@LukeTryl @MarketBlondes Not very good news for the Lib Dem’s is it
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Max Usher
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@stopthesupermaj I don’t really understand why the system was changed from AMS to d’Hondt in Wales but not in Scotland (as presumably it required Westminster legislation)?
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2026 Holyrood election if it used the D'hondt method. (Wales system). 120 seats, 12 constituencies of 10 MSPs, votes based on the list votes not constituency
SNP 32
RFM 23
LAB 20
GRN 18
CON 16
LDM 11
SNP short 29 of a majority
Unionist majority of 20.
Vastly different result from just a different system of PR....
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@Heccles94 Just because everyone else in your community is evading tax doesn’t mean you are entitled to…
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BREAKING 🚨
The tax expert who broke the Polanski Boat Tax Story admits he wasn’t even aware of the situation surrounding Marina boat tax until he started exploring it.
It turns out only one resident in 35 years have ever paid council tax on the Marina!
Pretty quick to blame Zack though wasn’t he…
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@LisiJ09 @Dunadan9 @BritainVotesNow How would this result have translated into Welsh Westminster seats?
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I hope someone stiches all these maps together so we can have a whole Wales picture. That would be very interesting to see!
BritainVotesNow@BritainVotesNow
🔔 Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd (2026 Senedd Cymru Election) Result:
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@AtticumFloreat It’s really odd- surely he’s intelligent enough to realise that these are two events shaped by the same underlying issue- so is he just trying avoid the issue?
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Confusing symptoms for causes is just one of the reasons why the Times pays big bucks for Fraser's pearls of wisdom.
Fraser Nelson@FraserNelson
A decade on, Brexit is still shaping UK politics. The data shows a clear trend: the higher the Brexit vote in 2016 the more likely a big Reform UK vote now. My column:- times-comment.com/elections
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A good example is much of East Anglia - swathes of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk - and Cambridgeshire. And indeed Kent and Surrey. These places are now largely Lib Dem versus Reform with a few enclaves of fading Tory support.
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The hard reality for the Tories is that they are dead in large swathes of their old heartlands and the corpse isn't even twitching. In fact they don't even really exist as a political party in huge bits of even rural and southern England. They are not a national party anymore
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@tnewtondunn It may not legally need a referendum but arguably a constitutional convention has grown that constitutional changes of this magnitude require one. It would be seen by many, many people as ceasing to play fair in a fundamental- potentially precipitating unprecedented civil unrest.
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Much debate about this, which is great. Three extra points;
1. I’m not advocating it, or opposing it, just pointing it out. Don’t shoot the messenger!
2. PR doesn’t need a referendum, or a manifesto commitment. Just a simple act of parliament
3. I’d put money on it happening now. Two party politics in a digital world of endless choice is surely dead
Tom Newton Dunn@tnewtondunn
There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK
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@Madz_Grant @TimesRadio Yes she should tell that to the children whose lives she has ruined out of pure spite
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@TimesRadio Most vindictive person in a vindictive Government speaks
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Education secretary Bridget Phillipson calls for respect across the political spectrum, stating anyone wiling to put themselves forward deserves a “basic level of decency”.
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@julianHjessop They’d be miffed but I suspect that ultimately (even more so than the UK vs the EU) they’d have to suck it up!
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"Britain told to pay £1 billion a year to EU after reset"
Imagine what Canada would say if the US demanded an annual tribute as part of a free trade agreement... 🤔
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@BellaWallerstei @robertshrimsley For this (and a lot of other reasons) I question the value of such “talk about your culture” days and the like (which are ubiquitous in the school system). Why can’t pupils be allowed to learn as individuals unencumbered by cultural baggage?
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@ClaireCoutinho @Jacob_Rees_Mogg You could have reined it in/abolished it when you were in power….
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Natural England is out of control.
Nuclear is the most land dense clean energy using up to 3000 times LESS land than solar and wind.
Nuclear is much better for habitats and the environment and yet our environment regs are blocking our ability to build it.
