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Imogen Lemon

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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The £3 million farmers allowance. Handy.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What all effective world leaders need. Testosterone. 🙄
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Well that was quick.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
London parks were doing full autumn this afternoon
Silhouette of a man and shadow with sun behind him streaming through golden autumn leaves
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Remember when the Tories accused Labour of cronyism when they made 550 “appointments by exception” (July and August). Turns out this was “considerably lower” than when Tories made 61,815 such appointments (1,287 a month) So much for those Tory efficiencies www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tories...
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Tories Accused Of 'Desperate Smear Campaign' After Watchdog Clears Labour Over Cronyism Claims
The new government had been accused of stuffing Whitehall with their supporters.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Three questions at #pmqs , both Tory and Reform, were on the details of Rachel Reeves’s CV. Really is risible that some MPs think that warrants any time at all.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Angela Rayner just owned Lee Anderson, as Starmer owned Farage last week. This Reform lot aren’t very good at #pmqs
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 20/11/2024
Alex Burghart at #PMQs: "What is the government doing to bring down inflation?" Angela Rayner: "Many people might not know but [Burghart] was the minister for growth under Liz Truss when inflation was 11.1% and growth flatlined. So we're doing much better than he did!"
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Angela Rayner is rising above the aggressive questioning of Alex Burghart. You can’t shout down Angela. #pmqs
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Alex Burghart forgets that farmers marched on London when his party was in government. Against their Brexit and their trade agreements. #pmqs
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Alex Burghart need to stop shouting into the microphone. He’s coming across as very aggressive. #pmqs
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I, for one, am proud of paying the BBC license fee. And this 👇 confirms the unholy alliance of far right/right wing, but also that we need professional high quality journalism to challenge it. I applaud Derbyshire and the BBC for doing just that.
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So farmers claim they are a special case because they provide food .. Medics save lives, Teachers educate, transport workers move goods and people around.. etc etc .. so who’s not a special case ?? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Nigel Farage is claiming today that farmer grievances have nothing to do with Brexit. And yet, last March farmers’ grievances and their march on London was all about Brexit.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I started today thinking that the IHT measures on landowners and farmers was right in principle. I will end to day strongly supporting those measures. That is what inaccurate data, bandwagon politicians and patronising spokespeople do to the causes they claim to represent.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I see that Lloyd Webber who flew over specially from New York to vote through 2015 Welfare Act cuts is out speaking up for those rich landowners and farmers wanting to avoid paying their way in tax. And of course he’s one of those landowners.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
As Health Secretary, Atkins blamed nurses who were protesting for a decent wage for NHS waiting lists. Now as Shadow Environment, she dons her union flag outfit to back rich landowners and farmers avoiding paying tax to help fund the very same NHS. Privilege not patriotism.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tory/Reform multimillionaire donor gives his workers a day off for a day out in London. But it’s all about farmers, not about party politics.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The idiot Richard Holden strikes again.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Seems to me that the financial pressures on farmers are not the result of tax they may need to pay in the future, but the result of Brexit, poor trade deals and inadequate investment in the industry. That’s not Labour’s creation but the result of the last decade. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Keir Starmer defends inheritance tax change amid farmers’ outrage
PM ‘absolutely confident’ that ‘vast majority’ of farms will be exempt as union prepares protests in London
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Big day for reasoned debate on farms/inheritance today - a debate undermined by @BBCNews repeatedly and wrongly reporting as fact that “farms worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax”. This is just flatly wrong in vast vast majority of cases
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Time for the media to repost today’s landowners/farmers protest like any other. And that means accurately and objectively. Which is not what we have at the moment.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2024
UK expected to give Ukraine Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russia
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UK expected to give Ukraine Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russia
Move follows US president Joe Biden’s agreement to supply similar American long-range Atacms weapon Britain is expected to supply Storm Shadow missiles for use by Ukraine on targets inside Russia, now that US president Joe Biden has agreed to do the same…
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Erskine May is absolutely clear. And Nigel Farage needs to remember his duty to the public and stop endangering active criminal cases.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hopefully this case will go the same way as others to date and Dale Vince will win. www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-n...
