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Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
Russia has stоlen decades from Ukraine.
It has set our country back economically and socially, destroyed businesses, infrastructure, homes, and countless opportunities.
But it has stоlen much more than mоney and buildings. It has stolen years that could have been spent building a prosperous country, developing our economy, creating opportunities, and giving our children a better future.
Imagine how far Ukraine could have come if russіа had not spent decades trying to destroy our right to exist.
We should have been building our future instead of constantly fighting for it. Moving forward instead of rebuilding what was destroyed.
Ukraine has lost so much time because of russiа.
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Scott Colom will be the next US Senator from Mississippi
Colom is the first Democrat to win a US Senate race in Mississippi since 1982 and the first Black Senator from the state in 145 years
#Midterms2026
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
Andrea Jenkyns’s mysterious lack of declarations
Has the Reform mayor of Greater Lincolnshire really not received any gifts or hospitality since taking up the role 18 months ago?
thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-…
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
Burnham blasted as 'ludicrous' for blocking North Sea drilling dailymail.com/news/article-1… via @DailyMail
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The fact that a felonious madman who incited an attack on our Capitol could turn around a few years later and desecrate the White House like this, will forever be one of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known.
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Badenoch: Labour MPs want to pretend that Keir Starmer walked off into the sunset, when in reality this man knifed him in the back and now doesn't know what to do.
On this, she's correct #PoliticsLive #PMQs
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wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Humbled to lay a wreath at today's #ArmisticeDay Poppies to Paddington service on behalf of the people of Slough and the House of Commons Defence Committee.
Great to see @GWRHelp give a prominent role during #remembrance to the @1914_Sikhs and the King’s Gurkha Artillery Unit.
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
Helen Whately has been an MP since 2015 when she was elected MP for Faversham and Mid-Kent.
Helen has held several positions within the Conservative party but is now employed as a full-time demagogue, attacking disabled and sick people for claiming much needed benefits.
Guess how much Helen has claimed in ̶P̶a̶r̶l̶i̶a̶m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶r̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶n̶e̶f̶i̶t̶s̶ expenses since becoming an MP? 👇
Helen is actively working to make those much less fortunate than herself … much worse off.
While having claimed almost TWO MILLION pounds from the public purse in expenses.
Just utterly reprehensible.
Meet Nikki. She’s a mum in her fifties who came to see me.
Since her job in a nursery became all too much, she’s started receiving universal credit.
Without qualifications and, as she put it, being ‘no good at computers’, she's struggling to find another job.
But that’s not why she came to speak to me. Her real worry was her son, Jack, who signed on the moment he turned 18.
He's got autism and ADHD, but Nikki wants him to work.
She's frustrated the state is paying him money to stay at home. She desperately wants the job centre to get on his case.
But there’s no sign of that.
So, Jack is literally left to his own devices, gaming in his bedroom most of the time.
Who would want that life for their child?
Stories like Jack's are increasingly common.
It’s a disaster.
Hundreds of thousands of young people are setting out on a life on benefits. Only the Conservatives have a detailed plan to put an end to this and help young people into work. We’ll halve National Insurance for employers hiring 21 to 24-year-olds, create 100,000 more apprenticeships, and introduce a Get to Work programme to stop young people going straight from education onto benefits.
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PMQs saw Kemi Badenoch raise one if the great mysteries of the age: Lisa Nandy's continued presence as Culture Secretary. thecritic.co.uk/more-questio…
ALT The Tory leader turned her fire on Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh: “She is only in the job because the Culture Secretary turned it down.” It was a reference to a stunning line in the FT that Burnham had originally offered the Energy job to Lisa Nandy, who had refused to leave the Department of Culture. This was startling because Nandy has spent two years showing no interest whatever in her brief and expressing vocal contempt for pretty much everyone involved in Britain’s £130 billion cultural sector. The best explanation for her behaviour is that she’s learned there’s treasure buried under the department’s offices, and she’s spending her evenings trying to dig it up.
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Over the last week, millions of people read my posts exposing how the British entertainment industry covered for Russell Brand and David Walliams. Today, the sheer hypocrisy just shifted from the television studios straight into Downing Street.
Andy Burnham and Lisa Nandy have proudly announced they are hauling senior media executives into a government summit to put a stop to abuses of power.
They want you to believe the political class is finally stepping in to clean up a rotten industry.
So, look at the exact historical record Labour is desperately trying to rewrite right now.
The very politicians staging this moral intervention are the same people who spent a decade aggressively courting these exact predators for political clout.
Ed Miliband literally went to Russell Brand’s flat in 2015 to beg for his endorsement on camera. Andy Burnham was posting public support for him online. David Walliams was a celebrated Labour insider until the party quietly suspended him five minutes ago to save face.
Downing Street is now sending out spokespeople to claim it was a long time ago and nobody in politics knew what was happening behind closed doors. It is a complete insult to the public's intelligence.
Westminster and the media establishment shared the exact same VIP green rooms, the same lavish charity galas, and the same open secrets.
The political class happily turned these men into untouchable cultural idols because it generated cheap youth votes and favorable headlines.
Burnham hauling TV executives into a government meeting today is not an act of moral leadership. It is a panicked political cartel coordinating their alibis.
I'm sorry but they are not convening these summits to protect young women. They are doing it to protect themselves before the public realizes the politicians enabled the exact same monsters.
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
Joe Biden reacts to the midterms.
"I don't think elections could have gone any better. I was very happy. I was worried about whether we were going to fall for just the bravado of Republicans and Trump in particular, but they won.
Look at the people we elected? First woman governors, first black governors. I think we have made some real progress."
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
I hadn't actually noticed how internationally viral the (predictable) Biden milk incident in Trinity had gone.
Another PR triumph for the Paddystinians in their continuing apparent quest to win Ireland the title of the weirdest little country in the world.
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
Why don’t you mention his age @BBCNews?!
And I think the headline should state that he was killed for “PLANNING” to throw rocks!
Disgusting savages
“The Israeli military said soldiers identified "several terrorists who intended to hurl stones" in an area where stones had previously been thrown at Israeli vehicles”
Israeli forces kill Palestinian boy in West Bank, health ministry says bbc.in/4j8GQGU
Paul Groenhuysen retweeted
Labour MPs are right to be concerned.
More tinkering and hiring
right wing US consultants won’t solve the disastrous cost of living crisis for households and businesses.
Andy Burnham said he'd end neoliberalism but there seems to be no plan or resolve to do it.
EXC: Labour MPs are starting to sound the alarm over the 10-year-plan, asking who is in charge and if it will be radical enough.
One described the involvement of Boston Consulting Group as a “tragic joke”.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
