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@docrussjackson
Apr 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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The Andrew Neil Code Of Conduct:

Take a tweet & deceptively suggest it implies something it doesn't.✔️

Use it to misrepresent the tweeter & attack #GBeebies' competitors.✔️

Amplify it to his servile 1,179,521 followers - 414,012 of which are, like him, fake.✔️

#drawandrewneil
⚡️Public Service Announcement⚡️

Use the hashtag #drawandrewneil to find magnificent entries to @MartinRowson's competition.

Deadline for entries: April 8th.

Credits for entries in previous tweet:

@mrleft1980
@DavidWaywell
@kevinwellsart

#GBNews credit: @Coldwar_Steve
Let's take a look at the "impartial" #GBNews presenters who definitely won't in any way be part of a partisan echo-chamber, that definitely won't in any way be just like #FoxNews, & definitely won't in any way seek to divide even further our already dangerously polarized country:
Right-wing Michelle Dewberry – Brexit Party candidate
Right-wing Inaya Folarin Iman – Brexit Party candidate
Right-wing Alexandra Phillips – Brexit Party MEP
Right-wing Dan Wootton – ex-Sun Brexiter
Right-wing Tom Harwood – Brexiter
Right-wing Liam Halligan – Brexiter
But #GBNews hasn't even started yet!

Why would anyone think it will almost instantly turn into #FoxNewsUK?🇬🇧

In 2018, Sky News Australia sparked outcry after it broadcast an interview with a far-right #nationalist #extremist who has expressed his admiration for #Hitler
Sky News Australia CEO Angelos Frangopoulos said “It was an error of judgment".

Angelos Frangopoulos is now CEO of #GBNews.

Draw your own conclusions - but don't say nobody warned you.

theguardian.com/australia-news…
The generous @BBC employed Mr Neil on & off for 25 years.

How does he repay their generosity? By slagging them off as some kind of 'woke mob', when even a cursory glance at the evidence demonstrates this is yet more self-interested misleading #bullshit:

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🚨 Prof Brooke Harrington has researched the ultrarich for 25 years & offers some terrifying observations about the aims of the new breed of super-wealthy tech barons, #Broligarchs like Thiel, Musk, Mercer etc - the real 'Sovereign Individuals'.

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The truth is that these ultrarich Broligarchs want to reorder society, giving rise to threats to women, to minorities, society & democracy, all while bypassing accountability.
They will push women out of public life; deny kids a rounded education; remove sensible regulations & laws designed to help keep people safe; & they will further normalise crypto, which will have seismic, destabilising & potentially catastrophic consequences for the entire world.
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🧵Call a General Election?

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WHO BY?

Started on 20/11, by 11am 4 DAYS later, it had 509,095. The 2019 Revoke Article 50 petition got FOUR MILLION signatures in 48 hours! Image
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#THREAD

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First, what is 'international law'?

Broadly (it's complicated!) it refers to the body of legal rules, norms, and standards that apply between sovereign states and other entities that are legally recognized as international actors.
The term was coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). According to Bentham’s classic definition, international law is a collection of rules governing relations between states. This original definition omits individuals and international organizations.
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"Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government."

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At the Rivonia Trial, between 1963 & 1964, Mandela gave a dramatic speech from the dock.

John wrote in 2013 “When I read that, I knew that I wanted to enter politics. He was my ­inspiration. So when he walked free in 1990, we felt as if one of our own comrades had been freed.” Image
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Allison Pearson posted then deleted disinformation, falsely accused three people of being "Jew haters", lied about where the photo was taken & what they were doing, then lied about what the Police said to her - and then moaned about being a victim! FFS

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The Telegraph's divisive shit-stirrer Pearson falsely claimed she was told by the police who came to her home it was over a “non-crime hate incident”. Her lie was then dutifully amplified by every Reform UK MP & billionaire-owned right-wing "news" media, painting her as a victim.
Essex Police said “At no stage... was she informed that the report being investigated was being treated as a non-crime hate incident. To suggest otherwise is wholly inaccurate and misleading.”
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Pearson, Farage, Musk, Young, Habib, & many other shit-stirrers who shamelessly try to normalize hateful, divisive, provocative & inflammatory rhetoric, often refer to George Orwell's 1984, but Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is much closer to the dystopia we inhabit... Image
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The UK is signed up to Article 10 of the #ECHR: everyone has the right to free speech, which may only be qualified in limited circumstances, including: national security; public safety; the protection of morals & of the reputation or rights of others.

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