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More than half Tory candidates in North East live 100s miles away from constituencies

December 5, 2019

There are 22 constituencies in the north east of England during the election, where the Tories are trying to make …

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Candidate changes name to Mr Brexit Party – barred from using it – now stuck with name for life

November 14, 2019

A Brexit Party parliamentary candidate was so angry by Nigel Farage’s decision to stand down party candidates in Tory seats, …

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Facebook claims UK introducing blue passports after Brexit vote is fake news

August 27, 2019

Interesting. Recently I shared this info-graphic on Facebook: I have received a message from Facebook that this has now been …

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Police insp who shopped Diane Abbott for drinking on train faced disciplinary for far-right comments

April 20, 2019

The retired Met’ Detective Chief Inspector who took a photograph of Diane Abbott MP drinking a mojito on a train …

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More Brexiter lies: No – the Revoke Art. 50 petition is NOT being faked by Russian bots or fraudsters

March 22, 2019

According to leading Brexiters, the petition to revoke article 50 (sign here) allows people to sign multiple times, allows non-Brits …

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May’s Brexit disaster unreported by UK press: Britain BLOCKED from $1.7 Trillion in WTO projects

October 22, 2018

Theresa May’s kowtowing to the hard Brexiters in her party may have just cost the UK $1.7 Trillion of access …

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Gobsmacking hypocrisy! Daily Express uses European Convention on Human Rights to defend itself!

October 21, 2017

Arch-Brexiter the Daily Express has campaigned tirelessly not just for Britain to leave the EU but also to leave the European Convention …

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US data scientist claims leading Brexiter tweeting from Moscow!

August 24, 2017

This is interesting. David Jones (@DavidJo52951945) – who claims to be British and to live in Southampton – is one of …

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Chris Grayling praises webpage calling Jeremy Corbyn a c*nt – calls for more negative campaigning against Labour leader

July 14, 2017

In an extraordinary article for Conservative Home, senior Tory cabinet minister Chris Grayling claims the Tories did so badly at …

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Tory MP author of ‘How To Win a Marginal Seat’ … lost his marginal seat on Thursday

June 10, 2017

Gavin Barwell’s book ‘How To Win a Marginal Seat‘ was heavily praised by top Tories as a textbook on effective …

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More BIZARRE behaviour from Theresa May as she LOCKS journalists out during visit

May 2, 2017

UPDATE: Strange and unstable Theresa May is losing it: today she accused the EU of being in a conspiracy to …

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Desperate, underpaid NHS paramedic tells Theresa May: “I’ve seen things no one should have to witness”

April 28, 2017

A paramedic has written a moving description on Facebook (see below) of the difficulties he has to face every day in …

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Watch as a factory worker being talked at by hapless Theresa May is revealed to be wearing ear plugs!

April 26, 2017

There is an extraordinary video tweeted by independent publication The Pileus which shows a nervous Theresa May visiting a factory …

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The etymology of the name ‘Donald Trump’ means ‘The Great Deceiver’ in old English

November 12, 2016

Apparently evangelical Christians in the US voted en masse for Donald Trump because they believe it is “God’s will” that …

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Surreal post-Brexit Britain: UK trade negotiators with Australia and NZ to be … erm, Aussies and Kiwis!

September 7, 2016

Amazingly – New Zealanders and Australians are to negotiate with themselves over post-Brexit trade deals with UK In a desperate …

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Lily-livered Brexiters too timid and too scared to stand up to their own leaders’ lies

September 2, 2016

I’ve already said Remainers should get their balls back, but now it’s time for Brexiters to do the same. As we all know, …

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Oops! Labour suspends disabled woman used in Owen Smith PR campaign

August 30, 2016

Owen Smith’s campaign team have been busy distributing to the media a photograph of the Labour leadership contender with a disabled …

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The racist thugs who are Andrea Leadsom’s fox hunting friends

July 6, 2016

UPDATE: Leadsom is now trying to hide her support of fox hunting and the racist thugs at the Grafton Hunt …

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10 things more likely to happen to you than winning the Vote Leave Euro 2016 competition

June 7, 2016

The Vote Leave campaign is running a competition offering £50 million in prize money to anyone who can correctly guess the result of every …

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Labour is not anti-semitic – it is more Jewish than the Tory Party

April 28, 2016

Despite a concerted smear campaign in the right-wing press, pro-Israeli Tory MP Andrew Percy reckons Labour MP Naz Shah is not antisemitic: …

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Americans don’t use the word ‘queue’? Oh yes they do …

April 24, 2016

This has been bugging me for a few days now. So many headlines and articles have been mentioning as a ‘fact’ that …

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Focus group member tells Tories: After what Gove did to education I could hang him up by his b*ll*cks

April 23, 2016

Tory peer Lord Ashcroft has decided to spend some of his money on focus groups around the UK to find …

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Cameron’s Britain: unemployed lose benefits for having a beard (not satire!)

April 23, 2016

The new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Stephen Crabb has a beard. So it’s strange that the DWP seems …

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White House hits back: Farage and Johnson claims on Winston Churchill bust “100% false”

April 23, 2016

In a desperate attempt to smear the US president, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson are both claiming that on Barack Obama’s …

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Try going to the Vote Leave Brexit campaign web address to see how incompetent they really are

April 15, 2016

Oh dear. You’d have thought with all those experienced senior Thatcherite professional politicians in charge of it, the Vote Leave campaign …

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Cameron supports right of media to denounce Jesus – but not himself?

March 23, 2016

Houses of Parliament officials were instructed today to stop broadcasters and journalists from reporting on protests critical of David Cameron’s …

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Locals in Tory constituency offered £180 bribes (of taxpayers’ money) to support fracking

March 3, 2016

The Cameron government is desperately trying to drum up support for fracking in a Tory held constituency by offering local constituents £180 …

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Squeeze troll Cameron live on TV: “some here are hell bent on the destruction of the welfare state”

January 10, 2016

Appearing on the Andrew Marr show this morning, legendary group Squeeze trolled fellow guest David Cameron by changing the words …

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UKIP announces its annual conference in Wales … gets its Welsh all wrong

January 4, 2016

UKIP has announced (oh they’ve deleted it now) it is to hold the party’s first ever UK annual conference in Wales. But …

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Tory MP – accused of faking death threat – releases and then deletes patronising video

December 14, 2015

UPDATE: Allan has now been accused of bullying a sick staff member Tory MP Lucy Allan – who is accused …

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