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Like to intelligently debate topical issues around (mainly) politics, left behind areas and football. In real life opinions change, I’m sure mine does too.

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@DPJHodges Obvious that Burnham (not Labour) is going to win in Makerfield. An inarticulate Reform candidate is no challenger.

But that may suit Reform to a tee. Get Burnham in to show him up before 2029 - was very unimpressive on #BBCQT tonight, no real ideas.

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@PolitlcsUK (by the way no fan of this party)

But Restore are 8 times the LD and CON polling, and 4 times the GR (all set to lose deposits), but #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime excludes them from the panel.
Why? Uniparty bias in action I suspect.

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@Steven_Swinford Farage is right on this issue.

These tragedies MUST be discussed or we risk further identical ones. That is the point of them being politicians.

Not wanting to discuss it implies agreeing with law as it stands.

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@montie Will enjoy listening to that later.

If any tragedy that ‘may’ have come from bad policy is never discussed so as not to offend, how can future tragedies ever be prevented?

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@Steven_Swinford @GMB Kemi is using this for political advantage just like other parties are.

One reason Farage doesn’t rock up in the HoC very often is he beat Lib Dems for votes yet has only a few seats and no guaranteed question. It is anti-democratic due to a quirk of voter spread.

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@alexwickham What a surprise - polling shows he would gain fewer votes than Reform, so he rules out an early GE.

What’s the betting if polling goes the other way he changes his mind?

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@henrywinter Not sure Eckert’s team will cope with the abuse hurled by opposing fans next season, so doesn’t seem the best footballing decision on that basis, aside from the justice and contrition element.

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@danroan Certainly a brave move, choosing to make Southampton a despised club that football watchers feel hasn’t shown proper contrition for their senior staff’s rule breaking actions. Could have gone the other way, sackings and a profuse apology.

May backfire - stadiums will be 🔥⚡️

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@afneil Agreed. One tax that Mandy rightly mentions is the education tax - always going to delight the rank and file but alienates the middle classes and wrecks numerous lives including many basic rate taxpayer families.

Sounds like Pat M agrees the socialism has gone way too far.

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@kevinhollinrake An impressive list of Tory MP former professions but few who I would say have the pulse of the average person in the UK.

That is what I noticed in my years as a member - few genuine northerners, few working class, too little understanding or empathy.

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@julianHjessop @dsmitheconomics In that net migration has affected the UK population by about 6% since 2016 it is logical that GDP per capita is badly affected (in that many are not net contributors).

(whether pro or anti migration all should agree on that if honest)

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@IGMansfield @jfwduffield The Education Tax is NOT politically successful.

It pleases members, MPs and activists (all vote Labour regardless), but it creates a small army of voters from all parties incl. Labour who now despise Labour and will for a generation. Stunts their potential votes going forward.

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@afneil How can I take Steve Reed / HMG’s advice and limit my hot weather alcohol intake, when this lot are driving me to drink?

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@LukeTryl As Dom Cummings often writes, “the system is working as intended”.

It appears that Established Liberals are the ones who intend it that way.

That 9% of voters (per your previous tweets), who hold a lot of the power, are thus the problem.

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@PolitlcsUK Didn’t realise he was a leftie😉

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@TeslaOwnersUK I wonder if this is similar to the infamous Model 3 upper control arm creaking?

I had mine replaced under warranty for my 2019 M3 and now they are creaking again.

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@henrywinter I’ve cancelled TNT Sports. Enough is enough.

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@itvpeston @Jacob_Rees_Mogg I was a big supporter of free markets, free speech, free movement and free access to social media.

Then I realised how freedom can be manipulated nowadays and becomes a trap.

All need some controls to protect voters. Some MPs are still in the 20th century, not the 21st.

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@MatthewTorbitt The answer there Matthew is not to pick leaders lacking in courage. Blair had it, for all his other faults.

Funny how courage seems to lead to second (and third) terms. Lack of it leads to single (or even partial) terms.

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@RishiSunak I would make personal and business finance a dedicated part of a compulsory maths GCSE curriculum, to sit alongside algebra, geometry, probability, number skills etc.