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🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @calmeilles@mstdn.social


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Ooh! Looks like a good one.

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Heritage Foundation Head Refers to 'Second American Revolution' ...which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. Mmm…

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Full Moon by Witold Ochał.

witoldochal.blog/2021/03/28/w...

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This one is unadulterated delight.

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Former Welsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland says he’s “fed up” with Conservative strategy and “cheap populism” on losing his seat last night.

Tories will now have to decide whether to vere full fascist or resurgent One Nation.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Party leader, next prime minister, safe seat. Vote 17% down cannot be comfortable.

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One of the safest Labour seats* in the country sees a 16% DROP in the Labour vote. Similar in some other places giving large Commons majority, but far from a ringing endorsement. (* Despite the typical Guardian incompetence, not a new constituency.)

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So the buggers… sorry, burghers of North West Essex have totally failed in their task of shedding Bad Enoch. The 26% swing against her is not sufficient consolation.

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Oh, there's no danger of me going… 🤣

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I wonder if Mercer will finally realise, albeit too late, that being strident and belligerent is not appealing to constituents. I doubt it.

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Or clear out whatever junk (Johnson's party debris?) has accumulated in the press briefing room at №9?

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But… But… But Hands has a letter? Did it not do him any good? 🤣

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Liz truss Lost. Lettuce celebrate.

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Well, a dependent clause usually stops them in their tracks.

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America has a gerontocracy problem. It's self-sustaining because the longer the incumbents make their successors wait the more reluctant they in turn will be to retire in a timely manner.

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I (54) was on a Strategic Advisory Board call for a financial sector firm this morning. Everyone on the call was a current or retired *senior* banking or IM executive. Natural Conservative territory? Everyone was *rejoicing* at potential Tory extinction.

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Hungary’s presidency is a symptom of… the mechanistic ticking over of the calendar as the position is rotated through a predetermined order every six months. Granted that it doesn't make for a snappy headline.