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Views are my own. Personally I think if most people had them, the world might be a better place.. that is of course just my view.

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Richard Croft
24 days
Here is the thing - @Conservatives are so horrific that I cannot even contemplate ever voting for them again. The party needs to be destroyed at the election and replaced by two parties, a centrist one nation party and an English nationalist party, which whilst far from my…
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@LozzaFox My father wrote Dads Army… not sure he would appreciate you in any way. I certainly don’t, you are nothing more than a click bait culture warrior, who was beaten by a bin.
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I have always loved a Venn diagram but this is a corker. The NI protocol is another Brexit circle that cannot be squared… unless you believe in Unicorns..
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@Quelle_33 @sophielouisecc Read one of your tweets
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@Bren4Bassetlaw You really are an unpleasant and after the next election, irrelevant man.
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Richard Croft
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@Bubblebathgirl @MarkHamill How the hell would you know? Media bias per chance? Sitting in London and let me tell you, still one of the greatest cities on earth. Now be a good chap and foxtrot Oscar…
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@_yoyo_buffalo_ @LozzaFox I am easy to Google…
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@buchanan17 @bhbunny_ben @LozzaFox He was beaten by @CountBinface last time out, not this time.
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@KEdge23 No he isn’t… he speaks for many of us.
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Richard Croft
4 years
This was Suffolk this morning. I am only posting this because I find it utterly beautiful and it is home. I really enjoyed my walk this morning! Happy Sunday to all.
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@lsdabell @LozzaFox He did. It was neither racism or homophobic in my opinion. Listen to interviews that Mervyn Hayes amongst others gave about it and draw your own conclusion. He also wrote Are you Being Served, which is still shown.
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Richard Croft
1 year
@GBNEWS Well this Briton agrees wholeheartedly with @GaryLineker - so please don’t think you speak for many. I would check your viewing figures if I were you, that will give you an accurate assessment of how many people you speak for.
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@justchrisdavies Are you simple? In a general election there are 650 separate counts with an average of c.50,000 votes, here there is one with several millions… do the math…
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@Jenny_1884 @reformparty_uk Not me, they are all toxic and devisive. The fact that you don’t understand it speaks volumes.
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Richard Croft
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And here @Conservatives is the truth, you keeping moving to the right, espousing nonsense policies (like Rwanda) and attacking our institutions and think people want more of that. They don’t, the right thinking majority want you gone. You are rancid, toxic and woeful for Britain.
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@Peston It's not rocket science. The Tories have lost the middle ground.
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@DPJHodges He was trying to stop confrontation, the very essence of policing I would have thought. Nobody was arrested and nobody was hurt and that last point is key…
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@JohnnyMercerUK Unprincipled? It is this kind of nonsense after years where we have suffered the most unprincipled government in history that makes most people despair at you. Posts like this make me more determined than ever to campaign to end your woeful government at the election. The lack of…
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Richard Croft
3 months
@davidyelland @anna_damski The fact that it is written by someone who has benefited from living in a multicultural society makes this even sadder.
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Richard Croft
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@BenHouchen Are you a bit simple? Starmer that he is bringing together mayors that are members of his party. You are not that… so what is your point?
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@LozzaFox You won’t ever be in charge,…
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Richard Croft
1 year
@sophielouisecc None of the above
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@Conservatives You clowns have been in office for 14 years and have broken everything not just promises. Do you understand how awful the majority of peiple think you are.
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Richard Croft
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@GullisJonathan Carol Vorderman? You really are just not fit to be an MP.
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Richard Croft
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@Bradpittkin @LiveFromBrexit My father actually fought both in North Africa and Burma, he then wrote Dads Army and Allo Allo amongst others in part to highlight how absurd war is. He was very pro the EU because he preferred union to conflict.
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@KEdge23 Official? According to who? Just because you post a low grade graphic on X, that is not official. You are however, officially, a clown.
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Richard Croft
9 months
@montie @jeremymarchant4 Yes he can. You are just a reactionary simpleton who gets off on confrontation. I don't swear on X, but please do go away in a jerky motion.
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Richard Croft
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@RicHolden @UKLabour @EmilyThornberry @Keir_Starmer @bphillipsonMP Simple question, why didn’t you answer to him? It is you and your ilk that has made politics so toxic. I despair at you, your party and your rancid excuse of a government. For the love of god, be gone.
