Kevin Maguire
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@DailyMirror associate editor. @NewStatesman columnist. @GMB commentator. @sunderlanduni visiting prof. Northerner in the South.
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"My son, Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.. R.I.P. Jack: you were a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog."
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I'm tired of Tories praising firefighters, police, NHS medics, council staff and other emergency workers then cutting their pay and jobs
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The Conservatives have been in power for 12 years and Johnson's still blaming Labour at PMQs 😂
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"Rishi was born into a relatively humble beginning" - Sunak-backing Robert Jenrick
Only in the Conservative Party could the son of a GP and owner of a pharmacy sent to £46,000-a-year Winchester College come from a "relatively humble" background 😃
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Tory MPs rushed back from a Conservative Winter Ball fundraiser charging £35,000 for dinner with Sunak and £22,000 karaoke with Truss to vote for poorer homeowners to sell their homes for social care after paying tax rises.
Welcome to Boris Johnson’s undercutting Britain.
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Hereditary prince in a ridiculous Ruritanian uniform on a golden throne in Parliament’s unelected chamber reading out a Government’s annual plan.
Welcome to modern Britain.
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Man who took on the London Bridge terrorist with a narwhal tusk is from Poland, reports The Times. One of the heroes of Borough Market 2017 was Romanian. Remember them next migrants are scapegoated as Britain’s problem
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Starmer could donate a kidney to save a life and the Mail would scream he kept one for himself.
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Why do Johnson, Sunak, Gove, Patel, etc need to raise NI £12bn to supposedly fund the NHS when they promised a £350m weekly Brexit bonus - £18.2bn - to do that?
Because they lied about that too.
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Never has so much money, time and effort been wasted on making a country poorer, weaker, irrelevant and poisonous. Own your own shambles, Brextemists, and please stop blaming others
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So funny that Wetherspoon’s Brextremist bigmouth Tim Martin is now demanding more migration from Europe under a “reasonably liberal” system after he whipped up anti-EU prejudice, fuelling myths and banning European booze.
Prat.
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The UK Conservative Government crashed the economy.
Not workers or their trade unions.
Remember that.
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Who will “scab” and do their jobs tomorrow night?
“Ian Wright to boycott Match of the Day in “solidarity” with Gary Lineker”
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Tory MPs claiming now is not the time to challenge the Prime Minister will need a defibrillator when they discover France is holding a Presidential election.
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Shallow stunt by a plastic man reeking of insincerity.
Wasn’t even the Chancellor’s car.
Treasury now admitting it belongs to a Sainsbury’s employee.
Sometimes a picture does paint 1,000 grim words.
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Knighthood for Sir Gavin Williamson announced to keep his mouth shut about Boris Johnson.
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The Matt Hancock lecturing young people not to "kill your gran" by spreading the virus is the same Health Secretary blamed for thousands of grans dying in care homes after he discharged untested hospital patients into them.
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This isn't British justice.
Shamima Begum is British, born and groomed in London so she should be dealt with here if terror crimes were committed and remains our responsibility.
Instead she's discarded and dumped on another country.
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Johnson shifting all responsibility onto the public as he washes his hands of Covid.
That is the abandonment of leadership.
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"The best way to honour Jo Cox's memory is to get Brexit done." - utterly shameful from
@BorisJohnson
when the MP was murdered by a Far Right terrorist shouting "Britain first".
Do the decent thing and resign.
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I know it’s a serious issue of lying, trust and hypocrisy but this made me laugh
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And the overall winner of tonight's Liz Truss v Rishi Sunak TV debate was Keir Starmer.
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Starmer’s proved to be Captain Foresight, not Hindsight. Again.
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The Queen was just likened to Nelson Mandela by Alan Titchmarsh on an ITV grovel fest to a hereditary monarch.
One spent 27 years in prison to achieve freedom for his country and the other inherited a privileged position from daddy.
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Downing Street announced the two Royal Navy ships are returning from Jersey, presumably because voting’s almost over and on elections day their deployment by No 10 allowed Boris Johnson to be portrayed as Admiral Lord Nelson. What an abuse of high office
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The way the Health Secretary cut off journalists, blocked supplementary questions and ended the press conference after little more than half an hour suggests that Matt Hancock knows Dominic Cummings broke the rules and he can't credibly defend him under detailed scrutiny
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Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and every Minister who conspired in the unlawful sidelining of Parliament and lying to the Queen would resign immediately if they had an ounce of honour in their bodies
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Queen tests positive for Covid as Boris Johnson prepares to end England’s remaining Covid laws.
Bad timing for a reckless PM.
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Michael Gove is attacking London elites.
Privately schooled Oxford graduate Michael Gove, who worked for the BBC and Times and chaired a think tank, is a Conservative Cabinet Minister living in a London grace-and-favour palatial home down the road from Buckingham Palace.
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Hartlepudlians complaining their town was neglected are in for a shock when they discover they voted for a governing party over the past 11 years which did much of the neglecting.
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No British-US trade deal, admits Truss.
Another Brexit lie is nailed.
