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Andrew Robertson
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There is a theme here, just surprised the Conservatives got there first.
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Escaping X for lovely Blue Sky and Sunshine. Steam engines, transport books, photography. My avatar is Popeye from Lings Moonrocket at the Fairgrond Heritage Trust, Lifton in Devon.
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Andrew Robertson
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There is a theme here, just surprised the Conservatives got there first.
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Mark Chadbourn
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The coming Civil War in the UK Conservative Party. Queen Mary University of London and Sussex Uni conducted its post-election Party Members Project survey of Conservative grassroots. On a potential merger between the Tories and Reform:
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Lizzie Dearden
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I belatedly realised that Suella Braverman speech was at the latest edition of the National Conservatism Conference
I was at their May 2023 junket in London, and wrote about the NatCons, who is behind them and what they want here
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Andrew Robertson
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If I was an employer reading that I would run a mile.
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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot
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Architects asked to design ‘powerful’ memorial to Grenfell Tower victims
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e.w. niedermeyer
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The latest drone footage from Tesla's Texas "Gigafactory" has all the old familiar hits: multiple uncontrolled fluid leaks (possibly environmental violations), piles of parts staged outdoors in the elements, and an End Of Line "hospital" for especially janky Cybertrucks
youtu.be/1sjFH4qeHk0
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Terence Eden
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Meta published a paper where they admit to engaging is massive copyright theft in order to train their LLM.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07...
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Meher Oliaji
@mehero.bsky.social
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Dyson the Brexiter decided to reduce his UK workforce, but held off the announcement till after election as a favour to his Tory friends. Will any Labour minister have the nerve to shame him?
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Alan Beattie
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This is performance art.
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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot
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Climate expert Chris Stark appointed to lead UK clean energy taskforce
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Robert Hutton
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The Blame Game: my SKETCH of Today in just trying to find out who did this. thecritic.co.uk/the-blame-ga...
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e.w. niedermeyer
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regular reminder that "stealth recalls" are illegal, unless you're Tesla and you call them an "upgrade"
www.inverse.com/tech/tesla-c...
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DBdant
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I wonder when Fox will share this with their viewers.
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Dr Joanne Williams
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Update: They are ditching the term "levelling up" as being gimmicky! It will now be "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary)
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we're burning down the amazon for this
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Will Cooling
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I think the innumerate nature of the BBC's coverage was a big problem. Its easy to dismiss as a restoration of the LibDems old position, but there's a world of difference between the libdems holding 40-odd tory leaning seats and 60-odd tory leaning seats in terms of impact on broader politics
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Uncle Dude
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It always astounds me how cartoonishly stupid the far right are. For all their highbrow talk of classical western civilization and obsession with IQ they're just a bunch of losers yelling at meteorologists for not making the weather be good.
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Chris Kendall オトクラット
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A parliamentary pal tells me: “the register of financial interests is retroactive to one year before members take their seats. As of today Farage and Tice have 28 days to make a complete declaration” 🍿
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹
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“Labour is planning to introduce Automatic voter registration (AVR), which exists in several European countries..on top of planned reforms already announced…Together, they could significantly shake up the voting franchise” www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Terence Eden
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A large number of people registered to vote on election day - despite the deadline being a few weeks previously.
www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance
I wonder if that's people *expecting* to be able to register same-day, or people just being reminded because of the media coverage?
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Andrew Robertson
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Prototype earbud.
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Andrew Robertson
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She is probably stupid enough to think we wouldn't find out. How utterly repulsive.
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Mark Chadbourn
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Braverman has probably blown any chance of leading the Tories and may have no future there at all. She made a speech in Washington tonight saying the Pride flag has been flown on Government buildings as if marking “occupied territory”. And… 1/2
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Stephen Bush
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One reason the Conservatives should have a swift leadership contest is that until they get a new leader, they will be represented by people more interested in litigating their dishonest and disastrous election campaign: www.ft.com/content/ab7a...
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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot
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Watchdog launches investigation into Defra over approval of bee-killing pesticide under Tories
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Andrew Robertson
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I'm also concerned that 37 and 39 have been very slipshod in the application of their numbers. I think all three could do better.
