William Clouston SDP
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Leader of the Social Democratic Party. Owenite. Admirer of the late Peter Shore. QPR. Follows/RTs not endorsements. Promoted by SDP 272 Bath St G2 4JR.
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Have you worked out the social and economic costs of destroying a town?
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It’d be customary to congratulate Humza Yousaf on becoming SNP leader and shortly FM of Scotland. However, I feel no need to do so.
The infamous speech in which he scowls ‘white’ 19 times should - in a sane world - preclude this man from high office… and yet he has won.
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To those who wanted a ‘People’s Vote’...
We’ve just had one...
😊
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Wow. The UK dairy industry is now offering HGV drivers a £78,000 wage.
At this rate our drivers will be paid as much as NHS Diversity Managers...
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Lisa Nandy has called the Afghanistan withdrawal the biggest foreign policy blunder in a generation.
Really? Bigger than Labour's decision to illegally invade Iraq - which killed 654,965 people?
We're still disentangling ourselves from Blair's disastrous errors of 20 year ago.
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'Many are desperate people fleeing unspeakable horrors' says the Bishops' letter.
From France?
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Largely unvaccinated Europe is more free and more open than highly vaccinated Britain...
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The BBC mocks and despises the country which sustains it - a situation which cannot last much longer.
It's gone...
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True to form, Angela Rayner on BBC R4 expresses her disappointment that the new pandemic restrictions don’t go far enough…
A good example of Labour batting for the vested interests of the public sector unions - who haven’t missed a pay check from the start.
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Another lockdown to ‘save the NHS’ won’t, ultimately, achieve this.
Why?
Because you can’t save our health system if you destroy the economy which underpins it.
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In the vaccine row, Sturgeon siding with the EU (which has provided Scotland nothing) against the United Kingdom (which provides vaccines, funding, resources, etc) is the mark of a separatist ideologue.
Foolish. This won't travel well.
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It's interesting how quickly news coverage of the tragic murder of Samuel Paty is falling away. The BBC news page now has the story beneath a banal headline about the 'first same sex pair on Strictly' which illustrates its superficial priorities.
Remember Samuel Paty.
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Normal service resumed:
Denmark 1992, wrong answer...vote again... 1993
Ireland 2001, wrong answer... vote again... 2002
France 2005 result ignored
Netherlands 2005, result ignored
Ireland 2008...vote again 2009
Greece 2015, result ignored
We thought UK was different...
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Interesting to hear Keir Starmer reject the advice of Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty on BBC R4 Today. Obviously his training as a human rights lawyer means that he knows best on epidemiology and related matters than... the government's epidemiologist.
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The Pogues attack on Laurence Fox is unedifying. Responding to point of principle with personal attack is philosophically frail.
Artistic freedom is lost if artists themselves won't defend it.
Keep in going
@LozzaFox
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Paradoxically, I suspect that Scottish independence is more popular in England than in Scotland.
Views welcome...
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Interesting that Southgate is 'very surprised' that some people are sick of England's knee-taking prior to every single game. Perhaps he should do some serious thinking about the damage importing US-style race grifting does to community relations.
Still happily going to Qatar...
"We do it to try to educate"
Gareth Southgate shares his thoughts on his England players being booed while taking the knee against Hungary in the Nations League.
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Braverman is only in hot water with the political and media class because she uttered verifiable truths about policing which are widely held by the general public.
The subsequent gaslighting - accusing her of stoking division etc is as predictable as it is dishonest.
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I've never rated A. C. Graylng as a philosopher but accusing the Prime Minister of a mass-murder pandemic policy is absolutely indecent.
I think Grayling might actually be going mad.
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When people start watching RT and Al Jazeera for a balanced view in preference to BBC, C4 and Sky you know there’s something seriously wrong with broadcast news impartiality.
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Starmer’s plea on BBC R4 to stop focussing on ‘what divides us’ is utterly risible. Labour is the main promoter of poisonous ID politics in Britain.
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Did this man write to the police about BLM protests?
I've written to Kent Police asking them to investigate whether Nigel Farage has broken quarantine rules. He was in the USA on the evening of June 20th but was out and about earlier today.
Millions of people have had to abide by the rules, and he should as well.
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Suella Braverman deserves credit for calling out ‘two tier’ policing which - to anyone paying attention - is plain to see.
All citizens must be treated on a par - without fear or favour. Basics.
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Freedom day hasn’t just been delayed for a month. If a substantially vaccinated society can’t be re-opened we’re witnessing a secular shift in risk tolerance from government.
The danger in this approach is that it’s never ending… new variants… new restrictions… ad infinitum.
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Over 100 Police officers have been injured this week, many seriously. Are the BBC and others in the UK media are partly responsible? Day after day they've allowed Black Lives Matter supporters to make claims unsupported by evidence which have angered and radicalised people.
