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@CarlCastro_USC
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1 year
@simonharris_mbd Daily Mail: “Let’s just make up the news and if the news changes and we were in fact wrong, just act like we were right all along.”
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@archer_rs There should be nothing secret about anyone getting a lifetime appointment to the House of Lords.
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@cctvidiots Was she going to throw her shoe at him for running off?
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@SuzanneatSavvy The Tories made a decision to take money away from anything that helped the British people and give it to themselves and their families along with Tory friends and donors. It’s the only consistent strategy the Tories have stuck to.
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@implausibleblog Starmer has openly called the Tories corrupt. Brilliant.
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7 months
@BladeoftheS Wouldn’t be surprised to learn Sunak’s wife has major investments in car insurance companies or his father-in-law.
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1 year
@justinmadders The Torries have been consistently dishonest, inhumane and mean spirited. This began under Cameron and has continued through Johnson to Sunak. Johnson added the lying and grifting, which has also continued under Sunak.
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@LizWebsterSBF @jayrayner1 @euromove @mikegalsworthy @SaveBritishFood Sustainable farming must be supported by the government to be profitable. Why do the Tories only support initiatives that line their own pockets or those of their families and friends?
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7 months
@jasrifootball @ChasingSnyder Kittle was too busy trash talking and he missed the fumble.
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@CarlCastro_USC
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1 year
@_HenryBolton @SimonCalder Bolton has never seen a problem that isn’t the responsibility of somebody else to fix. It’s never the Tory government’s fault. It’s always someone else’s. Despite the Tories being in power for 14 years and wrecking literally the nation. It’s always someone else’s fault.
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1 year
@mikeysmith Sunak: “All rules were followed.” Public: “Here we go again.”
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@CarlCastro_USC
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8 months
@Hawk The Packers had back-to-back Hall of Fame quarterbacks for over 30 years and won just two Super Bowls. Is that success?
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1 year
@LBC @NickGibbUK @IainDale Tory: “Labour will crash the economy!” Informed Voter: “The Tories did crash the economy.” Tory: “Labour will run up the debt!” Informed Voter: “The debt has more than doubled under Tory.” Tory: “Are you a socialist?”
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@Peston Compensating the victims would be so easy for the government to do because they are the ones who caused the harm. That they have not done so yet is evidence they don’t really care. It’s how the Tories have led the UK for the past 15 years.
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@CarlCastro_USC
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6 months
@BladeoftheS Labour needs to announce all of these “deals” will be undone.
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10 months
@implausibleblog My god. Sunak’s got amnesia for one of most significant events of the 21st century!
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2 years
@clairebubblepop My god, Fiona Bruce is using the “I was only following orders” defence. It has been established since the Nuremberg trials that that is no defence. Doing the right thing is what is required.
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1 year
@danielsgoldman If this was such an important meeting, why did folks leave before it was over?
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1 year
@AdamBienkov @Beany_1 Edwards makes extremely vile and racist comments and then demands to be investigated to determine whether what he said was actually vile and racist. FFS! He should be fired.
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@EuropeanPowell It’s got to be true that on a per person basis the Tories are the party of welfare, grifting and tax exceptions, especially for the wealthy.
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1 year
@ciaranmartinoxf Sue Gray is honorable. Sunak and his government should be ashamed for trying to smear a true patriot.
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1 year
@RadioFreeTom PBS used to show all kinds of surgeries on TV. And I naively thought, “Hey, I could do that.” Hip replacement, no problem. Knee surgery, no problem. That’s until I couldn’t even do one of the simple home improvement projects that I also watched on PBS.
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6 months
@paulmcleary @LeeHudson_ Let’s see, my competition is paying more for less work. What to do? What to do?
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1 year
@Peston The Tory cabinet are corrupt. They know they are corrupt. So, the Tories, to make their corrupt behaviour look norma, blame others for doing the same corrupt things. Except these accusations are just more corrupt Tory lies.
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@BladeoftheS Conservatives don’t want to fund a state pension or the NHS because that means there will be less for them to steal and grift.
