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Attentive to the summons. Tory cllr for Scotton & Lower Wensleydale, whip @northyorksc , terminally online opinion haver. Verba in locis.
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Insanely American to turn a zero-calorie drink into 500-cal sugar slop.
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Counterpoint:
Police don't stop stabbings. More police won't stop more stabbings. More police will make trains less safe for literally every marginalised group.
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All this for commercial ships
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I see Banksy is back to what he does best - uninteresting, unoriginal dogsh*t ‘we live in a society’ faux-intellectual Britpopper bait that insufferably preaches totally conventional shitlib ideology whilst performatively claiming to be deeply counter-cultural.
🇵🇸 A piece of art made by Banksy showing solidarity with those suffering in Gaza was stolen less than an hour after it was confirmed to be legit.
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The ‘gimmie’ generation.
@Gaylussite
You’re part of the ‘gimmee’ generation. Get off of social media and get a second job like I did. I worked 7 days a week to save for a deposit, you could try that … or be compassionate from your ridiculously overpriced bedsit for the rest of your life.
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Really says something that after 13 years of Tory austerity, the NHS doesn’t have a single weapons cache of this size left.
"It's not inconceivable that the pile of kalashnikovs belonged to the hospital security department".
Rather than applying Occam's Razor,
@BowenBBC
strains every sinew to cast doubt on the claim that the hospital was being used by Hamas terrorists.
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So this is how democracy dies... with the candidate the majority of the electorate voted for winning.
In a moment of gloom I start wondering if democracy died when Trump won the Iowa caucus. Well, maybe not died, but lost its ranking.
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‘Now that intimidation tactics are being applied to MPs and not random Jews on the street it’s time to do something.’
“Some of these protests are now crossing the line”
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says some pro-Palestinian protestors are going too far and that there is now “intimidation of MPs”
#BBCLauraK
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This man is still in the UK because Pakistan refuses to take this man back. Pakistan is 'the top bilateral recipient of UK aid' and has received over £1bn in aid since 2009. Pakistan also received nearly $300m in remittances from the UK last year.
We have a lever. Pull it.
Rochdale grooming gang ringleader, 54, is STILL living in Britain nearly nine years after he was meant to have been deported to Pakistan over sickening child sex offences
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Totally unsure as to why modern films - especially war films - choose to wash out all of the colour. Do they think it adds gravitas?
Lol the backstage photo on the left looks better than the actual movie
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@SholaMos1
@AuschwitzMuseum
You are shouting at the official Twitter account of the Auschwitz Museum. Take some time away from the internet.
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Deep England is an unbeatable aesthetic
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‘He discovered plagiarism is what he did. He was a brave Italian journalist. And in this house, Christopher Rufo is a hero. End of story!’
I feel compelled to respond to the accusation that I am connected with the Italian mafia. I have never had any business, financial, or professional relationship with any member of any organized crime family, in the US or in Italy.
Does our family lore include a colorful cast of…
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@sarahjolney1
Sarah, have you considered that people who buy houses under the flight paths of one of the busiest airports in the world and then are upset by the amount of planes passing over their houses could just sell those houses?
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@AwayDays_
Just another of the heroic, noble stands that run through our history like a golden thread. Makes you proud to be British.
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🚨 NEW: Labour want to train young male influencers to counter negative impact of people like Andrew Tate
[
@Guardian
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The leader of the free world has had rolling blackouts since 2007, an unemployment rate of 30%, a poverty rate of 63%, one of the highest murder rates in the world, endemic corruption and barely functioning infrastructure, administration, education & health systems.
South Africa is now the leader of the free world.
Western moral authority has been buried, along with thousands of Palestinians, under the rubble of Gaza.
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>Historic British company wins huge government contract to deploy vast amounts of groundbreaking new technology
>Will provide clean energy to protect the living standards of citizens and the environment
>It’s in Poland
Rolls Royce now has full government permission to move forward with its plan to deploy its 470 MW SMRs in Poland. Article link in reply.
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Conservative digital strategy is cheapening government. This is the government appointing a new Home Secretary, not Bristol City signing emergency cover at centre back.
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I think we’re pretty far from murdering the leader of the opposition, arresting his supporters and erasing his memory actually, but then I’m not mental.
