Former GA President; Geog author, people person, gay husband, Dad to 3 spaniels, music lover. All views mine. Lefty & woke. 🏳️🌈 Also @bobdigby on Blue Sky
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In which @AnnabelDenham1 reveals herself as a fervent Reform supporter. My grandmother who loved the Telegraph (in the days when it had quality) would turn in her grave if she knew that shallow right-wing click baiters like Dunham held senior posts on the paper. Detestable.
Jun 3
Victoria Derbyshire, "Keir Starmer telling Nigel Farage he has exploited the Henry Nowak case, is he right?"
Telegraphs' Annabel Denham, "Err, no, I don't think the PM is right"
Labour's Tom Hayes, "I'm just shocked by that, you've got a grieving family going through some of the worst experience anyone can ever know, and they've called on Nigel Farage not to exploit the death of their boy; and he literally did that in the House of Commons"
"Nigel Farage was given the opportunity to condemn the violence, which he himself incited, by calling for protests. He could have condemned the violence"
Annabel Denham, "Do you truly believe that the people in Southampton would have not taken to the streets in response to that sickening footage?"
Tom Hayes, "I spoke to the Southampton MP, the vast majority of people in their city protesting, came from outside Southampton"
"On top of that, Nigel Farage said this evening that there will be more to come"
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Jun 1
Just a few ways in which in under two years Labour have been quietly fixing our country after 14 years of Tory/LibDem Coalition damage.
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School discipline 'like putting child in lions' den'. I thoroughly detest this climate in which schools treat students & parents like military fodder. I’ve known Athena Trust secondary schools for years & they were well run by Cornwall Council. Not so now. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye…
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May 13
Kemi Badenoch - a women who thinks what matters is being rude rather than being right
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May 10
This should be one of the top stories. Not a peep on @BBCNews early evening bulletin. Even more sinister there’s no mention anywhere on the BBC News App #GetHarborneOut
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May 11
Out of curiosity, why is there so much pressure on Starmer to resign
But no pressure on Nigel Farage who took a £5,000,000 gift from a foreign billionaire and coincidentally started calling for the very thing the foreign billionaire wants for the UK, crypto deregulation?
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May 11
Thoughts from a Labour MP:
“We have to face up to the fact every single one of them is fucking useless. Andy’s strategy has been a disaster. Angela bottled it. Ed clearly a hiding to nothing. Wes AWOL. God knows what Catherine West is doing. Not quite sure how we ended up here.”
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May 11
The fuckwits on the Labour back benches are virtually handing the keys of No10 to Farage and Reform.
I’m am beyond disgusted with every single one of them.
Traitorous bastards they are, short-sighted and spineless.
@UKLabour
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I am so disappointed in the Labour MPs calling for a change of leadership. We are 2 years into government and they are just playing into the right wing media's hands and paving the way for Reform.
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May 11
Morning Bob. A rock that looks like an Iguana head for you
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May 10
"Keir Starmer was elected with a five year mandate and, quiet properly, he intends to see it through."
NI Secretary @hilarybennmp says the PM is a serious politician for serious times
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May 8
There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK
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"So yes, Labour receives my vote today. Not because I am Jewish, despite the now inevitable attempts to drag everything through the prism of ethnically coded allegiance. Not because Sir Keir Starmer happens to be married to somebody sharing my own heritage. And not merely because Labour has at least attempted to confront antisemitism institutionally while others have preferred equivocation. Labour receives my vote because, amid all the smoke, mirrors and mediated excitation, it remains the only formation in Lambeth that still appears to possess enough institutional memory and municipal DNA to govern a borough of this complexity with any residual sense of fairness."
#VoteLabour
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The quality of this morning’s @BBCr4today is raised considerably by the excellent @BBCkatyaadler - superb features such as her interview with @BBCSteveR. More please, and ditch the ever-interrupting aggressive styles of the usual crew.
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3 May 2002. Labour politician Barbara Castle died (aged 91). She was Labour MP for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979. As Labour Transport Minister she introduced permanent speed limits, breathalysers and seat belts. As Employment Minister she introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970.
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Apr 28
He did it politely and diplomatically but King Charles just reminded Congress:
• NATO was there for USA after 9/11
• British Troops did fight in Afghanistan
• Ukraine needs our help now
• executive power must be subject to checks & balances
• ice-caps are melting
• America’s natural wonders need protecting
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This chart might look political, but it’s really about data science. The UK can rank great or poorly depending on the KPIs you choose. Our choice of data decides how we view reality.
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