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@gymnerdbeth
Oh, I'm happy to shout about it. Even if I was in the US! It's properly *artistic*.
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@RevRichardColes
I'm a built env prof who has lived & worked in both countries. In 🇫🇷 land costs are much lower, plus their public sector directly employs highly-qualified & experienced staff - so they're more competent, and there's no 20% profit-skimming by main contractor + multiple subbies.
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@Peston
@benwansell
If the BBC is quoting guidelines which are not in Linekar's contract with them as the reason they've taken him off air, surely that's the BBC breaching Linekar's contract?
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@labourwhips
@UKLabour
Plays right into Labour's hands, esp given public majority want Johnson gone now. Tories' increasing suppression of democracy, including right of protest, is a unifying cross-electorate issue.
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@NoContextBrits
Depending where in the UK you are from, it could be any one of:-
ginnel
alley(way)
close
jitty
lane
(back) passage
snickett
wynd
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@AndrewPRLevi
Also heard whispers from folks in Parliament that she was told to go quietly by Brady but refused, and threatened a nuclear GE move.
I sincerely hope she goes for the nuclear option.
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@TheMedalCount_
TBF the Romanian Fed specifically requested in their CAS complaint that Chiles gets to keep her medal too. They said it's not her fault the judges messed up.
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@labourwhips
@UKLabour
Go hell for leather on this, Labour. You'll get majority of the elctorate's support.
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@GaryLineker
Please PLEASE sue him. We *have* to stop them lying. They usually hide behind Parliamentary privilege, but he can't this time. This might just make them think twice.
PLEASE.
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@SamCoatesSky
Knowing Hoyle, he'll just send them 'for an early cup of tea' then. He's utterly useless at the job.
This level of Parliamentary disarray would *never* have happened under Bercow, Martin, Boothroyd, etc.
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@RHUL_Library
@StevePeers
👏💗
It'd be lovely if the univerity recognised the mum's efforts in some way... Hon degree maybe?
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@RichardJMurphy
No-one should be allowed to stand for election or hold high-ranking public office if they and/or their spouses and dependents (eg. children) hold non-domiliciary status. Being a UK public servant is a privilege; fiscal commitment to the UK should be a basic requirement.
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@PippaCrerar
Well now this gets interesting: Sunak sacks Zahawi from Cabinet for 'breaking the Ministerial Code', yet keeps Braverman who did same & was sacked but he reinstated. Can't see how this isn't going to make things go away....
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@krishgm
You told the truth, and what 99.5% of the population is thinking. You have nothing to apologise for.
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@doctor_oxford
@BorisJohnson
I've seen pallets used as foundations in a few developing world countries I've worked in. But never ever in a developed world country, let alone the 6th-richest in the world.
Would like to see the H&S & fire/structural risk assessment on this too 👀
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@NiallHarbison
Love how this street dog trusts you all so much he was like 'Yeah, you can pick me up, take me away in a strange vehicle and do strange things to me - all fine by me, thanks!' 💗
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@AngharadWatson
@trishgreenhalgh
IMHO - and no offence to your husband, who I am sure is great at his job - this sums up all the things that are wrong in the UK's work value system.
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@NeilTho68822310
@JolyonMaugham
And didn't go to Eton or another elite public school. They despise anyone they think is the classes below them being better than them.
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@mrjamesob
Here in Portugal - one of Britain's staunchest allies - they are bewildered as to why the British public allow Johnson to stay. "Why aren't you protesting in your millions in the streets?" - a question I have no answer for.
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@henrymance
And Fiona Bruce - who astonishingly is an ambasssdor for
@RefugeCharity
, a female victims of violence charity - can defend Tory violence against women live on TV.
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@Otto_English
'just happened to be walking past' and had to trespass & sneak 400m undetected around the building into some woodland to take a photo through a window.
Which in the real world is known as 'stalking'.
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@GoodLawProject
I want to see every penny of useless product(s) clawed back from every single one of these thieves, and long jail sentences for those who enabled this fraud from the public purse. Traitorous scumbags.
#ToryCriminals
#ToryCorruption
#ToryPPETheft
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@tompeck
It's also a lie: the Freedom Pass was introduced in Gtr Ldn in 1973. Coverted to non-paper contactless form and extended to all UK in 2004 and 2008 respectively, both under a Labour Govt.
Suzanne, if you ever get chance to interview him again remember to pull him up on this.
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@omega469
@BBCMarkEaston
France.
The only thing the current UK Government is "world-beating" at his lying.
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@mariebardi
@scottygb
I was wondering how they dealt with the whole section about all the women who pioneered abortion rights...
