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Journalist (he, him) The New European; Author: How To Stop Fascism. Writes on geopolitics, economics, defence, Net Zero #SlavaUkraini
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Election summary using (the brilliant)
@ElectionMapsUK
... 1/ Labour's exam question: Can we take back working class votes lost in 2019 and win a General Election? Answer: Yes...
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The slander against Keir Starmer over the Savile case started in April 2020 on a far right Facebook page. It was spread by Politicalite. For
@DominicRaab
to defend Johnson quoting it is a disgrace. If you call yourself a Tory, how is this defensible?
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You know how Orban just won in Hungary? That's how Johnson plans to win here: suppress liberal media (C4); suppress opposition vote (voter ID); Russian cash (still pocketed); anti+LGBT; anti-migrant racism...
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Boris Johnson's "War cabinet" will spend at wartime levels on state propaganda. Because it's a war against you, the poor, the students, the old, the sick, the young families - oh and manufacturing. It's a war for greed and racism. Which side are you on?
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It's hard to see, following
@maitlis
speech, how BBC Chair Richard Sharp avoids calling an inquiry into Robbie Gibb's presence as an "agent" of the Conservative Party on the BBC board. After all, Sharp has only donated a mere £400k to the Tories.
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Laura Kuenssberg's now-weekly refrain as she interrupts Labour politicians: "we're running short of time". Who schedules the interviews? We had 30mins of Gove, 8 of Yvette Cooper
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Labour's
@lisanandy
just flattened both BBC and Sky attempts to throw mud at Starmer ... all public broadcasters now have to decide whether they'll go on playing the Tory/Mail game or actually start reporting politics
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Dido Harding has a job - to provide a Test and Trace service. She's failed. Serco has failed. Deloitte has failed. In a real free-market economy they would lose their contracts and their jobs. But Covid has created a social-welfare economy where only the elite can take part.
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Johnson held a massive, illegal drinks party in his garden 20.05.20 - searched my photos to see what I was doing that night: weeding my tiny garden, zooming my close family and going quietly crazy... because I obeyed the rules for weeks on end. You?
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Emily
@maitlis
is one of those rare people: a brilliant, impartial journalist who cares about communicating with the BBC's most precious possession - its audience. Cummings is a tw*t - but he keeps his job. Compare, contrast ...
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Close schools. National lockdown. Universal Basic Income until the virus is in retreat. Massive subsidies and stakes to keep business afloat. National mobilisation to stop NHS being overwhelmed - sounds radical now. Won't by mid-Jan.
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In major cities there have been immediate protests against Boris Johnson's coup. But that's just the start. He - and his elite backers and the dark money from far right America - just don't understand the British working class. He's started something he will not like the end of.
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I'm glad the BBC has adopted a policy labelling Trump an outright liar. In the interests of fairness and impartiality shouldn't this be applied to statements by other political leaders?
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The way BBC News is normalising Johnson's intent to break the law is truly shocking. What if Corbyn came out of his house and said "I'm going to break the law"? They'd chase him across Islington with a drone.
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If the BBC cared about its reputation for impartiality it would tonight have a doorstep camera outside
@trussliz
residence doorstepping her with the question - "why are you frightened of scrutiny?" - compare/contrast to how they treated Corbyn
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This is a breach of professional standards by any BBC programme editor who ordered this VT cut.
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Barnard castle trip is confirmed... what was denied yesterday by Johnson is actually true.
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I'm LOL at the UK journalists who have searched all 6x leaked trade documents for the phrase "we will privatise the NHS" and, not finding it, concluded there is no threat to do so. These documents are multidimensional dynamite. 💥💥💥
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I worked 13 years at the BBC. This will have been the result of direct pressure, exerted from the very top, on people whose only desire in life is become the next PR guru for Downing Street, or get an invite to Rupert Murdoch's parties 👇👇👇
The Prime Minister will be interviewed on tomorrow's Andrew Marr programme. Statement here.
