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Nick Tyrone

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Nick Tyrone

@NicholasTyrone

Neoliberal Centrist Dad, hoping British politics gets better. Author of the upcoming "Rise of Reform", from Swift Press (tinyurl.com/bp74xntc).

London

nicktyrone.substack.com

Joined July 2012

Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Jan 1, 2022
I think the one political figure I’ve changed my mind about the most over the last decade is Gordon Brown. I thought he was a poor prime minister at the time but looking back, he seems like a moral, intellectual and political giant compared with what followed.
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Sep 26, 2022
Liz Truss being booted out of No 10 by her own MPs before Christmas is looking both increasingly probable and increasingly funny.
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
May 2, 2022
The Daily Mail putting that picture of Keir Starmer eating a curry in 2015 - with a deceased Frank Dobson cropped out - within their “currygate” story is another low-point in British political journalism in a month full of them.
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Sep 13, 2022
Closing food banks "in honour of the Queen" seems like a really, genuinely, morosely awful idea. I sort of feel like everyone has gone a bit mad here.
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Jan 2, 2023
Some Brexiters have got in touch to tell me I’m making stuff up when I say that Vote Leave campaigned on the idea that Brexit would mean shorter wait times for medical treatment. So, here is the evidence:
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Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Sep 27, 2022
I thought Truss would be a terrible prime minister but never in my wildest dreams did I think her premiership would melt down this spectacularly, this quickly. It's the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen in politics.
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Apr 18, 2022
If Britain had remained in the EU, Cornwall would have got £300m over the next 3 years in structural funding. Instead, the UK government is giving Cornwall £132m, ie £168m less than if we'd Remained. Another Brexit promise broken and another example of how we're worse off out.
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Jan 28, 2023
63% of Britons now want to rejoin the EU. And that’s with no major, nationwide party advocating rejoin. Extraordinary.
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Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Jul 7, 2024
We’re only three days into the new Labour government and the most amazing thing to me is how much worse Sunak’s government already looks in hindsight. It really was shockingly poor.
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Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Apr 17, 2024
Spotted in a bookstore in the City of London just now…
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Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
May 22, 2024
This is one the great comms f-ups of all time.
Scott Bryan
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Scott Bryan
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Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
May 14, 2022
The Daily Telegraph boasting in loving terms about how Jacob Rees-Mogg's office desk has no computer on it says so much about both this government and why Brexit happened.
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Nov 13, 2024
Starmer is the prime minster of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Farage is the Member of Parliament for Clacton. There is a job description difference between those jobs in terms of being abroad for work purposes. Glad to help.
Alex Armstrong
@Alexarmstrong
Nov 13, 2024
Starmer has mocked Farage for going to the USA. It’s a bit rich seeing as the Prime Minister has spent almost 4 weeks abroad of his 18 weeks in power and is the man supposedly running the country.
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Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Jul 28, 2023
My daughter is 11 and for kids her age, “Brexit” has become a pejorative adjective. So, a kid who comes to football practice with beaten up looking trainers gets them called “Brexit boots”. I don’t think Brexiters consider the degree to which they’ve lost the next generation.
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