David Knopfler
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Singer-songwriter and Dire Straits founder member. This is my official Twitter Account bizarrely denied blue tick status by Twitter.
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Every time I read about some ghastly reactionary bigot attack the RNLI and saying they won’t donate again to them for doing their legally mandated job, I’m reminded to make another donation to the
#RNLI
. I hope you are too.
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According to Suella Braverman, by analogy, my father should have stayed in nazi occupied Europe and been murdered, rather than risk upsetting the sentiments of white nationalists by coming here. What on earth is the matter with her that she can’t seem to see how absurd she is?
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Whenever I see this ad “for free expert advice on visas, work permits, carnets, passports, and customs regulations.” I feel sick about what Brexit did to my industry, the UK Music Business, and sicker still that our political leaders lie, and lie and lie about it.
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This one is a real head-shaker. A Musician votes for Brexit and then is completely frustrated to have lost all the benefits he voted to give away. Still clearly hasn’t understood even now what he did:
Man votes to end Freedom of Movement (& a customs union) .
Man is "frustrated" & cannot understand why he has lost the reciprocal benefits
... of Freedom of Movement (& a customs union). 😂
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I’m getting really tired of X foisting Right and Far Right commentary my way when I don’t follow any of them
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I’m going to have to leave X if its algorithms keep endlessly pushing ignorant, reactionary, know nothing, Leave supporting, wankers into my feed. It’s like battling through the treacle of Spectator, Mail , Telegraph with a sprinkle of closet fascists plus ads. It’s too much
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@LizWebsterSBF
@KemiBadenoch
"We are the architects of our own demise. And our own demise started in 2016 when we made the ridiculous vote to come out of Europe"
Chairman of Asda
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This inability of Lab and LD to recognise that their tribalism will deliver a Con victory. People HAVE to vote tactically
This is what my by-election model produces for Mid Bedfordshire atm:
Votes
CON: 32% (-28)
LAB: 29% (+7)
LDM: 23% (+10)
GRN: 4% (-)
Win chance
CON: 43%
LAB: 33%
LDM: 23%
OTH: 1%
Conservatives could come through the middle on a low vote share if no Labour/Lib Dem co-operation.
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@Arron_banks
@jonsopel
You’re being utterly misleading, Bankski. You lost the lion’s share of the judgement. And I still have no idea how or why you threw millions of pounds at Farage and his filthy politics.
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@christinalamb
@Sathnam
I despise this Government more even than its predecessor. It will never recover in the polls because it divides, impoverishes, both economically & culturally at every repulsive turn. The damage done to the arts c/o Brexit and its braying philistinism is the worst in living memory
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Every time a Labour politician posts about the economy without admitting Brexit has been a disaster for the large majority of goods and services export businesses, I feel angered and gaslit. When will they come clean and end the complicity?
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@ProfBrianCox
Science suggests that would be the case. Cognitive insufficiency was a feature of leave voting
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Put at its absolute simplest, I can summon no respect whatsoever for ANY UK politician who daren’t tell us the truth, that our difficulties are mostly the result of Brexit. Not to do so means they are either dim and delusional, or they are gaslighting and lying. Which is it?
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@Peston
@chedwardes
Except that’s not good. Importing food has never been harder and it’s easier for farmers to flog off our green spaces for housing estates. It’s a recipe for trouble
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@GaryLineker
"Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe? Expediency asks the question: Is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But Conscience asks the question: Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular…
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@LizWebsterSBF
There are very rare occasions when the unspeakable phrase “What a ****” comes unbidden to mind. His values personify such an occasion.
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@Nillo82948721
I think Johnson. Cameron badly badly miscalculated but in part because Johnson misled him. Johnson has many of the traits of a clinical narcissist and wouldn’t know the national interest if it fell on him. His cynical adoption of Leave for personal gain is unforgivable
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@campbellclaret
@piersmorgan
It’s very likely that Morgan didn’t personally hack phones. It’s entirely possible he didn’t ask anyone else to. If he didn’t know however it’s pretty implausible that he didn’t go of his way not to know. I am completely mystified by Morgan’s hostility towards Harry and Megan
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We need an anti-corruption Minister with a department with teeth and it needs to start with our MPs. Will Labour do it?
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I think the Government, having legislated that Rwanda is safe, should now legislate that Russia doesn’t exist, thus solving the Ukraine invasion, that the two state solution is now in place and that Brexit has been a roaring success. Hey presto!