Madness.
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu
Natural England have decided that £700m spent protecting fish isn’t enough. They want EDF to do even more before they’ll let them switch the plant on. This will cause a big delay. Put simply, Natural England is a threat to our energy security. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@JackAzzopardi Agree with your sentiments but should point out there was not a single member of the aristocracy at Westminster when I was there- it’s full or rich (often foreign) bankers’ and lawyers’ children.
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remember at uni a girl i knew was going on one of these diversity schemes for a big bank.
She had attended Westminster School with celebrities and the aristocracy. Her family were from central london.
It pissed me off so much.
It’s never for working class people of any colour
Helena Horton@horton_official
An influencer is taking a charity that organises internships for black and minority ethnic people to court because they do not organise schemes for white people It could have implications for the equality act theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/2…
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@meadwaj @MarketBlondes Price caps will just cause shortage of supply- why supply food (or anything else) at a loss?
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A slow burn disaster already. Food prices are going to dominate the economic news over the next few months. We need serious proposals - including price caps and regulations - for supporting households in the face of shocks.
(Link to article below.)
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@KiddsL47940 @andrew_lilico Either their LOESS based trending has a glitch (it certainly doesn’t favour Reform who have stabilised recently on most moving averages) or Restore and the Greens are soaking up a lot of votes.
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It's remarkable that, for some time now, on the Wikipedia opinion polling model, the overall poll rating for all three of the top-polling UK political parties (indeed, for 4 of the top 5) has been declining at the same time, for several months in a row!
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🚨 WATCH: Police struggle to detain the 45-year-old suspect after two Jewish people were stabbed in Golders Green
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@rcolvile Agreed but also worth thinking that London is one of the least densely populated major cities on Earth. Eg does South-West London really need 3 large parks (Richmond P, Putney Heath and Wimbledon C) side by side? AND (unlike the countryside) not many Reform voters to annoy there.
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Socialists don’t get nearly enough credit for Britain’s post-war decline.
Attlee was a huge disaster, probably worse than Mitterrand was for France.
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
Of course only an idiot would say Britain was communist. With oil, gas, telephones, coal, steel, railroads, electricity, trucking, canals all nationalized; with a completely state run healthcare system; with no one able to build anything without government permission; rationing on meat, bread, and sundries; no one able to hold foreign currency until 1979; arbitrary freezes on dividends; a 98% tax on investment income; with government ownership of the major producers of transportation; with frequent statutory pay raises and freezes across all industry; a third of all housing state-owned; with industrial planning done by the government, and them taking equity stakes in major industrial concerns; with government spending half the GDP; with every import of industrial inputs requiring government permission from the Board of Trade — yes, truly, only a fool would say that they were communist.
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“Smell the alcohol”?! Wow. I wonder what she thinks it will be like when she and the Greens get their way and legalise heroin? Also, she says that, unlike MPs, she doesn’t think bankers would have a drink then go back to work. What planet is she on?
PoliticsJOE@PoliticsJOE_UK
"You can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes." Green MP Hannah Spencer tells us what Westminster is REALLY like. The full interview is live on YouTube, and as a podcast here: linktr.ee/howtorebuildbr…
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@Jai_is_bnuuying @NicholasOShaug1 Where are the Trincomalee and Unicorns now?
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@NicholasOShaug1 We also had these for frigates, thankfully the picture there was a bit brighter (several countries still some by then)
One that nearly made it was the frigate "NAIAD", latterly a Chilean coal hulk; when broken up in 1897 she was one of only three survivors of Trafalgar...
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Jai points out that Great Britain had 43 wooden warships at the beginning of the 20th century which were destroyed. There are three remaining. Their long tenure is because they tended to be repurposed as training ships.
Jai@Jai_is_bnuuying
@NicholasOShaug1 I made this for myself a while back, a list of the ships of the line that made it to the 20th century (including only the three navies which still had any by then.) The tallies furthest right represent how many were broken up or otherwise disposed of in each decade.
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