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[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

During a minute silence in Amsterdam for the victims of the Valencia floods, fans of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv sang "There's no school in Gaza cause we've killed all the kids"

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@thehatandbeard I tried Threads but it didn't feel the same, am having serious thinks!

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

There is only one good response to the outcome of the American elections …

MEGA …

Make Europe Great Again ! 🇪🇺

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

This is how low the @Conservatives have fallen. A FAKED image
is all they have left

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

In the last week, Labour hit a crucial milestone on getting rid of hereditary peers, unlocked £1bn funding for social housing insulation, initiated plans to regulate buy-now-pay-later lenders and started to coalesce around an HS2 replacement. Barely any chat about this at all.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Are you also naming the innocent Gaza hospital patients burned alive in their sleep?

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@maitlis @Channel4 Would certainly have planned to do so - but not with Johnson in the guest line up.

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@louisa_compton @lindseyhilsum @krishgm @maitlis @mattfrei @theJeremyVine @BorisJohnson @iankatz1000 @C4Press @mahonalex You lost me at Johnson, shame I've a lot of respect for main presenters.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

The vaccine he is referring to is the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine - sponsored by EU funds, developed in the EU (a Turkish company, BioNTech, in Germany), trialled in the EU, then shipped from the EU to the UK.

The EMA started assessing that vaccine before the MHRA did (and held more data), but the MHRA decided to make a call on its safety before the EMA. They made that call on Dec 2nd 2020 (see link below). At that date, the UK was still in the Single Market for Medicines, so the emergency approval happened under EU law, as stated by the Head of the MHRA (June Raine) at the time.

Upon approval, the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine was immediately available to the UK, because the EU had allowed for this availability worldwide. This was unlike the AstraZenica vaccine that shortly followed, where the EU had booked millions of doses, but the UK had done a later contract with AZ ensuring they could not ship out of the UK without UK govt permission - which they withheld for the EU.

Therefore, Brexit was not a factor in the UK speed of the vaccine approval - which all happened under EU law.
https://t.co/XiFOcmzTTu

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@reece_dinsdale Please continue, always good to see your posts.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

NEW 🚨 | Despite raking in £27BILLION last year, Amazon only paid 3.45% of UK turnover in taxes.

The average single worker pays a net average tax rate of 23.7%.

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@supertanskiii @EdmundAvalon Still see them but possibly fewer than in the past. What most infuriates me is having to keep changing status of posts I'm reading to see 'all responses' rather than 'most relevant' because am hoarse from shouting WHO FUCKING DECIDES WHAT IS RELEVANT at my phone.

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@OlderthanElvis The worst situations are those where you'll feel bad/wrong/stressed however you deal with them. You have my sympathies and a virtual hug.

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@OlderthanElvis No, absolutely not over reacting, I would feel exactly the same. I hope I'd also be strong enough to say that was why I didn't want them to return but haven't been faced with the situation so it's easy for me to say that.

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@meandmybigmouth Thank you for the 'Can you hear the people sing' earworm which will doubtless accompany me though the rest of the day.

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@OlderthanElvis Am on FB, also thinking will look again at Threads. I do miss the days when twitter was a mixed bag of information, fascination and stimulation with a healthy dose of daft fun and not just a voice piece for power mad little jugginses!

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@OlderthanElvis Feeling the same, it's like telling an old friend to p*ss off but things & people change. See you elsewhere, stay well.

[NHS Blood Donation 🩸🩹 @GiveBloodNHS]

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If you are an O type donor call 0300 123 23 23 to make an appointment or visit https://t.co/M9MoIoujIC

[Sam Bright @WritesBright]

Reform has five MPs.

Three used to work in the City of London (including one for Lehman Brothers).

One is a property magnate.

One is paid £100k a year as a GB News presenter.

This is apparently a “party of the people”