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'As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.' He/him

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6 years
How smears work: Smear 1 [gets debunked] Smear 2 [gets debunked] Smear 3 [gets debunked] Latest smear [gets debunked] -media response, 'Ah, maybe by itself this doesn't prove anything but in the context of smears 1,2, and 3'. The power of repetition to manufacture context.
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@thehistoryguy The following morning, the Daily Mail went with, 'Fury at Soft Sentence for Jock Agitator.'
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@SkyNews 30yrs ago, UNICEF released 2 studies concluding that Thatcher's policies were a 'war on the family'. 2yrs ago, a UN report found Austerity to be an 'ideological project' inflicting needless misery. Now this national humiliation. But rich people and chumps still vote Tory.
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@SkyNews As someone who has been vegan for 24yrs and is very much not dead, I suspect there might be a little more to this story.
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Labour must be the only sinking ship in history where the decent people leave and the rats stay on board.
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So good, to have @MichaelRosenYes firing on all cylinders again.
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5 years
Finally, irrefutable proof of the Class War.
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@SkyNews @Stone_SkyNews There have been 17,000 gun deaths in the US since the beginning of 2022. That includes 650 children. Or, put another way, a little more than one September 11th per month.
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A young Jewish woman on this evening's #questiontime 'I'm Jewish, my whole family's Jewish. We're not scared. Corbyn is not an antisemite.' #VoteLabour2019 #JC4PM
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If Corbyn were truly such an 'unelectable' irrelevance, the corporate media wouldn't still be gunning for him with such enthusiasm, 11 months after Labour lost the election and 7 months after he gave up the leadership.
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@SkyNews @KateEMcCann Absolute madness from Labour. This is the statement. There's nothing wrong with it.
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3 years
Blue tick Twitter and the press.
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@bbclaurak What 'confusion'? You relayed an unsubstantiated Tory smear without bothering to check it out first.
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I'm quite impressed by the number of celebs whose consciences can't handle them being in Labour but could handle Labour being in Iraq.
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Another side thought on Corbyn. He's 68 and he's doing something extraordinary. It's +never+ too late to achieve something with your life.
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@alexwickham You're right. Let's keep political commentary to those with the expertise and proven predictive skills of Britain's journalist class. What can some Prof. like John Curtice tell us that Julia Hartley-Brewer can't?
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@dav_jude @GayRepublicSwag @FranceskAlbs @lildarkcage The reason they're not at peace is because Israel is continuing to occupy Palestinian land and build on it. There are 700,000 Israelis living in the West Bank. That is why there is no peace.
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Written by liars, read by idiots.
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@nickyhey1 @ChrisPage90 Nicky, have you stopped to think that you're not qualified to argue with a professional meteorologist? Have you considered that, while everyone has a right to an opinion, that doesn't mean all opinions are worth the same?
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There's nothing that Jeremy Corbyn can do to appease his enemies except disappear. They're outraged by his incumbency, threatened by his programme, contemptuous of his failings, infuriated by his successes, and bewildered by his popularity.
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@SkyNews Are these the same people who are also happy for the poorest to skip meals, don't care about food banks, and aren't worried that thousands of kids are malnourished? The same people who say 'we should look after our own' when refugees are mentioned, but get irate when we do?
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@jeremymstamper @SkyNews @ramsaysky @annabotting Don't put your people on someone else's land and they won't throw rocks at you.
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@pritipatel We don't have a free press. We have choice between a small range of big business-run propaganda rags, designed to sell our attention to advertiser while our pockets are picked.
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@mrjamesob Corbyn's no fool and neither are his team. They know that the only time they get a reasonably fair hearing from the broadcast media is when the election rules kick in (as happened this time last year when his approval rating shot up).
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@SkyNews The plan all along. His little clutch of disaster capitalists don't care about a deal or the UK. This is just an opportunity to enrich themselves and their friends and then leave the rest of us in the ruins. They'll blame the EU and millions of gullible ppl will believe them.
