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@ImSoBrexcited @plantnerd17 @UKpbr2 @g_gosden Encouraging an act of terror (which you are not arguing didn’t happen) has a 15 year maximum sentence. I’d argue anyone who didn’t leave was encouraging the act of terror that took place. He didn’t leave. He pled guilty. It’s sad he died, but FAFO.

@DaveScoff @plantnerd17 @UKpbr2 @g_gosden Er, the man in question did not do any of those things though so, clearly you don't know anything about this case either! Can you people please make the small effort of learning something about what you're commenting on (take just two minutes doing that, perhaps), before posting.

@EddieGrail2 @UKpbr2 @g_gosden It’s funny how those of us living close to the hotel weren’t terrorised though. I go past there most weeks and am more intimidated by the drunken white men in spoons than young brown men who hung out outside the hotel.

@UKpbr2 @g_gosden The hotel was full of young men who for the last few years have been terrorising the area and those living close by, John Healey even brought it up in parliament a year ago, asking for the hotel to be closed to migrants and return to being a hotel johnhealeymp.co.uk/mp-in-new-batt…

@ImSoBrexcited @plantnerd17 @UKpbr2 @g_gosden Terrorist. Legally defined as one who uses an act of (or threat of) violence against a person or damage to a property to influence a government for an ideological cause. ELI5 How setting fire to a hotel doesn’t qualify as terrorism under that definition.

@plantnerd17 @UKpbr2 @g_gosden So, you have no clue about the case and no notion of the term terrorist. Kids like you make utter fools of society and feel no shame for your vile cult of hatred.

@UKpbr2 @g_gosden He participated (by attending) and encouraged an act of terror designed to influence the government to change policy. He was lucky not to be charged under the terrorism act 2006 and facing a maximum of 15 years.

@g_gosden He participated in the attempted murder of more than 60 people.. Yes it was attempted murder.. they tried to set the hotel on fire. Which had dozens of staff as well as 60 asylum seekers and a few other guests inside. FUCK OFF with your indignation.

@ComradeChooChoo @sf_bac1862 @HenryRiley1 @LBC Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto is ~900km and takes slightly over 4 hours. Its currently extending towards Sapporo. The equivalent journey is London to Aberdeen, which takes over 7 hours. Our ambitions should be 3-4 hours maximum for that journey.

@DaveScoff @sf_bac1862 @HenryRiley1 @LBC HS2 as proposed operates at state of the art speeds, 360km/h with the alignment designed for 400km/h. There are very few km of railway in the world that operate at that speed.

EXCL HS2 to run from London Euston to Crewe LBC understands govt was planning announcement in the new year - reversing Rishi Sunak's cut to 'phase 2a' Private talks said to have taken place involving Keir Starmer at last month's Labour Conference @LBC lbc.co.uk/news/hs2-londo…

@sf_bac1862 @HenryRiley1 @LBC And make it proper high speed. London to Leeds/Manchester/Liverpool/Sheffield should be under 1 hour. Birmingham 30 minutes to any of them. (The Hayabusa service between Tokyo and Hokuto achieves these speeds)

@HenryRiley1 @LBC Get it all built, NPR, HS2 Manchester and Leeds legs and start planning to extend it to Scotland too. It’s about time we started acting like a grown up country

@GoodLawProject One of its major funders is British American Tobacco. Parties associated with the IEA (Reform) are against more restrictions on the sale of tobacco. Make of that what you will...

How much do you know about the IEA? In the media a lot? Inspired Truss & Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budget? Right-wing? And... a registered charity? The Charity Commission is now reviewing whether the IEA’s activities have breached charity law. goodlaw.social/iq3c

@TateTheTalisman @FreddieBailey96 TBF, someone born here is more British that you are seeing as you were born in Chicago. And he isn't under investigation for human trafficking and sex crimes, so he probably does exhibit more British values than you too.

He’s British on a technicality yes. But his ancestors aren’t from England. Maybe politicians should be able to trace ancestors 4 generations back? Then men who build England wouldn’t have wanted to concede control to foreigners. I say this as a half black man. Many countries work this way, you are not becoming a Chinese Japanese or Thai politician as a black man born there to foreign parents.

He is British you racist.

@NewRightRising No Gangs in the 1950s? - So the Kray Brothers were just made up for TV then?

1950s London 🇬🇧 No diversity. No gangs. No knife crime. We were once a civilized society.

@localnotail TBH, if Trump wins, his second term will be limited as they oust him to bring in Vance - who is very involved in P25 and in hock to those behind it.

