@JadenLister You’ve only said you’ll cut tax on overtime, what’s the housing policy? and you want to reduce min wage for young people, not very inspiring mate 🤷♂️
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Mr Tea
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Reform UK will put young people first! 🇬🇧
Vote Reform in the upcoming Makerfield by-election 🗳️
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@ZiaYusufUK Why isn’t the actual candidate doing this? Is he allowed to speak?
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@Nigel_Farage @RobKenyonReform Ffs, everyones grandad or great grandad fought in the war!
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Cllr Rob Kenyon served his country. Now he’s fighting for its future. 🇬🇧
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@DPJHodges You reckon that’s Kenyon being allowed to post the words on that account?
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Oh man. Kenyon now going directly for Lowe.
Cllr Rob Kenyon@RobKenyonReform
I used to respect you Rupert. Restore have never wanted anything to do with this area. But now someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth is trying to lie about the only working class local man in the race. I want net negative immigration.
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Well done, Hope Not Hate, you’ve really knocked it out of the park with this one.
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@DPJHodges Don't you think there's a sliding scale of degrees of privacy?
I can understand how people with thousands of followers think everything is public. To small accounts this website feels like it works very differently.
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Tom Harwood@tomhfh
This is why the 'pile on' phenomenon of a larger account critically quote tweeting a small account often feels like a violation. Making very public something that was likely considered semi private by the author. It's a mistake to conceive of Twitter as 'a public forum full stop'. I don't think there is as clean a public-private binary as we often describe. A (private) whatsapp group chat message could be *more* public than a tweet into the ether from an account with minimal following. And even more so than a tweet reply. We haven't had these concepts for long enough to have agreed upon norms here. But I think instinctively (as in pile on example) we feel that there is a sense of privacy to a smaller account - privacy that can be violated.
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Don't understand what the Kenyon debate is. Jokes with friends in private is one thing. But Twitter is not a private space. It's a public space. It's why we all come here. If you want to stand for public office accept that and take responsibility. Or go and do something else.
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@BellaWallerstei Agree, being from a council estate working class background myself, I felt insulting that some people just expect that’s how we all are.
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Nothing is more insulting to men than politicians excusing misogyny as “just banter.” Men are fathers, husbands, brothers and sons who support & champion women in their lives. Smearing ordinary men to score political points is as offensive to men as misogyny itself is to women
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Does anyone know of a man with a van who could bring my daughter and her stuff back from Manchester the weekend after next? Not that much stuff. Could fit in the back of a car with back row of seats down. Can pay £250.
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Just met Robert Kenyon fantastic guy, local plumber and will make a fine Reform MP for the people of Makerfield .
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Great to be up in Makerfield supporting @reformparty_uk candidate @RobKenyonReform with @RobertJenrick.
It’s clear that only local lad @RobKenyonReform can beat Labour here!
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Makerfield matters 🩵🇬🇧
Cllr Rob Kenyon@RobKenyonReform
I’m honoured by the support from people right across Makerfield. Thank you 🙏
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Patriots have literally set up camp in Makerfield. Legend. 🇬🇧
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@haguesy10 Why do footballers all do the up and down arm dance 😂
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@archer_rs Prob looking for a new house in Europe using his EU passport.
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I have just received a very interesting text message from a friend at Reform UK HQ. According to their latest canvassing returns, Restore Britain is currently on 18% in the Makerfield by-election.
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@RichardALJones @mdbuckley Is it distraction that’s caused this? Social media, internet, smart phones?
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A good FT piece from Martin Wolf arguing, rightly imv, that at root of UK's political woes is a 20 yr long slowdown in productivity growth
"a good economy — one with widely shared economic growth — is a necessary condition for political stability in a liberal democracy"...
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@RichardALJones @mdbuckley Why have we never recovered from the financial crash?
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@Mark_H_87 @RobKenyonReform Cos he’s a plumber and local and drives a white van of course 🤷♂️
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@RobKenyonReform I'm still not seeing anything about why people should vote for you...
Right now we know more about your sexual fantasies than we do about your fantasy policies
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I’m honoured by the support from people right across Makerfield. Thank you 🙏
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I don't know about you, but if I was Prime Minister and my wife suddenly started spending hundreds of thousands of pounds I wouldn't even think of asking about it, 'cos that's what gets you places in politics; a complete lack of curiosity about your allies.
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There's a really interesting point buried in here - which is about what counts as private.
To most people on Twitter Dot Com, their tweets are never seen by anyone beyond their immediate social circle.
Opinion formers do not tend to understand this because they by definition have significant followings, so every tweet is naturally going beyond their immediate social circle.
To someone with hundreds of thousands of followers, of course Twitter is a public forum. To someone whose tweets are never seen by anyone other than their mates, it doesn't feel quite so public.
Then there's the even-less-public level of replies to tweets. Sure accessible by anyone but almost never thrown up in people's algorithmic news feeds.
Of course, it's abundantly clear that people say things down the pub that they wouldn't in formal or more public communication.
What isn't so clear is whether a twitter account with a hundred or so followers is more akin to down the pub chatter than formal political communication.
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani
The Carol Vorderman tweet was on Christmas Eve?! 🤣 Wholesome family activities!
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