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@implausibleblog
@timfarron
If Rwanda is safe why did the Home Office then grant asylum to 75% of the applicants from Rwanda last year?
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@SylviaM17261630
What’s never going to stop? Our inability to manage our legally mandated obligation to process asylum claims in a timely manner?
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Whenever I see this ad “for free expert advice on visas, work permits, carnets, passports, and customs regulations.” I feel sick about what Brexit did to my industry and sicker still that our political leaders lie and lie and lie about it
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#Brexit
is, I believe, the only example, ever, of a nation delivering sanctions on itself. It remains the proverbial 💩 that can’t be flushed or polished. If Brexit is the answer then what was the question? Creative answers welcomed:
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@realDonaldTrump
“There will never be a replacement for good old fashioned walls?” ... nor indeed good old fashioned tunnels, nor good old fashioned ladders... nor indeed good old fashioned planes, nor good old fashioned home grown terrorists. So no slats then after all?
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How badly does a government have to gaslight and lie to us to drive an absolutely non-political, national treasure, organisation like the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to make this poster?
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@RoryStewartUK
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." Your former party is currently UKIP on steroids.
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Corrupt water companies have been repeatedly dumping raw sewage into our waterways – we must act urgently before our rivers and seas are ruined forever. Sign now.
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@EamonJavers
I accept that you saw Melania as stated. In the tried and tested journalistic tradition do we have a second independent witness for corroboration?
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@brexit_sham
The German authorities seized a yacht. The French authorities seized a yacht. The UK authorities seized an opportunity to BS the public while giving their sponsors plenty to time to hide their assets
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@RSPBEngland
@RishiSunak
@michaelgove
@theresecoffey
Thank you for taking a stand. I’m going to join the RSPB for this
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Sunak hasn’t removed the whip from the “Farage fan-girl” and all round dangerous extremist, Liz Truss embarrassing herself and the nation with her platforming with the so called alt-right and their fascistic fellow travellers because he is weak weak weak.
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Boris Johnson inadvertently misled the House. Sunak inadvertently has found himself repeatedly professionally conflicted. Putin inadvertently shot down an aeroplane. It all makes perfect sense
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@brexit_sham
The problem with asking that we treat promoters of Brexit with respect is that there was and is nothing respectable about Brexit. It’s calamitous… exactly as predicted by those who respect experts, facts, and gravity.
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Do you think our politicians or their advisors ever bother to listen to our replies on X? Not listening isn’t a great look for a politician is it?
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I hope you all get everything you could hope for in 2024 Dx
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The Conservative Party are now polling at about the same figure as peak UKIP. They appear to have lost the support of the vast majority of their small c conservative centrist and centre-right base. It’s not that hard to see the mess they’ve made of things.
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Everything that Brexit delivers is utterly toxic - and they add insult to injury when they persist in gaslighting us about it
All Hull’s fishermen voted for Brexit because Boris Johnson promised a “prodigious” increase in quotas but they have been cut in half since the UK left the EU because we now negotiate independently rather than from a position of strength as part of the EU.
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Ofcom has no clothes on…
The culture minister attacks the BBC - without evidence - for supposed impartiality failings. Meanwhile the prime minister stands in for Jacob Rees-Mogg on the entirely impartial GB News. Thank heavens we have a tough media regulator .
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@ProfBrianCox
The far-right wing inclined Jacob Rees Mogg, a former president of the council, presents a couple of further reminders of his anti human-rights stance, by backing more wrecking support to the disgusting, unchristian Rwanda Bill.
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@AdamJSchwarz
Sunak misleads the House every single PMQs just as Johnson did, without fail. You can count on it. Where are the repercussions?
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Prof Cox making too much sense as usual with all those facts and expertise… Brexit still the self immolation of self imposed sanctions and the turd that can’t be flushed or polished
The frustrating thing to me about the quote from this article is that the columnist knows, and the Conservatives know, and Labour knows, that Brexit was an awful economic and geopolitical error. This was obvious in my view in 2016 and it’s ten times more obvious now, for the…
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Cox, as usual, on the money
The reason the UK will have the lowest growth in the G7 next year is Brexit. We're not going to reverse the decline until we begin to remove the barriers - economic, social, scientific - that we chose to erect with the rest of our continent. That's not rocket science. Just say it
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@campbellclaret
I already have a job I’ve spent a lifetime getting good at. Brexit has destroyed it. Crushing the arts is not the future unless totalitarian dystopia appeals to you
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BBC accused of left wing bias… again - minus any evidence, obviously.