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Richard Croft
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@KEdge23 Well unlike you, I actually run businesses (I am very easy to reference) and let me assure you, this government has done a horrible job of managing the economy and the business environment… the rest of the globe thinks so too, which is why the pound is valued at c. 1.25 against…
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Richard Croft
1 month
The more I watch and listen to @CountBinface the more I think that he really would be a good addition to the commons. Behind the intergalactic space Lord, there is decency, humour and care. Shame that majority of our current MPs show so few of those traits.
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@NileGardiner @trussliz Why - because she gave you photo op?
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Richard Croft
1 year
@GregHands Stop it please, concentrate on not fucking up the country, which seems to be the specialist subject of your woeful party and government. That is the first time I have ever sworn on twitter... I utterly despair at what you and your ilk have done to our country.
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Richard Croft
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@montie Nothing tribal about you though is there?
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Richard Croft
1 year
@richardosman @EHijacked Thank you. The more people that hold the government lickspittles that run the BBC to account the better. @RishiSunak is this free speech? You are a disgrace to your office..
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Richard Croft
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@BishopBriggs3 @lsdabell @LozzaFox Actually Michael Bates played the lead for three seasons. Would he have been cast today, no but there was no racial undertone. As for the Punkawallahs, that was their job then, so just history. The treatment of gunner Graham would be have been atypical in 1945. Out of interest,…
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Richard Croft
4 months
@QprEver I would suggest her support across the nation is considerably greater than yours.
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Richard Croft
1 year
@kelvmackenzie @rhamilton13 Farage, Tice and the endless non entities that have cabinet posts are all on the BBC too. I don't like what they say but I pay the licence fees and don't complain because I accept others have opposing views. You free speech advocates really don't do irony....
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Richard Croft
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@DavidGHFrost You are a disgrace. You bungled the withdrawal agreement and always seek to blame others. Your mediocrity together with your petty xenophobia shines through.
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Richard Croft
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@_yoyo_buffalo_ @LozzaFox The reference to Dad was because of the Meme that was used. As for the mediocre companies, they have employed hundreds of people and contributed in my opinion quite a lot, that will do for me.
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Richard Croft
1 year
@andreajenkyns @DJtom94 Tim Davie, former conservative politician, Richard Sharp loan broker for your toxic ex leader - do you really want to go down the impartiality route? He speaks for many of us and he did so in a private capacity. You are the sanctimonious ones..
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Richard Croft
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@Mofoman360 No. He is singularly the reason the country is so divided. We need leaders who will unite not divide.
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Richard Croft
1 year
@Iromg I think concrete graham, you are the plank.
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Richard Croft
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@_yoyo_buffalo_ @LozzaFox So, I have built several successful companies so exactly why do you think my father would have been disappointed in me?
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Richard Croft
4 months
@KemiBadenoch You don’t do facts, you do do misinformation though. The end of your horrific government cannot come soon enough. Please do go away in a jerky motion.
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Richard Croft
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@JohnnyMercerUK we don't want you to carry on... only your extreme narcissism, makes you think people do.
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Richard Croft
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@RupertLowe10 Nope, clowns like you have done that....
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Richard Croft
9 months
@KEdge23 Seriously? How has the 13 years that these clowns been in office gone? The answer is pretty badly. If you want more of the same, go elsewhere because it ain’t happening here. You and your ilk have done quite enough damage to this country.
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Richard Croft
1 year
@benhabib6 Trust me, it is very difficult to export goods to the EU now. Talk me through the car industry as well. Mentioned by many others but £40bn is 13%.. so on a inflation weighted basis we are down.. even you can calculate that surely.
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Richard Croft
2 months
My new favourite politician. Calm, authoritative, honest and answers a question. A future PM?
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Richard Croft
1 year
@TommyDownSouth @KateBatt1 It is what I think and pretty much everyone I know. Brexit is a poison that is destroying both our politics and our country. What and who are the woke establishment? Just word salad…
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Richard Croft
3 years
Just came across this. I was 6 years old when Dad did this interview. He was an amazing man and remains an inspiration - a genuine leader of men.
