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Suzanne Bosworth. Tofu-eating wokerata. Opinionated, often polite. English-born Scot. Writer, vegan, reader, butler to cats. Maker of things.
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@quineali
It's going to be embarrassing for the Tories when they end up branding at least three quarters of the UK's population as terrorist extremists.
We'll be back to the likes of the
#McCarthy
trials of the 1950s soon: "Are you now, or have you ever been, a supporter of Palestine?"
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KellyAnne Conway: "Hasn't the WHO learned anything since COVID-1?"
Rest of the World:
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@TinyWriterLaura
I agree! "Boyfriend" or "girlfriend" is just so inappropriate if you're over a certain age, "lover" frightens the horses and leads to startling visualisations, and "companion" sounds like you need an attentive nurse and a walking frame. "Partner" is fine. 😁
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@CrimeLdn
I see the
@metpoliceuk
are able to leave this peaceful vigil alone, but not the one for Sarah Everard murdered by a policeman from the Met.
And no, it's not different.
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I can hardly believe it. BBC Radio 4 is absolutely rinsing Dominic Raab. Has the BBC finally "got it"?
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Rachel Riley here, spreading disinformation and lies. This was not a terrorist incident in Sydney, but that doesn't fit Rachel's narrative.
Don't be like Rachel.
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What's coming out of this evidence session is that Nicola Sturgeon was giving far stronger leadership than Boris Johnson. He was clearly out of his depth and struggling to cope. He wanted people to like him. Nicola wanted people to live.
#CovidInquiry
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"Got some ships?
"No!"
"Ever shipped goods before?"
"No!"
"Know where Europe is?"
"No!"
"Would you like `14 million quid?"
"Cor! Yeah!"
"You're hired."
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Indy folk. Be aware that WM and MI5 have ramped up their attempts to take down the SNP, the Scot Gov and the whole idea of Indy. Don't believe rumours, stories or allegations about anyone for Indy until investigated.
Be bold, fierce, and very savvy.
This is not a drill.🏴🕵🏼♂️
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@raisethegame
@MrJohnNicolson
@CommonsSpeaker
I'm appalled. Hoyle appears to take no action if it concerns the Tories, no matter what.
Bercow meted out justice without fear or favour and that's why he was kicked out by the Tories and denied a knighthood. Hoyle will collect his gong knowing he smothered his own conscience.
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My goodness. Just listening Matt Hancock being grilled by Sarah Montague about the appalling A&E figures in England and ACTUALLY BEING ASKED by her why the Scottish Health Service is performing so much better, will not answer the question despite being asked THREE times!😂
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@AngryScotland
What a horrible couple.
And there's nothing wrong at all with working on a door. It's paid work. Puts food on the table. What a snob she is, too, as well as racist.
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@NadineDorries
@BorisJohnson
Johnson was ousted because he's not fit to be anywhere the privilege of being PM. He's a liar, a fraud and a security risk. He's untrustworthy. Lazy. Breaks treaties, promises and agreements.
You need better role models, Nadine.
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@Spanglish51
@bmay
Exactly this. It's particularly evident among some NHS managers who have had not a jot of healthcare experience and were recruited from - for instance - retail. I'll never forget one in particular who told me that to be compassionate towards patients was "weak".
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@bbclaurak
So, Laura, you're encouraging people to forget that he is a father with a very sick child in hospital, and to treat him instead as a Labour activist and therefore to be pilloried?
For shame, Laura. For shame. If this man suffers any victimisation you will be partly to blame.
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He cannot bear (and neither could Hancock) that Nicola Sturgeon was far more equipped, clued-up and competent than he was in dealing with the pandemic.
#CovidInquiryUK
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@RoyalFamily
A new gold coach and two new thrones are not a good look. Are William and Kate also going to get two new thrones?
Such an obscene and insulting waste of money when people across the UK are struggling to survive.
Read the room. Change the protocols.
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@AdamBienkov
@joannekarma
The consummate diplomat. The world is going to miss her calmness and pragmatism. Such a powerful woman, and yet so understated in her day to day life.
