Enid Shelmerdine
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She/her. Socialist, ex-Labour. Retired journalist, enjoy a good story; telly addict; theatregoer. Waiting for the Ocado man. All views/comments my own
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I have the utmost respect for British Jews showing support for Palestinians. It can't be easy, when all around are accusing marchers of antisemitism.
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“We came minutes away from disaster,” said one senior Labour official. “Thank God for Lindsay Hoyle."
Corrupt as fuck, the lot of them.
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I feel as if I'm going mad, watching people being slaughtered, day after day; tiny children blown to bits, the ones who survive shivering and traumatised beyond all healing. It fills my every waking moment, haunts my dreams. Powerless amid the hellscape.
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I want every one of these LFI shithouses gone. Starting with Nandy.
In October Lisa Nandy was asked about Starmer saying Israel has the right to cut off power & water to Gaza & she said he'd clarified what he meant. The interviewer points out it took him 9 days to do that & asks if Labour will apologise. Nandy said no
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The Irish are putting Britain to shame with their support for Gaza and denunciation of genocidal Israel. What are people not seeing about Netanyahu's slaughter battalions?
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"There was a sustained standing ovation from the packed hall. I learnt later that Corbyn gets this kind of reaction just about anywhere he goes – it was not a one-off by a long shot – but there is little or no media coverage of this."
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This is brilliant. Starmer's been handled with kid gloves by interviewers for far too long. The guy's a total dud.
It's an absolute car crash interview for Starmer. Martin Geisler left him without a name, exposing him as a totalitarian. Democracy dies with Labour.
#DontVoteLabour
#NeverVoteConservative
#ScottishIndependence2024
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WTF is Hoyle on this terror porn trip? Why are any of them? Absolutely obscene.
“You can still smell in the air death.”
@CommonsSpeaker
, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, describes the horrific scene at kibbutz Kfar Aza.
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@BBCNewsnight
Somebody put a muzzle on that attack dog. Absolutely despicable behaviour from Wark. Aggression off the scale. Who the hell does she think she is?
Francesca Albanese completely destroying Kirsty Wark & the media’s ridiculous narrative that to point out Israeli war crimes means you’re ‘advocating for the Palestinians’.
We really need to see more of this!
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I rejoined
@UKLabour
in 2015 after seeing how badly
@Ed_Miliband
was treated by factions in the party - only a fraction of the shit heaped on Corbyn, but Ed knows what they can do. To now pile on Starmer's AS bandwagon to publicly defame Corbyn is abhorrent and indefensible.
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If you want to know the time, ask a policeman. It's time to open your fucking eyes to what's been happening to this country while you've been swallowing media lies about a jam-making pensioner and pouring hatred on desperate people in dinghies.
#Coronation
#NotMyKing
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Fucking Ellman and her "anti-zionism is antisemitism" What are you doing
@Channel4News
giving airtime to people at the forefront of the
#Antisemitism
scam to unseat Corbyn? They lie as much as the Israel spokesmen you continue to platform. Utterly despicable.
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Sad day,
@JohnEdwards33
but it's their loss. What a shabby way to treat people. Best of luck, but I can't see you needing it. xx
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I've just emailed Nick Brown, Labour Chief Whip, about John Woodcock's appalling behaviour yesterday in calling Corbyn a liar in the HoC. Have also put together a resolution for CLP, urging it to condemn those MPs repeatedly trying to undermine the elected leader.
#EnoughIsEnough
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Bloody marvellous. Bet he wishes he'd flown now, like Rishi.
“War Criminal!”
Labour leader Keir Starmer is met by protesters as he arrives in Glasgow.
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"In light of the facts that she has not issued an adequate apology and seems unlikely to do so, and that she was a big supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, I don’t think she should be allowed to run again as a Labour candidate'."
Who the actual fuck is this guy?
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This could be Netanyahu speaking. Utterly appalling from a British MP. He's owned completely and needs to be got rid of, sharpish.
Keir Starmer explains why calling for a ceasefire is wrong.
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“We know we’ve lost the Muslim vote and at the very least their trust. The Muslim community is no longer a safe voter base for us because of how we initially responded to the war.”
Keith has seriously fucked up. Make the buggers sweat.
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Tens of thousands. Tens of dozens is nearer the mark.
Tens of thousands fill Trafalgar Square, demanding the immediate release of the over 130 hostages who have now spent 100 days in Hamas captivity.
#BringThemHome
#StandWithIsrael
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What thefuck does this actually mean?
Wordplay games 4 months too late, hod will not forgive them
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You can only laugh at the absolute clusterfuck Starmer's Labour has brought upon itself with the antisemitism scam used against Corbyn now coming back to bite them on the arse.