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#OnThisDay 1975: Dad’s Army masterminds David Croft and Jimmy Perry explained how they tried to keep all the stars happy on their “adventure comedy”.
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Richard Croft
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@SydLloyd In your feed you come across as all of those things. Aside from that you are old man who has robbed the younger generations of the benefits of the EU because of your prejudice. Think about that
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Richard Croft
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For those who believe POTUS is senile, I think he comes across rather well… just my opinion. Without question to my mind, the world would be a much better should Biden not the orange one win a second term.
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Richard Croft
1 year
@NileGardiner What on earth does this have to do with you? Nothing… so let it go.
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Richard Croft
2 years
@danielmgmoylan Is that a serious tweet or was it intended as a parody? If serious, you shouldn't really be in politics - your ability to read a room is at best flawed.
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@_Tony_ynoT @LozzaFox I was Thetford two weeks ago. I heard a lot of people speak English, in fact everyone! I suggest maybe a hearing aid is in order.
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Richard Croft
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@OliverDowden @RishiSunak Oh do please go away with a jerky motion…
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Richard Croft
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@lsdabell @LozzaFox I think you are conflating a number of different issues. The use of Dads Army characters to aid the post that Laurence Fox made, was in my opinion, inappropriate and I don’t think Dad would have liked Laurence Fox’s politics or his use of the meme. I certainly didn’t, hence my…
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@Jeremy_Hunt I am an entrepreneur (easy to google). I chair a small drinks company, own a little stud farm and run a fund management business as well as trying to set up a new fractionalised market for real estate with Aquis. So in my business life, I cover a lot of different areas. Your…
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Richard Croft
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@trussliz I grew up near Thetford, the town that you shame as an MP but also has doubled as Walmington on Sea. Mainwaring would have comfortably outperformed you as PM… To make next year so much better, could you please go away in a jerky motion? Thank you.
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Richard Croft
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@GregHands What a puerile post. Your government has given us a non oven ready Brexit deal, broken the NHS, overseen waste on a massive scale (track and trace) and seeded division across the country and you tweet this? Grow up, you are not fit for office.
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@Mikey1732 That is why the Conservative Party forced him out? I am not sure grasp the base concepts of parliamentary democracy…
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Richard Croft
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@DaisyRaine7 @sophielouisecc What exactly do we need him for?
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Richard Croft
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@GillianKeegan @Conservatives @PaulHowellMP No it isn’t. Stuff happens inspite of you because of you. Please convince your unelected PM to call an election and let the people decide whether your plan is working…..
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Richard Croft
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@sophielouisecc @carolvorders So proud, you left the party?
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Richard Croft
2 years
@suekenmax @GSV_RandomHouse Sue, I am absolutely committed to the UK and support many businesses and causes here. It does not stop me believing that rejoining in the EU is in the national interest. Do not conflate nationalism and patriotism, they are not the same thing.
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@mitsyarty Why does he need to be voted for to have an opinion? You free speech supporter’s don’t really do irony do you?
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2 months
I am at a business dinner in Hong Kong… one of the other attendees just said “Liz Truss is a great ambassador of…. British comedy!” Just about says it all… he also said he loved the lettuce! This is not global Britain, this is global joke. Please go away in a Jerky motion…
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@Bradpittkin @LiveFromBrexit I am very pro Britain but that is not mutually exclusive to being pro the EU. You might have noticed that our actual country is called the United Kingdom (a union of four countries).
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Richard Croft
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@DavidGHFrost @philmcraig @CapX So exactly what have the remainers (many millions of us) done wrong? Brexit happened. You personally negotiated the agreement with the EU - it was described as oven ready, it wasn’t. When do YOU start taking responsibility?
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@KEdge23 FFS, play a new record… same drivel every day.
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@trussliz Please return to your family.. they probably want you. The rest of us don’t. I genuinely fear for your mental health…. For your sake, Thetfords sake, and the country’s - just go.
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Richard Croft
1 year
@kelvmackenzie Do you understand the basic tenets of Christianity? They include " Love your neighbour as yourself. Forgive others who have wronged you. Love your enemies." etc. Providing succour to those less fortunate is right up there. You are a just a rather unpleasant bitter old man.
