as Luke Akehurst is rearing his ugly soul on the timeline again these, a twitter history lesson for those of you who weren't around back in like, 2012. It's time to crack open... the var
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at the time, Luke had moved on from using his blog as his primary means of communication to using twitter, and given his views on foreign policy & enthusiastic associations with the very worst people in Labour, he was as popular with the embyronic twitter left as you'd imagine
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One day, in a perfectly boring conversation, he responded to someone talking about their political enemy with the "I don’t have personal enemies on the left as far as I know – in fact good friends with lots of ppl from Hard Left."
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someone then responded, very obviously on a wind up "I’m your personal enemy I’ll drown you in a var of piss." Whether he meant vat or jar, it's not a credible threat that anyone could take seriously. So what did Luke do? Joke along? block them? report? tell them to fuck off?
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no, what Luke Nukem decided on as a course of action was to CALL THE POLICE. yes hello officer, I have been threatened on the internet. Yes he told me he would drown me in a var of piss. Well i presume he meant 'vat' but he's threatening to drown me either w-officer?? officer???"
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through twitter bans,deletions etc very little exists of the VAR ERA online now, there was a storify but that site is defunct. HOWEVER, the 1 bit that lives on is the best - an audacious but unsuccessful FOI request to try and obtain the piss callhttps://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/var_of_piss_incidents …
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absolutely critical support for
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