@AaronBastani Look what happened to the Morrisons and Waitrose workers.
This is why people in retail don't take a stand.
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James Clements
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James Clements
@J_Clements_2001
A hard working young man with plenty of common sense (I like to think!) No Farmers, No Food
United Kingdom Katılım Şubat 2022
19 Takip Edilen18 Takipçiler
Your job as a middle aged, healthy man is to get involved.
If I’m stabbed over chocolate covered coffee beans and lemon curd cupcakes, so be it.
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
"A group of kids coming in and rifling through the shelves, walking out with impunity ... it happens every three or four weeks." Times columnist Matthew Syed says he regularly witnesses shoplifting at his local coffee shop. #Newsnight
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@Luis_Cook1 The MRP is completely missing the strength of all Independent groups - Muslim or otherwise. I know the HRA are running an unpopular council (and were in coalition with Labour) - but they got over 70% of the vote in several wards there last time.
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@J_Clements_2001 This MRP doesn’t think the HRA are close to Reform.
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A very interesting MRP here for London ⬇️
Personally, I do not see how Bromley or B&D flip to Reform if Bexley doesn’t but it’s still positive.
I reckon Labour would take this result.
Thoughts? 🤷🏻♂️
Sam Coates Sky@SamCoatesSky
EXC: YouGov / Sky / Politico London elections MRP projection * Labour look set for big losses across the capital, though not wipe out, as the Greens in particular eat into their once solid London vote * Reform UK are also expected to perform well, picking up significant levels of previous Conservative support in the outer boroughs, and driving into Labour heartlands in Barking and Dagenham * The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are expected to hold most of what they have, while Independents and other parties look set to make gains particularly in London’s East According to YouGov's median projection, the following is the number of councils each party is projected to have the highest share of support (compared to 2022) Labour 15 (down 6) Tories 5 (down 1) Lib Dems 4 (up 1) Greens 4 (up 4) Reform 3 (up 3) Too close to call 1 /32 councils:
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@safconservative @Luis_Cook1 Orpington is in Bromley and most certainly is not left-leaning.
Crystal Palace, Anerley, Penge and Beckenham are the more left-wing dominated parts of the borough.
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@Luis_Cook1 If Orpington were included in the Bromley boundaries, it may be closer as we bids Orpington is lefty leaning
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@LukeTryl No way are Labour getting as many as 24 seats.
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@Luis_Cook1 @poll_checker @reformparty_uk @Conservatives @LibDems @ReformUKLondon @LondonLabour @LondonLibDems @LdnConservative @LonGreenParty Very good prediction if you ask me.
Only differences I think are that Newham will be won by the Newham Independents, and Redbridge will be won by the Redbridge Independents.
I also think the Greens will win Waltham Forest, and Reform may fall short of a majority in Bromley.
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Below is my prediction for London in May ⬇️
- Reform exceed expectations in SE/E London ➡️
- Green wave is REAL 🟢
- Tories take back key boroughs 🌳
- Labour collapse 🥀
Thanks to @poll_checker for creating this so I could make my prediction 👍
Thoughts? 💭
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@jcwf1 @ElectionMapsUK Green gains a mixture of 2025 Labour and Lib Dem voters, plus picking up former non-voters.
Reform losses partly 2025 voters switching to the Tories, and partly them staying at home.
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@ElectionMapsUK Seems in both byelections there has being switches from reform to green. Which is curious.
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Narborough & Whetstone (Leicestershire) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 33.0% (-9.3)
🌳 CON: 29.6% (+5.1)
🌍 GRN: 28.2% (+13.4)
🔶 LDM: 4.3% (-3.6)
🌹 LAB: 4.0% (-4.8)
✅ ADV: 0.9% (New)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Reform UK HOLD.
Changes w/ 2025.
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@AaronBastani Yes!
Put them on ugly car parks.
Never on agricultural land.
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Solar panels being installed in the car park of our local hospital.
Fantastic! This isn’t ‘woke’. It’s a cheap, reliable source of energy - and is *part* of ensuring British energy security.
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@tomwhx I think Labour will win a grand total of zero seats in Birmingham.
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@LeaderofKCC True, but this should also be a wake-up call for you and your council.
Stop the pointless infighting, and focus entirely on scrapping wasteful spending and resurfacing the roads.
Get those roads resurfaced and voters will soon come back to you!
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The moral of this story is, if you vote Conservative you get Green.
Election Maps UK@ElectionMapsUK
Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
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@ElectionMapsUK Prediction: Conservative gain from Reform.
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Just the 1 council by-election this week, a Reform defence in Cliftonville (Kent).
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@BlobWarriorUK Agree, but my point here is more that JFK has lost Irishness rather than gained American-ness
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@J_Clements_2001 America is different because it's an immigrant nation.
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Her parents flew into Britain a week before her birth to game the system in 1980 and get her British nationality. 2 weeks later they were all back in Nigeria. This loophole was banned in 1983. Simple question. Is Kemi Badenoch British in your opinion?
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@BlobWarriorUK So I think it is possible for someone with no British ancestry to cross that line and become British.
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@BlobWarriorUK That doesn't make them better or worse people - I always judge on the content of character alone, but it's just the truth. The more native British ancestry you have, the more British you are.
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@BlobWarriorUK I think Britishness is a spectrum, but there is a ultimately a line where a person crosses between British and not British. The truth is that someone with a recent migration background like one of Kemi's children will never be as British as a fully indigenous White Briton.
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@NumUnobtainable @BlobWarriorUK I think you'd have to be fully Japanese in culture, eat like the natives, relinquish all loyalty to Britain, speak Japanese with native proficiency (no foreign accent), AND hold Japanese citizenship. Then I genuinely would consider you Japanese despite your ethnic background.
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@BlobWarriorUK @J_Clements_2001 She's doing her best to fit in, why not.
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@BlobWarriorUK ...and in every sense is culturally British. She dresses in a British way, represents a wealthy rural English constituency, and doesn't devote time to Nigeria or its diaspora.
While I despise the Tory party's record in office, she's certainly much more of a patriot than Starmer.
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@BlobWarriorUK To be fair, Kemi isn't responsible for the actions of her parents, and what they did was legal at the time.
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