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Michael Walker

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@Boyintheband
Michael Walker
4 years
@doctor_oxford @solange_lebourg the people who do real things. I'm wondering if this is an opportunity to reset how we run society and who we reward
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2 years
@SandraSmith1310 @BBCDanielS Me too. That would be one of the best things that could happen to the UK
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2 years
@lara_spirit So many layers of wrong: Johnson shouldn't get any resignation honours after being forced to resign in disgrace; Truss shouldn't get to play with the timing to suit her short term aims
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Michael Walker
2 years
@BInvestigates @peterjukes The Mail is a festering cancer at the heart of British political life. If it's brought down by this, I shall celebrate
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2 years
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@resourcefulco @garius almost like they motion-captured a cat
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Michael Walker
4 years
@ReicherStephen @acgrayling Johnson is lost without Cummings and he knows it
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Michael Walker
2 years
@LOS_Fisher UK security has already been thoroughly compromised by Russians who were welcomed
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Michael Walker
4 years
@AndyShaw1 @GretaThunberg if it's not scaring you, you haven't been paying attention
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Michael Walker
3 years
@miltownroad @GBNEWS that'll double the viewing figures
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1 year
@purdieross @GlasgowNPolice now that's just milking it
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Michael Walker
1 year
@splak_ @QasimRashid Not really. The military are people we pay and train to have and use guns under a chain of command. Everyone else doesn't need them
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Michael Walker
2 years
@rob_larder @josiahmortimer Because they reduce the chance of people being able to vote who probably wouldn't vote Conservative while 'solving' a problem that doesn't exist
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Michael Walker
2 years
@Telegraph How about giving private tenants the right to buy from buy-to-let landlords who are charging them more than the cost of a mortgage + maintenance? That would help a lot more
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Michael Walker
3 years
@Nigel_Farage This is what the Human Rights Act 1998 enshrines in British law. Why would you want to remove any of these protections?
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Michael Walker
5 years
@MumGooner @Jacob_Rees_Mogg How can you so massively misunderstand that the EU is a group of friendly nations that agree to cooperate for the benefits of all, including greater rights and freedoms, better consumer protection and enhanced international security?
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Michael Walker
2 years
@MegawattPusher @maddoxrules I think you've nailed it
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3 years
@davidallengreen @DavidGHFrost "You're not taking us seriously!" screams negotiator who didn't take seriously the agreement he made
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@Boyintheband
Michael Walker
4 years
@ScottPresler @realDonaldTrump that video showed legal votes being collected so they could be counted the only person trying to steal the vote is Trump
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Michael Walker
4 years
@undisburundis @GretaThunberg no, it's more fun watching the Trumpistas failing to realise what she's done
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@Boyintheband
Michael Walker
7 years
@dontbrexitfixit Brexit won't solve a single real problem the UK faces today; but it will create a whole load of additional real ones
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Michael Walker
2 years
@csav55 @Mike_Fabricant Yep, they can – finally – see Brexit failing all around them so have to blame anyone but themselves
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Michael Walker
3 years
@AnthonyDooley @lisanandy @BylineTimes Yes, let's have a go at an opposition politician rather than look at the one who's in power with an overwhelming majority welcoming a racist dictator
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Michael Walker
2 years
@GooRee @AdamJKucharski @kakape This is the bit that drives me mad - the persistent repeated failure to understand that by the time you're *really sure* it's exponential, you have already locked in several days or weeks' growth whatever you then do
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@Boyintheband
Michael Walker
7 years
@pathfinder_68 @Nigel_Farage @DavidLammy ..whereas Nigel looks like the kind of guy that you wouldn't want accompanying your child under any circumstances?
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Michael Walker
4 years
@drpeterjbrown @Joe_Mayes @SamCoatesSky @MakeUK_ @afneil but, but ...don't the printers print themselves?
