@SResisters @NicholasTyrone Get back to us when you’ve reached 6 million (the 2nd ref petition). THEN you can complain when you are totally ignored.
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Anthony Cary
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Anthony Cary
@antcary
Former diplomat. Citizen of Lambeth, London, England, Britain, Europe, the World - and now also Ireland.
Katılım Ekim 2013
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@NicholasTyrone It's currently over 551000 and growing faster than any petition I've ever witnessed.
It is s record of dissent and concern.
Ignoring it may be easier policy but those voices are growing fiercely.
What do you propose? Pitchforks?
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The very online right’s latest harebrained scheme involves a petition to get a general election called in Britain. It’s topped 100k, apparently. Guys, more than 4 million people signed a petition to have a second EU referendum and nothing happened. Come up with a better plan.
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@alexhallhall That is what people said about Brexit, yet the victimhood continued unabated!
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@JamesWhiteNI @alexhallhall @SimonPease1 I would be against a bicycling monarchy, though I accept that it works for some others. The pageant is half the mystery/magic.
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@antcary @alexhallhall @SimonPease1 Why not expect the royal family to adapt and change to 2024 values? Everywhere else royalty has scaled down its reach and dropped the crown stuff. Duchies can't preach and breach environmental issues.
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@DavidGHFrost @RobertJenrick You say Jenrick will “get Brexit finally done”. I thought that was Johnson’s promise, and that you had delivered it?
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Remember, if you are a Conservative Party member, there's still time to vote for @RobertJenrick. Here's why: 👇
David Frost@DavidGHFrost
There's still over a week to go in the Conservative leadership election. I've voted for @RobertJenrick, the candidate who I believe fully gets the depth of our problems as a Party and a country and what we need to do to fix them. If you are a Conservative Party member and haven't yet voted, here are my top ten reasons to vote for Rob: 1. He has a clear, defined, properly conservative agenda which the party can unite behind to begin the roll-back of collectivism and socialism. It's some time since we had a leader like this: let's not lose the opportunity now. 2. He will rebuild the Party, and with @Jacob_Rees_Mogg as Chair members can be sure their interests will be protected. 3. He has a proper plan to protect our borders and rebuild trust on migration, with a firm commitment to leave the ECHR. 4. He'll deliver a new Great Reform Act to amend and repeal the Human Rights and the Equality Act, and start rolling back the Blair settlement. 5. He'll amend or repeal the Climate Change Act and stop our fields being covered over with useless solar panels. 6. He'll get Brexit finally done, recovering sovereignty in Northern Ireland, and starting to deliver the benefits. 7. He will get growth going again with reform of our overmighty state, our punitive taxation levels, and our poorly functioning public services. He'll get houses built where we need them. 8. He'll stand up for Britain, with his commitment to defence spending at 3% of GDP. 9. He has principles and resigned from the last government because he believed it was on the wrong track on immigration. I know from personal experience just how difficult that is - but principles matter. 10. Finally, he has the best polling - has higher favourability with public, is more popular with every voter group, and is best placed to win back the people we lost in July. 👇 x.com/RobertJenrick/… Don't choose more of the same. End the excuses and the drama. Vote for @RobertJenrick for change, to win, and to deliver.
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@brianklaas @alexhallhall The most serious charge is that Trump “tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. If you support him, you do not support democracy. That's the story” (as Ian Dunt has put it).
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@DanielJHannan What the black community in Brixton ask is “would the gangster have been shot if he had been white?”
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Anthony Cary retweetledi
"I stand here also as a black man... whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved. Imperialism. I know it when I see it."
@DavidLammy accuses Russia of being a mafia state in unbelievable speech at the UN.
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@alexhallhall No, Alex. The BBC, for all its faults, is a HUGE national asset. It is trusted as impartial and generally accurate. Without it, the country would lose an anchor, and a driver of national consensus. There would be more polarisation. Less ability to distinguish fake news from real.
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@GeorgeMonbiot @OpenBritainHQ It is what the Conservative Party *still* hasn’t twigged. The rot really set in when Cameron decided to embrace Farage’s rhetoric at the Rochester by-election in 2014, to try to win UKIP votes.
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By moving rightwards, you do not defuse the political threat from the right. On the contrary, you validate its positions and embolden it to become ever more extreme. This is what Germany has just discovered - again.
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Whether it's about repressive legislation or the treatment of asylum seekers or welfare recipients, Labour seeks to appear as "tough" as the Tories, to appease the billionaire press.
a. It never works.
b. It leave us with a cruel, dysfunctional system.
theguardian.com/world/article/…
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Anthony Cary retweetledi
Thatcher imposed an arms embargo on Israel in the late 80s that lasted until 1994 and refused to go along with US foreign policy on arms exports to the country just as Lammy and Starmer are.