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If you’ve missed one of four Tory Party scandals so far today - don’t worry another is bound to be along in an hour or two
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@NileGardiner
You didn’t object to them shutting down RT. Ofcom is regulated and rules based. RT had it coming. GB makes no attempt at offering balanced news reports - it’s just UKIP with lipstick
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I have no idea why X keeps delivering posts from some of the most odious reactionaries whose tweets I’ve ever had the misfortune to read but please, dear god, make it stop. You’d think they were the moral majority rather than a freakish fringe. Ever since the 2019 election…
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@johnredwood
You know perfectly well that it’s the erection of trading frictions between the UK and the EU that is causing the car industry (and most others) to relocate new plant into the bigger market. It’s not the electric car to blame it’s Brexit.
#BrexitBrokeBritain
#BrexitWasALie
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Guess who is bottom? The neoliberal liars have dragged us here step by stupid damaging step with mismanaged decline all the way
Devastating
@UNICEF
league table on changes in child poverty over 7+ years up to 2021: UK in the bottom spot
Report:
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@DeborahAnnetts
@ThangamMP
@ISM_music
I gave up touring when this Brexit BS began and until all the restrictions are removed I won’t be back
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@LiamFox
Our hospitals were at 95% capacity when Covid arrived. Germany’s were at 50% with four times as many specialist beds with oxygen and ventilators. The NHS has been an unholy mess for years made substantially worse by Brexit
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@Arron_banks
You obviously don’t understand how the EU is constituted - It has far higher standards of Democracy than the UK, but then the far right never did like democracy. Using expressions like “overlords” for the Council of Ministers just makes you sound ignorant Arron.
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@Reuters
Confirming that Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine without having confirmed first that China would not condemn them for doing it. The friendship agreement between Russia and China was essentially a green flag for Putin’s invasion
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@RichardJMurphy
We’re really dealing with stagflation here not inflation and it’s notoriously difficult to fix. In chess it’s recognised that if you keep making weak moves quite quickly only bad moves are available to you. How long have our Governments been making sub-optimal moves?
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Lynmouth swim race cancelled due to sewage release. The new normal
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@johnpilger
The former East Germany nevertheless breathed a huge sigh of relief when the wall came down and frankly they haven’t looked back since. As Gorbachev said in 1985…”Things can’t go on like this.”
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A song I wrote for the South Devon Alliance film about the sewage in our rivers scandal.
#Teignbridge
#Sewage
#NewtonAbbot
#Pollution
I am standing in
#Ashburton
and
#Buckfastleigh
as a candidate for the local district council elections May the Fourth 2023
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@CarolineLucas
@ukhomeoffice
Not for the first time the Home Office is using social media entirely to promote a party partisan position. I’m baffled as to why there isn’t a parliamentary or legal challenge to this behaviour? We have a right to expect genuine neutrality from our civil servants haven’t we?
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@Jeremy_Hunt
@Jeremy_Hunt
The obstacles that stop businesses trading is exactly what your party instituted with leaving the single market, leaving the customs union and ending Freedom of Movement … in other words Brexit. On behalf of the Music Industry can I say we need that returned to us.
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@JakeWSimons
That would be enough to provoke me into buying Israeli products. Where’s my nearest Lidl?
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@implausibleblog
The real comparison that matters is 2016 to 2024 and on those statistics German growth is double ours
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“We are going down the left path Poppy”
“Oh great! I love the left path”
“Oh hang on, no we have to take the right path”
“Oh great! I love the right path!”
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Good to see there’s one Labour MP not prepared to gaslight us about the facts. I wish there were more.
Pleased to join some of my constituents from
#Canterbury
and others from
#Kent
at the
#RejoinMarch
#RejoinEU
today. Great to catch up with
@RichardGCorbett
@guyverhofstadt
and
@snb19692
too 🇪🇺
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@Sacha_Lord
Well done! Similarly seven years on and thousands of folk in the music industry are still waiting in vain for normal trading conditions to resume after Brexit. Not a whisper about it can be heard. Sacrificed on the altar of Johnson’s ambition and Farage’s venality
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@MrJohnNicolson
@A13XDB
Satire has been on life support ever since the Conservatives made Boris Johnson their PM
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This is too good not to share
This is absolutely great. The tories deserve to have this rammed down their throats for a bloody long time!
