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@Ryanair Clearly not. He managed to arrive at his scheduled destination and on time.
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@UjuAnya May what you wish for others return to you threefold.
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@nytimes Actually, it'll be paid for by revenue from the Crown Estate. Pretty clear that the NYT is waging a particularly sad hate campaign against the UK, but basic fact-checking from 'the newspaper of note' (sic) might be an idea.
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@SportsCenter 467th in the men's sport, now cheating women out of due recognition for their achievements. Emma Weyant, Erica Sullivan and Brooke Ford: (C) Getty Images
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@krishgm We're all well aware of your 'standards'.
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@BBCNewsnight Politically partisan hacks like Boulton are why there's a gap in the market for channels like GB News. Useful to see Blair's proxies coming out, one by one, in attempts to have GB News deprived of its broadcast licence, though.
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@afneil Salmond admits the facts and claims consent. Nine women stress that consent was neither asked for nor given. And a Scottish jury hangs them out to dry. Never been more ashamed to be Scottish.
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@GnasherJew She also states that she's Yemeni, not British. The Home Office should be helping her to leave the country.
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@AnnelieseDodds Perhaps that's Labour's problem - appointing Shadow Ministers on the basis of biology rather than ability? As in your example.
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@schooltruth Being angry about an electoral decision that didn't go your way....for six years? Perhaps being married to Alastair Campbell is the real issue.
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@bbcquestiontime France is a safe country. Perhaps Fearnley-Whittingstall should stick to cookery.
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@scobie @YahooNews Why would he acknowledge something that isn't there? The idea that you're in any position to make demands is amusing.
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@DarrenPlymouth Seems to be a little more than a flu virus. Is the Chinese government being completely open and honest about the outbreak? Particularly as the first cases were reported on 19th December and we've only heard about it in the past week or so.
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@BBCNews Perhaps she should have listened to FCO advice and not travelled there in the first place. As an Iranian, she knew the risks she was taking. As it is, dismissing the hard work to get around sanctions and release funds frozen since 1979 to get Zaghari out of jail was graceless.
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@Baddiel If one were genuinely interested, one could easily find the information...the Crown Estate directly contributed £312m to the public finances last year. We can probably afford a state funeral.
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@mygibbo The 'torrent of hostility' was unleashed on a well-meaning old lady by some of the nastiest people in politics. Those responsible for the 'orchestrated, virulent and irresponsible campaign' are a little too obvious. Direct your overblown defensiveness closer to home.
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@Sistah_Space @ManduReid @SuzanneEJacob And yet, you felt free to lay your hands on other people attending, uninvited. Must have been a complete coincidence that you turned up wearing a microphone to record the conversation you clearly intended to provoke.
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@ArchRose90 Rachel Reeves - Two breaches of the Code of Conduct Starmer - Eight Lammy - Sixteen Jess Phillips - Seventeen Others still under investigation. Is anyone doing a sweepstake ?
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@Keir_Starmer Oh, the rules were broken. Still, it always helps to have a Labour PCC, doesn't it? Para 4(29) of Sch 2 applies, NOT Para 4(6) - it was not reasonably necessary to have a 9pm Friday piss-up. Indoor campaign activity was limited to 2 people - the WHOLE GATHERING was illegal.
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@EylonALevy Sky News have been less than balanced and impartial, but @KayBurley is in a league of her own. Had thought that her performance from a graveyard while Nicola Bulley was missing couldn't be surpassed in its awfulness, but she managed it here.
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@metpoliceuk The Met suddenly rediscovers the Public Order Act....
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@PaulBrandITV Huge, if true. Planted Labour activists in QT audiences are always worth fact-checking. A bit like ITV 'journalists'. There are currently no 10% mortgage interest offers and an observant Muslim is forbidden to borrow at interest.
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@kelechnekoff By 'smear', presumably you mean 'uncomfortable truths'. Tell us, how did her tiny 'charity' manage to afford the services of Meghan Markle's photographer, Nisan Harriman?
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@RebelsAnimal @waitrose People are in hardship and queueing up for free food - any reason why Crispin and Araminta thought that behaving like spoiled toddlers would win popular support? Try it in Glasgow.
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@RhonddaBryant You used parliamentary privilege to make serious allegations. Unless you repeat those allegations outside Parliament, your position on the Standards Committee should probably be open to question.
