(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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Commentator Mail on Sunday. "Worst political pundit in the West" - G.Greenwald. "Clown Prince" - D.Cummings. “A plausibly sociopathic nepobaby” - O.Jones
Joined August 2009
Interesting thing. Someone’s just pointed out that almost all the staff who were on the Durham trip with Keir have since left his office. You know how all the witnesses to the Kennedy assassination died or disappeared in mysterious circumstances….
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In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
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US Senator Mark Kelly flew 39 combat missions over Iraq. He piloted the Space Shuttle four times. But he went to Kiev and called for the defence of Ukraine. So Elon Musk has branded him a "traitor".
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British defence sources say it's time to stop sharing Five Eyes intelligence with the United States.
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I don’t get the “debate” surrounding Matt Hancock. He’s now openly admitted he broke his own rules. So either the Government formally adopts the position “we don’t have to abide by the rules, but you lot do”. Or he has to step down. It’s that simple.
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My mum: “Are you going to be doing more stuff defending Cummings”. Me: “Yes”. My mum: “Then you’re an idiot”. So that’s going well then. .
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Nigel Farage literally went to the States and appeared at a Trump campaign rally.
🔴 Nigel Farage has accused Labour of “direct interference” in the US election after it emerged almost 100 current and former party staff will campaign for Kamala Harris. Read more ⬇️.
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We all agree the people driving these tractors should now be arrested, correct?.
🚨 Tractors have broken down the barricades at the farmers protest in Central London.
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Again, people are just being stupid. No one condones vandalism. But come on, what are we doing with statues of slavers knocking around on the streets of Britain in 2020.
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Understand people's Omicron concerns. But we were told vaccines would remove the need for lockdowns. If that's no longer the case, OK. But we need to have a serious debate. Because I just don't see how a cycle of perpetually locking, then unlocking, society is sustainable.
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Jess Philips being hard as nails towards the scumbags trying to intimidate her is my favourite image of the night
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The worst thing is this was clearly premeditated. It was a trap. Trump and Vance deliberately wanted to humiliate Zelensky. They wanted to make him grovel in the Oval Office to make Putin and their MAGA base happy. Utter scum.
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If only someone at the BBC had realised earlier the way to stop black men in the United States being killed by policeman was to remove the Fawlty Towers “Don’t Mention The War” episode.
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Just wanted to say thank you for all the lovely messages and tributes about my mum. She’d have told everyone to stop making such a fuss, but deep down she would have been very touched.
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I've read just about every book there is about the 1930's and the prelude to the Second World War. I still found it hard to understand how we'd allowed ourselves to let appeasement of Hitler dictate our policy. Watching people in the UK still trying to defend and legitimise.
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What kind of mentality decides the way to end police violence in the United States is to punch a police officer in the face in London.
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Not sure what the debate is. Gordon Brown is clearly right. If the energy companies are unwilling or unable to provide their services at a price millions can afford, they are going to have to be brought under public control until the crisis abates. It’s not a difficult one.
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Joking aside, can you imagine if Corbyn had ducked Andrew Neil? He’d have rightly been slaughtered for it. Boris Johnson is Prime Minister. He has an obligation to subject himself to scrutiny. If he bottles it people will wonder what he’s trying to hide.
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Seeing a lot of criticism of unions at the moment. We’ve been told this virus is the biggest threat we have faced for a century. A killer so lethal we’ve had to lock ourselves away for months. Protecting their members is what unions are meant to do.
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Yesterday we saw the facade. Today we've seen the true face of the Trump administration. Zelensky is literally fighting for his life, his people and his country. And Trump and Vance are treating him like dirt. They're not statesman, they're gangsters.
JD Vance and Trump just put Zelensky in his place. Wow. Watch this.
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Sorry. If anyone thinks Dom Cummings should be sacked after this, for this, then they need to seek help.
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Cressida Dick is one of the worst appointments to major public office in British history. And that's a very high-bar we're talking here.
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This really is the image that perfectly encapsulates today’s march. The complete unwavering certainty of her moral superiority as she walks along with a placard featuring a Swastika…
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Can’t remember the last time a British Prime Minister got ripped apart as comprehensively as Boris was taken apart by Ed Miliband. Tory MPs aren’t going to put up with much more of this.
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So Musk was right after all. Keir Starmer and his Ministers really are complicit in a political cover up of the rape gangs scandal > Mail Plus >
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Going to ask this again. If Boris didn't think drinking, eating party favours, playing music, wearing tinsel and Santa hats, and singing along to Abba represented a breach of the rules, why was he so "furious" at what Allegra Stratton revealed. What was the material difference.
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There are very few black and white moments in politics. But this is one of them. Who is prepared to say they stand with Zelensky and Ukraine. And who is prepared to say they stand with Trump and Putin. It's that simple.