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@Otto_English
Although, with an irony both tragic and laughable, the British guy in this photo who made the first Chunnel breakthrough - a chap called Graham Fagg - subsequently happily boasted in MSM about voting for Brexit 🤯🤦♂️
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@Microdon3
@SamCoatesSky
Norhing to do with sense: Dorries wants a GE so she gets her place in HoL as per in Johnson's honours list before his hearing at Standards Comm, which is likely to freeze it. Truss wants to delay Johnson's Lords list for fear of all the HoC by-elections they'd then lose.
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@RevRichardColes
The story ended on a brighter note.
3 yrs to the day after my uninsured bike was stolen, a policeman knocked on my door... with my bike! I told him the back story. He said it was one of the nicest 'happy endings' he'd had in 22 years as a policeman, and almost cried 😊
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@Cromwell606
I mean, I loathe Theresa May, but I LOVE how she walks slowly past Johnson with ZERO acknowledgement 🔥👊😆
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@JMPSimor
The political reaction to this will be interesting. If Hannan doesn't get pulverised like Ellwood was, it signals a major shift.
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@13sarahmurphy
I live in Europe and have colleagues in Asia, Americas and Australasia. It's hard ro describe just how blackened the UK's reputation is by the current Govt.
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@JolyonMaugham
@ProfDPrabhat
This is also causing angst amongst the >1m
#UKinEU
, many of whom will be applying for citizenship of their EU country of residence in the next few years. After the way we've been treated by UK Govt already, there's real fear of having our citizenship removed in petty retaliation.
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@kirkkorner
We need to crowfund
@GoodLawProject
project some more so they can look at this - I'm off to make a donation.
I hope
@mrjamesob
can talk about this on his show too.
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@MarinaPurkiss
Have a feeling that this will nail him before the Party can force him out. Security services and certain Govt Ministers amost definitely already know - all it needs is for someone to leak the info.
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@RhonddaBryant
Having lived there, community & collective benefit is ingrained in French society. The vast majority don't aspire to be rich, they would rather everyone is well looked after. They don't respect or kowtow to the rich & powerful, and they work to live, not other way round.
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@ChesterCath
Not only completely inappropriate, but phenomenally offensive to all whose loved ones are currently in hospital or have been lost to Covid.
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@CharlemagnumPI
@jessicaelgot
Do you know what's even cooler? Bryony's dissertation scotched the basis of every Hollywood dinosaur movie ever, as she discovered it's highly unlikely that dinosaurs roared! Instead she found it's more likely they did high-pitch squeals & clicks.
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@BethRigby
So Sunak has sacked Zahawi from Cabinet for 'breaking the Ministerial Code', yet kept Braverman who did same & was sacked by Truss, but he reinstated....🤔
Can't see how this is going to make things easier for him.
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@Brexit
UK Govt not yet ready to formally admit the only beneficiaries of Brexit will be themselves, their mates and their backers.
#UKkleptocracy
#ToryCorruption
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@drphiliplee1
Almost a full bottle of Southern Comfort, on a date with man I'd been wooing for months. Vomited profusely all over his bed. He had to in a running shower for several hours whilst I chundered non-stop like something out of The Exorcist.
Needless to say, he married someone else.
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@PickardJE
Are you going to be fair & balanced and also clarify that the advice was about Gibraltans right to vote in the EU Ref, and that this work was widely reported at the time and literally takes 1 simple google search to find?
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@garyyounge
@Ryanair
This is the same Ryanair that have staff who have been told that Italian, French and Greek passports are "usually fake", and to go beyond their own stated boarding ID policy 🙃
This is my interaction with
@Ryanair
before boarding in Barcelona today.
I kept being told they were doing random checks. I knew it wasn’t true. I pushed and pushed and they finally admitted my nationality, amongst others, was being targeted.
Wrong and baseless.
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@EHijacked
100% this. I've said it many times since but I won't be happy until they re all in jail and they repayed every single penny of our money that they stole from us, plus interest.
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@SkyNews
What lows the BBC have sunk to: reprimanding a football pundit for telling the truth about the vile nature of tbe language this Govt uses.
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@drphiliplee1
An honourable mention to Brennevin, a local potion fed to me by top Icelandic popsters The Sugarcubes in 1989. Couldn't feel anything below my knees. 24 hrs later they told me its known locally as "black death". That honestly would have been preferable to how it made me feel.
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@carolvorders
@RichardBurgon
100% yes. They are elected to serve the public full-time. If they're taking additional jobs they by default are not full-time MPs, and should step down. Other civil servants are contractually not allowed to take 2nd jobs (with v few exceptions), and neither should they.