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2 years
@MarieAnnUK An eighty-six-year old millionaire who doesn’t even live in the UK willing to risk it all on Brexit. Brilliant. This is the reason young people starting out in life don’t listen to old folks anymore. Too many have stopped making sense.
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1 year
@JMPSimor So the photo op yesterday of the PM looking at a pothole was the Tory version of virtue signaling? A real leader would have staff who take care of these kind of things so the PM could focus on larger issues like the NHS, a education system, economy, etc.
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1 year
@EODHappyCaptain There is no statute of limitations. An award can be initiated anytime. Do it. Be sure to include witness statements.
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@CarlCastro_USC
Carl Castro
3 years
@DavidSantoro1 If the Russian invasion of the Ukraine would have been quick and decisive, then there probably wouldn’t have been any real pushback. The courage showed by the Ukrainians and their President galvanized the world.
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3 years
@Paradox91536461 @nytimes Putin was never going to allow the Ukraine to exist independently. He was always going to find a justification for reintegrating Ukraine back into Russia. The same for the Baltic States, Belarus and a few area regions.
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@GlowanneLee Why didn’t Harry pay for his own security?
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10 months
@JMPSimor This is the shortest and clearest explanation of what is happening in the UK right now. Hopefully, most understand this basic and fundamental point.
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8 months
@PeterStefanovi2 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @MrDavidCatt1 Rees-Mogg refuses to listen to those directly impacted by the damage Brexit has done and will continue to do to farming. And that in a nutshell is the problem with the Tories. They refuse to acknowledge any bad news around Brexit.
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@cmclymer What’s a bigger truth is that those who have their first kid don’t realize how much their life is going to change. For some bizarre reason they think that having two cats has prepared them for the responsibility of being a parent.
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1 year
@DeborahMeaden Pay the junior doctors the same pay rate increase that MPs got for the last ten years. That would be fair.
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8 months
@LizWebsterSBF What happened to common sense law? Anyone living or working in the UK for the past five years before the Brexit vote should automatically be granted permanent UK status. Those less than five years, fill out the application. Come on.
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@NileGardiner Name 3 things the UK has done with its new found freedom that it couldn’t do while in the EU. Nothing hypothetically. Something concrete. I will start. The UK signed some atrocious trade deals. Ok. What else?
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10 months
@ChristabelCoops @syrpis The reality is that migrants rarely compete for the same jobs. Migrants either come in to do highly skilled jobs that are in short supply (doctors, nurses, IT) or do the jobs that no one else wants to do (farm work, labour).
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1 year
@imillhiser The electoral college was specifically set up to do exactly what it’s doing. It’s preventing someone from carrying a minority of the most populated states from becoming president.
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8 months
@implausibleblog It sounds like Tata used the UK government’s £500 million “investment” to offset the costs in shutting down the steel plants.
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1 year
@RadioFreeTom If would have been funnier if Trump had pushed Jesus out of the way for “the photo” of the last super so that he was in the center.
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1 year
@JohnWest_JAWS @BorisJohnson The parties Johnson hosted at Chequers will blow people’s minds when they learn of them.
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1 year
@NormanBrennan Please stop saying the “system failed.” The individuals in charge of the system failed. Theses individuals have names. They should be held responsible.
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Carl Castro
3 years
@NGrossman81 It highlights how protected so many Americans have lived that they cannot understand what real persecution is.
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1 year
@SteveSchmidtSES The leadership at CNN has no moral compass. For a news network that’s a problem.
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6 months
@implausibleblog It’s called asset stripping. And the water companies with the assistance of the government have done a phenomenal job. .
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@CarlCastro_USC
Carl Castro
2 years
@alexhallhall The UK electorate were admired around the world for their common sense and pragmatic approach to government. That illusion was broken with Brexit because of the lies and deceptions that the voters believed. This loss of respect will take decades to recover.
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1 year
@mrjamesob Those who received honors from Johnson are now obliged to defend him. Otherwise they fear their honor may be viewed as tainted. Alas, it is tainted. No matter what these dishonorable folks do.