lincolnshirelive.co.uk
Boston and Skegness MP Richard Tice being sued for libel
It comes following a post on X published by Mr Tice in March
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
By the fantastic press photographer Stefan Rousseau.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
An unambiguous and unequivocal response from Starmer. We are on the side of Ukraine.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Chris Philp claiming that crime fell under his watch. He yet against forgets to include fraud which, when included, saw crime increase. #BBCLauraK
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Why is this failed politician who was kicked out for bullying, and stayed on his Sun bed as the Taliban advanced, being allowed to dominate discussions. #BBCLauraK
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
After 14 years of failed Tory manifesto pledge over social care reform, suddenly Kuenssberg is impatient for it to happen. And can’t even let Louise Haigh answer her questions without interruption. #BBCLauraK
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Louise Haigh is very much on top of her brief, and Kuenssberg’s inadequacy as an interviewer is utterly exposed as a result. #BBCLauraK
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Funding will be based on need, levels of deprivation and population instead of making local areas compete with each other for cash. Hoorah. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Buses get £1 billion boost - how much cash each area will get confirmed
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said it would bring to an end the postcode lottery of unreliable bus services - with funding allocated on need, levels of deprivation and population
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Mikey Smith @mikeysmith.com · 16/11/2024
You have to be richer than almost everyone in the country to ever pay inheritance tax. Even if you own a farm. And if you do own a farm, and are rich enough to pay inheritance tax on it, you still get a massive discount. Why are we giving this protest airtime?
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Sir Keir Starmer’s first five months have produced little sign of a plan for Labour’s promised National Care Service” 14….yes 14 years of broken Tory manifesto pledges and now she’s suddenly impatient. Jeez. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Social care 'impasse' at top of government - so what next, asks Laura Kuenssberg
Multiple sources say the Treasury is deeply nervous about the cost of fixing social care, and that the PM is yet to decide how to proceed.
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Mikey Smith @mikeysmith.com · 16/11/2024
STORY Keir Starmer has often boasted the biggest deportation flight in UK history took off under a Labour government - with 220 people aboard. Today we can reveal two more the same size have taken off since then - with more planned before the end of the year. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Hundreds more illegal migrants deported on biggest ever flights
It comes as Keir Starmer celebrated a major victory in his war against vile people smuggling gangs, with the arrest and extradition of the so-called “Engine King”
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We seem to be approaching the point when the Labour Party and Lib Dems actively stand up for and support the the pillars of our society, the police, the church while the Conservatives and right wing actively attack and undermine them. It’s all gone a bit weird.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Who in heavens name does the communications in the Tory Party. This is their latest effort. Dire.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“As the public would expect, we have body worn video of this interaction which entirely supports our position in this respect.” The Police fight back. Good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev9nxn…
bbc.co.uk
Allison Pearson: Police defend investigation into journalist's tweet
The Daily Telegraph columnist said she was left “dumbstruck and upset” by a police visit to her home.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starmer goes up in my estimation (again).
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Member of cabinet resigns following a number of racist comments made in cabinet. Meanwhile Wilders carps from the side lines. Does every western democracy have its own Farage?
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
How the Conservative Party has fallen. It is now sharing Fawkes and its tittle tattle. And they think that this is being HM Opposition.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m getting to the point where I think it would be a good idea for the UK government to leave Twitter. They are being bombarded by bot accounts. Can’t really see any tangible benefits of them staying.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Turns out Pearson may well have tweeted something racist at a time of heightened racial tensions. Not such a victim after all. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
theguardian.com
Allison Pearson’s ‘racist’ tweet is at centre of Telegraph’s row with police
Exclusive: Person who complained tells Guardian that columnist’s ‘Jew haters’ post was inflammatory
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The standard of journalism at Sky gets worse by the day.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Would appear that the Bank of England Governor has decided to break his near silence on Brexit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bank of England boss to say UK must 'rebuild relations' after Brexit
Governor Andrew Bailey will deliver his strongest comments yet on the UK's departure from the EU.
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Imogen Lemon @imogenlemon02.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Bedanoch has both the advantage and disadvantage of nearly 40% of those responding not having a view about her.
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