@paullees496 @surplustakes Its the exact opposite of seperation of powers, if Ministers must be MPs. The French system has separation of powers, the Parliament can remove the government, but ministers cant be MPs.
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Alex
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@surplustakes It's called accountability that the executive branch has accountability to the legislature , as only elected MP's can be speak in the house of commons, it's called separation of powers to prevent tyranny and ensure liberty. By enforcing a system of checks and balances,
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> Be the UK
> By tradition, pick your entire executive branch from the legislature
> Instead of actually governing, executive just passes laws forcing other people to make nice things happen
> Hope there are no negative-sum trade-offs
> There are constant negative-sum trade-offs
CJ@UnderSneege
Britain has the highest rate of temporary accommodation in the developed world and yet Councils across the country are frenetically buying private homes, student accommodation and suspending normal council housing allocations all to convert to more temporary accommodation. Why?
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@breadandposes I love my Heat Pump Room. It used to be a living room with a TV, but now I get to stare at a compressor all evening.
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Just completely living in an alternative reality aren't they
Lisa Mckenzie@redrumlisa
Unless you are buying a 5 bed detached on one of these developments for £750k plus not sure how those heat pumps will fit into the tiny new builds without limiting living space even more than they already do.
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@MissLauraFong @tomhfh Well there's a good chance the home you're in was once considered a new build box house. Why deprive everyone else of something you have?
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@tomhfh Why would anyone support the buildings of new towns?
Let's concrete over the countryside and make the roads and trains more congested.
And why would anyone want to live in a new build box house on an identikit street?
Ghastly.
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Greens and Lib Dems most NIMBY voters confirmed.
Reform and Tories most BANANA.
2024 Labour voters are the only YIMBY segment by this survey.
YouGov@YouGov
Britons are split on the construction of new towns in principle, but tend to oppose them being built near them, as ministers unveil seven areas to be developed as part of its new town scheme In the UK Support: 40% Oppose: 37% Near your local area Support: 31% Oppose: 49%
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@LeCuzzy @Liv_Agar - beating starving wildlings when you have armoured knights and the element of suprise is only moderately impressive
- this is after he completely flopped at the Blackwater
- Ramsey took back Winterfell from the Ironborn, which is more of an achievement than half of Stannis's
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1. Stannis Baratheon
2. The king of dragonstone
3. The prince that was promised
4. The Mannis
5. The one true king
Lord Commander 🔥❄👑@Lord______Snow
You can tell who has a good mind for medieval warfare based on who they put in their top 5 best asoiaf generals in the main series.
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Alex รีทวีตแล้ว
That’s why you should never play “bizarre pickleball”
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
Charlie Kirk’s longtime mentor has died following a bizarre pickleball accident. trib.al/0IVpxOf
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@MonsieurPiddly If you include the Tube, Paddington (Circle Line) to Paddington (Circle and Hammersmith and City lines) is the closest I can think of.
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I wonder what's the UK's equivalent would be of this?! 😂
Piddly Distance, Biggly Journey.... Could be a new series!
Gregor 🌹🇪🇺🇦🇹@salingergregor
imagine hopping on this train to go from Budapest-Keleti to Budapest-Nyugati (2.4 km distance)
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@nikicaga He definitely wasn't lol Cat chapters with him are a glimpse of what kind of King Renly would've been
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Yeah the whole "Renly is of no real substance" thing seems like clear cope to me
I'm not sure what sort of King he'd be, but he was clearly pretty smart
Our Hilts Hurt@OurHiltsHurt
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@FrankFWJH But when HS2 is built in full, it will go to Manchester and further on, where it will make more of a difference. And I very much doubt changing the spec half way through to make it slightly slower will actually save any money - these are existing contracts and plans.
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so before all the clickbait and rage comes in about this, I ran the numbers and it means a loss of 3 minutes between Birmingham and London and saves billions.
cruising speed remains at the standard for most high speed European networks - 200 mph is not slow
FT UK Politics@ftukpolitics
Ministers set to order HS2 to consider slower trains to save billions ft.trib.al/Zoi36KX
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@aquilaqua @cemk_cemil Basically every centrist party in Europe is anti immigration lol
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@cemk_cemil For my fucking life I cant figure out why every left/liberal/centrist party in western Europe is so fucking adamant on this retarded pro-immigration stance that only loses votes
It would be so easy to moderate this shit better and get free votes in return. No balls.
