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Norwich (mostly)
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Andreas 🦁🐟 retweeted
I'm a skeptic. Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (🇺🇲!) was the template to the whole world for how to build new infrastructure and promote growth. maybe they had it wrong and all you need to do is mess around with the green belt then trust the market, but the Yank way looks simpler
Doctor's pay has fallen in real terms since 2010 and the concessions here only partly restore.
The Tory policy of cutting doctors pay and expecting them to take it in the chin was never sustainable.
Labour resorting to its traditional policy of pouring cash into the pockets of doctors to buy their support bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjqe…
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So it turns out that not only is my MP @labourlewis not on this list. He voted for the other side.
Understand Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long Bailey, John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana are the Labour MPs who voted against the two-child cap
#KingsSpeech
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the fact that behaviour that is regarded as possibly excessive but basically normal and certainly not meriting inquiry or investigation in Britain, is enough to get you ostracised from professional journalism in America, seems interesting to me.
This is really good, but I can't help thinking about how many years have been wasted. It was clear in 2008 that the UK's dependency on finance was a probiem and industrial policy was needed.
Austerity was such a waste.
'Business' for Westminster means people with £500 haircuts talking about the need for lower tax while having only ever worked for lobbyists and NGOs. Business needs: cheap rent, cheap energy, cheap logistics, effective human capital.
This is industrial policy.
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Really frustrated with how things are right now, the way our politicians are labelling people protesting their complicity in genocide as dangerous extremists. Britain becomes more of an authoritarian dictatorship every day.
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Surely politics is to some degree a hobby for anyone who does it unpaid.
This seems like a insult to anyone who wants to involve themself in politics and have opinions on things beyond potholes and bin collection.
Keir Starmer will tomorrow take aim at those who see politics as a "hobby" - "a sermon from on high, a self-regarding lecture, vanity dressed up as virtue."
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Main thought this morning is that there are few people worse than those who define themselves as "classical liberal"
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As our nation cheers on a genocide, I'm thankful that my MP voted for a ceasefire. I also have no regrets about leaving Labour.
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Don't write very much on this account these days, but I just thought I'd say I'm ashamed of what's happening. There is a genocide going on in Gaza right now and our government is cheering it on. I'm so ashamed. #Gaza_Genocide
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What unpopularity is this exactly, it seems to have come out of "Other sources" imagination. Ed is one of the more likable members of the front bench, he gives the impression that he actually believes in stuff.
Reshuffle rumour stories nearly always expose the source of the gossip. Other sources suggesting to me Ed Miliband's alleged unpopularity with the general public a concern.
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Have to say that I very much didn't think @OwenJones84 was losing the room. I very much wanted to hear what he was saying.
In a discussion on the orange confetti at Osbornes wedding, @OwenJones84 brings up all the people who died because of Tory austerity and notes what people choose to get outraged about. #GMB
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Really happy for @jam_har. He's a great guy who's in politics for all the right reasons.
Mind blowing #GreenParty results in #Broadland.
Green James Harvey has ousted the CON leader of Broadland Council!
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Anyway, since I don't post that often, here's a few takes: That Labour poster is some awful racism, Kier Starmer is doing a terrible job, Gary Lineker is great and so is Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard
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Been taking a look into the news stories around Labour and antisemitism. Currently looking at 2016, when it comes to incidents, so far I have found stories about six individuals, one University Labour club and one local Labour party.
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Really wish I could've gone to this, looked amazing.
Queues around the block for our Norwich rally last night.
Something is happening in this country.
#EnoughIsEnough
How is this man an authority on politics? If someone has some bad opinions, I don't want to be friends with them, being a Tory means having a whole set of bad opinions.
It remains unclear (at least to me) why exactly illiberal attitudes to political outgroups follows the opposite pattern to illiberal attitudes to almost any other group. But many do except politics from the rule "don't judge people negatively based on broad group stereotypes."
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