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Originally from Midlands. ECommerce specialist, founder. Mad about movies, games, dogs, politics. Anti Brexit. Uber geek. Views my own. RTs not endorsement.

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@RishiSunak None of these were ACTUAL policies by Central Government.
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@Keir_Starmer I get why you continue to appeal to bigots to attempt to win an election. And I support you in nearly every way. But Brexit is wrong. It was always wrong. And while I’m not expecting you to call for rejoining. I do expect you to have a more comprehensive plan than we’ll be nicer…
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@toryboypierce @CadburyUK Yes. Because Jesus was in a giant Easter Egg when he left the cave.
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@KateWilton1 @Dominic2306 @metpoliceuk No point. Apparently the police don't investigate crimes that happen in the past. Which, having been a victim of a robbery a couple of years back, I can confirm....
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@LBC @AliMirajUK What a ridiculous question.
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@nephro_maniac I spent £5,500 on Meg to have an operation for an infected womb / to clear out the puss from her organs. She’s still alive and doing much, much better.
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@happy_foxxy @darrengrimes_ Indeed. The women occasionally win games.
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@SuellaBraverman Rubbish. Just exclude students from the numbers. The overall government shouldn’t be setting university targets that they beat and celebrate, and then pull the rug from under them. It’s a massive part of soft power for the U.K., and temporary migration. Bringing in more money…
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@poorscousertom £12 is totally fair. If he’s near Brondesbury Park / Kilburn, he has a customer :)
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@Peston Wasn’t the last lab that cost £5M to maintain each year, and worked with Oxford University, just privatised / sold to a US company for £200M? We now have no vaccine production facilities that are state owned.
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@NewhamIndParty Horrendous. You sicken me. She has kids with her. This level of harassment is unacceptable. She has as much power over what Israel does as you do and like the rest of Labour have called for a ceasefire. However this conflict is in a different country. And Labour is not even in…
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@EmpressThea527 Club world is business class. Seems perfectly valid for a shadow Secretary of State
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@DanielaNadj Of course people know that. Gaza was handed to Palestinians in 2005. Unfortunately Hamas came in and murdered their political opponents and then spent the more than $1bn in aid, on weapons, rather than political reforms and the development of the zone. Egypt restrict access to…
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@phughes76340646 Indeed. Not with that flag though. The one in the background / Union flag. He also then went on to push for European unity, a United States of Europe and indeed helped to find the European Court of Human Rights. To create a base level of rights across Europe.
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@DavidAHoward @DaleVince Pretty sure a lot of Brexit voters, statistically died during covid and through natural causes. Many more have changed their mind. Democracy is not a snapshot in time. It’s a process.
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@JuliaHB1 @Keir_Starmer No, time and place. Basic decency would suggest that if the very brave and forgiving mother of a murdered child is sitting in the gallery. Take a break from doubling down on the same rhetoric that caused the death of her child. This isn't about a Trans issue. This is basic…
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@Peston It’s a real shame. I like her. But Starmer, the EU, US, U.K. and others are right. Phillips and others are wrong. Just like with the marches. It’s ridiculous to think Israel will take any notice of what the leader of the opposition in the U.K. thinks. And Israel will NEVER allow…
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@LBC @RachelSJohnson £600 a week left after paying all bills; that amount would add up quite quickly into like £30K of savings a year. Most folks have no savings.
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@RayOfPitchBlack @LozzaFox London is amazing. Best city in the world. People from all over the U.K. and world can come here and make something of themselves, blend into community. I grew up in the Midlands and never felt safer than I do in London.
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@_HenryBolton When the Irish government analysed productivity. It saw slight improvements in working from home. Hybrid work is the answer.
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@ThatAlexWoman London is the best city in the world.
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@AyoCaesar I grew up in the Midlands. Was attacked twice ahead of my GCSEs. I moved to London aged 21. And I’ve never looked back. I’ve served in a jury in a murder trial in the Old Bailey; I’ve seen the worse of humanity. But London is the greatest city in the world. And I still feel very…
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@BenJamminWalker Fair play mate. I too was a young Tory once. Not for the last several years and never again.
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Even after all this time. #Babylon5 remains the gift that keeps on giving @straczynski
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@OliviaUtley Totally agree. The original student loan scheme was government backed through the Student Loans Company at very low interest. I left with debts of about £9K, and paid back through working. This should not have been sold off and privatised without safeguards; students are being…
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@ImVengeanceBat My mum and your mum have the same name. We’re best friends now. Yep. Really deep that.
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@Jeremy_Hunt Please sit down mate. You just told us taxes were going down while actually putting them up.
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@LBC @IainDale Hate it when people let perfect become the enemy of the good. Typical of Corbynistas. Getting an improvement of what we have now, even if it’s small will get us out of orbit of the drain we are currently circulating.
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@AvaSantina Yeah. It does feel like we’re getting a lot of moralising like it’s the 1950s. Assuming nothing else comes out, I’m not seeing the issue. That’s what the unmatch / block option is for. Just a cash in.
