The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article:
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The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article:
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He hasn’t aged a bit amazing
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It would appear that Simon Jenkins is the new NostraDumbArse.
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Hunt him for sport!
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In the 9 years between articles history may have been unkind to his opinion, however he has aged remarkably well.
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Well, this seems a little awkward.
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Who is worst journalist at the Guardian, and why is it Simon Jenkins?
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I thought exactly the same when I read this the other day … “didn’t he write the opposite at the time?”.
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I for one applaud every person who changes their mind, and today's article by Simon Jenkins is actually good. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins
Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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People vote against their interests all the time.
All politicians need to do is lie to enough people and discourage the rest from voting.
Republicans are great at this 😁
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Simon Jenkins! Why would anyone waste time on reading any text from that guy after seeing this?
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Another turd that just won’t flush away.
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Poor guy hasn’t even been able to afford a new suit in the past 8 years.
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Simon Jenkins seems to think that he is a journalist. Many people think that he is a stupid Brexiter cunt.
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It really is impressive how often Jenkins has managed to be utterly wrong about just about everything, and still hold onto his job.
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I’m shocked at how little his appearance has changed while the rest of us aged 30 years.
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He is paid handsomely to be wrong about almost everything, all of the time.
Simon "Putin's forces will be in Kyiv within seven days" Jenkins.
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And he hasn’t aged a day in 10 years!
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Simon Jenkins: A bellend’s bellend.
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These fucking people. No wonder newspapers are getting less and less readers and sales in Britain
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Jenkins minor, see me after class. Half term break is cancelled.
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how can these pundits look themselves in the mirror?
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As they say in Italian: pick a lane.
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At least he’s had the honesty to say it was wrong. So many Brexiteers howling about ‘betrayal’ this week.
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Never understood why he's in the Guardian.
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Dump the Guardian
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Dump The Guardian
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ignore it jake, its the guardian
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He hasn't aged a bit, unlike his take.
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Sweet Jesus. What a w⚓️
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When he was chairman of the National Trust I believe he was known as one of the 'twins of evil'.
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How quickly they forget
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Brexit was never going to be good for Britain. The experts (of whom Gove had had enough) pretty much all said so.
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He’s aged well though. Have to give him that.
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So were you lying in 2016 or are you admitting you were wrong then Simon?
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Fucking charlatans that’s what are media are.
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Shameless money for old rope.
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Middle-aged white men's superpower is never being wrong.
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That change of mind could also be attributed to a learning process though.
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It's not just Jenkins. The Guardian has become pointless these days. I've long stopped subscribing.
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Fixed it
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Ah, 'we told you so' evokes regret when reality comes home to roost. Finally.
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He does specifically say the words "I was wrong" and I believe in change, and those words are hard. But why do these people never listen in the first place? Deeper thought is needed than being wrong about one thing at a time with him.
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The Guardian. In 2 headlines.
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The columnist profession is DEI for white people.
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“Throughout history, Britain’s relations with Europe have always been best when semi-detached.”
And you will indeed get from us in the EU the semi-detached treatment. Not a centimetre more.
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I had my suspicions! Nicely done. Luckily I don’t read him
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A forked tongue speaks.
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Karma's a bitch.
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And yet, rather than being shunned and living in a cardboard box under a bridge, this asshole still has a job "writing" for the Guardian. #WhitePrivilege
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looks like the same simon
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Maybe he just forgot
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Lol, the ever shifting sands of Simon. He's one to watch, not.
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Biggest mistake ever
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Hahahaha
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His contrarian BS is so tiresome.
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It really makes you wonder. How often do they actually change their photo?
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good for you... keep posting and destroy them
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Shameless. Up here we call people like that an utter fanny….
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From June 2016, i.e. he changed his mind after the result went against him. A man of conviction 😁
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I am glad someone is is reminding the idiots of their past. I just don't get how these rabid brexiteers can do so much damage and then act all innocent.
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Conclusion: The Guardian is a complete waste of time.
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Reality strikes! A national balls up!
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But there was no reset: factory reset is back to the default settings, ie to the starting point of being a EU member in this context, which UK has not achieved not even budged a bit 🤏
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I don't suppose there is one in the middle where he acknowledges that the prophets of doom were, in fact, absolutely right?
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Simple Simon.
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"Yesterday I was lying. Today I'm telling the truth."
—Bob Arum, U.S. boxing promoter.
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Here's a better picture.
