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A thread of publically available information and suppositions in regard to Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer QC without any specific allegation attached:
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bread and poses
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if you are reading this my adhd pills have run out
London Katılım Ağustos 2012
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@pickwickpick The government should have invested in nationally owned and directed resources. The concept of a wealth fund is to invest through private sector- particularly abroad- in order to get wealth out of country so it doesn't swamp your economy.
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@breadandposes Could/should have done both with the sovereign wealth fund prioritising domestic investment
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Another example of how fiscally sound Thatcherism is 😖 that's before getting on to pissing all the revenue up the wall on tax cuts while Norway invested into a sovereign wealth fund...
BeSteveL 🐝@BrknMan
@MattZeitlin We let private companies empty out the easy to extract oil and gas when prices were cheap. Norway took a slower and more structured approach. Leaving Norway with more reserves that are cheaper to extract, while we are left with the stuff that's difficult to get out.
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More importantly- if being dependent on gas & oil is going to cost us 3% of GDP this year alone how much can we spent on transitioning away from them. Turns out, quite a lot.
Chłoddy@OfSymbols
Lads, let’s be real, do you want to protect this economy? Have people who “understand finances” been good for your family? For your community or local area? Has anyone who promised if we just follow fiscal discipline rules things will be fine actually helped you?
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@ollieonhere New England relationship to slavery was pretty enmeshed, both locally and the base of its wider economy being reliant on Caribbean industry. It just could pivot to the "export the tensions, import the rewards" model that Britain could.
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@bierkonceagain It is stopping us from getting 100% of our energy and our system works by setting the price at whatever the most expensive part of the our energy mix is.
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So somebody who knows stuff please answer me this: Iran cutting off everyone's oil isn't actually stopping us from getting energy, it's just making it super expensive even though we actually mostly use much cheaper and abundant sources? Is that right?
Common Wealth@Cmmonwealth
“Household energy bills could be reduced by up to £203 a year by stopping expensive fossil gas setting the price of energy in the UK.” Our latest briefing by @BrownSdc featured in @guardian 👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…
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London being grouped with Copenhagen, which has like 10% of the population, makes very little sense. One doesn't have a lot of population within 2km of its centre because 2km away from its CBD is still significant parts of its CBD.
Tom Forth@thomasforth
After three decades of building, Britain's large cities have densities -- both at their cores and overall -- that are comparable to their North European equivalents like Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Cologne, and Copenhagen.
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@ollieonhere All the pieces are there to solve the mystery imo. You are being distracted by the sleight of hand being the important detail.
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@ollieonhere You have it the wrong way around. If you reveal the characteristics of a basilisk then you ruin the tension of whether its a giant snake doing all of this and therefore whether there is a chamber of secrets at all, which has implications for the important stuff.
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@ollieonhere It only makes sense if the giant snake is a basilisk sure. Which is a way to make the question of whether the giant snake exists at all half heartedly mystery through the detour to hagrids spiders. It's just a red herring.
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@AllyFogg @Grimeandreason If they'd found the right framing for refusing tories in 2010 we'd be on year 15 of prime minister Clegg
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@Grimeandreason Sliding doors. Had they done, there would probably have been no Brexit & we'd now be in the 16th year of a Cameron government or something .
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Generations fumble by the LibDems.
If they’d refused a coalition with Cameron and maintained a principled distance from LabCon, it could have been their moment.
Ally Fogg@AllyFogg
Gone a bit vertiginous at this poll, must admit. Definitely filed under things I never thought I'd see in my lifetime.
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@ollieonhere Snake house mythical monster being a giant snake isn't a mystery at all imo. Harry can even hear it speak in the walls. The mystery is a) who dobbys master is and b) who opened the chamber and how. Both of which are foreshadowed.
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@David_Jamieson7 I mean I agree nuclear energy is irrelevant because it takes to long to meet immediate economic need but what *is* you're argument of what to do that doesn't invovle economic "policyitis"
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@breadandposes The priority is linking war to immediate economic need. You can’t assume that process takes place automatically.
And if you move the debate to nuclear energy or something, you just make yourself irrelevant to popular sentiment at a crucial moment.
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These things are entirely linked of course- we're in a war and should behave as such by changing government policy. There were quite a lot of policy changes in the UK circa 1940.
David Jamieson@David_Jamieson7
The price rises that will now be forced on workers are not an opportunity for policyitis. The cause of rising prices (once again) is war. Take every opportunity to draw the two issues together. Don’t obscure the matter with old hobby horses no one cares about.
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fair play this is class, would've loved this all the years I worked hospitality in town. Has to be said these things should be absolute bare minimum services for residents of every mid-size town in the country. Mad to think it feels groundbreaking in 2026 outside of London.
Andy Burnham@AndyBurnhamGM
Some good news: we will soon restore a night bus service to all 10 boroughs in GM. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…
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now this starts to feel like more interesting commentary to me. at white collar jobs there's a lot of implicit pressure to grow the fuck up, because you're exposed to peers who manifestly have their shit together. used to be lower class people would have a kid and community members would push them to get their shit together too. older coworkers even at dead end jobs, church and other local communities, etc. but if these days the 27 yo teenagers working retail aren't having kids and basically have no older peers with their shit together in any meaningful way, what incentive do they have to do anything but keep watching the same anime in discord calls? who are you feeling social pressure from?
xian qing@klarnic_debt
@_caswel Or it’s because our consumer identities stop developing beyond what we can realistically afford
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The reason jury trials are being curtailed in Britain is because the jury system allows for a public break with our political and media class and government policy collusion in genocide and apartheid. Juries repeatedly acquit campaigners and activists in step with public opinion.
Defend Our Juries@DefendOurJuries
A woman who told a crowd that Hamas is "fighting for freedom" has been found not guilty of expressing support for a proscribed organisation. "I would never condemn the resistance of Palestinians because their resistance is due to the occupation.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Everyone who says ‘turn the palace of westminister’ over to tourism really overestimates how interesting the actual inside of the building is. It’d be Shrek’s Adventure 2 and 5 different Harry Potter themed vape shops within 4 years
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Well 30% of your area didn't vote for leave? In an increasingly divided world why are you dividing Bolsover?
Natalie Fleet MP@NatalieFleetMP
While London may want to rejoin, areas like mine that voted 70% to leave definitely do not. In an increasingly divided world, the last thing we need is to divide the country all over again by restarting this debate.
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