Liam Thorp
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Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. 2 x Regional Press Awards Specialist Writer of the Year. Paul Foot nominee. Craft IPA enthusiast. Not 6.2cm tall. Views mine.
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So I’m not getting a vaccine next week - was feeling weird about why I’d been selected ahead of others so rang GP to check. Turns out they had my height as 6.2cm rather than 6 ft 2, giving me a BMI of 28,000 😂
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Historically a good time for a comeback
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Lee Anderson MP, who today said poor people forced to use foodbanks 'cannot cook or budget properly' claimed £222,000 in expenses in 2020/21 - including £4,100 on travel and 'subsistence'
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I’m old enough to remember when Boris Johnson said there were no parties whatsoever in Downing Street
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Anyone else feeling utterly depressed about this country?
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To those shouting 'poor kids don't usually get meal vouchers over the summer holidays'
1. They should
2. These are far from usual times
3. Why are you leaping in to argue that kids should go hungry?
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Anyone else a bit sick of living through constant crisis?
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What Burnham is doing goes way beyond Greater Manchester
He's standing up for local government that has been battered and criminally underfunded for the past 10 years
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A headline I never thought I would write
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Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it these guys who did 14 straight front pages demanding the police investigate a takeaway curry?
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Just get a new kettle kids and you’ll save a tenner on your £7,500 energy bills
Visionary gibberish from the outgoing PM
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Hard to imagine even 10 years ago a scandal like this, a PM fined by police and then brutally admonished in a report like that one and not a single cabinet resignation, just a few tweets and we’re urged to all move on
Our politics has plumbed new depths and it’s really bleak
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Government: 'Fly this flag to mark the 60th birthday of Prince Andrew'
Liverpool: 'No'
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My word this is a satisfying watch
@JuliaHB1
put straight time and time again on her dangerous nonsense
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Quite amazing to hear Conservative ministers today talking about their mission to ‘save forgotten communities’ as if we live in a parallel universe where they haven’t spent the last 12 years brutally cutting their way through those communities
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When I told my mum I had been classed in the clinically obese category, she said 'well perhaps this is the wake-up call you need'
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"Liverpool is a humanitarian city and it will always be a humanitarian city and we would much rather see refugees here than Nigel Farage"
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Why is my timeline not full of London journos heading to Buckinghamshire to speak to locals about what this crushing defeat means for the future of the Conservative Party?
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Gary Lineker forced to withdraw from his job because of claims of impartiality over his views on the government's asylum system
BBC chairman Richard Sharp has continued in his job after his role in helping to land Boris Johnson an £800,000 loan
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Is anyone else finding being a resident of this country completely and utterly exhausting?
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Just today we’ve had a Tory MP suggest women should not be able to make decisions about their own bodies, we’ve had a protestor the government doesn’t like apprehended by police and we’ve been told that only the Prime Minister can approve an investigation into his own conduct
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Andrew, hi, just to remind you that average weekly wages in this country are the same level as they were in 2005
"We cannot continue to have the current level of wage increase"
Bank of England Governor, Andrew Bailey, says the current levels of price setting and wage setting are "unsustainable", after the BoE raises interest rates to 5%.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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Man who hasn’t been fined and party that didn’t go ahead currently getting more heat than man who has been fined and loads of parties that definitely happened
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Former Tory leader John Major is telling people not to vote Tory
Former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is telling people to vote Tory
Just let that sink in
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Genuinely embarrassed for everyone involved in this front page
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This is one of the most painful responses I’ve seen in some time
It’s brilliant interviewing by
@piersmorgan
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Exhausted train passengers scaling huge fences to get home, pensioners waiting 15 hours for ambulances under makeshift tarpaulins, foodbanks running out of food and millions about to be pushed into abject poverty
Sunak and Truss: ‘The real problem here is people on benefits’
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Literally arrested for unloading some signs. This is scary stuff.
Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.
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The police looked at this picture of the Prime Minister with booze in hand at a party during a strict national lockdown and thought it warranted no action
Deeply alarming
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Your regular reminder that nearly 40% of those claiming Universal Credit ARE IN WORK
Increasing job opportunities, not universal credit is the "right way" to help people, says Chancellor Rishi Sunak, adding that those on the "lowest incomes have received the most support from this government" over the last eighteen months.
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Getting angrier the more I think about it. When
@AndyBurnhamGM
was taking a stand it was because he knew low paid workers in the north couldn’t survive on 67% furlough. Gov has now accepted this isn’t enough when it comes to the country as a whole. Pure contempt for the north.
