Joan S
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I’m a History grad (Uni of B’ham) Ex teacher. EU Resident. Brexit is a disaster. I want the UK to be what it could be. I like arguing with strangers on Twitter!
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@MooseAllain
I was once in a toilet cubicle and could hear a woman waiting outside with hiccups. Trying to be friendly, I smiled and said “You need to hold your breath!” The disgusted look she shot me told me that she didn’t think I was referring to her hiccups!
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Woke up to this while having an afternoon nap. I don’t have a cat!
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Fisherman on
@SkyNews
this morning. “Yes we did vote for Brexit.” Next sentence “We sell 90% of our fish to the EU.” Spot the problem? Absolutely tragic. What happened to make people vote against their own interests? Apart from 40 years of brainwashing and lies.
#BrexitReality
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The idiocy of the Tory phoning in to
@NickFerrariLBC
this morning,saying that if a Labour government get in he’ll have to “move to Spain”🇪🇸! Well I’ve news for you mate! 1. It was a lot easier before your lot took us out of the EU! And 2. We’ve got a Labour government in Spain!🇪🇸
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Why is
@NickFerrariLBC
discussing a Daily Mail article about the number of people on benefits not mentioning that his ‘expert’ is actually from a Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank based in Tufton St. He also failed to mention that many people on benefits are also in work!
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@NadineDorries
What a load of twaddle! You are actively seeking to gag Channel 4 because they hold you and your cronies to account!
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Such an incredibly heartbreaking call to
@mrjamesob
in
@LBC
just now. The raw emotion from a lady called Sabina telling about how she hadn’t been able to see her dad before he died while Johnson partied! So many are feeling this hurt. I’m in tears.
#JohnsonMustGo
#GTTO
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Can I ask why
@UKLabour
policy, as stated just now by
@DavidLammy
on
#BBCLauraK
, is to ‘never rejoin the SM or CU’? It seems to me that rejoining these two is the only way back to growth and fixing the economy. I understand why they can’t campaign to rejoin the EU, but why this?
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Has anyone seen
@jeremycorbyn
lately? Is he okay? Maybe somebody should nip down to the allotment and check that he hasn’t accidentally locked himself in the shed. Asking for a Party, and a country.
#wheresjeremy
@UKLabour
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@wiltshireglo
@damocrat
I have never cried because of an election result before, but I’m crying for this one!
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@JonBandell
But it wasn’t Democratic was it? A fraudulent referendum based on lies and funded by Russian money. People were told there was no question of leaving the single market. As a result the country is being wrecked and nobody voted for that.
#BrexitReality
#BrexitHasFailed
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@implausibleblog
Why does nobody ever ask the question "Why can't we open processing centres in France?" The French have offered) It would end boat crossings overnight. The fact is the Tories love the boats. It gives them so much opportunity for performative cruelty. "We'll save you!" rhetoric!
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@lewis_goodall
Absolutely disgraceful! I take it that Richard Sharp will also be stepping back as Chair of the
#BBC
then, as being a Tory donor and helping to secure an £800k loan for Johnson just before he took up the post, I’m sure he would hate to appear impartial. North Korea or what?
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@pictureladyjan
@GyllKing
Thank you! I am an immigrant here in Spain 🇪🇸 and I changed my U.K. driving license to a Spanish one over a year ago. It was well publicised and a really straightforward procedure. The only people having problems are the ones that tried to ignore what the 🇪🇸government were saying
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Despicable from
@BarryGardiner
and
@UKLabour
to claim participation in cases they didn’t bring.
Politicians walked off the pitch and left it to private citizens.
And maybe failed to use the safety they sought to create and protect in law.
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@EmmaKennedy
It’s the sheer hypocrisy! ‘Baby Joy!’ ‘Cripes!’ ‘And an engagement!’. All painted with such a rosy glow as if they were a pair of teenagers, totally ignoring the trail of heartbreak and misery that that awful man has left behind him for most of his life.
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Just been to our local Dialprix supermarket, south of Alicante. The shortages are terrible! I don’t know how we’re going to manage!
#BrexitFoodShortages
#BrexitBrokeBritain
#foodshortages
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@Adam_SH69
I understand that people like this are laughable, and there’s a feeling of ‘they deserve what’s coming to them’. But don’t forget that there are other people, like myself, who live in Spain, who voted Remain, pay tax, speak Spanish etc who have been abandoned by our government!
