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18 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
How it started. How it's going.🔥
In other news...
I used to quite respect Andrew Neil, not least because he gave pretty much all politicians a tough time.

But since he left the @BBC he's become a pompous & insufferably arrogant arse, determined to polarise Britain even further.

All quite sad really.

Here's one I prepared earlier (May 2019 to be precise):

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UN human rights experts strongly reject the UK government-backed report into #racism & ethnic disparities, saying "the review further distorted & falsified historic facts, & could even fuel racism, racial discrimination, & negative racial stereotypes."

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The report attempts "to normalize white supremacy despite considerable research & evidence of institutional racism".
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Absolute state of Britain after forty long years of deregulated free market #capitalism.

The prison population in England & Wales increased substantially (by 90%) between 1990 & 2016.

Why?

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Eton exemplifies the world of archaic rules & unconscionable wealth, where only success counts - no matter how it is attained.

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I see #antifa is trending.

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