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Currently, Remain elites are winning the tactical battles, ie. winning the 'micro'. And yet every time they deliberately impede Brexit they lose the 'macro' - that being the goodwill and sentiment of the British people.
Very, very foolish.
Just wait until the public get a say.
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Having failed in war to make Afghanistan a little more like the West, the subsequent migrant crisis is bound to succeed - in making the West a little more like Afghanistan.
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Extraordinary to get arrested for stating the official UK government position:
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 PLEASE SHARE:
I ask the man carrying the “Hamas are terrorists” sign why he has been arrested?
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A thoughtful man among sheep.
Football: Lyle Taylor Hits Out At ‘Black Lives Matter’ And Taking Knee
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So China slaps an 80% tariff on Australian barley because the Australians rightly want an independent inquiry into the pandemic.
China is a totalitarian bully.
We will stand with our Australian cousins.
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Hilary Benn has just said on BBC R4 that 'the best outcome is for Britain to remain in the EU'.
So that's a flat 'Your Vote Doesn't Matter' to those who voted in all sincerity in 2016.
See you at the polls Hilary.
#SDP
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'...why has the UK admitted 136,000 “dependents” of foreign students; who takes their mum to college?' asks
@AllisonPearson
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Quite. And what sort of governments permits this?
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No recent event has disturbed me quite as much as the recent intolerance faced by
@Docstockk
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If a philosopher in the analytic tradition can’t undertake work on categories and meaning at British university without facing threats and harassment then philosophy itself is dead.
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Labour opposes the Tories - but in the wrong direction:
On lockdowns Labour calls for even harsher measures.
On frontiers Labour call for even weaker open borders.
On divisive wokery they want more not less.
Wrong on just about everything.
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West Yorkshire Police close the investigation of the girl.
Now we need an investigation of West Yorkshire Police.
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The BBC’s Mark Easton has said on R4 that a process is likely to be instigated to ensure that the corporation remains editorially unbiased.
Remains unbiased?
Who is he kidding?
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Thanks Gavin - you’ve just ‘outed’ yourself as one who calls those holding a different view ‘idiots’. And you’re a University Chancellor. So much for free enquiry and academic tolerance...
Gavin Esler: TV news must stop giving airtime to the 'village idiots' of Brexit - the dubious right wing supposed "think tanks" and pseudo-experts among ERG MPs who simply haven't a clue what the implications of Brexit truly are.
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Entirely reasonable.
Council asks London artist to pay for removal of BLM statue
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A hunch…
Many of the progressives saying they’re ‘ashamed to be British’ because of the Rwanda scheme are ashamed to be British anyway…
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Priti Patel has not played the race card in this episode.
In these times that is unusual and it is creditable.
Decent.
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Keir Starmer's demand that public sector employees be given pay rises at a time when we're running a colossal fiscal deficit proves one thing - Labour is in the pocket of the state sector unions and can never govern for the whole country.
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Cameron lost the '16 Ref because - like many Remainers - he was blind to the profound and fundamental questions of loyalty, allegiance and nationhood. They thought it was all about money and GDP. It wasn't... I was about us...
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Thought I’d watch the FA cup final.
Both teams take the knee... I immediately lost interest... decided to read a book instead...
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Among everything that's happening in the world today Frank, our wonderful Whippet, died aged 14 and a half. A proud, loyal four-legged true friend, we will miss him deeply. ❤️
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@Barnardos
adoption of highly racialised ideology has meant that, with some sadness, I've cancelled my monthly donation (letter attached).
Suggestions of worthy alternatives most welcome...
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This clip is a powerful metaphor for the ceding of power. People who have zero respect for this country are clambering over our monuments and the police are **requesting** they come down.
Who's in charge?
Without a reset it will rapidly get worse from here...
🚨🚨🚨AWFUL SCENES: Protesters climbing all over the Royal Artillery Memorial - the police make zero arrests. The level of disrespect is incredible. Look at where they climb on to at the end. I feel sad for my country. This needs to stop now. Police do nothing 🚨🚨🚨
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The story of Laura Pidcock seems to exemplify the Corbyn project. The former MP said she could never be friends with Tories later found that her Durham constituency had 19,990 of them...!
Stop the rage. Be kind.
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I see I'm not alone in thinking - in the cultural environment we're living in - that Cressida Dick's successor could be far, far worse.
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Lethal ‘Little England’ tweet. The mask slips and Hunt reveals a deep misunderstanding of why we voted Leave. Toast...
Deliver a Brexit that works for the 48% not just the 52% - a positive, open and internationalist Brexit, Great Britain not Little England
#BoJoNoShow
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What an I’ll-informed, parochial view from the ex-comedian Fry. The democratic dimension eludes him.
