@DavidDPaxton Genuinely think less of Shipman having read that.
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Yeah no. Won’t be doing that.
Tim Shipman@ShippersUnbound
Like a lot of people Mehdi said some stupid things when he was young. I did too. But for all our disagreements on this sort of stuff I think you should credit him as a serious thinker about these issues and someone who is always worth listening to whatever your difference of opinion
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@Brahmacharyan @RealBlackIrish @Natrebirthparty Ok but Bertie Wooster with the red tie does actually look rather spiffing…
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There isn’t a single normal person in the @Natrebirthparty. It’s entirely comprised of perverts and retards.
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@GoodByeXNow @ShippersUnbound @patrickkmaguire Are personal attacks out of order for a Prime Minister?
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@ShippersUnbound @patrickkmaguire Maybe you should read below the line of the article to see that there are a fair number of people who really don't like the personal attacks in the piece.
It is devastating in that it says far more about the author than it does about Starmer, and none of it good.
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@GregisinLondon @Birdyword While I too am tempted by that vision, the reality is that it would have simply meant going into the Covid/Ukraine crisis with debt to GDP at 110% rather than c. 85% - am our sky high debt interest payments now would be even more crippling?
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@Birdyword This country is completely backwards. Imagine a Labour-led anti-austerity coalition in the 2010s, and Cameron-Osborne style government in the 2020s
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You have to find the grim humour in the fact that Labour was reelected to a massive majority in 2024, led by a generation of politicians with one central and shared critique of the previous 15yrs of economic policy, very shortly after the relevance of the critique collapsed
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
Beyond anything about Starmer per se the big problem for any British government seems to be that post Truss, the fiscal constraints really are binding which will frustrate whoever suceeds him
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@Laocailarry @Will___lloyd @RianCFFWhitton Bingo - what X isn’t getting is we’re in an intense period of frantic realignment, it’s qualitatively different to normal politics. C.80% of the electorate is in play, not 10% like normal. Tories will not have a chair when the music stops.
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@headspaceman @Will___lloyd @RianCFFWhitton Where are the constituencies? Where is the voter coalition? Where is the evidence she can recover the Red Wall, hold the Blue Wall, beat Reform on the right, and appeal beyond the upper-middle-class and Pensioner Tory comfort zone.
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This looks like the opposite of the Yookay, this seems very sweet?
🇬🇧 𝙔𝙊𝙊𝙆𝘼𝙔 𝘼𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙎 🇬🇧@MythoYookay
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🚨Party performance outside of London🚨
➡️ Reform: 1374 (+1372 / +68,600%)
🔶️ Lib Dems: 602 (+93 / +18%)
🌳 Tories: 394 (-568 / -59%)
🌹 Labour: 372 (-1037 / -74%)
🌍 Green: 290 (+163 / +128%)
Britain wants Reform 🩵
The uniparty is DEAD 🇬🇧
Please repost cos took me ages to do the analysis 😀
@ZiaYusufUK @Nigel_Farage @TiceRichard @RobertJenrick @LeeAndersonMP_ @GBNEWS @MartinDaubney
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Now we know why Labour and the Tories tried to cancel the elections…
Lee Anderson MP@LeeAndersonMP_
Funny That. These are the 30 councils where the two main parties tried to postpone the local elections. Do you get the picture ? 10,000 more council seats up for grabs next May. We're coming for you.
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This is Farage at his best
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
Gordon Brown is back in government. I gave the man who sold the gold both barrels 17 years ago.
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Again this is political choice
Politicians could finish this off in a matter of weeks
They don't because it's against their worldview
We're just not governed by serious people
Benonwine@benonwine
😡 ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. Kirsty Gallacher has just shown what a bunch of fly tippers have done to her beautiful country road in Berkshire. This is happening EVERY SINGLE DAY across the UK and the current punishments are a joke. These litter thugs are destroying our countryside with zero fear of real consequences. What do YOU think the punishment should be for fly tipping? Drop your strongest ideas below 👇 Should it be fines, jail time, vehicle seizure, or something even tougher?
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“The Captive Eagle” Corporal Styles of the 1st Royal Dragoons triumphantly displaying the captured eagle of the French 105th Regiment at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)
- James Prinsep Beadle (c.1900)
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@echetus Important to remember the people DS was making those jokes for, his constituents, were basically the crowd in Phoenix Nights.
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The only funny thing Skinner did in his entire career was getting hyped up as the avatar of Real Old Labour, only to lose his seat to a generic to a random Tory functionary from London.
Stakeholder Consultant@echetus
I spent years reading about Dennis Skinner’s razor sharp quips, and when I actually watched them every one was something like “rub a dub dub - three men in a tub!”
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Britain's economy was stagnant for over ten years before we left, the idea that Rejoin offers a way out of difficult decisions and return to easy growth is pure displacement activity.
Ben Judah@b_judah
The economy sick and the left split, Labour is set to lose the next election. There is only one lever left to pull. I argue in @TheTimes at the next election Labour must campaign to Rejoin. Voters are there: 59% polled this week are ready to return. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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Migration represents a constitutional crisis for every liberal democracy because the democratic demands of the electorate are irreconcilable with the framework of human rights and international treaties.
John Rentoul@JohnRentoul
Fascinating admission of failure by @RishiSunak thetimes.com/business/econo…
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This photo is incredible.
A rain-soaked defeated Liberal MP walking along trash filled streets with the pride flag flying in the distance as he grapples with the consequences of his own party’s decisions.
Ahmad Elbayoumi@ahmadelbayoumi
NEW: “I don’t know,” says Nate Erskine-Smith, when I asked if he thought the nomination process in Scarborough Southwest was fair. Erskine-Smith had promised to speak with us. Instead, his team tried to slip him out — and we ended up scrumming with him in the rain.
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As one of the chroniclers of Brexit, I am truly inspired by the lengths Nick Clegg, Ben Judah and others are going to in order to get me to write a fifth book. They can't actually believe they would win a Rejoin referendum, can they?
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I noted some years ago that Bradford has roughly the same White British percentage as Tower Hamlets (entirely politically dominated by a Sylheti patronage network) has Sylheti residents, and that if White Bradfordians developed the same sense of solidarity they could clean up
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