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@TiceRichard

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@MartinSLewis A friendly piece of advice from someone terminally online. Don't feed the trolls.

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@charliecolecc

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Elon paid ~$11B in one year, the biggest individual tax bill in history. Meanwhile he's revolutionised space travel, kickstarted the EV era, beamed internet to the whole planet, wired brains to computers, and employs hundreds of thousands. Turns out building the future beats whinging about it. 🚀

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@Flip_Research Fabians gonna Fabian

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@AlistairCarns Doing his level best to check off all the approved buzzwords. Fabians gonna Fabian.

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@The_Red_Dandy @LBC @IanByrneMP @lewis_goodall Just one more tax increase bro we promise it will sort everything out.

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@mehdirhasan

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A Reform/Restore/Tory coalition could actually work well mechanically.

Each brings different strengths and covers the others' weaknesses. If they can park the egos and keep each other honest and on task, the sum is stronger than any one part. The hard bit isn't the policy overlap, it's the discipline.

In reality it might be the only way to keep the Marxists at bay.

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@poloandsons Reform has you all brickin' it.

Scots are waking up to this Marxist fever dream we've all been subjected to.

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@RealMGSimpson @ReformUKScot Scots are waking up, keep going Mark.

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An island nation can secure its borders if it actually wants to.

This was never a Brexit problem, it's a willpower problem. Leave the ECHR, reform the HRA, and put the navy in the Channel: detect, intercept, return.

And when people say 'return to where'? Guarantee no settlement here and the crossing becomes pointless regardless of what France does or take the @SDPhq policy of building a detention center on Ascension Island to break the incentive loop.

The barriers are ones we chose, and we can choose to drop them.

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@Rothesayblue @Malcolm_Offord He's paid over £40m into the public purse over his career in taxes.

How much have you paid in?

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@Aldocairnsm @Malcolm_Offord Won't be a good look for Swinney if he keeps that up.

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@tanstech @PolitlcsUK I agree, you'd think our massive moat would make it easy aswell!

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I’ll be honest man you’re not really adding anything new to the discussion repeating what you said before.

Worth a genuine think: the "liberating our persecuted people across the border" line is the oldest casus belli in the book. Hitler ran it on the Sudetenland and Poland. It's not unique to Russia, it's the standard template for dressing up conquest.

So why have you pointed every ounce of doubt at Kyiv and none at the narrative that happens to excuse the invasion? Food for thought!

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A vote happened. A legitimate referendum didn't, those aren't the same thing.

2014 was run by armed separatists mid-takeover with no register, no monitors, no observers, recognised by nobody, not even Russia, which didn't annex them then. 2022 was held under occupation with soldiers carrying ballot boxes door to door.

If that’s your bar for legitimacy, Russia could “vote” to annex anywhere its troops stand. A vote held at gunpoint isn’t consent.

It’s the Russian playbook, run the same way every time. Crimea 2014, Donbas 2022, South Ossetia and Abkhazia 2008: invade or arm a proxy, occupy the ground, stage a “referendum,” then annex or “recognise” on the back of it. The Donbas 99% result gives the game away. And the tell is that the vote only ever happens when Moscow wants it. South Ossetia tried to hold its own join Russia vote and Russia made them postpone it. It’s a tap they turn on and off, never about the people.