james rhys

it is possible that we deserve worse than even this

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The difference between right and wrong is that wrong exists.

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@GeorgeFoulkes @BBCNewsnight They deserve each other.

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@PrescottRamseyX @bbc5live @tonylivesey How many of his colleagues at the station have previously expressed their incredulity at Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the US and have never said anything about Livesey having been the minion of a pornographer and all-round highly dubious person?

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@Scott_Wortley Why did the BBC ever even employ him?

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@lewis_goodall There speaks a man trying to reconcile his ambition to be Prime Minister with his constituency majority of 500.

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@LilianGreenwood @UKLabour @Angharad4Labour @AndyBurnhamGM @JoPlattLeigh By working towards the installing of a Prime Minister appropriating a majority he had no part in winning, you are displaying your contempt for the electorate and democratic processes of this country.

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@TanDhesi @AndyBurnhamGM Andy Burnham appropriating a parliamentary majority he had no part in winning will be the most heinous display of contempt for the UK electorate in living memory.

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@Miatsf @PeckhamLabour @andy4makerfield @CoopParty Burnham appropriating a majority he had no part in winning will be the most grotesque abuse of democracy in this country for many decades.

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@365__Football American stadiums are fine, if you prefer geometry to community.

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@Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul @wesstreeting @lewis_goodall But no-one who isn't part of particular subsets of politics or media is remotely capable of liking him.

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@JohnRentoul And by "joining" a leadership contest, Burnham may evade his abuse of democracy from becoming fully apparent when he becomes Prime Minister of a government whose majority he had no part in winning.

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@MahatmaGandon @LBC @lewis_goodall The flag shop want their flags back.

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@LBC @hasanthehun @lewis_goodall A Conservative government would not be associated by anyone with what he's saying, and would feel free to allow his presence in the country.

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@kittysull1 @Alison_S_Taylor @divojen @LBC @lewis_goodall Whereas there's only a few young and shiny Labour MPs that are even remotely capable of liking Wes Streeting.

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@Beegie_B @CambridgEcon101 @FraserNelson Immigrants are the only truly British people. Nobody born and brought up in the countries of the United Kingdom thinks of themselves as British, except maybe when the Olympics are on.

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@kevinmckeever @wesstreeting It's always the young and shiny ones.

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@lewis_goodall @GordonFielden @TheNewsAgents @wesstreeting Shiny young politician meets shiny young media. Made for each other.

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@SteAndKel @ryan_murton @vicderbyshire @MattChorley It will be done via deeply unethical manipulation of procedure, and you have demonstrated your contempt for the people of this country as clearly as anyone involved in it.

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@SteAndKel @ryan_murton @vicderbyshire @MattChorley We vote for individuals, not for a party. If that were the case then no MPs would be able to change party or sit as an independent. Burnham is using a by election for a democratically improper purpose.

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@SteAndKel @ryan_murton @vicderbyshire @MattChorley Expediency matters more than democracy, evidently.

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@SteAndKel @ryan_murton @vicderbyshire @MattChorley The leader of a party is invited to form a government after a general election. For the leadership of a party to pass to someone who did not participate in that general election would be an abuse of the electorate as a whole.