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BREAKING: No 10 announces Boris Johnson has asked the Cabinet Office to investigate Nusrat Ghani’s claim she was told her “Muslimness” was a reason she was sacked as a Minister.
Why didn’t he do that in 2020 when she first told him?
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Privileged wealthy hereditary monarch bunged £76m a year, sitting in front of a golden piano in the palace she's billing taxpayers £369m to tart up, kills satire by lecturing the nation to pull together
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Why is he dodging the public? Surely it is time for
@BorisJohnson
to stand in the Downing Street £2.6m media centre flanked by experts and explain what he’s doing to help get us out of the fuel crisis.
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Anybody know if the brave young milkshake man who refused to be intimidated by a goading Far Right thuggy extremist and his heavies is OK? Love to buy him a replacement drink
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Tories can’t escape the Benny Hill theme tune inside their Birmingham conference.
Listen ⬇️ and you can hear it played almost constantly by protesters outside.
Complaints have been made but the cops say they can’t do anything.
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Partygate report in brief:
Vomiting
Excessive boozing
Fisticuffs
Partying until 4.35am(before Prince Philip's funeral)
Broken swing
Secret Santa
Cleaners & security staff bullied
Red wine on walls
Karaoke
Sitting on laps
"We seem to have got away with it" - Martin Reynolds
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Johnson deserves to be billed personally for the £100m+ wasted advertiising his vanity Halloween Brexit which isn’t happening
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Doing my patriotic duty on the White Cliffs of Dover, scanning the English Channel to help rescue any refugees in small boats and extend the British traditional values of respect, tolerance, liberty, safety and a warm welcome.
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“BOLLOCKS TO BREXIT” message in the top and bottom lines of today’s Guardian cryptic crossword is genius by setter Philisitne. My brainy comrade
@JBeattieMirror
completed it but I’ve left squares blank to avoid running ithe fun completely for other geeks 😀
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Johnson’s assertion kids of wealthier parents enjoy private tuition “because of their parents’ hard work” reeks of snobbery.
Does the PM think lower paid cleaners, bus drivers, shop workers, nurses, etc don’t work hard?
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Is the Boris Johnson advocating face masks related to the Boris Johnson who mocked veiled women as bank robbers and letter boxes? Just asking because it reminds us he’s a nasty wazzock whose bigotry provoked attacks
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What hypocrisy from the Conservative Party to use online voting by members to foist another Prime Minister on the country when it outlaws electronic ballots for trade unions electing leaders and holding strike ballots.
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What’s allowed on Armistice Day:
Sports
Pubs & Restaurants
Shopping
Comedy clubs
Cinemas
Concerts
Holidays
TV
Music
Theatre
Laughing
What they want to ban:
March for an armistice
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Beyond satire when Farage objects to a country controlling its borders 😃
In Belgrade with the Djokovic family. Waiting for the result of the visa hearing, watch this space. 🇷🇸
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Regrettably a weakling BBC is the UK Conservative Government’s broadcasting arm
With a Tory donor chair who helped organise Johnson’s £800,000 deal and a D-G who stood as a Con council cand
BBC hacks were chief spin doctors for PMs Cameron, May & Johnson
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Feckless dad who lived off state benefits and works dodgy fiddles has fathered an eighth child with a third woman.
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There can be no greater hypocrisy than Boris Johnson clapping NHS and care heroes on a Thursday then today hiking to £625(from £400) a surcharge imposed on 184,000 of those heroes from overseas to use the very NHS in which many risk their lives to save ours.
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People might take to the streets and protest to demand a UK General Election if Conservative MPs resist democracy.
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Minimum wage £8.91 an hour carers paying higher NI to protect £1m+ inheritances of wealthier families is Boris Johnson levelling down.
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RIP my dad, John Maguire. 90’s old for a former miner and bricklayer but no good age to go when he’s your dad. Our family thank the wonderful NHS staff and carers who helped him die peacefully at home, gazing into the garden and at the shed he kept his racing bike in
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Not again: “Boris heads for Ireland” says a BBC London presenter on the radio. When will the Beeb start calling him Johnson or are Corbyn, Swinson, Farage, Sturgeon & Lucas to be Jeremy, Jo, Nigel, Nicola & Caroline in the interests of impartiality and consistency?
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2010 Conservatives formed a ConDem coalition Government with Lib Dems
2017 Conservatives did a £1bn Bung Parliament deal for DUP votes
2019 Conservatives benefited from Farage’s Brexit Party withdrawing in all Tory seats
Remind me again which party relies on pacts and deals?
