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Simon Cooke retweeted
You don't even have to go back 5 years. I presume these have morphed into NATIONALIZE STARLINK NOW accounts
What Went Wrong and Where To Go Now (Thinking about the Tory Party)
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Simon Cooke retweeted
Muslims ambushed and killed Christians at a church. There. I fixed it for you.
At least nine people were killed and 34 were injured after gunmen opened fire on a church in Karak, Jordan, on Friday. abcnews.link/XdO4iJa
*international fascist movement* 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😜
This is as barking as the people who go on about globalists and the WEF.
This is simply retail politics. Burnham dangles a nice juicy worm in front of Lib Dem oriented remainiacs, catches him some more voters to boost his poll numbers. But won't change anything because he's holding angry redwallers off with a chair.
NEW
There is some confusion over Andy Burnham's position on Brexit
Earlier this morning:
Reporter asks: "Will you allow the UK to join the EU freedom of movement without a referendum?"
Andy Burnham says: "No. And I wasn't saying that", adding that he would "never move ahead of the British public when it comes to Brexit".
11.30am Lobby briefing:
Number 10 will now not say whether the British public will get a referendum on rejoining EU freedom of movement.
A spokesman says: "The process will be set out in due course ... He wants to have an open debate about this.... there are no options on the table."
What do you think? More now on @GBNEWS.
This is repeated often and it is nonsense. Compared to Venezuela electing Chavez or communists taking power in Cuba, Brexit is a pinprick.
Even modest stupidities (the 1947 Town & Country Planning Act or the new poor law of the 1830s for example) did far more economic damage
'Leaving the European Union was the biggest act of economic self harm any country has ever committed'
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told #BBCBreakfast Andy Burnham 'is spot on' about having an "honest discussion" ove the prospect of returning to free movement between the UK and European Union
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e3…
Simon Cooke retweeted
Tens of millions died in the Chinese Great Famine in Mao's Great Leap Forward.
'Leaving the European Union was the biggest act of economic self harm any country has ever committed'
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told #BBCBreakfast Andy Burnham 'is spot on' about having an "honest discussion" ove the prospect of returning to free movement between the UK and European Union
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e3…
Simon Cooke retweeted
Reminds me of Caroline Flint on the night of the 2019 election after Labour lost the red wall but had one gain:
"No offence to Putney, but was it really worth it?!"
Monday’s @guardian front page: ‘Red wall’ MPs wary as Burnham calls for EU free movement debate theguardian.com/politics/202…
Simon Cooke retweeted
I’m looking forward to Young Bob “debating” these lads about how they should remigrate themselves.
Seems to me that the failings of those 14 years from 2010-2024, at least in the minds of the public, boil down to:
Not controlling immigration/integration & asylum
Energy policy and Net Zero
Lack of economic growth
There are two other issues that were partly or wholly outside government control - Brexit and Covid.
There are other things that aren't unpopular but are a problem:
Pensions
Welfare payments
Defence spending
Domestic politics driving foreign policy
Planning and regulatory controls
Plus a general weariness with the pettiness and sleaziness of politics something people associate with the last Tory government.
Simon Cooke retweeted
I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity
Simon Cooke retweeted
BBC Wildlife's Group Editor has told the Moorland Association he agrees "completely" that its red grouse entry could mislead readers.
The entry was on a Discover Wildlife list headed "10 ecosystem killers: Destructive, brutal animals that destroy entire habitats". Yet the entry itself said red grouse are not an invading species and are not especially destructive on their own.
It also said Scotland's heather moorlands are low in biodiversity and poor at storing carbon. It made no attempt to tell one type of moorland from another, or land in good condition from degraded land.
We complained on 14 October. We sent published NatureScot guidance and findings from the Scottish Government's independent Werritty Review.
Paul McGuinness, who edits BBC Wildlife and BBC Countryfile Magazine, replied on 16 October. He has removed the whole grouse entry and published a correction. He has also told his team to take care not to mislead readers.
Evidence from degraded sites, or from one way of managing land, does not apply to every heather moorland. When coverage claims it does, the MA will challenge it.
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What, specifically, were the things that weren't done or were done wrong 2010-2024? Bear in mind that for 7 of those 14 years the Tories were in coalition or a minority.
