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Michael Dugher
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Michael Dugher
@MichaelDugher
Board/Director Nottingham Forest, Senior Advisor Brunswick, Fellow Leeds Conservatoire. Ex MP, Shadow Secretary of State & No10 chief spokesperson. Views mine
Here, There and Everywhere
Born April 26
Joined September 2010
- I have no envy. I don’t want to send my kids to private schools. Equally, I don’t begrudge others who choose to do so. I just don’t see why there should be tax breaks, paid for by ordinary tax payers who realistically don’t have that choice, to enable a privileged few who do.This is an ideological decision that will hit small independent schools. Don't let them spin it as a necessity. It’s the politics of envy.
- Len McCluskey isn’t fit to lace Tom Watson’s boots.
- Can’t understand why the public aren’t flocking to Labour in their droves. After all, Labour just spent a week on primetime TV flying Palestinian flags + talking about deselecting their own MPs & telling us why Militant were right in 1985. Don’t they follow Owen Jones on twitter?TMay's Tories move to 6% lead with YouGov CON 42% LAB 36% LD 11%
- When I was at No10, I remember getting cabinet ministers to issue some public statement defending us - I forget what the issue was, but it was suitably fawning & embarrassingly loyal. To his great credit (& my amusement) the message back to me from Alan Johnson was “f*ck off”.
- I’ve watched a lot of broadcasts from No 10 over the years. I stood behind the camera plenty of times as they were being filmed. But you won’t see anything as good as this. Pretty amazing stuff.It is hard to find the words to express my debt to the NHS for saving my life. The efforts of millions of people across this country to stay home are worth it. Together we will overcome this challenge, as we have overcome so many challenges in the past. #StayHomeSaveLives
00:00 - Stop criticising Corbyn's slow response: it takes time for Seamas to run the draft statement by the Kremlin, Stop the War + the Morning Star
- There are many reasons to vote for a change of Labour leadership. Not having Diane Abbott on the radio every morning is just one of them...
- 30 years ago, my Dad went to buy a new washing machine. Ours had packed up. With 6 of us at home, a replacement was essential. Dad instead walked in with this £450 Technics stereo. As a teenage music fan, I was delighted. Mum was less amused 🤬Today my Dad gave the Technics to me
- Meet Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Imperial Army. The year is 1974. Lieutenant Onoda has spent nearly three decades holding out in the jungle on an island in the Philippines, refusing to accept that the Japanese lost the Second World War back in 1945...We’re up for the fight. To protect what we hold dear. #HappyNewYear2020
00:00 - Obviously I blame the Labour leadership for this. But leadership is collective. I blame everyone who put Corbyn on the ballot paper, backed his politics, propped him up as a shadow minister, acted as cheerleader for him, turned a blind eye to antisemitism etc. This is your defeat
- Such a dishonest position. Practically this means “I can only countenance intervention if the Russians give permission at the Security Council.” Which he knows full well they won’t. Alleviating extreme humanitarian suffering provides the legal & moral justification for action."I can only countenance involvement in Syria if there is @UN authority behind it" - Labour leader @jeremycorbyn tells #marr bbc.in/2HnRsk7
00:00 - No Jeremy. This is what it looks like when you “win the argument”.FINAL RESULT LAB 43.2% [418 seats] CON 30.7% [165] LD 16.8% [46] LAB majority 179
- My six year old this evening: “Daddy, do you know a song called ‘Imagine’? It’s by John Lennon. We did at school and I really like it. Can you find it on your phone for me?” Son, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
