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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

And... relax. Thank goodness! 😥😅

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

TIL Dolly Parton has had medical trouble recently with a kidney stone and infection.
I'm not a religious person but I will pray to all the gods if it keeps her in the world as long as she wants to be here making it a better place to be.

Dolly Parton postpones Las Vegas shows over ‘health challenges’

The star delays her Las Vegas residency by almost a year, saying she needs

www.bbc.co.uk

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

Same. Keep this precious woman safe. 🙏🏼

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

Alas, poor Jenrick...

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

This Hamlet looks shit

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

We'd have to pay them.

missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

Loses? We couldn't give her away.🤭

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

"Britian"?! 🤭

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

He should be supportive and proud of her, because it sounds like she's doing great. But instead he's trying to dull her shine because her achievements make him feel threatened and inadequate. Because he is.

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

There's nothing like them.

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

I have moules envy 😋

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick has gone from forgettable nobody to frothing-BNP-styled dickhead. Why does this corrupt little man get to strut around the media blowing his racist dog-whistle?
He should be shamed and shunned out of political existence. We all despise the Tory party for a reason. He’s one of those reasons.

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 2d

If you don't think that the Overton Window has shifted right in recent years ... here's Reform AND the Tories going beyond what the BNP suggested in 2005.

They want to expel legally permanent British residents.

Frankly I weep every day for what my country has become.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 2d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

How on Earth is that man still in a job?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

Who has a checkered past, Robert Jenrick? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Minister accepts Isle of Dogs housing development 'was unlawful'

Conservative party donor Richard Desmond avoided a £40m bill due to timing of the deal.

www.bbc.co.uk

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

That's true.

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 2d

And then there was that nice little fiddle he and Jake Berry worked.
share.google/UkCRh2OBmyV7...

Robert Jenrick admits approving funds for town in Jake Berry's constituency

Communities secretary and minister approved payments to towns in each other’s constituencies

share.google

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 2d

The Samoyed seal of approval 👍🏼

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 2d

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 2d

The rapid blinking always gives her away though.

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 2d

Shame on you! 🤭

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 2d

Very beautiful and looking ever so cosy on a cold, grey day.

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, that's bleak.

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