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Michael Walker
4 years
@thetimes Dog whistle racism. If people live, work and pay taxes here, this is their country
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Michael Walker
4 years
@SteveBarclay @premierleague @FA I'd rather see the Brexit Secretary job given to someone whose IQ approaches room temperature
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Michael Walker
5 years
@AdamBienkov This tells us two things about Johnson: 1) He doesn't think that carefully about what he says in public; 2) He is not used to being held to account Not a great set of characteristics for a Prime Minister
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Michael Walker
5 years
@inhollington @robhwilliamson @KateHoeyMP @BBCWorld @robwatsonbbc Like being out of an aircraft in flight without a parachute
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Michael Walker
2 years
@DouglasKMurray @piersmorgan @TalkTV gotta laugh about Piers Morgan hosting any discussion about truth
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Michael Walker
2 years
@AnnieB_H @lmharpin So they should be glad to see a government that wants to improve education for everyone, not just the better-off
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Michael Walker
1 year
@MayerAgain and there's the problem. It's not a privilege to be white, it's an accident of birth
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Michael Walker
3 years
@ABridgen Instead of tearing the Tories apart, you have torn the nation apart. At least you are honest about your objectives
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Michael Walker
2 years
@Sarsay2010 @NadineDorries @BorisJohnson None of the above. General election ASAP
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3 years
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Michael Walker
2 years
@AndrewEQuinn @pritipatel She has probably been advised that this won't pass either House. It's just to drum up support from the racist base in the local elections
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Michael Walker
3 years
@blmmcpher @claraeuro @Daily_Express Thoughtful of the French to put the notices in English for the global monoglots
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Michael Walker
3 years
@noelle_nole1 @bmay @ByDonkeys are you up for this one?
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Michael Walker
5 years
@C4Dispatches I'll give him one fractional honesty point for saying 'receive' rather than 'earn'
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Michael Walker
4 years
@JamesGrindrod @TVietor08 I'd say the rot set in when Cameron got a majority in 2015 on less than 37% of the vote. It all flowed from there.
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Michael Walker
2 years
@a_tri_sisters @NadineDorries @trussliz Indeed. And neither is fit to be PM
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Michael Walker
3 months
@LizWebsterSBF If he shares Farage's views, he might be a bit interested to know that the reason we have West Indian and Pakistani communities in the UK is ... war
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Michael Walker
2 years
@timmyvoe @trussliz You realise this is also the chart of how much taxpayers' money is being given to international energy firms, right?
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3 years
@SHADOWAEMEH @J_Scott_95 BLM is a protest movement based on centuries of clear and continuing racial discrimination and abuse, not an ethnic group
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Michael Walker
6 years
@jjstewart457 @CarolineLucas Is it coincidental that it says 'monster displays' underneath the picture?
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Michael Walker
5 months
@CAupdates There should be no future for hunting with hounds
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Michael Walker
4 years
@darrengrimes_ When you're six feet down, stop digging, Darren
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Michael Walker
1 year
@T_ArnoldUK @stueyrockstar @ktbeast8 @JuliaHB1 @jaybee825 @siddharthkara @joerogan @GretaThunberg It is sick that children are exploited irrespective of whether or not Greta Thunberg's views are shared. Don't try to make this her fault.
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Michael Walker
6 years
@Nicolac88612909 @DinasDevil @07538517312 @g_gosden @GrahamTope1 @NadineDorries Here's another fact, since you're not a bot. Polls consistently show that people now recognise the decision to leave was wrong and the 1.4m of two years ago isn't there any more.
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@Boyintheband
Michael Walker
7 years
@SerenaJB3 @TheJakeWarren @Arron_banks not defending Islamic extremists, just pointing out simple truth that we don't yet know who did it
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Michael Walker
2 years
@christopherhope Hmm, tough choice: fit air filters in every school classroom in the country to protect children and teachers from Covid, or build an unwanted vanity monument to Johnson's ego?
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Michael Walker
2 years
@ProfDaveAndress It's not the Passport Office that's poor value for money, it's the passports. The old ones used to let you into 27 other European countries with no bother.