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@PennyMordaunt Can you clarify your relationship with Stonewall and whether you still favour criminalising advice to children and young people considering life-changing surgery? Do you also still favour gender self-ID?
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@benandjerrysUK @SuellaBraverman If @Unilever wants to determine government policy, perhaps it should stand for election.
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@RishiSunak "We"? The challenges he faced were that much more difficult with you blocking funding for manifesto policies and briefing against him from Cabinet. You may have strong-armed your way to the party leadership and the premiership, but you do so without popular consent.
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@RishiSunak Will your backers attack our economy again if your coup fails for a 3rd time? You steered the country into economic crisis, left £bns of fraudulent loans unpursued, failed to ensure that BoE kept inflation below 2% and collapsed a government during a global crisis.
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@Keir_Starmer "My hotel wasn't serving food" - It was "We were campaigning...um...working" - You were campaigning "One or two of us" - There were SEVENTEEN of you. "There was no breach of the rules" - There were several. Lie after lie. Who were the 17 people?
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@PaulBrown_UK On Albanian plates, so the cars are either illegal or they've been in the UK for less than 6 months. Why weren't Border Force called out to check immigration status/date of entry to the UK?
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@amandajplatell It's a systemic issue within the NHS, identified long ago. Failing managers escaping accountability and invariably receiving a promotion and a new post, somewhere else. The silence from the CEO of the NHS is remarkable. Until that is addressed, nothing will change.
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@SadiqKhan As the highest paid politician in government, and, therefore, one of the 'very richest', presumably you'll be returning your tax cut to HMRC?
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@JasonManford £394m/week was committed to the NHS in the 2019 budget. Since then, it's had multiple funding uplifts, to the point that it consumed 43% of all day-to-day public spending (IFS) before Hunt gave it another £6bn two weeks ago. The NHS needs no extra money - it needs reform.
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@alexharmstrong On a 39.7% turnout, 75% of votes cast were postal votes. A wake-up call for the government and for the @ElectoralCommUK , perhaps.
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@crimlawuk Complex constitutional arguments entirely negated by a militant barrister's reluctance to pay €7 to holiday in the EU. A better example of a joke.
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@EdwardJDavey 20 June - 4 July = 14 days. He has also tested negative for COVID-19. If you were wondering how to make the LibDems even more unpopular, you seem to have hit on a winning formula.
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@GBNEWS @johnmcternan Council houses are provided by the state, at a cost to taxpayers. Private houses are not. Typical Labour - constantly searching for new pockets to pick.
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@Backpainandwine Otherwise known as 'banter' which no-one found offensive.
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@cbbc @MrNishKumar @HHTV_ @BBCiPlayer @realmatbaynton Not really someone that the BBC should be promoting, is he? The next Government review of BBC funding should be entertaining.
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@BBCBreaking Shameful that Lady Hussey has been further bullied into apologising to a BLM activist who clearly intended to set her up.
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@zarahsultana That's odd. When Boris Johnson made the same argument, you called him a racist.
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@jessphillips When you demanded longer/harder lockdowns, more furlough, more giveaways and screeched about 'the Johnson variant' when Govt. lifted lockdown, did you understand the consequences for the economy? Perhaps it's time that YOU apologised.
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@JPNewell7 @PaulEmbery That isn't peaceful protest. It's behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace and obstruction of the highway. If someone dies because they're unable to reach hospital, manslaughter can be added to the list.
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@bbcquestiontime A rabid Scottish nationalist who lives in *checks notes* New York. Paid by Scottish taxpayers via Creative Scotland to vomit separatist narratives. BBC QT really has become a parody.
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@GuidoFawkes Rupa Huq - the racist MP that just keeps on giving.
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@MatBurnham Deliberately obstructing traffic, threatening behaviour - you're lucky not to have been prosecuted. The carefully muted soundtrack is highly suggestive.
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@Richard_Spoor IKR. We all get so frustrated sometimes that throwing Molotov cocktails at police seems like the thing to do. If a few die or experience life-changing injuries, well.....they were asking for it, right? 🤡
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@writetjw Trots and arithmetic always were uneasy bedfellows. £38 per household, not £38,000.
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@planetjedward We don't fund the monarchy. The monarchy funds us.
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@LaylaMoran Remind us why the UK, responsible for around 1% of global emissions, should be responsible for the 'climate crisis' in Pakistan, the largest recipient of UK aid.
