Andrew Burnham breached our constitution very seriously on Wednesday.
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Burnham → breach → Wednesday
He had absolutely no business deploying soldiers of the Irish Guards, in full ceremonial uniform, outside his Downing Street office.
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He → have → office
He did this so he could show off to Ukraine's President Zelensky.
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he → do → Zelensky
He was usurping privileges which belong very strictly to the Crown.
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which → usurp → Crown
In fact, this is one of the main reasons we have a king, to stop partisan politicians posing alongside soldiers, taking salutes or riding about in horsedrawn carriages.
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politicians → have → carriages
I hope he gets into trouble for this arrogance.
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he → hope → arrogance
Yet will anything happen?
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anything → happen → ?
Our governing elite, in all the big parties, suffer from a strange swooning romance with Ukraine, a country with which we do not even have an alliance.
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we → govern → alliance
The Ukrainian flag has been flying for years from British Government offices, a privilege never given to any other country (I don't recall the Falklands flag flying over Whitehall during the conflict there).
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flag → fly → conflict
But this grand passion has done Ukraine no good.
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passion → do → good
It has prolonged its agony.
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It → prolong → agony
The 'help' we give them is not the sort of help most sensible people would want.
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people → give → help
It does not bring peace nearer but pushes it further away.
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It → bring → it
It stokes the furnaces of war, which are the furnaces of hell.
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which → stoke → hell
That country is now trapped in a forever war which has killed and maimed untold numbers of its people, creating graveyards you can see from space.
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you → trap → space
It has forced millions to flee and resulted in the gruesome destruction of its cities and its civilisation.
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It → force → cities
Prime Minister Andy Burnham deployed soldiers of the Irish Guards, in full ceremonial uniform, outside his Downing Street office
Well, if we were a great and wealthy world power, this would be a policy you could at least argue for, though I think the case for it is thin.
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case → deploy → it
Hardly a day goes by when we do not learn of another warship laid up, or broken down, or another failed military project, or that our army has shrunk again.
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army → go → warship
We would have a hard time taking on Legoland or Ruritania in war.
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We → have → war
Nor can we afford to fix this.
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we → afford → this
At the end of July, our public sector net debt reached £2,984.9 billion, that is 94 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product.
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that → reach → Product
Since February 2014, when Ukraine's democratically elected president was overthrown in a squalid coup (condoned by us), so beginning the current crisis, we have sent £25 billion to Ukraine, nearly £14 billion of it in gifts of military assistance including missiles, air defence systems, tanks and drones.
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we → elect → missiles
I will not bother to list all the parts of our economy and society which are failing because of lack of money.
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which → bother → money
You experience them every day.
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You → experience → them
Our power grid trembles on the edge of a major failure.
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grid → tremble → failure
So, I suspect, does the pound.
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pound → suspect → ?
I don't think so.
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I → think → ?
Did anyone ever ask you if you wanted this policy?
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you → ask → policy
Did you ever hear a fair debate about it?
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you → hear → it
If you dare to criticise it, the answer comes in the form of slanderous insults and claims of treachery.
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answer → dare → treachery
Why is BBC biased against Lucy Letby?
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BBC → bias → Letby
Does Britain in fact have a secret colony on the Moon?
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Britain → have → Moon
I ask only because so many people seem to have completely missed the three years of devastating public demolition of the feeble case against Lucy Letby.
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people → ask → Letby
She didn't confess.
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She → confess → ?
She wasn't always there when babies died.
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babies → die → ?
She wasn't caught red-handed.
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She → catch → ?
In fact there's no evidence she ever harmed anyone at all.
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she → be → anyone
More than one piece of the remaining 'evidence' against her turns out to be highly dodgy.
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piece → remain → her
Yet Lady Justice Thirlwall came up with a report that didn't seem to have noticed any of this.
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that → come → this
On Friday it noisily promoted an interview with one of Ms Letby's accusers, Dr Stephen Brearey.
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it → promote → accusers
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