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Guitarist with soon to be rock legends Burning From The Inside. Likes beer. A Lot. And likes a lot of beer.

Manchester
Joined July 2012
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Anyone know how Liz Truss's first day at Microsoft is going?
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The Tories are running a fake fact check scam against the BBC debate. See how they've renamed and rebranded their website to make it look like something it's not. Spread the word. Don't let them get away with it. #bbcdebate
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A reminder that this is Conservative central office masquerading as an independent factcheck on Twitter tonight (they did the same thing in 2019).
Keir Starmer wants to talk about what he did before politics. He should tell the British people about the terrorist groups and hate preachers he defended. Don't put Britain's national security in his hands. Don't let him surrender our borders. #BBCDebate
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The official Conservative Party Press Office is fraudulently posing as a fact checking service. It has form for this and also did so at the 2019 election. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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Tax Check UK is trending because it’s the Tory party press office pretending that it’s an independent verifier Spread the word Tax Check UK is officially yet more Tory lies One week of this to go Coordinated tactical voting at stopthetories.vote
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I don’t mind paying more tax if spent on public services and elderly people aren’t pissing in bottles or dying in A&E corridors on trolleys like they are under those Tory bastards. But our taxes have been spent on yachts, cocaine and sex workers by the Tories. #BBCDebate
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When your loved one does end up in care with dementia you'll discover that "foreign care workers" and their "dependents" are not the problem. They are your saviours. The problem is the government that will do fuck all to help you. Extend no state provision. Leave you all to rot.
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Dido Harding £37bn for a Test and Trace scheme that didn't work and was the worst in Europe. £100bn for a High Speed train that goes nowhere. £14.9bn PPE fraud, banned from investigation. They are STEALING all your money. #BREATHTAKING
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Conservative, Brexit Britain wanted to return to the good old days of empire. Where the Jacob Rees Mogg's of this world could strip the natives of their wealth. But the commonwealth countries didn't play ball So we got plan B Strip working Brits of their wealth It's working
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Give the NY Times credit, they've nailed conservative Britain.
This is how the UK govt is perceived in the US
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Of course we are in a recession! They build nothing… Create nothing… And refuse to invest in the country or the workforce. Instead, they pilfer the public purse for themselves! How can the country grow when those leading it are only interested in their own personal wealth?
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Sometimes you just need a simple video to point out the bleeding obvious… Do you see where we’ve been going wrong yet?
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Where did the John Smith politics go?
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The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short. 2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site. We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing. Michael Gove covers it up. Time to get a real investigation.
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Pensions are 'unsustainable', the NHS is 'unsustainable' and now the Post Office is 'unsustainable', or so we are told. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.
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They're desperate for this to be deleted so please DO NOT share it. It's only fair with the election just around the corner 👍
Exclusive footage of Rishi Sunak challenged this morning by a former health worker on the state of the NHS, - captured by an off duty @skynews camera operator
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Rob BFTI retweeted
🧵 February 6th will be the 1 year mark of Manchester City being charged with breaking 115 financial regulations following a 4 year investigation into financial reporting from 2009-2018 & handing over documents required between 2018-2013. This includes things such as pay to Roberto Mancini, not providing full details of players’ salaries & more. City beat the UEFA charges due to time barring - they weren't innocent, that is an important distinction. Most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time-barred, CAS said this. City's refusal to cooperate with UEFA, it helped them there. It does not do the same with these. While having a public stance of innocence, City's behaviour legally & behind the scenes gives away that they know of their wrongdoing. As someone who works in this space as a CMS, there is only one reason to not abide & fight handing over documents requested as part of your financial reporting requirements. Go figure. Manchester City can work around FFP because of these breaches, it has allowed them to operate differently to everyone else. There is no footballing success without it. It facilitates everything they have been able to do. While Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool are up against FFP, what City has done has allowed them to circumvent it. In a world where we see what is happening to Everton & Nottingham Forest, what City has done to football can't go unnoticed. It should constantly be at the forefront of conversation, even if it makes people uncomfortable. They can bury it in denials, spend until it goes away, but it does not take away the stains against any bought success. They are cheats, not against rules that are 'unfair', but are the bedrock of giving clubs a chance to build themselves naturally & from the ground up.
Everton and Nottingham Forest deserve punishment but would Manchester City be treated this toughly? As the wait goes on over their alleged 115 breaches, the answer is clearly no. ✍️ @henrywinter on the Premier League’s tone-deaf posturing. Read below 🔽 thetimes.co.uk/article/silen…
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I remember on my one and only appearance on @bbcquestiontime with Richard Tice and then Tory MP Claire Perry in a very pro leave seeded audience in Darlington - being shouted down from all sides . Both Tice and Perry were bragging that evening to the audience that they had just been to visit the site of a proposed Freeport in Teeside. I commented it was a cover for poor wages and tax dodging to howls of outrage
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Well, well, well. Gillian Keegan's husband used to be UK CEO of Fujitsu. The incestuous relationship between the Tory Party and big business briefly emerges. @GillianKeegan @RishiSunak @Conservatives Better get it all hidden again before the British people find out.
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I am going to post this every day until everyone knows Please do the same. So many people are unaware
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A snapshot of rental costs vs household income for the past 30 yrs. But yeah, the boomers are right, it’s all down to buying avocados and fucking Netflix isn’t it? No wonder we feel hopeless. We never stood a chance. Hedgefunders and Tories have prospered though, funny that.
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