Starmer engulfed in second labour antisemitism row after Rochdale by-election furore
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When you think you can't love someone more . . .
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Blank, daft faces of Nandy and Kendall. Can barely organise a cogent thought between them. At the forefront of their tiny minds just a flashing neon light saying CAREER. What an absolute shower of shite Starmer's party is. Get 'em all sacked.
A compilation of how senior Labour figures refused to support the upholding of international law as Israel killed 10,000 Palestinians in a month of bombing. 👇
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"Jews like me, who are opposed to Israel’s policy and who condemn its war on Gaza, are complicit in antisemitism, they say, and therefore are unwelcome on the march. A march which aims to make Jews feel safe and heard and seen. Well, some Jews."
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Incredibly moving. And it will upset the gammon no end.
Incredible moment. Praying for the Palestinians outside Downing St in London
#Freepalestine
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Oh fuck, Jess Phillips! Why is it always these gobs-on-a-stick who are brought out to speak for Labour? "Party can't be seen as game-playing," says the woman who never does anything but.
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Wes is not right, is he? Look at those eyes!
This man wants to be in charge of our NHS, we can’t let that happen!
Ilford North, you know what to do!
*Turn the volume up 😱
#BoycottLabour
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"One Labour MP on the left said the U-turn would be 'the straw that breaks the camel’s back', sparking condemnation from all wings of the party. They said it would have people asking: 'What is the point of Labour?'." Finally.
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Wow, spine-tingling. How many people like this are there in Westminster? Count them on one hand.
This clip of South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor is well worth watching to
understand how the SA govt sees the ICJ case.
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Blair looks evil, Starmer just looks stupid.
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@HarrietClugston
And what if you kill her, will that have been worth it for a couple of days away?
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There'll be dancing in the streets if Jess is thrown out.
"Well I'd lose my seat!"
Labour’s
@jessphillips
suggests pro-Palestine independent Akhmed Yakoob could be a threat to her if the West Midlands mayoral results were repeated at the General Election, arguing that Israel-Gaza is a “massive issue” among her constituents
#Peston
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Blimey, she's not aging well after her days as a Blair babe. Parachuted into Bolton West and continued living in Wapping. Religious homophobe who left Parliament because she didn't like Corbyn as leader. Sod 'em all.
Ruth Kelly, spokesperson for the profiteering privatised water industry, draws on her experience as a Labour govt minister to attack the idea of nationalisation, before concluding "shareholders stand ready to invest hundreds of billions in the water sector to really improve it"
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God, Starmer's just shite, isn't he? You could "almost" feel sorry for him. How on earth did he hold down the CPS job?
Starmer goes full Alan Partridge in bizarre vacant answer to a simple question - ‘What does Labour stand for?’
He just produces word salad after word salad doesn’t he!
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Jenny Murray is 70. She's had a decent job at the BBC for 33+ years and has walked straight into another, highly paid job as a DM columnist. These people don't speak for you, or in any way represent you.
Has it occurred to the Daily Mail that when it gets the BBC it wants — shrunken, shrivelled, servile — it will have cut off its supply of new columnists?
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Absolutely sick of the site of this bunch. What use are they to any of us?
Queen Camilla is taking a break.
“She’s had a very gruelling year” 😂says Andrew Pierce.
As Kevin says “it’s not like she’s working on a construction site or working as a hospital cleaner”
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Oh do fuck off
@PeoplesMomentum
with your too little, too late, pissing roadshow. You blew it. The
@socialistcam
blew it. You simply weren't there when you were needed.
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Why is this woman raising a petition against her own party's policy, agreed by conference? What don't these people understand? Loyalty, for starters. Off you go, Ange. Not wanted on voyage.
Still time to sign my petition. We need to get the message over to Jeremy Corbyn that Labour members and supporters want a
#PeoplesVote
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There's a special place in hell for people who are nasty to/about Michael Rosen.
Hi Victoria (as you block me, this is the only way I can reply to you)
It's not my favourite topic. Writing is my favourite topic. I know that many did not live. I've tried many, many times to draw attention to the fact and try to talk about my own illness in order to do that.
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@knowmium
@EnglerYves
No need to read a book,
#Genocide_in_Gaza
is playing out in front of our eyes on the news every night.
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"The 2% was a single abstention. Not one person spoke against the motion. Although carefully worded not to say they will actively campaign for him, the subtext is clear."
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Biden now frighteningly unhinged. Doesn't seem to have a clue what's going on or what what he's saying. Who's controlling him, giving him his lines?