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You know why..? Because they combine liberal social policies with restrictive Third World migration that would be even considered "racist" elsewhere and a staunch pro-Ukrainian stance.
Restrictive non-white migration (even remigration) + strong pro-Ukrainian stance + liberal social policies is the electoral sweet spot. This is what Europeans truly want. And this is what Europe truly needs. Both the liberal and right-wing parties are shooting themselves in the foot by antagonizing one of those.
NXT EU@NXT4EU
The Danish social democrats are so popular that they are polling with North-Korean style percentages. European Patriots keep winning 🇪🇺
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Why are we building ‘new towns’ on England’s fields when there are blight-ridden brownfield sites all over our urban centres ??? ???
YIMBY Alliance@yimbyalliance
🚨Tempsford has been confirmed as a new town! 40,000 homes are set to be built around a new station at the intersection of the East Coast Mainline and East West Rail – linking Tempsford’s new residents to good jobs in London, Cambridge, Oxford and Milton Keynes 🚆 Tempsford’s excellent transport potential is massively underutilised: the site is almost entirely covered by empty fields. But Tempsford’s proximity to so many big cities means that the new town stands a great chance of becoming a huge economic success! 🗺️ The other new towns are: - Crews Hill and Chase Park, Enfield - Leeds South Bank, West Yorkshire - Manchester Victoria North, Greater Manchester - Thamesmead, Greenwich - Brabazon and the West Innovation Arc, South Gloucestershire - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. 🏘️ To make the most out of Tempsford, it is important to tackle one key bottleneck. The Digswell Viaduct, located just south of the proposed new town, is where the East Coast Main Line narrows from four tracks to just two. 🛤️ The viaduct limits how many trains can run on that line, a line currently used by over 20 million people every year. We need to fix that bottleneck to ensure that a new station at Tempsford doesn't slow down services. You can read @KaneEmerson's paper, where Tempsford new town was first proposed, here: britishprogress.org/briefings/new-… And you can read and support the Government’s in-depth consultation on the New Towns here: gov.uk/government/con…
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Wrong. Thatcher stopped the regional water authorities from borrowing money for capital projects to force privatisation.
We're a rainy country facing drought conditions because for over 35 years, we've let our water infrastructure become a cash machine for private sector spivs.
It doesn't add up...@I_D_A_U_
@BareLeft Nationalisation would do what happened the last time - ensure that there is massive ongoing underinvestment in water (but this time a truly exortionate prices, as with say HS2).
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@JENBROOK8 @Tweets_of_Oscar You trust your local council to decide where you get to live? Instead of leaving it up to you, and professionals who build housing?
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@AlexTurlais @Tweets_of_Oscar Councils have detailed strategies, and assess and earmark sites within that.
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4/10 of the ways greens are working hard in Cambridge are campaigning against development. Classic.
Phil Rodgers@PhilRodgers
Here's the newspaper that the Greens are delivering around Cambridge today.
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Imagine "Berrymaxxing" in the UK, it would bankrupt you.
100g of blueberries is like £8.
Dan Go@CoachDanGo
One of the biggest cheat codes is berriemaxxing. Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries are some of the healthiest foods on the planet. They are high in fiber, low in calories, anti-inflammatory, and contain anthocyanins, which are great for your gut and brain.
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@RepealTCPA1947 We allow them to make massive profits in every other year, surely if theres an external supply shock, they should absorb some of that and accept slightly compressed margins for a few months? Its what most other industries do.
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It's hard to think of a price increase where the cause is more easily explicable to the common man ("middle east war mean less oil, oil lifeblood of modern economy") yet the cries of "profiteering" go up all the same
Ryan Bourne@MrRBourne
In this opinion piece, the UK government's cost-of-living tsar seems to think companies that obtain windfall profits from temporarily higher margins from energy shocks raising gas and oil prices have a sort of moral duty to hold prices down. But the trade-off isn't: higher profits vs. lower prices. What's at stake is the functioning of a market price system. a) if prices don't reflect reality there's less incentive to bring forth new supply, b) if prices don't reflect reality there's more incentive for consumers to purchase "excess" rather than economise c) and so, if prices don't reflect reality there's more likely to be shortages & less investment in future supply too. thetimes.com/comment/cartoo…
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