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And in nine years he hasn't aged one little bit 😃
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Easily said with 2020 vision. What a prat!
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I’ve been ignoring Simon Jenkins for a number of years now.
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Simon Jenkins seems to have aged well these last 10 years.
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What a fucking wanker! Anyone else would be fired for such incompetence.
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He's allowed to change his mind, as long as he admits it.
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You can sort of understand young journalists feeling pressured, in the current media environment, into the world of hot take writing, where you’re constantly hostage to fortune. But Sir Simon Jenkins..?
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He’s aged better than his article 😂
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Very happy for people to change their mind and admit they were wrong: "I once opposed EU membership..."
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These fookers shouldn't be allowed to walk it back; they need to own their BS.
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#SimonJenkins needs to be retired. @theguardian.com
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Not even a full decade later.
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Add him to the "no asylum for you" list
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Self-fellatio, thy name is Simon Jenkins.
And all you write is splooge.
Fuck you, wanker.
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true
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How do you get a gig like Jenkins'? If I was so consistently wrong in my job I'd be permanently unemployed.
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Every column that the Guardian publishes by Simon Jenkins is a waste of space and of younger talent that they should be promoting. This mummy belongs in a sarcophagus.
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How did anybody, especially those who proclaim to be in politically savvy, ever expect brexit to work and be beneficial in any way?
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🤡
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Simon is in this camp,no?
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Simon Jenkins, I do not take to be a serious political commentator. I honestly don't know how he gets the gig.
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At least he didn’t do what Farage did: 7 minutes after the result of the referendum was announced he said that the £265M per week for the NHS was “ a mistake”..,
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One of the Very Serious People, as Paul Krugman puts it.
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spineless men
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He's not very bright, is he?. Another fine example, of not to take hacks seriously.
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Imperious certainty only takes a man so far.
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fair play to the guy though, he doesn't look like he's aged in a day in those 9 years
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Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.
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Yeah, they should definitely update his pic
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In all fairness, Simon Jenkins is a huge dipshit
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Is that what they call a reverse ferret or is he more of a weasel? Can't help feeling that i am being unfair to small carnivores.
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Strong entry from Simon Jenkins for the Simon Jenkins Is Always Wrong About Everything award.
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I think he just needs to talk to himself.
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Going out to buy the Guardian: What a pointless waste of money and effort
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What’s that line in Apocalypse Now Kurtz uses to describe Willard? ‘An errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill’.
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They need to kick him and his unapologetic Lexit colleague with the milk-souring face Larry Elliot into touch.
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So many fuckers like this and they never get held to account - and in the Guardian no less...
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Stealing a living.
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Aged like milk.
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Fuck Simon Jenkins
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Politicians appear to be the same everywhere...
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A follower, not a leader or even an individual
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Wow! He admits he was wrong in thinking Brexit would be good. He also says people who said it would be good should apologise. But then he fails to apologise himself. He says clearly that Brexit should be undone. And yet still lacks the courage to apologise himself.
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Without me reading, should I assume at no point does he ever acknowledge he was wrong
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At least he admits he’s wrong:
“I once opposed EU membership as I thought on balance that a looser free trade area, like the European Free Trade Association, was more in line with Britain’s place in the world. In retrospect, I was wrong. ”
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I’d been following Simon Jenkins since his Evening Standard days and I never thought he was a proponent for leaving the EU. Alas, I misjudged him. Can the Labour Party start turning the heat up on the elites who canvassed for the UK to leave. The snake oil salesmen/women who forecasted el dorado
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Quite the confession.
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I genuinely don't know anyone personally who did not recognise Brexit at the time for what it was, - fraudulent, corrupt and would degrade Britain.
So Simon Jenkins, once a rational and well-respected journalist, should now apologise publicly for his political dissimulation.
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To be fair, he's always consistently been a twat.
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Yet another Janus reporter.
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He’s a clown. Brexit was a Russian psyop and the UK failed.
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He hasn't aged a day!
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Without using hearsay, twisted/skewed stats/truths, guesses, headlines, conspiracy theories, and bullshit, can you prove that the ongoing process of Brexit is not working?
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I read the second article earlier on and it's pretty sensible, but I was thinking "didn't Simon Jenkins write some brexiteer horse shit?"
So thanks for confirming.
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Typical newspaper pundit. The profile photo doesn't alter, but their judgment is all over the place.
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Zero repercussions professionally too, am I right?
