More true than we even knew at the time…
“They call him Britain Trump”
Just total rambling made up nonsense now 🙄pic.twitter.com/GRpzm6stpc
— dave ❄️ 🥕 (@davemacladd) July 23, 2019
Excl: Worried Tory campaign chiefs are trying to ensure Boris Johnson and Donald Trump don’t appear in public together at NATO summit in London next week. POTUS seen as toxic to Tory campaign.https://t.co/VD9gZd71yL
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 28, 2019
WATCH: “Can you look me in the eye and tell me you’ve never lied in your political career?”
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) November 28, 2019
Incredible hubris. Turning up unannounced with your own film crew just before the leaders’ debate, asking to take part, knowing you’ll be refused because you aren’t the leader. Why not say where Boris Johnson is and why he can’t come? Because he bottled it pic.twitter.com/uQxfqaV6a3
— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) November 28, 2019
This is worth a close read. Will the BBC hang tough in negotiations over the Boris Johnson interview? https://t.co/0vihncd2eY
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) November 28, 2019
Charles Walker, Vice Chair of the Tory 1922 committee just said that @BorisJohnson won’t do @afneil interview because he’d “tear him to pieces” Blimey, bet No 10 are thrilled with that! #Newsnight
— Joshua (@JoshuaJPE) November 28, 2019
Max Hastings: “There are quite of lot of people in the Tory party who, in their panic, are liable to turn to Boris and say ‘but he’s a winner, he’s popular’. I think they’ll be very silly if they do that, because it will mean that they’ve stopped wanting to be a serious party.” pic.twitter.com/yM7LeyzBrd
— Damon Evans (@damocrat) November 29, 2019
Boris Johnson is simply mimicking Trump. Purposefully not bothering to show up to #ClimateDebate, shutting down debate & controlling the media with breaking news stories of scones.
When you’re schooled by Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon & Dominic Cummings…#WheresBoris
— Dr Lauren Gavaghan (@DancingTheMind) November 28, 2019
Ex-Labour minister urges nation to vote Tory as she joins Boris Johnson for Brexit speech https://t.co/4h0BiAcbO3
— Gisela Stuart (@GiselaStuart) November 28, 2019
sounds like Labour's new strategy is to tell Leave areas the party is *Not Remain* and hope they won't notice what it's saying elsewherehttps://t.co/G0qmgSfxer
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) November 28, 2019
On melting ice, chicken prime ministers and dead koalas – @JohnJCrace on brilliant form tonight 👏👏👏https://t.co/FUyCc1yfIF
— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) November 28, 2019
And I shall be writing to @Ofcom to complain that by replacing Boris Johnson with an ice sculpture @Channel4News have unfairly dignified him with far more substance, integrity, clarity, sustainability & transparency than he possesses. https://t.co/lW11a8xX3X
— chi onwurah (@ChiOnwurah) November 28, 2019
MIRROR: @BorisJohnson : Working class men are drunk, criminal & feckless #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/ZN39GgX8Hy
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) November 28, 2019
and yet…
Former miner who believes that Boris Johnson has his and his community's interests at heart. It really is enough to make me want to scream. pic.twitter.com/FBsmV8QMFx
— Otto English (@Otto_English) November 28, 2019
There are 67 seats in which the Conservatives or Labour lead by just five points over one another, and two weeks to go
Read more:https://t.co/5FatQt2Iux
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 28, 2019
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TRUMPWORLD
.@ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Pres. Trump visits Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan to meet with troops on Thanksgiving. https://t.co/wnhqaSX6Eh
— ABC News (@ABC) November 28, 2019
.@michaelcrowley is w Trump at Bagram w some news >
“The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we’re meeting with them,” Mr. Trump said here during a meeting with Afghanistan’s president
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) November 28, 2019
Back home…
Trump’s electoral college advantage may be deepening. Do Democrats have a plan for that? https://t.co/FJ2GlSHuKG
— Todd Gitlin (@toddgitlin) November 29, 2019
The poster on the wall behind those boxes says “capitalism, not cronyism” https://t.co/weqToJXBmr
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) November 29, 2019
The Hill waits until the last line to say that it's not affiliated with Whole Foods, the supermarket. The Hill. https://t.co/698h4bz9x9
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) November 29, 2019
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! And really be thankful this year, because a year from now we will be in the midst of post-election…well, I don't know what. But I don't think it will be pretty. Treasure one more year of semi-normalness.
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) November 28, 2019
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WORLD
Germany’s troubled Deutsche Bank faces fines, legal action and the possible prosecution of “senior management” because of its role in a $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme, a confidential internal report seen by the Guardian says. https://t.co/SJfF0kX5vD
— Over the Volcano (@BFthrift) November 29, 2019
Trump's bill supporting Hong Kong protests could hurt everyone — the US, China and Hong Kong https://t.co/P2s4naJYK8
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 29, 2019
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with French President Macron today.
In a press conference afterwards, Macron said "I totally stand by" his suggestion that NATO is brain dead.
Stoltenberg responded, saying "the European Union cannot defend Europe"
Happy families 👍 pic.twitter.com/zMlnDzVNoT
— Henry Jones (@hthjones) November 28, 2019
In case whether you were wondering whether the big tech companies would defend liberal democracy or just capitulate to authoritarianism… https://t.co/ZbRIFeB7gt
— Tamsin Shaw (@ProfessorShaw) November 28, 2019
Belgium may seem an unlikely destination for a Chinese agent. In fact, it's a den of spies—and Brussels is their "chessboard" https://t.co/BJ6rHZu7Kz
— Bloomberg Next China (@next_china) November 29, 2019
It’s been two decades since tens of thousands of protesters delayed a major WTO meeting in Seattle. The protest raised awareness of the international trading system and its implications for the environment, labor standards and human rights. https://t.co/cgI1Q1Zauy
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 29, 2019
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