@VictoriaPeckham @thetimes You spend most of the article denigrating others, in the hope of making Starmer look misunderstood and reasonable. Not once do you examine the man and his lack of vision or principles, or the fact he's a wanker.
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Martin Pendleton 🇬🇧
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Martin Pendleton 🇬🇧
@PendletonMartin
Retired Fitter / IT systems engineer interested in politics and good arguments.
North Lincolnshire, England Katılım Nisan 2013
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Why is there such hatred for Keir Starmer? It is strange why the animosity is greater for him than for any past PM: my @thetimes column.
thetimes.com/article/c7f6af…
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@PippaP22 I'd forgotten about cool Britannia. Those were the days. Boris nearly recreated that but blew it with his buffoonery.
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@PendletonMartin And until Gordon Brown and his bigoted woman comment, I don’t remember feeling that he despised other voters. (Or if he did he hid it better, and at least had that veneer of Cool Britannia/we felt more united).
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I don’t know if I’m misremembering, but didn’t politicians years ago try to win over reluctant voters - you know, with old fashioned things like policies and arguments - rather than tripping over themselves to insult them?
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@TaraBull One of those crazy eyed dolls you throw out because they're too scary.
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@stendec6 @ikeijeh The majority of motorists do stop. Whereas the majority of cyclists don't stop. The highway code states that as soon as a pedestrian steps onto the crossing, they control the traffic, which must give way. This demonstrates that cyclists think the code doesn't apply to them.
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Abysmal urban design. The speed bump is imperceptible. The cycle lane partitions the pavement not the road. And shallow kerbs between pavement & cycle lane amplify the sense of vehicular intrusion into pedestrian space.
Bikes are now as big a pedestrian menace in London as cars.
NFBUK@NFBUK
New zebra crossing at Blackfriars Station floating bus stop. We have tried to explain to @cityoflondon why these bus stops are not safe or accessible for blind people but more are being planned. @citylordmayor can we urgently meet to discuss our concerns please. This is dangerous
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@ayeshaijazkhan @allend230 @RupertLowe10 Not here yet, but elsewhere ...
barnabasaid.org/gb/news/islami…
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You can scaremonger against Muslims all you want. But you can’t return to a “Christian Britain” because that doesn’t exist. The churches are empty. That’s not because of the Muslims. So when the only choice is between hedonism and Islam, who do you think will win?
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
Muslims electing Muslims exactly because they’re Muslims - they then govern as Muslims, for Muslims. Demographic changes, birth rates and mass immigration mean that this is going to accelerate, rapidly. What is our country going to look like in fifty years? Twenty years? Ten years? Honestly, think about that. On current projections, Britain has an Islamic future. That is just a fact. I don’t like it, in fact it terrifies me, but it’s true. I do not want my grandchildren’s children to grow up in a Muslim Britain. Tower Hamlets. Rochdale. Birmingham. Luton. Blackburn. Large parts of London. I could go on. A sectarian nightmare. Deep divisions across the community in parts of those towns, in others it’s entirely united - united by Islam. That is our future. Unless we act, unless we organise, unless we vote. There is still time. Restore Britain is the only serious political party that has the courage to stand up for a Christian Britain. We are the only political party with the courage to do what is necessary. Mass immigration from Islamic countries will end, day one. Banning halal slaughter, cousin marriage, the burqa/niqab. Dominating Islamic prayer will be outlawed, along with any form of Sharia Law. We will not tolerate the call to prayer being blared out across British towns. The colonisation of our cities by foreign enclaves practising medieval practices will end. The islamification of Britain will be halted and reversed. That is what Restore Britain will do. If you agree, then join us. Join the party, attend your local meetings, volunteer. Help us. Because we need it, and nobody else is going to do it. Not Farage, not the Tories, certainly not Labour. This is up to us now. And there is one answer. Restore Britain.
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@AaronBastani I must have gone to the wrong part of Manchester when I was having to dodge the numerous beggars in the streets.
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Manchester is probably the most improved European city of the 21st century.
Esther K@estherckrakue
I never understood the infatuation with Andy Burnham. Manchester is a dump
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@ayeshaijazkhan @allend230 I read it all before replying. I'm not a fan of @RupertLowe10 but everything he says is true. You yourself state that Christianity is on the wane and being replaced by Islam in some parts of Britain. I don't want to be forced to convert to Islam under threats.
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@PendletonMartin @allend230 You need to read from the beginning — from the provocative tweet I responded to.
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@ayeshaijazkhan @allend230 You gave a false choice between hedonism and Islam, suggesting Islam was the 'correct' choice. I can read well enough thanks.
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@PendletonMartin @allend230 All you are admitting here is that you have exceptionally poor reading comprehension. And like to attribute things to people that they never said.
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This Labour Party leader competition is crazy. It's like fighting to be captain of the Titanic *after* it's hit the iceberg!
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I don't watch much normal TV anymore, but when I do, the adverts bug me. I don't notice the products cos I'm too busy cringing at the black and white and/or gay families. Not typical at all!
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@ZacGoldsmith Gaza needs removing from the face of the Earth.
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“What kind of a depraved monster slices off a woman’s breast while she is being gang raped, and throws it into the dust to be used as a plaything? What kind of a twisted pervert turns rape into necrophilia by shooting a woman in the head while he is still defiling her?
What kind of ‘freedom fighters’ go into battle with a set of handy Arabic-to-Hebrew phrases, including ‘take off your pants’, ‘lie down’, and ‘spread your legs’?
What self-respecting human being presses nails, scalpels, a hammer, an axe, screwdrivers and other household tools into a woman’s genitals?
How hard do you have to rape someone, and with what, to shatter their pelvis? Who shoots a young girl in the face and then films her mutilated corpse on her brother’s mobile phone?
The answer is: Hamas terrorists. This is the stark reality of what they did to men, women and children on October 7, 2023. And the world must never forget.”
@WestminsterWAG
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@PatrickChristys Assuming gender again there Patrick. They could be insufferable vaginas.
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Spare a thought for this bunch of insufferable pricks today
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@PaulSuttonKing I am always shocked at how small these classic cars are when you meet them in the flesh. Fabulous though.
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@timothy_stanley Anyone in politics with a backbone? Anyone?
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Feels like the UK is headed for its sixth prime minister in seven years. This isn't just about flawed personalities, it's about a flawed country.
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All the Labour MPs coming out to support Starmer and his lacklustre speech just reminds me how thick most Labour MPs are.
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@KarlTurnerMP It'll be like listening to the drone from a vacuum cleaner. I reckon my Dyson makes more sense than Starmer.
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If the PM reads from autocue tomorrow, it’s all over. He needs to do authentic.
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