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James Moncrieff
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James Moncrieff
@moncrieffnow
Sailor & Strategic Consultant: developing leadership, strategic thinking and dialogue skills
Ashridge / Berkhamsted Katılım Aralık 2012
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James Moncrieff retweetledi
I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I?
Like if you do
RT if you really do
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But Cameron, Osborne & Co. were closet leavers. Why else a 50:50 referendum rather than the 60:40 norm. Why else such a dismal remain campaign, why else no refuting the Leave lies, why else not tell us that we got £170m a week back from EU in grants & subsidies?
James O'Brien@mrjamesob
Johnson’s Razor, not unlike Occam’s, posits that whatever theory about his behaviour prioritises his boundless selfishness, vanity & carelessness above all else will *always* turn out to be true.
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James Moncrieff retweetledi
It’s time Ofwat was given, and forced to use, the teeth to compel water companies to invest a minimum percentage of revenue in infrastructure improvement before they can pay any dividends or bonuses.
Alethea Bernard@Tush27J
Dear Media Liv Garfield, CEO of Severn Trent Water. THE BEST PAID CEO in the water industry. Paid £3.2M in 2023 for dumping sh*t in our rivers. Can we have some more outrage on this, please? #BBCBreakfast #GMB
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James Moncrieff retweetledi
If Keir Starmer's Labour Government can achieve all of this in just two months, I'm looking forward to the next 4-5 years:
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I still can’t understand why anyone could possibly think it would be better to be outside that market and that community of nations with its open internal borders and free movement.
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How can @firstdirect justify reducing savings rates, while increasing their credit card rates by 26%? Are they trying to drive customers away?
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James Moncrieff retweetledi
As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet (and comment) on this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen!🙏♥️
To make it worth sharing, here are 2 Kingfishers arguing over a prime perch! 😁
Thank you very much! 🥰🐦😊
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Looks more like pouncing on a delinquent leaf. Go cat go.
Larry the Cat@Number10cat
Heading into the weekend with a spring in my step (Photo @PoliticalPics)
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Adam didn’t finish her sentence: “… to maintain professionalism and integrity at the lowest level we achieved when in government.”
Adam Schwarz@AdamJSchwarz
Priti Patel, who broke the Ministerial Code multiple times for misleading parliament, bullying staff and unauthorised meetings with foreign officials, launches her leadership campaign with a promise to maintain "professionalism and integrity".
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Southport was the tipping point and the nation is angry. How dare these ultra right wing travelling riot gangs invade Southport and disrupt the grieving of this town. It’s time they were put out of action. Hit them with Starmer’s ‘full force of the law’.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes
Many of us predicted Melville’s click bait hungry social media machine would end up endorsing the violent thugs of the far right - and here, four years on from being an attention seeking FBPE remainer - he ends up
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Interested readers of the post below might also be interested in St Peter’s in Bradwell, Essex. Also founded by St Cedd, it is the oldest church in England that still has services.
CHURCH GOING with Andrew Ziminski FSA & SPAB 🇺🇦@natchjourneyman
You might expect the oldest wooden church in the world to be hidden in some remote place with a strong tradition of timber-framed buildings – perhaps in some European woodland or mountain pass. It is, however, in a somewhat unlikely location: close to the northern end of the London Underground Circle Line, in the village of Greensted-juxta-Ongar in the Essex countryside. Dedicated to St Andrew, this is the only Anglo-Saxon timber church that still exists, and was established by St Cedd in the 650s during his mission to convert the East Saxons. Having avoided fire, war, neglect and insect attack, it is a miracle that the church has survived. The building is constructed from a satisfying mix of materials: the trees that were felled in the woods that still enclose the church, together with the clay that was dug from the surrounding fields before being kiln-fired into the red bricks of the later chancel and the roof tiles that are punctuated here by dormer windows. Ignoring the dinky seventeenth-century tower with its white clapboarding and shingle-clad steeple, the rest of the church might be mistaken for a farm building. The fifty-one vertically split logs that form the walls of the nave were felled when the trees were about a hundred years old; they were green and unseasoned, which made it easier to work than dry, hard, seasoned oak. Most of the squaring up, shaping and cutting of the joints that connected it all together would have been done with axes, while the flat inner face of the wall was achieved with an adze – a type of axe with a curved blade at a right angle to the handle. Today the logs are black with tar, but they were originally protected from the elements by the large overhang of the thatched eaves that would have dis- persed rainwater clear of the walls. The logs are held together with ‘tree-nails’ (another term for wooden pegs). This ancient palisading technique, by which vertical stand- ing tree trunks were positioned in a row, would also have been used to wall in Iron Age hill forts. The Venerable Bede recorded that the church at Lindisfarne, built in ad 651–61, was similarly made of split tree trunks and roofed with reeds. This method of construction can also be seen in the burial chamber that housed the king interred in the ninth-century Gokstad, the largest Viking ship ever found, which is on display in Norway’s Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. The oak wrights cut grooves into each side of all the logs and slipped tongues of lath – thin strips of wood – to keep out draughts. The only corner log that survived the unnecessarily intrusive Victorian restoration has had a quarter-section axed out. Visitors to St Andrew’s are greeted inside by the smell of ancient wood and polish. When I visited, a table was laden with local jams and chutneys, and the interior was much warmer than the stone churches I was used to. Scorch marks on the walls suggest that it was once lit by oil lamps. Windows are absent, but a set of pegged peepholes would have enabled those outside to observe church services. Sitting in the church on a winter’s afternoon is darkly atmospheric, and it is possible to experience something of how the building must have felt when the body of St Edmund was laid within these walls for the night in 1013 on the way back from London to the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, where it had been taken for safekeeping during a time of Viking raids. Excerpt from #churchgoing out October.
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The fruits of hubris
Alex Taylor@AlexTaylorNews
Boris Johnson - guest star at the Republican Convention But no one came 👇
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James Moncrieff retweetledi
92% of people under 25 and 67% of people in the UK wish to rejoin the EU.
RT if you are one.
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@Becca080164 @AngelaRayner He looks like mutton dressed up as lard. She just looks resigned to the ridicule.
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For all the gammon-army who sneered and jeered about our lovely @AngelaRayner and her dress sense ....
I give you this .....
Bag of shite tied up with string......
Leicester, England 🇬🇧 English