@crushed422 @AlistairCarns 34% of the "vote".
21% of the electorate!
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Alex 2 Sips #ALORLTFI
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@AlistairCarns A Protest vote is how Labour actually got into power in 2024๐คฆโโ๏ธ and the tactical voting of course, even then you got in on only 34% of the vote & youโve squandered it betraying those that did vote for you!
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A protest vote can feel powerful - but it doesnโt always have the impact people expect.
In many elections, votes donโt just reflect preference, they determine results. Sometimes a protest vote can unintentionally split support and help deliver an outcome further away from what was intended.
Thatโs why itโs worth thinking not just about what youโre voting against, but what your vote might actually help deliver on the day.
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@IsSaddleThereIs @JasonForCroydon No, it's really not.
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@Alex2Sips @JasonForCroydon It's like blaming pavements for congestion. They're needed just as much.
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You told me the wands were causing congestion, holding up emergency vehicles and hurting local trade.
So I removed them from Brighton Road.
Then London Road.
And weโre taking them out in the town centre.
Croydonโs roads should work.
Lend your vote to Jason Perry and your local Conservative candidates on 7th May.
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@IsSaddleThereIs @JasonForCroydon ...and cycle lanes "can" be one of those reasons.
Not the only reason, but one of them.
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@Alex2Sips @JasonForCroydon The point is that traffic congestion happens for all sorts of reasons.
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@IsSaddleThereIs @JasonForCroydon How many backdated views did you have to go through to find "a traffic jam" 9 years ago?
It was probably just lights, or a bus stop. I mean if you look the other direction from the same spot, it's hardly gridlock is it?
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@JasonForCroydon Brighton Rd in 2008 and 2017 before the cycle lane wands. Stop blaming cycle lanes for problems caused by too many single occupancy cars!
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@richardparke15 @0fukstogive @Ichi_Batt @RupertLowe10 I said unnecessary tailback, not traffic, to avoid a silly tangential argument that "bikes don't cause traffic, vehicles do." The TAILBACK was caused by the slow moving bikes, (it can be tractors, lorries, vans, cars etc) but in this instance it was bikes.
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@Alex2Sips @0fukstogive @Ichi_Batt @RupertLowe10 You sure you want to open the can of worms of โunnecessary trafficโ?
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ยฃ500k on a cycle lane that has ruined a perfectly good road in my constituency. Well done, central planners.
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@richardparke15 @0fukstogive @Ichi_Batt @RupertLowe10 Your "view" says more about YOU than the situation.
I KNOW where the pullins are, I use them when towing a stockbox rather than inconvenisncing other road users. I also pull over REGULARLY when in my tractor.
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@Alex2Sips @0fukstogive @Ichi_Batt @RupertLowe10 Yes that is my view. YOU are the one demanding they get out of your way. YOU are the entitled one
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@jordanbhx One of my SUVs is only 1.7t so that's ok then.
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The real answer that everyone is avoiding is that cars have gotten heavier. This is unsustainable. We need a tax on vehicles by weight so the burden of road repair costs falls more fairly on people who cause the most damage.
Some people need a car. No one needs a 2 tonne SUV.
BBC Midlands@bbcmtd
Ahead of the local elections on Thursday, BBC Politics Midlands put the issue of the city's roads to five candidates standing in Birmingham. Watch full programme: bbc.in/4uLCWqL
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@richardparke15 @0fukstogive @Ichi_Batt @RupertLowe10 That's just how you viewed it.
I was on an NSL travelling at 10 - 15mph, because an artic & the half dozen other vehicles in front of me were unable to pass a group of cyclists. They passed several pull ins & two laybys. The queue behind me continued further than I could see.
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@0fukstogive @Ichi_Batt @RupertLowe10 โLack of considerationโ = โhaving the audacity to be on MY roadโ Christ youโre entitled
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@KarlTurnerMP He didn't know:
He had a niece.
About Mandelson.
About Saville.
Your defence is "The Prime Minister is clueless."