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1 year
@mrjamesob Tory voter: “I am doing very well.” Informed Citizen: “The UK is poorer after 15 years of the Conservatives in charge.” Tory voter: “I am doing very very well.” Informed Citizen: “What about the rest of the Nation?” Tory voter: “I am doing very well.”
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9 months
@AlexWW1701 @piper4missouri If Washington bought his teeth that came from a living slave, he likely bought them from the owner of the slave.
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1 year
@LBC @IainDale Private health care is all about skimming off the top, with investors making a fortune and leaving the government to foot the bill for the rest. And if the government won’t do it then bankrupt those who need care or let them die.
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1 year
@NileGardiner The Queen didn’t say that and everyone knows it.
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Carl Castro
11 months
@gtconway3d Netanyahu is very lucky that Biden doesn’t carry a grudge.
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3 years
@nycsouthpaw One should never write anything unless they are willing to be criticized. It goes with the territory.
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3 years
@MrMEEKO1 @RonFilipkowski Slavery was wrong. Those who defended it were wrong. Those who fought for it were wrong.
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@CarlCastro_USC
Carl Castro
11 months
@BladeoftheS There is a lot of immigration fraud, but it’s fraud not committed by the immigrants or those that support them, but by the Tory government defrauding the taxpayers by hideously expensive projects that line the pockets of Tory donors and family members.
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1 year
@Peston Austerity in the UK means nothing for the average worker, yet plenty for the rich and grifters.
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2 years
@JMPSimor How’s there ever been a MP such as Lee who has risen so far on the backs of his working family by claiming the sacrifices they made as his own?
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Carl Castro
1 year
@darrengrimes_ While in the EU it was a right, outside the EU it’s a privilege.
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2 years
@JustinPulitzer @TomiLahren Feelings can be deceiving. Think instead.
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1 year
@GBNEWS @NileGardiner The current Tory-led government is the most anti-British government ever. The harm done to the UK by the current government is astronomical.
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Carl Castro
1 year
@chrisgreybrexit Sunak will always do the most politically expedient thing, or the thing that makes his wife and family money.
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8 months
@acnewsitics So the airbag deployed after he hit the pole. Brilliant.
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1 year
@Haggis_UK My god, Sunak is a war profiteer. Let’s see what could diggers be used for in war? And that’s the problem with Tories, no morals. If it’s not illegal then they will do it. Sometimes they will do it even if it is illegal. Shameless.
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@implausibleblog The Tories think they aren’t freeloaders because they consider stealing from the taxpayers or avoiding paying taxes as real work when all it does is weaken a nation.
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@theAliceRoberts Why is it when someone says “just let them die” they are never talking about themselves or their family?
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Carl Castro
1 year
@JMPSimor The submergible disaster is what happens when regulations and science are ignored, which is pretty much how the Tory Party have led since Brexit.
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10 months
@PippaCrerar There isn’t 10 Tories in Parliament with the courage to “vote their convictions.” There are, however, hundreds who will do anything to try to save their political lives and all the welfare benefits that go with being a MP.
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@CarlCastro_USC
Carl Castro
3 years
@EricKleefeld @cmclymer Every veteran should be ashamed if they don’t speak out against this hatred directed at another veteran. One’s politics should not matter.
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@CarlCastro_USC
Carl Castro
10 months
@RonFilipkowski “Do you know who I am?” Public: “Yes. a male Karen.”
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Carl Castro
1 year
@Peston Johnson is the prototypical example of the thief who blames the victim for insisting the thief be held accountable for their thievery. Amazing.
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1 year
@CentralBylines @brexit_sham It’s clear Mercer has been telling these lies for so long that he thinks they are true. He’s like Johnson, yet owns a comb.
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Carl Castro
1 year
@TheWhiteWolf45 PFC who’s a MP to four-star general caught speeding: “General, please don’t confuse your rank with my authority.”
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1 year
@implausibleblog No one who voted leave or stay can point to one rule that was holding the UK back. Sure there may be a rule or two folks didn’t like, such as freedom of movement and honest labeling on food products, but how did any of that hold the UK back? It didn’t, as the UK is discovering.
