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LeftishBrit

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1. While I'm not sure...

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Thu Aug 29, 2024, 05:29 PM

Aug 2024

that banning smoking in pub gardens should be Labour's priority right now, given all the other problems the country has, this tweet is RIDICULOUS. Yes, it trivializes the Holocaust; and also it's just so lacking in *common sense*, which she always claimed to be Minister for.

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Esther McVey's smoking ban tweet labelled repugnant by Jewish group [View all] LeftishBrit Aug 2024 OP

While I'm not sure... LeftishBrit Aug 2024 #1

Good opposition is not about hyperbole T_i_B Aug 2024 #2

Oh, if she'd just said the idea lacked common sense, I'd have agreed LeftishBrit Aug 2024 #3