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@SkyNews But England will, no doubt, kneel for BLM before their match. The FA seems to be intent on using the beautiful game to promote the politics of its committee members.
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@PaulbernalUK Spooky how many people defending a race-baiting grifter are supporters of David Lammy, Diane Abbott and Sadiq Khan. Purely coincidental, I'm sure.
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@PippaCrerar Are you going to turn up and give an a capella rendition of 'It Should Have Been Me'?
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@DanielaNadj Because the UK had the freedom to provide military support and training to the Ukrainians months before the invasion. While the EU refused to believe that an invasion would take place and spent the next few weeks dithering and equivocating, before being shamed into action.
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@lisanandy @bbcquestiontime Lee Anderson works at a food-bank, helping to run budgeting and cookery classes. He knows what he's talking about. Odd that no-one from Labour will take him up on his invitation to visit the food-bank and see for themselves.
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@ArchRose90 Came to the UK as a refugee, currently a teacher in Ealing and an officer in the National Union of Teachers. As a dual national, @RobertJenrick might usefully consider whether she should continue to hold the privilege of a British passport.
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@timfarron You mean compensation to be paid by the taxpayer for negligence on the part of coalition ministers, Ed Davey and Jo Swinson? Even by your standards, that's quite the take.
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@theSNP Everyone earning above £12,500 gets a tax cut. Although not in Scotland under the SNP, obvs.
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@gavinesler It must be absolute hell in.....er....France.
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@bbcnickrobinson The event and the wider Jubilee celebrations brought the nation together. The BBC, as usual, managed to get the usual political digs in with a manufactured brouhaha over 'boos for the PM' and Chakrabarti's snide "this isn't everyone's cup of tea".
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@jessphillips @SuellaBraverman Literally thousands were sexually exploited in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Oldham, Telford, Islington and other Labour council areas. You remained silent. But apparently, you've managed to find 2 in Tory council areas. And the band played 'Believe it if you Like".
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@BBCJohnBeattie @trussliz Pity that your thirst for dirt doesn't involve exploring the rich seam running through Holyrood. Perhaps revisiting the BBC Charter - particularly the part that deals with balance and impartiality - might be an idea?
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@stellacreasy Only some women of colour, clearly. Where were the anguished tweets and demands for changes to the law from you when this was published?
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@RupaHuq If paying attention to events in Parliament is proving difficult, perhaps an alternative career choice might be an idea? Your constituents deserve to be represented by someone with an interest in serving them, rather than her own student political narcissism.
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@ashleyljames Facts: She gatecrashed the event. She was not invited. She turns away DV victims if they don't have the right identity characteristics. There are financial anomalies in her 'charity's' accounting She went to the Palace with an agenda.
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@mollymaecosplay False accusations of racism are...racist. As is the implication that mixed race confers an inability to respect others and the institutions one promises to serve.
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@GovJersey Do explain how chromosomal biology is magically 'assigned at birth'. Given that only natal women can experience cervical cancer, erasing them from your list suggests that public health isn't much of a concern to the Govt of Jersey.
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@PippaCrerar Simple reference to the record would have shown that Starmer's remarks were malicious untruths. He misled the House.
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@DSanderson_85 Which conflicts directly with the Equalities Act 2010. Gender is not biological sex. Hopefully now headed for the Supreme Court.
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@RupaHuq Your comments reflected your character and beliefs - there should be no place in Parliament for someone like you.
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@SayeedaWarsi It's time for you to hand back your peerage, resign the @Conservatives Whip and retire somewhere quiet. Your attempts to criminalise public debate, in association with your friends at MEND, have no place in a parliamentary democracy. @RicHolden
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Just read through some of the proposed Islamophobia definition…this will be a blasphemy law if used. Labour are becoming more dangerous to the country everyday.
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@AnnelieseDodds Labour's energy plan would increase costs for ALL households. Increasing taxes on energy companies would see UK production reduced and extra costs passed on to consumers. Grow up and try to find some decent policies, rather than juvenile snarking at opposition parties.
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@jessphillips Having misled the House yesterday on three separate occasions. While attempting to dodge the consequences of his own rule breaches in Durham and those of members of his party, "Decent, calm and kind" is an unusual metaphor for "mendacious and hypocritical".