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@RichardDawkins I once saw Grimsby Town beat Man City 3-0. It was certainly an unfamiliar score and I wept.
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@SkyNews He's stating that carers, binmen, Amazon drivers and various other people in low paid but important work don't deserve to be warm. Working class Tory voters, are you getting it yet?
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I don't know which is more perplexing - Blair's belief that he helps any cause or the media's insistence on relaying his views.
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Good to see Corbyn being more robust in defending himself.
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Please share this letter from Jeremy Corbyn as widely as possible!
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@AlanDana @guardian The headline is accurate. The Court made a finding, not a ruling.
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Every once in a while, it's worth taking a step back from the last 3yrs, to appreciate the ferocity of the attack on Corbyn from the political class, media, and business On almost zero evidence,a lifelong anti-racist campaigner is now widely slandered as a virulent anti-Semite.
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@jeremycorbyn @realDonaldTrump I trust Jeremy Corbyn to stand up for Britain in any trade negotiations with the US. He's demonstrated more backbone during the past 4yrs of media firestorm than the entire Govt. Boris Johnson doesn't even have the guts to face Andrew Neill.
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David Cameron hasn't been elected for a first term, yet. #r4today
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@SkyNews John Bercow, himself Jewish, and a political opponent of Jeremy Corbyn whose known him 22yrs. I think he's more qualified than Ms. Riley.
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@SkyNews Enough is known for the world to see that what Israel is doing will be known as one of the greatest crimes of the 21st Century. By itself, forcing a situation in which an estimated 1300 children have had limbs amputated without anaesthetic, is an obscenity.
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@SkyNews Using the slogan 'White Lives Matter' is like showing up at a Hillsborough, 'Justice for the 96' demo with a placard saying 'Justice for All'. It's like crashing a Suffragette protest chanting 'Votes for Men'. It is moronic - at best.
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Quick word on the Jewish Labour Movement EHRC submission. 1 You don't have to be Jewish. 2 You don't have to be in Labour. 3 Its a pro Zionist, anti Corbyn campaign group. 4 While many instances in its submission will be truthful, they are not new. 5 It's not an EHRC finding.
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I want to walk through those riots in London with a megaphone, shouting, 'Yes, your lives are shit. You're frustrated, resentful, poor, and unfulfilled - and it's not the fault of black people or immigrants. You're being screwed by rich white people and you always have been.'
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So, after a decade of murdering Afghans, the UK withdraws, confident that its native deputies will go on murdering the rest.
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@SkyNews The overall tax burden is the highest since 1950. The reason for that is 40 years of governments taking money from working people and giving it to the wealthy. Meanwhile, the wealthy use their newspapers to blame immigrants, refugees and those on benefits.
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Just when you think you can't despair any more deeply of people on social media, here's an adult called Helen Dale vs a 16yr old child with Aspergers.
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Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)
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Can the Beeb arrange for Andrew Neil to interview this Greta Thunberg character? Because afterwards I guarantee we’ll never hear from her again. She may even have a meltdown on national telly into the bargain.
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@mrjamesob And Corbyn was criticised for being 'invisible' during the EU referendum, when it was more that he and Labour were ignored.
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@SkyNews Good to know there's someone with some see decency in the Home Office. Working class people are continually told to blame our problems on refugees - by the billionaire owned press. Instead of kicking down, we should be looking up. Refugees are not my enemy, the ultrawealthy are.
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@GeorgeMonbiot By the same token, they continually tell us that work is the best way out of poverty and the way to get rich - yet their wealth comes from inheritance and extraction.
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@rachshabi Antisemitism in Labour under Corbyn was real, although grossly overstated. The (inherited) party machinery was clearly inadequate. But the notion that it was some sort of crisis or affected anything other than a sub-1% fraction of 600k party was entirely a media fabrication.
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@SkyNews Shameful. To make a woman who was groomed and raped by terrorists as a 15yr old child stateless rather than bring her home and give her due process of law. Another black day for British justice.
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@johnmilbank3 No, they haven't. All 'liberals' have said is that both parties have to consent. Is that so hard to understand?
