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Paul Carter retweeted
In her final exchange with the prime minister, Kemi Badenoch thanks Keir Starmer’s family for the support they have given him in his time in office
He replied saying he knows the Leader of the Opposition is “the most difficult role in politics”
#PMQs bbc.in/3T52WQ6
Paul Carter retweeted
It's *insane* that Reform's argument is "the bin guy is the establishment" when the argument "how would he do constituency casework" is *right there* in front of them.
But: 1. Farage has no interest in casework and 2. Reform are so 'very online' they need to defame a bin.
Paul Carter retweeted
This point is being missed Vance is saying British Sikhs aren't really British - it's pure racism from our supposed American "ally"
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What Reform should do is stop taking Tory Wets like you. I've responded to my critics here (xitter.cf/GoodwinMJ/status/20360…). All you do is criticise Reform & our campaigns. I have no idea why you are even in Reform unless it is to try and weaken it?
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Paul Carter retweeted
Trump at perhaps the most dangerous of his presidency- simply, he looks like he’s lost control of events.
Paul Carter retweeted
This is a very odd post from a Conservative who says he believes in freedom of expression under law and is a principal spokesman of the Free Speech Union.
I appreciate that he does not like Islam and there is no reason why he should. As a Christian it is not my faith.
But the use of Trafalgar Square ( with permission) for religious events Christian and other goes back a long way. There have been prayers and hymns, chants and religious events performed there in the past. If such an event 'shouldn't happen again' it raises the question of whether this is to apply to all religious events or just to Muslim ones. If to all, then we are moving like France to imposing secularism as a norm and it is contrary to our national tradition and does not seem to have helped develop social cohesion there.If just to Muslims then it is an act of discrimination against them without any lawful basis. To achieve it you would have to enact discriminatory legislation targeted at Muslims. Is this what Nick Timothy is advocating ?
Some reporter needs to get to the bottom of what's going on with John Cleese. It is deeply deeply weird. It's either a historically significant case of radicalisation or cyber account theft. Either way, mad and standing to his reputation.
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A complete mystery why this guy didn't win.
An astonishing statistic from Oxford’s Dr Patrick Nash:
Up to 50% of the Muslim community in Gorton & Denton practice cousin marriage, which is “a good predictor of higher rates of electoral fraud allegations”
Another reason to ban cousin marriage mol.im/a/15601353
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Paul Carter retweeted
FYI Gorton and Denton is majority white, there are nearly as many atheists (27%) as there are Muslims (29%), and it was a high turnout.
You want to blame losing on the brown people, then you're a racist.
PS anecdotes about Asian wives talking to reporters about how they vote would be more useful it was a female reporter. From experience: totally different answer.
Paul Carter retweeted
My Dad was INVITED to UK in 1955, served as an RAF officer & got an MBE. 1948 British Nationality Act made it legal for British subjects from Caribbean to live & work here. Britain faced post-war labour shortages & actively recruited across the Commonwealth. Documented history.
Paul Carter retweeted
Matt Walsh and these other right-wing empty men who think they're avatars of über-masculinity particularly hate Alex Pretti because he exemplified the virtues they love to extol but are too cowardly to actually embody.
They cosplay as trad men by dressing up in campy plaid shirts and sitting in podcast studios with a log cabin aesthetic.
Alex Pretti went to the street to fight for causes he believed in, protected and helped others in both how he protested (he was helping two women when ICE grabbed him) and in his work as an ICU nurse. He lived the values they pretend defines them, all while they lack the courage to ever do or risk anything. He's a reminder to them of what they're not: a mirror showing their own fragility.
That's why they feel vicariously strong watching ICE agents shoot him in the back and killed him.
This sounds decent.
TRUMP's Chagos Distraction
👉He agreed the deal - going halves (UK pay the lease - US pay the base upkeep. ~£100m a yr each.
👉Int'l court decisions against UK were non-binding (so ignore them?) A binding decision would only follow.
👉 The history?
We got the islands by accident - after ceasing all Napoleon's overseas assets (including Mauritius) after defeating him.
👉Only in the 60's (when Mauritius sort independence) did we peal Diego off and develop it with the US as a base.
👉Rightly or wrongly - this is why int'l courts have sided with Mauritius over sovereignty.
👉Trump's team were involved in the new deal. He called it a 'good deal.'
👉He raises this now as a pushback from efforts to annex Greenland.
👉Let's not be distracted.
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Paul Carter retweeted
Statement from the Nobel Foundation
One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind," and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed.
For additional information, please refer to the Norwegian Nobel Committee: nobelpeaceprize.org/press/pr…
Kudos Kemi
I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect.
I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party.
The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I. They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in THIS government.
I will not repeat those mistakes.
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