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Lots of Labour front benchers have said Israel should abide by international law. But in wars bad things happen, even if the combatants are well intentioned. The only solution to that is not to have them, but let's not forget that Hamas started this one. Doesn't seem much like a war to me, the two ...

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are you all totally underwhelmed Hi there. Maybe we're beyond taking any notice of any politician's speech, after 13 years of tory talk and no delivery, we can't remember what it's like to have a govt that tells us it'll do something (positive) and then actually does it. AFAICS Labour aren't going ...

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He's not wrong.

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Starmer would also allow low-quality green belt such as scrubland and car parks to be released for development. The party has branded the areas “grey belt” and will specify that half of homes built are to be sold at affordable price. The designation of scrubland as 'low quality' is going to upset t...

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Entirely predictable question and entirely predictable response, really Not News.

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https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1710840233720172990

I don't think we want to discuss this here but this thread seems a good summing up of where we are.

The human race really doesn't deserve this planet.

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I read 'if it threatened to breach her fiscal rules' and thought, who does she think she is?

Similar to Sunak & Hunt cancelling HS2 on a whim.

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refitman wrote: ↑Sat 07 Oct, 2023 6:14 pm I think Blair's been whispering in people's ears

Lovely.

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Good morning. The Scottish Conservatives lost their deposit in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection after securing less than 5% of the vote. Thomas Kerr, the Scottish Conservative candidate, won 3.9% of the vote, below the 5% needed to retain his deposit. In 2019, the party won 15% of the vot...

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What just happened?

(at St James Park)

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The Labour party has issued a response to Rishi Sunak’s speech saying he can’t run the country because he cannot even run his own party. In a statement Pat McFadden, Labour’s national campaign coordinator, said: After 13 years and five Tory prime ministers, Rishi Sunak’s latest desperate attempt to...

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https://reaction.life/mark-bostock-has-been-proved-totally-right-about-hs2/ Mark Bostock, a former Arup consultant who successfully led the construction of HS1 from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel and a former client of ours, would have had a few things to say about it. Sadly he passed away in Aug...

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The UK's inability to invest for the long term never ceases to amaze. Multi-billion £ project goes on or not on the whim of the PM of the day. If, God forbid, Johnson was still there it would almost certainly be continuing. Here's another example of something that shouldn't be at the mercy of the cu...

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Rumour has it that HS2 will go to Euston but not beyond Birmingham, thus confirming Northeners' scepticism about 'levelling up'.

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Is this World Government in the room with you now?

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Good morning PF, it's lovely to see you but we don't usually have a new thread for Sunday?

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Good morning. Thanks for the QT report, sky. sky said A couple of years ago my brother and I drove to a place we loved as kids only to find it was gone, completely wiped off the map. A whole hillside forest chopped down and replaced by burnt heather and scrubland by Duncan Davidson of Persimmon home...

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

What could possibly go wrong? Oh

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That is sad news indeed, Roger O'T.
Look after yourself.

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I'd guess sky knows a Stonechat when he sees one anyway. Shrikes turn up a couple of times a year at South Gare, Teesmouth, grey ones as well. Rare/unusual birds are probably a lot commoner than we think, don't get spotted unless there's a twitcher in the vicinity. There's a hoopoe somewhere in sout...

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little orange bastard all by itself sitting on a fence post

A long way away presumably, or you'd have got a photo of it.
Stonechat is the first to spring to mind, but Red-backed shrike would be nice.

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near the one and only Lake District in Cumbria

It's a bit out on a limb, how do you get there without a car?

Nice video, glad you had one sunny day.
I've been to Arnside a couple of times, lovely place.

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Good morning. Why have the Institute for Govt invited Truss to speak, and why is there any interest from the media? Why do this when 98%* of the populace agree with me that she's a discredited waste of space? Perfect demonstration of the bankruptcy of the UK MSM. If we just ignored her maybe she'd g...

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He should have been asked if they'd commit to taking it into London.

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Surprised? You won't be.

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Which in one way makes sense because for some people just doing a few hours here and there is fine, however they tend to be people who are financially secure enough not to care, they're just topping up their income with a job on the side. The problem comes when it's your actual job and who defines ...

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Worth a read, it's quite short. But TL:DR voters care more about the NHS than 'the debt' if they have to choose between them, which they do. Labour should highlight those treade-offs. Very few people care about the debt above and apart from all other considerations. Second, those voters who really d...

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Rayner says Labour would repeal Strikes Act within first 100 days in office

Blimey, an unequivocal commitment.

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William Hague writing in the Times about potential cross-party agreement about the triple lock, controversial enough in itself but In 1995, I was the pensions minister who took through parliament the equalisation of pension ages, giving 15 years’ notice that the women’s pension age would rise in slo...

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It's Dirt cheap, DIY by any group of teachers and school parents and the Treasury would approve ? Morning. Seems like a no-brainer to us, but involves them admitting that, after all, something should be done. Something that could have been done 2 years ago and could have prevented a great deal of i...

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More detail has emerged today about ministerial efforts to secure funding from the Treasury to improve the school estate, as the government continues to grapple with the crisis of crumbling concrete in school buildings. Lord Agnew, who as academies minister 2017-20 was also responsible for school c...

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Good morning. Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds MPs and peers on the all-party parliamentary group on democracy and the constitution will publish a report on Monday saying that the rules caused more harm than they prevented when they came into force in May...

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Oh dear what a pity never mind

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frog222 wrote: ↑Thu 07 Sep, 2023 9:19 am
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That'll be an interesting one next time.

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Second item "Birmingham is broke" because the government slashed funding to LA's . Many more LA's to follow soon . C4 news reported that the Council 'say' that central govt funding has been cut by x amount since 2010, I wish they wouldn't use that 'he said, she said' format for something ...

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Happy birthday RO'T

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I see another of Cameron's tweets has achieved immortality, right up there with 'chaos with Ed Miliband'.

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Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels, the Department for Education’s former head civil servant has said. After the department told Suna...

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What you are asking us to do is have faith while rejecting the evidence of our eyes and ears. On the same lines A Display of Utter Poltroonery If there was anything about Starmer he would seize this as a major opportunity. He likes talking about his "missions", and circumstances have bequ...

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Good morning.

Grant Shapps appointed as defence secretary

Ben Wallace resignation prompts appointment of former energy secretary and mini cabinet reshuffle

I'm sure UK used to be a serious country.

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What could possibly go wrong?

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Really interesting thread on infrastructure development, interesting to me anyway

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We already knew that Starmer knows sfa about economics. Tbf, the tories have built some major tax rises into the system by freezing personal allowances. We'd all like Labour to make tax more progressive but they wouldn't necessarily need to raise more money overall. I'd like them to raise the higher...

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