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The Tories look set to lose their deposit in successive by-elections. They might even squeeze below 2% (again).
Finishing 3rd, among those parties on the right, would be a MAJOR moment.
I wrote about the end of the Conservative Party.
Aaron Bastani
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Aaron Bastani
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Co-Founder, Novara Media. Dad. Husband. Author of ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’. Column at UnHerd. More soon with Verso Books.
- Non halal meat is of course the result of animals tickled to death.The throat-slitting, animal agony section at Tesco 😡
- Gary Neville announces his hotels will have no redundancies, nobody will be asked to take unpaid leave, and both will be given over to the NHS immediately. Compare this response to Richard Branson
- Gaza: “9,000 civilians have died” Joe Biden and Sky News: “the Palestinians are massively overstating deaths for media attention - their numbers aren’t credible” The IDF: “we think we’ve killed 20,000 people”גורם ביטחוני בכיר: 20 אלף נהרגו מתקיפות צה"ל בעזה, רובם מחבלים
- I can't stop thinking about 1 sentence in today's UN report regarding Israel's genocide in Gaza. "Israeli security forces shot at & killed civilians, including children who were holding makeshift white flags. Some children, including toddlers, were shot in the head by snipers.”
- You’ve lost Gen X, sunbed America. It’s over. She just loves kids, and you can’t cancel her over Israel.
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00:47Ms. Rachel is total poison. Parents should not allow their kids to watch her indoctrinating garbage, which this parody is not very far off from. - A few years of this and a few European countries will be thinking maybe China is a better bet: at least you get good 5g, cheap EVs and high speed rail. This is a serious point.Elections have consequences
- I spoke to protest organisers earlier in the week, and they were confident today would be Britain’s largest protest since 2003. Looks like they were right.
- Walthamstow tonight. Will you retweet @elonmusk? You know - just to provide your 193 million followers with a rounded picture of national sentiment in the U.K.
- . @GBNEWS were setting up this taxi driver to slag off the rail unions about this week’s strikes. Watch what happens next. Not surprised the questions stopped there!
00:00 - This Birmingham bin man, & father of 5, is now set to be £8,000 a year worse off because of Birmingham council. The national media wants you to think hard working, family men like this are the problem. People like him are the backbone of the country.
- Watch the police smash in the window a man’s car after he was wrongly accused of concealing drugs. He was driving home from a TV interview about institutional racism in the police. x.com/kat_cary/statu…
