Peter Briffa
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Peter Briffa
@ChillingOutProd
Playwright, Screenwriter, Wit. It Happened To Me.
Stockholm, Sweden Katılım Mayıs 2017
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Strange choice of interviewee. DD one of our great broadcasters but has he ever said anything interesting?
Bloomberg TV@BloombergTV
"I'm not sure Farage is temperamentally suited to the job." Veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby tells @MishalHusain he can't see the Reform UK leader as prime minister yet Listen at bit.ly/4fwjedT or watch the Mishal Husain Show at bloomberg.com/video
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@LeonardBriscoe3 Amazing how many caring women like Tessa Jowell and Jacqueline Smith marry wrong’uns.
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And for those suggesting his wife knew anything about, utter bunkum! You’ll not find anyone straighter than her.
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WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸@NotFarLeftAtAll
SNP corruption Peter Murrell, who was the Chief Executive of the SNP, has pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,000
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@DavidGauke @ConHome Nonetheless, assuming he’d be a marginal improvement on Starmer, Kemi should withdraw the current candidate and ask Tory voters, purely as a one off, to vote Labour, for the good of the country.
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How Andy Burnham has to speak to Makerfield voters, Labour members & the bond market - and what his policy contortions tell us about the Labour Party. My piece for @ConHome. conservativehome.com/2026/05/25/dav…
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Watching “A Bridge Too Far,” and damn you could never get a cast like James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, and Robert Redford all in one place easily again.
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@guy_herbert I think it’s more signalling to the tribe that this is a Bad Person and We are Good People than genuine outrage.
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All the Good People®️ are so outraged by something the Makerfield Reform candidate once said, that I am now having to find out what it was, even though I know it is probably not shocking or even interesting. Have they considered their fussing might be counterproductive?
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I feel that my parental responsibilities should include introducing my sons to the Dirty Harry film series.
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@DamCou So what job do you think is lined up for Mandelson?
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A Labour leadership challenge takes place when it's finally possible to assemble a full team from all the people the leader has sacked.
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Starmer's ex-chief of staff Sue Gray joins team Burnham as key adviser - as Tories prepare for snap election trib.al/gQJPjxs
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@mrianleslie Quite. I wonder how many Starmerites will be voting Reform to keep out Burnham.
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@AaronBastani The Tories are patriots and have thus an unstated agreement to vote for Burnham.
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The media keep talking about how impressive Kemi Badenoch is…
Here the Tories have less than a third of the vote of Restore, and are the *third* party on the right.
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GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨BREAKING: The first Makerfield by-election poll has been released 🌹 LAB: 43% ➡️ REF: 40% 🇬🇧 RST: 7% 🔸 LDM: 4% 🌍 GRN: 3% 🌳 CON: 2% [@Survation]
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@worstall Not sure you have to pay Polly to vote Labour, really.
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Well, that's Polly Toynbee's vote assured. Not that Sure Start ever achieved anything but she does love it so. So, you know, spend £1.7 billion of our money to buy Polly's vote. A bargain, eh?
Wes Streeting@wesstreeting
Every child deserves the best start in life, but the next generation face worse prospects than the last. That’s why I’d restore Sure Start - with an extra £1.7bn funded by the wealth tax that actually works - to help close the gap between the richest and poorest backgrounds.
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Wasn't even close.
Enezator@Enezator
Looks like the rabbit and tortoise story just got tested in real life 😂
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@PaulEmbery If no one cared he wouldn’t have to delete anything.
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Hardly a surprise given that any ordinary person attempting to get into politics will inevitably find himself hounded by social media archeologists determined to have him cancelled for posting the occasional spicy comment. I just don’t think people care about this stuff anymore.
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges
Understand Robert Kenyon has attempted to delete his entire recent social media history.
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@Whatfroth @residentadviser Agreed. And like Boris, I get the impression he really likes being liked. Be interesting to see how he handles being unpopular, when it comes.
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As I say, Burnham is a nice guy. He’s also got that Boris and Ken Clarke quality to him. Normal guy. Everyman. Broad appeal. Been a decent Mayor. Has the *potential* to be a good PM for the Labour Party. His Sensible detractors are wrong to downplay it.
But he is full of shit.
Chris Rose@ArchRose90
The potential next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, publicly opposed the Supreme Court judgement on trans people and criticised the guidance issued by the EHRC. He will be just as bad as Keir Starmer when it comes to protecting women and girls.
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@JohnLoony @220_d_92_20 @PJDunleavy So some voters’ second preferences count, and some don’t, just because they’re backing someone still in with a shout of winning. We’re going round and round here. I am actually quite sympathetic to voting systems other than FPTP, but this strikes me as a significant weakness.
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@ChillingOutProd @220_d_92_20 @PJDunleavy They do get their vote counted twice - once in the first round, and once in the second round. Just like the voters whose votes mostly transferred gets transferred from one candidate in the first round to a different candidate in the second round.
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Andy Burnham has endorsed the Supplementary Vote as his preference for reforming UK elections in our multi-party age after SV’s in decades of English mayoral elections always created legitimate outcomes. This free chapter explains how it works from p.62. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/10.…
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@ChillingOutProd @220_d_92_20 @PJDunleavy In SV, everybody gets to vote twice. People who vote for a minor candidate can then vote for a main candidate. The people who voted for a main candidate in the first round have the luxury of voting for the same candidate again.
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