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@RMCunliffe Before Christmas I tried 111 for the first time in 10 years. I was throwing up blood all day. After about 8 hours, my friend insisted we ring 111. She was on hold for 2 hours before we gave up. Thankfully we have a telemedicine client in Nigeria. I spoke to a doctor within a…
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@NileGardiner You believe in free speech until someone says something that you don’t agree with.
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@afneil Lot of anger in the original tweet. I think Brexit was always a stupid idea. However there’s no need for personal attacks. Ultimately it’s a viewpoint. I also can’t stand Marmite. But I don’t shout at people who eat it. We’ve lost the art of agreeing to disagree.
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@marcbennetts1 @peterjukes But they also miss out in Russian history books, some of the brutality of Peter the Great, and the fact that the Soviet Union and the Nazis worked together at the beginning of WW2, carving up Eastern Europe.
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@AllisonPearson How? He’s a man of God. How did you think he was going to stand? He is the definition of morality.
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@POTUS Good move. Guaranteed in the EU already
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@shay3322 I mean. The Romans were quite solid at their peak? The Spartans? The confederates lost the only war they fought in….
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@Peston This is mad stuff. Other than being blatantly in the interests of Tory donors. Is there ANY real evidence turning the U.K. into a tire fire, environmentally; will win additional votes?
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@piersmorgan 100% agree. A horrendous homophobic witch-hunt. Totally disproportionate. The coworker was in his 20s. Not underage. And despite intensive scrutiny for years. Nothing has ever been found to suggest the contrary.
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@louie_french @Councillorsuzie @ObscaTories @bexleynews @PeterTFortune @CityHallTories The circa 5% of drivers who actually pay ULEZ you mean…. Most Londoners support ULEZ. Introduced by a Tory mayor.
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@DimensionsInJen We're all different people all through our lives. And that's OK, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
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@kitmalthouse Not adjusted for inflation and includes stuff that passes through U.K. airports and ports on way to their destination. If you take out gas etc we don’t produce here, we don’t even make the top 10.
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@NoLieWithBTC Isn’t that basically the same thing the Margaret Thatcher did in the U.K.? The Poll Tax? Everyone pays the same. It was a disaster. A single mum with three kids in a flat in Leeds paying the same as a multi millionaire. It’s unworkable and lets the rich off the hook.
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@sophielouisecc Of course not. Masks protect other people. Not really yourself. I wouldn’t expect you to protect other people.
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@AndyGJBurge @GregHands A joke letter routine started by a Tory treasury minister decades ago. When handing over to a Labour one.
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@rachelvscott @RpsAgainstTrump Leave him alone! It couldn’t have been easy growing up on an Indian reservation as a Jew-ish gay man, who is also a Christian and wanted for crimes in another country.
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@ksorbs Clearly fake. A billion people have taken the same vaccines worldwide. Only in America is this a thing.
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@moneillsf Good for you Michelle. The best chance to achieve a majority for a United Ireland is through peaceful negotiation over time. Seen the royals show respect for you, this is vice versa. I’m on the fence on united Ireland, or staying as a semi independent Provence. But it’s for the…
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@AshleaSimonBF Absolute propaganda. We are a nation of immigrants. Ever since the Romans onwards. Elizabeth I mentioned the fact that so many people of colour were in London. We’ve always been a melting pot, then every 50 years or so; the mob listen to racists like you.
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@RpsAgainstTrump David Brent
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@darrengrimes_ Exaggerate much?
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@GallifreyHub Each to their own. I thought it was the best episode in years.
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@andrewhesselden They can’t import the chemicals any more from the EU. Certainly not cheaply. The government agreed they could do that. Plus you have Liz Truss’ time at Defra, allowing farmers to dump straight into the rivers, which is a big chunk of the poison going into the sea.
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@archer_rs That’s very harsh. I know what you mean though. I lost the will to live helping my dad who lives 100 miles away, to get a message from his phone for a discount. In the end we gave up and bought a new one. There is a real digital divide.
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@Cigarettes_R_Us The soundtrack. Maybe bumblebee talking. Arthur at the beginning. The bonkers that is Sir Anthony Hopkins
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@darrengrimes_ How about not paying his people during the pandemic, and telling them to use food banks and rely on government hand outs? The poor pay levels. The breach in the data protection act, where he handed millions of peoples details to the leave campaign for micro targeting. Then during…
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@Telegraph Oh such a shame. Used to like Nigel Havers.
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@IndiaWilloughby @Keir_Starmer I’m torn on the delivery. But equally. I’m glad to see an electable Labour Party; I voted for Labour in both 2017 and 2019, but attempting to convince people to vote for them too was a nightmare. We need to not let perfect be the enemy of the good. Starmer is good overall.
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@sophielouisecc But we don’t. We are in a world of trading blocks. We’ve learned repeatedly through our history, that unless we are at the heart of Europe, we will be forever rocked by the whims of the continent. That doesn’t just mean wars. That means everything from culture to standards.…
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@furbabygirl @jessphillips To quote Fred Flinstone. Wilma!!! Seriously though. Erm what? Starmer’s mum was a nurse, his wife works in the NHS and his sister is a carer. If the worst thing he has ever done, is buy a field years ago, so his mum could rescue donkeys. He’s not a bad guy. I personally have…
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@JonathanTod_TFP The Tories always do this. They did this in Northern Ireland while opposing Home Rule. Causing a century of pain.