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This needs to be got across to all workers who are fobbed off by the divide-and-rule tactics of politicians and media. Nobody doing vital blue-collar jobs is sufficiently rewarded: posties, NHS staff, fire officers, carers, shop workers, farm labourers, binmen, transport staff...
#MickLynch
on
#r4today
makes the best point I've heard in years. "The price of Labour in this country is too low & it needs to be adjusted" so that people can live, pay rent, bills, buy food, clothes for their kids, and keep the home warm this winter, every winter.
#FIFAWorldCup
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"MP Jon Cruddas questions readiness for power of leader with few ties to movement’s roots or ideology." Ain't that the truth?
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I hate this describing of people as mother, grandfather, whatever. To hammer home the point that she had no other worth beyond having children, they use it again in the standfirst.
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"Many Labour members may forget how quickly and easily our party slid into the hard left abyss. This horrendous part of Labour party history must never be forgotten."
Louise Ellman: Mad as a snake and twice as venomous.
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I can't watch the news anymore. The one-sided reporting and the slanted use of language makes me so angry. It doesn't help that at least half the "Israelis" interviewed have American accents and mindsets. The Great Satan indeed.
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"There are growing concerns that Anonyvoter may have been abused on an industrial scale to rig internal Labour contests."
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Fucking Akehurst given airtime on
@Channel4News
says he's not somebody in charge of
@UKLabour
- so why interview him?
#CorbynWasRight
#StarmerOut
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"Some critics say the failure to take Uxbridge and South Ruislip suggests Labour's big national opinion poll lead has more to do with disillusionment with the government than enthusiasm for change."
Gosh, who knew?
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"In the end, Labour’s opposition day amendment passed with 286 votes thanks to Tory MPs. The Conservatives can now claim that Labour MPs refused to back plans to reduce sewage discharge, as their own motion originally called for."
Bloody fools
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She needn't have bothered with cosmetic surgery, the new hairstyle was enough to complete her Eva Braun look.
Jess Phillips turns Palestinian suffering into a photo-op...
And a platform to declare her loyalty to Keir Starmer.
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@cathynewman
@TerryM86539288
@UKLabour
@snp
@Keir_Starmer
If they've got the guts, and any sense at all, they'll resign the Labour whip and sit as an independent group together with Corbyn, Abbott, and others.
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@simonharris_mbd
With the extra winter fuel allowance last year, I bought a smart TV for the bedroom, reasoning that snug in bed on a winter's afternoon was the best place for a pensioner to be to deprive the energy company of their extortionate charges.
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Why on earth should the Greens stand aside for Starmer? I hope they stand in my constituency. Hell, I'd even post leaflets for them.
@BritainElects
Why did the greens stand in this seat?
We could have ousted the tories out their previous leaders seat.
But no the greens had to stand and lose their deposit and keep the tories in.
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@Kalista63
@ScouseGirlMedia
@Jasmin_Beckett
@EmilyThornberry
Jasmin is Labour First and so duty bound to criticise anything from the Corbyn camp. And she's not averse to playing dirty.
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@0Calamity
@meatfreemeals1
@UKLabour
Despicable. Israel and the usual suspects here - JLM, BoD, LFI - have him in a headlock from which he doesn't have the strength or the will to free himself and
@UKLabour
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"He has been a brilliant Monarch." He's done fuck all. What the hell are these people on?
Such a terrible shock to hear that The King has cancer elsewhere. He has been a brilliant Monarch and I hope that the treatment brings him back to health.
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"Unlike Sir Keir, [the mayors] already have a mandate from the general public, and feel they are entitled to do what they think is in the best interest of their electorate.
"We do our job better when it’s place first, rather than party first," Burnham.
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I wish SinnFein MPs would take their Westminster seats. We can't keep relying on the SNP to ask the questions Labour won't.
Irish parliamentarian Matt Carthy (
@sinnfeinireland
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Turn on TV for news, met by Keir "Mr Charisma" Starmer, wanking on about working people. God, he's boring. Seems to be in a near-empty room again, staffers and toadies roped in to make him look human rather than the paranoid android he is. Don't let him anywhere near power.
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"The grownups are in charge, and they can give directions to the local food bank."
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Absolute zinger of a letter to Starmer. This should become the norm for leftists quitting, whether by force or by choice. The time for being polite to these shysters is long past. Give 'em hell.
Another day, another termination: Diane Pearson was an active member of Keir Starmer’s constituency party. On 7/7 she received formal notice of “Termination of Membership of the Labour Party”.Read her heartfelt letter to her MP about the Party & its leader
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Another one playing the victim. Invoking Alastair Campbell in your defence probably isn't the win she thinks it is.