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Have just watched
@BBCNews
telling an absolute whopper of a lie. Reporting on the food shortages in the U.K. a spokesman said it was weather related, while showing footage of a snowy palm tree. I am in Spain and we have not seen shortages in any of our local supermarkets!
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@jonlis1
Well he did everything he could! Apart from turn up for Cobra meetings. Close the borders. Lockdown early. Supply adequate PPE. Not treat the whole pandemic as a money making opportunity. Put in place a functional test and trace. GIVE A SHIT!
#JohnsonHasFailedTheNation
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Why is Rachel Johnson on
#BBCLauraK
this morning? She’s hardly impartial, when yet another scandal involving her brother is being discussed. I don’t think that her opinion on anything is worth hearing.
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I will never understand how ‘the belch of beery flatulence’ that is Nigel Farage, (to quote
@mrjamesob
) has been allowed to bring about the ruin of the UK! He’s failed 7 times to be elected as an MP!How and why does this little Fascist have so much power?
#marr
#Farage
#MarrShow
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@RhonddaBryant
One of my favourite stories about her, is the claim that she made to be a major contributor to an important legal text book. Unfortunately for her,the author came forward and put the record straight saying that she had done little more than some photocopying for him. Sums her up!
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@Lucyvfreeman
When I was a Reception class teacher, I once had a child who’s weekend news was that, Daddy had an itchy rash on his Willy and the doctor had given him special cream. At pick up time, I remember looking at this poor man and thinking, “If you only knew!” 😂
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I don’t want to rub it in, but this was our local Aldi today, south of Alicante.
#BrexitFoodShortages
#TomatoShortages
#BrexitBrokeBritain
#BrexitBritain
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@s0f0nisba
@dowdy59
@SusieWinter10
@hayfestival
Because they’ve been brainwashed for the last 40 years by the right wing press. Told on a daily basis, that the EU was bad, and fed lies by scoundrels like Johnson and Farage and their ilk, who stand to gain financially if the UK leave.
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@RebeccaMills
@MaldenSaboteur
I used to be a teacher of 6 year olds. They’re easily triggered! I can imagine the levels of excitement your bananas have caused! 😂🤪
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Breathtaking arrogance from the Brits. They are about to find out that they are now an insignificant little country on the world stage, with no influence on trade deals or anything else!
In the Sunday Telegraph today, Micheal Gove talks about British businesses having ‘access to the new opportunities being an independent nation will bring’. Meanwhile, in the real world...
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And watching Stephen Wolfe on
@Channel4News
just now talking about how they aim to be as disruptive as possible in the EU Parliament, just makes my blood boil. Just grow up ffs! The EU have been so tolerant. It’s like an ex that digs up your garden or cuts up your clothes!
3 days in Madrid and the
#Brexit
verdict is that patience is running out. The U.K. has become a humiliation & there was much mention of chasing unicorns. They don’t dislike the Brits, but do dislike our handling of Brexit. Good luck with the
#EU27
tonight
@theresa_may
#StopBrexit
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@13sarahmurphy
@thejonnyreilly
Don’t any of them (the ones with any chance of a further career), realise that if they don’t resign now they are are going to be tainted forever by Johnson! The successor won’t want them, and they surely don’t think that Johnson has any chance of staying. Do they?
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@JolyonMaugham
@ThatTimWalker
Absolutely! They have all enabled him! Very few called him out (with the exception of
@mrjamesob
and
@campbellclaret
) and when
@maitlis
commented honestly, she was sanctioned by the BBC. There needs to be radical reform of the client media.
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I really feel that
@UKLabour
should start using Sunak’s “Go back to square one with Labour!”
#PMQs
. With a list of all Labour’s achievements from 1997 to 2010. Sunak really hasn’t thought it through.
@mrjamesob
@campbellclaret
@reece_dinsdale
@13sarahmurphy
@carolvorders
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@mikegalsworthy
Can people please also think about the UK citizens living in Spain, who didn’t ask for this, didn’t vote for this, love their adopted country and speak Spanish. We work here and we are heartbroken that our world has been turned upside down through no fault of our own.