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Martin Lewis destroys Liz Truss’ economic plans:
‘Let’s be clear, tax cuts will not help the millions of the poorest people who will be choosing between heating and eating and dropping the green levy is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. This is a national crisis…
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Let’s be clear on Starmer, whatever happens, and I’ve said he should probably resign if he is fined, he is being judged by a far higher standard than the man elected to be the Prime Minister of this country - because for some reason we just let that guy off with everything - mad
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When I met Stephen Smith, he had been denied benefits for 2 years and declared fit for work despite weighing just 6 stone and being unable to walk 20 metres
He died before the money he was wrongly denied was paid back to him after an appeal
And yet here we go again…
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Posted without comment on the day the UK records it’s record daily number of covid deaths
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In an A and E department of a Liverpool hospital, people are lying in pain on the floor, waiting hours to be seen by a doctor
This is a daily reality of the NHS crisis
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My rankings for
#bbcqt
1.Corbyn
2.Sturgeon
3. Guy who kept shouting about Russia report
4.Fiona Bruce saying ‘bum boys’ in a posh voice
5. The fact Sheffield is now Scotland
6.Johnson
7. The fact time stood still for Swinson’s go
8. Swinson
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Sajid Javid: "I've never liked the idea of saying to people you must show your papers or something to do what is just an everyday activity"
What, like voting?
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20,000 people have officially died from coronavirus - in reality it’s many, many more
Why do people keep telling me and others to stop questioning the government’s handling of this crisis?
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How can it be more believable that all the world’s governments got together to concoct a fake pandemic in order to microchip us all using vaccines - and only Denise Welch and the guy from The Corrs found out - than the idea of an actual respiratory virus spreading between humans?
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Whether it’s Gordon Brown or Martin Lewis, every morning we are hearing people outside the government making urgent warnings and offering emergency proposals for this looming disaster. Meanwhile the government is silent and the Prime Minister candidates are in a parallel universe
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In a hospital in Liverpool, a 92-year-old woman has been lying on a trolley in a chaotic corridor for 33 hours
She’s so distressed she’s asked her family to let her die
This is another grim snapshot into the crisis in the NHS (1/9)
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There’s nothing like a trip to Europe to remind you of all the things we just don’t have in the UK. Been in Denmark and Sweden where there is superb, cycling infrastructure everywhere, clean public toilets all over, free public lidos and lots more - we really have a rubbish deal
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If Anthea Turner, Right Said Fred and Laurence Fox are on your side about things, is it time to have a rethink?
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Anyone else finding this repeated narrative of ‘Johnson got the big calls right on covid’ increasingly infuriating?
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On Sky just now Matthew Paris asks 'So do we now want all deprived children to always receive meal vouchers over the summer?'
Erm, yep
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Imagine you work in a bar in Liverpool, you work hard every day then suddenly, through no fault of your own, the bar is closed and you are given just 2/3 of your wages - how are you supposed to get by? Feed your kids?
Then you are told you are a bad parent by some privileged MP
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Don’t mind me guys, I’m just here living my 6.2 cm, 17.5 stone best life
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Conservatives and right wing press: 'Starmer should do the decent thing'
'Oh wait, shit, no, not that thing - that doesn't work for us'
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The maddest thing about the Owen Paterson situation is that the punishment they are trying to overturn - a 30 day suspension for an "egregious" breach of rules - is ridiculously lenient as it is
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When asked if the rules are clear enough Priti Patel says yes and this has been proven by the fact there have already been 45,000 fixed penalties issued
I would humbly suggest this shows just how unclear the rules are
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I mean I’ve put on a few pounds in lockdown but not that many
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So the Health Secretary either has no idea what a junior doctor is or is going out of her way to insult and belittle 50% of the doctors we have
'Doctors in training as I prefer to call them walked out of our negotiations'
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins spoke to
#BBCBreakfast
about the 72 hour junior doctors strike in England
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.
@allisonpearson
chooses to block a respected regional newspaper editor rather than admit she spread dangerous fake news - sounds about right
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Anyone else perturbed by how often they are agreeing with Piers Morgan at the moment?
*NEW: This was the most undignified & pathetic display I have ever seen from any world leader, let alone the President of the United States – in the middle of a global crisis.
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Rishi Sunak has had quite the journey from ‘we will do whatever it takes’ to ‘sorry your poverty-stricken nan is going to have to pay to find out if she’s got covid’
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My prediction for today, Tory MPs who have spent months hiding behind the ‘we must wait for Sue Gray’s report’ line, will see a report that is hugely critical of the Prime Minister and suddenly decide its ‘now time to move on’
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Always a bit nervous when you get a 'no caller ID' ringing you
It's ok though, this was just a man ringing to tell me that I'm a morbidly obese pancake
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When did it become a rule that if you disagree with something the government does you have to leave the country?
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Total chaos on this train back to Liverpool which is just two to small carriages long. People arguing, everyone totally squashed and we’ve paid loads for the privilege. The rail system in this country is a cruel joke.