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Mark Chadbourn
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More than 400,000 people were denied a vote in the UK General Election because of the Tories’ voter suppression, mainly from ethnic minority groups. This needs to be tackled immediately.
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Stephen Bush
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As Ed Miliband ends the ban on onshore wind and moves to classify it as national infrastructure (i.e. like pylons, the secretary of state approves them and a local council can't go 'we have quite enough power to be going on with) I once again find myself thinking about Rishi Sunak's 2024 campaign.
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Alan Beattie
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Addendum: those who enjoyed the contributions to this thread from the cheerfully bonkers official account @conservatives should know that, sadly, it's been deleted. Long-time scourges of cancel culture, the Conservatives have now cancelled themselves.
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Max B #FBPE #FBPR #GTTO 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
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How easily they spent OUR money ...
#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
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Chris Kendall オトクラット
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Or more accurately: is Europe bucking the anglosphere media’s invented wet dream of a move to the far right?
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Don Moynihan
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A widely predicted victory for the far right in France has instead turned into a victory for the left *because people turned out in record numbers to vote.* Defeat is not inevitable and more progressive elected officials means more progressive policies.
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ryan cooper
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Economist estimates that "between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers were out of action by mid-June—more than Russia’s estimated invading force in February 2022." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Sean Jones
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Listening to James Timpson's interview, it is clear that he would like to see a sea-change in sentencing policy. That will not be his remit, but if the new PM supports such a change, I think it would have very significant ramifications for our political culture. Let me explain. /1
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Jason Thorne
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A new “continuous sidewalk” in Kitchener. The design differs from regular sidewalks in that it doesn’t dip down to road level at intersections. It continues at an uninterrupted height. This slows cars turning onto the street, and it also reinforces pedestrian priority through the intersections.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹
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BBC News has been community noted on Twitter for their appalling headline. Time to put the BBC “back in the service of the people” as a public, not Tory & ReFUK, broadcaster.
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James Austin
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They already had demographic issues: getting so very hop heavy age structure and not that many young men generally. People act like they have a bottomless pit of men and they don't - there are only 48 million men between 18-64. Roughly 1/50 men in the country have now been killed
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Sir Keir Starmest
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The Telegraph wants you to feel sorry for a retired couple who made a £1.3 million profit on a £300,000 home.
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Stephen Bush
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Today’s special weekend extra edition of Inside Politics, on the political and policy reasons that prisons and the NHS are Starmer’s go-to examples of what is broken in the UK is FREE TO READ here:
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Mark Chadbourn
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Reform spent £108,413 on Meta ads for each seat they won, the Lib Dems just £3,700.
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Lizzie Dearden
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The Rwanda scheme is dead, so what next?
I've taken a look at the new government's migration policies and if experts think they will work
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
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Lizzie Dearden
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Another Home Office source said the “unseen costs” of the Rwanda scheme may never be known, adding: “It’s an extraordinary amount of money for nothing." Officials point out the permanent secretary asked for a ministerial direction because of value for money questions but it was forced through
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Lizzie Dearden
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One civil servant said the policy had been created by “narrow minded politicians who had no clue of the mess they were creating” and “wrecked” Britain’s asylum system as a result More than 50,000 asylum applications are in indefinite limbo
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Shoq
@shoq.bsky.social
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My life is filled with dark irony. Last week, a millennial sitting in her father’s $240,000 Lamborghini told me that Americans just don’t understand how lucky we are.
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Alastair Meeks
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This, from Robert Jenrick, is revealing. He evidently hasn't begun to realise the degree to which his and his fellow Conservatives' opinions just don't matter any more.
www.thetimes.com/article/8659...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Wow, maybe competence and experience really does matter for public services. Who knew? (Anyone who studies public organizations. Or, really, anyone with an ounce of common sense).
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BNO News
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Jon Landau, Oscar-winning producer of 'Titanic' and 'Avatar,' has died of cancer at 63
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Chris McLaren
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I had to look it up., 124 in Freedom Degrees is just a bit more than 51C. I wouldn't even melt, I would just rapidly, Wiley Coyote style, turn to ash.
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Andrew Robertson
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Let's hope he remembers to cancel his Direct Debit.
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Pascal Jacquemain
@jacquep.bsky.social
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HMRC withheld offshore tax avoidance figures for UK’s wealthy during election www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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