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Can we please have a statistic from 2020 to back up this car ownership claim rather than one from 2011, please? Ta.
👉 70% of Hackney households don't own a car
👉 Public transport capacity is drastically reduced to support social distancing
🌿 That’s why we’re creating quieter, safer streets that help people to walk and cycle, rebuilding a greener Hackney for all
news.hackney.gov.uk/rebuildi…
Legal or not, Hackney Council couldn’t care less. They’ll keep spouting the same rubbish about ‘immediate change’ and making up things to blame the gridlock on, such as ‘a skip’ or ‘traffic lights’.
Genuine question:
Is it legal for a local authority to implement traffic flow changes that their own modelling indicates would have an adverse effect on air quality on roads (typically with the highest pedestrian densities) that already have pollution levels beyond legal limits?
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Everyone of the wonderful people who worked at Dinerama has lost their job. This is what it meant to Matilda and these are the people she worked with.
Fully support this guy. Lockdown is useless and destructive.
Simon Dolan, the millionaire challenging the Government's lockdown in court, says he's fighting on behalf of thousands of small businesses. Lord Sumption, the ex-Supreme Court judge who called lockdowns 'despotic and ineffective', has shared views with his legal team.
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The supermarkets are once again the winners. Smaller brands, which rely on the on trade to build awareness and loyalty will die, independent venues will die, misguided, misinformed and driven by fear merchants and doom mongers.
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The number of professors and other commentators on TV and here who think a 10pm curfew is just one hour less. It’s much more significant than that. Most UK pubs, bars and restaurants are licensed to midnight. Many until much later. The level of meh and ignorance is astonishing.
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Some of the media are trying their very best to stir things up. Buy all the toilet roll you like - but there’s no product shortages and certainly no need for panic buying.
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So sickening to see all the ‘socially distanced’ spaces in too many empty bars and restaurants. Staff and business owners trying their best by blindly following the stupid new rules. Destroying jobs, devastating livelihoods. Saving nobody. Anyone at risk should stay home.
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The virus is no longer the problem; this government and the way they are dealing with it is the problem.
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My phone watching me refresh the settings #iOS14
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The Home Secretary is lying to you.
#FakeLaw
“Brandon Lewis was wrong when he said the Government was breaking the law in a limited way?”
@pritipatel: “We are absolutely not doing that.”
#KayBurley
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I prosecute and defend the most dangerous criminals. I speak daily with victims of crime.
And I can tell you that there has never been as good a time to be a criminal as under @BorisJohnson’s government.
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Did you just make that up Desmond... I mean, really...its bad enough you take us for fools but to take us for Stupid fools really is one step to far.
The sooner we all get used to the fact that Covid isn’t going anywhere and a vaccine is years away (if ever), and we need to make our lives work around it, the better. We can’t keep locking down, it’s crazy.
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Ed is through to judge’s houses!
What incompetence. What failure of governance. Boris Johnson can't blame Theresa May, he can't blame John Major, he can't blame judges, he can't blame civil servants, he can't sack the Cabinet Secretary again. There's only one person responsible - him. Me in the Commons today:
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The face when you’ve just been absolutely destroyed by @Ed_Miliband over your attempts to break international law and jeopardise the UK’s standing in the world. 🔥
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This is going to be long. Its time to bring all of my thoughts about Covid and the governments response to it, into one thread. Because separately they may seem conflicting. So bear with me. I write this as a human being, a mum, a relative of older/sick people I love and as a GP.