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Laura Kuenssberg will be able to tell you. Just drop her a line.

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Doing the Downward Fox.

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He's got some sound policies.

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Not sure whether to feel pleased, or slightly embarrassed, but I got 25/28 in this quiz. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Congratulations!

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It'll soon be mobility scooters, stairlifts, and walk-in baths.

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An unfortunate turn of phrase...

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Oh, absolutely. They need to be ground under the heel of the electorate, just like they've been doing to us for all these years.

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Great Californian Train Journeys?

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More desperate Tory dirty tricks.

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That's the second champagne cork that's interrupted play at Wimbledon this week. Never let it be said that the tournament is elitist.

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Horrible. That's why I hate crowds. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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That and so many other wrong takes from the lunatic right-wing commentariat.

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I was in a bar in Utrecht in September 2016 and got chatting to a local who said that the UK had done a fantastic thing by voting for Brexit. I told him that we definitely hadn't. Wonder what he thinks now?

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JFC. No, just no. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Urgh. Wrong.

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I hope he makes it in a river, filled with the literal and metaphorical shit that he and his party have inflicted on this country.

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😆

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Kos that was the right thing to do. Okay, think I'm running out of lettuce puns now.

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Hopefully, the loss of her seat will just be the tip of the Iceberg for the Tories.

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Who the hell hates the Netherlands? It's on my list of countries to flee to if push comes to shove.

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There's definitely a lot of hand-wavery going on in most hard sf, but we put up with it for the SOW.

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Lettuce pray that she does lose her seat.

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Opened the front door today to the smell of petrichor and bonfire smoke. Remind me what month this is again?

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He already has, many times.

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Sadly, there's a photo of #NigelFarage in his y-fronts wearing a t-shirt that says 'Will Suck Putin's Dick for Fascism'.

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I think we've all been in a taxi with a driver whose opinions don't...gel with ours. That said, I had a lovely conversation with a woman cabbie in her 60s in Cambridge recently about the ongoing threat of Covid, etc.

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No tip for them, then.

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I see what you did there. 😆

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That, as well, of course. 😁

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I was literally in tears when Huw Edwards announced the result at around 06.00. I make no apologies for that. It was, and always will be, a monumental mistake.

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Apologies to Billy, but there's only one song called 'Vienna' that da kidz should be listening to... www.theguardian.com/music/articl...

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I stayed up all night for the #Brexshit referendum. This will be my cold, sweet, revenge on all the bastards responsible.

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Fair play. This week feels like the run-up to Christmas for people who hate the Tories. Booked Friday off, have beer and snacks for election night...

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Already done by postal vote.

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Time for an investigation into military animal abuse? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

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That's the instrument that I was thinking of.

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Aha, yes!

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Baby balalaika?

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Of course, he has nothing to lose, but, even so, well-played.

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He's been the one joyous ray of light in this election campaign.

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Absolutely. Supposedly serious journalists like Peston, Kuenssberg, Rigby, etc. are guilty of amplifying his vile agenda. Enough, already.

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Utter desperation in the dying days of the election campaign. trying to out-Farage Farage.

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That's definitely on my bingo card for them. I reckon he's had them both. 🤮

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Hoping that #Channel4 and #BBCNews will do a link-up between #LauraKuenssberg and #NadineDorries on election night, so we can watch them melt down in real time.

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I think my favourite AB story has to be 'The Willows'. Robert Lloyd Parry does a fantastic performance of it. youtu.be/gFdYJJrvJVU?...

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Ah, happy days before 'WD' became a Warhammer house organ. The 'Bar-room Brawl' scenario, etc.

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'"Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire...!"'

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I didn't need another pen. Reader, I bought another pen.

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Ah, but they're only a handful of them who share those views and they're politically naïve. Isn't that right #NigelFarage? www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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