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Phil McLaughlin

Phil McLaughlin

@pmacbrum

Politics, law, Aston Villa & rugby.

Katılım Şubat 2015
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Phil McLaughlin
Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
Arsenal weird fans section dressed in black.
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Phil McLaughlin
Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
@paulmasonnews @Keir_Starmer Socialist, you're joking? They're SDP. Starmer must've known any reasonable vetting process would rule Mandelson out. I did & I'd bet you did if you were truthful with yourself. He's an electoral liability, moved to right but not far enough to gain support & alienated the left.
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Paul Mason
Paul Mason@paulmasonnews·
There is simply no basis for any MP - inc grandstanding Labour dissidents - to vote for @Keir_Starmer to go to the privileges committee. It's in black & white that he followed the rules. This is the first socialist govt since the 2000s - you want to destabilise it for what?
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Phil McLaughlin
Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
@JohnCleese Surely you are not that ill-informed to think that there are such courts that have precedence over English law. They are voluntary and nothing they decide is binding in English law.
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Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
@JamesAl56594884 @anika_climate What formed my opinion about it was their own pronouncements on Indefinite Leave to Remain and how they intended to treat people who have been here for a long time and already had Indefinite Leave to Remain.
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James Alexander
James Alexander@JamesAl56594884·
@anika_climate Actually, it was watching your supporters behaving like rabid lunatics outside local asylum seekers accommodation that formed my opinion. A person's skin colour is immaterial - its the person inside that counts.
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Anika
Anika@anika_climate·
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WE The English people have had ENOUGH!!!!Get out there today on Reforms National Action Day and speak to all your neighbours and make sure they’re voting in the local elections on the 7th of May.
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Phil McLaughlin
Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
@Phillyconcarne You can't base so much on the fact that you are a bit of a bogey team for Villa. There are other teams you'd need to beat.
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• Phil • 🏆🏆
• Phil • 🏆🏆@Phillyconcarne·
Great for all the clubs involved but this is one of the lowest standard europa semis ever. We’d have suited this competition far more with how open most of them play. If it was us instead of Forest I wouldn’t have been worried about any of those teams (obviously Villa are too but Glasner has their number). So frustrating. You know it won’t be this weak if we’re in it next year
Fabrizio Romano@FabrizioRomano

Who’s gonna win the Europa League? 🏆✨

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Lucy Connolly
Lucy Connolly@LucyTCWife·
I think I speak for the majority when I say, we are utterly sick of this carry on. They are making parts of London no go areas. Get a job, and some actual problems in your life. If you feel you would like to make a difference in the world there are 1000s of UK citizens that need your help. I’m happy to give you a list of causes you could help or indeed individuals that could do with some support and advocacy.
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Phil McLaughlin
Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
@paulmasonnews Voted Labour my whole life until the last GE. I cannot bring myself to vote for such a dishonest Party. As for calling it socialist, that just confirms the delusion.
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Paul Mason
Paul Mason@paulmasonnews·
The Green Party has become a magnet for antisemites. The Labour left learned the hard way how to deal with that - seems Zack isn't bothered - and thousands of decent Green Party members now getting the reputational blowback ...
London Labour@LondonLabour

.@ZackPolanski wants to talk about shared values. But let’s talk about shared leaflets, platforms, and campaign launches with Bernard Mani. What was it about all that bad press that suddenly changed his mind- when his views had been out in the open for years?

