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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 15h

Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech quoted Martin Luther King. MLK was a socialist, of course.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 15h

Scrapping stamp duty will cost £11.6bn a year. But it won't house a single one of Britain's 240,000 homeless.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick owns two £2m homes in London and a £1.1m manor house in Herefordshire. He's shocked by the poor housing conditions in Handsworth, apparently.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Reform-led Kent county council is set to increase council tax next year. It's almost as if the 'wasteful local authority spending' Farage keeps banging on about isn't really a thing.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 3d

As Kemi Badenoch rightly points out, America and Australia are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I should just add here that El Salvador is not in the African Union, either.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 3d

The leader of the Conservative Party helpfully pointed out on television this morning that the US, Australia and Canada are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I guess the clue is in the name, Kemi.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 4d

At least 860 UK healthcare workers died of covid-19 and the British Medical Association says the true number is likely to be higher. Yet Michelle Mone unashamedly defends her cynical profiteering.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to announce I have won the franchise to be official cocaine dealer to the 2025 Conservative conference

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 5d

We now have a woman Archbishop of Canterbury. One day it may even be possible to have a woman leader of the Labour Party.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 5d

The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 6d

If Michelle Mone gets to keep the superyacht, the private jet and the seat in the House of Lords, at least give the 'benefit scroungers' narrative a break for a couple of weeks

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 7d

Shoplift from Tesco and get sent to jail. Rip off the NHS for £122m and get politely asked to pay the money back.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 7d

PPE Medpro will almost certainly go into administration and Mone will repay almost none of the £122m she stole from the NHS. But she'll keep the superyacht and the private jet she scammed from the public purse.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 7d

Michelle Mone must now repay the £122m she stole from the NHS. But she remains an unelected lawmaker for life.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 7d

If Sunak had been prime minister in world war two, Michelle Mone would have had the contract to supply Spitfires

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 7d

Michelle Mone was extremely lucky to get a new yacht on the NHS. Because most of us can't even get a GP appointment.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 8d

If your party welcomes the woman who tweeted 'set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards' as a star conference speaker, maybe don't accuse other politicians of 'inciting violence'

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 9d

The NHS is routinely described as 'unsustainable'. But that adjective never gets applied to arms spending, bank bail-outs or tax dodging by the rich.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 12d

Calling digital ID a 'Brit Card' might not go down too well in parts in of Belfast and Derry

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13d

I'm sick and tired of people in politics telling us they 'accidentally deleted' 5000 WhatsApp messages, 'forgot' they owned seven flats, 'couldn't recall' taking a £6m loan or didn't declare £700,000 in donations due to 'administrative error'. What do they take us for?

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13d

I told the Inland Revenue that my failure to declare £700,000 in freelance earnings on my last tax return was simply an administrative error. But they didn't believe me.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13d

It's a good job Morgan McSweeney didn't fail to declare a five quid Universal Credit overpayment, because he'd really be in trouble then

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14d

Where I live in London, churches and synagogues sit side by side with mosques and same-sex couples walk arm in arm in the streets. Doesn't look much like sharia law to me.

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