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John Bull
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Yeah. We've popped over here from Helsinki just for the day.
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He/Him. Author of The Brexit Tapes. Historian. Strategy streamer. Tech/Transport Strategist. Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Made Neil Gaiman cry (in a good way). Business: business@longformist.co.uk. The "Henry Kissinger of transport". Apparently. π¬π
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John Bull
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Yeah. We've popped over here from Helsinki just for the day.
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John Bull
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Yup! She's a Barrow girl.
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John Bull
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Yeah, the whole museum is so well done.
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John Bull
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Yup. Stubby little Type II wannabe!
If the Finns REALLY like you, they'll let you use it to demonstrate how to start a U-Boat ππ youtube.com/shorts/OdF_M...
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John Bull
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@dreadships.bsky.social yeet yourself to Tallinn for this. YEET.
She's wonderful.
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John Bull
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They didn't even know she was special until we told them. πππ
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John Bull
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LOOK AT HER. LOOK AT HER BLUESKY! Clearly based on the U Class, but adapted for Baltic ops. That's an icebreaker bow (which makes her lines filth af) and she's rigged for minelaying above and below, hence the sidepods. Her tail is pure U though. I would marry this boat. She is utterly gorgeous.
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John Bull
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I CANNOT believe we didn't know this was here until the Finnish Defence Ministry tipped us off.
The Estonian Maritime Museum has an INTERWAR VICKERS-ARMSTRONG SUBMARINE!
To Dr Clarke's and my knowledge, this makes it the only surviving Brit-made period sub in the world youtube.com/shorts/cwNF5...
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John Bull
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Channel 5 reality show!
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John Bull
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Or the similar problem that's now going to manifest with select committee chair roles. I was simply saying: "Here's the weird shit they need to unpick BEFORE they do a leader process, it's not simple". If i'd wanted to write a full piece on it all, i would have done.
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John Bull
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I wasn't trying to do an extended discourse on the full issues or processes they need to go through. If i was, i'd also have talked about the problems of recruiting a new 1922 when you also need to theoretically cover all shadow minister posts.
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John Bull
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I dispute a lot of his 'corrective'. I was explaining what the current rules are to highlight some of the complexities the Tories have to unpick now as they flip to thinking smaller.
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John Bull
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John Bull
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The last Monarch to actually make it into the Commons was the current King's grandad. He was allowed to come in and look at the work to rebuild it after it was heavily damaged by German bombing. Parliament was sitting over the road at the time, so every agreed it didn't violate the agreement.
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John Bull
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Indeed no MONARCH has been allowed in the Commons, while its sitting, since the English Civil War in the 1600s. Which was to a large part fought to make VERY clear to King Charles I who really ran things.
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John Bull
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Yes. Indeed you can't hold a peerage and sit in the Commons. This was famously a problem for Tony Benn, who was set to inherit his father's peerage. Because there was (back then) no way to surrender one! The law had to be changed so he could do so, and this continue serving in the Commons.
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John Bull
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Exploration of Tallinn temporarily paused due to sudden pastry.
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John Bull
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DEFINITELY not! She's legit full MAGA (bizarrely). Hangs out with Trump
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John Bull
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Bingo. It's the quick way to make them appointable.
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John Bull
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It's amazing what you can do with peerages when you don't have to give them all to Russians and Goldman Sachs CEOs.
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John Bull
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Vallance as Science Minister as well as Timpson as Prisons & Probation Minister. Creating a government that wants to govern, rather than one that wants to rule.
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John Bull
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In Tallinn today. Loads of good naval stuff here. I'm doing youtube shorts where i can (i.e. woth permission).
If you like ships or quirky museum stuff make sure you're following me on youtube.
PARTICULARLY today if British pre-war subs are your thing (spoiler alert) www.youtube.com/gariusthebrit
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Danie Ware ππ² πͺπΊ π βοΈ
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Pinched from threads, and really good to see ministers being appointed according to their knowledge/skill set, and to jobs they should actually be able to do
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John Bull
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"How long have you been here?" She asked the lightship pilot. "Longer than I can remember." "How long will you stay?" "Until they return." She glanced at the blackhole. "The chances of anyone escaping that are tiny." "But not nil." He said. "And if they do, then my light will guide them home"
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John Bull
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My assumption is they'll drop the limit to about 25-30 for the next contest. But, if anything, the 15% letters thing is their bigger issue if they don't change it. So they'd be very silly not to sort that at the sane time.
