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DuncanMSussexPol

@DuncanMSussexPol@toot.community

Former biochemist but escaped from the lab! Now an interdisciplinary social scientist.

Political account - on Birdsite this overtook things somewhat so I've separated it out. (So please don't take offence if I follow you on only one account! It's a judgement on content type, not quality.) (UK-based)

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GottaLaff , to random
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's National Rally on course to trounce President Macron's party in European elections, exit polls say - BBC

DuncanMSussexPol ,
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@GottaLaff terrible but not unexpected, sadly.

I really hope the ship is turned around by the presidential election though, from across the Channel Macron seems to have really come into his own recently. Obviously Macron would be better than Le Pen any day of the week but I've been genuinely positive about him for the first time in a long while.

GottaLaff , to random
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Britain passed contentious legislation to allow the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, a political victory for its Conservative government. The bill faced opposition from human-rights campaigners, immigration experts and legal critics -NYT

DuncanMSussexPol ,
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@GottaLaff ugh. There's no app for Lords votes in the same way there is for the Commons - I wonder if it's Labour or the crossbenchers who gave up.

It'll probably still be hung up on legal challenges but this is very frustrating, as I'm pretty sure there wasn't enough time to use the Parliament Act on this. The Lords could, and should, have killed it.

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