@residentadviser What’s the optimal outcome for you at the next election?
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Ben Crowden
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Ben Crowden
@CrowdenBen
Escape Room Game Designer. Trying to age gracefully. All views my own.
Bristol Katılım Haziran 2014
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Polanski is one of the best political entrepreneurs in this country imo. And I think there’s a case that the Green surge is good for politics - that part of the electorate needed political representation. A Green govt would be as disastrous as a Reform govt.
Darren Johnson@DarrenJohnson66
Abolish Ofsted. Abolish Prevent. Abolish landlords. Abolish Britain's membership of Nato. Abolish restrictions on puberty blockers. [Abolish Israel - to be decided in the Autumn] There's a hell of a lot of stuff the Green Party wants to abolish these days.
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@1929stockcrash Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, if that’s not obvious!
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Did any of those madly rich people in the UAE consider not building artificial islands, but building a new waterway to avoid the Strait of Hormuz so that they’d never have to rely on Iran?
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@Peter88902568 @retalsp Can’t listen to Beatles ‘Happiness…’ without replacing ‘mother superior jumped the gun’ with ‘Charlie Bighams lasagne for one’
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Who do we hate now Brewdog is gone? Tony’s Chocoloney seems like a good target but maybe we should aim bigger. Huel? Waitrose?
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@v_j_freeman Keir’s big thing was the end of ‘sticking plaster politics’ but his majority doesn’t have the stones for the actual surgery the country desperately needs to get out of this spiral
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Given Labour inherited this debt because we were hit with two once in a century shocks on the bounce & they’ve reneged on their election promises to make growth their “no.1 priority” & to only increase public spending off the back of this growth I find all this tough to stomach
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Exclusive Poorer households will be offered “targeted” support to protect them from large rises in their energy bills under plans being drawn up in response to the economic crisis triggered by war in the Middle East. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, told The Times the Treasury was drawing up “different options” to help those who were most vulnerable to soaring gas and electricity costs when the current price cap comes to an end in June She raised concerns that a universal bailout for every household — similar to that announced by Liz Truss after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — would be unaffordable given Britain’s high levels of debt. The interventions cost more than £40 billion Next week the chancellor will give a clear indication of her approach by announcing a package of support for households that rely on heating oil but cannot afford the soaring cost, which has risen by 80 per cent in a week “I am concerned given how high our debt is, the debt that we inherited, and so I want to look at what the different options available would be.” She added: “It is important even when there is an economic shock - or perhaps particularly when there’s an economic shock - that you continue to be disciplined about your use of public money.” thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@v_j_freeman They’ve got this huge majority but it’s fundamentally built on sand, announcing lots of unpopular but ultimately necessary (in their eyes) policies, then backing down after some poor sod has had to go out and publicly defend it
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@AlexofBrown @rpaton11 Tbf haven’t they just added a plumber?
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@v_j_freeman Unlike some of his other detractors, I’m willing to entertain that Polanski may have had a shift in his views over time, since being a Lib Dem in 2010(?) etc. My issue is that I don’t believe for a second he would extend this courtesy to anyone else.
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This is the difference between an opportunist like Polanski & lifelong believers like Corbyn. There will be different problems for the Greens under an opportunist than there would be under a true believer.
Sean Bamforth@seanbamforth
He just tells you what you want to hear.
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@CharlotteCGill It’s such a delicate balance, not enough medication and you feel like rubbish, your thyroid working overtime for no results, then you put too much in and your thyroid gets lazy again!
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Day 20 and my energy is rubbish (apart from tweeting). Does levothyroxine take a while to settle? On a small dose (50)
Charlotte Gill@CharlotteCGill
Day 12 of my levothyroxine dose - today I feel quite clear headed. Is this when it's working?🙏The first week really knocked me out
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@dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory The famously woke Dominic Sandbrook. Are you aware of Finn Vs History, your unofficial ugly panto step-sister podcast?
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If there's one thing everybody knows about @TheRestHistory, it's that the presenters burn with self-hatred.
ALEXWC1964@alexwc1964
@dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory More pro-IRA bullshit by UK self-hating historians. What next? "Andreas Baader - Profiles in Courage"?.
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‘We’ve got too many people arriving too fast, we can’t build enough housing’
*Joel goes back to his massive empty house on a street of big empty houses*
#TheLastOfUs
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@1929stockcrash Having read the Mickey 7 book a couple years ago, am I gonna be disappointed?
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@residentadviser It’s a shame because I had time for him a couple years ago
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Goodwin thinks he speaks for the silent majority. He’s just an obnoxious, grifting, boring online right NPC. Wanker.
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@TheSimonEvans Probably wouldn’t say 6 months, but if he lives long enough he’ll go back for another bite as sure as eggs is eggs.
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Bookmarked.
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
"I don't know who his Russia advisors are, but they ought to know that" Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse says Donald Trump has shown "almost staggering naivety" in trusting Vladimir Putin, predicting that the Russian president "will go back to fighting in six months". #Newsnight
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@doctormilfy Where’s the Melfi from? Or is it a Turkish surname also?
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@CrowdenBen I'm at 300 pages and I have a thought about what is going on but it could be wrong.. I'm persisting!
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