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OK, here's what the Daily Mail is reporting today and here's what Corbyn actually said. Notice how much work '[British Zionists]' is doing and how carefully the DM has arranged its quotes. You can see the video here:
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@AyoCaesar Corbyn's heavily derided 7/10ism is an accurate reflection of most Britons' attitude to the EU.
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@mrjamesob Remember, it was only January 2016 that the BBC arranged for Stephen Doughty to resign live on air just before PMQs.
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@SkyNews Airfarce One? It's actually for flying his kids to school.
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In the name of all that is profane, why in the blistering fuck is anyone asking Neil Hamilton what he thinks about anything? #c4news
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@Keir_Starmer Work is not a value. Security is not a value. Care, equality, and security are not tools. Your tweet is gibberish.
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@medialens Touched a nerve, it seems.
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Theresa May is a leading arms supplier for Saudi Arabia's murderous war on Yemen but #bbcpm leads with Corbyn on Venezuela. Amazing.
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@brokenbottleboy Baddiel's books include 'Where God Went Wrong', 'Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes' and 'Who is this God Person Anyway?' He later used the Babel Fish argument as the basis for a fourth book, entitled Well, That About Wraps It Up For God.
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@LBCNews But it's workers who are driving up inflation by not wanting a pay cut. Thanks for helping trash this guy, LBC.
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@SkyNews @JayneSeckerSky She's not simply a barrister.
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It bears repeating: the technique of political character assassination, such as we're seeing with Corbyn, is not to convince those who scrutinise each attack in detail; it's to create an impression in the minds of the voting majority who don't follow politics too closely.
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The journalist class appears far more upset by Boris Johnson saying he'd let thousands of people die to protect corporate profits than they were at him letting thousands of people die to protect corporate profits.
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On a short break, I've had the opportunity to talk to a non-scientific sample of what I'd call non-political people about Jeremy Corbyn. Without exception, all of them think the media is simply out to get him. The disregard for the media is quite striking.
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@chrispercival12 @GeorgeMonbiot You mean like cows are extinct in India, dogs are extinct in the UK, and pigs were extinct until we started eating them?
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@mrjamesob Plus, the party's social media strategy has paid dividends, helping take it to its highest vote share since 1997. Whole sections of Labour support simply aren't that interested in broadcast or print news.
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@jeremycorbyn You're a good man. Don't just stand as an independent, form a party. Thousands will join you.
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@gatenby_paul GB Shaw once found one of his own volumes in a 2nd hand shop. Inspecting the flyleaf, he saw that it was inscribed with his compliments to a friend. He bought the book for a few pence and posted it to the friend, inscribed 'with the renewed compliments of George Bernard Shaw'.
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@LBC @NickFerrariLBC Nick Ferrari's job is to set working class people against eachother, so we don't blame his bosses for our problems.
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@rudermensch @MarxistWhovian And that laptop was brought to him by state-funded research, not capitalism.
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@Daily_Express Shock? What did we need to do to get that through to you - write in crayon on Diana's corpse?
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@dav_jude @GayRepublicSwag @FranceskAlbs @lildarkcage Saying that the Palestinians started a war with the state illegally occupying them has the logical and moral integrity of accusing a woman of starting a fist fight with the rapist on top of her.
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@RickyBlackCab @jeremycorbyn Yes, that's how billionaires acquire their money, through hard work and education.
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"Mr Biden said it was "absolutely mindless" for the president-elect not to have faith in intelligence agencies." #r4today
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@FloellaBenjamin My word, and to think you're 15yrs older than Nigel Farage and 26yrs older than Katie Hopkins. Just shows what hate and bigotry does to the skin. Happy birthday, Flo. 😘
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From the historian Dr Mark Curtis. Why is Corbyn grilled on foreign policy from the 80s but not May on this from right now? #r4today
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3 massive stories on links between UK terror & Saudi/Libya which, re Manchester, would bring down the govt if reported properly by media.
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@ThadrinBB @johnmilbank3 Well, 'all' if you're having a particularly good night.
