@liam43102 @mattijackson More expensive tickets isn't doing it either so may as well try the other way
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Dom Kenna
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Dom Kenna
@Mr_dk
Watford fc fan. other things also.
The Cronx Katılım Temmuz 2008
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@mattijackson All desirable but at a cost. Cheaper peak time tickets will not help overcrowding.
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For the one millionth time, you cannot “overbook” a train. We have a walk up railway. Think of it like a bus, not a plane. Passengers with flexible tickets pick their train. Seat reservations are free. If we had a reservation only railway, those standing wouldn’t be travelling.
Susie Goss@SusieMGoss
Hi @GWRHelp, what compensation are you offering to passengers who’ve paid £90 to travel on the massively over-booked, standing room only 19:04 train from Paddington to Plymouth? How can you force people to stand for hours when tickets cost so much? Disgusting!
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Dom Kenna retweetledi
Now the media are, for the first time looking at the finances of Farage an awfully large number of skeletons are being revealed. Shame it took them so long.
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
Exclusive: Nigel Farage has court judgment for debt of almost £10K channel4.com/news/exclusive…
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Its clear the British media either didn't know or didn't care that the tories left a loophole in jet fuel imports using Russian oil being allowed into the UK, which is why are now spinning Labours policy to phase in banning it, as a loosening of sanctions.
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@jasykesmacleod @anyotherleader1 I think thays what they hide behind as the bumbling incompetent, in reality its bad deals that favour some one a consistent basis
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@Mr_dk @anyotherleader1 No clue.
I’d chalk it up to ineptitude before I did corruption, but I honestly have no idea what the cause is.
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Why are these people obsessed with blaming hs2s costs on environment regulations and not the fact that a load of posh old tory nimbys who will be dead soon wanted it buried underground so their view of a field wasn't disturbed? Put them all in jail
Will 🏴@anglofuturist
The sad thing about HS2 is that you can't even blame corruption for why it's costing so much. In Russia, when a project is over budget and past schedule, you can find the guy with a new Mercedes and put him in jail. What do we do here? Put the environmental regulations in jail?
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@KiddsL47940 @King0243_PJC So you'll stop being far right after the cleansing?
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@King0243_PJC No it’s because my neighbours are Indian, Polish, African and Chinese. 5 years ago they were all English. Give me my English community back and I’ll stop supporting the Far Right.
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This should destroy Nigel Farage’s entire political argument.
Net migration has collapsed from 944,000 to around 204,000, yet voters still think it’s rising because Reform and Farage have spent years feeding Britain hysteria instead of facts.
Asylum seekers are only about 9% of immigration, not the “invasion” constantly screamed about.
The NHS was broken by underfunding.
Housing was broken by austerity.
Wages were crushed by corporate greed.
Migrants were the distraction. Not the cause.
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I can understand your confusion ... see its actually really simple.
We Want LEGAL immigrants to come to the UK to integrate into our communities.
We DONT want Illegal immigrants flooding the country committing crimes, raping kids and demanding that we change our culture to be what they demand.
If you are still having difficulty let me know and I will try and dumb it down some more...
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Moans when immigration rise. Moans when immigration decreases.
What is your actual policy?
Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick
246,000 Brits left last year. Net, 136,000 went. A city the size of Watford. Many are entrepreneurs, investors, small businesspeople. It’s the Starmer Exodus. Reform will Bring Brits Back.
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@Bowmore_SOU @BladeoftheS Its how the energy caps work so the model already exists
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@BladeoftheS I'm all in favour of a price cap on basic foods if properly implemented. What will probably happen is that the cap will be set quite high and also become the minimum price.
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The billionaires HATE the idea of a food cap because it will work, and it will reduce their profits AND they have no way to stop it
Then when it works and it is popular it can be used on Energy, Water, Rail, Mail, Telecoms...
If it wouldn't work, they wouldn't be so frightened
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@jasykesmacleod @anyotherleader1 That probably would be corruption now then?
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@anyotherleader1 Plenty of rail tunnel built in Norway, France, Japan etc so blaming it on tunnelling is not an explanation. Why does every part of the line - tunnels, embanked, viaducts - cost more than the equivalent in other developed countries?
