Monday 9th December 2019
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Monday 9th December 2019
Morning all.
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Morning all.
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BREAKING: Arlene Foster says she’ll never trust Boris Johnson again, coming as a shock to many as it implies she once did.
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Good morning, everyone.
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Ha ha, but that series is arguably partly responsible for where we are now.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
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BREAKING: Arlene Foster says she’ll never trust Boris Johnson again, coming as a shock to many as it implies she once did.
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To go with what Sky and Anatoly were saying last night I would add this, posted at 9.57pm on the 2017 General Election day.
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Gisela Stuart is out campaigning with Boris Johnson in Sunderland.
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I'll see your Gisela Stuart and raise you John Major and Tony Blair.
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Why is it always so quiet on here come Mondays?
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So Boris Johnson, unwilling to take responsibility for the state of NHS after 9 years of Tory government, reacts by confiscating a journalist's phone and putting it in his pocket?!
I'm not sure what's more worrying. The callous disregard for the suffering of a 4 year old boy, the attempt to dodge responsibility for his party's poor record on the NHS or the sheer arrogance that makes him think he can just swan off with someone else's personal property.
If people have been waiting for the mask to slip, then this is it. And if people vote in ignorance of his true character on Thursday, the mainstream media will be largely responsible because he's given them more than enough material to show the nation what their current and wannabe Prime Minister is actually like.
I'm not sure what's more worrying. The callous disregard for the suffering of a 4 year old boy, the attempt to dodge responsibility for his party's poor record on the NHS or the sheer arrogance that makes him think he can just swan off with someone else's personal property.
If people have been waiting for the mask to slip, then this is it. And if people vote in ignorance of his true character on Thursday, the mainstream media will be largely responsible because he's given them more than enough material to show the nation what their current and wannabe Prime Minister is actually like.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
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When is a punch not a punch?
Answer - when someone not looking where they're going walks into someone's arm who isn't actually facing them...
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Answer - when someone not looking where they're going walks into someone's arm who isn't actually facing them...
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A lot of egg on faces over that "punch"...
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Looks like Laura K and Robert P were played for mugs there (again)
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Any evidence that the pointing man was a Labour activist?
Or was it a non-punch from non-Labour?
Or was it a non-punch from non-Labour?
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Is there any apology for the lie and slanderous reporting?Tories forced into climbdown over claim aide was hit by Labour protester
Video later emerges showing adviser walking into activist’s arm
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Good morfternoon.
ITV’s Robert Peston has blamed “senior Tories” for telling him and other journalists that a special adviser to Matt Hancock, the health secretary, had been assaulted by anti-Tory protesters outside Leeds general hospital. Subsequently video footage shows that the aide, Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, was accidentally hit by an outstreched arm. (Politics Live, Guardian)
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Nothing in the way of an apology from Laura Kuenssberg. There's a strange "Tweet" from her which is rather ambiguous. She'll probably say it was intended to be "humourous".Robert Peston
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It is completely clear from video footage that @MattHancock's adviser was not whacked by a protestor, as I was told by senior Tories, but that he inadvertently walked into a protestor's hand. I apologise for getting this wrong.
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Laura Kuenssberg's "Tweet" -
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Have video from Hancock leaving Leeds General just come through so you can see for yourself - doesn’t look like punch thrown, rather, one of Tory team walks into protestor’s arm, pretty grim encounter
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'pretty grim encounter'PorFavor wrote:Laura Kuenssberg's "Tweet" -
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Have video from Hancock leaving Leeds General just come through so you can see for yourself - doesn’t look like punch thrown, rather, one of Tory team walks into protestor’s arm, pretty grim encounter
Kuenssberg's reporting? Yeah.
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She's hilarious, isn't she?
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I wish she were.PorFavor wrote:She's hilarious, isn't she?
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Speaking of hilarious things that really aren't, I don't know if anyone else watches C4 News, they had a jaw-dropping undercover report from Hartlepool about the Brexit Party. What delightful people they attract.
It'll be on +1 soon after half-past.
It'll be on +1 soon after half-past.
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Watched it. Bloody hell.
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Looking like the Tories have actually made things worse, not really the time to do such a thing. Still, I'm not complaining.
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Good for John McDonnell!Tories forced into climbdown over claim aide was hit by Labour protester
Labour attacks ‘bare-faced lying’ after video shows adviser walking into activist’s arm
The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, accused them of lying and attempting to manipulate the media after Conservative sources claimed on Monday afternoon that the adviser to the health secretary had been hit by a protester at Leeds General infirmary during a campaign visit. (Guardian)
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General election 2019: Boris Johnson's bad day shows election not over
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Steele had 'personal' relationship with Ivanka Trump, DoJ report reveals
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A tortured innuendo, the mark of a true British spy.
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The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele had a “personal” relationship with Ivanka Trump and gifted her a “family tartan from Scotland” as a present, the long-awaited report by US Department of Justice inspector general, Michael Horowitz, revealed on Monday.
A tortured innuendo, the mark of a true British spy.
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Goodnight, everyone.
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Andrew Sparrow thinks this about BJ not looking at the photo
Really? and thenIt is not as bad as when Gordon Brown called a woman a bigot in the 2010 campaign for raising concerns about immigration,
Could it be that most Labour voters thought Brown was right?post-election analysis subsequently concluded that bigot-gate had no effect on the result at all. Labour even won the constituency where the voter was insulted.
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Hearing that Angela Rayner has "smashed it" in a TV debate for the second night in a row
I am aware that the fundamentalist wing of Corbynism don't fully trust her, but she is nonetheless impressive.
I am aware that the fundamentalist wing of Corbynism don't fully trust her, but she is nonetheless impressive.
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