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I wish journalists would stop referring to a forthcoming 'war with #Iran '. When one country can launch missiles from 3000 miles away and drop bombs from planes so high they cannot be touched, it's not a war: it's an assault. The US Govt never attacks nations who can fight back.
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When you watch Boris Johnson's latest shambolic performance, just remember that Corbyn was a Stasi agent who was 'too frail' for govt. #c4news
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How bad do things have to get before we stop listening to the people who told us bomb Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria?
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@dav_jude @GayRepublicSwag @FranceskAlbs @lildarkcage Israel has illegally occupied Gaza and the West Bank since 1967. That is an ongoing, daily attack, killing 1000s. To say that the Palestinians 'started a war' with their occupiers is absurd. One doesn't have to condone the Oct 7 attacks to acknowledge this.
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@GayRepublicSwag @FranceskAlbs @lildarkcage Israel should have considered its civilians when it chose to illegally occupy Gaza and the West Bank.
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@SarahRosemary3 @mrjamesob Corbyn made 123 media appearances to support Remain - this compared very favourably with Alan Johnson, the leader of the Labour Remain campaign, who managed just 19.
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@SkyNews Except that if Starmer's allies in Israel had had their way, not only would there have been no room at the inn, there would have been no inn.
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@MrNishKumar I think your sentence has one more syllable than it needs.
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Theresa May is now trying to find out what went wrong by phoning all six of the people she talked to during her campaign. #BBCelection
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@jeremycorbyn The British and US can't help Ukraine. It took us 20yrs and billions of pounds to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
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The antisemitism smears against Corbyn* don't withstand scrutiny but they're not intended to. They're not aimed at people who pay close attention to politics. Theyre designed to be an impression at the back of the minds of the millions who don't; a vaguely remembered deterrent.
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@dav_jude @GayRepublicSwag @FranceskAlbs @lildarkcage Israel withdrew ground forces from Gaza in 2005, but it openly retained control of Gazan airspace and territorial waters. This means it remained the occupier under international law, as confirmed by the UN, the ICRC, and most recently, the pre-trial chamber of the ICC.
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If you want an illustration of the chasm between entitled Westminster hacks and the rest of us:
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@lukeakehurst So if they're objecting to him on ideological grounds, why bring race into it on either side?
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@JasonCowleyNS What an absurd proposition. He has been subjected to 4yrs of the most withering relentless attacks, from in front and behind -everything from Stasi agent to racist. Even if I didn't agree with a word he said, I hope I'd have the grace to acknowledge his remarkable fortitude.
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'Holds on' with a majority of 35,000?
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@SkyNews @SkyYaldaHakim @FleurHassanN The Israeli Govt is an illegally occupying power. It has zero right to give instructions to Palestinians living outside of Israel's legal border.
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@SkyNews The people really to blame for this are working-class Tories. If you can't work out after 40 years of having your pockets picked that these people are your enemy, you deserve all you get.
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Non-contradictory notions: Russia has genuine security concerns abt NATO. Russian aggression against Ukraine is a crime. USuk bad faith undermines their proclamations about 'freedom' and 'sovereignty'. The UK media applies wholly different standards to Russian crimes than ours.
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@mattblake94 @bass4themasses @SkyNews Has it possibly dawned on you that an apartheid state, illegally occupying another people, engaged in systematic ethnic cleansing, and being investigated for genocide by the highest court on earth shouldn't have US security backing?
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@Andrew_Adonis Mass murderer, zealot, and PR man for tyrants.
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@SkyNews Corbyn has been an extremely popular constituency MP for forty years. He's also the most successful Labour leader since Blair. This just shows how petty, vindictive, and insecure Starmer and his handlers are.
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@Mattman1272 @BethRigby You don't remember the 80s and 90s then? The Tories have borrowed vast sums on money on the public account, squandered north sea oil, and sold off our infrastructure - all to enrich their friends.
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@siennamarla So, Labour has not changed enough from the party that held Hartlepool in 2017 and 2019 to hold it in 2021?
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