"The Labour Party is afraid to mention Brexit - it was a catastrophe and everybody knows it deep in their bones"
Comedian Stephen Fry gives his views on the impact of Britain leaving the EU
#BBCLauraK
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Exasperating... BBC R4 World at One just aired a 20m piece on Britain's housing crisis. The word immigration was unmentioned as was the state's potential role in building homes.
This type of 'journalism' should be shamed out of existence.
Truly abysmal.
@BBCNews
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A government which spends £7,600,000,000 on two aircraft carriers but lacks the will to stop thousands of fighting age males arriving illegally in Kent is breaching the social contract.
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A friend recently broke his leg badly playing football. The ambulance service said it would take 7hrs to arrive . His mates took him to hospital in a works van. A&E were horrified at his condition.
Meanwhile the NHS thinks whites need to 'be uncomfortable'.
Basics? Priorities?
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Fascinating... Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to leave its moderate English and Welsh neighbours and, instead, embrace political unity with cultures like Spain where Catalan separatists are beaten and locked up for years...
Have the SNP any idea what they're doing...?
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Just been listening to Labour's Angela Rayner - who calls her opponents scum - talking on BBC R4 about standards in public life.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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Poor Rachel Reeves getting tied in knots here… calling out pro-Palestine mob protests for deliberately intimidating MPs and ‘crossing the line’ but, apparently, Braverman is wrong to call out ‘hate marches’. 😮
“Some of these protests are now crossing the line”
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says some pro-Palestinian protestors are going too far and that there is now “intimidation of MPs”
#BBCLauraK
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Another coup for Marcus Rashford in criticising welfare cuts but, like calling for free school meals, these are easy wins for his media team. Tap ins.
I'd love Rashford to address the question of family breakdown and absent fatherhood - which is the prime cause of child poverty.
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It's revealing that lying about his asylum claim in 2015 was insufficient to remove of Emad Al Swealmeen from the UK. He remained and detonated a bomb on Remembrance Sunday last year.
It begs the question. If making false claims is not sufficient to remove people - what is?
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Fear and despair - at being in France?
Kent, this morning. I can only imagine the degree of fear and despair which leads people to risk crossing the Channel on this in December. And I cannot begin to imagine the lack of empathy required to be Suella Braverman.
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You know things are getting out of hand... when experts will decide whether we can celebrate Christmas.
Enough.
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A single thing still dominates EU policy towards Brexit: A state of high fear that a country will leave and prosper - and in so doing - demonstrate that the game is up...
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The PPE debate is becoming circular and puerile. It's inevitable that a large bureaucracy will struggle In a worldwide scramble for kit, yet journalists daren't criticise the NHS because we collectively deify it. So they attack hapless politicians... daily... rinse... repeat...
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It's a huge tactical error by Labour, Lib 'Dem' and the SNP reject a General Election. The public know what they're up to (Blocking Brexit). The backlash against them will colossal once the public finally have their say in the ballot box. Bring it on...
#OnlyMakingItWorse
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To legally prorogue Parliament (for what amounts to circa. six additional days vs recess) is one thing... but to disregard the biggest democratic vote in British history is quite another.
Who are the democrats?
Who are the real extremists?
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To call the second national lockdown a lockdown would imply that the first one had failed.
So it’s called a ‘circuit breaker’.
I wonder what they’ll call the third lockdown?
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Another terrible error from Labour. It is nonsensical to deliberately flatten domestic production and increase our reliance on oil and gas imports.
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The ground is now set up... if MPs block the UK's exit from the EU a showdown will take place - the British people versus a Remain-dominated parliament.
My money is on the British people.
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Polling down at 23%, the Conservatives haven't begun to understand what's coming their way. It could have been so different if they'd had the decency to honour the biggest vote in British history... and yet they couldn't.
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Why does the BBC persist in calling Ken Clarke 'moderate'? There is nothing moderate in supporting a demonstrably anti-democratic project like the EU.
#EverydayBBCBias
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Barnier is totally lost. The whole idea of a 'level playing field' is yesterday's language.
It's our pitch and we will determine the rules.
Bye.
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It's odd... I rarely see mention of the Gilets Jaunes, the eurozone debt crisis, EU mass unemployment or the rise of the continental far-right on the BBC, Channel 4 or Sky... just important things like the 'No-Deal' interruption of the supply and range of sandwich fillings...
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'Just Stop Oil' protesters in Knightsbridge holding what look suspiciously like PVC banners made from... oil.
(Photograph from
@TalkTV
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Who voted for this?
No one.
Over the 15 years between mid-2021 and mid-2036, the UK population is projected to grow by 6.6 million people.
This includes 541,000 more births than deaths and international net migration of 6.1 million people.
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Rolls Royce wants to build 16 small modular nuclear reactors each costing circa. £2bn. The programme would cost a fraction of HS2 but instead of knocking off 12 minutes of the journey time from Euston to Birmingham it would power 16 million homes.
Makes you think.
