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24 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Bring bring. Hello? Is that the dob in a slackarse dole bludger hot line? Yes? Great because I've got a really hot tip for you. This guy is supposed to work for me, but he's only turned up 40 days in the last year! And when he does turn up, he's just blowing his own trumpet. /2
What is his job? Well he's supposed to be fixing everything. Yeah, like a builder, but other stuff too. No! He does bugger all. Sends me picks of him building a chicken coup in a suburb where you can't keep chooks! How is that supposed to help? /3
He's a real poser. Turns up for work in a girl's netball top, and gets the boys to take his photo. I'm serious! One day, he sent me a picture of him cooking - seriously - it looked like dog doo, but the wife says it was Pal. /4
He signs on as Scumo, but I don't think that's his real name. The boys call him "Tricky" or "Trixie" so perhaps he does some work on the side. Yes - that's right. When can you pick him up? What? I don't what you to leave him here! He's as useless as a left footed long weight!

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A duck walks into a pub, orders a drink and a sandwich, sits at the bar and reads the paper. The landlord says, " Don't get many ducks in here. Where are you from ?"
The Duck says," I am working on the building site over the road. I am a plasterer". /2
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. /2
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@emmadegotardi When I lived in the US, it was explained to me that the country ran on the backs of an underclass that was paid poorly, had no health care and no pension. Essentially these people replaced the black slaves following emancipation. /2
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Why Boris Johnson is not the new Churchill:
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Churchill, while ambitious, was at heart insecure and modest; Johnson is an egotist.
Churchill served in the army extensively; Johnson served himself.
Churchill’s policies were liberal/left although conservative; Johnson’s are extreme right. /3
Churchill largely educated himself; Johnson was educated at Eton and Oxford.
Churchill preferred to work, and did his best work, in coalitions. Johnson hasn’t done any good work; /4
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