Shelagh Fogarty
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THE VACCINE HAS NOT BEEN PUT THROUGH ‘TOO QUICKLY’. TONS OF MONEY WAS MADE AVAILABLE AND THE SAME NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WERE TESTED AS WOULD NORMALLY BE IN ANY TRIAL STAGES. STOP LISTENING TO WEIRDOS.
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Bowel shifting dishonesty from the PM on care home deaths. Anyone who remembers in real time the ‘fans forced the gate’ lie from Hillsborough will be familiar with this sinister manoeuvre. Do not be passive about this lie. It is an abomination. It must not stand.
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My local Conservative councillor has lost her seat. She has just helped me on two matters which are material to the quality of my life. She is a good woman. She emailed me within hours of losing to reassure me my concerns will be picked up by the new Lib Dem clr. Proper politics.
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It is odd how the
#maxwell
story is told through the lense of the family ego drama? “Favourite daughter” (only daughter) “Socialite” (status chaser) etc. Her crimes are basically Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford with yachts instead of taxis. Private islands instead of takeaways.
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“Women will be safe if they observe the hijab” the words of a Taleban goon to the BBC. “Women will be safe if…..” if if if if if. There’s always an if.
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Try replacing Meghan’s name in that Clarkson bilge and see how it reads. Kate, Camilla, Sophie, Charlotte, Elizabeth, your own name maybe. See how it reads then. What should flow from it? I’d call the police if it were my name.
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Resignations so far. A woman who laughed about a party and a woman who failed to look into parties neither attended. 🤔
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Alternative
#coronavirus
slogan :
Act like you have it
Act like everyone else has it
Don’t be a dickhead.
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Can someone at ITV or the BBC give me a good reason for us not yet knowing which senior Conservative sources lied about violence toward a political adviser yesterday. If there’s a good reason I am genuinely keen to know it. Are there reasons we don’t know about?
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Two posh older ladies get on tube at Sloane Square with their masks under their chin. Another posh lady, mask on, asks them to put theirs on. You could now freeze ice in this carriage.
#poshriot
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BREAKING: President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden holding hands.
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My beautiful mother, Mary Fogarty, has died. At home and now at peace. She faced recent tough years the way she faced everything - from raising seven children to handling old age - with strength and grace. I am lucky to be hers and will try to live up to that good fortune.
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The attitude to local radio this morning - the mere idea someone from outside London could i/v a PM in a huge crisis - says a lot about this country’s politics. Too centralised, too cliquey, class assumptions everywhere. Ludicrous and damaging.
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Anyone facing a fine for breaching covid rules/law should just send the letter back with the words “the matter is closed” across the page. Works for PM and Health Sec apparently.
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MET 2021: not important enough to investigate, happened too long ago.
MET 2022: too important for even Parliament to see.
#PartyGate
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Sadly it simply isn’t true that the PM or Government did everything they could. I wish it were true. Negligent. And that kills.
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I’m not watching
#ImACeleb
…Can we agree
#matthancock
being there so soon after utter tragedy and at the very least questionable choices is beyond tasteless?
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Feels like we are going backwards under supposedly classy grown up Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM. Justice Minister defends Lee Anderson’s ‘f**k off back to France’ comment. This is our government. Sickening. Not even pretending to be fit for office.
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A thread on BBC presenters stating facts that some still dispute and how that doesn’t stop them being facts.....
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Molesting women is not your private life. Molesting women is not your private life. Molesting women is not your private life. To all molesters.
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I switched off three good political programmes this weekend because govt fodder was too insulting to bear. It’s my job. Imagine how other voters feel.
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Not sure what to say about
@sajidjavid
urging us to ‘do the little things’ like mask wearing. Has he told the parliamentary conservatives? Or indeed himself? It’s insulting.
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If you need an ambulance today you face the same risks as yesterday. The strike is happening because of those risks. It’s happening because of various governments’ decisions over years on funding, social care and
#nhs
workforce. Ambulance teams are not trying to hurt you.