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@craigskin
@LadyCatHT
You're making enough assumptions to fill a skip. If you don't know the facts yourself, then allow others - who are there - to be the humanitarians and good neighbours that they are.
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It's very odd that some people on Twitter are disputing that Michael Mosley is a doctor. That'll be news to his medical colleagues and to the teaching hospital where he trained. In health and medical matters it's entirely appropriate for him to be referred to as a doctor.
@SkyNews
please stop referring to Michael Mosley as dr Mosley. He is NOT a doctor. Would you call harry hill dr hill?
Of course not. Mr Mosley is a journalist.always has been.
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@skzcartoons
@anainsin
How about this? You all come to Scotland, help us get rid of this blasted union, we regain our independence and we all return to the EU, back to our friends and neighbours.
Deal? 😎
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@ShaunLintern
@fascinatorfun
@thesundaytimes
You've discovered that all those dodgy PPE contracts were cover for money laundering?
The £37billion for Test&Trace has ended up in Belize?
The Health Secretary has no experience of healthcare?
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Seems
@BBCScotland
isn't fit for purpose, like all the other news outlets.
You're actively boycotting coverage of
@theSNP
conference. Your bias is noted.
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@Sistah_Space
@ManduReid
@SuzanneEJacob
How bloody rude, condescending, patronising and insulting. I am so sorry you were subjected to such godawful behaviour. And she moved your hair out of the way rather than find out who you are the usual way by bloody ASKING you? Dreadful woman. 😡
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@petertimmins3
@bbclaurak
Well I have it on good authority from my friend's aunt's neighbour's daughter, who is a government source nurse, that Laura was forced to lie on a pile of coats so that she could punch a reporter in the face.
*nods*
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@SamCoatesSky
Dear Neil Parish's wife. YOUR HUSBAND WAS AT WORK IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND IN A PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. Not down in the basement with the door locked.
If you don't know the difference you need help.
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@PetronellaWyatt
@oldishbird1
Petronella. Keep your venom to yourself. It says more about you than the woman you're insulting.
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@WashdogsLincoln
You don't live here. Did England vote on Malta's independence? On India's independence? In any other country's bid for independence from England? No.
We are a country that was blackmailed into the union against the wishes of 99.9% of Scotland. The decision to leave is ours.
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@dannyschof81
Mate, we INVENTED music festivals. We'll go where we damn well please! 😂
Anyone remember that laundry detergent ad with the mum and her son who thinks he knows everything about music festivals? And she says "and we didn't wear clothes"? 😆
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@RevRichardColes
While he's at it, can he look up the reason for trillions and trillions and trillions of midges, too?
I'm asking for Scotland. 😁
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As an English-born woman living in Scotland, I can confirm that Scots don't hate the English, but they and I have an issue with Westminster.
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@benonwine
Absolutely. How is someone supposed to use their tray with her hair all over it?
Here's what I'd do - pick up her hair, lean over and say "Hi! I think this belongs to you!"
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@Femi_Sorry
To be brutal, I'm 65 and I have fewer years left than those young people who should have the right to the kind of travel freedoms and opportunities as I had when I was younger. No way I'd deprive them of that.
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Gove getting rattled, defensive and VERY shouty when being challenged on the UKGov using "devolved nations" and "British" interchangeably when talking about covid measures.
@AamerAnwar
's spokeswoman really got under his skin. Well done to her. Very informative.
#covidinquiryUK
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@Digbylj
If you get as angry as that about TV presenters I can only imagine the artery-bursting ire you must feel whenever Priti Patel speaks. Or can you not bring yourself to criticise publicly the Home Secretary's diction?
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@Steviejdavies
He's posting them because he knows it will enrage people who think he's taking the piss, because he knows he's taking the piss. He's milking the system, his privileges and his unpopularity. It's the two-finger salute to the UK.
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@jed_mercurio
Phenomenal. Absolutely brilliant.
I cannot applaud enough.
Kudos. Medals. Tickertape. 60 million voices lifted in praise. Fantastic.
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Our beloved Kathy Burke is trending, and for all the right reasons.