Heritage's Project 2025 is an oven-ready policy & administration package that comes with 20,000 staff ready & eager to deliver on those 900 pages of Conservative think tank plans. Who believes Donald Trump will say no way, I'm ignoring these people, gonna arrange my own staff!

Most of the time when I post something about the Donald Trump-backing Heritage Foundation and their Project 2025, I get MAGA people telling me that he doesn't know anything about it and he's not associated with it - it's not his plan. And, in one way, that's true. He's clueless

@questfortruth10 @Otto_English @deebeesnees But that only happens in UK. So, removing the ECHR will not make the politicians (who make the laws), or the Home Office (who action them) any better. The problem isn't the ECHR, its the Tories.

@Otto_English @deebeesnees Because they are sick of constant stories of violent foreign criminals being prevented from being deported to their point of origin by appeals to the ECHR. You never seem to offer any other solutions than put up with it.

IT'S VERY SIMPLE. Just as: Leaving the EU took away YOUR freedom of movement SO: Leaving the ECHR will take away YOUR human rights Do not get fooled by Nigel Farage and his very dangerous narrative.

@stuartthresher @Otto_English Just between 1945 and 1953 our government kidnapped and deported Chinese merchant seamen from Liverpool (without telling their families) and we opened concentration camps in Kenya and Malaya. So, we didn't manage well 🤷‍♂️

@Otto_English How come we managed without it between 1645 and 1953?

@damienpar @MrNishKumar Both of them will probably have been opposition leader before 2029. They are unlikely to still be in charge then though. They are currently averaging a leadership election every 18 months or so...

@MrNishKumar One of those two ghouls will be PM in 2029. Or Farage.

It seems incredible for those of us with a low opinion of this iteration of the Conservative party, that they are even dumber than we assume.

@TraderClip @LBC @TomSwarbrick1 For a start, they are supported by the Heritage Foundation (same as Trump) - who are funded in part by ExxonMobile. They are also supported by the IEA (who did their election budget) - who are part-funded by British American Tobacco. But not globalist. 🤷‍♂️

@DaveScoff @LBC @TomSwarbrick1 Which 'globalists' enlighten us

‘I’m telling you now, Kemi Badenoch over Nigel Farage? Stop kidding ourselves about this!’ Labour supporter Abigail tells @TomSwarbrick1 why she is ‘really excited’ about the final two Tory leadership candidates.

@TraderClip @LBC @TomSwarbrick1 Is that the Reform Party funded in part by the globalists in the American Right?

When you have a globalist agenda, cause the problem, then the Labour government point at those and call them far right when they highlight the problem you know democracy doesn't exist unless the Globalists didn't think a Reform like party would ever make the vote and that trajectory is taking shape. Watch what happens if they ever look like a real threat to power.

@PaulTomlinsonn @IanDunt Isn't it an annual event at the moment? Like Blackpool illuminations or Halloween?

@IanDunt I’ll have a small wager that there will be another Tory leadership race within 2 yrs.

What the fucking fuck Cleverly is out

@TheGriftReport @BethRigby There isn’t a good voice in the entire cohort of Tory MPs…

💥It’s JENRICK v BADENOCH for Tory leader. Clevely knocked out!! Cleverly 37 Jenrick 41 Badenoch 42

@algell123 @Geri_E_L_Scott It’s all relative.

@Geri_E_L_Scott Cleverly? Normal?

James Cleverly: “We need to be more normal.” Tory MPs: “No!”

@Undertaker1895 @NotaTory67 @LBC @BorisJohnson That depends on what you mean by rollout. Did the UK start faster - yes. Was it overtaken before the end - also yes. And it also depends by country. Some - Germany, France, Ireland & Sweden - vaccinated at around the same rate. Others - Hungary, Poland - were behind.

@NotaTory67 @LBC @BorisJohnson So why was the EU vaccine rollout delayed compared to the UKs?

"The idea that Brexit saved lives is one that people will find infuriating and exasperating, but it's true." @BorisJohnson claims his Brexit deal allowed the UK to obtain vaccines 'faster than any other country'.

@Beany_1 @premnsikka Your 1 hour 20 minute late train would have been free travel through Delay Repay. Its always worth sticking a claim in.

Spot the Difference 1994: Rail privatised. Punctuality 86.4% Amongst cheapest fares per mile in Europe Annual subsidy £1.7bn. 30 yrs later Punctuality 70.1% Amongst most expensive fares in Europe. Subsidy £11.9bn Shareholders enriched, people fleeced. leftfootforward.org/2024/10/why-la…