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@akjakalope Back in 2007, we were able to persuade Jon to do a series of Christmas blogs for us at Blockbuster. We ghost wrote them for him, and he rewrote all of them himself. Which was unexpected but lovely. However, the most heartbreaking one was Christmas week where he begged his…
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@TheOnlyEsta Yes. He is a criminal.
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@implausibleblog Very accurate. Impressive chap. Good for him.
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@chrisdmowrey @AmBoDe33 Fair play. Hopefully Gen Z’s can address the things that other generations have failed to do.
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@benonwine @CentralBylines Legend. I rejoined Labour to vote for her. Ahem. Then she dropped out so I moved to Lisa Nandy (Wes Streeting wasn’t standing)
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@MaryLTrump Giving Prince Andrew a run for his money
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@LordAshcroft What. The one property she had before she became a politician, after giving back by working as a care worker? The one she has legal advice saying that she doesn’t need to pay £1,500 on Capital Gains tax? I mean a GoFundMe would sort that in an instance. Some of the Tory front…
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@christopherhope Isn’t that basically Boris Johnson’s job?
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@RpsAgainstTrump Some of those folks are just waiting for their prescription
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@DPJHodges Mad stuff. The police are investigating. You got what you wanted. How is this still news given all else going on? You didn’t do these countdowns for the Tories that appear to have stolen millions as opposed to maybe made a minor mistake over 10 years ago. Such a non story.
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@jk_rowling Not the best look. A bit obsessed with picking on 0.5% of the population. The good points you raise are often overshadowed by stuff like this.
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@InternetInsider @jamescharles Naming and shaming James Charles himself like this is really unprofessional though. She is doing this to cause maximum damage and I genuinely feel sorry for him. Ultimately, he paid her to do a job. She could have left at any time.
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@historyinmemes What an amazing human being.
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@eggyfishmas @Femi_Sorry 100%. Whitty is a good man. A public servant.
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@Keir_Starmer What a brilliant ad. More of this please. Across all channels. Digital team are on fire this year.
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@standardnews I did mistake him for being a UKIP member when I first saw an interview. Instead he was with the nationalist / separatist party, also known as the Tories
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@WendtheWalker Barring the mostly black soldiers sent over by the Romans; those who fled the conquer of what became Spain, who had previously fled from Africa. The people who migrated here in the 1200s-1500s then again in the 1750s (Elizabeth Ist once commented how many black people were in…
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@sophielouisecc 40% drop in casualties in the 8 areas where trials. Voted for by all parties including the Tory leader in Wales. Who is now criticising it for political reasons. Opt out system for local authorities to exclude roads from the 20mph zone. Only for built up areas. Not seeing an…
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The Expanse Season 4 has been excellent. Best season yet @PrimeVideo #amazon #expanse #theexpanse @TheExpanseWR
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@lewis_goodall Same papers and folks singing Liz Truss’s mad policies and Brexit.
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@apocdreams @OwenJones84 Because that would mean he was electable?
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@BlightyUK British Easter. As opposed to like, Easter? Mad stuff.
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@ITVNewsPolitics @PennyMordaunt What the hell have the Tories been doing for years? Party over country constantly. The 5 families constantly fighting for position.
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@PoliticsJOE_UK Old white and racist. Little Englanders that believe spin
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@carolvorders Amazing. Thanks for continuing on social Carol. And doing what you are doing. You are an important voice.
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@wesstreeting @blairmcdougall Labour fixed the NHS before. They can do so again. Even if the Tories have rinsed us over the past several years.
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Lovely tribute to Sir David Amess today in Westminster. #SirDavidAmess #RIPDavidAmess #DavidAmess #DavidAmessMP
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@PolitlcsUK @MailOnline The same Rishi Sunak who has enriched his family and put taxes up over 20 times?
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I don’t get how @LBC can have Rachel Johnson on as a presenter currently. Invite her on as a guest, fair enough, but she is entangled in what happened this week at Number 10, to the extent that she even sacked Michael Gove for her brother. #Toryleadership #JohnsonOut
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Wow. @marinasirtis is amazing in #PicardSeason3 Her best performance in @StarTrekOnPPlus Given some really great material @TerryMatalas #StarTrekPicard #StarTrek
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@antmayer74 @spaceangel1964 @jessphillips And here is EVERYTHING that is wrong with the new Labour supporters since 2015. If you don't agree with me completely... you're a Tory!!! Ridiculous stuff. This is why Labour puts off more people than it attracts.
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@darrengrimes_ He’s horrendous and was a terrible President the first time around. He offers no solutions. Only division. America has done better since his departure.
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@Culture_Crit Inside Westminster Abbey is quite impressive
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RIP Alan Arkin. Amazing in pretty much everything. Including Captain Invincible. This is a nice pic with his son Adam (not mine) #ripAlanArkin
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@fuckyouiquit Looks great. Not very affordable.
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@Firlows Yes. Loved the episode. But this was poor. Would have been better to see ground buckle or shake / have sign of damage. Not just undo.
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