@bbcquestiontime With less Guvvermunt.
Businesses can support themselves.
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Springer
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London Katılım Mart 2009
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“People should be able to… enjoy a pint of beer, take their kids to the football, but they can’t”
Businessman and TV personality Tom Skinner says people have “no money” despite working “every hour”, and Labour are “smacking” businesses when they need “more support”
#bbcqt
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@AaronBastani Rate you Aaron - not him. $100 says your enthusiastic support will turn into embarrassment within 18 months.
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An effective technocrat, actually putting working people first, with good comms and personality, is going to nuke a lot of right wing talking points.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.
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@RachelMboo @MatthewStadlen This isn't just a phone though is it? It's a treasure-trove of closely guarded contact details and confidential exchanges between those that run the nation. In the hands of an enemy, a weapon.
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@MatthewStadlen Many of the same people who claim you can’t set foot in London without getting your phone nicked now claiming a man getting his phone nicked in London is unbelievable.
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So can we be just be clear? Journalists are alleging that Morgan McSweeney staged the theft of his phone, lied to police, and wasted police time, in order to hide messages to Mandelson? And that the Prime Minister might be implicated in a cover-up? These are extremely serious and defamatory allegations.
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Karl Marx was an analytically rigorous theoretician.
But his 1853 article “The Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery” is a good reminder that he was also motivated by white-hot outrage about injustice.jacobin.com/2023/09/karl-m…
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@donmcgowan If it makes no commercial sense to continue to drill, why do they likes of Shell, BP and Harbour protest cessation?
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I can't believe that people still fall for this rubbish.
North Sea oil costs ≈ $60+ to produce a barrel.
Middle East oil costs ≈ $10-$20.
The North Sea is known as a mature oil province — it's production peaked in 1999-2000 and has steadily declined ever since.
Even if new drilling began, the production levels would fall and the costs would rise.
It's an absolute non-starter.
Reform UK know this, but they'll keep lying to you about it regardless.
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Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick
It is economic lunacy to ignore our rich energy reserves. Reform will unapologetically drill in the North Sea for oil and gas. We’ll get bills down and bring back good jobs.
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@rorysutherland Especially when burning many hectolitres of Heavy Fuel Oil is required to ship it here.
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Help me out here, economists. Why is it okay to burn Norwegian gas but not British gas?
It's a bit like saying it's okay to be a drug addict as long as you don't grow your own.
David Frost@DavidGHFrost
Britain's net zero national suicide pact is about to kill off another great British (and great Derbyshire) company. Denby Pottery @denbypottery goes into administration because of "soaring industrial energy costs" and of course "escalating costs of employment in the UK". itv.com/news/central/2…
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@Telegraph It will create new jobs for youngsters within the new government departments required to administrate these changes.
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🔴 The Telegraph understands that Pat McFadden will announce on Monday that employers will receive a £3,000 taxpayer subsidy for hiring under-25s who have been on Universal Credit for more than six months
Find out more ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@ChiswickW4etc @SimonMagus Apparently he did all of his Party/Constituency work in the Cellar of said property as a kind of penance for owning it
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@Guntonite @SimonMagus £4m ….and the rest.
Lived in a large detached house in Holland Park.
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A terrible selfish man. The very personification of my Dad's oft spoken observation "he could afford to be a socialist".
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery
We lost him 12 years ago today. One of Britain's finest parliamentarians. And a man of deep principle.
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“When anyone's life falls apart, we should remember that there's still a human being and, of course, that they're entitled to a fair trial.”
Cherie Blair says she’s “very sad” that Mandelson’s links to Epstein have “come to this”.
@CathyNewman | #TimesRadio
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Reminder: this is how the Victorians built their sewage pumping stations.
This one is more beautiful than most new homes being built today. Beauty matters.
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Britain isn’t working. We’re trying to fix it. We need more high-calibre MPs, advisers, civil servants, commentators, or something else entirely. Could you be one of them?
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Apply at the link below.
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@Storage_Venture Valuable Marriage Vs Valuable Mortgage. Your decision is already made.
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I knew it would happen at some point.
Wife found a house she LOVES that is 5 minutes away from us.
More land, bigger home.
We have a 20 yr mortgage at 2.25% on our current house.
Now what…
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@VinnieSull1van @BygoneBritain @Britains___Pubs And the people all around you would be recovering from the trauma of the two most destructive wars in human history.
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If I could send you back to Britain in the 50s, you'd spend the rest of your life acknowledging and recovering from the trauma that you'd suffered in today's world. ⏳️
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@AaronBastani Blair/Brown's plan was always 50% of us earn Degrees. The plan is working but the Grads aren't.
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A country that does this to its smart, ambitious young people deserves to fail. It’s no deeper than that.
The grim truth is large parts of the political and media class have hated young people for a long time now. Generation PAYE-pig.
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@AaronBastani No man is "born free." You are born beyond helpless. Your survival rests on your mother, or others around you, sacrificing their resources for your care over multiple years.
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“Look at the other animals bro, they don’t pay to live!”
The other animals aren’t getting the avanti service from Preston to London either.
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"...he says the deal Brewdog made with TSG and its impact on small investors has left him disillusioned with a firm that presented itself as progressive."
So what have we learned about organisations that present themselves as progressive?
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@michaelgove In the 3rd/4th Century, Romans grew vineyards in Northants and Lincs. Climatekeepsonchanging.
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Didn’t we have 12 months of near continuous rain in 1872?
Will Hutton@williamnhutton
Rain again this morning and forecast all day. Time was when British weather changed - not continuous, never-ending rain. Our right wing media shows no interest in discussing or exploring ; it might prove Ed Miliband - an obsessed neo-Marxist the enemy of fossil fuels - is right.
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@BDSixsmith "The line separating good and evil crosses not states, classes, nor political parties - it crosses every human heart" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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So true. The world is divided into people who have adopted this sort of Manichean binary thinking and the rest of us.
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Freddie Sayers@freddiesayers
If you think the world is divided between the good guys and the bad guys, and that you’re one of the good guys — then you’re one of the bad guys.
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@RitaPanahi Fine featured, wealthy looking kid. Only rich kids can afford to indulge themselves like this.
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