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The greatest tragedy is that all those people who really needed a Labour government were abandoned and betrayed by cultists who cared much more about indulging their own ideological projects than about the normal people who needed them to be electable
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"I'm interested in how he would do it, because it's not cheap."
BT Group Chief Executive Philip Jansen tells @pkelso on @SkyNews that the Labour Party has underestimated the cost of nationalising part of his company.
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It's swimming schemes like this one in Bangladesh the @RNLI has helped devise. A country where around 40 children drown every single day. They work with local groups and use their expertise to teach others essential skills. They should be admired not criticised
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Presumably, there are people on this planet who were adjudged less impressive candidates than Mark Francois by the Rayleigh Conservatives. Even in the context of Brexit, I find this almost impossible to believe.
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There is excellence at the top of the table, but the gulf in quality is deeply troubling. The more the financial divide widens, the worse it is going to get, writes @OliverKayTimes thetimes.co.uk/article/gulf-…
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Why, though? Why does Andrea Jenkyns think all these businesses are issuing warnings? Why would they do this if the UK is going to be a better place for business after brexit? A conspiracy between grocers, aerospace and car manufacturers to defraud the ‘people’? To what end?
Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns on food retailers warning of huge disruption if there’s a no-deal Brexit: “We expect businesses to come out with more fear-mongering as we get to the 29th March” l-bc.co/2RmS1M4
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This person is an MP. Airbus and associated supply chain supports over 100,000 jobs in the UK. Aerospace is one of the most important sectors of our economy, delivering the sort of high-skilled, high value jobs we need to prosper in the 21st Century. He’d rather re-run the 20th.
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Whenever anyone tells you Brexiteers knew what they were voting for, show them this video:
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Heseltine was always a charismatic figure, of course. But I don’t remember him being as eloquent, or ever speaking as movingly, as he does here
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People from a certain era will have some memories sparked when they see this picture. What a football this was!
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#Brexit has collided with reality and now the cowardly bastards who plotted its course scramble for the lifeboats squealing ‘it’s all her fault! We could have magicked the icebergs away!’
This is a crisis. The country has the right to speak again. We need a #PeoplesVote.
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Ok, it's high time to look at the REAL effects of Brexit 1/50
#marr #ridge #pienaar #bbcsp #bbcnews #BBCPolitics #C4News #itvnews #skynews #5news #bbcr4today #gmb #goodmorningbritain #r4today #bbcbreakfast #victorialive #politicslive #LBC #bbcpapers #skypapers #peston #Newsnight
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Brexit update: xitter.gq/NonAsthetic/status/105…
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I see the Woods-Mickleson ppv match costs $19.99, which, coincidentally, would have been the year I would have been interested in watching.
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Life on earth is being wiped out by humans living beyond the planet's means, according to the WWF. Since 1960, humans have wiped out 60% of animals.
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