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Would it really hurt them to show one shred of decency and give EU citizens in UK the rights that
#LiarJohnson
promised them? They’ve got their bloody Brexit, but they can’t even show generosity in their victory. The divisions in the UK will never heal!
The right to automatic permanent residence for EU citizens has been voted down. This is such a small minded, nationalistic move. I feel so sorry for everyone who will be affected. One more step down the slippery slope of inhumanity.
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@Peston
@campbellclaret
Just what does she have over him? Because there must be something. There’s no other explanation as to why he would employ her, let alone keep her! He’s certainly not holding onto her because she’s so talented!
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@David_C68
@Jennyflower
Or Captain Corruption, Major Sleaze, Sergeant Scandal, Private Party! Feel free to add more!
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@NibblerRat
@BorisJohnson
It’s an absolute disgrace that poorly paid staff have to pay to park at work. Also dreadful that patients and their visitors have to pay. Here in Spain we are never charged for parking at the hospital. It’s just someone making money out of sick people and those who support them!
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@BrexitRage
@RichardBentall
@UKLabour
@Keir_Starmer
Well that makes no sense! Because you disagree with one area of Labour’s policy you will vote Tory? You don’t think that getting Tories out should be a priority? They are bringing the country to its knees in so many more ways than Brexit! We need Labour to fix everything else!
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@implausibleblog
@Philmoorhouse76
It’s such a con! At first glance most people would think that if we’re producing our own oil& gas it will be cheaper. But they conveniently miss out the bit about it having to be sold on the world market to the highest bidder! Yet another lie!
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@its_johnmartin
@BethRigby
If they are getting rid of people like
@tom_watson
, then the
@UKLabour
that I voted for my whole life is gone! Which is why I have joined the
@LibDems
!
#RevokeA50
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@ThatTimWalker
It’s disgraceful. I read something recently, that said no one had done as much damage to the world as Murdoch. It’s not wrong!
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@Deborah04315412
@FranS199
@grahamlithgow
@jacquep
They would never qualify for Spanish citizenship! You need to speak fluent Spanish for a start , which I suspect they don’t!
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@shaunwkeaveny
I also think that it’s no coincidence that this relentless attack on Starmer began days after he announced that
@UKLabour
would end ‘non dom’ status when they get into government. It’s been stepped up since Thursday to distract from the Tory election disaster but it’s very clear
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@Jonathan_MBanks
@Noname06401912
If Durham Police facilitate the removal of the Leader of the Opposition by The Daily Mail, then the whole country is in very dangerous waters. It’s positively Putinesque, and would be a clear indication of where the country is headed!
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I like the way, when
@NicolaSturgeon
is asked a question, she actually answers it clearly and doesn't reel off sound bites!
#Marr
#bbc
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This photo sums up why Johnson has fallen. The Queen at her worst moment put duty and obeying the rules first. Nobody would have objected to an exception being made. Johnson ignored rules that he had made, because he thought he was above them. And then lied about it.
#Johnson
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@Roadwarrior29
I’ve suggested that she leaves but to no avail. She’s supposed to be one of the local feral cats! 😂
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@davesumnersmith
Because all of the other countries are not being monumentally scammed by their own governments.
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@Eyeswideopen69
I was really disgusted by this. Especially after they let him wear it for 15 minutes at the vigil. What harm could have been done by him wearing a uniform that he has earned the right to wear, fighting in a war. Others are wearing uniforms who have never seen military service!
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@TheJanHarvey
@folkypunkcas
@BBCNews
Yes he’s dreadful. He has no right to do this, because he can’t possibly know what is true, and it’s none of our business anyway.
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@campbellclaret
@jeremycorbyn
@UKLabour
He enabled the Tory Brexiters at every turn, and then gifted
#LiarJohnson
a General Election! If the Tories gave birth to Brexit, Corbyn was the midwife!
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@implausibleblog
If you’ve not read it, look at
@mrjamesob
‘s book, How they broke Britain. The chapter on Andrew Neil and the BBC is very enlightening and analyses why Kuensberg is there and why people like
@maitlis
@lewis_goodall
and
@AndrewMarr9
are not. It’s called toeing the Tory Party line
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@RhonddaBryant
I thought her best moment, was when she said that Keir Starmer, knew nothing about aspiration! Sorry, what? This Keir Starmer, son of a toolmaker and a nurse, who rose to be a QC, DPP, Head of CPS, Knighted, LOTO, next PM? That Keir Starmer?
