@DefenceGeek @CountBinface Wigan Council empty the general waste bin every three weeks. The paper, glass and plastic, and garden waste on other cycles. (Spy stuff, courtesy of the wife).
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Dave Evans
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Dave Evans
@dave_basic
Flaneur and quietly pessimistic homebrewer.
A Subtopian cliché शामिल हुए Ağustos 2015
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@CountBinface If you did win, I take it you'd have to wear the bin in the commons at all times... right? 😂😂
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@DrChrisParry @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @reformparty_uk Probably right. But if you're a mug like me that happens to live in "Makerfield", where you put your cross?
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So let me get this right …
@UKLabour MPs are campaigning for the underachieving and over-claiming Andy Burnham so that they can get rid of @Keir_Starmer?
That would mean that @UKLabour are working for @reformparty_uk to get Starmer out.
Is that right?
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@FUDdaily @GoodwinMJ As a registered elector in the "Makerfield" constituency, I despair at the quality of candidate/party being touted. This by election is a metaphor for Britain's decline.
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It is crystal clear Restore have no idea what they are doing.
They are amateurs who are only helping the Left.
Only Reform has a serious plan for saving this country —including reversing the Boriswave.
I urge you all to get behind it.
Vote Reform.
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@OldRoberts953 Whats @OldRoberts953 got against Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton.
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@GroomB Wigan gave us George Formby AND Frank Randall. For these gifts we are truly grateful. (St Helens could only manage Bernie Clifton and Robert Dorning).
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Remembering George Formby junior, born on this day 1904 in Wigan.
Brian Groom@GroomB
Made in Wigan: George Formby junior (1904-61) was the banjolele and ukulele-playing star of successful British comedy films in the 1930s and 1940s. He reputedly became the UK's highest-paid entertainer. 1/8
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@post_liberal Yes, but St Helens had quite a few Tory clubs. Might be due partly to the fact that the town was dominated by the Pilkington family, and the predominant union was the General and Municipal, the most supine organised labour outfit at the time.
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@dave_basic Conservative clubs more prevalent in Bolton than in Wigan. Textile towns v coalfield towns I guess.
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Yes, it’s gone from being a truly national party with cross-class appeal to a regional rump party that barely registers outside of South-East England. An English version of the German FDP rather than a broad coalition of the centre-right capable of winning general elections.
Luke Tryl@LukeTryl
The more striking thing from this is that more current Tory voters voted to Remain than Leave the EU: as they have shed votes to Reform the party is now not only less Leave than 2019 Johnson coalition, but also more Remain voting than those who voted for Cameron in 2015.
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@TheSimonEvansX @metroadlib Sounds like the old JMB English Lit A Level exam.
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This *might* work as a kind of parlour game or panel show. Or even a comprehension test. Be given the dialogue only from a chapter and then have to answer questions on the whole chapter. But *only* in the way playing a whole round of golf with a seven iron and a putter can teach you things about the game.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!
WHAT?!!!
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@post_liberal The Tories couldn't have won from 1951 to 1964 without working class support
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@post_liberal The Canadian psephologist, wrote a book about working class Tories: "Angels in Marble".
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@thesundaysport @ferafestiva23 @walls Hang on in there. Burnham's going to go into a chippy and order "a babby's yed and peywet". @MichaelLCrick will be there to record it, in wearing a ManU retro top and big shorts. Shock. Horror. Probe.
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@ferafestiva23 @walls Bit by bit, they take things from us.
Like flattened Easter eggs.
Cheeseparing corporate filth.
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Just had my first @walls Feast of the year. It will be my absolute last. They’ve replaced the chocolate ice cream with vanilla and, worse, got rid of the hard chocolate centre, the very essence of a Feast. It tasted like a cheap knock off. Horrid.
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@Steve_Sailer @VelliMach One of the Lord Derby's said that the origin of the local rivalry games called a derby originated in RL games between St Helens and Wigan.
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@Steve_Sailer @VelliMach True, up to a point. Rugby league in Northern England evolved as a reaction to middle class amateurism. Interestingly, a real toff, Lord Derby was a big fan of RL .
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@ClarkeMicah @highhopesbest @clarkmicah is an interesting bloke. You might not always agree with him . That's the point.
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I wasn’t sent anywhere, @highhopesbest I’d gone to watch an all-purpose left-wing protest in my home town. Some people there didn’t like me. I am used to this.
highhopesbest@highhopesbest
Remembering that fateful day when Peter Hitchens intended to jump on another bandwagon, only to discover that he had been sent to the wrong event. [Baldrick {@shaunmwing}] 😬 #cantgetthestaff
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That's a conundrum. Obviously Hume never had to set up a direct debit. He'd have chuckled at that one.
Edward Feser@FeserEdward
Are causality, necessity, and value real features of the objective world? Or merely projections of the human mind, as Hume argued? “Nagel on Stroud on the possibility of metaphysics,” over at the blog: edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2026/05/nagel-…
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@ClarkeMicah I do actually. A trivial detail that speaks to me. The South Lancs, evacuated at Dunkirk and landed in Normandy in the first wave on 6th June. A war not fought by the British by balance sheets and bookkeepers but by bloody mindedness.
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.@dave_basic. Indeed.Have you ever wondered why this was?
Dave Evans@dave_basic
@ClarkeMicah True. But the British and Canadians landed on three beaches at Normandy: the Americans two. And Mulberry and PLUTO. We may have been the junior partner in terms of material, but still a substantial contribution.
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@ClarkeMicah True. But the British and Canadians landed on three beaches at Normandy: the Americans two. And Mulberry and PLUTO. We may have been the junior partner in terms of material, but still a substantial contribution.
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.@dave_basic The term ‘ main body of the enemy’ is pretty clear, I think . This isn’t an argument about bravery, sacrifice or endurance. Alas, it is about the importance of our contribution to what, after 1941. became someone else’s war.
Dave Evans@dave_basic
@ClarkeMicah The D Day Dodgers in Italy and the "forgotten army" in Burma may beg to differ. Two campaigns that seem to have been wiped from the collective British memory.
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@ClarkeMicah The D Day Dodgers in Italy and the "forgotten army" in Burma may beg to differ. Two campaigns that seem to have been wiped from the collective British memory.
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.@anthonygri0669 The British Army was not in contact with the main body of the German enemy from summer 1940 to summer 1944. Not really very much like 1914-1918, whatever else you may say about it.
Anthony’s Bar & Grill@AnthonyGri10669
@frollickingmole @ClarkeMicah @gerardtbaker People fail to realise that the Second World War was even more of an attritional slogging match than the First. One of the crucial differences for the British Army was that we had much better artillery in WW2.
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I wrote about TV’s strangest combinations of actors -
Link below ⬇️
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