Shocking scenes from Moscow of Russian police bundling anyone laying flowers for Navalny away. But how far off is this from what we have right now in the UK under the Tories?
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Special relationship update: how could Britain and America’s centuries-long intertwined history, shared language, common culture and mutual respect hope to win out against the American desire to pretend they are Irish?
🇮🇪🇺🇸 'You can bet your bottom dollar that Joe Biden will be taking a keen interest in Ireland’s lawsuit against Britain.'
Read how Biden gave his personal blessing for Dublin's legal challenge ⬇️
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@thechosenberg
Oh he’s gonna regret this one, I can feel the decades long pain of regret already
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Wow, who could have predicted a culture that denigrates a country’s values, culture and history to the point that the idea it’s worthy of respect - never mind dying for - is ridiculous would result in low levels of military participation?
The UK military’s recruitment is struggling because Gen Z isn’t signing up to serve,
@BWallaceMP
has warned 🗣️
The former Defence Secretary told
@LBC
Britain needs to "do things differently" to increase numbers of younger people joining the forces
👇
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Is there perhaps a third country with a health system we could compare notes with? Or are these the only two?
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Channel migrants now allowed to work - at 80% of the going rate, with state subsidised housing.
This is not a sustainable way to run an economy. Or a society.
🔴 Channel migrants have been quietly given the right to work in sectors including care, construction and agriculture and can still retain access to state-subsidised bed and board under a Home Office scheme
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I think pride month is my favourite time of year because it’s insanely funny to me that companies like Raytheon spend an entire month trying to convince everyone that their guided missiles don’t discriminate on the basis of gender or sexuality.
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@Claire_M
The majority of the population, who are normal, will enjoy this exhibition, because they are normal.
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The far right, famously willing to take their orders from a woman of Indian extraction in the pages of The Times. Always been their MO.
The far-right has been emboldened by the Home Secretary. She has spent her week fanning the flames of division. They are now attacking the Police on Armistice Day.
The Home Secretary's position is untenable. She must resign.
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“But you did have other options. You had asylum in Greece.”
“I can’t swim & I thought maybe I will die. But did I have another option to make it here? No”
An Iranian who crossed the Channel in a small boat describes risking his life – and says the threat of deportation to Rwanda won’t stop people trying:
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‘The portrayal of Starmer as a woke culture warrior bringing in US identity politics is pretty implausible.’
The portrayal of Starmer as a woke culture warrior bringing in US identity politics is pretty implausible. It may resonate more with some of those who see conservatives like Cameron, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Mordaunt as too woke too.
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This is insane. The voters of Burnley completely let down by councillors more interested in ethnic conflicts thousands of miles away than the issues facing their voters. We’re elected to do the bins, not take a stance on global conflict.
BREAKING: The leader of Burnley Council and 10 other councillors have resigned from the Labour Party over Sir Keir Starmer's decision not to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, Sky News understands
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Museums run by people who hate them latest.
Think it's been in the works for awhile but saw confirmation today that the De Wadden museum ship in Liverpool is getting scrapped despite the museum recently getting a ten million pound grant which they will use to build a 'slavery reflection room' :/
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@peachlybeloved
@colorlessblue
I’m sure it would have been perfectly safe in *checks notes* Iraq
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Illustrates 1 of the largely unacknowledged distortions of immigration polling. Polling tends to show support for immigration is higher in areas of high immigration, which it offers as evidence of support for immigration - rather than just having asked a higher % of immigrants.
Leicester is the one least white places in the UK so I went to ask them about immigration
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Good news, London renters! Sadiq is going to solve the housing crisis by using your taxes to price you out of the market in order to buy social housing you won’t qualify for.
Sadiq Khan to divert AHP development grant into buying 10,000 existing private homes: Challenging market sees Mayor shift away from development towards helping local authorities buy homes on the open market for council housing
#ukhousing
#housing
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The best time to arrest and deport radicals preaching jihad on your streets was yesterday. The second best time is today.
Mohammed El Kurd at the pro-terror rally in London today:
“We must normalize massacres as the status quo”
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Thank u for your service
@Bren4Bassetlaw
For context, I am one of the thousands of public servants who spends every day sweating blood to keep alive a justice system which you have merrily desecrated; defunding and degrading at every turn, only ever speaking up to make false, ignorant attacks on lawyers and judges, and,…
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Absolutely and totally immoral that British citizens are subjected to this.
