Retired journalist. Fighting Tories, Trump and corrupt right-wing populism. EU rejoiner. Reclaiming Labour for centre ground. Change has finally arrived.
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As a Labour activist I fought Hezza for years. Challenging 'Tarzan' became an obsession. But on Saturday he almost brought me to tears. One of the most powerful, emotive, pro-Remain speeches I've ever witnessed. A veteran Tory grandee savaging May and the Brexiteers. Devastating!
Michael Helseltine's speech at the #PeoplesVoteMarch shows up Michael Gove & Boris Johnson for the posturing, casually destructive clowns that they are.
God help us if either of them becomes PM.
#Marr #Ridge
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Such a sad and ineffective little man that he can't focus on anything relevant he has to go back decades to try and undermine and point score.
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Young woman in the audience who was 16 at the time of the EU referendum, the most articulate person in the audience so far got no applause. Fiona Bruce and the producers have rammed the audience with Reform voters. #bbcqt
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I have heard it from far better people than you and they were wrong too. What I enjoyed was seeing you running away from an argument about Brexit because you would rather talk about anything else. And I loved the smile being wiped from your face when the young woman tore apart your net zero BS. You’ve not nice suits and nice shoes but you’ve got
more chance captaining the Sri Lankan cricket team than you have of becoming Home Secretary.
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"I should just point out that this is the ninth time we have invited unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf onto Question Time."
#bbcqt
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Very enjoyable evening in Warwick with an audience clearly supporting the idea that Brexit was a disaster and net zero is the only way to go. Nice of @libdemdaisy to be there on her birthday! We all drank to her health afterwards apart from @ZiaYusufUK who legged it with his status symbol bodyguard. Fascinating to see how he did not make a single positive argument for Brexit. They never do. He has lovely shoes though, but a very weak handshake which is never a good sign in anyone.
Tonight, Question Time is in Warwick
Joining Fiona on the panel are Emma Reynolds, James Cartlidge, Daisy Cooper, Zia Yusuf, and Alastair Campbell
Watch at 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds & the @BBCNews channel, 10.40pm on @BBCOne
#bbcqt
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Netanyahu’s bloc is down to 53 seats, while the anti-Netanyahu bloc has 67. Now UTJ is reportedly ready to back Eisenkot, potentially cutting Netanyahu’s bloc to just 46.
Even his own allies are looking at the exit. The Netanyahu era might be closer to ending than people think.
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Moments ago in Georgia, Senator Jon @ossoff:
"In six days, Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries."
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Putin called Elon Musk a genius and said Russia is in regular contact with him.
The US is discussing the return of US oil companies to Russia and lifting sanctions on Russia's government investment fund.
Lavrov will be at the G20 meeting in Atlanta this week.
There are no words.
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On the Nigel Farage/Caroline Voaden row. People (rightly) pointing out the video footage appears to show no evidence of a physical altercation. But yesterday Farage himself claimed there was a physical altercation. And cited it as the (new) reason for not attending the Budget.
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Parliament’s watchdog has found that Richard Tice breached the Code of Conduct on six counts following his trip to Israel. The rules require MPs to declare relevant interests when speaking in parliamentary proceedings.
He should have declared that his visit to Israel was paid for by Reform Friends of Israel during a debate on “pro-Israel influence on UK politics and democracy.”
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Mr. President, instead of spewing racist hatred against Abdul, explain to the American people why you:
- Gave the top 1% $1 trillion in tax cuts
- Threw 15 million Americans off the healthcare they had
- Unleashed brutal ICE raids
- Dragged us into an illegal war with Iran
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New CNN/SSRS Senate Polls:
Maine:
(D) Troy Jackson 49%
(R) Susan Collins 45%
Michigan:
(D) Abdul El-Sayed 49%
(R) Mike Rogers 42%
Kansas:
(D) Adam Hamilton 49%
(R) Roger Marshall 45%
Texas:
(D) James Talarico 49%
(R) Ken Paxton 43%
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"Hands up if you couldn't be arsed to attend Parliament then pretended you didn't go because you were avoiding a fight"
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Kemi Badenoch desperately re-writing history again over her support for the war in Iran.
At least she goes on to admit the Tories "weakened" the economy long before the war started.
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Angie Nixon is on fire.
She pulled off a huge upset in her Florida primary, and she’s going to do it again on Tuesday.
Let’s take on Musk and the billionaires. Let’s get out the vote and elect Angie Nixon to the U.S. Senate!
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Of the £431 billion projected benefits bill, 50% goes on State Pensions. 1/3rd of the rest goes to people in work.
Totally disgusting for the S*n to use the term ‘shirkers’ to attempt to divide people.
