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Brentford Fan Advisory Board co-Chair and supporters association Chair. In house lawyer. Conservative association Chair and former regional Deputy Chair.
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Joined July 2010
Amazing numbers of Walter Mittys on here today who probably didn’t even bother with joining the cadets when they were at school a generation ago and have already googled whether they might have bone spurs.
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Oh no, we’re trying to make it so subsistence farmers in Uganda are resilient to the impact of climate change and don’t end up in famine or migrating elsewhere (here!) if their crops fail.
The UK taxpayer will spend £15,500,000 on a contract to deliver a “Climate Smart Jobs Programme in Uganda” There is an option to extend the contract up to £23,250,000 Awarded to one supplier, Palladium International From the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
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@AtticumFloreat Though many of those who voted for the motion did in fact go on to fight and die in WW2. The proposer of the motion spent 4 years in a Japanese internment camp after being captured while working as a colonial administrator.
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@PuzzlerSharpe Well the current generation of 18-24s will be approaching or beyond the age for active service conscriptions in WW1&2 and I’ll be in my 70s so I’m not losing sleep over it.
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Maybe, maybe not. It was also in the midst of the rise of fascism and communism in Europe and growth of independence movements in the colonies. All of which made the prospect of conflict needing their boots on the ground to avert the destruction of the social order they were at the top of much higher.
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RT @fesshole: I'm a truck driver and when I'm finished eating my banana, I throw the skin out of the window. I don't see this as littering.…
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@SimonMagus Hah, with no TCPA and no Green Belt, the Oxford Union in 1933 voted by a large margin to say they would not fight for King & Country. After most of them did in fact spend 6 years fighting for King & Country they came back and voted en masse for the government that passed TCPA.
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Watch as the withdrawal of the personal allowance from £100k suddenly gains salience with backbench MPs in a couple of years!
MPs' pay set to increase 2.8% to £93,904 in April
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At least Corbynism didn’t pretend it was using market mechanisms or assumptions. It was far more coherent and honest (albeit wrong!) about the realities of its plans. McDonnell knew about and modelled the expected capital flight rather than assume like that Reform guy the markets would take it because everyone hated Tories and capitalism.
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@msloobylou I had a fun conversation with someone at GE19 who had already sent their postal vote off “to keep Labour out and re-elect LD MP X”. X lost the seat to Labour in 2017 and wasn’t standing. The actual LD on the ballot they’d filled in and sent had a very different name indeed.
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@msloobylou MPs hate to be reminded of this but most people’s unprompted name recall of their MP is low and their recollection of who/which party they voted for if asked more than a month after the election is often pretty unreliable.
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@lukerobertblack I doubt it has been a standard part of teaching since at least the end of WW2!
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@ShowerAbsolute @Nedulike @SamuelVimes10 Also worth a giggle to remind those trawling through procurement info here that those publications are from a bit of EU law which we gold plated in precisely the sort of way they almost invariably think were why it was good to get the Brexit freedoms to be released from.
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@Nedulike @ShowerAbsolute @SamuelVimes10 Not the general public- that “Procurement Files” account is a political one wanting to say each bit of public spending is bad and woke. But the US and DOGE is pointing in that direction for us soon enough.
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