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Lord Ed Vaizey
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Lord Ed Vaizey
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Member @UKHouseofLords & Business Adviser. MP for Wantage & Didcot (2005-19) Tech & Culture Minister (2010-16) | Trustee @Tate | @timesradio Friday mornings
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Before we all blame the Met for not dealing with the egregious Steve Bray: they did arrest him and confiscate his equipment in 2024. He was acquitted by a (clearly sympathetic) magistrate because he had a "reasonable excuse" under Articles 10 & 11 of the ECHR. This was
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In a few weeks time, Giorgia Meloni will meet her fifth British Prime Minister - This is the problem with replacing your leader. You create a whole new set of rebels. And it takes a generation to disappear (if you’re lucky)Palpable anger from Keir Starmer's allies at what they see as his forced resignation today. One MP says they're "sobbing" so much they "can't talk". Another says: "Now we'll get tributes from the two-faced bastards who owe their job to him but gave him nothing but grief for
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A new Prime Minister should think ahead and give the police the power to stop an idiot with a loudspeaker disrupting future Prime Ministerial resignation speeches. - Lord Ed Vaizey reposted
Times Radio’s Andrew Neil calls out the “buffoon” blaring out music over Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation speech. “The fact that we allow this to happen shows, that at times, we are not a serious country.” @afneil
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Small thing. But I’m sick of people like Steve Bray and other protestors being allowed to disrupt any national event they feel like. - Lord Ed Vaizey reposted
Replying to @owenjonesjournoIf I put a loudspeaker in the middle of my residential street blasting out music or my inane thoughts at 930 in the morning I would be arrested. There's a qualitative difference between the noble and time honoured pursuit of shouting at politicians vs being a fat lazy loser who - Lord Ed Vaizey reposted
Call me fusty - and I don't care if the PM is left or right wing - but I'd quite like the big moments in our countries life to happen without the intervention of some dickhead with a boombox. - Lord Ed Vaizey reposted
Steve Bray blasting Ode to Joy, ruining nationally historic moments like this for us and posterity, is a complete disgrace. A yob.