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Since Sunday’s terror attacked in Liverpool the Home Secretary has not bothered to hold a press conference, she didn’t bother to come to Parliament to answer questions on the events
But she did find time to brief journalists & use this event to push her hardline agenda
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It’s been quite the week. Our little man arrived in the world on Monday night amid some pretty scary moments. I can’t really put into words how happy we are and how grateful we are to the phenomenal care, support and expertise we have experienced from everyone at
@LiverpoolWomens
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Edward Jenner discovered vaccines in 1796
At no stage since have they been used to inexplicably and impossibly insert microchips into people
But suddenly you think that’s deffo going to happen because Big Dave who got expelled from Year 10 at your school said so on Facebook
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Wait until this fella finds out who is the Chancellor
The government must do everything it can to deal with the cost of living challenges faced by people in the UK.
That’s what the Prime Minister told MPs tonight and he was completely right.
Together we will get on with the job and focus on the people’s priorities.
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I love pubs more than most people, but the idea that they are safer than people’s gardens is amongst the stupidest things I’ve ever heard
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Lineker removed from his job for his views on an horrific approach to asylum seekers while Fiona Bruce’s defence of Stanley Johnson breaking his wife’s nose gets a fulsome backing
Many of us cherish the BBC and what it has always been but this is all beyond the pale
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Just look at the replies to this doctor's tweet, the volume of people saying she is lying, that the picture is staged or that she is exaggerating how ill Matthew was
Well now, tragically Matthew is dead and those same people will probably just move on to trolling someone else
Matthew, has agreed for me to share his story. 34, footie coach & dad. Self-confessed vaccine skeptic until he caught Covid,if he could turn back time he would. Our sickest patients are unvaccinated & under 40. Matthew is fighting for his life..save yours
#GetVaccinated
#GrabAJab
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Horrendous child poverty stats this week, complete breakdown of public services including the NHS which is on life support, homelessness soaring and climate catastrophe threatening our very existence
But make sure you email your MP about an embroidered flag on a football shirt
Damn right. I know many people will have strong feelings on this. Sometimes it is hard to get your complaint heard by companies like Nike. If you are from Portsmouth North email me at penny.mordaunt.mp
@parliament
.uk and I will make sure your concerns are listened to by the…
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Sometimes heroes do wear capes!
He’s now Dr Doctor Marcus Rashford of the University of Manchester
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No it absolutely isn’t
BREAKING 'Inappropriate' to say how many NHS staff died from Covid-19 says nursing chief
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Im old enough the remember when the government slammed the fact P&O Ferries were replacing sacked workers with untrained, agency workers
MPs have voted by 289 to 202 to approve regulations to allow agency workers to replace those on strike.
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This might be the worst assortment of words I have ever laid my eyes on
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Radio 4 PM say the Chancellor was not available for interview on the day it’s confirmed we’re heading into a major recession - we essentially don’t have a government at present
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Struggling to afford food? It’s because you can’t cook or don’t know how to budget. Not getting paid enough? Well you’re not working enough hours or haven’t done enough to get a better job. It’s your fault, never ours and we won’t be doing anything to help - hope you’ve got that.
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Sensationally British stuff from
@adamboultonSKY
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She claimed his Jupiter quip didn’t affect her, but kind of seems like it did
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I see we are at the point where Dominic Raab is denying saying something on national radio just hours ago. This truly is a rapidly sinking ship.
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The tragedy of Brown’s premiership is that he was wrongly blamed for a global economic crisis that he was leading the way in tackling
Here he is 13 years later, leading the nation’s plans for this crisis - both main parties should be listening to him
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I expect very, very, very little of this government - but to see ministers line up and defend an MP telling desperate, vulnerable asylum seekers to 'fuck off back to France' does feel like the lowest of all low points.
Morally bankrupt. Despicable.
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This is a train between two major cities in the north of England - why do we have to put up with this?
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An almost unbelievably appalling performance from Mercer this evening
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96% of people in the consultation rejected the government’s plans to privatise Channel 4
Nadine Dorries soon to make a passionate stand for the 4%
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Just a reminder that this person saying absolutely bizarre things like ‘Tofu Eating Wokerati’ is the *actual* Home Secretary of the United Kingdom
An astoundingly unserious person
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It is estimated that the UK has lost around 50% of its public toilets in the past decade as local councils have seen their budgets obliterated
Quick thread on why this is such a problem and what it says about our broken country 🧵
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Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister and Martin Lewis is the Chancellor
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This really is disgusting. We know what an issue men not talking about their mental health enough is and what horrendous consequences it can leads to - yet this dangerous newspaper now wants to make it happen less. Just appalling.
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Absolutely excoriating stuff from
@DanCardenMP
here
The fact no Tories bothered to turn up to listen tells you a lot
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