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@McFaul Putin’s invasion did two things antithetical to Russian interests. It strengthened Nato and strengthened the EU.
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6 months
@implausibleblog What about the UK becoming a high wage economy? That’s what Johnson and all the other Brexiters promised.
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1 year
@brexit_sham Not only was Brexit based on lies, all the Tory promises to mitigate the damage of Brexit were lies as well.
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1 year
@PippaCrerar Dishonest PM: “How can we make money off the vulnerable.” Grifting Spouse: “I own shares in a child care firm” Dishonest PM: “How about a program to provide working parents free child care?” Grifting Spouse: “Is that legal!” Dishonest PM: “I will say all rules were followed.”
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Carl Castro
1 year
@andrewhesselden The Brexiters big mistake was that they thought the financial and services sector had no regulations. They were prepared to sacrifice farming, fishing and the manufacturing sectors.
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1 year
@implausibleblog After Brexit, there have never been so many Englishmen proud to be Irish.
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8 months
@implausibleblog A government has failed the nation when no one wants to fight for its defense except a bunch of 70-year-old white men, many who have never served themselves.
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1 year
@NileGardiner Harry’s attendance at the coronation is what decency looks like, which can’t be said for a lot of those in attendance.
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1 year
@NileGardiner The Tories are so weak that the sight of certain flags have caused so much damaged to their feelings that an inquiry is now needed to make them feel safe.
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@CarlCastro_USC
Carl Castro
2 years
@ByMikeBaker @djrothkopf Why do so many politicians struggle with the concept of time? Evacuations are exactly like vaccinations, the longer the delay the dire the consequences. Urgency matters.
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@hahussain Hamas needs to surrender.
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10 months
@implausibleblog Killing 1 child is not justifiable. What’s he talking about?
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2 years
@RadioFreeTom None of this would have happened if the Ukraine had not shown a level of bravery and resilience that most thought impossible. Look what one nation has achieved.
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@BladeoftheS Tories: “Billionaires will leave the UK If we abolish tax havens.” Informed Public: “Why do we care if they aren’t paying taxes?” Tories: “What? Well, some do.” Informed Public: “Which of the 200 of so billionaires do pay taxes?” Tories: “We must stop the boats.”
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1 year
@RadioFreeTom Musk: “All blue marks will be removed as soon as we figure out how to remove them. We fired the guy who developed them so we are negotiating with him. Stay tuned.”
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@BladeoftheS This is literally something the Tory government could fix in a week, if they wanted to. They just don’t want to because they don’t care about the taxpayers.
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1 year
@SirJJKC Tories are desperately trying to generate controversy when none exists. Rather than try to besmirch the reputation of an honorable civil servant, the Tories should focus on their own very long list of proven and known ethical violations.
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6 months
@PolitlcsUK @FT How corrupt does an idea have to be when even the person in on the scheme doesn’t want to be associated with it?
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Carl Castro
10 months
@implausibleblog Mercer is a grifter and a liar, isn’t he? He’s disgracing his military service.
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Carl Castro
2 years
@JMPSimor The singular objective of Braverman is to inflict as much suffering on others as humanly possible over the next two years, with Sunak looking on.
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Carl Castro
6 months
@CommPolPower The corruption in the UK ranges from the small (expensive wines and dinners and rents for redundant flats), to the moderate (yachts, press rooms) to the grotesquely high (PPE waste, unusable aircraft carriers). There are billions upon billions of waste, beginning with the small.
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Carl Castro
1 year
@mrjamesob Can anyone name one Tory columnist or cabinet member who hasn’t been consistently wrong about everything since Brexit?
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@LizWebsterSBF Never have so many Englishmen been proud to be Irish since Brexit.
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1 year
@PhilMyers53 Sunak: “Yes, but the focus has to be on the benefit claimant who received that extra £20. That’s the real threat to the fiscal health of the UK.”
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@PaulBrandITV This is the type of person who should be in the House of Lords. Not the trash that Johnson stuck in there.
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