising energy costs, low business investment, and more inflation forecast, Labour's claims of putting more money in people's pockets are even more risible.
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This is the UK FTSE100 over the past 12 months. Its performance is the clearest indicator of UK economic confidence.
Since the election was called and we knew we'd have a labour government it's trended down.
Your policies have wiped billions off the value of companies which affects the value of every investment. Like pensions.
You are making people poorer. Just go.
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Putting more money in with one hand, but taking more out with 5% on energy bills that raise the price of everything and huge increases in council tax.
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Assuming you're right (which is a massive stretch for the Mirror) and he pays tax on that amount, he'll be sending the thick end of £250k to the treasury.
Or funding 6 nurses.
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Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Massive investment and hundreds of jobs lost over penny pinching by a government that's happy to throw billions around on their favourite international causes.
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The lion, the witch, and the absolute audacity of this statement.
You're claiming credit for the 2023-24 academic year when you weren't in government and not providing a link to the report to hide that.
It's here:
explore-education-statistics…
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No amount of complimentary booze would be enough to get through 4 hours of Keir droning on about black holes and bragging about killing pensioners.
I'd rather sit on the wing.
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No government will ever abolish the state pension or privatise the NHS, because it would end them forever.
Can you imagine being thick enough to believe anyone in the country would vote for a manifesto that promised this?
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Soundbites delivered by a robot.
You claim credit for things that have nothing to do with you and sow blame elsewhere for the failures of your own policies.
You don't have a clue.
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There is absolutely no relationship between introducing assisted dying and taking benefits off the elderly and disabled.
No relationship whatsoever.
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Thanks for the pointless gesture.
Of course, if team blue hadn't performed such a colossal clusterfuck of governance over the past couple of years, this policy wouldn't have even been a thing.
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Britain's moral destruction is so complete we have become a tourist destination for international nonces.
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She'll have better luck after the next cold snap when she can throw down some stats about the number of grannies dying of hypothermia.
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This is what led to the brain drain in the 70's.
The people who work their way up to a £150k salary in the UK will find that they're in demand for 2-3x that in Dubai, USA and Australia.
All offer better standards of living and recruiting companies tend to be helpful with visas.
But at least we're importing Deliveroo drivers to replace them eh?
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You also don't need to be an economist to know that if you spend money that you don't have on things that you don't need, you're going to end up bankrupt.
And yet here we are.
The longer the UK puts off its Milei moment, the more painful it's going to be.
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Really Bridget?
You have a majority of more than 150 seats, so there's nothing the Tories can do to block the bill from passing.
Their amendment asks for a national inquiry into whether those in public office covered for grooming gangs. Doesn't that improve child safety?
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Where's the ambition?
Saying you want to halve violence against women and girls suggests there's an acceptable level.
There isn't.
You're happy to chase net zero for CO2, but only willing to aim to cut this by half.
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It wouldn't surprise me if this lack of centrally available data is a major factor in why these crimes have gone on so long.
The inability of the the Ministry of Justice to collate data across different queries seems like a good justification for an inquiry.
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Barriers to growth like higher costs of employment, massive energy bills, and increased regulation?
Those barriers are from you, and the only people with "more pounds in their pockets" so far are your client groups and donors.
You're a total liability.
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Prison?
How about we just give all child r*pists the rope?
Nothing of value would be lost.
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But wouldn't sentencing two groups of people differently for the same crime be two tier justice?
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Wait, Wes Streeting, a member of the most negative government in history, that constantly denigrates the people and achievements of Britain, and has spread a message of doom and decline since they crawled into office is accusing someone of being a miserablist.
Pot, kettle, black.
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There isn't a violin small enough to mourn the end of the conservative party.
After the failures and betrayals of the past 5 years in particular, they deserve what's coming.
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Very well put.
Elected on a pack of lies to grift over a population they clearly despise.
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Disgusting man.
He won't be the only one wearing the woke cloak while being a closet racist.
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This bit:
"The split between our own preconceived ideas and, frankly, reality"
An admission by Keir that politicians are completely ideologically detached from the people they represent shows how dangerous the current government are.
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There's no such thing as cheap renewables when you're subsidising the producers by paying them not to produce and paying for wind power at the same price per MW as gas.
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Gosh, if only we were blessed with massive underground sources of fuel that could be easily extracted and used to provide cheap, reliable energy for the country.
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I'm pretty sure that nuclear (~$80 per MWh) is cheaper than offshore wind ($120 per MWh).
SMRs rather than giant Hinckley style power plants are the answer of course, but I guess labour donors don't benefit from the industry.
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Yes Rachel.
You committed to 1.5 million new homes this parliament.
To stay on target you should have completed 217,000 by now.
How's that going?
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But you're not putting the economy on a strong footing are you Rachel?
You're undermining business confidence and delivering stagnation and recession.
The best thing you could do for the UK is resign.
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No mention of the "growth" figures Rachel?
Of course not, because they're going the wrong way. Because you're an ideologically trapped moron who is wrecking the economy with every misguided action you take.
Resign.
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At that point, he would have already been briefed about all the details - the poison, the planning, the manuals, the referrals to Prevent.
He knew everything, and still chose to obfuscate.
Public reassurance at that time, rather than finger-pointing would have calmed the country, but he ran and hid, and then hit out because the grieving people had dared to shout (deserved) abuse at him.
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Cutting disability benefits. Increasing irregular migration. Rolling out increased taxes on every business.
Change promised. Change delivered.
Not the change we voted for, or the promises you made you mendacious clown.
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Imagine the editorial meeting where they decided that where this animal bought his knife was the most important thing to report about the story.
The knife wasn't the problem, the hand wielding it was.
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Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
This is addressing a problem that shouldn't exist.
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It's astonishing that the entire Labour front bench were following him, and at no point did the parliamentary IT department flag the content.
Also, why on earth hasn't it been made private yet?
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Ah, @peston, what you're forgetting here is that when @Keir_Starmer says something, it's basically bullshit.
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So Shabana, were you misleading parliament when you said "there will never be a two-tier sentencing approach under my watch or under this Labour government.”
Or were you too lazy to read the guidelines before talking about them?
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What the fck did @rachelreevesMP and @keir_starmer expect would happen when they spent the 3 months running up to the budget spreading doom and gloom and threatening punitive tax rises on business?
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What's worse is that these are just the transcripts from one case and there have been thousands.
People knew what was going on. Teachers, parents, social workers, police, and politicians. Not to mention the families and "community leaders" of the perpetrators.
They knew, and they turned a blind eye or actively covered it up so that more kids were abused.
In the past, the nation would have been united in horror if just one child had been abused, and the name of the abuser would be known to everyone.
This was child rape on an industrial scale, facilitated by cowards who didn't want to risk offending their voter base or losing face over an accusation of racism by speaking out.
There isn't a hole deep enough for these vile people to be thrown into.
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Delivering for businesses by increasing costs as much as possible through energy, rates, and taxes.
Delivering for workers through inevitable redundancies and rising prices.
After the next election, you're never getting near the levers of power again.
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