#PMQs
#Truss
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@crimlawuk
A very narrow victory, obtained by fraudulent means, that would not have been enough to win a binding referendum.
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@jessphillips
I’m not convinced that every police officer would take kindly to a woman questioning them, when trying to arrest her.
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@13sarahmurphy
It’s stunning how a country that had so much influence (in relation to its size) has voted itself into total insignificance with a question mark over whether it’s people are going to even have enough food! God! There are so many lessons to be learned here!
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@JujuliaGrace
@Politics4AR
He’s the next PM in waiting. He’s Murdoch’s man. I did wonder why he had been appointed Chancellor with no apparent financial experience, but just watch. She’ll go, and he will just sidestep into no10 with Sunak or Javid as Chancellor. Less disruptive than a leadership election!
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This is an absolute scandal.Listening to some of the callers on
@mrjamesob
show this morning was heartbreaking. In particular Stuart. A qualified electrician who was working full time but had often gone without food! He had sold half his tools and was looking for a 2nd job!
"More than 2 million adults in the UK have gone without food for a whole day over the past month because they cannot afford to eat."
But there were billions for
@michaelgove
,
@MattHancock
and others to pass to their VIP associates.
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@codfather
@AlexTaylorNews
@peterjukes
I totally agree with you! She does not speak for the British people. France 🇫🇷 is our friend and ally, and most of us wish that we were still working closely with you as part of the EU. 🇪🇺 We can only apologise to you. The Tories are killing our country! 🇫🇷🇬🇧💕
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@JohnJCrace
Anything to with the penny dropping, that being Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party and leading a new Party, might just be a teensy weensy conflict of interest! 😂 Perhaps Sunak will sack him. (Reader, he won’t!)
#30pLee
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@jonnysteamboat
@trussliz
She will say and do anything to satisfy her own ego and ambition. A very dangerous trait as we’ve seen with Johnson and Trump.
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@TheJanHarvey
And she’s right. And anyone with a grain of intelligence, ( who isn’t going to make a load of money out of Brexit) knows she’s right. We see you. The rest of the world sees you. Just a pity that so many in the U.K. don’t.
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@sheepmandave
I know ! 😂 But she’s feral. I do put food and water out, but she’s a free spirit. She’ll wander off again soon.
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@FreddySky
@MarinaPurkiss
Yes she said something about the status quo being maintained! Despite, as someone pointed out here, that Tory graph looks like it’s drilling for oil!
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@GMB
@susannareid100
What an awful man. Totally entitled, showing no remorse, because the only thing that matters to him is making money!
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This is absolute truth! Brexit is a massive con on the British people! If a second referendum had been held, it would have been rejected, and that’s why they wouldn’t have one!
#LiarJohnson
is in touching distance of what he was appointed to do. Make a load of 💷for his backers !
Whether it's No-Deal Brexit or just a regular bad Brexit, the British people will suffer.
This is my message to UK journalists.
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@freddie801
@BBCNews
Also having a news blackout about, the electoral, police and immigration bills being sneaked through before Parliament was prorogued!
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@EmmaKennedy
Yes Daily Mail, Express, Sun. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Can’t hear any booing there. I wonder what would happen if your poster boy Johnson tried to do such a walk about! 🤔
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@UB5simon
Obviously unhappy about the kicking that
@KayBurley
administered to Raaaab yesterday! 😂
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@13sarahmurphy
Leaving the ECHR will be extremely useful for them, when they start taking away workers rights, preventing protests, imprisoning people without trial, take away free and fair elections etc. (see Freeport/Charter city plans. We need the Tories to be gone!
#GeneralElectionNow
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@SkyNews
He didn’t. Gathering with colleagues for work during an election campaign. Exemption 20 c. He and his team had stopped to eat while working. The story is already 8 months old and was already run by The Sun. It’s totally laughable to attempt to distract from the Johnson nightmare
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@Gileragirl
@JMPSimor
@johnsweeneyroar
@BylineTimes
And there’s also this little nugget from The Tortoise, that during that trip, Johnson had an unmonitored call booked with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, but Johnson missed it because he overslept!
Scoop: in April 2018, Alexander Lebedev set up an unmonitored line between Boris Johnson, then foreign secretary, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, to discuss the Salisbury poisonings.