Our toleration is being utterly abused through a perverse immigration system that prioritises the rights of foreign criminals over the rights & interests of citizens. Deportation & reformation - now.
An Afghan illegal immigrant on the sex offenders register was granted refugee status, not despite being a sex offender but because he is a sex offender. His asylum claim was initially rejected but his lawyers successfully appealed on the grounds that his habit of public…
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Classic feckless, spineless, useless liberal hand-wringing; denouncing Braverman for her ‘inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric’ when there are people openly calling for jihad and intifadas on our streets.
"[It was] inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric."
The Interim Director of Liberty, Akiko Hart, says the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, showed a "failure of leadership" after branding pro-Palestine marches as 'hate marches'.
#Newsnight
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One in four pensioners is a millionaire.
More than 10% of all public spending goes on the state pension
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@SamCoatesSky
As a pensioner, I feel screwed over (again) by the "tax cut" (such as it is) being on NI, not actual income tax. Hardly trying to work that Grey Vote, is he?
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This works on the assumption every university is worth saving. But I don’t think Former Ringroad Polytechnic should be able to sell visas to subsidise research into whether alarm clocks are racist, regardless of how many anti-racist horological historians become unemployed.
If you want UK students to get ~£12k of education for £9250 you need to find the subsidy somewhere. If you want to fund research at 80% of full economic cost you need to find the subsidy somewhere. None of the complaints about international students ever have any suggestion where
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Events abroad can cause ethnic tension to spill into violence on Britain’s streets, but Braverman was totally wrong to say multiculturalism has failed.
Tragically, we know that violence in the Middle East can lead to a rise in hate crime in London.
I’m in touch with senior officers at the Met & communities across our city. Let me be clear - hate crime in London will not be tolerated. Now or ever.
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This is the pub they’re talking about. Bazza is actually their mate Bartholomew, who went to Charterhouse and did Art History at Bristol. He has been cosplaying as a working class Londoner since 2019 and holds every unremarkable metrolefty opinion you’d expect.
British politician with a voice like a mosquito: well of course uh you know Israel uh has a yes right to defend itself and uh of course international law and of course
"Bazza" in the pub six pints deep: well its fucking settler colonialism over there innit mate
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‘In this New Britain we are building, there are no criminals. Only the victims of inadequate social services.’
His parents couldn’t change him.
His teachers couldn’t change him.
But clearly access to a swimming pool and ping pong would.
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Groundbreaking stuff Marianna!
In tonight's BBC Panorama,
@JustinOnWeb
and I look ahead to an unprecedented US election year. Trump: The Sequel?
I've been investigating how Trump supporters create and share AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage them to vote Republican.
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Quelle est la charge? Manger un repas? Un succulent repas glacée?
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@JohnFielder1
They have killed anyone but they have tried. The fact they have a serious skill issue is irrelevant.
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This, but en masse across the arts sector.
A sensible, genuinely conservative government shouldn’t provide funding to people who f*cking hate us.
KNEECAP STATEMENT
We’ve been blocked from receiving significant music funding because a Tory Minister doesn’t like our art.
F*ck the Tories
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Every State Opening of Parliament the BBC invite on at least one guest who despises the whole thing, and they always use some variation of 'it's not normal'. A deeply unoriginal, uninteresting and incurious viewpoint.
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One in four pensioners is a millionaire.
Was interesting the pensioners in our focus group in Whitby last night were dismayed there was nothing for them in the budget, will be interested to see if it becomes a theme.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a statue of the late Queen going up in Trafalgar Square so that 'art' will appear instead. The first six month exhibit will be casts of the faces of 850 cross-dressing prostitutes
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Absolutely staggering clip from this interview; part of the criticism levelled at the Foreign Office is that it is ‘very focussed on national interest.’
Should the Foreign Office be abolished?
Moazzam Malik, its former director general, is among a group of senior diplomats and officials calling for the FCO to be replaced by a new Department for International Affairs with 'fewer colonial era pictures on the wall'.
#R4Today
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NHS worship now includes doctoral infallibility.
My daughter was there with my 8 year old grandson - she’s an NHS doctor. How dare he talk in this way
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What polling bump do we reckon removing a Home Secretary to please a baying crowd of people who never vote conservative and appointing a China lobbyist as Foreign Secretary will have?