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That Jenkins probably isn’t embarrassed by this suggests he has some kind of psychological illness.
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and judging by the photo he hasn't aged a day in the past decade.... a brexit bonus????
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Very interesting timeline, I lauded Jenkins article from today in my morning post but I can clearly see the hypocrisy illustrated here:)
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The ultimate feather for each wind that blows. Never read him. Another Grauniad Columnist, Owen Jones, would not like you to know that as a Corbyinist, he supported Brexit for quite a while.
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This is my favourite one with him. I didn't need to know anymore about him. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Today it's so clear and obvious Brexit was a huge mistake that even morons from back in 2016 dumb enough to think it was great can see it wasn't.
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Do they really think we don't keep the receipts that highlight their hypocrisy?!
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Brexit supporters now supporting the reset because they know the real pressure is rejoin and they want us to be happy with crumbs.
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I try hard to keep this a friendly place, but my word he’s a useless twat.
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Isn't this guy also the resident Putinversteher on Guardian?
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Simon Jenkins is an anagram of “I’m a Sick Grifting Joker”. Probably.
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How old was the publicity photo in the original?
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What an enormous waste of time and money for the people of the UK.
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une pointure
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I hope his first line for the 2025 article is "I was so very wrong."
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Thank you for this. I knew it was there somewhere and remember them both. I'm not really into dissing commentators but I have always wondered how he keeps his job. Perhaps with Tortoise Media onboard he is more aligned with the group nowadays?
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Another graduate of PPE at Oxford. For the safety of the nation someone really ought to close down that programme. It has done untold damage to the economy.
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Read this many years ago. Still holds completely true! The media has been a malignant force in British politics and the severity has only got worse!!
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It's all just a game to these fools. They don't give a damn about the outcome for regular workaday Brits. He probably has dual nationality, so he's not backed up at the border crossing on the way to his vacation home in Spain or France.
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TBF he may have made some very different assumptions in July 2016 about the Brexit we'd get
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Assholes don't even have the morality to apologize for misleading people.
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Consistently a total whopper that one
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Simple Simon
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This is actually quite funny. I wish I had the brazenness of a leader writer.
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Guess a young lad can do a lot of growing up in nine years
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and people wonder why msm is considered to be no better than fish wrap
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Sim City 2000 was way ahead of its time
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Amazing, he hasn't aged at all 😂
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follow the stream, a weak fish
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It’s handy to have your finger on the pulse of things. That incl. when every scrap of Gov paper on all reports said it was going to be a disaster & then either not reading it or ignoring it.
#SimonJenkins is an bloody idiot.
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Did he mean to send his application to The Guardian by mistake? Never understood why he writes for them.
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In the more recent article, Jenkins admits he was wrong and has changed his mind. When we fall into error(we all do) we should be able to change our minds, and we want Brexit supporters to change their minds don't we.
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The Deming Cycle in effect.
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I wonder why the guardian pays him?
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Same clowns came here to ruin our government.
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Oh,which way is the wind blowing today?
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You really try to ignore the Good News about Brexit, don't you? The Good News is that Simon Jenkins has not aged at all between 2016 and 2025, judging by his photos.
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But all know some a few who had tons of money made more money from it
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"No other country in the world can have erected such ludicrous barriers against its biggest trading partners".
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Simon Jenkins never puts pen to paper without making an arse of himself.
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I have a book in my queue "One day, everyone will have always been against this."
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Does anyone read this guy?
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He's not aged a day. 😂😂😂
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Can't two personalities have an honest difference of opinion?
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He hasn’t aged a day.
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Simon Jenkins is never knowingly correct about anything.
He should move to the Daily Telegraph. It's the spiritual home of every columnist who doesn't have a clue what they're talking about.
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Hahaha, opportunista
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I'm obviously not going to read it as I'd rather lick piss off nettles, but does he blame Corbyn?
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Nothing like an adaptable pundit.
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I definitely remember him being pro Brexit. Thanks for this.
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So good to have the adults in the room to gaslight us every step of the way...
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Schrodinger's Twat
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He hasn't aged a bit in 9 years. Amazing.
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100% chance this unpleasant chancer will suit up should Reform ever win a serious election. He has collaborator written all over him.
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2016: “Brexit, the vote to take back what we never lost in order to lose everything we currently have” #MakeItMakeSense #BrexitLogic
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Not the slightest bit surprised. He wrote an article once praising Trump. The Guardian’s alternative journo!!