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So let me get this right. JD Vance is now attacking European countries who are prepared to take a stand against Putin and defend Western Europe. Having spent the past month attacking those same countries for not doing enough on defence. The man is a clown.
But let’s be direct: there are many countries who are volunteering (privately or publicly) support who have neither the battlefield experience nor the military equipment to do anything meaningful.
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So we can now add chucking a bicycle at a police horse on Whitehall to the list of things that will stop police violence in the United States.
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I realise some of my tweets yesterday may have been troubling for some people. I've thought about it overnight. And on reflection, I believe that not a single penny of taxpayers money should be spent on the reconstruction of Gaza until every Hamas terrorist is dead or in jail.
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There is a debate going on about whether the kidnapped Israeli children were “treated humanely”. No kidnapped child is treated humanely. The act of kidnapping a child is of itself a depraved and inhumane act. What is wrong with people.
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There's no political justification for the disorder we've seen. But if people want to get into the blame game, these are the facts. The Tories were in power for 14 years. Labour have been in power for 4 weeks. Blaming Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper for this is just ridiculous.
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Can we just nail another thing. People saying "was just a few drinks and some cake". OK. But that's not Boris's view. Because when his staff were found having a few drinks and some cheese, he said he was "furious", ordered a cabinet office inquiry and accepted their resignations.
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People enjoying having a pop at Matt Hancock at the moment. But for the past 40 years we’ve been told the NHS was on the point of collapse. When it faced its biggest challenge for a century it was on his watch. And it didn’t collapse. It stood strong.
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To repeat, if the major private utilities are unable to provide basic services to their customers at a price that is affordable they should be brought under public control. Not handed subsidies. Not “bailed out”. If the market fails, the state should step in and replace it.
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I try to be pragmatic. But there's not really any other way of putting it. Trump's just a disgusting individual. A shallow, petty, egotistical, man-child. The US should be ashamed he's their leader. And those British politicians who suck up to him should be ashamed too.
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It doesn't matter whether you're pro-Brexit or anti-Brexit. Or pro-Boris or pro-Corbyn. If there is evidence a foreign state has been interfering with UK democracy we need to be informed about it. This is the classical definition of an issue that transcends party politics.
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I genuinely don't understand why we're not having an independent public inquiry into this. It's one of the greatest national scandals in our history. This is where the real two-tier policing was taking place.
BREAKING: Seven men have been jailed for a total of 106 years for a string of child sex abuse offences against two Rotherham girls. They were convicted for indecent assault, rape and trafficking charges after a nine-week trial that concluded in June. Mohammed Amar, 42: 14 years.
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We've now reached the point where the public are being advised to flag down buses to protect themselves from police officers. And the head of the Metropolitan Police remains in post. How does anyone in authority seriously think this is a sustainable position.
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Reminder. There is no fuel-crisis. There is no Brexit crisis. There is a people-acting-like-idiots crisis.
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I don't care about the Chagos. I don't care about a trade deal. And frankly, after that spectacle, I don't care about "The Special Relationship" anymore. The invite from the King should be rescinded immediately. It's time to take a proper stand against Trump and his thugs.
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If you said "let's imagine the worst possible political optics", wheeling a suitcase of booze into No.10, in the midst of a pandemic, with social gatherings banned, on the eve the of the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, whilst the nation was in mourning, is quite hard to top.
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This is turning into something from Animal Farm. Labour spent the past five years telling anyone who would listen “the Tories are mired in sleaze. We will change that”. Now the line is “they did it, why can’t we”.
"MPs have accepted gifts and donations for years - all MPs do it". Deputy PM Angela Rayner says the government are being "open and transparent" with declaring gifts. #BBCLauraK
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Just so I'm clear, the Boy George currently taking the high moral ground in the jungle is the same Boy George who got 15 months for handcuffing a male escort to a wall, and beating him with a metal chain.
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Apologies, but I’m going to keep banging on over this. It was widely perceived the “Abba Party” represented the most egregious Partygate breach. How can Sue Gray possibly justify not even investigating. There’s literally no rationale. It’s not even a cover-up. It’s so blatant.
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Large numbers of people leaving Tory conference tonight because there are no trains tomorrow. Thereby missing the PM’s speech announcing the axing of the Manchester rail upgrade. Historians will write entire chapters on the events of the past two weeks….
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I started working in politics in 1991. I saw the implosion of Major up close. And the end of New Labour. The Miliband era. May's collapse. Boris blowing it within three years. But I've never seen a more toxic political, communications and policy mix than this. It's unsustainable.
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Watching Boris using the Ukrainians to cover for Partygate is a pretty low moment.
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I know we're supposed to be negative about everything the government does at the moment. But this NHS Nightingale story is seriously impressive. If the Chinese had done that everyone would be going bananas and asking why we can't do it.
