Tony Patterson
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Lecturer in English Literature, 19th and 20th century. Rejoined Labour ⚘ From Durham. #FBPE . NUFC supporter
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Is anybody else as disgusted as I am at Rishi Sunak, one of the richest men in the country, punching down on some of the most vulnerable people in the country?
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Fuck off, Barton. We don't want your support. You were a fucking liability for us. Shearer was right when he called you a shit!
Good luck today to mighty
@NUFC
against the unwashed, 5under1and.
@EmiratesFACup
Give those Mackem’s another pumping on their own park.
Howay The Fucking Lads
🖤🤍🖤🤍
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Sorry, but getting rid of Johnson is not enough. Need an industrial-style clean. The Raabs, the Sunaks, the Patels.
#GTTO
and keep them out!
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Nadine Dorries worried about low income families not been able to pay TV licence! Dear god, Nadine, when have you ever given a shit about poor people?
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Of course, you hate him. You are a fascist!🙄
🚨Has there ever been a more hated Prime Minister in such a short space of time?
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I hated Cameron. I hated May and her wheat fields, but when did England become so dysfunctional that we have Johnson as a leader? Really, what happened?
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With all the stuff going on in the UK and the world, I don't understand why the BBC's major story is about whether a bloke from Serbia is allowed to play tennis in Australia!
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Andrew Neil calling anyone who wants to boycott GB News a "woke warrior" just reinforces exactly why we should oppose GB News!
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I quite liked the state looking after me. They gave me milk, vaccinations against deadly illnesses, they paid for my education, provided libraries where I could read stuff, and gave me a maintainance grant when I went to uni and paid my fees. This is why I vote Labour!
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I think The Spectator has just stuck a lit flare up its own backside
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England is fucked, isn't it? For the foreseeable future!
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Are we the only country in the world who are willing our national team to win, but, at the same time, fearing the nationalistic, xenophobic backlash if they do?
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Can people just fuck off saying how great Margaret Thatcher was! She was a small-minded, vicious bigot who did irreparable damage to the country.
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I've stopped laughing at Nadine Dorries. I think it is time for some kind of "intervention".
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Fucking Cleverly doubling down on the Saville slur! What a shit!
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Raab should leave off that stupid, 'he will pull through because he is a fighter'. As if those who die have a weak character and are not fighters.
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So is it agreed that all companies who advertise on GB News should be boycotted?
#DontFundGBNews
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This might be an unpopular opinion, but we should have abolished the monarchy years ago. I'll wait for the pile on :-(
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I was a schoolteacher. I know how hard a job it could be. I think it has probably got harder over the last 20 years. Really tired of seeing teachers criticised by people who really have no idea how demanding a job it can be.
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Imagine being in a war situation and suspecting that your political leader is batting for both sides. That is certainly how I feel
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Why do so many people hate Starmer? Is it the tone? Substance? Strategy? Just get behind him and try, if you are in Labour, to shape policy. Fuck, we are against a proto fascist government. No time to fuck around, really!
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176 more people reported dead. What a shambles this government is? Really the negligence must be seen as criminal at some stage!
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I can't remember asylum seekers on rubber dinghies being an issue until Farage publicised it. Says much about the BBC that they let Farage drive their news agenda.
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I'm no expert on parliamentary rules and procedures, but isn't the speaker under some obligation to actually get the PM to answer the questions he is asked.
#PMQs
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Nigel Farage supporters are amongst the most charming, educated and sensitive people I have ever met. I am impressed by their well-honed arguments, their fidelity to empirical evidence and their acute self-awareness. Their level of compassion is astonishing.
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Steve Barclay: a rare case of a rat jumping on a sinking ship!
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Idiot on Ch 4 says Johnson is a buffoon but a lovable buffoon. Another one says that he is a great speaker and leader. FFS. What is wrong with my people?
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I don't believe Blair should have a gong. I don't believe anybody should. But the hard left have an unhealthy fetish about Blair. It's a kind of meaningless obsession, and weaponized against Starmer. It's almost as if they don't like Labour winning elections
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One day I hope England is ready to have a grown up conversation about statues, slavery, Winston Churchill, colonialism and the origins of racism.