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John Bull
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But the rules right now are 100. As you say, they'll change them once they've sorted out a new 1922. But they have to do that before they can really contemplate a leadership election. Ultimately what i was highlighting is that AS IT STANDS the Tories aren't set up to be a small party.
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John Bull
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Y'all are asking a lot of questions about my label that are already answered by my label.
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Gail Simone
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I know nothing about PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. I don't know the murderous aliens behind it, particularly Xarzon, who is a good friend. Anything they do, including raising the dead to destroy humanity, I wish them luck. But it has nothing to do with me. Hail Xarzon.
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John Bull
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"How long have you been here?" She asked the lightship pilot. "Longer than I can remember." "How long will you stay?" "Until they return." She glanced at the blackhole. "The chances of anyone escaping that are tiny." "But not nil." He said. "And if they do, then my light will guide them home"
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Byron C Clark
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes
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John Bull
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SPLITTER!
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John Bull
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Sat in my hotel bar with a cocktail and a preview copy of 'The Potent Solution' by @drashleynova.bsky.social - which I've been looking forward to for some time.
A perfect way to end the day!
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Alex de Campi
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My life goal is to have the same stress levels as my cat
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Chris Farnell
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In the foreword to the map of Ankh Morpork, the writer tells a story about Pratchett saying the first question to ask when designing a fantasy city is "How does the clean water get in and sewage come out?" What I have since realised is this also applies to designing aliens and fantasy creatures.
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TrickyC (he/him)
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I wanna be critically clear: this whole account's deal is an amazingly beautiful simpsons assassin AU, and has less than 300 followers: unserious website, you know nothing of art
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Stuart Ian Burns
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Chris Bryant just quoted the Sugababes on Radio 4. MAKE HIM CULTURE SECRETARY.
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Amy A
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itβs so funny how in America you call it an elevator but in the UK itβs a lift and also when a candidate loses they concede
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John Bull
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Mags L Halliday
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Larry the cat now holds the record for Prime Ministers a single Chief Mouser to the Treasury has tolerated. 6 PMs: Larry (2011-present) 5 PMs: Peter III (1947-1964) and Peter (1929-1946) 4 PMs: Wilberforce (1973-1987) 3 PMs: Humphrey (1989-1997) and Peta (1964-1976)
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John Bull
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It's the current rules. They haven't changed them since. They CAN change them. But it's another bit of process work that'll need to happen.
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Aviel Roshwald
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UKβs five-minute transition period goes by without Tory effort to reverse election results.
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Hillary Monahan
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Rosemary Griggs
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Model of the Madre de Dios, Museu de Marinha, Lisbon; Compton Castle; River Dart at Greenway
#OTD in 1608 Katherine Raleighβs grandson, Sir John Gilbert II died of smallpox in London.
rosemarygriggs.co.uk/writing/9/
πΈ my own
#devonhistory #Elizabethan
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Bodega Cats
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John Bull
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Yeah, but the rules were set before boris kicked all the sane ones out.
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"YOU get a leadership challenge and YOU get a leadership challenge and YOU...."
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Nicholas Jackson
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Interesting thread about procedural issues with electing a new Tory leader now that there aren't so many MPs left : (a) It now only takes 19 Tory MPs to trigger a leadership contest. (b) There aren't currently enough Tory MPs to nominate more than one leadership candidate.
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John Bull
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Already in the manifesto. And Starmer already said he had no intention of nominating a lost at the end of his term as well.
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John Bull
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Air Bud was a once-in-a-generation talent. You make exceptions to the rules for those. The Tories don't have an Air Bud.
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John Bull
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No, they brought in the 100 MPs thing PRECISELY because too many wingnuts kept ending up on the ballot, leading to too much uncertainty.
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