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Michael Bell
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Yeah I would assume it'll involve bidding for funding from the relevant govt departments, and some private investment
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Michael Bell@mbellcoop.bsky.social |
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Co-op Party NEC rep for England North UK politics, non-league football, playlists, chess, and some occasional conlangs (he/him)
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Michael Bell
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Yeah I would assume it'll involve bidding for funding from the relevant govt departments, and some private investment
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Michael Bell
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My mayor Kim McGuinness extending the Tyne & Wear Metro!
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Michael Bell
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Indeed
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Michael Bell
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Watched Farage's comments yesterday during the election of the Speaker. He starts by saying "We in Reform have no experience of this House whatsoever" and I'm like "Mate, Lee Anderson is *right there*"
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Michael Bell
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Watching the swearing in of MPs and so many friends of mine there. So proud of them all
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Eric Gordy
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Don't replace him. Abolish the office, which has been primarily a policing and political influence operation since it was founded. Position government as a genuine partner of universities. Stop the vandalism. Democratise universities. feweek.co.uk/ofs-chair-lo...
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Michael Bell
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Out of context, this quote looks like I'm criticising women who commentate on football, rather than men who complain about it
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Michael Bell
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What did he say?
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Michael Bell
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He can make that case, but I don't see that he can make it from a position of authority. I don't see that him making that case has any more bearing than me making it. The 1922 isn't in listening mode for Sunak
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Michael Bell
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Is he though? Politically? Where does his authority come from?
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Stephen Bush
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The opposition to it is pure heckler's veto, in that that councils and some MPs get spooked by the letters in criticism, because no-one writes letters in support.
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Michael Bell
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It's not up to Sunak how the 1922 sets the rules
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Michael Bell
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True
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Michael Bell
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Actually, wait, just gone through the recent ones and "much whiter" is probably over-egging it, but certainly whiter than the last four
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Michael Bell
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That said, it's a much whiter Cabinet than we've seen in recent years though
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Michael Bell
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So we've got a Cabinet that is one-third northern women. We've got a Cabinet with more people born in Sunderland than went to Eton. We've got a Cabinet that has the same proportion of privately educated people as the country at large
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Michael Bell
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I hate this quote for so so many reasons
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Michael Bell
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Just seen an article about "The Blairites who Starmer has returned to power" and the second one on the list is Douglas Alexander, as if he's not a dyed-in-the-wool arch Brownite
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Michael Bell
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Oh man, I'm so curious to see that now. I do remember when I was dating an American and she told me to listen to Chapo Trap House (jesus wept) and it was the episode where they gave their takes on the 2017 GE and they were like "and all the Blairites lost their seats" and I was like "u wot m8"
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Michael Bell
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The really lovely part for me is that I'm reading the exact same copies I read 30 years ago. My brother kept them all this time, dug them out recently to read to his sons, and has now given them to me
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Michael Bell
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Re-reading Narnia for the first time in 30 years, and omg it's so good. When I was 7 the Christian stuff went largely over my head. Reading it now it's so beautifully done. Aslan's 'passion of Christ' scene is just magnificent
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Michael Bell
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I'm not really a fan of what the BBC did with Timmy in the '90s adaptation of the Famous Five
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Michael Bell
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I think Poppins came to the line independently of Keats
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Michael Bell
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Ah man, I always thought it her original line
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Michael Bell
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" - Mary Poppins
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Michael Bell
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New lock screen for my phone
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Michael Bell
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🎵 There's been tiiiiiimes, that I thought
I couldn't laaa-aast for long
But know I think I'm able
To carry on
It's been a looooong, a long time comin' But I know-oh-oh
A change gonn come
Ooooh yes it will🎶
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Michael Bell
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Got huge (semi-ironic) cheer from the customers today when I entered the club & returned to work after the election result. I had maybe 7 or 8 different customers who I know are Tories come up through the night & shake my hand & say variations on "Wasn't the result I'd have liked but well done mate"
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Michael Bell
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Yuck, it's Sir Edward Leigh
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Michael Bell
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We beat Sir Peter Bottomley! Who is the new Father of the House now?!
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Michael Bell
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Strongly suspect that Tice, Anderson, and Farage will all be in separate parties by the end of the parliament
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Michael Bell
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Wearing my lucky red socks yesterday really paid off!
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Michael Bell
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At this stage he's probably desperate enough
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Michael Bell
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Thought this was about the GE. Forgot the Americans are doing something tonight too
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Michael Bell
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It's my professional (volunteer activist) opinion that Hexham is too close to call. It's been Tory since 1907, apart from an 18month period in the '20s when it briefly went Liberal
#GE24
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Will Wiles
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It only takes a minute and it's a vital democratic duty! Wherever you are today, whatever else you're doing, please, please remember to screenshot annoying posts for later "this you?" purposes
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Michael Bell
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The smart money is on Johnny Mercer for least gracious concession speech of the night
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Michael Bell
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For those about to vote, we salute you
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Simon Threadgold
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"Tough one. I think I'd have to say the best of food."
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Michael Bell
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Yikes
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Jonn Elledge
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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.
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Michael Bell
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Where can I watch it? Can't find it on their YouTube
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Simon Pegg
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Owen Jones in Norfolk, and spotted here interviewing the guy who tried to smuggle dinosaur embryos off Isla Nublar in a can of shaving cream.
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Michael Bell
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And interviewers like Nick Ferrari aren't gonna start asking him about trans men, cos that would force them to recognise the holes in their own position
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Michael Bell
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Because it's not Starmer who is leading this, he's being led by media pundits who are obsessed with asking him it. He, ultimately, doesn't know what he thinks on this, and interviewers realise it's the only area where they can make him stumble cos he doesn't have a coherent line
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Michael Bell
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I've written to the Party, to the policy department, and asked them to clarify our position re Starmer's comments, cos what he's said goes directly against our manifesto pledge to uphold the Equality Act as it exists
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Alex Cruikshanks
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Jonathan Ashworth demonstrated pretty well how to make anti-trans obsessive questions sound a bit silly, but of course Starmer had to insist on indulging them even more...
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Michael Bell
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Starmer is wrong when he says trans women don't have the right to use women's toilets. Under the law, they do have that right. And it's a law that Labour's manifesto commits to maintaining. For a lawyer he seems very ignorant of the law.
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Michael Bell
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That line "I cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about this" is the line where she really tells on herself. I suspect she's finding more and more that people she knows just don't want to talk to her
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Gemma Clark
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My letter in today’s Herald about the political establishment pandering to JK Rowling and her anti trans obsession while ignoring the majority of women and women’s issues www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2442...
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