Just a hint to Ms Malone: never bring a plastic spork to a gun fight, hen. 😁
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@ArchiePelargo
@UKBreturn
I'm afraid we have a toxic, mostly right wing, media in the UK now. I can only apologise for the insults. This isn't who we are, but since Brexit it is how we are now represented by those media outlets and their supporters.
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Have just applied a plaster to a cut on my finger, which I think now makes my flat a
#NewToryHospital
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Ash Regan says Nicola and others should be suspended while the investigation is going on, and then says it's difficult to say what's happened until the police investigation is concluded. Nicola hasn't even been accused of anything.
Bizarre.
#BBCWATO
#WorldAtOne
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BREAKING NEWS: World shrugs in unison as car crash reported in Downing Street. "What's new" said a passer-by. "It's been a car crash ever since the Tories got in."
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The difference between Nicola Sturgeon's press event and that of Liz Truss is poles apart. PM avoids four questions and runs away. FM has a list of all journalists and invites them all to ask questions. Answers every question including all those from James Cook.
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@krishgm
We do not want a privatised Channel 4, particularly because of the superlative news programming. You are all too valuable for us to lose. Particularly the news and current affairs programming. It has to say something when the far right are cheering C4's possible sell-off.
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@Andrew_Adonis
She has a very low view of Scots, having implied, to the Prime Minister in a particularly obsequious attempt to ingratiate herself, that we are petty thieves and vandals. Set your sights higher, Andrew. You're seeing the veneer, not the substance.
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The royals won't and must not survive. This has gone beyond family feuds, this is deliberate cruelty to protect a corrupt "firm". We've seen it before and it's not going to stop until the royals are reined in. They must not represent the UK.
#SilenceIsBetrayal
#AbolishTheMonarchy
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@EnergyVampire10
About half the audience clapping and cheering.
I'm an atheist but that doesn't mean I wouldn't respect someone else's place of worship.
That was sinister.
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@ShehabKhan
"I'm pretty sure that coal 100 million years ago was trees and plants ..."
The man was a miner. A COAL MINER. Doesn't he know?
And sustainable? SUSTAINABLE? How did this guy ever become Deputy Chair of the Tories?
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@NadineDorries
How did you come to that conclusion, Nadine? You didn't even know how it was funded when you gave evidence to a parliamentary committee. It's cherished because it's not Tory-compliant and it has its own voice. Not that of a private owner who will veto what he or she doesn't like.
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@ElphinstoneJack
The day we lost John Bercow from the House of Commons was the day the culture of the HoC took a steep nosedive, and the Tories could do and say what the hell they liked. The current Speaker is about as robust and effective as an ice cube in the flaming bowels of hell.
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@NadineDorries
For goodness sake. The world and its mother knows what kind of person Johnson is, and one of the things he is NOT is someone who deserved the privilege of being the PM. Loyalty is one thing but you're in denial. Maybe it's your own judgement you should be questioning.
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@STVNews
Celebrating the fact that it's one day closer to the abolition of the monarchy, since you ask.
We're not servants, or subjects. We're citizens up here in Scotland, and we bow to no-one.
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Dear
@DailyMailUK
readers. Now that you know Sir Michael Take is a mickey take, just think about how much of what you read in this putrid rag is similarly without basis.
Can you TRUST the Daily Mail? You cannot. Even Wikipedia refuses them as a legitimate source.
Why read it? Hm?
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@NadineDorries
Yeah yeah yeah.
Explain why the far right are cheering at the loss of Channel 4 to privatisation.
This is about Tory control. Nothing else.
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@Laurence_in_EU
@butigy
@ElunedAnderson
Good grief, Laurence! I'm shocked! Why on earth would anyone take issue with your work to educate young people on the Holocaust, Ellie? That's utter madness.
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"But will you still speak English?"
"But will you still have roads?"
"But will you still breathe air?"
"But will you still have ears?"
#AdamBoulton
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@williamsdp83
It has to be their parents, doesn't it. Kids don't grow up racist or vile unless they learn it. Will the police be helpful?
