Ben Basson

London-based software developer and climber. I signed up just to make a sausage pun. Slowly migrating to

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@McelhatCaroline @barnetsociety Collapsed sewer, apparently.

[Gareth McL @GMLmusic]

Thanks to #StormFloris later tonight, Britain has once again been transformed into a huge rabbit giving Ireland a shoulder massage.

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@CreativeDeduct @LastBlairite In 2024, Labour got a massive majority with 33.7% vote share. Previous elections weren't far from that, very few examples of an actual majority vote share.

The majority of people don't get what they voted for.

Personally I'd favour PR even considering its downsides.

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@CreativeDeduct @LastBlairite If you want policies that the majority support then I hope you're campaigning for PR.

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@wessex51999 @JaCm2000uk @JuliaHB1 @TheSun Plenty of the electorate appear to have never achieved cognitive reasoning.

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As a high school teacher, I can honestly say I'd rather trust democracy to 16 year olds than spiteful, elderly Daily Mail readers every day of the week.

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@BitcoinGent @SullyDrummer @wolsned They are not rare at all, in fact they are alarmingly common.

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@MickMickDos @JRtypes @ArasUniverse Maybe not the Labour MPs, but certainly newly fielded candidates, grassroots support within the party membership, unions, etc. plus the Labour "machine" itself, composed of officials, researchers, funding. There's just no way he'll field anything comparable.

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@JRtypes @ArasUniverse Even with the full clout of the Labour political movement behind him, Corbyn was unable to defeat one of the most unpopular governments in history. His one-man band party isn't going to do anything apart from (probably) hold Islington North.

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@JRtypes You should probably be more concerned about the estimated 2 million British ex-pats who have lived abroad for more than 15 years, to whom the Tories awarded the right to vote.

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@sophielouisecc All you have to do to prove that the current (18+) electorate, by and large, don't know anything, is watch TV news interviews on the run-up to any vote.

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@JamesCleverly If being older is an indicator of success, what's your excuse?

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@Breakerg @alphabet7825039 @basilthegreat Taxation - not particularly hard to navigate. We have double-taxation treaties with many countries.

RTO in an emergency - this is really not something that would be a consideration for the vast majority of civil service roles.

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@Jordan_Neale @andjamwar @raelbrav Who exactly is it that you think has changed the demographic composition of London in order to secure the mayoral position for Khan / Labour?

Conservatives previously held the mayoral position, and held a central government majority for all three of Khan's election victories.

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@raelbrav Opposition parties fielding a credible candidate instead of a fringe lunatic or an out-of-touch toff would at least be a starting point.

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@BrokenBarnet @Dan4Barnet They are absolutely haemorrhaging support all over the policy portfolio, so they either need to change tack soon or they'll have a single-term majority. Frankly I'd be very, very concerned about what comes next, short of a Macron-style political earthquake from, e.g. Greens.

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@BrokenBarnet @Dan4Barnet I didn't suggest otherwise. The important thing for anyone campaigning is that it isn't actually over (yet), there is still actually quite a lot of steps for this bill, which (as we saw with the Brexit-related legislation) gives opportunity for challenge.

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@BrokenBarnet @Dan4Barnet To be clear, this is a vote to continue the passage of the bill. The next commons vote is the important one, so it's still worth challenging where our MPs sit on these issues.

Bill tracker: https://t.co/TubQ5LR9ND

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@BrokenBarnet @Dan4Barnet It's all in Hansard - https://t.co/Yzrp8GwDuh