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So basically it's not just that Cummings broke the rules of lockdown - it's that Boris Johnson knew and covered it up and a carapace of lies was published to give a false impression. Begs the question: did any journalists know and not report it?
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Morning, media students: this is a shot of Boris Johnson's launch event. Now watch last night's TV news coverage of it and repeat after me "I must not manufacture consent"....
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BBC exit poll predicts Tories to take 70+ seats. If so - a victory of the old over the young, racists over people of colour, selfishness over the planet. Scotland will leave UK. However it does not feel right compared to on-the-ground.
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So let's get this right: May offers talks. Corbyn says remove No Deal threat, then we talk. Within an hour, Hammond rings 330 businesspeople and promises to remove No Deal threat because May faces revolt in Cabinet. But Corbyn is the "wrecker". Tories lie thru their teeth.
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Sunak's career dying in real time ...
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The BBC News bosses clearly didn't watch the same debate as the one their colleagues actually staged - they picked the best of Johnson, the worst of Corbyn - so glad I quit years ago
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Labour's
@RachelReevesMP
- the Tories have not solved the cost of living crisis, they *are* the cost of living crisis... she's wiped the floor with Kwarteng.
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This is how Boris Johnson responded to the people who warned him about the risks of cutting the Fire Brigade before Grenfell... "Get Stuffed", should haunt this charlatan to the end of his career.
#GrenfellNeverAgain
@BorisJohnson
This is you directly telling a colleague at the townhall to “get stuffed” when he highlighted the lack of fire safety in housing was dangerous as a result of your cuts. This was just before
#Grenfell
... you are directly responsible for those that died that night.
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Man who stood for a seat in a transnational parliament finds out it is abroad...
#FuckwitParty
The insanity of the journey to the EU Parliament in Strasbourg . Eight plus hours . Four trains and a huge waste of taxpayers money . We the
@brexitparty_uk
must deliver and get us out of the EU
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One of the great moments leading up to tomorrow's denouement...
“As far as I’m aware she does not have any degree in economics.”
“I was and I remain a professor of economics.”
This is what happened when a Brexit Party MEP questioned the expertise of Green MEP Molly Scott Cato over post-Brexit trade.
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Labour will end tax breaks for private schools, raising £1.7bn to spend on teachers for state-run schools. The era of freemarket cruelty is coming to an end ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
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Blyth Valley - Tories win by 1,000, while 3,000 people vote for Greens and Libdems. Thanks a lot.
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I love that Corbyn walked out of the meeting because Umunna was there. Finally the elite are going to realise: Labour is an insurrection against neoliberalism, not part of your cheese and biscuits circuit...
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Let's get clear what the BBC got wrong over the Leeds incident. It relied on a single, partisan source with no corroborative evidence, providing right-wing newspapers with a BBC branded fake news story.
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Corbyn wins the second debate hands down: calm, coherent and briefed on the detail ...
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Imagine Corbyn's team did this on the eve of the election. The Tory sense of entitlement and invulnerability against the media is stunning ... and fed by the daily sycophancy this was a break from 👇🏽
Just Boris Johnson’s press secretary barging into a GMB reporter and then telling him to f*ck off.
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This moment will haunt Johnson - it was the moment the 26 pro-Brexit Labour MPs realised what a political price they would pay for supporting this liar and racist ...
Paula Sherriff makes an emotional call for the PM to stop using "offensive" and "inflammatory" language like "surrender act, betrayal, traitor" which she says often appears in death threats received by MPs.
Boris Johnson says he has "never heard such humbug in all my life."
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At 8pm, dutifully echoed by her mates in the billionaire run media,
@theresa_may
will yet again try to scam, scare and bully the British people into supporting her rubbish deal. Let's make our rejection trend
#MayMustGo
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Any Labour MP who votes for Boris Johnson's deal should have the whip withdrawn and a new candidate selected immediately. Johnson's deal is class warfare against the people you are here to represent.