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44 members of the parliamentary labour party are landlords, 4 of them are in the cabinet and 1 of them is the chancellor of the exchequer. believe me diva, the PLP are working far more in your class interests than they have been mine.
Kirstie Allsopp@KirstieMAllsopp
This is what will get the handcart to hell so much faster, and I suspect half of the PLP agree with Mr Smoke.
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@NoJusticeMTG @BareLeft @Sukraine @MumofFatCassie And usually a cut that costs equal or more to the original benefit due to resource requirement of means testing.
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@Sukraine @MumofFatCassie Changing a welfare payment from universal to means tested is literally a cut. Labour have cut LCWRA in half and cut half a billion from Motability. Why do you starmer dickriders lie so much?
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It strikes me that the problem Starmer primarily has boils down to him wanting to make improvements quietly, sensibly and lastingly, and he isn't a massive bloody show-off. His unpopularity says more about us than it does about him. We are a profoundly unserious country. #r4today
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@TomWright165389 @judeinlondon Increasingly marginal conversations are not great way to debate, as we'll end on a semantic discourse that should bore us both and provide very little value. An example might be pubs shutting down as the land was more valuable as flats. Not to the community, but to the land owner
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@Mr_dk @judeinlondon Which bits of society do you think would be free without capitalism?
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Social housing isn’t reduced rent. The market is overinflated rent. Fix that and your problems disappear.
Cromwell's Redoubt@CromRedoubt
So you can be a millionaire in social housing? What is the value of a reduced rent. A lifetime tenancy itself could get you most of the way to being a millionaire if we price the present value of the subsidy
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@TomWright165389 @judeinlondon Provides society? It tries hard to monetize parts of society that used to be free. Provides media? The richest men in the world Provides media at a loss, any idea why?
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@Mr_dk @judeinlondon Capitalism provides you as many of those things as it can as cheaply as it can. What system do you think would somehow make them free?
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@TomWright165389 @judeinlondon Society largely. Media control. Policy at a local, national and international level. The level of discomfort other have to experience to exist. The prices of goods . What isnt?
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@Mr_dk @judeinlondon If you have more money it’s easier to buy what you want sure. What’s being dictated to you by someone with more money?
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@TomWright165389 @judeinlondon Those with money get to dictate to those who don't. As largely that provides disproportionate resource for the world to be built in your favour to acquire more money. How do you think it goes?
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@Mr_dk @judeinlondon How do you think the world works?
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@TomWright165389 @judeinlondon Lol, so capitalism just exists for like one individual at a time and describes exactly that one relationship. Love it. Keep that satire going. Bubble bubble bubble pop.
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@judeinlondon Capitalism is when you can sell your labour for its most productive use and businesses compete to offer you the best deal. Capitalism is the reason we can afford to offer a few below market properties, not the cause of a housing shortage
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@GregClinker @spinningjoe I'd say there's an extreme amount of positioning currently taking place there.
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notably doesn't even gesture towards a single political position
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Robert Kenyon has been announced as Reform UK's candidate in the Makerfield by-election
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@GnarlyKnotts @PriestleyMatty @johninsouthfla I guess when we're looking at trends and rates it probably is useful to look at more than one point in time though?
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@PriestleyMatty @johninsouthfla @Mr_dk We’re not talking about May last year and April this year are we you dense cunt?
They’ve just won 1500+ seats, they’re bound to have people resign/ get sacked due to vetting and workloads.
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@GnarlyKnotts @johninsouthfla I've seen the media report on these kind of things before, but tends to be when a principled/unprincipled stand is happening. Can we compare rates of attrition vs other parties?
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@johninsouthfla This happens every day with other parties and councillors and has done for years, the fact you’re picking up on it, it’s more the fact that you’re trying to pick wholes in Reform.
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Dom Kenna retweetledi
It's Bamford that's taking the government benefits!!
He pays crap wages
Won't pay 500 million he owes to HMRC
It's Bamford who's the parasite not the poor who need help.
60% benefits are paid to WORKERS who aren't paid enough by fat cat arseholes like BAMFORD
Politics In The U.K.@politixintheuk
JCB owner Bamford: “You can’t get away with £60k benefit handouts.” Also billionaire brothers Anthony Bamford and Mark Bamford: Not paying a tax bill of up to £500 million. What greedy, Farage-supporting bastards.
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