@SDPhq
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Three cheers for
@ryanpriceplumbr
- a man with common sense who understands the English Language. 🙏
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Our government tried and failed to control parts of Afghanistan for the past 20 years.
How about a more modest aim…. like controlling the English Channel?
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Of all the govt’s recent failures I think its border capitulation is possibly the most grave. To allow waves of illegals free entry is to invite thousands more. It’s where indifference merges into negligence and betrays a basic lack of will.
Stop voting for these people…
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Social Democratic Party (SDP) makes election breakthrough in Leeds - A victory for sensible, mainstream politics
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Gutter politics.
A win for Susan Hall and the Conservatives is a win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes the world over.
Susan Hall’s campaign has been fought from the gutter with dangerous and divisive politics.
London, we cannot let her win. Vote Sadiq.
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China is sending experts, ventilators and masks to Italy (Times).
Germany refused to sell Italy anti-virus masks and equipment in its hour of need (Telegraph).
The EU's original sin is to pretend it is nation.
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Please look…
This is what respect for war memorials looks like. Different world ❤️.
@JuliaHB1
@SDPhq
Football supporters passing the Cenotaph on their way to the Cup Final between Huddersfield and Preston 101 years ago.
#RemembranceSunday
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An absolute bargain- €3,000 to gain a lifetime of benefits to the UK’s ‘social wage’ having contributed absolutely nothing towards it.
Until the incentives change the flow of illegal migration will increase. Basics.
“I can’t swim & I thought maybe I will die. But did I have another option to make it here? No”
An Iranian who crossed the Channel in a small boat describes risking his life – and says the threat of deportation to Rwanda won’t stop people trying:
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Civil Service fast stream recruits in '21 we're 23.3% ethnic minority, 58.6% female and 19.6% LGBT compared, respectively, to 14%, 50.6% and circa. 7% in UK population.
Are straight white males less suitable or is something else going on?
Something systemic?
Data
@Telegraph
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The UK contributes only 1% of total carbon dioxide emissions, compared to China’s 28% and the United States’ 15%. Britain is towards the bottom of emissions league tables, with per capita emissions lower than they were in the 1850s (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2020).
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Deep down, liberal elitists would prefer to be governed by the EU than by a decisive British Prime Minister. Why? Because the EU serves their interests by keeping the really big decisions beyond the reach of ordinary people.
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To any sane administration Abdul Ezedi would have been promptly deported.
The suspect in the chemical attack in south London - Abdul Ezedi - was convicted of a sex offence in 2018 and was later granted asylum.
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I wonder if Imran Khan's delight in the Taliban's victory over us - he called it 'breaking the shackles of slavery' -prompt the Conservatives to re-consider the £300m+ in international aid given annually to Pakistan?
Or will 'Global Britain' and 'soft power' fantasies prevail?
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British nationals were advised to leave Afghanistan back in April. Many still remain. Interesting that the govt and military are being blamed for this predicament rather that those ignoring FCDO advice.
It's deeply unfashionable to connect individual choices to consequences.
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The most telling thing about British Steel going into liquidation is that our political class think it doesn’t matter that under EU state aid rules we can’t step in to help. It matters... and the public knows that it matters.
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I object to the BBC’s Evan Davis referring on R4 to Tories voting against the govt as ‘extreme libertarians’.
I’m opposed to libertarianism as a political philosophy but this is totally unreasonable language for a national broadcaster.
@EvanHD
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We did it again!
***SDP gain from Labour***
Leeds City Council
(Middleton Park)
SDP 1,985
LAB 1,586
CON 376
GRN 186
TUSC 91
LD 86
Congratulations:👏👏👏
Cllr Emma Pogson-Golden
@SDPhq
#SDPStronghold
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I can't seem to find a BBC report on the serious disorder in Brixton last night in which resulted in a police car being smashed and 15 officers injured.
Was it the BBC's 'largely peaceful' type of violence?
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Rod Liddle - culture warrior - in today’s Sunday Times:
Sound.
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You can protect your family's privacy or you can appear on Oprah Winfrey but not both...
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The most profound truth of our political age:
The moment a country leaves the EU and prospers... the EU is toast.
Grasp that and everything else falls into place.
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Inconsistent policing has become a colossal problem. Last Summer the police failed to prevent national monuments from being desecrated. Now people who pose no threat are dealt with harshly.
Citizens -and groups - should be treated the same.
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So it’s passed and Keir Starmer backed the government calling it a ‘patriotic duty’.
He wouldn’t know a patriotic duty if he tripped over it.
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This breaches the principle of ‘civilised toleration’ in a diverse society. Put simply, you don’t vandalise monuments sacred to the majority culture unless you’re actively seeking confrontation.
Rochdale Cenotaph vandalised with “Free Palestine” written on it.
How much of a low life imbecile do you have to be to do this?
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