
Mike Harding AKA Lord Hardinge of Dribblesdale
@HardingMike
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Stand up comic / folk singer / poet / playwright / passionate citizen of everywhere / Guardian eating tofu woke snowflake big girl's blouse #Xdissenter
Yorks & Connemara & Mancs
Joined September 2011
Hunt avoids £100k of Stamp Duty Sunak wife 'non dom' status Zahawi underpays millions in tax and pays a fine Mone PPE - no resolution over millions Rayner - given wrong advice over £40k of Stamp Duty - loses everything
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As he stands and decries free speech issue in the US Farage and Co ban further media from their conference - sound like Trump anyone Chicken Farage bans The New World
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Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story
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One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war. https://t.co/Pr1ysaePXn
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Ukraine can rebuild its cities, its infrastructure, and its economy. What it cannot do is reclaim the lives lost or undo the profound scars left on its youngest generation.
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It’s no coincidence Trump and Vance have booth visited the UK in recent weeks. They are having meetings with our very own traitors who are working against our government and let’s be clear, also working against Ukraine
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The NHS, pensions and benefits are all routinely described as 'unsustainable'. But somehow that adjective is never applied to arms spending or bank bailouts.
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Don’t appoint a landlord as Homelessness Minister. Don’t appoint someone taking thousands in donations from private health companies as Health Secretary. Dont appoint someone taking thousands from Israeli lobbyists as Home Secretary. There’s a theme here.
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Judge a man by the company he keeps!
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God, I’m so sorry Ireland, first the potato famine and now this. 😬
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"We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns." GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/FnHJOSXcGH
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The environment, food and rural affairs committee grilled Chris Weston, the company’s chief executive, on its finances, bonuses and environmental record
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Resident doctors pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for six years of medical school and then get below-inflation pay rises. Then a man paid £300,000 a year to present a television show tells them they're greedy.
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"London ‘super sewer’ boss awarded £600,000 pay rise despite £100m cost overrun." You'd never guess that Thames Water's customers now have a £25 surcharge on the water bills, for the next 20 years, to pay for this nonsense. https://t.co/6LNrHLaSky
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Critics question pay rise for Thames Tideway project boss, which is drawn from mandatory add-ons to water bills
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Just one of the costs of listening to Farage. He will of course claim Brexit wasn’t “done properly.” I mow have to fill in a customs form to send a book to Northern Ireland. A other Farag-o
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People want control over their own country - this isn’t rocket science https://t.co/Ez4fzdyNkG
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So I went to see Spike Milligan's gravestone recently, to see for myself the "I told you I was ill" epitaph. Bright sunny day, slightly faded inscription, couldn't see it. Walked away somewhat disgruntled, another bloody urban myth I thought. 5 minutes later had a thought, had
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Facts My teams & I successfully prosecuted 1000s of child sexual abusers For 5 yrs I was managed by Keir Starmer We listened We helped change the way every agency responded to the threat Ethnicity was an issue, Class was an issue & the Tory Govt took away much of the funding
We’ve been calling on Starmer to hold a national inquiry for months. Finally, he’s u-turned. Now, let’s make sure he keeps his word.
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NEARLY HALF THE FIRST EDITION GONE IN 2 DAYS! This has never happened before! https://t.co/RMsBQEH79v
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Published 21 June 2025 - only 250 signed and numbered copies. Available from the website - first in a series of 6 books of shot stories - £10 +p&p https://t.co/AekMQ6YQrQ
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I walked through central London last night and realised something that made me genuinely sad: The city I once loved—vibrant, safe, recognisably English—is gone. Here’s what I saw 👇
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