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Michael Walker
5 years
@gweccles @Conservatives @MarkFieldUK 'possible terrorist'? Come on, he wouldn't have attacked her like that if he really thought she might be carrying a gun, knife or bomb. He just thought here's someone annoying me that I can dominate physically
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Michael Walker
5 years
@andreajenkyns The EU has been saying for months that a time-limited or unilaterally revocable backstop isn't a backstop. It's nothing to do with 'remain ministers'
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Michael Walker
2 years
@UtilityMonster2 @lukemcgee Brexit. Ended Cameron's premiership and destroys everything it touches
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4 years
@mrjamesob The Brexiter mindset: 1. Hate the EU 2. Find a reason
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Michael Walker
2 years
@ShepherdWales @MatthewStadlen Labour would have offered a 2nd referendum. You could have voted for Brexit again, and so could everyone else who still wanted it. And we might have got a govt that respected parliament instead of trying to shut it down
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Michael Walker
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@alanjstedman or any understanding that no one 'wins' here after what's happened, but there is a wide range of loss options?
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Michael Walker
2 years
@puzzledzimbo @lmharpin That's because successive Tory education ministers have put increasing focus on rote learning and passing exams, plus school league tables that measure only output as judged that way
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Michael Walker
3 years
@KeyserTweet @KOLDNews it's happening because of bigger cars with bigger motors
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Michael Walker
1 year
@rolandmcs If you substitute ‘lizard people’ for ‘woke blob’ you get a good sense of the sanity of the writer
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Michael Walker
4 years
@JJHTweets Isn't this the same government that got elected through misinformation, promising to deliver a policy that was narrowly and dubiously voted for three years earlier also as a result of coordinated misinformation? Is the 77th a.k.a. the Cambridge Analytica Old Boys?
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Michael Walker
5 years
@wmarybeard Using logic, slide rule or calculator, prove that 1 > 27
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Michael Walker
2 years
@CatharineHoey @PippaCrerar So you want to impose a Brexit loyalty test on the civil service? That didn't work well for the Conservative government
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Michael Walker
4 years
@michielhoefsmit @pookleblinky @MaraWilson It wasn't for charity. It was for the UK's state-funded National Health Service. Captain Tom Moore raised £32m and was feted by all the same newspapers that had cheered on a decade of deliberate government under-funding of the NHS. Hypocrisy so thick you can choke on it.
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Michael Walker
5 years
@stockha Sheila, if you're a real person, please go, you're the kind we don't want in the UK
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Michael Walker
3 years
@stanjonesfreng @Nigel_Farage The EU just thinks you shouldn't get benefits of membership without being a member. If you choose to see that as punishment, that's your mistake. If you want a say in their rules, stay in the EU.
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Michael Walker
2 years
@Himself132 @joymorrissey @BorisJohnson Ah, but the law was only broken 'for a limited and specific' time, a defense that works nowhere
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Michael Walker
4 years
@heywoodbill @BBCHelena The one on the right is the second class reduced rights version
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Michael Walker
2 years
@danielmgmoylan @MatthewStadlen @BorisJohnson @Andrew_Adonis there is also a huge amount of resentment in the country that Johnson led a campaign of lies that robbed us of our rights and our children of future opportunities
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Michael Walker
2 years
@DavidPa97675029 @alexhallhall plenty of facts have already emerged but we have an electorate that's mostly disengaged, plus a small but noisy section who will deny it all, abetted by an incestuous media
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Michael Walker
2 years
@LuvFB_HateFifa @Florents1990R @spectator if they kept it any more in the family, we'd be seeing club feet
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Michael Walker
6 years
@norfolkmum1 @MineoLorraine @Anna_Soubry @peoplesvote_uk So then you should be able to understand why half the country feels it's being ignored or insulted, and in this case attacked, for trying to change course while there's still time.