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3 months
@AnthonyAinsdale And Dowden and Cameron? What are their selling points exactly…
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@KEdge23 And how have the conservatives done since 2010? I am not just an opinionated weather and political enthusiast, I actually run businesses and this lot are a shower (I used a word you would understand). We have the highest tax burden ever under this government, please understand…
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Richard Croft
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@Nigel_Farage Would you mind terribly going away again? The future seemed brighter for the UK when you were departing these shores for the US, to help the Tangoed one.
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@KEdge23 How about the PM? I think he should lose his job, and the business secretary certainly should, whilst I am at it, the entire cabinet could do with a spring clean. You really are just an offensive click bait artist.
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@MailOnline Everyday you manage to become a more offensive publication than the previous day…
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Richard Croft
1 year
@johnredwood Is this a parody account? You do know that you lot are the government?
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Richard Croft
9 months
@montie @Nigel_Farage Precisely why the conservatives are destined for years in the political wilderness… thank God.
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Richard Croft
3 years
I am pleased @DixonsCarphone that you are doing so well. You might like to meet your obligations and pay the rent at your warehouses in Hayes, Christchurch, Banbury and Colliers Wood. Thanks
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@grantshapps Why did you put the phone down?
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Richard Croft
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@Bren4Bassetlaw It is you who is not the real conservative, more of a visitor from UKIP / BNP. You are a disgrace to the party of Churchill and Macmillan.
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Richard Croft
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@NileGardiner @SuellaBraverman Can you stop with the hate filled nonsense. In the Twitter sphere there are few more unpleasant than you.
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@E__5n_ I don't like the word hate but I am appalled by the man and beyond angry at the damage he has done to the UK.
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Richard Croft
2 years
You gov poll on how @BorisJohnson is doing as PM. 72%, which is a comically high number, think badly! @Conservatives do you still think that having him as PM is in the interest of the country?
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@JamesMacTavish7 @DamianGreen You do know that us remainers are also British people? There are a lot of us..
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Richard Croft
1 year
@WorldByWolf @GregHands @Conservatives @CCHQPress The suffragettes? There is no violence, this is civil disobedience and whilst it might inconvenience many of us, in a free society protest like this must be allowed. As the suffragettes showed this type of protest can bring change.
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1 year
@Nigel_Farage Remember the "lock her up" chants at Trump rallies... Exactly how does that fit in with your view on Pelosi's comment?
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Richard Croft
4 years
The Suffolk Sunrise...as beautiful today as yesterday. This photo is not doctored in any way, it was just how Suffolk looked this morning and I am very grateful for that. Happy Mondays to all.
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@PlaneSpotter14 @_yoyo_buffalo_ @LozzaFox I kind know that but I was having a nice glass of wine and kind of amusing myself before I go to sleep. Thank you for your post though.
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@TomTugendhat You used to be so much better than this. The toxicity of the Tory party destroys anything in its path, including your principles by the looks of it.
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Richard Croft
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@EJ_McGuinness @jeremycorbyn Is that your only response. Like the current rancid conservative parliamentary party that you want to join, it is old, pathetic and not relevant. Try and sell this governments record and your plans for the future…
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Richard Croft
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@NileGardiner So says a man whose biggest claim to anything is that he is carried a handbag for somebody once... I wouldn't compare your achievements with Biden's too much, you will look even more of a non entity than you already are.
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@sophielouisecc But most people of your age do. Not difficult and it is a democratic country despite the work of the woeful politicians that you support.
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2 months
@Councillorsuzie There are no such plans… why do you lie?
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@KEdge23 After 14,years of mismanagement, do you really think we are better off? To go away in a jerky motion…
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4 months
@KemiBadenoch You do know that government has trashed the entire concept of truth. You, your lickspittle cohorts and the entire fetid remains of the Conservative Party are a disgrace.
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Richard Croft
3 months
@debbieperry19 @AnthonyAinsdale Do you understand the irony of your post? As an aside, I don’t think they will want you.
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@Nigel_Farage The gap between the country and Westminster are Brexit’s legacy along with an utter disregard for reality or truth. Not really worth defending….
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@benhabib6 @RishiSunak You are not a conservative… the reason the conservatives languish in polls is that they turned into UKIP.
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