Dicky C

Live and let live old liberal type.

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@BenZaranko I’m always suspicious when I come across people discussing what others need. It’s usually a precursor to some form of coercive suggestion.
Yes, I really am called Richard!

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@DanNeidle Any of these cheese related?

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@matthewlesh Someone ought to coin a term like Capitalist Command Economy for a situation like this.

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@ShippersUnbound @TomABacon I’m not sure they’re entirely honest and sensible if they are keeping all this to themselves whilst holding a public role. Your list isn’t a marginal difference it’s a centrist manifesto!

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@iAmJoshHunt A result of pretty stagnant growth and oppositional failure to lead a broad discussion of how we get back on a path of reversing these trends.

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@John_Stepek A long term project that needs separating out from the annual budget process. Exactly the sort of exercise that an independent self governing democracy could undertake.

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@Matthew__Bowles @K_Niemietz @spectator It’s an eternal debate!
With quarterly figures and annual results across multiple supermarkets, this debate is played out regularly during any year, then repeated every subsequent year with the same people taking the same positions.

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@CarlBovisNature Never seen one this low before

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@DanNeidle Perhaps a real problem we have in Britain is a lack of politicians willing to be bluntly up front about our fiscal circumstances starting with this particular group.

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@nmdacosta Any idea where Burnham stands on AD and any potential reintroduction?

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@TheMercianNews @Fox_Claire ‘Still cannot reach agreement’!
The election was only 10 days ago!
A result like this generated under a PR system would result in protracted negotiations dragging on for months. FPTP and a 5 party system is creating a similar outcome.

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@John_Stepek I’m not convinced that the change we voted for in 2024 was anything more than just not the Tories in the belief that no one could be worse. This was achieved instantly and the last (nearly) 2 years have been about the realisation that actually things could be worse.

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@ShippersUnbound @JohnRentoul Just taking different voters. Reform are taking their working class voters, the Greens their graduate vote. More working class votes to lose than graduate votes, so maybe.

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@MerrynSW A month in the country, The third man

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@s8mb Aldi Costieres de Nimes is decent. About £6.60

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@Plantagenet1455 @CoryneHall Above plus 1016

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@TonyDowson5 I was teaching at the time and thought at first we’d be back after Easter. However well crafted online lessons were they just weren’t an adequate substitute for in person classroom teaching. If left up to the unions I don’t think we’d have been back until well into 2021.

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@lewis_goodall We’ve had student loans for a generation now. Nothing wrong with both the traditional governing parties standing back and asking is today’s outcome what was originally intended. Clearly working in a deflationary way on the economy as a whole.

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@SimpGanassi With Christmas trading statements, quarterly trading statements and final results we can all see exactly the same argument 6 times a year!

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@spybrary @almurray @triclassified @gordoncorera @mccloskeybooks Was this not noticed at the time? Not so many years after the Twenty Committee was working.