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@RevRichardColes
Hi, ex-GB jnr international here! 👋Imported coaches from E Bloc countries in early 1990s, who set a new training & development system in place for coaches & gymnasts. Lottery funding also crucial.
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@RussInCheshire
"We're seeing that process begin now, and the party will be ruined".
Here's hoping!
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@Urban_Pictures
@mrjamesob
And where are the riot police
@metpoliceuk
? Asking for some peaceful non-aggressive women holding candles mourning the murder of yet another sister 😶
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@breeallegretti
How weird that all of these Tory MPs are bleating as if there's nothing they can do about it - when all they've got to do is write a 2-3 line letter to the Chair of 1922 Committee 😐
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@mikegalsworthy
Even the folks in my tiny rural SW French village are talking about the food & petrol shortages in the UK.
To give you an idea of how significant this is these are folks for whom going to Toulouse 1.5 hrs away is considered a rare and big adventure!
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@NHSEnglandMedia
I'm a lifelong Man City fan. But I love Klopp - a great manager, and an even better human being.
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@BlewettSam
@PickardJE
Having to look like they're doing something because someone leaked a photo that the Met Police almost certainly already have to the press.
The Met need to removed from these cases, replaced with another police force.
Then let's talk about their disestablishment.
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@frank3davies
Anyone else starting to think "Test and Trace" was the 'budget heading' used to hide a sorts of stuff the Tories have been doing, like Johnson's bungs to certain parts of the media?... 🤔
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@TheNewsAgents
@lewis_goodall
Thank you for sharing what many of us suspected, Lewis.
I hope this encourages more ex-BBC staff to speak out.
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@LBC
@mrjamesob
I've zero interest in the Royal Family, but having had a traumatic parental bereavement at a similar age + similar treatment by the surviving parent, I have so much sympathy for Harry. Esp knowing what it's like to never get the reconciliation he clearly so desperately wants.
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@Channel4News
So the families of rail workers, nurses, etx, aren't "ordinary"? Typical out-of-touch hatred-stoking by a jumped-up halfwit billionaire.
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@BBCNewsPR
@robfordmancs
@bbclaurak
@CliveMyrieBBC
Love Clive Myrie, but Kuenssberg? No thanks, I want to listen to someone impartial and with good political analytical skills.
@Channel4
's line-up is the best for that.
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@rawls_heather
One of the grimmest things about Brexit has been the gradual unmasking of xenophobia, racism and cruel intolerance amongst those that for years we considered family and friends. I have no idea where we all go from here.
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@gsoh31
See also: the NHS, care sector, all professions, etc, etc. The Tories want 'Schrodinger's Immigrant': simultaneously filling essential gaps in the UK workforce, whilst never setting foot in the UK or any of its systems.
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@MayorofLondon
@metpoliceuk
Please stop enforcing the view that protest are "not permitted" under current lockdown restrictions - that is NOT correct, and is not what the judge in the case last Friday said.
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@bmay
"UK citizens living in the EU will have exactly the same rights as they have now (2017)".
Oh no we effing haven't.
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@Natpirks
Omitting you main WAG medal hope is stupid enough, but when people have seen the scores & routines, and know Beck's tragic circumstances, it just fuels the fire about BG being rotten to the core.
This is decision is unwarranted, cruel and vindictive.
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@TheLawSociety
@WomenLawyersDiv
@LawSocWales
@JuniorLawyers
@thebarcouncil
@BarCouncilChair
Why are you not striking-off/dis-barring the practising solicitors/barristers within current Govt who are clearly providing advice that it is OK to break domestic & international law?! You're their regulators, surely they're in breach of multiple of your Standards and Regs?
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@chrischirp
1st case identified here in Portugal 27 Dec in air passenger from UK into Lisbon. B117 now cause of c60% of Covid cases here. PT Govt foolishly didn't tighten border controls for UK travellers after UK Govt announcement in Dec. Border to UK closed last week - sadly 6 wks too late
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@sturdyAlex
Good god.
Yet TBH part of me is not surprised. Certain occupations which confer authority eg. police, attract those who like having power over other to feel superior and will happily abuse it. Hence why they are not only tolerated, but encouraged & protected by likeminded peers.
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@SarahRosemary3
@ankurb
@chrischirp
I can confirm there are no test shortages in Portugal or France, and having spoken to friends in Spain, Germany and Belgium today no shortages there either.
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@schadenfreudem1
@campbellclaret
@NorthumbriaNHS
given statements by recent patients & visitors, and your published policies on mask-wearing, can you please publicly explain why you allowed this visitor to enter the hospital without adhering to this mask policy, and who authorised this exception to your policy?