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The only thing that shocked me about Corbyn-Johnson was the old racist Tories in the audience laughing when Corbyn said climate is the most important issue. If you're under 65 - understand; the stories think it's funny to let our planet die...
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To be fair to
@theresa_may
and give her credit: she's achieved f*** all in two years and will go down as the worst PM in modern history
#BrexitShambles
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Let's get this to 10m views by 5 May...
Boris Johnson’s shameless care homes defence that he “didn’t know covid could be transmitted asymptomatically” has been blown apart by this new footage
Every UK news show should play this in the morning
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Wow how did Britain keep Nissan so onside during the 2016 Brexit clusterfuck? £80m of covert state aid - how's that free market ideology doin' for ya?
@Conservatives
- while starving people are forced to beg for work?
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Here's the Corbyn speech that Sky ran in full and which BBC TV news is suppressing
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I'm in Parliament Square getting ready to begin the resistance to Boris Johnson's power grab. Join me.
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What's the constitutional status of a man on the taxpayer's payroll in Downing St giving a press conference? On whose behalf will he be answering questions? If he lies what standards body will hold him to account?
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Losing North Shrops by a few hundred votes you could have put down to the Owen Paterson effect ... this abject Tory collapse is down to Johnson and his corrupt, incompetent regime
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Sunak speech: 1/ His comment about Nicola Sturgeon, if uttered by a journalist live on air, would lead to them being taken off air immediately. It risks contempt of court. And the broadcasters cannot report on this error of judgment accurately without also risking contempt....
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The Rwanda deportation scheme is inhuman and illegal. So is the plan to intern refugees in U.K. camps. So is the plan to intercept boats. First shot in a 2023 election campaign: last throw of the dice to mobilise the Tories' elderly racist base as inflation starves them
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Thanks to the BBC Ten O'Clock news for running a series of government press releases as headlines - now we know how these overpaid stenographers would report a fascist takeover. Everyone with decision making roles who works there is complicit in abetting a coup.
#SwitchItOff
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Hear that, plebs? We don't deserve a voice - just to sit quiet as these rich assholes laugh at serving nurses, police, firefighters...
This is why i hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont deserve one
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Corbyn should offer
@CarolineLucas
a senior post in a Red-Green cabinet now. She is a superb politician.
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In less than 3 weeks the EU made a pivot to re-armament, strategic autonomy and self-sufficiency; Johnson - nothing... no major policy change, no comms with population over pain to come; I think we know why...
#Lebedev
1/ ...
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Parliament just voted for something that cannot happen. In two weeks time this will be clear - but the massive dereliction of duty by Tories, and by Labour Brexiteers, will not be forgotten.
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How we all feeling in the Red Wall tonight? Private school kids marked up, working class kids marked down - the clue was in the word Tory when you voted for them 👇🏽
“Ofqual decided to give more weight to predicted grades when students are in a smaller cohort... This decision advantaged private schools, as state sixth forms often cover large areas and have far more students.”
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Russian troops should leave the whole of Ukraine now. Their Western apologists should retire from politics. That's the baseline. ✊🏼
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Galloway's in Batley to divide the working class and get a Tory elected. It's time to hear the truth about this trickster... (pls watch and RT)
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The entire Conservative/far-right alliance in British politics has boycotted a leaders debate on climate. Now, because C4 symbolised this with twin blocks of melting ice (melting live on air), ten Torie threaten their broadcast licence. This is the Trump playbook - disgraceful.
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Funny this, the most interesting story of the day failed to make any BBC news programme 👇🏽
Boris Johnson visit to Addenbrookes hospital he gets booed out and watch as a medical student brands his visit a PR stunt and calls him a coward over cuts
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Priti Patel's callous diatribe against the poor of Barrow and other places went viral. So the BBC took it down. Here it is again 👇🏽
Idk why BBC North West deleted this video where Priti Patel insists you can’t blame the government for growing poverty because it’s actually the fault of local councils (whose funding the government cut).