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Iโm sick to death of the right wing press to be honest. I suspect that Keir didnโt even know he had a niece and this wouldnโt have crossed his desk. Why is he getting the blame for selections that he has absolutely no involvement with whatsoever? ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
The Telegraph@Telegraph
๐ณ๏ธ Sir Keir Starmerโs niece is standing in the local elections in Croydon, one of the safest wards in London. Some disgruntled local Labour activists claim she has been โparachuted into a safe Labour seatโ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/โฆ
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@Skorge1960 @DavidMcGregorBN Well, to double down, my new career is farming and we all know the contempt Labour feels for us.
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@Alex2Sips @DavidMcGregorBN That's a great idea . You are taking the risk to provide for your family.
Labour won't like you for that. They are much happier funding clowns that laze around all day every day.
They ate just the party of envy.
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People said Labour wouldnโt change anything.
Today 11 million renters get stronger rights.
Section 21 abolished. Bidding wars banned. Rent rises limited. Discrimination against families and benefit claimants stopped.
That is a massive shift of power from landlords to renters.
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@Skorge1960 @DavidMcGregorBN I don't have a "buy to let". I bought my flat to live in, moved for work, kept it in case the new career did not pan out. Now have it rented out. Will give it to my daughter when she is older.
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@DavidMcGregorBN I don't own a buy to let property and I'm really glad I don't.
Where is the protection for an owner against someone not paying their rent?
Why would you want to rent your property to a benefit claimant?
Many won't respect the property. Just look at some of the council houses.
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@IsSaddleThereIs It does no such thing. It has just increased traffic on the surrounding roads.
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What schemes like this are really all about. Enabling some of the most vulnerable in our society to get around independently.
OpenChiswick@OpenChiswickW4
Six years ago this street was a rat run for 5,500 drivers daily avoiding a short stretch of the A4. Now it provides safe passage for scores of children travelling independently to Chiswick School. Chiswick Conservatives want to remove this traffic filter. They are sickos.
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@josephpowell In 10 years, I have never put the rent up during a tenancy.
I moved agencies, because I was ethically opposed to suggestion of a bidding war.
I discounted the rent in exchange for a longer term agreement.
Now I will need to increase the rent to cover additional fees.
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From today, over 26,000 renters in Kensington & Bayswater have stronger rights and protections.
That means
โ No more no-fault evictions
๐ธ Limits on rent increases
๐ฐ No bidding wars
๐พ Easier to have pets
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Applying the Decent Homes Standard to the private rented sector
๐ช๐ป Improving Council enforcement powers
And much, much more.
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@darrenpjones Perhaps just that nobody trusts a word coming from your mouth...
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What is it that the Conservatives and Reform donโt like about a Labour government standing against unearned wealth?
What is it they don't like about raising money for our state schools, our hospitals, our police, and to lift children out of poverty?
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@RickGore10 @BobFromAccounts What annoys me, is bus lanes being removed and replaced with cycle lanes.
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@BobFromAccounts Another of your statements of the blindingly obvious.
Beyond that, I donโt believe that most drivers want provision for cyclists to come at the expense of carriageways, especially like Manchester when it is part of a policy to force motorists off the road.
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I'd say the problem here is people driving in central London, not the green paint you call a cycle lane
Westminster Matters@westminstertory
๐๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซโ๐ฌ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ Brook Street is a prime example of Labourโs cycle lanes imposed without common sense and without listening to local people.ย If elected, we will review all major road and cycle-lane plans, including Brook Street, to make sure they work for all. ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ฒ
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@stats_feed 400m:
Walk to bus stop
Wait for bus
No direct bus, so take bus in wrong direction
Wait for next bus
Walk to office
or
Get in car, drive to office.
Bus was at least 3 times longer, if 2nd bus arrived just after 1st, which it rarely did. At least there was a Cafe Nero...
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95% of Londoners live within 400m of a bus stop
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@BeauJangle21 On the basis that the "1.5m" is a GUIDE. The highway code says give at least as much spacw as you would another car....being "in the adjacent lane" ie "over the white line' is considwrwd enough.
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@TNLUK I worked in IT for 20 years, I'd be embarrassed if my uptime was as poor as yours.
On the flipside, I still have the tenner I would have spent.
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@TNLUK App down and website can't confirm I'm in the UK.
Recent "Upgrades" are shocking
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