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I asked Jonathan Gullis - Cons MP if PM had lost all moral authority over
#partygate
. He answered by telling me his local town hall and a community centre have been refurbished.
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Sending love and respect to
@AvaSantina
and wondering what it will take for
@ofcom
to act. One of those men didn’t care what he said. The other is so unmoored he had no clue what to do. Neither should be broadcasting.
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Here you go
@realDonaldTrump
this is how you do respect in the rain.
HRH Prince Harry lays a wreath at Twickenham ahead of kick-off in remembrance of all those that lost their lives in war.
#RugbyRemembers
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Both
@SteveBakerHW
(on PM) and
@RishiSunak
(the PM) have said in precise terms that Northern Ireland is in a great position having favourable access to UK and EU markets. If this doesn’t insult you I can’t help you.
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Those sneering at young Selby MP might reflect on the fact he was elected by voters, unlike this young buck, now a life peer for services to goodness knows what.
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Rishi Sunak has written off over £4 billion of Covid fraud on furlough and other schemes during the pandemic. Meanwhile, overpayment of benefits by relatively small amounts is chased up for years causing untold stress. What is the Government coming after you for?
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“Hillsborough and other hooligan related events” Martin Tyler
@BBCr4today
- please correct that.
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£4.3 billion pounds of criminal fraud committed since the pandemic is written off by
@RishiSunak
. Nobody told me fraud was ok. Until the chancellor did.
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It’s like watching Obama - such cool, effortless communication
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Political optics aside, can anyone explain to me why a couple who want to do up their flat aren’t paying for it themselves?
#DowningStreet
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Rishi Sunak has neither sanctioned nor sacked Suella Braverman or Robert Jenrick for the disgusting way they talk publicly about asylum seekers. He is all for it. Poisoning you, not serving you.
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A side issue perhaps but a revealing one. That the PM would announce this
#Rwanda
policy on Maundy Thursday at the start of the most sacred days in Christianity is jarring to say the least.
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One of
@BorisJohnson
closest advisers Munira Mirza has resigned over PM’s
#jimmysavile
comments in the Commons on Monday. She advised him to retract and apologise. He didn’t. She’s left him.
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First question to
@metpoliceuk
#cressidadick
must be ‘have you asked your own officers on duty that night at Number 10 what they saw, heard, knew?’ If so, what did they say? If not, what are you for?
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If I ever got in front of Simon Case my only question would be ‘why didn’t you resign and blow the whistle’. It was a health emergency and u knew donkeys were at the helm in government. Where is the red line?
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PM “ we have one of the toughest (quarantine) regimes in the world”. Yes. He just said that. He just said that.
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I’m introducing all male colleagues and guests on my programme now as ‘father of none/one/two/three/unknown number’. I’ll describe their skin tone, hair quality and what they do with their legs and/or other body parts in the course of the conversation. That’s normal isn’t it?
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If you went on that ‘there is no pandemic’ rally yesterday, found yourself in the company of people wearing a star of David and haven’t denounced them/that yet, then you are contemptible.
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I ❤️ Jurgen Klopp
Jürgen Klopp's personal letter to an 11 year old child who wrote to him about his stress and anxiety over starting secondary school this September gone.
He is much more than just our manager. 👏
#LFC
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Do you want to hear something funny? Nadim Zahawi just said this of Keir Starmer..’’Every week he changes his position depending on what he thinks is popular….he’ll say anything if the politics suits him”. 😂😂😂
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Moved carriage twice on train home because of multiple smartphone crazies. A nutrition masterclass, a film, a conversation on speaker and Rihanna music. Train companies need to stop it. Public transport is not your living room. Most passengers accept it sadly. Passive.
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I interviewed Gavin Williamson for ten minutes earlier
@LBC
and I still couldn’t describe it to you - the vacuity, the disengagement, the brass neck. Really don’t wish to be rude but it’s just true. Such an odd experience.
