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This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important
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Simon Pickard
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Simon Pickard
@friendly_simon
Live in Cardiff, work and volunteer in charity sector. Occasional whisky drinker. These are my personal whinges/thoughtlings
Roath, Cardiff Bergabung Kasım 2011
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In the case of Labour MPs in safe seats who retired at the last minute in late May, in the knowledge they'd get peerages for life - thus allowing Labour HQ to impose favoured candidates without local scrutiny - it's effectively a form of bribery.
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Ellie Reeves. Whose sister, husband, father-in-law & mother-in-law were all Labour MPs before she was. This Labour government is beyond parody.
Ellie Reeves@elliereeves
I was extremely proud to close 2nd Reading of the Bill that will remove the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. It cannot be right in modern Britain that there are Lords who serve in our legislature simply because of the family they were born into.
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@kxstny @PhilipProudfoot @WhosChivato @AnnelieseDodds Why is it ‘so called’ South Sudan?
I mean that’s definitely the country’s name, whatever the rights or wrongs of this MP going there.
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In South Sudan, 84% of girls over 15 are illiterate and just 8% go to secondary school.
The UK-led Girls Education South Sudan programme has supported over 1.2m girls to access school.
In Bentiu, I met schoolgirls to hear about how this programme has transformed their futures.
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@pswhisky @edradourmalt Probably too late, but would be v interested to join this tasting. Have a couple of Ballechin/Edradour on the collection, they’re great!
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This is going to be an interesting one! All 8 whiskies comprising the @edradourmalt Ballechin Discovery Series. If you'd like to take part in the tasting on 7 September, please get in touch. Just look at those colours 😍🥃 #pswhisky #sniffsipslainte
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I have no words for what this has done to my soul.
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@MaltMusings The best whisky collection in optics I’ve ever seen!
And equally impressive rum and gin collections in the other section of the bar!
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Distillery notes:
Solemn, like the embrace of St. Peter's Square.
Whisky aged 5 years and refined in Amarone barrels.
Its aroma is reminiscent of a bowl of toasted dried fruit, raisins, prunes, chocolate and smoked spices.
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We up for a live whisky review?
@Poli_Express Segretario Di Stato, the only Italian whisky I could find in Venice.
From my dodgy conversation with the barman and security doorman (don't ask) at Bacarando Corte dell'Orso this is their first release!
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🔶 Liberal Democrats GAIN Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
Congratulations David Chadwick MP
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This election must be the most unpredictable foregone conclusion ever. Like if the hosts automatically qualified for the final of the World Cup and everyone else played for the other spot.
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@Samfr I heard one example where after the first day of postal votes being opened sent the Lab SG down to check the following day because the results were ‘interesting’. It’s quite common that indicative results are visible! Even if they shouldn’t be.
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@friendly_simon They shouldn't be able to see how the votes are cast. I'm aware that sometimes they do but it is not allowed under the guidance.
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Correct. And remember they are seeing initial batches of postal votes.
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges
Spoken to a few Labour and Tory sources today. It's clear that as we enter the final weekend both sides believe the polls are broadly accurate, and there's no evidence of any significant swing back to the Tories. That could change. But at the moment its hard to see why it would.
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@RishiSunak says he is hurt & angry at @reformparty_uk activist using racist language.
How did he think I felt when his top donor Frank Hester said I “made him want to hate all Black women' and I should be shot?
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
"It hurts and makes me angry." Rishi Sunak responds to Channel 4 News undercover investigation within the Reform UK campaign in Clacton, exposing examples of racist language including against Sunak himself. A warning this clip contains offensive and racist language.
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@Samfr I’ve been told by one candidate in a con-LD marginal that the ‘postal votes are going in the right direction’ so they definitely can see the actual votes cast. Even if they’re not meant to. It can change tactics in the final week in tight seats.
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@Samfr This is not true. Agents or their appointed reps can watch postal votes being opened; they can see some (not all) of how the votes have been cast; and they can get a good sense of where he postal votes are going in the right direction or not.
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This is how it works:
x.com/forwardnotback…
Tim (still totally unremarkable)@forwardnotback
PSA: Agents/others know how many PVs have been issued They have a good idea how many PVs their candidate has been promised They get daily tallies of PVs returned Then they can do the maths They do not see which way individual PVs have been cast No one is actually counting votes
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Had a fabulous birthday evening with some of my favourite folks in the whole world x
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Daisy Cooper, "I think you speak for Britain.. So many people ask me the same question.. Why are there so many massive companies raking in billions in profits when ordinary folk can't afford to put food on the table" #BBCQT
"LibDems do not believe we should be taxing ordinary folk during a cost of living crisis.. Big banks have been given a £3 billion tax cut.. We would reverse it.. The windfall tax on oil and gas companies has an enormous loophole in it.. Water companies have taken out loans to pay dividends"
"All of this is unfair.. Big companies should be paying a lot more to pay for our public services"
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@LeonjWard @djdabes_ I was angry that schools are seemingly shut to act as polling stations for these useless elections, but foodbanks too 😡. Madness!
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@jakesagt I remember when Jake posted filth, now it’s YIMBY Bristol housing crusade and it’s just as entertaining, but in a different way! The Greens thinking he’s right wing 😂😂
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