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3 years
@Lost_Droids @BorisJohnson 'shuffling fools badly' is the quote that comes to mind
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Michael Walker
5 years
@NickyMorgan01 Brexit is not in the national interest and pushing ahead with it when most of the public don't want to any more will not unite the country
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Michael Walker
5 months
@mikegalsworthy @DavidHeadViews It’s been apparent for as long as Rees-Mogg has been in the public eye that he doesn’t embody real British values
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Michael Walker
3 years
@Melshenny1 @RNLI You have had a comfortable and secure life by the sounds of it. Try and imagine why someone would leave their country with no more than they can carry and travel thousands of miles to a country they don't know to seek safety, risking their life on the way
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Michael Walker
5 years
@AlineDobbie @BoudicaRivers @furrybootsru May I apologise for Aline, she doesn't represent very many Britons who are loyal to their country's values or traditions of disrespect to politicians who don't merit respect; we have no problem with Americans per se, just that one
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3 years
@agirlcalledlina @tomhfh ignorance of foreign languages is a point of honour amongst the Brexins
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Michael Walker
3 years
@woodley_martin @BBCPolitics All they're doing is competing to bill for you it. It's part of the bogus 'competition' that drives up costs through wasteful duplication and requirement for shareholder profit that the Thatcher administration inflicted on the natural monopolies that the utilities are
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Michael Walker
2 years
@AvaSantina If pressed, Raab would have to admit that he meant the short and incomplete version has been published 'in full', but of course he's gaslighting
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Michael Walker
5 years
@IainDale Few in politics have displayed as little empathy for anyone as May, so it's only fitting
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Michael Walker
5 years
@Alain_Deckers @toadmeister and how many from poorer backgrounds complete their degrees? Inadequate maintenance loans put pressure on parents for student livings costs support and not all can
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Michael Walker
4 years
@ShowerAbsolute @GeorgeMonbiot @grabcocque @IamHappyToast fairer to say 'a man relaxed about supporting a man accused widely but with no real evidence of antisemitism, writes'
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Michael Walker
2 years
@KEdge23 Johnson was late with every critical decision, except when he was too early. He gambled with the vaccine licensing because of his earlier dithering, got lucky, and then allowed us to overtaken by several European / EU countries. It's hard to imagine a worse leader at such a time.
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Michael Walker
3 years
@Red65Dave @DavidGHFrost We'd have done better if Frost had drunk the whisky rather than the Brexit Kool Aid
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Michael Walker
3 years
@davidallengreen I think this sums Trump up rather well. His approach to everything is transactional, 'what's in it for me?' If he can break promises and get away with it, he'll see no reason not to continue doing so; it makes him a 'winner'. Same goes for Johnson here.
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Michael Walker
3 years
@PippaCrerar Have they put Chris Grayling in charge? Expect a hotel chain with no hotels to be announced imminently
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2 years
@BBCPolitics Except from the government's own figures, of course
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3 years
@ChrisMasonBBC 1. Deny there is a problem. Mention vaccines. 2. Warn the public. Mention vaccines. 3. 'There will be no lockdown'. 4. Lockdown. Blame the public. 5. We'll be OK for Christmas. Mention vaccines. 6. Lockdown for Christmas. Blame the EU. repeat each autumn until out of office
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Michael Walker
5 years
@piersmorgan Wrong. Letwin amendment only stops a sneak no-deal brexit by an untrustworthy government
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@markjenkinsonmp She is everything that makes you feel - and look - inadequate
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5 years
@realDSteinberg @SykesCharlie The fact he's carrying weapon like that is acting strangely. I'd be terrified and look to get out asAP.
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Michael Walker
2 years
@ScobbieJames @spectator The Spectator is one of this government's regular trial outlets for indefensible ideas
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Michael Walker
3 years
@Edele_Bear @carolecadwalla It needs to be given some resources and some real teeth rather than slap on the wrist fines that Banks and his crowd can shrug off as a cost of doing business. But don't look to this corruption-riddled government to provide them
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Michael Walker
2 years
@geordiegazza471 @AngelaRayner The law wasn't about parties, it was about gatherings. The party aspect was just the insult to the tens of millions who followed the rules out of concern for each other
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Michael Walker
4 years
@harrington1451 @ChrissieGrech @andreajenkyns amazing that this debunked argument is still floating around
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