@graemearcher His husband worked in the Cabinet Office during COVID. There's a surprise.
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CHRIS WILLIAMS🎗
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CHRIS WILLIAMS🎗
@IsntLifeTragic
🎗Bring Them Home. Builder. Ex Shopfitter Council House and Comprehensive
Bristol, England Inscrit le Aralık 2017
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Wrong.
Britain isn't ungovernable.
What it needs is a leader with clear convictions and goals - shared with the country before a general election.
For too long we've had parties and party leaders in power who are obsessed by short-term popularity.
Matthew Syed@matthewsyed
Starmer was hated. Says far more about the electorate than the man. Impossible to govern when people want welfare, triple lock, tax loopholes, NIMBYist vetoes, while also hating the low growth, high debt economy this entails. Starmer was a good man leading an ungovernable country
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@wallaceme Sometimes defeat can be an education. Use it properly and success will follow.
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@spectator The great and the good of my city have a talent for making my city feel and look like shite.
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If you live or work in Bristol, it's impossible to escape the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel's shadow – but that won't stop some people from trying.
The heritage site which looks after his early masterpiece, the steamship SS Great Britain, is to change its name from the splendid and (you would have thought) uncontroversial 'Brunel's SS Great Britain' to the rather more dreary 'Bristol Dockyards'.
Brunel is Bristol's most famous and celebrated son. When the BBC ran a national poll to find the public's greatest Britons in 2002, Brunel came in second place behind Winston Churchill, seeing off competition from the likes of William Shakespeare, Elizabeth I and Isaac Newton. It was an honour well deserved.
✍️ John Reeks
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@LibDems @LisaSmartMP The Lib Dems want a system where accountability is so dispersed that it becomes irrelevant.
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🤫 Shhh... there's a major scandal in British politics.
Under our voting system, politicians can get elected with just a fraction of the vote, meaning millions of votes don't count.
That's why @LisaSmartMP is fighting for fair votes where every vote matters.
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The associations have long been embedded within a Labour Party enamored with the human rights of sexual deviants.
Joe Rich@joerichlaw
Labour’s Baroness Harriet Harman previously told prosecutors they had to demonstrate harm before taking any action to protect abused children - fascinating interview by @BBCLauraK with Keir Starmer’s recently appointed Adviser on Women and Girls
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Has it never occurred to you that one of the main reasons that’s true (largely) is that the UK is no longer subject to the sort of Brussels’ prudential regulatory regimes that have already stymied AI in the European Union and are turning the EU into a mid-tech backwater? No? Never?
Peter Kyle@peterkyle
The energy at London Tech Week today was incredible, and the businesses I spoke to made it clear that Britain is the place to start and scale a tech company. These are the people with the ideas and innovations that are driving the UK forward.
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The idea that a government populated by ministers who, combined, have close to zero proper business experience, dribbling out small dollops of cash to companies they favour will play any role in finding ‘the UK’s first trillion-dollar firm’ really is one for the ages. If it ever happens it will be despite the government, not because of it. They really have no clue.
Peter Kyle@peterkyle
I want to find the UK’s first trillion-dollar firm. That’s why this morning I've unveiled our bespoke concierge service to support businesses of the future to start, scale, and stay in the UK. When I say I’m aggressively ambitious in pursuit of economic growth, I mean it.
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@kelvmackenzie @IainDale He swings more ways than a well roasted September conker.
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Agree with @IainDale. Labour’s so desperate to dump Starmer they are beginning to rummage in the rubbish. I’ve seen more brains than Burnham in my local butchers.
Iain Dale 🏴🇬🇧 ⚒️@IainDale
This interview on @bbcnewsnight with @vicderbyshire is an absolute car crash for Andy Burnham. All over the place. No clue about 'fiscal rules', tetchy, unable to answer basic questions. Why do some people see him as the Messiah who can save Labour?
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@LordAshcroft Kemi has been impressive since her election as an MP. It's not that long ago that the naysayers were giving her little chance of survival as leader. Her job requires philosophical clarity and focus in order to regain the electorate's trust. Girls doing well.
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Well worth watching if you’re open minded to being impressed…
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CHRIS WILLIAMS🎗 retweeté
Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.
I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.
Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.
I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"
You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.
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@DPJHodges Your understanding of the English language is astounding.
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Farage and his supporters trying to justify his comments by attempting to draw a distinction between "cold" and "hot" rage are like those pro-Palestinian marchers who try to claim "From The River To The Sea " is just about lines on a map. We know what you mean. Just own it.
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Incredible. Nigel Farage mentions the violence in Southampton yesterday, but fails to condemn it.
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@GuidoFawkes No mention of the far right. Not even by Starmer.
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Badenoch quotes this back at Starmer. #PMQs
Guido Fawkes@GuidoFawkes
PAT MCFADDEN: EVERY MEETING I HAVE IS "WHO CAN WE TAX IN ORDER TO PAY BENEFITS TO OTHERS"
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CHRIS WILLIAMS🎗 retweeté
This is a powerful statement from figures in the Sikh community.
I know Sikhs will be utterly appalled and outraged by Vikrum Digma.
This is not about Sikhs.
This is about a two-tier system that no longer treats all groups equally before the law.
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@angelazhay @DailyMail Nigel Farage said "I suggest the rest of us respond to this with pure cold rage". That's not a matter of opinion. It's what he said.
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The disappearing PM: Starmer faces Commons grilling on Mandelson 'cover-up' TODAY as he defends using self-deleting WhatsApps trib.al/lY8Ro5R
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@marcusaroberts Perhaps the Civil Service should operate under the same terms and conditions as shopfitters. Lead times are measured in hours not days.
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I do not know which is worse: the lead time quoted by the manufacturer, or the govt’s acceptance of it
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot
The biggest disclosure in the Mandelson files is that all the might of the British state could not get a lead time of less than 8-10 weeks for a *briefcase*. @MarinaHyde here theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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CHRIS WILLIAMS🎗 retweeté
Yes, we need to use our Brexit freedoms to a much greater extent, allowing Britain to excel in sectors including biotech, artificial intelligence, satellites, agricultural genomics and financial services among others.
And of course the UK needs to recalibrate once again as a low-tax, low-regulation, high-productivity economy – and, again, Brexit provides the perfect opportunity, if only we could summon the courage.
But the "clearly Brexit has been an economic disaster" horror stories aren’t true – and, if we so chose, and pursue the right policies, Britain could soar economically outside the EU.
Conventional wisdom, as is so often the case, is no wisdom at all ....
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