@usmanakhtar00 Ah, another Scot.
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Tom Sharpe ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐คฌ
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Tom Sharpe ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐คฌ
@PuzzlerSharpe
Exploring the sin in cynicism
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is there anything stranger than having english people condescendingly explain scotland's politics to you
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@HoraceSpellman9 @DamCou @MysteriosoX I found my old A-level papers the other day and was horrified that I couldnโt even establish which questions I might once have been able to answer.
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This pupil, complaining about unrecognisable language, thinks he might be able to cope with a law degree
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@BucketsOf_Rain Heโd do a better job and be better with people tbh - and he hates them.
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How many PM scalps will it be for Larry? Six?
Hannah@ehannah0
We are now in the last hours of Starmerโs government. Iโve never been so eager to see a podium.
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@SamuelVimes10 The space marine seems gratuitous
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People just accepting this at face value ๐ค๐คก
Cllr Samantha Gethen@Gethens
Statement from Cllr Samantha Gethen: I was asked to leave a SEND community roundtable this morning - not for causing disruption, but because the local Conservative MP, @bhatti_saqib, refused to begin the meeting until I left. I attend North Solihullโs SEND support group as a parent of children with SEND. Yes, I am also an elected Reform councillor - but today I attended as a mother wanting to discuss support for children and families. Rather than allow the meeting to become uncomfortable for the organisers or other parents attending, I chose to leave out of respect for them, and for the significant time and effort that had gone into organising the event for local SEND families. Their priorities should always come before any attempt by the local MP to ostracise me because of my political affiliation. It is deeply disappointing that a non-political family event was turned into a political issue. Excluding a SEND parent from a conversation about their childโs future is wrong. SEND families deserve to be heard, regardless of politics.
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@andrew_lilico Somehow I donโt think anyone would be complaining to lady hale.
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People keep saying this so let's be clear: Starmer cannot call a General Election. He has no power to do so nor any legal right to do so under these circumstances.
Barry Matthews@CGSLtd
@andrew_lilico His MPs know he has & will use the nuclear option of a general election where they all lose their jobs, so like the referral the other week most will keep quite & keep taking the ยฃยฃยฃ. Long term you cannot govern having made so many enemies.
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@scepticalists @MysteriosoX Iโve got a whole urinal that rises out of the ground near mine. Seems to work but a sign of the times.
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@MysteriosoX They also malfunction way more than they have any right to. Near our Spanish flat they have 3 and they've broken twice in 5 years.
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Because finding a spot where you can dig a hole this big without hitting foundations, water pipes, power cables, gas mains, drains and the like is damn near impossible
Clean Up Britain@cleanupbritain
Why don't we do this in Britain? We could dig trenches across every housing estate in Britain and install these underground waste units that only need a two-man operation to empty. Simple, efficient, and clean. No more overflowing bins and bags cluttering the streets.
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Tom Sharpe ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐คฌ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
The German media are reporting that โฌ10bn of the recovery fund money earmarked for Spain ended up in the countryโs pension system. This is how the good idea of a eurobond gets killed. Mistrust is not only present. It is justified. This example also goes to show that a eurobond can only work as a sovereign debt instrument of a unified state. If you really care about a eurobond to fortify a capital markets union and the euro as a global currency, you should talk about political union first. Donโt make this a technical discussion.
eurointelligence.com
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@tnewtondunn They donโt want to risk Burnham because it means risking the loss of two by elections at once.
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There is a route for Andy Burnham to become PM without winning a Commons by-election first: he could be made a Lord. Constitutionally the PM just needs to be a member of one of the two houses of Parliament.
This was Alec Douglas-Homeโs route, who became PM in October 1963 as a Lord before winning a by-election to be an MP 20 days later.
Itโs an absolutely awful undemocratic look that could sink Burnhamโs brand forever, plus of course Starmer may well not want to oblige his nemesis with a peerage. But these are strange and desperate times for Labour.
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@EasterGammon There seem to be a lot of exceptionally short memories this week.
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She did exactly the same thing with Boris and the tories. I suspect you didnโt mind that
TallyCat ๐ฌ๐ง๐น@TallyCat8
This woman has done more to break this Government than all the other hacks. She's so frit she turns off replies these days.
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@BovrilG ROFL.
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Breakfast this morning is chocolate and hazelnut affogato. Iโm sure itโll be very good but Iโve just thought of 2 Girls 1 Cup for the first time since about 2006.
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@GlenMitchell1 Hate to say it but youโre already the last Tory government.
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The soft left membership wonโt accept Wes, the SCG are holding out for Burnham who they would inevitably be disappointed by, the membership as a whole would settle for Ed (who doesnโt want it) who the electorate already rejected. We risk becoming the last Tory Government.
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@DamCou @HoraceSpellman9 @MysteriosoX Agree with you entirely but very difficult to assess without seeing the language. Maths itself is a language and itโs that which they should be testing- thereโs probably some interesting philosophy of science to explore. Iโd just like to see a mathmo opine.
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@HoraceSpellman9 @MysteriosoX That's exactly why I replied: Maths exams should test maths, not English comprehension. Indeed, the higher the level at which you study mathematics the more terse and consistent the wording of the examinations.
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@HoraceSpellman9 I have to admit that I found this story utterly shocking, but not for the reasons they wrote it.
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Tom Sharpe ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐คฌ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
Yes, NATO and the US support enabled the European project. The EU was made possible by peace not the other way round.
Ulrich Speck@ulrichspeck
The EU is a good thing, but peace came with Nato and the US presence in Europe -- it ended centuries of struggle for hegemony and supremacy among roughly equal powers. This US framework allowed countries to democratize, focus on prosperity, and cooperate intensely.
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@holly Heโs actually looking very handsome and cunning here, rather than like heโs having a stroke. Lovely fellow.
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Smol Paul would like you all to know that he MEANS BUSINESS.
He doesn't know what about, but, like, BUSINESS okay? Srs bzness.
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@London__Smoke We need to demand higher standards from public officials- elected and appointed. Ordinary people would have their lives ruined for stuff like this but it seems absolutely endemic.
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You can't lead the country if you can't work out your own life and pay tax.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
๐จ NEW: Zack Polanski has tonight admitted that he failed to pay the correct council tax while living on a houseboat in London
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Tom Sharpe ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐คฌ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
But this is what Starmer wants us to get closer to.
matrixbot@thematrixb0t
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EU a "complete failure" in front of global elites by stating, "Germany & Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation & zero growth."
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@BBCNewsnight @DPJHodges This was a great observation that could have stopped with โwhat is the point of appointing a PPS?โ
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"An aide to a Cabinet minister just messaged me saying 'What's the point in appointing a PPS to the Home Secretary if the Home Secretary's in No.10 calling on him to set out a timetable to go?'"
Ailbhe Rea, New Statesman, on the latest from inside Downing Street.
#Newsnight
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@v_j_freeman Yup. A madman explicitly rejected by the electorate would probably even bring me out of the streets.
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If you thought Rachel Reeves was historically unpopular as Chancellor just wait til you see Ed Miliband have a crack at the job! After heโs been stunningly inept as PM for a few months.
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@douglasbulloch Very erudite but would be utterly lost on him, which is one reason why he is so bad at both politics and communication.
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Starmer played Macbeth to win power.
Then played Hamlet when in power.
Now becoming King Lear as his government collapses around him.
Andrew Neil@afneil
Our politics really is dominated by a bunch of know-nothing amateurs. Those urging Keir Starmer to announce a timetable for his departure donโt seem to realise the moment he does that he ceases, de facto, to be PM.
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