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As the BBC is, apparently, not reporting this, it should be circulated as widely as possible!
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It's got to the stage where I I can't listen to Johnson speaking without a feeling of nausea creeping through my whole body. I think this might be a psychological condition :-(
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Really Labour were outstanding today. Starmer and Nandy especially.
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Caroline Flint is dreadful and being made to look foolish on CH 4. I think she is deeply ignorant about the consequences of Brexit. She makes the strongest case for deselection that I can think of.
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Tell me what one piece of legislation that Corbyn has passed that has helped a working-class person! I'm waiting.
"Even one independent MP can be an awful nuisance in parliament, times that by 12 and you've got 12 awful nuisances."
@JeremyCorbyn
gives his take on Keir Starmer's suspension of the MPs who backed the two-child benefit cap amendment.
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This might be a tricky one but given his last statement on care homes I would be struggling: is there a more detestable human being in the UK than Boris Johnson?
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I have received a new Corbynista insult. I'm middle-class because I support Starmer. Funny that for a lad brought up by a widowed mother on a Durham council estate! Obviously not working-class like Jeremy and Seamus!
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Boris Johnson seems to find lots of things extraordinary. The thing I find most extraordinary is that so many people in this country voted for such a corrupt, incompetent buffoon!
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We had this man as PM. Flawed in some ways, I'm sure, but 5 shit Tory PMs later we have Rishi Sunak, we left Europe, and the country is fucked. What on earth happened?
The former PM Gordon Brown said 'you should apologise when you get something wrong' when addressing Rishi Sunak's transgender jibe.
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I always thought Gary Lineker was a decent bloke. Used to buy fruit from his dad's stall in Leicester. My conclusion is that Toffs don't like ordinary folks having a different opinion and getting above themselves!
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Is it just me, or does Stephen Flynn come across as a petulant wanker?
"Can you not give him the benefit of the doubt?"
SNP Westminster Leader
@StephenFlynnSNP
tells
@BethRigby
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle made 'a political decision' following a discussion with Sir Keir Starmer
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📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
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Having fucked up everything else about Covid, am I right to think that the government is also fucking up vaccine distribution?
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Can I just say, Dan Hodges is really getting on my tits!
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I'm not going to say anything against a man who has just died, but will be turning the BBC off for a few days. Really won't be able to stand the sycophancy of the royal commentators!
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Whether you are Labour, Green, Liberal Democrat, SNP, PC etc. all efforts should be to defeat the Tories. Only coordinated and collective action will see the back of them. Whatever it takes.
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Do you think Liz Truss has ever read a serious history book?
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Why is the BBC leading with Labour suspensions? Is this the biggest story of the day? I smell a rat!
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That old chestnut! Must have been repeated before every election for 100 years.
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I know Starmer does not want to frighten the horses, but at some stage, he's going to have to say he will tax the obscenely wealthy, and stop people from making huge profits from our public services. I think the country would be with him.
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Do I get blocked if I say this government is full of nasty, self-serving, incompetent cunts!
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It's difficult to know which Tory to detest most today: Johnson, Patel or Bridgen.
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I've been back in England for the last few weeks. I'm curious to know if other people in a similar situation feel the same as I do. England looks, to me, as if it's in steady decline. Perhaps it depends where you are but that is the general sense I have.
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I don't think I am being nostalgic, but do you remember that time in politics where ministers used to the honourable thing and resign?
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Andrew Marr is no longer even pretending to be impartial now!
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Fucking hell, Keir, I support you. I voted for you, but think it's time to go on the front foot a bit more!
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I'm 59 in April. Funny to think a year after that I will be considered very old and my life not worth saving!
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After having given the Festival of Brexit much consideration can I say with all due respect they can shove it up their a...!
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Can I just say this: maybe Nigel Farrage is the most obnoxious human being in the UK.
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Am I right to assume the staggering increase in deaths has something to do with terrible mismanagement of Xmas by the government?
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Does anyone else feel exhausted by the pantomime that politics has become? It's not healthy
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As Farage steps down, does this mean there is a new vacancy at the BBC for a racist right-wing gobshite to populate all its political platforms?