Perhaps we should make sure people see it.
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Iconic moment. As Johnson appoints an entire new team of fascist-minded incompetents and scam artists, these brave people stood up for the planet and democracy...
Greenpeace protesters bearing a banner reading “Climate Emergency” briefly disrupt the progress of the car carrying Boris Johnson as he goes to Buckingham Palace to be appointed Britain’s prime minister.
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If it looks like the Tories are struggling with the brilliant
@krishgm
- remember they have boycotted C4News interviews - now you see why
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BBC’s Jon Sopel reporting May pushed for early strike “to avoid having to get parliamentary consent”. That’s the democracy you now live in.
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BBC journalists should not be banned from using Twitter - they should be banned from promulgating unsubstantiated lies on Twitter.
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The people who did this to your mortgage rates were all just given taxpayer funded jobs for life, courtesy of the Tories and the corrupt honours system...
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I don't just want Johnson to say "Stay home, save lives" etc. I want him to call out and ridicule the bullshit anti-maskers, lockdown skeptics and denialists in his own party - and order social media platforms to suppress/label Covid disinformation. That's leadership.
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To stop Farage and Johnson destroying our democracy we need not just an alliance in Parliament: we need to get on the streets... and if it comes to an election - a one-time tactical voting pact for the progressive majority.
#StopTheCoup
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As an ex-colleague of the Newsnight team this makes me sick. The BBC editorial management is stuffed full of establishment types who turned a blind eye to bias in favour of May and Johnson. Every word Mailtis said was true: truth is the criterion of real journalism.
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Thank you Hackney. Fuck you racist media
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Marr: Nurses are going to food banks
Theresa Weird: "There are many complex reasons for people going to food banks"
THE MAIN ONE IS POVERTY!
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Make no mistake. The Tories' attack on NHS workers is not a political gaffe - they've chosen healthworkers to be the new miners/printers/dockers ... and they will be hard at work in the closed Facebook groups mobilising their bigoted activists to stigmatise them as "greedy"
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Five minutes befor Gove turned up at C4 the Tories fed Buzzfeed the threat to revoke the channel's licence - ours is becoming a "managed democracy"
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The Port Vale speech is the most effective blow
@Keir_Starmer
has ever landed on the Tories and will resonate in every working class community 💥
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By talking up the mutant virus and talking down their own incompetence the govt has handed every neighbouring country the right to shut down travel and supply. We're effectively cut off. Well played Boris.
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Local election results: 1/ Tories losing because they can't deliver Brexit, Labour losing because Brexit position confused, Libdems/Greens winning because they have clear pro-PV/anti-Brexit message. Confirms my view: a strong anti-Brexit line is in Labour's strategic interest...
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There is one emerging theme to Boris Johnson's press conference: it's not our fault if you lose your job at a pub, restaurant or airline...because we're only making "suggestions" and advice...
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Starmer - I'll quit if fined. Right move. The whole party should get behind this and shove - shows Labour is a party of principle and justice - roll on the Sue Gray report and an early election! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
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Spain's PM ignores the elected president of Catalonia, and 500 people injured by the fascist-infiltrated police force, including 50+ journalists, and instead congratulates the riot cops ... if PSOE is allowed to remain in the PES after this, Corbyn's Labour should quit🎗️
El presidente del Gobierno en funciones,
@sanchezcastejon
, visita la Jefatura Superior de
@policia
en
#Catalu
ña y agradece el trabajo de los agentes desplegados para garantizar la seguridad en Barcelona. Sánchez les ha transmitido el cariño y apoyo del Gobierno y la ciudadanía.
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Withdraw Labour whip from Mann, Stringer, Hoey and Field and debar them from future selections. Please RT, pass resolutions and make it happen.
