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Jonathan Eley
@JonathanEley
Longform editor @FT Before that retail, @FTLex, @FTMoney and @ichronicle Views and errors my own
Saarfend innit
Joined March 2011
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    UKIP now has zero MPs. And to think Cameron called a referendum on a matter of huge importance to placate this shower.
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    Hilarious watching @piersmorgan skewering @nadhimzahawi over why UK doesn’t insist on negative Covid tests on arrival as dozens of other countries have done for months “You left the borders wide open”
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    This, from Rachel Reeves' Mais lecture, is absolutely spot on. Meanwhile the architect of this economically illiterate batshit swans round earning millions from podcasts, directorships
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    Boris: Rishi, can you find another way to shaft young people and get more money out of them in the future to pay for largesse for other target groups today? Rishi: Coming right up boss ft.com/content/f77fe7…
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    To think we went through the agonies of Brexit to stop this happening...and now it's happening anyway
    BREAKING Sources close to the Reform UK Party tell me that as many as nine Conservative MPs are in advanced talks to join the Reform UK party. More at @GBNEWS now.
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    Emma "measured risks carefully"? By having huge over-concentration of her personal wealth in a single illiquid asset class, and adding a generous dollop of leverage to boot??
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    MEPs are paid in euros. So Farage and his fellow bar brawlers are £12,500/yr better off thanks to £ slide they caused. Elites, anyone?!
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    Bizarre. Dave Grohl tells crowd about past #Reading2019 appearances. Just when you think he's going to take a (v rare) dip into Nirvana catalogue he brings on...Rick Astley!!!
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    EXCLUSIVE: Boohoo is set to acquire the Debenhams brand in a deal that will resemble the online retailer's previous swoops on Karen Millen and Oasis Does not include the stores, sad but probably not surprising news for the 10,000+ people who still work there Story up soon
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    "We saved Europe in the war mate". Please, someone - tell him the war in question ended 74 years ago. It's a total irrelevance
    Wanna see nationalism in its purest form? In the full version, the woman at the end is the kind of Brexit voter I'm fighting for: youtu.be/Lur8pyBNLQA
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    The most amazing thing about this piece is the wasted time: Another 3 weeks of this ridiculous Tory pissing contest Followed by 6 weeks of summer recess A week back, then 3 weeks of party conferences By the time they're over, there'll be 5 weeks left before we leave
    No honeymoon period, only baptism of fire: How Johnson's first weeks could play out politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
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    UK got more Marshall aid than any other European country. Alas we wasted it bbc.co.uk/history/britis… Sorry if that interferes with your fact-free narrative, you ignoramus
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    Replying to @IanDunt
    These are the same people that park in disabled bays, break speed limits, cycle on pavements, put feet on train seats, don't clear up their dogs' shit etc And apparently the rest of us are to "rely on their common sense"....
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    Ignore the Cummings noise. This is what should be trending