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T_i_B

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1. Aside from Abbott's terrible track record in Australia...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Aug 26, 2020, 12:20 PM

Aug 2020

... And general unfitness to hold office this sends a message to the rest of the world.

A message that Britain values membership of a very right wing clique over talent and knowledge, and that UK trade policy is being driven by heavily partisan idealogy over everything else. Do the Tories understand that not every government they need to negotiate with is rabidly right wing?

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Choosing Tony Abbott as UK trade envoy 'staggering', says Labour [View all] muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 OP

Aside from Abbott's terrible track record in Australia... T_i_B Aug 2020 #1

I wouldn't even have thought that an ex-PM from another country would be eligible for such a LeftishBrit Aug 2020 #2

Thereby hangs a tale. Matilda Sep 2020 #3