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Boris bought water-cannon for £320,000. They were never used. They have just been sold for £11,000. We are told this is the man who should be negotiating our exit from the EU.
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Can we just be clear. The current crisis has been precipitated by the mini-budget. Not fears of a Labour government. Not closet Corbynites lurking in the IMF. The mini-budget did this. And if it isn’t significantly reversed, the political and economic crisis will continue.
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"Why's it OK to have the Union Jack flown in schools but not the Palestinian flag". Because the Union Jack is the national flag of the United Kingdom, and the Palestinian flag isn't.
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Boris hasn't been on GMB for five years. It's very obvious why. The only way this could have gone worse is if he'd whipped out his phone and started looking at tractors. .
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Priti Patel has decided to take the gloves off. Hammering her critics for lecturing her on what it is to experience racism in modern Britain. Good for her.
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Worth pointing out again that what is happening today is precisely what Keir Starmer said would happen.
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I do not want to see a single penny of British taxpayer's money spent on the reconstruction of Gaza until every Hamas terrorist is either dead or in jail. I don't care about the broader politics.
They murdered their loved ones, starved them, and tortured them for over 480 days. Thank God they are finally free from Hamas.
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Told we will begin to see cabinet resignations with the next 48 hours.
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Can someone explain what action has been taken by the UK Government against a single Russian oligarch. Not a commitment to action, or an intention to act. What has actually been done.
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I've seen some low political stunts in my time . But Labour announcing the axing of the already wholly inadequate local Rape Gang inquiries on the brink of recess is outrageous.
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I understand the desire to paint the EU as the bad guys. But the reality is we want to access their markets, whilst simultaneously retaining the "sovereign" right to undercut them. They're obviously not going to accept that. So what are we all doing here.
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Anyone who thinks the British people would rather stand with Trump than Zelensky is so ignorant about our country our history our culture and our character they’re as much of a patriot as Lord Haw-Haw.
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I don't want to come across like I'm channeling my inner-Corbynite. But I really do think when this election is over there needs to be serious examination of what's happening to BBC political programming. That was farcical.
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I find it staggering how many people on the Right are so openly hoping Trump undermines and denigrates Keir Starmer, and damages Britain. Whatever you think of him he's still our Prime Minister, and has just been democratically elected by the British people. Trump has not.
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I never thought I’d type these words. But if someone doesn’t get a grip of Boris Johnson and his No.10 operation I’m voting for Jeremy Corbyn.
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John Bercow's hectoring, bullying and browbeating of Andrew Bridgen on his final day is the perfect end point to his tenure. Forget the sycophantic praise heaped on him over the past 24 hours. He's been a disastrous Speaker who has brought shame on his office.
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This is one of the worst performances I’ve seen from a sitting Prime Minister in a major parliamentary debate.
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Boris’s own campaign was openly briefing he had to do better than Theresa May. He did worse than Theresa May. What’s left to discuss.
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If people don’t think lying to parliament matters. Or it does, but not as much as Ukraine, etc, fine. But when Boris said there were no parties, all rules were followed, and he was angry to learn about cheese and wine events, that was a bare-faced lie. So why pretend it wasn’t.
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It's time to face facts. If you turn up outside a hotel housing women and children as a mob is attacking it, abuse the police trying to protect them, then engage in violent disorder, you are going to jail. Rightly.
As a 61-year-old granddad dies in jail, after getting 2 years for being a bit of an idiot/shouting some unpleasant words, it's time to face facts: the UK now has political prisoners. For shame, @Keir_Starmer.
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Rishi Sunak’s plan for compulsory national service is the most insane policy proposal ever launched in an election campaign by a major political party.
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Israel is an ally of the UK. Iran is an enemy of the UK. That’s it.
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The real reason the liberal Left hates Priti Patel is she's dared to make a success of herself without their permission > Mail On Sunday >
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Andrew Tate v Greta Thunberg is a classic example of Culture War tribal disconnect. You may think she’s misguided. Or being manipulated. Or just plain wrong. But how can anyone look at him objectively and not realise she’s right, and he’s a tosser.
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Still trying to get my head round the fact we've gone from Margaret Thatcher's "every housewife knows the value of what's in her shopping basket" to "I haven't got a clue who splashed out £100K on my curtains".
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This is spiralling completely out of control for Keir Starmer. It’s a PR and political shambles.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer reportedly used Lord Alli’s penthouse for his 2021 Christmas message despite work from home regulations . [@GuidoFawkes]
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One other thing about the hospital footage. It’s quite clear the various NGOs operating on the ground can no longer be regarded as objective sources.
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Tesco: Profits £2.3 Billion. M&S: Profits £672 million. Sainsbuty: Profits £277 million. Asda: Profits £1.1 billion. .