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We are With You
Tomorrow’s
@DailyMirror
front page comes out in support of nurses holding an unprecedented strike in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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I'd respect the candour of Tory MPs switching to Boris Johnson if they admitted he's winning and they want a job instead of pretending to suddenly admire a cowardly, shifty, idle, blundering, untrustworthy, poisonous serial liar
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Starmer wiped the floor with Johnson by showing passion as well as a forensic brain. Bluster couldn't save the PM today
#PMQs
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This is what real patriotism looks like,
@BorisJohnson
- British workers marching for better wages, living standards, jobs and public services
@The_TUC
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Tory MPs laughing at Corbyn’s bright green Grenfell tie are an out of touch elite inviting a kick in the ballots. Didn’t know why he wore it? Well they didn’t care about ignored poor people housed in a council firetrap in the richest part of the country
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Where was the Tory misogyny outrage when May reinstated the whip to MPs Andrew Griffiths who sent 2,000 sexually explicit messages to two women and Charlie Elphike interviewed by police over allegations of sex offences(which he denies)? I didn't see any
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Two-in-every-five cancer patients urgently referred by a GP do not start treatment within the NHS two-month target.
I wish King Charles a full recovery but there should be no ignoring that many others are not as privileged or fortunate..
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Son of a toolmaker and a nurse who was named after Labour’s first leader, Keir Hardie, then knighted for public service as DPP. No wonder the Tories fear him
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Johnson really didn’t like Corbyn asking if a man who arrived in the UK from the US aged 5 then dabbled in class A drugs and conspired to beat up a journalist should be deported back to the US. Too close to home
#PMQs
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Embarrassing mistake by Johnson and I'm sure he'll have intended no offence but imagine the molten outrage from Tories and the wider Right had Corbyn made a similar error
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You know Britain’s Conservative Government claims all the world’s major economies are doing badly.
Guess which is the worst:
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Racist abuse of England players by Bulgarian fans was vile but Boris Johnson has no credibility until he apologises for calling Black people "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles" and mocking Muslim veiled women as "bank robbers" and "letter boxes". Until then he's a hypocrite
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Matt Hancock is only one of two people who think the Test and Trace system just launched is "successful'. The other is Boris Johnson. Both lack a grip on reality.
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So Britain's obtained a European Arrest Warrant to nab the Russian GRU Novichok suspects. A EUROPEAN Arrest Warrant. You know, the ones issued by the EU we're quitting
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Thatcherite city slicker Farage, 10 years a Tory member, pulling candidates in Con seats to help Johnson and target only Lab, Libs, etc shows he, his party and Brexit are a hardline Right-wing plot to create a deregulated playground for the filthy rich at the expense of workers
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Listening to Johnson boasting at PMQs you'd think Britain had one of the world's lowest virus death rates instead of one of the highest. Deluded, a liar or both? I'm going for both
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When Johnson, Patel and Co started their divisive culture war I suspect they didn’t expect to be up against articulate and popular England footballers supported by most of the country.
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The Queen chose disgraced Andrew, a son who paid £12m to settle a sex case and avoid court, to escort her into Westminster Abbey.
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Stop! BBC breakfast presenter just called called the PM “Boris” instead of Johnson. This cosines must end or in the interests of impartiality the broadcasters need to start also referring to Jeremy, Jo, Nicola, Nigel, Caroline...
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Who did all those people fleeing London on trains and in cars think they are - Dominic Cummings?
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Loses whip: Tory MP who misses confidence vote because he had meeting in Moldova.
Keeps whip: MP accused of rape and under police investigation(but he is asked to stay away from Parliament).
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None of the notorious liars and con merchants who fibbed about Brexit have apologised or quit.
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So understudy Dominic Raab says Boris Johnson last night didn't mean people who can't work from home should go to work today but from Wednesday. This lot couldn't run a bath
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So under Boris Johnson's Plan B we can go to a work Christmas party but not to work in England.
Interesting.
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Workers of the world unite
NEW 🚨🇳🇱: P&O dockers in Rotterdam have refused to load freight onto a ferry set for Hull, in solidarity with the 800 seafarers illegally sacked by P&O.
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“I've got a message for Johnson: Fuck you! Fuck your clams that austerity's over. Your racist, bullying, sexist attacks on our communities. Your proroguing Parliament. And Fuck your no deal Brexit too.” -
@SteveT_Unite
gives it back to Boris "Fuck business" Johnson
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That sound is a penny dropping as No 10 discovers Ireland's no longer a British colony and the rest of Europe united is bigger and stronger
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Boris Johnson taking the 2.7% pay rise worth £2,200 means that should be the starting point for increases for everybody else.
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There are zero no-go areas in Tower Hamlets.
I know because I live in Tower Hamlets.
And I walk or run 10 miles, 22,000 steps, a day and shop locally.
Again, there are no no-go areas. So please stop these dangerous, ignorant and tiresome smears.
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This is the age of Conservative ignorance when Therese Coffey says she hasn't read the Sunday newspapers before going on TV to defend Johnson from serious allegations in those papers.
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Tory MPs plan to pick another PM within a week.
What about involving the British people with a General Election?
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My instant verdict: Jeremy Corbyn won the BBC debate with his best performance of the campaign
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The speed of accession is to avoid discussion and debate over a hereditary monarchy, a fact overlooked by TV commentators performing establishment roles.
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Harrods van going into Downing Street via the back gate as Johnson keeps it real for those Tory Northern seats
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Booing at a jubilee service is a sign the public mood’s turned strong against Boris Johnson.
And Conservative MPs will know that crowd isn’t full of revolutionary Robespierres
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