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Phil McLaughlin
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@LucyTCWife @reformparty_uk ...and as grown adults we should be able to communicate our disagreements without slinging mud and wanting people cancelled or inciting violence against them - fixed it for you
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Lucy Connolly
Lucy Connolly@LucyTCWife·
I would just like to set a few things straight. I support Reform as I happen to think they are the last chance we have to save the country. That is my opinion, I’m not asking you to agree. I voted for @reformparty_uk in the last GE before it became trendy to do so, or before I appeared at their conference in 2025. I am not on their payroll. I have not signed a NDA 😂 They do not tell me what I can or cannot say. All opinions are my own! If they did or do something I disagree with I would happily say so. They are a political party, with the best will in the world they aren’t going to get everything right all of the time. You also have the right to disagree with decisions they make. You can’t please all of the people all of the time and as grown adults we should be able to communicate our disagreements without slinging mud and wanting people cancelled. I will be voting @reformparty_uk in the next GE because that is MY choice.
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Phil McLaughlin
Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
@paulmasonnews Anything to say about Starmer's judgement re Mandelson? Imagine booting out Jeremy Corbyn, but holding on to Mandelson. What kind of Party are you a member of?
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Katharine Merry
Katharine Merry@KatharineMerry·
*and if anyone sees/has the view of the ball being out hit me up … I will fully concede if the whole ball is out … but come on .. let’s see it for god sakes 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Monchi
Monchi@leonsfdo·
Mi madre ya descansa junto al hombre de su vida, como ella quería, su marido y nuestro padre. Quiero dar las gracias en nombre de mi familia y en el mío propio a todas y cada una de las personas y entidades que han perdido un momento de su tiempo para hacernos llegar un mensaje de condolencia por tan doloroso acontecimiento. Nos sentimos, dentro de los duros momentos vividos, orgullosos y felices de saber que era tan querida. Abrazo de corazón para todos
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
Labour’s NEC blocks Burnham’s request to stand by 8 votes to 1. A function of how Starmer & the Labour right rigorously control bureaucracy. The stuff about Corbyn being a ‘Stalinist’ was all projection by these people. And the liberal media was idiotic enough to believe it.
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Aaron Upright
Aaron Upright@ImAaronUpright·
@jmwind Mark is great, and you’re great. But “warming up” someone that was a governor of the Bank of Canada and then the Bank of England prior to your interview is a bit of a stretch man, cmon.
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Jean-Michel Lemieux
Jean-Michel Lemieux@jmwind·
I interviewed Mark Carney for a job. It was 2021. We were looking to bring in a board member or executive who could help us think about entrepreneurship in the context of the global economy. I was asked to interview a guy named Mark. I Googled him. He had a decent CV. In our call after brief introductions, he jumped straight in and said, “I see on Strava that you’re a runner and you live in...” It threw me off a bit. He had clearly done his homework. Borderline stalking. We talked about running for a while. He was good at small talk. He casually mentioned that he runs marathons now and then. Mental note: he does his homework. Also, is he distracting me so I do not get to my questions? I started worrying he would try to schmooze me instead of getting into anything substantive. In my defence, I had done some homework too. I had not stalked him on social media, but I had read several articles he had written. I learned that he leaned strongly globalist and believed that most of our challenges do not respect borders and will only be solved collaboratively. I wanted to see if he could argue against his own position. More specifically, I asked when countries should invest in self-reliance. For context, I explained how, in software, we have learned that purely centralized systems fail in obvious ways. But overly distributed systems fail too, when small issues propagate across too many dependencies. I asked whether societies behave the same way. Are we sometimes too decentralized? When should countries accept less efficiency and invest in more centralization or self-reliance? He smiled. I could not tell whether he thought the question was childish or whether I had annoyed him. Then he broke the silence and said, “This is a great parallel. Give me a second to think about it.” We ended up having a great conversation. That said, it took him a lot of words to make his point. Professional talker. He liked the exercise. I could tell he had spent so long defending global collaboration that he had not fully prepared for this angle. I did not know it at the time, but he was in the middle of writing Value(s), which is essentially an ode to global cooperation. We went over time. It did not faze him. He cared about finishing the discussion. At that point he was improvising, and it felt natural and fun. It was a genuinely thoughtful discussion. I learned a lot. In the end, he did not join us. But we all wanted him to. When I see him in his current gig, a small part of me laughs that I might have helped warm him up. The more I think about that conversation, the clearer it becomes that he probably did not want his current Prime Minister role. Not in the way people want promotions or titles. Some people spend a lifetime preparing for problems they hope never arrive. When the moment shows up anyway, they step in. Not because it is appealing, but because it is necessary. This just happened to be his moment.
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Laila Cunningham
Laila Cunningham@policylaila·
The Mirror are about to publish a politically motivated hit piece on my 92-year-old mother’s business in an attempt to undermine my campaign to tackle crime in London. They’re basing this on anonymous, unverified, and anecdotal claims of crimes committed on the premises from years ago. These are stories that could have been made up by anyone, with no evidence, no verification, and no due diligence. Just desperation. Let me be absolutely clear: this is not journalism. It’s a political witch hunt by a far-left outlet scraping the barrel because I had the audacity to take on Sadiq Khan. I have no role whatsoever in the running or management of the business, a small B&B. But for my mother, it holds a special place in her heart. She came to Britain with nothing, grafted, saved, and eventually bought that building. It symbolises everything this country used to stand for: hard work, opportunity, and reward for effort. Every hotel faces its challenges. But to attack a 92-year-old immigrant woman for her grit, work ethic, and contribution to Britain based on anonymous online comments is gutter journalism and frankly, beneath contempt. If any of these alleged incidents ever did happen (and there’s no evidence they did), they only highlight the lawlessness and decay that Khan cheered on by rags like The Mirror has allowed to fester in our capital. Instead of manufacturing smear stories, journalists should be quizzing me on policy on how I’ll fix policing, restore order, and make London safe again. That’s what Londoners actually care about. When reporters stop telling the truth and start acting as political hitmen for their chosen side, they stop serving the public and start serving entrenched power.
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Phil McLaughlin
Phil McLaughlin@pmacbrum·
@AVL8ton @laggers61 Well, to be fair you could argue with it. My bin is collected every week and there's no Sharia law affecting me living in Birmingham. So it's just racist and anti-Birmingham nonsense.
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L8ton 🦁Grand Duke of Aston
If Gallagher does indeed choose Spurs over Villa then it says more about him wanting London lifestyle whilst playing in a very average team, over playing for a club with a world class elite manager, real talented team and massively on the rise. So if it is Spurs, so what... #avfc
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𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚
Thank you, Donyell Malen. Genuinely sad he’s leaving. He bought excitement to the team with his pace, directness and willingness to shoot from anywhere, filling the gap Jhon Durán left. A very good player who knows where the back of the net is. Good luck in Rome! 🇮🇹🫡 #avfc
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@HakunaMatata26C Because whilst the evidence and reasons relied on may have been flawed, there were in fact good reasons to prevent those fans from attending. West Midlands' Police performance has dramatically improved since the current Chief Constable took charge. That is to the benefit of all.
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