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@TomTugendhat @FCDOGovUK Best talk to the people who initiated the talks then (checks notes)

@BethRigby You ok hun?

The sorting hat. Which candidate belongs to which Hogwarts House?....

@BethRigby You’ve let yourself down and journalism as a whole down. No money changed hands, it was declared.

Sir Keir Starmer says he took £20,000 donation after promise to protect family in Sky News interview. "I wasn't going to let me son fail because of journalists outside the front door" news.sky.com/story/sir-keir…

@salesforce customer since 2004 and at 14:30 today my whole org has been kicked out with no warning. This is having massive consequences and the fact we’re being told to email support rather than talk to anyone….. 🤬

@SW_Help Maybe put that on the notice boards at Waterloo? At the moment everyone is just staring at a board covered in “Delayed”. Maybe replace the “Special Notices” about doors closing 45sec before departure until trains are departing again?

@johnredwood Go away, stay gone away mr Redwood. You and your kind had your chance and look at the legacy you left. Not even a note - a real life, wild and bare, disaster on home soil.

The government should provide an update on how its policies to stop the illegal and dangerous small boats are progressing.

@British_Airways In the meantime fending off countless bots. I will now be spending time tomorrow to fill in all your forms for compensation…. “Manage my account” needs tighter integration with Avios so I could have known I’d be having to be helped by @SixtDE (thanks to your team!) instead.

@meyer_dj Hi there. We're sorry to hear that your flight has been cancelled. Was this part of a package booking with us? If so and you still require assistance, please contact our holiday team directly. You can find all of our contact numbers here: ba.com/contact. Imogen

@British_Airways 07:25 flight to Split cancelled; got a flight to Dubrovnik at 11:00. Now trying to get to someone at Avios or @Budget who can help me move the car hire.

@British_Airways It was. I was ably assisted by someone to get us on a different flight. I then spent hours on the phone to these numbers and not spoken to anyone; doubtless due to the “exceptionally” high volume of calls - trying to sort car hire. Arrived in DBV to find no cars available…

@vlee10 @British_Airways You can’t get refund but you can get compensation. I thought same as you but my brother dug harder and found this citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/holid… You have to scroll quite a long way down to find our circumstances. Good luck

@meyer_dj @British_Airways They’re saying I can’t because I accepted the alternative flight that was offered for Monday. I was half asleep & wasn’t thinking straight & immediately changed my mind. My 6 fellow travellers didn’t accept the rebooking and are getting full refunds plus £350 compensation each.

Hey @British_Airways thanks for cancelling my 07.15 flight this morning at 10pm last night. You gave me an option to rebook for Monday which in my sleepy panic last night I accepted online. Now you’re telling me I have no rights to a refund.

@neilorpen @ShaunLintern The extremism one is why I quit being a volunteer community responder for the ambulance service after 8yrs including Covid. happy giving up time to respond and for training but training bloated to where I wasn’t willing to give time to things that didn’t serve the role I played

Massively reduce the amount of mandatory training and make it grade role appropriate I really don’t need another course on how to clean my hands ( as a surgeon for greater than 25 years ) Or another recognising extremism and terrorism Or one on how to sit ergonomically at my workstation

Wes Streeting calls you and asks for *tangible* ideas he can implement to help NHS improve performance. But there's no extra money for big spending. What's your one idea? #FantasyNHS I'll start - staff passports across regions to free up pointless mandatory training time.

@HillF1 🤚

So who changed who they usually voted for? Come on. Own up. #UKElection2024

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

@Hush_Kit Fascinating stuff. Thank you

The very last missions of the most famous warplanes took place in unlikely times and even more unlikely places hushkit.net/2020/01/29/las… via @Hush_Kit

@theAliceRoberts Also, I studied science and then didn’t stay in science…

I’m sorry, WHAAATT?! How dare this man tell us what subjects he thinks are valuable. Thing One: the creative industries are HUGE in the UK. Thing Two: we are HUMANS; not drones; not cogs in your machine.

Nobody born since October 1939 has undertaken National Service in the UK. Those people are now aged at least 85. This policy is aimed at winning the votes of people who never did National Service themselves but who want to force others to do it.

@elonmuskADO Twitter

@BlacktopMagazin @ZurichInsUK I had similar. Then asked to appeal, was told the appeal would be heard by the same person who had made the original decision and that I’d agreed to these terms by lodging my complaint! Only option after that was to take them to court. Some councils have forgotten their purpose..

@DaveWallsworth I have opinions on the topics you’ve raised but still reeling from the well thought through, reasoned and polite arguments put forward by your followers. Well done all!

I don’t do politics very often on here as it guarantees you are going to annoy half of your followers! So for a bit of balance let’s do a post which has the potential of annoying everyone! (That’s a joke by the way, so don’t take it seriously!). The awful Rwanda policy forced through government by the @Conservatives means I can’t vote for them. It’s a dreadful policy which is insulting to the Rwandan people and will provide little to no deterrent to illegal immigrants. It’s a ‘look how hard on illegal immigrants we are being’ policy which will cost millions and is extremely unfair. I believe it will probably lose the @Conservatives as many votes as it will gain them. It’s a deflection policy to give people something to talk about because of their other major policy failings. I’m not saying I disagree with everything the party is pushing out but this is bad enough to prevent me voting for them in the upcoming General Election. However, the only other party which could be in government later this year is the @UKLabour party and they’ve made themselves unvotable for me (not a word but should be!) by their dreadful VAT on private school fees policy. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to send my children to private school and believe it was the best use of the money possible. A far better use than expensive holidays, cars etc. By sending my children to private school I have removed them from the state system so the government hasn’t had to pay for them via my taxes. Now @UKLabour are saying they will add VAT at 20% to private school fees (Obviously they aren’t saying they will do that directly because that would be too incendiary even for them! They are going to do it by changing the tax position of private schools which means the vast majority of them will have no option but to pass the extra 20% on to the fees) On the contrary, I have always thought there was a good argument that using private schools to educate your children should actually be a tax benefit to the parents for precisely the reason that they are paying their tax contribution to fund state schools in exactly the same way as everyone else but are not using the facility. There are those people for whom this rise will have little impact - those who are properly wealthy. The parents (and therefore children) it will hit hardest are those who are/have stretched themselves to the limit in order to send their children to private school but will no longer be able do so. So what will the net outcome be? Some parents will have no option but to remove their children from their present private school and send them to a state school. Others will have the option of sending their children to private school in future taken away. This will increase the numbers in state school, adding more pressure to an already underfunded area and result in a lower standard of education. It won’t raise that much money and the vast majority, if not all of it, will go on extra spending required to accommodate the new students. It’s another ‘statement’ policy targeted at a certain section of the public in order to get them to vote for @UKLabour on a so-called principle matter which is extremely poorly thought out. With the best will in the world there is no point voting in the next election where I live because it will have zero impact on the result. I, like many, unfortunately live in a rock solid seat area and, as always, the result of the general election will actually come down to quite a small number of seats and voters. But that’s another argument for another day! I am genuinely interested to hear people’s views on the above and please don’t get upset/annoyed by what I’ve written. It also, obviously, has nothing to do with my job! (Tin hat on!😂)