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Watching Ch4, Dispatches. Looks like Brexiteers have actually voted to eat shit!
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I despise Priti Patel and Boris Johnson, intentionally!
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The European Research Group are both anti-European and anti-research! Please provide a more accurate name for these people!
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I would like this to be my last comment ever about Jeremy Corbyn. He made the Labour Party toxic, he gifted a huge majority to the Tories. He failed. So why doesn't he, one year one, just have the decency to fuck off!
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Bloody nightmare: Grace Blakeley and Darren Grimes on the same BBC programme. 😳 What on earth does Darren Grimes know about education!
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Do you remember when Tories used to resign when they were caught cheating and lying?
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Some good news at last!
Len McCluskey to step down as Unite leader earlier than planned
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Whatever the polls say, I will be nervous until the votes are counted.
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To all those who got poor 'A' level results. So did I. In my school they only let me take CSEs. Ask you mam or dad about them. Later I got a BA, a PGCE, a Masters and a PhD. Don't give up. Just keep going. If I could do it, so can you.
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I see the BBC are having orgasms about pending royal celebrations. Sorry, but I can't get too excited myself.
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I think the UK should end its reliance on Dido Harding!
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Is Dido Harding going to get a contract to build battleships now?
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So misleading and lying about Covid can get you ten years in clink ... says a member of the Tory government🤨
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I have to say with liberal use of the block button Twitter becomes a much better place. I wish a happy Xmas to all those who have educated me, made me laugh, and generally kept me entertained in this bleak year. I wish you all the best. Cheers🍺
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What kind of person could not afford to live on a prime minister's salary?
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I'm beginning to think that some people want to erase the rights that women have fought for in the last two centuries.
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Strange that CNN has become the go to station to find out what is going on in the States, and that there is the feeling that you can't trust the BBC anymore. That is very sad really.
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I can't remember much been said about asylum seekers on dinghies until Farage started publicising it. Says much about BBC and Sky that they let Farage drive their news agenda!
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We should not forget what a loathsome human being Andrea Leadsom is!
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Piers Morgan's journalistic credibility is like a game of snakes and ladders. Advocating gun control one ladder up, supporting Trump a long snake down, criticising govt on Covid, big ladder up then slides down a snake with irrational hatred of Megan M.
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Has anyone ever heard anyone from the government say, "We got that wrong, but we have learned from our mistake?"
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I'm looking forward to seeing people like Oliver Dowden disappear into a huge dark hole of obscurity soon.
🥀 The secret Labour/Lib Dem elections pact has been revealed.
Read my letter and the questions that Sir Keir Starmer must answer 👇
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More of this, please!
"In 2008, I was putting terrorists and murderers in jail - he was making millions betting on the misery of working people during the financial crisis."
@keir_starmer
slams Rishi Sunak at this week's
#PMQs
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Imagine waking up and realising you are a journalist for the Daily Mail!
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It seems clear that we are entering a stage of facism. We need to think about how to oppose it. We can all complain about it but how do leftists and liberals actually effectively oppose it? It seems to me that tweeting outrage is not sufficient. Answers on a post card please
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Ok question: who will be the first member of the Tory cabinet to say we got it wrong on Brexit? And when will they say it?
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Why is Julia Hartley Brewer allowed to voice her warped, idiotic opinions on the BBC?
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What year did the UK become an international laughing stock?
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I've decided to mute all racists, fascists, flagshaggers, anti-Vax people etc. I wouldn't put up with listening to them in "real life". Why should I tolerate them here?
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Hate is a strong word but I really hate these Tories. Everyone indescribably awful. Not a constructive tweet, I know, but a bit cathartic!
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Just imagine what the Daily Mail would have said if Marcus Rashford spent all his money on cocaine and call girls :-))
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Who could have predicted that Brexit might lead to a resurgence of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland 🙄
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I will not be paying to read anybody's tweets. Hope we are all on the same page on this one!
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To be honest, I couldn't care less about Matt Hancock's personal life. I do care that his incompetence caused the deaths of thousands of people.
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