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For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
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The other people in this clip. I mean seriously. They work in disease control! To just stand there with the naked emperor and act normal. I couldn’t do it. People are so weird.
Trump: CDC "doctors say how do you know so much about this? Maybe I have a natural ability."
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Argue nuance if you like. Argue motivation. Argue that some contraventions are morally, emotionally understandable. He still did wrong and millions of British people are exercised about that and the govt doesn’t get it. That’s all
@maitlis
was saying.
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Political grown up
@AndyBurnhamGM
puts political toddlers in the naughty corner. Not sure I could be so restrained. His letter is the more powerful for it.
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I see this grotesque slander by
#BorisJohnson
is doing the rounds again. A tirade so easy to counter I am delighted to do so. Let’s call it Lessons from Liverpool, shall we 1.
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Just so you know, as you digest the twattery of P&O towards their employees, these practices are allowed for if not designed by, a Government with a ‘hostile environment’ towards employment protections. And just for a laugh they’re waging war on freelancers too. Nice.
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A woman who should never have been Home Secretary replaced by a man who lied endlessly for Boris Johnson, leaving room for a man who as PM pushed people into destitution and the country into Brexit. General Election now!
@LBC
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I cannot believe how crap the public health messaging has been and still is. Beyond belief.
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Michael Gove’s film crew stunt
@Channel4News
, aided and abetted by Stanley Johnson, replete with shouty crowd, was pure Tommy Robinson/James Goddard tactics.
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The Bolton numpty who wouldn’t quarantine on return from Spain, did a two day pub crawl instead. Got symptoms a few days later after causing viral mayhem. I hope he felt like shit boiled twice.
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That empty Conservative front bench last night and the absence of
@RishiSunak
will go down as the moment he told us they have lost already.
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I can’t bring myself to retweet that picture of two coppers holding a young woman down on the floor but God Almighty. This is beyond belief. Clapham Common not Tahir Square.
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Listening to Nigel Farage
@LBC
say a General Election will finally give us a parliament that reflects the people. Who does he think voted the current MPs in?
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A Scouse friend and I walked à deux around a field in Liverpool - my only outing each week when I lived during lockdown with my Mum aged 90. This lot are the effing pits.
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Aged 10: man follows me home from school
Aged 15: teenage boy exposes himself to me and a friend at bus stop
Aged 17: A hospital doctor asks me to remove bra to listen to my chest (stethoscope on my back!)
Aged 20 in Spain: friend and I do all Teaching together ‘cos of weird men
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Marr should give his seat to
@afneil
then if PM refuses it’s clear it’s not a post terror response. Straightforward.
The Prime Minister will be interviewed on tomorrow's Andrew Marr programme. Statement here.
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Stop being such a bloody baby. Everyone knows what’s worse and you were part of it. Your rose garden press conference should shame you for ever. Utter empty vanity at a deadly time for the population. Enough from you.
so is the problem a/ me calling Hancock 'a lying cunt killing people' or b/ Hancock actually being a lying cunt killing people?!
Factcheck needed...
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When it’s over, love.
Just two people died of coronavirus yesterday - out of a population of 66.6m. At what point do we declare the pandemic over?
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A young Ukrainian woman with a 5 year old daughter has a lovely UK home waiting for her that I and some friends helped sort. Great match, willing hearts. The latest hoop she is asked to jump through is…prove you left Ukraine after Feb 24th. Husband fights on in Ukraine 🇺🇦
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When Windsor Castle was restored from a devastating fire the new stained glass windows included a tribute to the London firefighters who tackled the blaze.
#PompiersDeParis
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Want to put on record (fwiw) my support for
@MartineBBC
- any journalist not relishing the drama of recent political events is in the wrong job. I hope the BBC gets this ‘cos, y’know…news.
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Just a few months since and MP was stabbed to death. Bravo, PM.
