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@Graham8digits
Interested in architecture, planning, utility regulation, economics, and increasingly parking. 45 discerning followers; not sure what the rest of you are doing.
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England Katılım Ekim 2013
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@thekitze @jbillinson You can disable this, Foqos has a way in our settings. plus we are free and open source. No need to buy any plastic
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Deeply humiliating to realize how much this overpriced chunk of plastic has improved my quality of life in just a week.
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@GeorgeTrefgarne I think this is closer to it. Or put another way, don’t do anything then an Englishman would have thought unusual before 1945. Hard to legislate that, though.
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@GeorgeTrefgarne In our Christian country, there’s everything wrong with mass Muslim prayer and nothing wrong with a procession on Palm Sunday. It would be mad to ban all public religious displays just to maintain a foolish consistency.
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@ZoeJardiniere @DouglasCarswell Once here, is it fair to assume that she would be classed as a refugee and entitled to stay indefinitely if she wished?
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@DouglasCarswell On what basis do you assume this person is a "burden"?
They & their partner will have right to work.
International students contributed £41.9 billion in 2025.
Also do you even live in the UK?
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Why are we importing people that will be a burden?
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At some point even the BBC must start to question whether this man should be given taxpayers’ money to dispense financial advice
Paul Lewis@paullewismoney
If you ever wondered what cutting your nose off to spite your face means, it is this bit.ly/4rFjPxa cutting the turnover of your small business to avoid registering for VAT, which anyone with a spreadsheet can sort out in half a day every three months
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"Actually there are only 13 or so constituencies where corrupt practices imported from the third world can undermine fundamental democratic principles, so why do you care?"
Gideon Rachman@gideonrachman
I predict that Gorton result will lead to a surge in Reform-Maga scare that Britain is being “taken over” by Muslims. Worth remembering that Gorton is just one of 10-13 of 650 seats whose population is 30%+ Muslim
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My private theory is a lot of these people are parents whose first child has just aged into primary school and have discovered that the private school fees necessary to keep their children out of 90% foreign schools are far beyond their means
Callum@AkkadSecretary
Some of these numbers are insane On Rightmove almost every single millionaire in Zone 1/2 London is dumping their property for 0 or even negative gains.
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Britain’s migration crisis is now exceeding the Merkel influx in Germany. Paradoxically, this is largely bc of Brexit. Population growth despite below-replacement fertility rate (~1.41): 12m since 2000 and 2.7 since 2020.
Nick Robinson@bbcnickrobinson
Is @Nigel_Farage right to say that "If we take the word ("colonised") out Ratcliffe is accurate & right"? As I point out to him on this week's Political Thinking Sir Jim got his facts wrong & so did Farage when defending him. Ratcliffe claimed the UK population had increased 12 million since 2020. Actually, it increased 2.7m in that time. If he'd said since the year 2000 he would have been right. In a post backing him Farage said “1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all”. Actually, the last census showed that 161,000 don’t speak English at all although a further 880,000 could not speak English well. He said "4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English". Actually, 4 million did not speak it as their main language but spoke English either "well" or "very well". Facts matter but so too do ideas, arguments & debates. I explore both at length on Political Thinking. It's a 40 minute conversation you can hear now on @BBCSounds
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@BenjiNaesen @grok how do minimum wage care workers afford these charges?
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I'm sorry but it's hard to see people lie about how legal immigration to the United Kingdom works, and say nothing about it.
I am a legal immigrant to the UK. In 2023, I had to spent roughly £5,000 for a 2.5 years visa, NHS surcharge, biometric appointment and language tests.
I will have to spend £4,000 this year, to extend my visa by another 2.5 years, after which, I'll need to pay again for indefinite leave-to-remain.
On top of that, as a legal immigrant, I am understandably required to pay taxes, national insurance and can NOT claim benefits.
This on-going myth that legal immigrants are free-loading on UK taxpayers is complete bullshit. If anything, I'm subsidising them.
My legal immigrant ass is a net benefit to your country.