The Greens should be ashamed of themselves for this behaviour
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Fucking Tracy-Ann O muscling in on Baddiel's pitch, complaining about a non-Jewish actor playing Leonard Bernstein, with a prosthetic nose - even though Bernstein's family have said they're perfectly happy with it.
@Channel4News
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Together we can build a Britain worthy of those who died, and those who inspired us all this week in
#Manchester
#CorbynSpeech
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JWS, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, has reportedly deleted this. Keep reposting it. Don't let him ever forget it.
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Jeremy Hunt! Because he did such a good job with health. Couldn't make it up.
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They've got his number. Just laughing at him now.
"In essence what you're saying is the difference between [Labour and the Conservatives] is tone. It's about how you deal with things, but you wouldn't do anything materially different"
Jo Coburn to Wes Streeting
#PoliticsLive
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Now, what was I saying earlier, about Labour left MPs forming an independent bloc? There's 41 good ones here, who could do a fair bit of damage to Starmer's "moderate" cabal if they worked together.
I've signed
@zarahsultana
's amendment to the King's Speech calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
We must end the bloodshed, allow desperately needed aid to reach those most in need, and create space for real negotiations.
That's why we need a
#CeasefireNow
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@malspal
@inzyrashid
@SkyNews
Why do you think he's "walking next to" a black female? (And she's walking behind him).
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@MichaelEast1983
And Rigby's family have asked repeatedly that his memory not be used in this way.
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Doubly goodbecause it's happening in Wes Weasley's backyard.
The children are rising up for Palestine ✊🏽 hundreds of students and parents from all over Ilford walked out and came down to Redbridge Town Hall this morning to make their voices heard
#SchoolStrikeForPalestine
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
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She's not right in the head, is she? Why would she let herself be photographed like that?
Siri, show me a seriously unhinged Cun t
on a tax payer funded trip to
#Rwanda
#RwandaNotInMyName
#suella
#braverman
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@DarrenOfAlbany
@DavidLammy
@HackneyAbbott
A very sick joke indeed. But I suppose the world looks different from the perspective of a right-wing Millwall fan
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Oh, here we go. Another fantasy policy - AKA lie - from Starmer. Where's he going to find these "super teachers", and how easy will it be to get them to relocate to "struggling areas"? And for how much? Less pie in the sky, more pigs might fly. Start counting down to the U-turn.
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@LabourNorth
@KiMcGuinness
No, she won't. You abandoned all chance of unity when you denied Jamie Driscoll a place on the selection ballot. Game on!
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Utterly sickening. Let kids go without, let the old die in cold homes, infrastructure crumble, but always money for weapons of war. It's just one big hard-on for these inadequates, desperate to be accepted by the bigger boys.
Labour's commitment to NATO and the UK's nuclear deterrent is unshakeable.
Labour will see through the build of four new Dreadnought submarines at Barrow and undertake any future upgrades necessary to maintain our Continuous at-sea Deterrent.
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@RMCunliffe
You're doing it again. Even the IDF says they know nothing about this, and they're not exactly known for their even-handedness. Don't post stuff you know nothing about. Journalism, eh? Not what it was
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Deliberately insulting by Starmer. Clearly, he wants them out.
I'm told Keir Starmer told Muslim Labour MPs at a meeting earlier today that he refuses to apologise for his remarks on LBC endorsing the collective punishment of Palestinians.
One source: "No movement on calling for a ceasefire. Felt tokenistic and has made matters worse."
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@lukemcgee
I knew her 30 years ago on the Independent. She's always had an inflated opinion her own worth. Laughable.
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@SteKearsley
Horrifying. The first thing I do when I get in the car is to lock the doors - whatever the time of day or night - after a complete stranger once tried to get in when I was stopped in traffic.
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Just popped up in my FB memories, if anybody doubts the media's role in undermining Corbyn.
Leadershhip campaign launch at the Lowry, Salford, 2016.
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@CllrTKerr
Chasing down? That's not true, is it? If Starmer can't cope with a bit of heckling, he's definitely in the wrong job. But we know that already. Absolutely laughable that some Tory nonentity thinks his condemnation of public action is worth airing.
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@washingtonpost
Considerably more than seven people have been detained. There were 20 alone arrested simply for wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts. The whole thing's a ludicrously expensive farce.
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"The deal involved freeing children, women, elderly and sick people ... in exchange for a five-day ceasefire, but the Israeli government turned this down and demonstrated its rejection with the launch of the ground offensive." And there we have it.
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