Give him a huge hug from me.
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@nicktolhurst
@JessieAlba7
And there's Boris Johnson's half brother advising the Asian markets to exploit the low pound and buy up UK assets on the cheap.
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The Tory plan to access every state pensioner's bank account has destroyed my sense of safety. I have my council flat and my cats and I live on my own by choice after a very grim past. Now the Tories want to invade my safe space and I'm under attack all over again. I'm in tears.
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@scotlandinunion
In other news, grass is green and the sky is blue.
A border between Scotland and the entire European Union, or between Scotland and a right wing, authoritarian and bullying state to the south. I know which I prefer. Time we got on with running our own country.
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To all the
@Conservatives
MPs & staff in Number 10 who knew perfectly well that they were not just bending, but breaking the rules with those get togethers and those parties and those drinks-do's and whatever else they got up to, I have this question:
Why? Why did you think 1/4
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@NileGardiner
@BorisJohnson
No, dear. We despise him. He's a proven liar, serial adulterer, and lazy, good-for-nothing self-interested fraud.
Are you sure you're not a parody account? You do come out with some strange stuff.
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Why is this not across the UK news networks? It's outrageous that this massive landmark in international legal history is being ignored.
South Africa’s justice minister Ronald Lamola outlined the country’s genocide case against Israel, as a landmark hearing opened at the International Court of Justice ⤵️
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#NotMyKing
#NotMyQueen
£250million for a coronation while people use foodbanks, the government cuts social services to the bone and lags behind on social housing being built to house homeless people.
Enough.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
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@michael_hal
@PaulBrandITV
Nothing justifies death threats. Nothing. if people are angry that does not give them carte blanche to threaten the lives of anyone.
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@ChrisClarksonMP
What a patronising man you are. Honestly, it's no wonder people are sick of the Tories, including their own members. Tired of the preening, condescension, lies, corruption, and the absolute contempt for MPs from other parties and for the people who vote for them. Dreadful.
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@StuG2022
But hey - her choice! Her hair! Perhaps she was sick of having long hair and wants a change!
You can't monitor a child 24/7 and you were making custard. What's a guy to do! Shackle her to the kitchen table?
I'm not helping at all, am I. 🤣
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@AuntieJo14
As the
@RNLI
says, "The RNLI won’t stand by while anyone, anywhere, drowns."
Proud to be a supporter.
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@MichaelLCrick
@MailPlus_
@ElectoralCommUK
It cannot be legal that a Tory candidate appears to be giving a public Tory-positive slant on the postal votes that he's already seen.
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Hello, UK Media.
A request from all those of us who have absolutely no intention of celebrating or even marking this farcical coronation. Do NOT say that the entire UK is celebrating, because we won't be, and you'll be fooling no-one but yourselves.
Thanks.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
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@mikegalsworthy
It's entertaining, watching Leavers get in a froth about the petition, yet there has been complete silence from them about EU ref fraud, illegality and data protection breaches.
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@Andrew_Adonis
And yes, echoing others here. Ask about
#DarkMoney
and election cheating. Ask about the racism prevalent but swept under the carpet within the Scottish Tories. Ask why Ms Davidson never promotes Tory HQ policy in Scotland - she daren't - it's the "Ruth Davidson Tories".
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Which is better: a border between us and a country that has behaved like an abusive partner for over 300 years, or 27 borders between us and other countries who view us as close friends and allies?
No brainer.
#ScottishIndependence
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@andorz2901
@mckinlay_liz
@parkinsbrea
"May I just point out that your hareng en croute avec filet de thon was not only overcooked but was poorly displayed on the plate. Please do better."
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@RoddyQC
I'm surprised, Roddy. Voluntary?
You know perfectly well that the union was cobbled together against the wishes of at least 99.9% of the Scottish population, and that it was the nobles who were blackmailed into signing it. That's not voluntary.
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You know what? I'm so tired of Salmond's personal revenge drama. Either ditch the ego and help unite the indy movement instead of trying to set people against one another, or get off the pot.