Home Office@ukhomeoffice
The British public has footed the bill for an immigration system that feels out of control and unfair. We’re stopping this. It is only fair that migrants with an income or sizeable assets will have to contribute to the cost of their stay, not the taxpayer.
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@Graham8digits @muftyawondev @BNooR27 There are a lot of nurses, even some junior level doctors who do not earn that.
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As a migrant, I paid IHS, I pay council tax, Payee, NI, TV license, I pay transport fare if I have to use it (train, tram or bus), I buy my own food, I pay my own rent, light, water and phone bills. I have no recourse to public funds, so how have you footed my bill please?
Home Office@ukhomeoffice
The British public has footed the bill for an immigration system that feels out of control and unfair. We’re stopping this. It is only fair that migrants with an income or sizeable assets will have to contribute to the cost of their stay, not the taxpayer.
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@muftyawondev @BNooR27 It applies equally to migrants earning less than ca. £50k. Care workers might reasonably believe they’re contributing to the system, but they are not.
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@BNooR27 Now this would be understandable if that is what the Hime office handle put up.
They could have worded that tweet so people know it’s about asylum seekers and illegals, instead they said migrants. Thats is an umbrella word.
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Faisal Islam is almost always wrong, of course, but this is an exception and those claiming this is a bet against Stirling are idiots
Faisal Islam@faisalislam
Intriguing that Google-owner Alphabet opts to raise many billions in sterling including rare 100 year bond previously only done by Oxford Uni/ Wellcome Trust suggests l-t faith in UK & £, as well as Google’s commitment to home of eg Deepmind… pricing v gilts will be interesting
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@ukhomeoffice Why should we allow permanent settlement by people who are, after 10-15 years, still earning less than £13k? The proposals are sensible, but don’t go nearly far enough.
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The right to stay in Britain must be earned.
Those who arrive illegally, break our laws or rely on benefits for over a year could face some of the longest waits for settlement in Europe - up to 30 years.
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The Earned Settlement consultation is generally sensible and deserves support. But setting the earnings threshold at £12,570 means that unskilled labourers from the third world will, if they wait long enough, still become our burden.
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My son absolutely loves trains. Can’t get enough of them - his ideal afternoon is watching videos of them on TV while playing with brio trains and a Duplo train station.
What are the best things to do in London with him? We’ve been to the transport museum and I’ve taken him to watch them at Denmark Hill station (where the drivers often toot their horns at him, which he loves). What else might he enjoy?
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@createstreets Windows matter, but slavishly replicating original design isn’t the only option even on old houses. (These from Toronto, where double glazing is not optional.)
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@SimonMagus Because the end of all this is a reunified conservative party, and it’s better to get there sooner than later.
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Why on earth should the Conservatives help get Goodwin with his unpleasant anti-Tory, borderline racist agenda get into parliament?
Tim Downes (He/Him) 🎭🦢🐶🦉🏳️🌈@genesian61
@GBPolitcs The Conservatives have no chance whatsoever in Gorton & Denton. Its a fight between Labour, Reform & Greens. Jacob's idea would make a likely Reform victory even more likely. But I doubt Badenoch will listen.
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@renewablesmiffy @Frencheconomics Indeed, scaling up production would have little to no impact on global prices, consumption or carbon emissions. But it would help balance of payments, tax revenue and energy security. A clear an unambiguous win.
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@Frencheconomics Russia Gas reserves 47 trillion m³
US Gas reserves 13 trillion m³
Qatar gas reserves 25 trillion m³
Iran Gas reserves 32 trillion m³
UK gas reserves 0.4 trillion m³
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Announcing the immediate end to the moratorium on new North Sea gas licences and an end to the EPL would be the smartest strategic move this morning. Would completely recast the conversation, and help offset the biggest risk to the UK economy.
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
'This is a very big moment for this Prime Minister' Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman is in Downing Street where Keir Starmer will make a speech this morning in response to Donald Trump's threat to take control of Greenland bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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