> halves the length of railway network
> still one of the densest railway networks in the world
> 20% more services than france
> 60% more than italy
> 20% of all train journeys in europe
> cant even figure out how to build high speed rail
🏴 Blairite Vaughan Gething has been elected Welsh Labour leader, defeating Jeremy Miles (centre-left).
🟥 Vaughan Gething: 52%
🟥 Jeremy Miles: 48%
Gething's win restores Blairite rule over Wales, ending a period of relatively progressive governance under Mark Drakeford.
@JohnSHargreaves
we can do better. proportional representation where the % of votes you get in the constituency is the probability than you win the seat so who wins is literally random
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
“Woke” London fireworks display condemned by GB News.
- “The bright colours were an obvious attempt to force LGBT rights down our throats.”
- “The message of hope and celebration were a disgusting example of virtue signalling.”
> have literally medieval local govt
> standardise it in the 70s
> hmm actually we're abolishing metro counties
> hmm actually we're making unitary authorities now
> uhm devolution is good lets give london a mayor and assembly
> all metro areas get a metro mayor but no assembly
@jacktism_
she’s right, big enough chamber, electronic voting system, horseshoe seating and a proportional electoral system. make westminster a modern parliament
wait *thats* what they’re so angry about? them saying people shouldn’t eat more than 2 burgers a week? who the hell is eating that many burgers anyway let alone more than that
@nikicaga
honestly im convinced this victim mentality is just a way for them to excuse their role in the british empire whilst convincing themselves that they still have a progressive view on the empires history
@LeftieStats
mate i spent hours over the past 6 weeks campaigning hard for jeremy. i take exception to people who deliberately misunderstand how welsh politics works to push whatever they think
putting jk rowling on a list of people influencing progressive politics is like putting adolf hitler on a list of people influencing early 1940s british defence policy
hey guys its therutlandmapper here. i played with the electoral calculus swingometer a couple times and im now an expert in british election polling. heres my expert mapping of the latest yougov polls. the tories sure are cooked
now the UK is notoriously terrible at reporting results by subdivision for elections. one of the races for which this data is reported is London. so here is the first round of the 2021 London Mayoral Election - by ward (!!!) (likes and retweets very much appreciated)
the bbc really needs to learn what breaking news is. there are many things going on in the uk and in the world right now, and they are all more important than the kings prostate, for god sake stop giving constant notifs about the state of the kings prostate
@jacktism_
i don’t think it’s controversial but that doesn’t make it right, if you had electronic voting more time could be dedicated to important things like debating bills, and the prayer card system for reserving seats is a bit silly and arguably discriminatory
when you see someone recording just walk behind the camera or wait literally ten seconds, if you can't do this then you don't deserve to be part of a civilized society
@TrueSlazac
the nhs is the national religion. it is legally mandated to go to your nearest hospital every sunday and pray to our lord and saviour nye bevan, and those who refused are burnt at the stake
*looks out the window* oh it’s stopped raining i won’t need to grab a coat just to pop out for a couple minutes
*two steps out the door and it’s already raining* fucked up
Woah, Neptune is actually light blue! We'd been misinformed for 35 years!
The well-known images from Voyager 2 were not accurately colour balanced & apparently they also increased the contrast way more than for the Uranus images. Here the corrected ones:
Anoche fue el debate presidencial entre Massa y Milei, no recuerdo una paliza mayor en la historia. Milei mintió a todos los argentinos en varias ocasiones, especialmente a sus votantes diciendo lo contrario de lo que les prometió y dijo que su ídola era Thatcher.
ABRO HILO
It’s finally official ….. 👏 👏 👏
I will be standing in Hayes & Harlington against John McDonnell.
My message to the people of Hayes is
“Vote for Labour is a vote for Genocide”
Let’s go for the change in Hayes. It’s about time, We need a new MP in Hayes. I love my
“Stand Up To Woke” – a clear value proposition at least.
Poor choice of photo. Lanyard and expression makes it look an intern being forced to take a picture for the company Facebook.
Retro “world wide web” symbol and lack of Instagram to warn you this is a boomer party.
5/10
We are pleased to see that Clive Lewis MP has been forced to retake his affirmation of allegiance following our complaint to the Clerk of the House of Commons.
MPs must not be excused from the common allegiance that binds our nation together.