Bit more complicated than that

back in Stockport over 20 years in Yorkshire #MCFC museums music & politics #dyslexic spelling & grammar unreliable #makevotesmatter @ben63.bsky.local

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The essence of capitalism is competition

Why privatise railways if there is no possibility of competition ?

Because it meant the Tories could reward donors properly

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@chrisjlatimer Not sure she can. The obsene welfare bill is about the same as a percentage of the economy as it has been for 40 years.

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@lltbr123 The country isn't collapsing though is it?

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@AnneDickin9728 @stuey_beef That would be the 80’s and 90’s government keeping unemployment high as part of killing the Unions and heavy industry

[Never tory @ginovece74]

Kemi Badenoch begrudges and is triggered by people getting:-

-Minimum wage

-Railcards

-Welfare

She likes her 160k salary + 39k expenses for her rent,utility bills and council tax.

Kemi's other favourite pleasure is wanting to make the rich richer.

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@Barney_City Ahh the Gene Kelly stand

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@LoftusSteve @ChrisGPackham They don't get the money directly; it goes to the school. They may have other disabilities which might get a payment.

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@PaulDestiny1 @LoftusSteve @ChrisGPackham No

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

My great friend, supreme broadcaster and funniest man I ever knew, Danny Kelly, died yesterday afternoon.
I cannot believe I will never hear his voice again.

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@matthartreyq @LBC Who?

[Bo Duddley @VallaNils13872]

@LBC The out of control welfare bill rich people keep telling us about and blaming the disabled

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@Mark84852655 @DespoticInroad Is that true? Maybe BL and steel but not all. There was innovation and development.

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@musidorus @DespoticInroad HS2 was badly framed and managed not a bad project. Perhaps because of the lack of infrastructure investment. Don't let the very expensive lessons be lost. By using it as an excuse not to invest in infrastructure.

[Despotic Inroad @DespoticInroad]

Turns out, if you create an economy governed by the cult of the lowest marginal cost, you expose your industries to foreign competition, sell off national assets, consistently underinvest in regional infrastructure/capital stock, and foster an extreme over-reliance on services in London & SE that parasitically hoover up public/private investment & human capital in a virtuous circle with one single geographical centre, then eventually the data will reflect all this.

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@JamesMelville Perhaps it's about where the better returns are. Tax fraud dwarfs benefit fraud and error. Clearly they should do both.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Full and utterly scandalous story as private equity firm extracts £millions and then closes valued High Street chain down - unless it can be stopped.

[Ashley Mcduff @AshleyMcduff115]

Maybe Talkshite should have asked Martin about his dad, former MUFC chairman Louis Edwards.......

The Meat Business: Edwards made his fortune running a massive family wholesale meat processing business, Louis C. Edwards & Sons, which went public on the stock exchange in 1962. The company held lucrative, major contracts to supply meat for school dinners across the North West.

The 1980 Granada Scandal & Death
In January 1980, Edwards became the subject of a massive national scandal when Granada Television's investigative program, World in Action, aired an exposé on him. The documentary alleged:

Condemned Meat: His company was supplying substandard, condemned meat unfit for human consumption to local schools.

Bribery & Corruption: He had bribed school officials to secure those meat contracts and operated a secret financial fund to illicitly bribe the parents of young football players to sign with Manchester United.

Deceptive Share Deals: He used under-the-table cash payments to manipulate and deceive smaller shareholders out of their club stock.

Just four weeks after the broadcast aired, and as Greater Manchester Police were opening an investigation, Louis Edwards suffered a fatal heart attack in his bath on February 25, 1980. Following his sudden death, the formal FA and police investigations were dropped, and his son, Martin Edwards, immediately took over as chairman of Manchester United.

[Mike Bones @mrmikebones]

Mick Jones “Train in Vain”

What's cooler than seeing punk rock royalty up close ?

Watch Clash co-founder Mick Jones get down for an intimate performance of his 1979 classic at the 2009 Rock and Roll Public Library launch in London !

[The Left Hook @TheLeftHookNews]

@LBC Odd question from the party that cut nurse bursaries and then wondered where the nurses went.

[Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed @BrexitBin]

@LBC SPOILER ALERT: This argument has been made so.often, and it always comes from stupid people 🤦🏻‍♂️