@paulmasonnews The real story isn’t Healey’s letter. It’s watching some of Starmer’s loudest cheerleaders realise that governing involves choices, trade-offs and disagreements they spent years pretending didn’t exist.
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Chris Warlock
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Quark, Strangeness and Charm. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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This is courage on behalf of the Dept, the Armed Forces and the British people. We are committed to 3.5% and we can't trace a path to 3? Amid two shooting wars? We need an immediate change of course.
John Healey@JohnHealey_MP
My letter to the Prime Minister
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@PippaCrerar Anonymous Treasury sources. Anonymous briefings. Anonymous claims. If the allegation is serious, put it on the record. Otherwise it looks more like factional briefing than journalism.
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Treasury source suggests that John Healey was, in effect, asking for cuts to schools and hospitals to pay for extra uplift in defence spending.
"The chancellor will always do what is right and needed to keep this country safe, you can see that from her actions - a record uplift in defence spending at the spending review, and then working alongside the PM deliver billions more to fund the DIP".
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@jeremycorbyn “Real security” includes being able to defend the country that provides the housing, schools and NHS.
Scarily, a man who viewed defence as optional came dangerously close to becoming Prime Minister.
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We do not need to spend more money on bombs and bullets.
We need to spend more on housing, schools and our NHS instead.
A roof over your head. Enough food to feed your children. A public health service you can rely on in your time of need.
That is what real security means.
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Chris Warlock retweeted
MPs who go on social media should not turn off replies. They are public employees.
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@Grapefruit_Juce @KonstantinKisin @AyoCaesar You’ve accidentally made Kisin’s point. For years people like Ash encouraged society to view politics, institutions and outcomes through race and identity. Now others are doing the same, just reaching conclusions she dislikes. Identity politics cuts both ways.
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@KonstantinKisin @AyoCaesar This is utterly meaningless and you know it.
People like Ash have advocated for a politics to materially improve the social fabric of this society while you've sat around chirping about culture war bullshit and cosying up to supplement selling mlm billionaire backed cunts
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Crime is now being viewed through an entirely racialised lens – but only when the perpetrators aren't white.
When Chas Corrigan stabbed a Saudi student to death, or Paul Doyle mowed down Liverpool fans, white people didn't have to fear being a target of collective retaliation.
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@stellacreasy Serious question: what actual evidence is there that Nigel Farage believes women are “expendable” or unequal?
Not disagreement. Not inference. Not assumption.
Evidence.
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And with this Farage confirms in his mind women will always be expendable, not equal, to him.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
"So what?" Nigel Farage says when asked about Reform UK's Makerfield candidate's past offensive comments on social media (see list below). "These comments were posted a decade ago. They’ve been taken wildly out of context, but they’re the sort of comments that you won’t necessarily get if you’re an Oxford-educated career politician living in a nice postcode in London," he adds. "But I tell you what, they are the kind of comments you’ll hear in every pub in the country every evening, and we should be unapologetic that Rob is an ordinary bloke who’s carved quite a career for himself, had the guts to set up a business, served as an army reservist, is a patriot, likes his rugby, likes the odd pint, and said a few laddish things on social media 10 years ago. "Do you know what I’d say to that? I’d say, so what?" huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert-k…
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@PippaCrerar The interesting part isn’t Farage saying “so what?”
It’s whether journalists like Pippa Crerar apply the same forensic scrutiny to Labour figures with embarrassing historic comments.
Standards that only operate in one political direction aren’t standards at all.
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"So what?" Nigel Farage says when asked about Reform UK's Makerfield candidate's past offensive comments on social media (see list below).
"These comments were posted a decade ago. They’ve been taken wildly out of context, but they’re the sort of comments that you won’t necessarily get if you’re an Oxford-educated career politician living in a nice postcode in London," he adds.
"But I tell you what, they are the kind of comments you’ll hear in every pub in the country every evening, and we should be unapologetic that Rob is an ordinary bloke who’s carved quite a career for himself, had the guts to set up a business, served as an army reservist, is a patriot, likes his rugby, likes the odd pint, and said a few laddish things on social media 10 years ago.
"Do you know what I’d say to that? I’d say, so what?"
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert-k…
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@SholaMos1 When every disagreement becomes evidence of racism, the accusation loses force. A jury considered the evidence, heard the self-defence claim and reached a verdict. Criticise the verdict if you wish, but calling it “Jim Crow justice” requires proof, not assumption.
