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Scrapping jury trials is an assault on our liberty
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Alex Deane
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Alex Deane
@ajcdeane
Tory. Consultant, occasional pundit & amateur historian @HistoryHrPod
London Katılım Mart 2011
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We lost the General Election fair and square but I daresay few who voted for a change of government knew they were voting for abortion up to birth.
Right To Life UK@RightToLifeUK
💔BREAKING: On a sad & shameful day for our nation, the House of Lords has just voted to allow abortion UP TO BIRTH to be introduced into law. This extreme proposal will endanger women & threaten the lives of viable unborn babies.🧵1/
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@BebbMalcolm It’s very hard to see how you could form that conclusion from what I said.
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@ajcdeane So we should continue to throw money at it because we already threw a lot at it?
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We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge.
The project is now scrapped.
You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly).
You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea.
But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result.
And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome.
Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected.
But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions.
Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.
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@ajcdeane Yes, to a point. But just thinking doesn't get to an actionable result. At some point getting the action you want involves eating the sunk cost. So "spending lots of money finally block X, a 'no result' " would still be preferable to spending lots of money and failing.
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Is your position that I can be against a tunnel, but if the for tunnel people spend enough money now I have to be for tunnel?
Alex Deane@ajcdeane
We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. The project is now scrapped. You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly). You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea. But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result. And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome. Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected. But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions. Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.
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@Koookiiing To continue to both think that the tunnel is a bad idea, and to think that spending money on plans for it is a bad idea. I think that my post was clear on this.
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@ajcdeane So what's the end game for people against a tunnel once the spending starts?
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@SilverAlso @photomikeyhere On the one hand, consistency is to be admired.
On the other hand… yes.
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@ajcdeane @photomikeyhere So you haven’t matured in nearly 30 years
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@SilverAlso @ajcdeane I was a little surprised 😀
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Interesting to see the overlap between people who believe individual silent prayer near an abortion clinic is an act of deliberate intimidation, and people who believe mass ritual prayer taking over a public space is unworthy of comment.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
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A correspondent points out that Hammersmith Bridge is a similar farce.
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@GarethNotGarth @JockAyeTheNoo Well, 800 years will leave an impression
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@ajcdeane @JockAyeTheNoo Peculiarly British?? Ireland currently has the most expensive hospital in the world. And it’s still not open after 18 missed delivery dates.
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@ayeshahazarika You shouldn’t be proud of this, it’s extreme and wrong and not where public opinion is at all
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Well, that’s a complete rebuttal of a substantive point.
Neenor@neenorneenor2
@ajcdeane You’re a moron.
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How critical of his party will the Mayor be when Labour does not follow this advice/demand?
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Sadiq Khan: Labour must fight next election on promise to rejoin EU
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Angela Rayner, 2023: “Being an MP isn’t a second job. It is the job. Labour will put an end to this racket.”
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Angela Rayner is on course to make more than £100,000 from speaking engagements and her memoir - more than enough to pay off her outstanding tax bill and any potential fine from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Rayner’s earning ability is enhanced by speculation that she could become the next Labour leader after the elections in May She gave a speech on January 29 to the Management Consultancies Association’s dinner for its members, for which she received a five figure sum She joined a call with City investors organised by BNP Paribas earlier this month, again for a five figure sum She and will speak at the Propertymark One conference in June - another event with a five figure payment. The conference is being held at the Excel in London with members charged £228 and non-members charged £264. There is an “after-party” which will cost a further £88. Rayner also received a five-figure advance for her memoirs, which will chart her impoverished childhood, leaving school at 16 while pregnant through to joining the union movement and becoming one of the most powerful people in the government. It will be seen as an attempt to tell her own story and project her values ahead of any leadership contest. The memoir will be released by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage which in turn is a division of Penguin Random House UK. Rayner also gave a speech to Signum Global Advisors last week at an event to discuss the local elections and future policy challenges. She waived her fee and instead asked for a donation to be made to a charity in her constituency. She gave a speech at the Women of the Future Summit which was unpaid. More on our podcast The State of It open.spotify.com/episode/5QABPD…
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