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Binny as a Service
@binny_uk
Centrist Uncle. Chaotic Goodish. 🏳️🌈🤬🇪🇺 🦝 Known troublemaker.
Lewisham, London Katılım Mart 2009
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@WarnerAlastair @JoshHousden Western Australia has a single-member constituency that covers 1.4m sq km. Councillors can manage to travel between villages.
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@JoshHousden Single member wards that cover large rural areas. We should probably use a mix of STV and AV depending on the ward.
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Is there any real argument as to why we shouldn't be using STV for local elections?
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@BasilTheGreat It’s interesting how Basil has such strong feelings about the BBC, but uses the US spelling of “Licence” twice in one tweet.
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@DuncanStott This is Japan trolling the UK specifically.
“You can’t get one HS line built? We have so many bullet trains we’re using them to move boxes from the Hello Kitty factory. They’re not even full.”
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This seems to me like a wasteful use of railway capacity. Humans' time is far more valuable than freight's.
Bhaumik Gowande@bhaumikgowande
On 23rd March 2026, Japan launches the world's first freight-only Shinkansen, converting a former passenger bullet train into a high-speed cargo carrier by removing all seats to maximize storage space. A total game changer for freight transport.
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@meganekenyon It’s a structural problem with council tax. Almost all other taxes are a % of something, so the cash amount automatically rises with inflation. Council tax doesn’t and has to be actively raised each year.
There are obviously other issues with local govt funding too!
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Interesting game which shows it's basically impossible to set a balanced council budget (as local authorities are legally required to do) without either 1. raising council tax or 2. cutting services.
Fixing the social care system would be obvious answer to this vv tricky bind (which affects parties of all colours). But successive govts have kicked the can down the road. Something will *have* to give eventually. And it won't look pretty when it does.
labourtogether.uk/council-sim
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He didn’t get selected after a vote of Green members.
Richard Osley@RichardOsley
Mr C from 90s dance chart toppers The Shamen puts his name forward as a potential Green Party council election candidate in Islington
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@TheMurkyDepths A Bakerloo Line extension?
lewishamlibdems.org.uk/bakerloo
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I’m sure you guys will call me a raging bastard but eventually we will have to admit that people on benefits already get enough in this country
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Exclusive from @MaxKendix Rachel Reeves is expected to limit an energy bill bailout to people on benefits after warning that giving support to every household because of the Iran war would be irresponsible and unaffordable The Times has been told that the planned support will be directed instead at about six million people who claim benefits such as universal credit and pension credit While Reeves has asked about a potential “income threshold” to support lower-earning households, officials have said they are unlikely to be able to develop the system in time. Treasury sources emphasised that several options were being looked at but that no decisions had been taken Officials have identified several barriers, including the fact that HM Revenue & Customs records the income of individuals, while an energy bailout would have to focus on households. A project to link up the information started in January and was due to take more than a year Reeves will therefore have little choice but to give support to people claiming benefits, using the warm home discount, which reduces electricity bills for poorer households by £150, as the model for the scheme “The methods of targeting are imperfect,” one government source said. But another said there was “a lot of defeatism” about what systems could realistically be introduced in time. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@AndyFitchet @mhclg If/when we have regional devolution, there’s a strong argument that north Hampshire belongs with the Thames Valley more than with the Solent.
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Andover is the heart of the North West Hampshire constituency but will be shoved into Mid-Hampshire Council.
I’m disappointed with this outcome and that I wasn’t able to persuade @mhclg that Test Valley never made sense and Andover should be in North Hampshire.
Ben Walker@BNHWalker
South West Hampshire is not going to include the southernmost or westernmost part of Hampshire, give me strength
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@mindofprospect @TomPowell6742 And a single room in outer London is 12k. Plus another grand in council tax.
Since the 80s, for every £1 wages have gone up, housing costs have gone up £10. I need to earn £40k just to get off benefits.
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@10pencefreddo @Cal_III This is reducing the number of layers. It’s not great in other ways but I’m not sure you can criticise that part.
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Quite right.
There’s nothing in an election leaflet that can’t be expressed in English, loudly and slowly while pointing to the pictures on the menu.
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@barneyfarmer I’m still not sure why the development needs to happen where the garden centres are, rather than all the unused space in the same vicinity.
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Garden Centre Britain will surely vanish along with the 30 year glut of final salary early retirees who made it happen.
Matt Lismore@MattLismore
The largest collection of garden centres in the UK, present for generations will be torn down to build housing. Huge supply of brownfield sites in London, but to prioritise developer profit, Crews Hill will go. We need to address how unhealthy it is to demolish local amenities and businesses build more and more housing that has next to no supporting infrastructure.
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@PhilRodgers Don’t point it out or they’ll make it worse! These actually look half way sensible.
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It seems that Norfolk (population 940k) and Suffolk (population 786k) are each getting three unitary councils, so they'll be quite a lot smaller than the government's original target of 500k people per council. (Norfolk: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Suffolk: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…)
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@BNHWalker In the event of war, South East Hampshire is incredibly vulnerable to a breakout to the sea at Farlington.
This would leave SEH divided, while the Mid Hampshire forces island hop over The Deeps and take Hayling Island.
I propose a UN buffer zone along the M27.
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South West Hampshire is not going to include the southernmost or westernmost part of Hampshire, give me strength
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@CllrKeithHouse @libdemlocalgov Do the people of Fordingbridge *know* they live in Mid Hampshire?
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Nobody in Hampshire asked for changes to councils. It's a distraction from protecting services and won’t fix the mess that is the County Council’s budget taking Hampshire close to bankruptcy. But we will put residents and staff first and make this work for our communities.
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Lewisham Labour going into this election proclaiming their record with new council housing.
This site says otherwise. Empty for 20 years after council homes knocked down, the public private partnership has gone nowhere. Approved plans also have zero council or social homes
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The amount of pushback this is getting is everything that’s wrong with the performative left.
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@policy_uk No idea, but the two are far from synonymous.
And you still end up paying their rent if they’re unemployed and in private rent.
The issue is training, housing cost and availability of jobs.
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@binny_uk We have how many unemployed people living in social housing?
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Can a university somewhere calculate the total value of freebies if you live in social housing in Zones 1/2? Eg. in effect no rent, energy bills subsidised, ‘social tariffs’ for water, no council tax, 50% off tube, limitless NHS healthcare. It’s a very expensive package.
Oliver Lewis@policy_uk
@johngounaris @trevgoes4th Everything free unless you work all day, in which case you pay in full
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@policy_uk There’s a 50% off card if you’re unemployed. Not just for living in a council flat. Again, Council Tax still applies unless you’re unemployed.
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@binny_uk Far from market rents… you can apply for discounts for CT up to 100%… and 50% off tube
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