Ben Blackmore

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Ben Blackmore

Ben Blackmore

@ThezenBen

Area DCP Berkshire Conservatives

Reading, England Katılım Mart 2019
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Harry Rushworth
Harry Rushworth@Hrushworth·
The British Government is a complicated beast. Dozens of departments, hundreds of public bodies, more corporations than one can count... Such is its complexity that there isn't an org chart for it. Well, there wasn't... Introducing ⚙️Machinery of Government⚙️
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Dr Ben Spencer
Dr Ben Spencer@DrBenSpencer·
Like many I’ve just received my 'how the Government spends your money' tax summary. Share if you, like me, think this is totally and utterly unsustainable. You can’t run a country this way.
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Ed Davey
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey·
As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡
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Ben Blackmore
Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@ClarkeMicah Had a good look on the internet archive and there was nothing to be found so far. The database it will definitely be on is Nation Builder.
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·
1/2 When did Keir Starmer first join the Labour Party (not the 'Young Socialists', but the adult party) . Which Constituency Party did he join? I have tried, using official channels, to answer this question for some time but cannot obtain a definitive answer...
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Jack Rankin MP 🇬🇧
Jack Rankin MP 🇬🇧@jackmrankin·
There shouldn’t be council houses worth £2m. They should be sold, receipts ring-fenced to build social housing in more affordable areas. Frankly it is outrageous that my commuting constituents pay 50% marginal rates to fund social housing in areas they couldn’t afford to live.
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Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
Not London admittedly, but I was on the phone with @EssexPoliceUK for 34 minutes today to report someone trying to break into a car before they hung up on me. Police focus on the false metric of answering within 30 seconds, which they did, only to send me to a dead end queue.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@MayorofLondon

The latest figures show robbery, theft, residential burglary and knife crime are down in London, but there's still a long way to go before I’m satisfied. Backed with record funding from City Hall, the Met is putting high-visibility policing at the heart of fighting crime.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@MayorofLondon·
The latest figures show robbery, theft, residential burglary and knife crime are down in London, but there's still a long way to go before I’m satisfied. Backed with record funding from City Hall, the Met is putting high-visibility policing at the heart of fighting crime.
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Ben Blackmore
Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@UKLabour media management must be fuming at the moment, big news on a trade deal will just be eclipsed by a New pope. Got to laugh.
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Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@BasedMillwall @Keir_Starmer Don't berate canvassers, you're welcome to express your views but their work is important to ensuring your views are heard.
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Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@WestBerkshire this is the first thing you see when you enter west Berkshire from the end of liner park. Not a good look.
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Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@CarolineLucas I think it's time for a break Caroline, I hear you can get some great package holidays from UK providers flying out Luton.
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Caroline Lucas
Caroline Lucas@CarolineLucas·
Almost 90% of flights from Luton are taken for leisure - in other words British tourists taking their money out of the country to spend abroad. Expanding Luton is not good for UK growth & certainly not good for nature & the environment. Why doesn’t Labour understand that?
NEF@NEF

This government has just approved the expansion of Luton airport. But, as new NEF analysis shows, airport expansion isn't a magic bullet for economic growth. In fact it's bad news for our domestic tourism industry as more holidaymakers will leave from Luton than arrive.

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Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@TheOmniLiberal The whole legal justification for the American revolution was because American Colonialists weren't granted equal rights under the magna carta. It wasn't a rejection, it was demand for reinforcement of cultural/ political norms.
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Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@MerrynSW It's a chronic issue throughout government, always input focus not output focus. It is mainly because they don't know how / want to to measure their productivity.
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Merryn Somerset Webb
Merryn Somerset Webb@MerrynSW·
Why do we talk about defence spend in terms of % of GDP rather than absolute cost of the soldiers/equipment/facilities we actually think we need?
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Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
@SophyRidgeSky @youngtory_uk She's not on the list FYI as there is no list at the moment. (Although I'm sure she will be on it when there is one).
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Sophy Ridge
Sophy Ridge@SophyRidgeSky·
Penny Mordaunt tells me she wants to return to Parliament: "I'm on the candidates list so I'm back to square one... I'm not done yet and I would love to come back"
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Ross Mackinnon
Ross Mackinnon@RossMackinnonWB·
This just in - West Berkshire Council seeks £16m govt bailout or faces s114 notice (council equivalent of bankruptcy). Our Lib Dem overlords blowing £500k on a temporary pitch for one football team that the public can't use isn't looking so clever now...
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Ben Blackmore
Ben Blackmore@ThezenBen·
I really cannot understand the absolute lack of political intuition @UKLabour has. You have built a position of austerity based on the previous government fiscal management, even if I disagree. It's an effective political cover, this Chagos deal will remove that moving forward.
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