@DPJHodges Would be great if the Mail did some serious investigatory journalism on this and how the message is amplified. Step towards making up for all the stoking the flames its done previously...
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British and EU citizen. Brussels based. Views my own and subject to change/internal inconsistency.
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I’m going to ask this again. Where is Musk currently? Is he in the States? Is he actually sitting there in the early hours of the morning trawling for anything to attack Starmer with? It’s so weird. Where’s all this coming from?
Josh Self@Josh_Self_
Just Elon Musk quote tweeting the co-leader of far-right party, Britain First, who is sharing a fake Telegraph headline Seen by almost 1 million people in 15 minutes Utterly dystopian
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@DPJHodges Fully agree. But let's not lose sight of the fact that Labour just won a huge landslide on a policy of scrapping the Rwanda plan, see also labour's other immigration policies. So anti immigration isn't necessarily the 'will of the people' however much it's being portrayed as such
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Again. The tensions surrounding immigration need to be addressed and tackled directly. But they need to be addressed and tackled because large numbers of law abiding British citizens have asked for them to be addressed. Not because racists torch police stations and hotels.
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@danielmgmoylan @UKLabour There is nothing democratic about legislators appointed for life just because they sucked up to a political party.
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Imagine a European democracy in which the first thing a new govt does is to oust a bunch of its opponents from the second chamber explicitly to fill their places with its own supporters.
Russia? Hungary? No. Welcome to the brutal reality of power under @UKLabour
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@JamesCleverly Tories gutted the armed services over 14 years. Time for some silence for a while?
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Dithering Starmer has no plan for our nation’s defence.
We don’t need another review, 2.5% is a minimum.
We need to get to 3% as soon as possible.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
I promised to deliver change. I promised action not words. One of my first acts is to launch the Strategic Defence Review to bolster and respect our Armed Forces, responsibly increase defence spending and keep you safe. A new approach to tackle international threats head-on.
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@kateferguson4 There's surely lots under the bonnet that doesn't get published? Journalists should also be asking the Tories 'so what was your plan for prison overcrowding?' etc. before blindly publishing their criticisms of the government.
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I get why Labour politicians are saying- woah, now we are in Government and have seen the books everything is MUCH worse than we feared.
But why aren't journalists following up by asking the obvious question....
What is worse? Name the revelation.
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@Walianohohoh @JuliaHB1 @unherd Just asking journalists to look at the original sources not a secondary report from a publisher which specialises in publishing non-traditional opinions (which I support, but the output of which need to be seen in context).
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@zombiecitizen @JuliaHB1 @unherd Take it up with @unherd , it's where that picture was clipped from:
unherd.com/2024/07/is-mac…
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Some more policies from the victorious hard left NFP coalition in France... as detailed in @unherd 😳
Aelwyn 🏴🇬🇧@Walianohohoh
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@Walianohohoh @JuliaHB1 @unherd That contradicts the list previously circulated on this thread! See eg nuclear power as an example - says its not mentioned. And it's from the Telegraph which isn't exactly renowned for its accuracy or unbiased content these days.
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@claireharr @JuliaHB1 Dominant voice in a coalition does not equate to it being a hard left coalition. Those are not a list of policies we'll be seeing. Not saying it's all rosey but it's not what a lot of UK commentators are claiming it is.
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Fascinating to watch the "centrists" cheering the victory for the hard left over Le Pen's party in France. These parties are so left wing, they make Jeremy Corbyn look like Tony Blair. 😂
The Guardian@guardian
French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third #Echobox=1720375592" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/world/live/202…
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@claireharr @JuliaHB1 That's not the left alliance's policies, it's the far left - a small proportion and less votes than Macron's party?
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@zombiecitizen @unherd Have you heard of this new thing called "Google"?
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@JuliaHB1 @PhillipsPOBrien Please - it's just not true. Hard left got fewer votes than Macron's party. The left coalition got more - but theyre not all hard left?
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Maybe, just maybe. the French (and Europe mostly) dont want to blow up everything. This is so important for Ukraine.
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@claireharr @JuliaHB1 That's not the manifesto, but more a collection of the crazier policies from some of the parties. Bit like adding together policies from a range of parties including monster raving loonies and claiming that's the policy of the bloc. It's simply not.
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@LangdalePete @mrjamesob Thought so. Will take a good few years to prep a second EU referendum so Farage's timing works for me.
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Farage wanting a second referendum (on electoral reform) is, I confess, one of the very few examples of his epic dishonesty & devotion to double standards that I didn't predict...
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Quite amusing to see uk commentators opine on French elections based on what one can only imagine is what they read in the Mail/Express/Times. Where to start: PS are not hard left?
Julia Hartley-Brewer@JuliaHB1
Fascinating to watch the "centrists" cheering the victory for the hard left over Le Pen's party in France. These parties are so left wing, they make Jeremy Corbyn look like Tony Blair. 😂
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@Dannythefink Just remember that only a few weeks ago Greg Hands was still waving around a joke letter about there being no money left to to give the impression that it says something about labour. No reason for us to forget the actual damage the Tories have done with brexit and Truss.
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No. The Labour Party will be talking about the Truss government for a decade.
Kate Andrews@KateAndrs
There is one party that will miss Liz Truss: the Labour Party. There is no more scapegoat. There is no more fall guy. It’s all on Labour now to come up with solutions. It may quickly miss having someone else to blame. @TeleBusiness column 👇 telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…
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@GoodwinMJ Then don't call everything woke then? You know that's not how you and the media use the term 🤷♂️
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Woke is not "being nìce". Woke is embracing a radical ideology that consistently prioritises minorities above the majority, is hostile toward truth & free speech, & seeks to deconstruct Western societies
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Janet Cobb@JanetCo14998097
@GoodwinMJ Woke Labour? Woke =aware of social injustice.
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@GregHands Maybe not misleading people with a joke letter from years ago when the tories were racking up debt hand over fist?
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Thanks to everyone in Chelsea & Fulham for your inspiration and the opportunity you gave me to serve for 19 years.
Being your MP has been a great honour.
And to serve the country 🇬🇧 as a Government Minister for over 11 years.
Congratulations & good luck to my successor.
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