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@BBCNews 'Largely peaceful' BBC-speak for 'violent riot', with protestors trying to kill police officers and horses, creating several thousand new COVID-19 vectors of infection.
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@RichardWLewis For context: it's a classic song from one of Wales' most successful performers and no-one has ever taken it literally. Except kill-joy busy-bodies, perhaps. Good to know that Welsh police have nothing more serious to occupy themselves with.
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@AnushkaAsthana So the civil service failed to carry out the necessary analyses and then attempted to use their own failure to obstruct a manifesto policy. Is the Permanent Secretary still in post?
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@TahirAliMP As an MP, you're presumably aware of the law passed by Parliament a couple of weeks ago. There's no confusion, just an MP who considers himself above the law. One who should be facing criminal charges. @WMPolice @patel4witham
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@SiobhanBenita More interesting question being why those on the left invented a narrative about ‘party gate’ in an attempt to bring down a sitting U.K. government, coinciding exactly with Putin’s troop build-up on Ukraine’s borders. And here you are, still giving it a try.
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@antisemitism @AmnestyUK Support for Hamas is a criminal offence in the UK. Those responsible for posting the ad should be identified and prosecuted, @metpoliceuk
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@campbellclaret Rochdale Boroughwide Housing - a Labour council and a Labour MP. Nothing whatsoever to do with central government.
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@AllisterHeath Every problem can be traced back to 1997 and a Prime Minister who refuses to leave the stage. Starmer is simply an empty suit, whose sole purpose is to mouth vacuous platitudes convincingly enough to return Labour to power.
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@PoliticsJOE_UK "..a nation of migrants" Most are descended from migrants who arrived over a thousand years ago. Subsequently fighting and dying to build the country into a safe first world economy over generations, Not economic migrants who arrived last week in search of a free handout
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@zarahsultana Profits are measured over the financial year, not a single quarter. BP will make a loss this year, as a result of its withdrawal from Russia. Are you suggesting that taxpayers should fund its losses, or simply that Labour would drive companies into bankruptcy?
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@AJRichardsonMP You're 'proud' of plotting and manipulating two Prime Ministers out of office to inflict a two-time loser on the country, ensuring that Conservatives will be out of office for a generation at the next opportunity. Well done you.
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@DavidLammy @Keir_Starmer @BorisJohnson When retweeting a release from Labour HQ, it's often a good idea to change up the wording a little. As you were campaigning with Starmer in Hartlepool in breach of COVID regulations, did you accompany him on to Durham?
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@darrengrimes_ One was a farewell speech and a toast to a departing member of staff at a permitted workplace gathering, which was perfectly legal. The other was an illegal social event for 30 people, where regulations limited campaigners to no more than 2 indoors, at any time.
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@HumzaYousaf "Muh...racism" isn't the magic shield to deflect due criticism of your behaviour that you might imagine. What are you trying to avoid today - contempt of a public inquiry, stealing from taxpayers, support for terrorism or just your general unfitness to hold public office?
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@AmbroseTwit @AnushkaAsthana @pritipatel No. She reminded a senior civil servant that Government ministers determine policy, not him. In this case, a manifesto policy which no-one, let alone the civil service, should be obstructing by using their own failure to do the necessary work.
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@TerryReintke Which part of 'no thanks' are you finding particularly hard to understand?
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@jonsopel @thehuwedwards The sudden attack of morality is somewhat surprising.
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@NickBoles As for increasing defence budgets, most EU countries have some way to go to meet the minimum NATO requirement of 2% of GDP.
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@MammothWhale @Jay_Sutherland_ @HumzaYousaf He's holding prayers in a Scottish government building. Bute House is not his own home. It's entirely inappropriate.
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@Ed_Miliband There was no manifesto promise to maintain a moratorium on fracking. "Labour will ban x, raise taxes on y, condemn the country to energy blackouts and spend like drunken sailors on pointless policies" Not really selling the idea of a Labour government, tbh.
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@MatthewStadlen Local elections don't decide which party leads the country. And given Labour's record of bankrupting councils/setting the most expensive rates of council tax, it's probably not time to vote Labour.
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@mrdanwalker @trussliz Most would say that a politicised BBC is a far greater danger. Physician, heal thyself.
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@ArchRose90 Curious to know whether Shola, as a member of Nigerian royalty, has been asked for reparations for her family's slavery-related wealth?
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