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Policy Correspondent at @Independent; I also do videos of nice cycle routes in London (link below) jon.stone@independent.co.uk

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    Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

    Jon Stone Retweeted Natalie Bloomer

    this reminds me that Boris Johnson wrote a novel in which an undercover Guardian journalist called "Lucy Goodbody" seduces a Poundland worker during an undercover investigation into low wageshttps://twitter.com/natalie_bloomer/status/1199952278490402816 …

    Jon Stone added,

    Natalie Bloomer @natalie_bloomer
    Almost every paragraph of this shows Johnson’s hatred for the working class. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-branded-children-single-20977406?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar …
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    3:13 AM - 28 Nov 2019
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      2. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        ...but the Poundland worker actually likes his job and hates the snobby Guardian articlehttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197806802294980608 …

        Jon Stone added,

        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        ‘What’s this bollocks?’ he asked, and read, with mounting despair, Lucy Goodbody’s account of life in RitePrice Wolverhampton. It seemed they were among the lowest paid workers in Britain, and according to Lucy Goodbody they all hated their jobs.
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      3. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        so he burns down a newsagents with a Guardian sign outside it because he’s stupid and thinks its the Guardian's officeshttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197806809576333312 …

        Jon Stone added,

        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        That afternoon, Dean did something really stupid. It occurred to him that he knew where the Guardian was based. It was just down the road;
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      4. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        he then goes to prison for arson and inevitably converts to Islamhttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197806813254705152 …

        Jon Stone added,

        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        He had been in Her Majesty’s Young Offenders’ Institution at Feltham for two weeks when he became aware of Islam. ‘What’s all those shoes doing there?’ he asked as he was walked down a dim corridor. ‘It’s the mosque, innit.’
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        1 reply 12 retweets 19 likes
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      5. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        it supposedly appeals to him because he's revolted by the Guardian reporter's sexually provocative behaviourhttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197806823677542400 …

        Jon Stone added,

        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        Yeah. Dean thought of Vanessa/Lucy Goodbody (the very name was now a provocation) and how she treated her own sexuality. He thought how she had obviously liked the piece-of-meat approach, and he shuddered with horror and desire and incomprehension.
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      6. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        and so he inevitably becomes a terrorist and attacks parliamenthttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197452733441363969 …

        Jon Stone added,

        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        Jones turned and looked back at Dean as they waited to cross the traffic. ‘Remember what it says in the Holy Koran, my young friend. “‘Slay the unbelievers wherever you can find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush for them everywhere.”‘
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      7. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        he can only be stopped by "Roger Barlow" a scruffy-haired bike-riding MP who is definitely not Boris Johnsonhttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197117864240660487 …

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        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        For the first time the olive-skinned man faced the MP. His passport said his name was Jones, and that he had been born in Mold, Clwyd.
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      8. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        oh its also really racisthttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197873483696529412 …

        Jon Stone added,

        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        The reporter was a woman with an Asian name, and from the minute she introduced herself, Barlow feared her.
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        2 replies 16 retweets 35 likes
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      9. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 28 Nov 2019

        Jon Stone Retweeted 72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson

        like... constantly racisthttps://twitter.com/VirginsJohnson/status/1197805930576064512 …

        Jon Stone added,

        72 Virgins - a novel by Boris Johnson @VirginsJohnson
        The interesting thing about his half-caste looks, he decided, was that he didn’t look Negroid. He looked kind of Arab: dark skin, curly hair, a forceful but straight nose. Yes, for the purposes of conversation with Vanessa, he would be a sheikh.
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      2. keewa‏ @keewa 28 Nov 2019
        Replying to @waluigitifo @joncstone

        "Lucy Goodbody" he definitely thought this was a great joke

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