EXCLUSIVE from @alexralph. Britain's biggest retailers warn Rachel Reeves that NI rise will lead to shop closures, job losses, pay restraint and higher prices. 79 retailers sign letter warning combination of NI rise, national minimum wage increase and packaging levies will.
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Boris said if Britain voted for him he would get Brexit done. He did.
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Number of Tory MPs giving up. One texts “what’s the point. Let’s call an election and all go back to our lives”.
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What's incredible is that if you look at the response from the scientific community tonight, it's basically "everyone knew SAGE were only modelling worst case scenarios". The press didn't know. The public didn't. MPs didn't. Senior advisors didn't. And Ministers didn't.
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It's become a cliche. But Coronavirus really is driving home the reality Twitter isn't a reflection of Britain. The criticism on here of Boris and the Government simply isn't being reflected in the nation at large.
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Just on the Simon Walters story. I’ve now spoken to two separate sources who I trust completely who confirm Boris did attempt to employ Carrie at the foreign office whilst he was foreign secretary.
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Worth remembering that at almost every single stage of the Covid crisis the modelling of the virus's growth has been wrong. Not just marginally wrong, but so spectacularly wrong as to have minimal practical utility for policy making.
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People are currently attempting to burn down a hotel housing migrants. This is not a “protest”. It’s racist thuggery on a par with what we saw in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. We need unequivocal condemnation and forceful police intervention on a commensurate scale.
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The job of the RNLI is to rescue people in danger at sea. It isn’t to ask them their migration status, then make a decision on whether to rescue them or not. This isn’t a difficult one.
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Imagine in years to come when people actually read in their history books “in the midst of a cost of living crisis, and with interest rates soaring, the British government announced tax cuts for the very richest people in society”. It’s up there with making your horse a senator.
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Finchley Road. Poster of two kidnapped Jewish children. Someone’s drawn a Hitler moustache on them. This is what the Jewish community is facing. Not in 1936. In 2023. Here. In London
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On Gary Lineker. We either believe in cancel-culture, or we don't. I don't. If he made the comments on-air, that's one thing. But he didn't. He isn't a political journalist. And he's entitled to his views, even if people may not agree with him.
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We have never seen a more graphic example of the double standards applied to Israel than the wave of condemnation that erupted when people thought the IDF were responsible for the hospital attack, followed by the silence accompanying the realisation it was Hamas or their proxies.
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If you were a passenger on a plane, and some guy next to you started screaming he didn't trust the way the pilot was flying, would you join him in storming the cockpit and trying to land the plane yourself. Because that's basically what a lot of people are now doing re-Covid.
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If Jeremy Clarkson wants to be the face of the farming protests he needs to make an actual case, rather than simply spout “Classic BBC!” to legitimate and simple questions.
“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”. @vicderbyshire speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.
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Remember - as we're watching this mess unfold in real-time - Tory MPs were told several months ago that the Government and No.10 had been reorganised specifically to ensure messes like this wouldn't happen. And part of that restructuring was the appointment of Chris Pincher.
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It's important to condemn all violence. And there isn't a league table of this stuff. But it's clear from the footage we've seen that the "protestors" today were more violent - and intent on being violent - than the BLM demonstrators.
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Trump's current "negotiating stance". Ukraine: Cut off arms. Cut off satellite imagery. Cut off other intelligence. Seize mineral rights. Attempt to remove the President. Circulate Russian propaganda. Humiliate leaders and kick them out of the Oval Office. Russia: Send a tweet.
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So the line’s changed again. No.10 now claiming Boris was aware of the Rashford campaign before today. They’re just making this up as they go along now. It’s embarrassing.
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Let’s be clear what Trump is pushing for. It’s not peace. It’s Ukraine’s surrender. It’s a betrayal on a par with Munich.
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That letter from Labour MPs to Priti Patel shows how effective her performance in the chamber was. They thought Labour automatically owned issues relating to race. They now realise they don’t. Or at least they don’t for as long as she’s standing at the Dispatch Box.
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I spoke to an MP yesterday who told me he had weighed up his own physical safety when deciding on how to vote on yesterday’s Gaza motion. We have crossed a line now. We are not a properly functioning democracy if this is a factor in how our elected representatives act.
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Tory MPs in bullish mood. But Starmer silenced them. Basically because they know what he’s saying is true.
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Sorry to bang on, but I find this incomprehensible. The Government’s been warning for weeks this crisis was coming. How did no-one say “what will our policy on refugees actually be when he invades”. It doesn’t get any more basic than this.
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About the work-from-home debate. There's a huge class issue here. Binmen don't get the option to work from home. Shelf-stackers don't get the option. Machinists. Plumbers. Roofers. Dinner Ladies. Bar-staff. Waitresses. Cabbies. Nurses. Electricians. They don't get that choice. .
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