@TomTugendhat Agreed. But of course, it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
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Andy W
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Andy W
@AndyofNewcastle
Adopted Geordie, from Lincolnshire. MSc. Senior local govt officer. Enjoy travel, history and politics. Views my own. RT/Like ≠ agreement.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Katılım Şubat 2011
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Great work by the Met Police. Well done for a rapid and effective piece of work to catch this fugitive. An example of policing at its best. Congratulations to all Officers involved in this operation
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Misty morning out in #Skelton - thank you to everyone who gave time to talk about Teesworks, traffic, small boats and more 👍
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@SimonClarkeMP Who controlled Northamptonshire before it was abolished?
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Birmingham joins a long list of Labour run councils that have gone bust - Croydon, Nottingham, Slough.
This year councils’ core spending power rose 9.2%.
It is not good enough for councils to claim poverty - they need proper leadership and innovation.
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: Birmingham City Council effectively declares bankruptcy after being hit by £760m bill news.sky.com/story/birmingh…
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@acgrayling You're obviously just trolling now. You know perfectly well that "if you don't vote, you don't count" is a fundamental principle. The objective fact is that a clear majority of those who did vote voted to leave. As it happens, I voted to stay in; but that's irrelevant.
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Perhaps if May & others in Westminster had bothered to think in terms of the 63% who did not vote Leave, of the young, of the economy, & of our responsibility to our neighbours, of Gibraltar, of Scotland saying Remain - well, we'd be vastly better off now: vastly.
Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward
Top of the "Things that never happened" list when it comes to Brexit was any consideration of the 48%. Astonishing revisionism by Theresa May.
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@BBCNews Be billing Macedonia for Alexander’s conquest of Persia next!
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UK’s £18tn slavery debt is an underestimation, UN judge says bbc.in/45jv8jC
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@acgrayling Prof, you use the words lunatic and fetishism. Were you looking in the mirror when you wrote that, or don’t they have one in your asylum?
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Brexit anti-EU fetishism is beyond lunatic.
"Mexican and Malaysian under-30s to fill vacancies in pubs and farms" - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/AW28DkphrTGSru…
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@acgrayling It drives me mad that you keep forgetting that those who don't vote don't count.
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It drives me mad to hear the endless repetition of 'the country made a decision = therefore nothing can be done about Brexit' (a) it was a terrible decision (b) it was made by 37% of the electorate (26% of 'the country') on the basis of lies & crimes.
Enough!
It must be reversed.
Liz Webster@LizWebsterSBF
Blinking heck! 💥 listen to this! Incredible that @BBCRadio4 tackled @JohnGlenUK on #Brexit impact on British economy! “You can’t just gloss over it. This is important, something that your independent forecasters the OBR look at every time that they do their analysis of the economy.”
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@PhilHal86897998 @acgrayling And Italy. There's a lot wrong in this country. But pretending everything is worse here than everywhere else does nothing to advance his argument.
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@acgrayling Prof, have you seen the state of France? Have you seen the condition of the German economy? Your myopic view does you no credit.
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"...the decay of the government, abuses, injustices & inequalities, failing national finances, resentment & a sense of oppression..." - France 1789. Britain 2023?
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@RefugeCharity Your Chief Executive is on more than £200k a year. Try asking them for some money.
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@acgrayling Like any other Government, the current one will hold office unless and until it cases to have the confidence of the House of Commons. That's it - it's as simple as that.
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On Locke's principles, this Tory government has 'dissolved itself' by failing to fulfil the function of government to 'promote the public good of society', which is the 'utmost limit' of its power - & if it acts beyond or contrary to this power it confers on the people not just.
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@BushfireBoy @SkyUK It's currently down across large parts of the country by the looks of it.
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@BarristersHorse It'll be the sane sort of full confidence football club chairmen express in their managers.
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How on earth can a major financial institution maintain confidence in a senior employee who's shown such lack of integrity, judgement & discretion?
How on earth did the BBC think it was okay to publish confidential information?
What a mess we're in when politics trumps trust.
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@KiMcGuinness Having worked with you in a small way in your PCC role Kim, I have no doubt you'll be a great advocate for the region, if elected next year. There's so much to do - not least in my "pet" area of transport.
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🧵 I am overwhelmed by the amount of support I’ve received from Labour Party members, trade unions and affiliates. Thank you.
I can’t wait to see you on the doorstep! 🌹🌹 (2/2)
kimmcguinness.org
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🧵 I’m so delighted to announce that I’ve been selected as @UKLabour candidate for North East Mayor. I love our region and our people.
Together we can make the North East the home of real opportunity.
We need a Labour mayor now more than ever.
The campaign starts now. 🌹(1/2)
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@AndyofNewcastle @acgrayling The Prof does seem to like making up facts as he goes along
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If the Tories lose all three by-elections the government has to resign and a GE held.
There will be no authority, no justification, for a government so emphatically rejected.
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@BarristersHorse @campbellclaret What gets me is that those in the media who are now full of [perhaps understandable] human sympathy for one of their own rarely seem willing to offer the same courtesy to people in other walks of life.
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Somewhat confused by @campbellclaret self defeating tweets .
His twitter feed is full of tweets and retweets about a certain story, which he claims is a non-story, not worthy of attention & just a deflection for another story about a phone no-one gives a stuff about.
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@acgrayling Most people have moved on with their lives, regardless of how they voted in 2016.
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"Over half a million people have now watched our hard-hitting video ad, Brexit Dead Ringer – designed to highlight the lies Leave voters were told about Brexit and the NHS – and momentum is growing" @EuropeanMovement
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"Under Section 59 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the planning system will be re-organised under THE CAMBRIDGE DEVELOPMENT ORDER!"
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes
Michael Gove is drawing up proposals to turn Cambridge into Britain’s Silicon Valley, with as many as 250,000 new homes built over the next two decades and the prospect of billions of pounds of investment #Echobox=1688877609" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.co.uk/article/michae…
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