OK, everyone. I think it’s time I told my Boris Johnson story. It’s a story about the time as foreign secretary where Johnson committed a straightforward resigning offence, got caught out, then got away with it. Thread.

RT @maitlis: This is absolutely spot on 💯.

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RT @owenjonesjourno: Labour has been trying to out-Farage Farage for a long time. The consequences?. They’ve shifted the political convers….

RT @sebastiansalek: Reform isn’t a political party. It’s a corporate lobbying firm. The business model is simple. Wealthy elites pay Farag….

RT @owenjonesjourno: Yes, this really is the Israeli Defence Minister threatening a plague to kill the firstborn children of Yemen. Not a….

RT @ryangrim: Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap of striking a hospital and then waiting 17 minutes until rescue workers gathered and….

RT @jonfavs: Senior government official declares the opposition party domestic extremists as military and masked federal agents are deploye….

RT @RamAbdu: Live on air… Israel bombs civil defense teams as they try to retrieve the body of journalist Hossam Al-Masri, killed in an Isr….

RT @TVietor08: What complete and total bullshit. The IDF has bombed hospitals, medical facilities, and ambulances with total impunity since….

RT @karl_fh: An MP who helped a property developer cheat taxpayers out of £45 million posturing as a patriot because he stuck a flag on a l….

RT @bencsmoke: i’m old enough to remember people on here categorically denying israel would *ever* attack a hospital….

RT @carolecadwalla: The targeting & killing of journalists in Gaza & the failure of the media to show collective solidarity & to take colle….

RT @DPJHodges: Just to be clear. To believe Lucy Connolly's defenders you have to also believe the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, t….

RT @BWallArthur: Obsessed at the fact she's writing this from the Muslim country she's moved to to avoid British taxes 🤡🤣 .

While the world stands by and does absolutely nothing.

RT @ZoeJardiniere: The reports from Gaza are again so harrowing it feels like just listening it is a nightmare. Unthinkable to be living it….

RT @FisherAndrew79: You know this isn't true because none of the people who peddle this lie ever give up work to live their mythical better….

RT @HumzaYousaf: We need to treat Israel as we did apartheid South Africa. Under Netanyahu Israel has become a rogue nation that breaches….

You can argue in good faith that the public interest was not best served by sending Connolly to jail. You cannot argue in good faith that she is some kind of free-speech martyr or saint. What she said was vile and disgusting in every way. Only a racist would treat her as a hero.

RT @maitlis: “Anglosphere”. Don’t kid yourself that when they’ve finished with asylum seekers everything will be fine. They just move on t….

RT @ahtralfie: It’s quite funny how the same people who spent the last 10 years moaning about virtue signalling and meaningless gestures ar….

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