Was she abandoning Israel too?
Boris Johnson@BorisJohnson
Hamas is still holding many innocent Jewish hostages while Israel tries to prevent a repeat of the 7th October massacre. Why are Lammy and Starmer abandoning Israel? Do they want Hamas to win?
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@SarahLudford Have you read Sam Freedman’s Failed State? He explains it very well.
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How on earth did we get to the point - in Britain in 2024 - of having unregistered children’s homes owned by private equity funds, which have zoomed in on the most lucrative ‘investment’ on the planet?
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Anthony Cary retweetledi
@LordRickettsP Peter - Did you also get the “Guidance to Diplomatic Service and other Officers, and Wives, posted to Diplomatic Service Missions Overseas” or “Some do’s and don’ts of Diplomatic Etiquette and other relevant matters” printed in 1965? That is guinea a minute!
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50 years ago today I joined the Diplomatic Service. On the first day we were given this booklet, which turned out to be rather alarming for someone whose experience of abroad was mainly backpacking. By para 2 of the Introduction it was clear that there were pitfalls everywhere! 1
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@PaulEmbery This is absurd, because it isn’t “news” to take a position about something. You could predict that it will be deemed ‘hate speech’ (and you would be wrong) but hardly fake news.
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Six months ago, I'd have said such a prediction was bonkers. Now I'm not so sure.
Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ
I predict now that within 5 years criticising immigration, radical Islamism, and our broken model of multiculturalism will be considered "fake news". mattgoodwin.org
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@peterjukes @SimonPease1 Not just “many would say” they have enabled. They have, without any question, demonised immigrants and sought to portray them as parasites.
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Got to say that this is quite an extraordinary moment. To see our right wing press support anti-fascist resistance, and turn on the far right (who many would say they have enabled for years) is something worthy of cheer and hopeful for the future. From the darkness, some light
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Anthony Cary retweetledi
The backer of GB News wants to take charge of the Daily Telegraph to expand his influence still further: please retweet if you would regard this as totally unacceptable.
cc. @lisanandy
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@SarahLudford @SimonPease1 Not just “less responsive”. Musk has waded in to heighten tension as much as he can (to generate clicks and $$$$$).
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“Though several companies such as Google, Meta and TikTok have been quick to respond by scrutinising and removing flagged posts, X has been less responsive and has kept concerning content up, according to people briefed on its activities.”
Anna Gross@AnnaSophieGross
NEW: British officials have faced resistance from this platform - X - over calls to take down posts that are deemed a threat to national security during violent riots across the UK, sources say. Story w/ @MsHannahMurphy @stephistacey ft.com/content/31919b…
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@AdamWagner1 @SimonPease1 Encouraged by Boris Johnson, Priti Patel et al stigmatising “lefty lawyers”.
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Really worrying to hear that the far right are targeting immigration lawyers, including up the road to where I live.
Ultimately, the criminal responsibility for people who riot is the people who are burning and smashing things - and those who directly encourage them, whether at the relevant location or online.
But there does have to be some consideration of why they have quickly decided to target immigration lawyers.
Lawyers represent their clients, like any other service job. They are not responsible for the political choices which appear to have angered some people.
It is undoubtedly the case that in recent years the right, including senior members of the government, have relentlessly attacked lawyers - especially in the immigration sector - and blamed them for political issues which we have no responsibility for.
Boris Johnson did it ("lefty lawyers") and Rishi Sunak kept it up, and people in high positions such as Suella Braverman (former Home Secretary and Attorney General) did it too, and still do it.
There was always going to be a cost to this personification of anti-immigration anger. It was a calculated choice to spread blame away from the politicians (who ultimately have responsibility for immigration policy).
And it cannot be unconnected that after attacking police and mosques, the far right move on to immigration lawyers.
I don't think the (mostly former) politicians have criminal responsibility, but they certainly have moral responsibility.
And I hope that this doesn't escalate as lawyers have so often feared in recent years.
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@DavidGHFrost Poor David Frost was Ambassador in Copenhagen when I was in Stockholm. That was before his elevation to (wholly unsuccessful) Brexit negotiator, pundit, etc went to his head.
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Medieval Miliband's plan for an energy system that depends on the weather is taking us back to the Middle Ages.
His unreliable high-cost low-power system is going to drive out of the country what energy-intensive production we have left.
Labour's energy policy is shaping up to be one of those collective madness, once-in-a-generation errors countries sometimes make - like Germany's error in junking nuclear.
We will all have to pay a heavy price for it - unless Starmer sees sense and junks Miliband instead before he does any more damage.
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband
It is time for the British people to own things again and build things again. With Great British Energy, we will. That is how we make our country energy secure and protect family finances. My piece on our groundbreaking deal today 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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