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The view from Manc - thousands on the streets to oppose the coup, from all parties - lots of working class people - the only people supporting Johnson are a bunch of sad fascists
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Hold on - if hosting refugees is so good for Rwanda why isn't it good for the UK? Also if it's so nice there how is it a deterrent to crossing the channel? And if it can hold "thousands" what happens to the "millions" you told us were coming?
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A senior group of Labour staffers actively conspired for the party to lose the 2017 election. That's the headline allegation from the leaked Labour HQ report ... this is a Watergate moment, not just for Labour but for British politics 1/...
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Kwarteng's budget - an attack on workers, a gift to the rich
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How journalism works: lead with an entirely fabricated set of figures produced by Tory HQ... bury your own scoop on Boris Johnson's links to Russian intelligence on page 2. Masterclass from Sunday Times
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"We didn't vote for net zero" says S*n columnist... but here's the 2019 Tory manifesto 👇🏽 - the disinformation drive for COP26 in full swing
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Tory BBC boss Tim Davie, backed by Tory Robbie Gibb and Tory Richard Sharp have for some reason decided
@GaryLineker
can't present MoTD until he refrains from calling out racism. When the WhatsApps are finally leaked, Downing St pressure will be all over this...
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I just voted. If we defeat the Tories tonight it's because 000s of people are lending their votes to defeat this clown
#VoteLabour
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I make the far-right demo at Parliament around 3k - 90% male, 75% over 40 - 3 groups: organised fascists, DFLA and a penumbra of traditional drunk old football hooligans along for the ride... no counter-demonstrators in sight
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A message to Labour's NEC: stop playing bureaucratic games. Lay off
@tom_watson
and let conference debate our Brexit line democratically. We need a collegiate, open leadership - a conference that speaks to the whole British electorate - and an end to machine politics.
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Starmer tells Labour delegates trickledown economics is a "pisstake" - says (with justification) the party feels confident and ready for an election ...
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On the downside I just lost a £15 long odds bet on Mordaunt. On the upside Keir Starmer is going to be the next PM ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
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BMW moving EV Mini production to China. Investment decision taken in Munich while UK government blathers about gigafactories. This is tragic for Oxford, for our national skills story, for our country. What was BEIS doing while this was being planned?
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European Commission needs to bring Article 7 proceedings vs Madrid now. Spain now makes Joe Arpaio’s Arizona look liberal...
#BREAKING
Jail for five Catalan leaders. Presidential candidate Jordi Turull, former parliament speaker Carme Forcadell and deposed ministers Dolors Bassa, Josep Rull and Raül Romeva sent to pre-trial prison
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Johnson's pitch to workers is crystal clear: your wages will rise because we've kept the migrants out. But there'll be no care workers, no petrol, not enough gas, so prices will rise faster than wages, but nothing I can do about that, it's the market, see...
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This is ominous:
@channel4news
and Dorthy Byrne have the guts the BBC just does not have - I say this as a former employee of both: C4 is the best news programme in the world and "Britain's Trump" can't stand confrontation with the truth...
.
@channel4news
' interview with
@borisjohnson
at
#G7Biarritz
cancelled, despite team being told to travel to summit for interview.
Decision by
@10DowningStreet
was made following criticism from Dorothy Byrne that Mr Johnson limits access to media like Putin.
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My former colleague
@maitlis
giving it both barrels - why is a former Tory government director of comms making calls about impartiality at the BBC, in what should be a non-executive role? While staff cannot even publicly express political opinions?
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The winner of tonight's
@bbcquestiontime
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British media awash with smears against Corbyn. It’s a different smear each week but with one aim - to stop radical change + social justice
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Boris Johnson has made no new proposals to the EU. He is not negotiating. There will be no deal to vote for after 14 October. The time to
#StopTheCoup
is next week. It's the people and Parliament versus the privileged elite. Pls RT.
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