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Socialist fogey. Prefers cats to people. Either stand up for things or shut up complaining. Populariser of the phrase 'these fucking people'.
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Joined September 2010
Hi. How are you all? Me, I’m pretty sick at the moment, I have been for about five weeks, and I don’t know why.
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"Nobody was suspended from their party for breaking the whip between 1983 and 2019". This is quite the stat if it's right.
@AbdiDuale_ Was this true before July 2024, or not? Nobody was suspended from their party for breaking the whip between 1983 and 2019 - and the fact that the Tories did it a few times between 2019 and 2022 isn't a recommendation.
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Whwt would you get for, say, organising an insurrection where frontbenchers resigned on the hour for two days.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has suspended Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Neil Duncan Jordan for "organising on the welfare rebellion and other insurrection"
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I thought this was the whole point of knighthoods.
We are run by very strange people, many of whom have cheerfully sacrificed the country for a knighthood.
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What do you think will be the outcome when you keep doing this. Who do you think will be the political beneficiaries.
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Counterpoint: no it fucking doesn't.
Very pleased to see the government continuing the £1million investment in chess that we launched when I was Prime Minister. Chess isn’t just a great game. It also builds the kind of skills young people need to thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive world.
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I was thinking what this reminded me of, and it's the first of the EHRC's hostile findings against Labour (an organisation's responsibility for statements by its officials) in so far as it's a standard I've never seen applied before and don't expect to see applied in the future.
BBC Gaza documentary breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose child narrator was son of Hamas official, review finds
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Someday, somebody will write a book detailing all the incredible, dishonest nonsense that appeared in the media during Corbyn's time. It will be mocked and panned by the critics if it is reviewed at all, and everything in it will be true.
The "Labour Antisemitism" Panorama had an interview where a Labour staffer said that a member had asked him "where are you from, are you from Israel?" and an *actual recording* of that same interview showed that she said "where are you from? I mean, which branch are you from?".
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Nurse came to check my blood pressure a bit earlier, said it was unusually high and she'll check again later. If it's gone down by then I'm not sure how I'm going to explain "you came in while I was playing rapid chess on my phone and I was worried I was going to lose on time".
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It's a funny thing but when a bunch of soon-to-be-ex-Labour-MPs formed a soon-to-be-defunct political party early in 2019, I don't seem to recall a load of screaming about how they were splitting the Labour vote.
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British political journalism: the shameless interviewing the shameless about the shameless.
‘There’s a kernel of truth in everything Trump says’. My interview with the UK's man in Washington Peter Mandelson in today's Sunday Times . ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @thetimes.
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I had forgotten, or more likely never knew, that Howard Jacobson played such a contemptible (if minor) role in this, and I confess I could not be less surprised.
My friend @yasmin_khan on the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes by the police, the lies they told about it, and the long fight for truth 👇 . It makes me so angry to this day. Thank you to the family and Yasmin for refusing to be silenced.
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On my tenth day in hospital after arriving in Urgencias expecting at worst an overnight stay. Considering marking this out in five-bar gates on the wall.
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I've read a few reports on this and while I am seeing the word "condemned" a lot I am having less fortune with "arrested" and "charged".
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When I was in the Cubs I was on the front cover of Scouting magazine.
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Does anybody think this would be happening in a party which was democratically accountable to its members? What conclusions do you draw from this?.
“The PLP office has literally become a public affairs agency,” one MP said. “The wording is genuinely shocking.” .
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And yet for me, growing up in Seventies, the assumption was that things would get better in every way. There were crises all the time but nevertheless, it was generally thought that people would work less, retire earlier, live easier, longer and more secure lives.
I don't remember any politicians telling me I can have it all, or indeed anything. Almost my entire adult life has been all the parties telling me that things we used to have (affordable housing, stable jobs, free uni, an occasional visit to the dentist) are completely impossible.
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RT @RopesToInfinity: I don't remember any politicians telling me I can have it all, or indeed anything. Almost my entire adult life has bee….
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As it happens, as a student I once shouted, from the back of a meeting he was addressing, "you're a bastard, Tebbit, but one day we're going to get you". I don't do that stuff any more and to my mind it was more than a bit OTT, but I can't honestly say I'm that ashamed either.
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