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This pandemic has taught me I am shockingly unsentimental about weddings and Christmas. You’ll live.
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Forgive me but people who object to the ‘belt and braces’ choice of wearing a face covering are childish. If you need Boris Johnson to tell you to wear a mask maybe just stay at home til you grow up.
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And in case you forgot, the UK still has thousands of new Covid cases every week.
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16 years old.
‘David Cameron made the referendum policy because he didn’t want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to UKIP and look where it has got us’
This 16-year-old says the Conservative Party are responsible for Brexit.
#bbcqt
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Outside work to be clear. Follows me onto trains, appears at local train station, then at my home. After almost three years of tbis he is prosecuted.
This is what women face. This and worse. Throughout our lives. It’s shit. It’s draining. It’s frightening. It has to stop.
#Sarah
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You can tell me it’s an exaggeration if you like but the BBC’s decision to finally eviscerate Local Radio makes me think of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Outside London monasteries, abbeys and convents were vital social and educational places…
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If you don’t get why this is utterly charming and rather lovely I can’t help you. His GG grandfather left with nothing. He returned as pretty much King of The World. Well done, Co Mayo! That welcome was quite something. 🇮🇪 🇺🇸
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If
@sajidjavid
really is looking at ambulance services he would not be saying pressure on NHS is sustainable. Friend’s elderly Dad, suspected stroke…..call ambo at 1pm gets ambo at 2am gets out of ambo atb12 midday following day. If that’s ‘sustainable’ I’m a banana.
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Thick or lying? You decide.
"We simply can't accept 100s of millions of people. This country is nearly full."
- Scott Benton MP, Conservative
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Correct
Rishi Sunak has been more vocal in Nigel Farage’s banking situation than he was about Boris Johnson misleading Parliament
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I can barely believe what I just watched/heard from
@sajidjavid
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#covid
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Please pray for, or keep in your thoughts, friends of mine accompanying tons of aid tonight to a city in the East of Ukraine. The word ‘brave’ seems trite but they are. ❤️ 🇺🇦
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Thinking of 100 year old Doris who rang my show today
@LBC
to ask if her son could still come to her house and take her to the hospital. He can. But I worry it took a radio show for her to knkw that. Lovely Doris. ❤️
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Oh but they demonised Jeremy.....they did it to this guy too and guess what? He won.
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Beautiful Mary Fogarty. First Covid vaccination 19/01/21. Thank you to the scientists, the NHS and everyone who made it possible. ❤️
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While I’m on one...if Elton was my friend and said, “She, have my house in France. I’ll sort you a jet and a secure private place to be with your new bub” I’d say ‘how lovely’ and go. For the love of the boys you rememeber walking behind that coffin, back the f**k off.
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Boris Johnson is looking for answers from the man whose job it is to ask him questions.
#PMQs
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“I no longer buy all this NHS overwhelmed stuff" - Boris J. Shall we educate our PM? I’ll start. My mother’s GP called an ambulance for her mid afternoon yesterday. No sign yet. Severe dehydration, needs IV drip. We currently have no way of getting it 1/2
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Queen Elizabeth’s first anniversary happens to fall on the second anniversary of my own mother’s death. HM had much of my focus last year as we reported her demise. Today I’m thinking only of my lovely, patient, wise and caring mum, Mary Fogarty.
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Read the small print as you digest taxpayers money being spent on an attack ad campaign against the people who heal you when you are sick.
#doctors
The BMA has demanded a 35% pay rise for junior doctors.
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Boris Johnson said Liverpool fans killed themselves and eachother at Hillsborough. Today he is preparing the ground to say the same about Covid. Your behaviour. Not his Government’s preparedness. Just you.
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Dear Margaret Ferrier, I genuinely feel for you being the focus of a tsunami of disapproval. It must feel like being skinned alive. But what you did after the last six months we’ve all lived through, and given the job you do, you really must resign now.
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