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Sacked Wetherspoons social media team claims “misuse” of data for VoteLeave “scam”

April 17, 2018

JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin claims he closed down the group’s social media accounts because they were taking up too …

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Some of my family were murdered in a Nazi concentration camp, so do not accuse me of anti-semitism for supporting Jeremy Corbyn

March 26, 2018

Jonathan Arkush – the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews  – is smearing Jeremy Corbyn with lies about anti-semitism. …

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Want a real spy scandal? How about the aristocratic Conservative spy who was NEVER prosecuted?

February 22, 2018

Heard the one about the Tory Old-Etonian Lord who despite being caught spying for the Japanese – giving them the know-how to …

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How our incompetent leaders are leading us into a disastrous Charge of the Brexit Brigade

February 9, 2018

The infamous and tragic Charge of the Light Brigade is the story of an out-of-touch leadership so blinded by over-confidence …

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Leading hard brexiter buys EU citizenship for himself and his family

January 30, 2018

Billionaire Christopher Chandler is the founder and the main backer of the Legatum Institute Foundation which has been advising Theresa …

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Heart attack? Patients dying after waiting hours for ambulances blamed on cuts to NHS services

January 24, 2018

Before the Conservatives started cutting frontline emergency services, ambulances could usually be relied on to arrive within minutes of being …

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Former Tory chancellor George Osborne raking in cash from company that shorted Carillion collapse

January 15, 2018

Former Tory chancellor George Osborne is being paid £13,000-a-day by US fund managers BlackRock: BlackRock had shorted its investments in Carillion …

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Disgraced Carillion chief now director of firm in charge of inspections at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

January 15, 2018

Carillion – the firm handed millions in contracts by the Tories – has just gone into liquidation leaving thousands of …

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Fox hunting thugs beat up protesters. Police do nothing.

January 2, 2018

. Time to totally ban this barbaric activity once and for all.

Tory Party pockets cash from pro-Brexit US firm putting British farmers out of work

December 13, 2017

Sugar producers, Tate & Lyle campaigned heavily for Brexit. That’s not surprising, as Tate & Lyle uses sugar produced by …

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Tories allowing wealthy landowners, developers to kill robins, eagles, starlings, bats and hen harriers

November 30, 2017

Since coming to power, the Tories have been granting permission for wealthy landowners and developers – many of whom are …

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Tory MP caught red-handed sharing pro-Brexit fake news on social media

November 27, 2017

I was a bit surprised to see Tory MP for Gloucester Richard Graham announcing on Twitter that US corporate giant …

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BBC uses ‘wrong’ clip on Newsnight of Jeremy Corbyn’s reply to budget

November 23, 2017

This is truly extraordinary. The BBC has admitted it used the ‘wrong’ footage of Jeremy Corbyn in its reporting of …

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BBC use ‘independent’ organisation funded by Daily Mail and UK government as fact checkers

November 19, 2017

Recently the British Medical Journal published a report compiled by researchers from various universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and University College …

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Tory MP hails clampdown on student visas – after getting one for his Brazilian girlfriend

November 13, 2017

Tory MP Robert Halfon has been crowing a lot about how the Tory government is controlling immigration by clamping down …

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Gobsmacking hypocrisy as Brexit stronghold town seeks EXEMPTION for itself from Brexit

November 10, 2017

UPDATE: Brexit strongholds Cornwall, Wales and Stoke-on-Trent have joined Grimsby in demanding exemptions for themselves from Brexit. The Lincolnshire fishing town …

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Did rival faction use sex scandal to target pro-Brexit MP Kelvin Hopkins

November 7, 2017

UPDATE: Surprise surprise. The latest smears are also from a member of the rival anti-Corbyn faction fighting for control of …

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Statement from Kelvin Hopkins MP on allegations of harassment – ignored by most mainstream press 

November 4, 2017

Kelvin Hopkins MP statement on allegations of harassment against him has been pretty much ignored by most of the mainstream …

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How Theresa May is being ‘shepherded’ to a hard Brexit by a multibillionaire Dubai-based New Zealand fund manager

October 13, 2017

Chances are you’ve never heard of multi-billionaire New Zealander Christopher Chandler. Chandler heads a private, multi-billion-dollar investment fund based in …

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The Canary has been set up. Laura Kuenssberg WAS listed as a speaker for a Tory Party event.

September 27, 2017

The Canary has been attacked for producing supposedly fake news after it claimed BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg was listed …

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Grenfell Inquiry held in Conservative Party supporting luxury hotel group

September 14, 2017

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry opened today in the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms. An advert for the hotel was prominently …

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Privatisation and handover of British policing to G4S is already well underway…

September 4, 2017

Many people will have been shocked by the revelations of G4S guards abusing detainees in an immigration centre as revealed by the …

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How the press lied about the little girl staying with Muslim foster parents. Here are the facts.

August 31, 2017

The tabloid press (and I include The Times and The Telegraph in that description) lied about the story of the little …

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BBC censors quotes: UK manufacturing “eliminated” and car production “run down” after hard-Brexit

August 20, 2017

What’s happening with the business hacks at the BBC? They seem to have come over all right-wing tabloidy. A bizarre …

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Brexiters threaten female MP with “another Jo Cox episode”

July 22, 2017

I thought the violence directed at remainers would stop after Jo Cox MP was tragically murdered for supporting remain in …

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Tory MP calls police on serving firefighter who questions his expense claims

July 22, 2017

Posted on Facebook: A serving firefighter, London fire Brigade: On Friday I went to see my local MP, Crispin Blunt …

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Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins DELETES picture posing with neo-nazi Holocaust denier

July 18, 2017

Katie Hopkins is in Sicily with a bunch of far-right loonies who are supposedly trying to single-handedly stop refugees from …

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Pet dog out walking savaged by fox hunting thugs linked to Prince Charles

July 15, 2017

Fox hunters are not the well-dressed, refined people some think they are. The real fox hunters are basically little more …

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Businessman under fraud investigation for Grenfell fire alarms linked to former Tory Party treasurer

July 5, 2017

The contractor responsible for fire alarms at Grenfell Tower is being investigated by fraud squad police, several arrests have already been made. The …

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UNPRECEDENTED coordinated campaign by FIVE titles to put immigration back at top of agenda

June 26, 2017

The Mail*, the Sun*, the Express* and the Telegraph* may have similar views, but they are separately owned entities. The …

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