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This isn't just a miscarriage of justice but also Jim Crow justice. The all white jury punished a 17 year old Black boy for killing a White bully in self-defence. No I don't think Metcalf should've been killed but it is clear Karmelo Anthony reacted to the imminent threat Metcalfe posed from his physical confrontation and did not plan a premeditated killing. It was self-defence or at the least a lesser charge. Not murder. Why 35 years when white people under the same circumstances or worse get far less sentencing?
Rittenhouse claimed self-defence for murder and is free. Rick Chow free for murdering 14 year old Cyrus Carmack-Belton by claiming self-defence.
It is ALWAYS a different standard for Black kids.
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@HelterSwirl @jk_rowling Did you read the thread? Usually a smart thing to do before posting a stupid comment.
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Appalling 🧵
I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.
Kristen Waggoner@KristenWaggoner
This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match. Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong. Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️
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@PhilMyers53 A mandate isn’t a lifetime achievement award. Governments are judged on delivery. Living standards, migration, crime, housing and growth will determine the verdict—not AI-generated posters and personality cults.
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The man IS UNSHAKABLE!
He was given a mandate and NOTHING or NO ONE will deflect him
He’s #NoFearKeir the best thing to have happened to the United Kingdom in a generation
#NoFearKeir
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@DPJHodges Ant Middleton served in the Paras, Royal Marines and SBS. Most people couldn’t even pass selection for one of those. By all means challenge what he said, but reducing a lifetime of service to a single conviction says more about you than it does about Middleton.
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Incredible that today of all days Reform have wheeled out a man who was convicted of common assault of a female police officer, and the wounding of her colleague.
Ant Middleton@antmiddleton
If the Government cannot keep your community safe and secure, and fail to protect its citizens then we must rightly take things into our own hands. Protect yourselves and one another at all costs! 🫡🏴
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@Seanchuckle “She’s a politician” isn’t a licence for other MPs to abandon basic standards of conduct.
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I've seen some cry bullying in my time but imagine claiming to have been shaken up by a lib dem accurately describing your behaviour.
Sarah Pochin MP@SarahForRuncorn
This morning in Parliament, I was accosted by Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald, who accused me and others of inciting violence. His aggressive approach and tone left me feeling threatened and shaken. This kind of behaviour is unacceptable, especially from fellow MPs. We all have different views and should be able to disagree respectfully. The Lib Dems support open borders, while Reform UK supports controlled immigration and putting the British people first. That’s not inciting violence, that’s doing what’s best for the United Kingdom. 🇬🇧
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@meljomur Imagine replacing “white men” with any other racial group. If the sentence suddenly sounds unacceptable, perhaps the problem isn’t who it’s aimed at but the fact it’s a racial generalisation in the first place.
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@AndrewHWestern Calling someone a racist by implication is the equivalent of throwing a punch from behind a curtain. If you thinks she’s racist, you should have the courage to say it directly. If not, then perhaps you’re more interested in generating outrage than making a serious argument.
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And if you elect vile racists, you get vile racism
Sarah Pochin MP@SarahForRuncorn
If you import the third world, you get the third world.
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@TeresaC123 The fact that you’re asking why political opponents haven’t been arrested before identifying a criminal act is perhaps the answer to your own question.
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Anyone with legal knowledge able to explain to me why Nigel Farage,Tommy Robinson,Mr Musk & others have not been arrested by police for incitement to riot? Incitement to riot is a criminal offence.I'd really like to understand why they have not been at least questioned/cautioned.
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Family of the N Ireland stabbed man say many migrants make valuable contributions to the UK, condemn disorder and don't want to divide people or fuel violence.
And again Hard and Far Right extremists like Musk, Yaxley-Lennon, Farage and Lowe fan flames.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…
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@Partisan_12 The screenshot proves only that the film is set before 1948.
If I show you a map from 1936 that doesn’t contain Pakistan, does that mean Pakistan doesn’t exist either?
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A frame from the Indiana Jones film that hit the screens in 1981.
Palestine is on the map, Israel is not, It never was, and it never will be!
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Lee Rigby's family didn't want his death to be used to divide people
Henry Nowak's family didn't want his death to be used to divide people
Stephen Ogilvie's family doesn't want his attack to be used to divide people
But the far-right 'patriots' always disrespect their wishes
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Those who use social media to incite violence and disorder are breaking the law.
Next week we will lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis.
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