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David__Osland

@David__Osland

Forty-year veteran of socialist politics. Freelance contributor to Labour Research Department and https://t.co/Q5pmn9zMlC.

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Remember when Kemi Badenoch said Britain was in trade talks with Canada and the Canadian high commissioner to the UK confirmed it wasn't?

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Kemi Badenoch abstained on extending equal marriage to Northern Ireland. She's Britain's equalities minister.

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A party whose cabinet ministers make jokes about rophypnol probably shouldn't be tweeting 'We know what a woman is'

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When the Tories tweet 'We know what a woman is', they mean 'she's someone who earns 14% less for doing the same job as a bloke'

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Letting people die on trolleys in the corridors of A&E departments is not normal; don't let the Tories normalise it

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Instead of banning firms that pay exploitatively low wages from hiring immigrant workers, why not ban exploitatively low wages?

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Towns where the Tories have promised new hospitals include Ambridge, Camberwick Green, Market Blandings, Royston Vasey and Walmington on Sea

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Health secretary Victoria Atkins tweeted that the Tories 'delivered 5,000 extra beds' for the NHS this winter. She didn't mention that the Tories have axed 25,000 hospital beds since 2010.

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More than 1,600 GP surgeries have closed or merged in England alone since 2013. Bear that figure in mind when Sunak promises '100 new GP surgeries'.

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Great to see the Tories promise '100 new GP surgeries' to join their '40 new hospitals' and '50,000 extra nurses'

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Rees-Mogg hosts a show on a television channel that loses tens of millions of pounds a year and only survives because a rightwing billionaire picks up the tab. Then he argues that 'the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money'.

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After receiving £72,500 in Russian donations since 2019, Jeremy Hunt should probably think twice about about arguing that Starmer would never stand up to Putin

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After the experiences of water privatisation, gas and electricity privatisation and rail privatisation, does anybody seriously think greater private sector involvement in the NHS would 'enhance efficiency'?

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One of the reasons Rishi Sunak flies everywhere is that you don't notice the homeless and the hungry from 30,000 feet

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