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There are @ 1,100 dental school places available in the UK p.a, a number relatively stable since 2013.
Govt states this cap is to “to ensure teaching, learning & assessment standards are maintained as well as ensuring there are enough high quality placements for each student.”
NHS dentists: Exam could be scrapped for overseas applicants in England
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Someone should do these lads a favour and remind them they’re in their 30’s now.
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TLDR: soft power is FAKE
If £1 billion in aid cannot convince Pakistan — a formal ally — to allow us to deport dual nationals, how much use is soft power to the national interest?
@93vintagejones
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The long ‘60s still casts its pallid shadow. The cultural myth that Boomers created, of permarevolution against a permaestablishment, is so powerful that (despite atheism sustaining cultural hegemony for 50+ years) satirising Christianity is still seen as ‘transgressive’.
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Chris Daw clearly visibly shocked to find that people with him at a pro-Palestine March do not, in fact, care equally about innocents of either side being murdered.
🆕 SNP MP Chris Law booed and forced to abandon his speech at a Palestine solidarity demo in Dundee after telling the crowd he has equal sympathy with Israelis and Palestinians and condemns "everyone".
#StopGazaGenocide
#CeasefireNow
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UK Civil Servants are now receiving training that Prevent, the UK's Counter-Terrorism strategy, 'is inherently racist because it focusses on Islamic Extremism.'
"One presentation was about the UK’s Counter Terrorism Strategy, Prevent. She argued Prevent is inherently racist because it focuses on Islamist extremism. The mere mention of Islamist extremism makes Muslims ‘feel uncomfortable’, she argued.
I raised the point that nearly 70…
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Leftist elites are constantly resentful of the failure of sans-cullotes to play the role ascribed to them by leftist theory; by contrast the failure of elites to deliver the ideals of leftism are conveniently forgotten.
"I was a skilled steel worker.
Now I'm delivering parcels for minimum wage, self employed, no rights.
It stinks.
Think we'll lose the house.
Vote Brexit, they said, save Steel.
Vote Boris, they said, save Steel.
I'll still vote tory again - I don't trust Labour"
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@ClarkeMicah
‘Happy New Year? On what grounds do you presume it will be happy? There is no reason - none - not to assume it will be another year of decline, of retreat, of surrender. Simply another marker in the passing of that which once was great.’
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Britain is a healthcare system with a country attached.
The entire country exists just to pay for the NHS
Any other expenditure — including defence — is wasted money.
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Recollections may vary.
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“We need to build beautiful developments with infrastructure to stop NIMBYs objecting to housing!”
NIMYBs when you propose a beautiful development with infrastructure:
Anger at King Charles' plan to build an 'ideal town' in Kent: Locals lash out at Duchy of Cornwall over proposals for 2,500 homes on 320 acres of farmland which they fear will 'swallow up historic villages into an urban mass'
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The Byline Times has never reported on child sexual exploitation in Britain *except* to decry commentary on the ethnic make up of the gangs committing the crimes.
Hugely important in-depth exposé of how the far right are grooming victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. With powerful & brave testimony from “Lara” & a really sharp, thoughtful look at various factors contributing to this brutal mess. By
@AndrewKersley
for
@BylineTimes
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Oh no! Imagine living in a high trust society at ease with its ancient history, enduring a housing glut of 10m homes and an economy packed with well-run domestically-owned businesses that dominate highly profitable industries.
Better the rising sun than the setting one.
How to enrage
@thetimes
readers. Say “Britain is getting old. We need immigrants”. A warning : Japan - population down from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122.8 million now. From 2nd largest economy to 4th - overtaken by China and Germany. Soon, by India too.
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Jesus Christ, these people would have an aneurysm if they went to a rugby club.
Macron accused of ‘toxic masculinity’ for downing a beer
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The Secret Tory wasn’t really a Tory? Wow. You’re telling me now for the first time.
Who is the Secret Tory?
All is revealed in...
The Tories!
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Alastair Campbell concerned that media outlets may be publishing unsubstantiated claims from the government.
The right wing rags like the Express and the Mail are a big part of the reason our politics and therefore our country is in such a mess. They should be swept into the dustbin of history along with the Tories.
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If only Remainers had implied Leave voters were stupid during the referendum I’m sure they’d have won.
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