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I block transphobes on sight just as I block racists and homophobes so don't waste your time with your bile, bigotry, nonsense and verbal abuse.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Heard an #LBC reporter say that the villages around RAF Fairford are a quiet corner of the Cotswolds. 🤣 I'm a fair few miles from Fairford but my peace is regularly shattered by the roar of American bombers. Where do broadcasters find these people?
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Pat McFadden has spoken of young people 'who sign on for sickness benefits when they are twenty years old....' which misleadingly implies that someone can claim state sickness benefit with zero medical evidence and zero involvement of the DWP. Same deception Tories practice.
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Chris Philp says tax increases are a red line for the Tories. Pity they weren't in the previous 14 years when they took tax to its highest level for 75 years. And Tories have broken their election promises on tax repeatedly over many decades.
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Helpful of Laura Kuenssberg to tell Burnham that he's the Prime Minister. She's done it twice now. #bbclaurak
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"Young Bob" who was arrested today reminds me of Bernie Winters. I think it's the teeth. (if you understand that reference you're probably not as young as Bob).
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RT @ASLEFunion: ASLEF has a proud history of championing the rights of trans women and non-binary people. That’s why our Annual Assembly o…
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I have huge admiration for Health Care Assistants but I'd prefer an annual review of my chronic condition to be done by a doctor not an HCA as is the practice at my surgery. But maybe I'm being too picky.
No-one has issues with pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, paramedics etc doing advanced practice in their base profession The ONLY concern is when they are working AS A DOCTOR - in a doctor’s role/rota How this has become remotely controversial is absolutely mind-boggling?!
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RT @IndiaWilloughby: Great to see the unions make this statement on Labour’s disgusting trans apartheid ahead of conference. Withhold Labou…
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"I've got America on the brain" says Justin Webb after getting the name of the following programme wrong. Yes, that and trans women. I'm surprised there's room for anything else in his brain. #r4today
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I've always liked Jordan Stephens. A decent and humane person.
Jordan Stephens from Rizzle Kicks, who has been friends with Ed Sheeran for years, has entered the chat, and he even emailed him. “This whole political neutrality, the total playing down of what’s happening in Gaza, and the use of the word ‘conflict’ in his statement were appalling. It was an appalling statement... It’s a genocide, and he knows it’s a genocide, as well.”
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Briefcase Michael retweeted
Under Nelson Mandela, South Africa became the first country in the world to ban transgender discrimination within it's constitution. Try again
Replying to @ThomasBarter
I’m fairly certain both Nelson Mandela and Genghis Khan knew what a woman is.
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Briefcase Michael retweeted
That is as daft as saying Nick or indeed MPs should be paid with a benefits card because their pay is taxpayer money. Claimants are legally entitled to the money the DWP provides and once transferred it is theirs as much as wages.
It's not their money. It's taxpayer money. It's quite nice to hear these things said aloud again...
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Unusually BBC News at Six reported the Tory policy of restricting what some people can spend welfare payments on without including any comments or criticisms from other parties or charities. High fives at Tory HQ! #BBCNews @BBCNews
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"Lib Dem's". Reform members often have worse English than many immigrants.
Thank you to @antmiddleton who turned up to Portsmouth Council last night to speak passionately about the illegal migrant small boat arrivals in the area. His message was clear. Our borders are broken and need to be fixed. Lib Dem’s and Labour voted against a motion to say no to anymore boat arrivals arriving in our area.
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This Spectator journalist appears to have a tattoo on her arm. What's the world coming to? My eye test isn't until tomorrow so I can't decide whether it's a hen or a cocktail glass. #PoliticsLive
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Old codgers like me may remember the UK Foreign Office's black propaganda unit, the Information Research Dept, that existed from 1948 to 1977 and placed anti-Soviet smears and disinformation in the media. #PoliticsLive
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Marina Hyde says people using X are working for Musk. Er, you used to work for Rupert Murdoch, Marina. #r4today
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Just got up so haven't looked yet but I'm sure plenty on social media will be showing how profligate with taxpayers' money Helen Whately is in her expenses-funded lifestyle. #r4today
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