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John Spiers
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I live and breathe squeezeboxes ... and English folk music ... and growing vegetables ... and Formula 1 ... and politics ... so a perverted renaissance man then
MusicianUntied Kingdomsqueezyjohn.comJoined December 2009

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I think the fact that Buckaroo, Crackerjack and jokes about Penny Mordaunt’s Star Trek costume are trending means that UK Twitter isn’t taking this coronation very seriously. This is a good thing.
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And then a small boy called out, "But the King is wearing no clothes!" He was immediately arrested by the Metropolitan police, and was prosecuted for disrupting the coronation celebrations. And that, children is how civil rights became a fairytale.
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I can’t help thinking this coronation is basically a really expensive version of Buckaroo where they take turns to put increasingly heavy and awkward things on the King before he collapses!
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Bloody Hell! He’s just been given a magic sword by Penny Mordaunt … Game of Thrones is more believable.
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You can say what you like about what’s going on in Westminster Abbey at the moment … but you can’t deny that it’s a broad church!
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ICYMI - My analysis wrapping up the local elections. Conservatives will be pleased Coronation coverage today has curtailed further dissection of results
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"With the Conservatives, a simply awful night." Sky's @BethRigby is on Downing Street with her analysis on the local election results. trib.al/BSuiSZC 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Tomorrow morning: BBC1: The Coronation of TM the King and Queen Camilla: The Preparation BBC2: The Coronation of HM the King: The Preparation ITV: King Charles III: The Coronation Ch 4: The King of Queens Ch 5: Fireman Sam - The Movie
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This is Britain today. You can be arrested for thinking about peaceful protest.
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This will be the photo that goes around the world today. A peaceful protester handcuffed and arrested in Britain.
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Things that can fuck off ... companies who have web shops that say they have things in stock that don't send them when you pay real hard earned cash for them because they weren't in stock at all and they're trying to get them from somewhere to fulfil the order.
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The British public ... and dare I say it Tory voters ... deserve better than this. I wouldn't put it past them to try and change the leader to a fourth one before the next election ... they're in chaos.
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Johnson was a disaster because his corruption and lies finally caught up with him ... Truss was a disaster because she believed fantasy economics fed her by the US funded think tanks and crashed the economy ... Sunak only has fake culture wars and even that isn't working. Weak!
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Well done the Green Party ... if proportional representation were to come from the Lib Dems doing a deal with Labour we could all get rid of our First Past The Post shackles and vote for who we want to ... and that would mean would be a very significant force.
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Best Green Election Results in history A net gain of 200 Councillors today Greens have gone from 175 to 737 seats in just four years #GetGreensElected ✌️
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Good ... Starmer will then have to consider ending first past the post in order to form a government. That's the single best thing that could happen to our democracy. He won't do it if he wins outright for the same selfish partisan reasons the Tories won't ... but this scenario
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Sky News' NEV projection has been revised down to 7 point lead for Labour. LAB 36% CON 29% LIB 18% OTH 17% That is a substantial underperformance on Labour's polling position, and very different to how the early overnight results looked and felt.
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Just got a promotional email from Curry's titled "Update your tech ... get it in time for the coronation" The first thing it suggests I buy is the computer game "Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom" ... I'm sure his mum didn't have to put up with this kind of shit!
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