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@craigcooper78
What's the matter with them? Did the garden centre arrange the flowers as a rainbow and they were incensed? Were they insisting on buying 100% peat compost? Resistant to solar lights? I understand this sort of thing can trigger such people. 😂😂
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I won the battle with the cardie. I prevailed. Fifteen buttonholes are done. DONE, I tell you!
Here are four of them. Gaze in awe. 😎🤣🤣🤣
#Knitting
#KnittingTwitter
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@nurseybird1
@AnthonyF272
@Cognisant2000
I'm imagining the immense courage it must have taken for her to ask, if she's never had to ask before. That poor girl.
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@NileGardiner
Uh huh.
Nile clutching his pearls there.
Going to screech the same thing about the then Prince Charles for shaking the hand of Gerry Adams? 🤣
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Interesting that the
#UKCovid19Inquiry
has suddenly become private and the video is unavailable. The Anti-Corruption Alliance were in the middle of presenting the outline of their findings and it didn't sound at all good for the government. Dire, in fact. 🤔
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@realKarlElliott
@jamieklingler
@AngelaRayner
Uh uh. Gotta know someone's mindset. Plus, if you're into politics you're into politics. You don't want small talk about nothing. You want spark and interest! 😉
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I see
#GetBackToWorkYouFatPonce
is still trending and is now at around 43K.
Jolly good show, what!
Let's all carry on.
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Two of your officers manhandling a woman of colour, and publicly accusing her of a crime she didn't commit. No wonder trust in the Met is non-existent. Her son is in extreme distress and will remember his mother being so badly treated by police.
Shocking. You should be sued.
@Saskia_Cole
Pls see the following statement outlining the full circs of the incident. Agree the video does look concerning but it is only a snapshot of the wider incident.
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My question about the unelected peer Charlotte Owen is this: why did she accept the peerage knowing she has absolutely no experience whatsoever? Johnson offered her this peerage as a flagrant "up yours" to the public, but does that justify her taking it?
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Must say, the Tory trollbot farm is in overdrive today, all lining up to trash Jack Monroe. We all know how those trollbot farms work. "Here's a target. Attack it" - the Tory MO for diverting attention away from themselves. It's noise. Nothing more than noise.
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Dear Greece.
Apologies for the rudeness and petulance of our Prime Minister and for the slap in the face of offering the Deputy Prime Minister instead.
The Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece, and the majority of the UK agree.
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@George_Osborne
@trussliz
George you seem to have very low standards of excellence. I found her distinctly underwhelming and as cold as ice, plus short on details and opaque on understanding the crises facing the public. Millions facing destitution while energy producers expect multi-billions in profits.
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@Adam_SH69
Poor lambs. They've been so caring and compassionate about the deep loss felt by those of us who didn't vote to leave, that it would be unfair to be unkind to them.
*irons EU flag*
*bangs flag pole into garden*
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@holyroodmandy
@SandraToFriends
@NicolaSturgeon
I'm English-born, and have never felt more at home than in Scotland. It's a deeply insulting thing for
@TessWhite4NEto
say about Scots and Scotland and she should retract her sweeping statement. I hope the PO presses her to do so and to apologise.
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@ACTBrigitte
You're talking to a MINORITY of Europeans. If you mix with racists you will hear racists. I live here. I know what's going on. If he came to Scotland he'd be blasted right out again.
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If anyone - ANYONE - within or outwith the SNP - is found guilty of putting our Nicola's legacy at risk, we will come for you. We don't care who you are. Someone has seeded a problem. SOMEONE has put our party in the firing line. We,
@theSNP
members and supporters, are watching.
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@MartinRemains
Absolute bollocks. Trying to tell us they don't have a digital copy? Or that the firm they did business with doesn't? For a £600million deal?
Pull the other one. Send in the auditors. Trustworthy and independent ones, not their mates.
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#JoshSimons
is deep in the doo-doo.
After having decided that the north of Scotland would be a great place to dump trafficking gangs and forget about them, he later "justified" it by saying he's half Scot.
Then he deleted it.
This is the leader of a Labour think tank.
🤣
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