But the call never happened because...
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@Sillyshib
I am seeing this attitude again and again It’s so depressingAh but vaccines. He’s let so many people dieAh but vaccines. Every speech Johnson makes -vaccines. The NHS did vaccines. We could have had that if we’d had someone half competent in charge and people wouldn’t have died!
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@catherigorman
No just overfed I think! She probably visits a number of houses! She has a little triangle cut out of her ear. That’s what they do here when the animal welfare people spay the feral cats.
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@algingersmith
@nicktolhurst
There is logic to it, but it’s not the logic that they are admitting to! State childminding service needs to be reinstated so they can get the serfs back to work!
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@LizWebsterSBF
I absolutely hate people like this! A total hypocrite. He’s enjoying everything that the EU gives, but voted to remove all of that from his fellow countrymen. I bet he doesn’t even speak Spanish! I am a British immigrant in Spain 🇪🇸 myself and I fully appreciate the EU project.
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@Adam_SH69
It’s a perfect example of the golf club analogy. You’ve ripped up your membership card, and told them to get stuffed. Then you’re absolutely affronted that they won’t let you play golf there or drink in the clubhouse anymore! Even though you’re British!
#brexitshambles
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@RichardJMurphy
I have! But I did it 6 months before the referendum! Tremendous stroke of luck because we probably would have been too scared to do it after. I’m grateful everyday. But more so I’m the last month than ever before. It’s heartbreaking to watch what is happening to the country.
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@TimWatkins03
@Jennyflower
And continually referring to
@theSNP
as the Scottish ‘nationalist’ party. Hoyle actually pulled him up on it today, but I’m his usual wet lettuce way, it won’t make any difference.
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Dear UK, this is Norway. Norway is a wealthy country. Norway shares its wealth among all of its people, not just 1%. Norway invests its wealth into the country, not in off shore tax havens. Norway takes care of all its people. Be like Norway 🇳🇴.
#BrexitBritain
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@MartinDochert12
Which is why in Spain we’ve got just over 1,000 new cases a day and the U.K. has over 40,000. It’s unbelievable just how gaslit the U.K. population is.
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@ginsolvesitall
No here in Spain you would be asked to leave if you didn’t wear a mask in a shop. Probably by the other customers!
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@Short_Spitfire
I am aware of that happening many, many years ago! However, as a Reception class teacher I did once have a set of parents who asked me to stop their daughter writing with her left hand. I told them that they should have just been happy that their 5 yr old could write a sentence!
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Petition: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. It’s now at half a million! When I signed last night it was at 88,000! I think
@theresa_may
s speech last night has really united the country! Although maybe not quite in way she hoped! 😂
#RevokeA50Now
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@alexwickham
I really don’t get the point of this. Starmer planned a Christmas party when it was legal,(you have to plan these things well in advance to book a venue), and cancelled event when it became illegal. I’m sure it’s unintentional, but you’re actually confirming how he followed rules
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@LINDAINLIGHT
Yes I think that this must have happened with this cat. We have several feral cats around that I feed, but none of the others allow us near them. I think she’s had a friend before. Tbh she’s probably got a few! 😂
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I am getting so sick of being told to ‘respect the referendum’ with no acknowledgement that it was conducted illegally and should be declared null and void! If a vote was won on The XFactor by such means it wouldn’t stand, but major constitutional change- no problem!
@guyverhofstadt
Dear Guy,Brexit would be a distaster, but do remember that it is not over until the fat lady sings - and May has ABSOLUTELY NO MANDATE WHATSOEVER for "brexit" now, and that she is using a criminally procured 2016 EU leave vote as her sole justification
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@DavidLammy
Why is Farage still hanging around? Desperately flailing like a drowning man. Trying to hang onto a last thread of some kind of relevance. Go home Nigel. You’re done.
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The hypocrisy from the critics of
@GaryLineker
is astounding. They don’t have a problem with the Chairman of the BBC being a Tory donor. Gary Lineker didn’t make his comments on Match of the Day. He didn’t claim to represent the BBC. He expressed his own opinion. And he was right
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@emmajoanhaywood
@ChrisDorrell
No. But I live in Spain and it was 43 degrees when I got in my car today. Just drink lots of water and stay in the shade. Maybe have a little sleep in the afternoon. 🇪🇸
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