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14 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Fingers crossed it's nothing serious
This is weird: the first ever mention of the pandemic beginning on social media that I can find, a day before any news reports.

The first time COVID-19 was ever publicly discussed seems to have been on 30th December 2019 on a website called LIHKG, which is Hong Kong's version of Reddit.
The first message posted on the website - at 3.46pm on 30th December 2019 - says 'WeChat is crazy' (WeChat is a Chinese instant messaging service)

Then then post a series of WeChat messages indicating chatter about SARS which would be very interesting if someone could translate

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14 Dec
The fact they took a photo of them violating rules millions were forced to endure shows they are as contemptous of ordinary people as they are plain thick.
Our national humiliation summed up in one photo: we are ruled by people who hate us and who are also deeply stupid.
You can guess all of their boring terrible opinions just by looking at them Image
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8 Dec
If Allegra Stratton was such a good journalist why did she rip off my undergraduate thesis lol
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7 Dec
Literally joking about having a Christmas pissup in No. 10 while people couldn’t even hold the hands of their loved ones as they died in hospital wards
We don't all tell our partners everything that happens in our lives, of course.

It would still be useful if @JGForsyth - husband of the PM's aide on camera here, best man to Rishi Sunak, political editor of The Spectator - publicly clarifies if he knew about this party.
Who are the next guests on @JGForsyth's podcast? They have a very basic journalistic duty to ask him about this party.
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6 Dec
Anyone who's had people with drug addiction in their lives knows it's a health problem.

They've often suffered trauma, and can't get the support they need because it's so badly resourced.

Yet the Tories propose further criminalisation purely to pander to clueless reactionaries.
What's worse is politicians *know* legal crackdowns on drugs don't work

In 2002 David Cameron said: "I ask the Labour government not to return to retribution and war on drugs." As Prime Minister, he pursued those policies

They're doing this entirely for cynical partisan reasons
Watching politicians inflict pain on some of the country's most vulnerable people for electoral gain and nothing else isn't new, but it doesn't become any less nauseating.

Labour too know the war on drugs is a failed madness, but they're now defined by cowardice and nothing else
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3 Dec
This is very worrying for Labour - and for hopes of kicking out the Tories.

The swing against the Tories was lower than the average swing against every single government since 1997.

Lower, in the fact, than the by elections of 2017-2019, and we all know how that ended.
The Tories are in a huge mess over corruption and broken promises, and they’ve presided over a catastrophic handling of COVID.

Labour should be tearing them to shreds.
Some of the responses are so delusional it’s frightening.

Oppositions do better as a rule in by elections than they do in general elections.

You can see that from the graph. It’s right there, at the top of the thread. By election swings aren’t replicated at general elections.
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29 Nov
Total bollocks being briefed by Starmer's team.

Angela Rayner's office have said she wasn't consulted on or told any details about a reshuffle.

Rayner herself said on radio this morning she didn't know anything about a reshuffle and Starmer would have told her first.
Keir Starmer's team have a habit of briefing things which are not true.

In this case, they're (once again!) briefing against Starmer's own deputy - essentially accusing her of dishonesty - while she's doing a massive speech on Tory corruption.

It's as nasty as it is shambolic.
Starmer's team's treatment of Angela Rayner:

😡 Scapegoating her for the Hartlepool defeat and sacking her

😡 Briefing against her choice of clothing

😡 Only belatedly defending her when she was subjected to death threats (angering her friends)

😡 Now this.
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