Darren Melroy

Risk and data. Volunteer @ukscouting. Usually found geeking out over gadgets 📱, governance 📜, or (gorgeous) kitties 🐈. Often grumpy. 🌈

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@Uber Why has a driver got 2 minutes away from me, rang me asking for the exact destination I'm going, and then cancelled the trip? Utter time waster.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@drphiliplee1 True - but this is what Starmer said after 2011 Riots and he seems to be following suit again re rapid justice, so maybe a good sign.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@gracepetrie Noise complaint via the council is worth considering - intruder alarms should be capped at 20 mins duration and councils have powers to enter the property to disable them.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@WelshGasDoc I'm hearing the National Spare Room Database is being given serious consideration...

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@RachellBramley Loads of games are based on D&D rules (e.g. background dice rolls for combat are used for combat in Mass Effect and KotOR) - think Baldur's Gate is based in the D&D world too. Depends what you're after?

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@SeamusMacSuibh1 @thesassymicrobe https://t.co/1lYvC0SbCF These are also an option with even less lifting (other than to fill)

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@StarlingBank have you honestly just sent me an email asking me to watch out for scams, and used screenshots with unredacted actual scam website URLs? 😂🤦‍♂️

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

Oops, this emergency receiver has turned into a mobile phone...

[Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) @twlldun]

Honestly though, I thought the entire point of being a constitutional monarchy was we already had a powerless figurehead just there for show. Who needs two?

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

Liz Truss is only 47, and has been in office 41 days, so it is conceivable that over the next 40-50 years she’ll spend more actual time appearing as a former PM at state occasions (The Cenotaph, royal stuff, etc) than she actually did as Prime Minister.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@JackElsom Even Liz not wanting to make the assertion that anybody actually trusts her.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@theLTrayne 119 days in the 1800s, 366 days post-WW2. Could be tight...

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@utb_smith This is from 2019 though.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@LNER Hey team, this looks suspiciously like somebody has uploaded the wrong cert and in the process has killed your on-board WiFi.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@Kit_Yates_Maths No, Deputy PM is a fictitious concept with no real role or succession - v different to VPOTUS. Usually PM stays on until there is a clear successor (through party leadership election). But difficult to see how Johnson can do that if people won't serve. Uncharted waters...

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

Bit awkward, but your letterhead says you're the MP for a constituency that doesn't exist...

[Jacob Young @jcbyoung]

I have agonised throughout today - I have supported the Prime Minister through thick and thin.

It’s because of my loyalty to him, that I urge him to now step aside and allow the country to move forward.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@steveparks It does ;)

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@BestForBritain @sturdyAlex Parliamentary Private Secretaries are unpaid though, despite being on the 'Payroll vote'. The optics of it being a bribe are true, but it's not a financial one.

[Darren Melroy @DarrenMelroy]

@professor_dave Bagheera (up a bit further north!) says this is an awesome example of Cub values and he should be really proud!

Though this is why I dislike inspections like this, I'm not sure what we gain by making kids feel bad about stuff outside of their (and often their adults) control...

[John Lister @johnlister]

If you are criticising an MP over their approach to low pay and you refer to their total expenses figure including staffing costs, you are being disingenuous and undermining your argument.