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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂

@BenjaminOCall

Birmingham first and foremost. Extremely pro-transit. Birmingham underground advocate

Birmingham Katılım Ekim 2023
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@tedtweets6 fiscal rules mean if it’s over budget it’s also massively delayed, which with inflation makes it even more over budget due to increased labour and material costs, which delay it even further etc etc. it’s just a delay feedback loop because we won’t just spend money now
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tedtweets@tedtweets6·
@BenjaminOCall Is there an available bull case that it cd be better? Something like experience gained thru last ext, Rosewell reset of funding, prospect of devolved TWAOs, maybe even use some of the prefab tech from VLR rails?
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
if opened on schedule (last weekend of august 2026) the tram to digbeth would’ve taken 6 and a half years to build 6 and a half kilometres of track. if brierley hill takes the same amount of time it won’t be open until 2030. pretty sure russia are advancing quicker
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
we HAVE to build under the a38 to alleviate pressure here. 4tph is diabolical, 6tph is difficult due to capacity, any higher is nigh on impossible. knock down the expressway, build an automated subway line, reap the benefits. it’s that simple
Simon Paul Felton@Feltip1982

From @rail magazine. The @westmidrailway cross city line is officially the busiest local route outside London. #Birmingham

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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
there’s not even an excuse now you’ve been leading the polls for 2 years you simply HAVE to have a professional and thorough vetting system.
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Garth@ThatGarthGuy·
@llwtydeer '"so there's more hours after work!" Is the excuse I've heard Which is stupid, if you want that then make working hours 8am-4pm instead
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@geoffweinste1n @Dunadan9 we haven’t had a general election with reform at this polling yet, but there’s no reason to believe that wouldn’t be the results in wales given all the evidence we have so far. closer to the election we’ll have a better view on it 🤷‍♂️i hope you’re correct but i don’t see it
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Dr. Geoffrey Weinstein
Dr. Geoffrey Weinstein@geoffweinste1n·
@BenjaminOCall @Dunadan9 but that's meaningless when it comes to actual elections as the senedd election recently showed and nearly every general election before that. if that we're a metric, you lot would have the mandate of heaven and we'd be nearing a decade of prime minister ed davey.
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@geoffweinste1n @Dunadan9 the local elections have shown that theory. reform won the most seats despite it being about as an unfavourable set of councils as they could’ve asked for.
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@brownliberite always makes me laugh when people talk about the national league n/s in football. blyth to braintree is less distance than truro to london! the south is just wider, not taller
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@jordanbhx i’m not going to judge anything i hear of his policies till he’s elected mp. for now he’s just trying to actually get to parliament
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@geoffweinste1n @Dunadan9 the 2024 GE was the second lowest turnout in history. grok by elections and council elections everything points to reform mobilising an extra 10% at minimum.
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@JoshMitte i might be on the extreme end of PR support wanting 0 threshold but it’s the same thing. if we support democracy go full democracy, otherwise leave it to the elites. however wrong the average voter might turn out to be, it’s what the average voter wants!
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Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂@BenjaminOCall·
@JoshMitte there’s no argument against PR that makes sense other than “i don’t want voters to have more than 2 choices”
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Josh Mitte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺🇬🇧
Josh Mitte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺🇬🇧@JoshMitte·
I love how one of the top arguments agaisnt PR is that FPTP produces strong and stable governments by preventing coalitions. Meanwhile the last Parliament to last its full term under the one PM was the coalition… FPTP’s huge majorities has us on potentially a 5th PM in 5 years.
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