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It’s perfectly reasonable for the public to challenge an MP who made a vague, poorly-worded bill, who evidently doesn’t comprehend the ramifications of her authoritarian piece of law.
Three deleted tweets of hers showing so. Not out of context, precisely in context.
She fully admits she has no clue as to what her bill purports - ie, key words such as “unlikely,” “engaged with regulators” etc.
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Please check your car before you drive tomorrow.
Vet issues urgent warning to drivers this #BonfireNight “check under your car”
When startled by #fireworks, cats instinctively bolt in search of somewhere safe to hide, and the space underneath a parked car offers an ideal dark and enclosed shelter.
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Remember that fireworks can cause animals fear and distress. A vet who is set to spend #BonfireNight treating cattle and sheep spooked by fireworks says there is "no doubt" they suffer as much as family pets. The vet said in previous years she had treated cattle with broken legs that had jumped fences, performed caesarean sections on heifers in premature labour and rounded up an escaped herd that caused a traffic incident
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxj0…
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Keeping men out of women’s sports is common sense. Today I voted for that protection.
Conservatives are leading the fight to protect our women and girls.
This man epitomises professional journalism @jamesmatthewsky
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
Ems Barr retweeted
Incredible how @jamesmatthewsky keeps his cool here. Top journo
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
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Hear, hear !
The deliberate torture of animals in accordance with
barbaric seventh century thinking needs to be stopped
1,500 years later
Ems Barr retweeted
Graham Stuart on Politics Live on Louise Haigh: "She'll be the first convicted fraudster to take PMQs"
Ems Barr retweeted
After the appalling way colleagues at the @Telegraph have been treated, including @LiamHalligan, I’ve cancelled my @Telegraph sub and subscribed to this instead. Would urge you all to do the same.
substack.com/@liamhalligan/n…
Why is he touching him!!?
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
Didn’t realise it was april 1st - what on earth is going on !?
Ems Barr retweeted
The one thing most people - and almost all businesses- crave, is stability. The idea that the UK will benefit from reopening one of the most divisive chapters in modern British history would be good for this country is insane.
What do these people think would happen?
Even before the vote itself, we’d face more years of rage and paralysis while the country prepares to decide, not to mention the subsequent years of chaos as our status is renegotiated if govt tries to take us back in.
I supported Brexit. But if the vote had gone the other way, I - and I think most people I know - would have accepted the result and worked to ensure we got the absolute most from our membership of the EU. I just assumed the Remain side would do the same.
'Get over it': Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry's message on concerns about reopening 'divisive' Brexit debates.
Thornberry tells @CathyNewman that the UK could re-join the EU without a second referendum if it was included as a manifesto commitment at a general election.
Rare for me to say @lewis_goodall is 100% correct but this is bang on. I voted for & worked on the remain campaign but democracy means that sometimes you dislike the result - it does not mean you conflate “trying again til you like the answer” with voting for a political party
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Given that @labourpress is hyper active today (understandably) due to Tory conference - will they be putting out a statement responding to the Green racism this afternoon? Perhaps one for @bphillipsonMP as Chair and Equalities?
Define @Ed_Miliband this would have been scripted to the second .. 70th rehearsal.. rightly so for security reasons 👎👎👎
It looks and feels spontaneous, but is it?
A video of Ed Miliband having an apparently impromptu chat with Feroz Khan, an American social media influencer, on the streets of New York
Khan is an American social media influencer who has made a name for himself conducting seemingly impromptu interviews with people he stops in the street with a simple question: “What do you do for a living?”
The Miliband clips has already had more than 1million views.
But is it real?
In fact it has been carefully staged
There are several clues. The video shows Khan stopping Miliband in the street as he makes his way between engagements. “Excuse me, you have an amazing outfit,” he tells him. “What do you do for a living?”
Rather than walk on Miliband, surprisingly, stops and turns to face the camera. His aides, meanwhile, keep on marching on without even looking back to check who he is talking to. They don’t wait for him, disappearing out of shot
Even for a politician, Miliband appears to have rather well-rehearsed answers for Khan’s questions. “Hang on you’re that Feroz guy aren’t you,” he says. “You interviewed JLo once. What are you doing here?”
Khan replies with a compliment: “I spread positivity on social media and I happened to come across you well dressed. What do you do for a living?”
In a surreal exchange Miliband says he is the foreign secretary of Great Britain. “Please forgive me, I don’t know what that is,” Khan replies
“I’m like the Marco Rubio of Great Britain,” Miliband says. What follows is an extraordinarily soft interview on any level. Khan, who sees his job as “spreading positivity”, says: “Nice to meet you. What makes your work so special?”
The final clue is in the post itself. Khan posted it on his Instagram in direct “collaboration” with the Foreign Office and Britain’s UN mission, meaning it went up on their Instagram accounts at exactly the same time
thetimes.com/article/fd04b25…
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Gordon Brown survives in post!
In a cabinet office list of staff who have remained in No10 following the arrival of Andy Burnham, Brown and Sir Michael Barber remain
Full list:
Gordon Brown as Special Reviewer on Global Finance and Cooperation
Oli De Botton as the Prime Minister’s Expert Adviser on Education and Skills,
Hannah Bronwin as the Prime Minister’s Expert Adviser on Energy and Net Zero,
Victoria Buhler as the Prime Minister’s Deputy Adviser on Business, Investment and Trade,
Axel Heitmueller as Head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and Expert Adviser on Delivery,
Sir Michael Barber as the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Effective Delivery
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