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@tnewtondunn
@TimesRadio
So the 18 years he worked in finance before he became an MP didn't give him sufficient "experience"??
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@lewis_goodall
You knew it was a lie as soon as Sunak said it. You saw Starmer try to rebut it the 1st time Sunak said it but get cut off by the moderator. And yet you, Emily, Jon & many others in UK MSM framed it as 'a problem for Labour' without shouting IT'S A LIE from the off 😐
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@BBCPolitics
4 years too late for Hoyle to find his cojones, but glad he did. Not that Badenoch's Teflon-coated arrogance & entitlement was in any way dented by it, of course. The sooner she is out of Parliament and UK politics, the better.
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@DominicPenna
"We're the party of the workers" - says the privately-educated, wealth-inheriting, property development millionaire Richard Tice 🤣🤣🤣
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@IanDunt
Never in a million years would I have thought that I'd look back at my time at uni (Thatcherism, Poll Tax + student fees riots, Section 28, etc) and think 'Christ, I was lucky'.
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@JolyonMaugham
Having had to clear up the appalling mess Deloitte consultants have created and been paid in full for more than once, I wouldn't even give them a contrant for £145.
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@LeventeZone
@SimonPease1
Actually the roots of the near-dictatorship were laid in late-2019. Aided and abetted by Cummings, which is why I never trust a word he says now.
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@JamesHarrisNow
@technopopulist
To all those who keep saying the Olympics: it was all secured, planned & funded under Labour. Tories literally did nothing except try to claim the glory - and remember how every Tory politician who appeared at a 2012 venue was resounsingly booed ?
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@ottocrat
Happy to share I got a bollocking for same with Prince Edward, having already been threatened with the sack if I didn't turn up and told I could not use my needed-crutches for the event (had just had major knee surgery).
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@steve_hawkes
@ShippersUnbound
Will she be honouring Kwarteng for "getting a bit carried away"?
What a disgusting set of power- & money-driven vampires they all are, and all traitors to the UK.
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@KevinASchofield
Boris Johnson on
#GMB
yday: car-crash zero-empathy response to pensioner's
#CostOfLivingCrisis
plight
George Eustice today: "Hold my Veuve Cliquot".
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@nicktolhurst
So the Met Police will be investigating all of the others then, as the PM promised in Parliament this morning, then? Good-o.
Millions of citizens are watching you
@metpoliceuk
👀
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@JohnSimpsonNews
@PlanetZuma
This is a criminal offence under the Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006, so I hope this has been reported to police + CPS.
I look forward to the media coverage in the Express, Mail, etc, of the prosecutions...
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@MEPFuller
They need to enforce the rules: either hand it over with licence, or refuse entry.
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@Otto_English
His repky was heinous enough, but even worse that he sat there & blatantly lied in it on live UK-wide TV without a second thought.
He had NOTHING to do with the Freedom Pass. It was first introduced in Gtr London in 1973, and made UK-wide by Gordon Brown's Labour Govt in 2008.
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@Otto_English
That'd be the same comprehenisve school she slagged off & called 'failing' in the summer, to widespread disagreement by others she was at school with, then.
SOUND THE U-TURN KLAXON
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@anandMenon1
@benwansell
... with the added sauce of the reunification of Ireland being overseen by a Catholic of Indian origins...
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@BBCSimonJack
Let's just be honest: this is the cancellation of HS2 beyond Birmingham dressed up as some laughably nonsensical economic benefit.
Exactly as many of us in the North predicted years ago would happen. UK Govt was never serious about improving rail accessibility in the North.
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@BNCNews
@adex2491
@MrShannonLanier
She couldn't be penalised for this because it's part of the compulsory artistry element of her routine, and the IOC can't dictate what she does for that or instruct judges to penalise her for it. I believe she & her coaches checked the rules v carefully to make sure of this!
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@JolyonMaugham
@ProfDPrabhat
Pre-emptive reply to any 'don't apply for EU citizenship then'-type responses. It's not just about reclaiming FoM: not being a citizen of the country where you live/work, or having same as yr kids, spouse,etc, is a real practical issue, as well as reducing voting rights, etc.
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@Peston
Are you talking about the same man who stood up in the summer at a Conservativev Party event & said he wanted to end funding being prioritised for deprived areas and more funding being funnelled to wealthy areas? Or was that a different Rishi Sunak who went to a different school?
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@JolyonMaugham
I genuinely want to hear what long-standing Conservative Party members & supporters think of this, and what they think needs to be done to change it.
I can't ever envisage voting Conservative, but I do recognise the current Party bears no resemblence to the one of the 80s & 90s
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