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Does this work??
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@BBCRosAtkins
7 mins well spent. This dogs-dinner in attempting to square the circle between the Good Friday Agreement and Johnson’s Brexit deal was entirely predicted by Remain.
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@_RobbieMoore
@DefraGovUK
@EnvAgency
@stwater
Ofwat has been (post Brexit) presiding over the largest increases of river and sea pollution since the 1950s. They aren’t fit for purpose. Privatised water has failed and how. They have no teeth to enforce compliance. EU law was better. This Government have abjectly failed us too
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
You voted not to safeguard our waterways. Our rivers stink. The EU would have prevented it. In other words the truth is the exact opposite of your ludicrous claim. You Conservatives conserve nothing
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If this were a US inquiry, would the conveniently “missing” WhatsApp messages of those at the heart of government be tolerated? It would undoubtedly be massively investigated as a cover up. Unless they changed phone numbers and started new accounts how could it not be?
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@johnpilger
It’s pretty clear Russia is pounding Ukrainian cities and only four nations at the UN are defending Russia annexations. I’m not clear what it is you think Reuters, for example are getting wrong… Russian missiles target more than 40 Ukraine cities, towns
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@theAliceRoberts
It’s not humanity that’s the problem - it’s the ERG wreckers who dragged us away from EU protection
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@andreajenkyns
Being proud that you fought for the deeply unpopular, self imposed sanctions, of the 💩 that can’t be flushed or polished seems like a pretty feeble accomplishment. Still it’s good to give your constituents a solid reason not to vote for you next time
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@HousewifePolish
@BladeoftheS
“Milei… has been described politically as a right-wing libertarian and right-wing populist, and supports laissez-faire economics, aligning specifically with minarchist and anarcho-capitalist principles.” wiki
If this policy is anything it’s fascist
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@Steven_Swinford
Gove and Johnson brought the Farage turd of Brexit that can’t be flushed or polished to Parliament and they did the unthinkable and pronounced it not the self sanctioning it really was but an “opportunity” and Labour too had no testicular fortitude and lie about it still. 💩💩💩
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@FullFact
It began to become common place under Boris “40 new hospitals” Johnson but it’s not so different with Sunak. I can’t think of a single PMQs where he didn’t mislead the House and en-passant the public with falsehoods when examined by the likes of Full-Fact.
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Don’t you guys feel just a teeny bit embarrassed to be so aptly known as the new cons?
#NewCons
Some things just defy rebranding. However, move a long way left, to the Centre Right and you might recover by the 2030s though
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@Otto_English
Searching in vain for peaches at my supermarket and reposting the goods sold to the EU that have bounced back due to the sanctions we imposed on ourselves. Brexit still the 💩 that can’t be flushed or polished
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@PennyMordaunt
How she does it with a straight face is fabulous. If anyone has let anyone down it’s surely the ruling party polling at 18%?
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@Feargal_Sharkey
Was the jury ever really out? Privatising water was incredibly unwise, based, as it was, on the untested premise that they’d invest in infrastructure rather than short term profits
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I have blocked Nigel Farage. I just can’t take any more of his fascist playbook tweets
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This new UK Conservative Government slogan “sticking to the plan” is abysmally bad. Their plans have repeatedly and comprehensively damaged us. Even the majority of conservative voters know it’s bollocks
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X claim to have a policy that doesn’t allow hate or racism but its owner uses expressions like “floods of illegals” and uses his unequal power inside X to promote the hell out of it.
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@MelJStride
@Conservatives
When you change the definition of employed to one hour a week it’s easy to fiddle the figures.
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@GeorgeMonbiot
@izzybbb
Meanwhile “Penny Mordaunt's brother avoids jail after admitting sending sexually indecent images to undercover police officer posing as 14-year-old girl” Daily Mail. Six months for walking slowly. The scales seem a tad off.
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The Daily Fail is lying to you.
The total goods and services trade balance, exc precious metals, widened by £2.2 billion to a deficit of £13.8B in the three months to January 2024. Exports fell by £6.3B over this period and imports fell by £4.0B
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#Brexit
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Imagine, if you will, you bought into Apple early and owned one 28th of their shares. Then, one fine day decided you no longer liked Apple, despite its 2 trillion market valuation. So, rather than sell them, you paid Apple to let you set fire to your shares.
#BrexitInaNutshell
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