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Best-selling author of 'The Rhine' and 'Why The Dutch Are Different' (https://amzn.to/2QJx3bh ). Writer, aid worker, speechwriter, recovering Tory.

Groene Hart, Netherlands
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    Ben Coates‏ @bencoates1 24 Sep 2019

    Big fan of Kenyans analyzing Britain the way Brits analyze thempic.twitter.com/yFm3Y2FLsI

    11:47 PM - 24 Sep 2019
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      1. Ben Coates‏ @bencoates1 25 Sep 2019

        As is the custom in my country, I would like to encourage the thousands of people have liked this tweet to buy my books. They have nothing to do with Kenya or Brexit but are quite good.pic.twitter.com/otNSoqZKi5

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      2. Jamie McMillan‏ @orchid_b 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @bencoates1 @Cavalorn

        Where is Idi Amin when you need him?

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      3. Jen 🐧 🐧 💖 💖 🟥‏ @ScottishJenbel 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @orchid_b @bencoates1 @Cavalorn

        Well he was in Uganda but 🤷‍♀️

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      2. houldall1954 #FBPE  💙‏ @houldall 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @bencoates1 @Natt

        Love the idea that UK could be suspended from Commonwealth!

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      3. isaac missoy‏ @isaacmissoy 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @houldall @bencoates1 @Natt

        now who is suspending who

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      2. Jetske van Woerden‏ @JetskevanWoerde 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @bencoates1

        Haha, makes you think of the TV show Goodness Gracious Me about Indian tourists travelling around the English countryside.

        1 reply 1 retweet 22 likes
      3. Mike J  👹 🐀  🤘🏻‏ @emmeyekayeee 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @JetskevanWoerde @bencoates1

        I'm going to order the blandest thing on the menu!

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      2. PaulM  🇮🇪 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🚲 🐟‏ @Onebiskuit 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @bencoates1 @carltonreid

        Maybe they should colonise us. After all, we're clearly incapable of foverning ourselves so we need someone to come in and govern us, don't we? 😏

        2 replies 4 retweets 56 likes
      3. The Green‏ @josekimotho 25 Sep 2019
        Replying to @Onebiskuit @bencoates1 @carltonreid

        We Kenyans, are late to the colonial scramble of England. The Nigerians beat us fair and square to it. They came to UK and are breading. In 30 years, your PM will be called Oga Festus Onyenkudu. Learn to say "Oga Ooh!"

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