Richard Erskine

music lover, music maker and political follower.

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@BylineFest @JonathanPieNews If only Starmer could lay it out like this.

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@edwinhayward It would also open the door to make other exemptions further down the line, such as their children.

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@PastorAlexLove No that would be sacrilege

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@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret The election results could see a new Labour government and all of the major conservative Brexit fans gone from the political scene. When politics moves, it moves fast. Could we see a rapid national zeitgeist shift, in favour of EU membership ?

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@mrjamesob Until the minister for common sense jumps in and stops those damn tofu selling restaurants blocking pavements up with their woke furniture.

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@SoVeryBritish Of all the boozers in all
The manors in all
The world, she bowls into mine.

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@RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK What is your advice to an incoming Labour government in handling far right populist MPs and the right wing press ?

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@ScrtDrugAddict It would be pointless, I wouldn’t have listened.

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@RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK How can one person be sent to prison for not paying their TV licence and another not, when he is found guilty of defrauding HMRC by over half a billion pounds ?

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@johnsweeneyroar Once Putin is “eaten” by his monster, what then ? For the life of me I can’t see his successor taking power on the basis of free and fair democratic elections. This could end all together worse for every one.

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Just a Thursday lunchtime at a market in Porto, Portugal. Locals and tourists alike buying their fruit, veg, meat, wine, pastries at reasonable prices, no shortages here. I wonder why this could be ?

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@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Alastair, would you accept the possibility of never having a Labour single party majority government again, in exchange for ditching FPTP for a fairer voting system ?

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Lineker is Freelance but here's the BBC reply to a complaint about Chris Packham, also Freelance

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@ScrtDrugAddict “Some” homelessness is a consequence of this. Other homelessness is a consequence of a government not investing in mental health care.

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@ScrtDrugAddict Seems a bit eggstreme !

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@bmay I pity Tice and Oakshott really. They didn’t stand a chance.

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@ScrtDrugAddict His supply probably comes through Turkey and Syria. It’s maybe just good business sense.

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@annmairelee She also showed her lack of understating of the asylum laws by stating that asylum sealers must make their claim in the first safe country they get to. She gave him his get out on a plate.

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@capnbobfrapples Or the exerts taken from his forthcoming biography.

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@sturdyAlex From what I understand, Zahawi comes from a very privileged background and has a very nice English private education. Not the back story he’s wants us to think.