Harry

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[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

You are a British taxpayer in Britain paying British taxes. You can only pay taxes to help fund one of the schemes below. Which do you choose?

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

@harrisondubay https://t.co/R1KCoiCRiQ

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

Double the budget

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The French Government has launched an investigation after 4x4 vehicles funded by the UK to stop migrants crossing the Channel were used to ram student protestors

Source: "I don’t think the British are aware that their money is being used to beat French kids"

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Trump on Ohio GOP Senate Candidate Jon Husted: "I examined his ass"

[Sarp @TurkeySurveys]

AlertesInfos is posting like Syrian OSINT accounts during the fall of the previous government LMFAO

[Workhouse Overseer 🌐🥑🍌 @RepealTCPA1947]

"I don’t think the British are aware that their money is being used to beat French kids"

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

Freudian slip

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

Ironic that the people making these posters are almost definitely gentrifiers themselves

[Brixton Buzz @brixtonbuzz]

Protesters target Gail’s Bakery in Brixton ahead of today’s opening
https://t.co/wIGmGn4cFs

[rhys 🙂‍↕️ @rhys_2024]

That already happened

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

When did suicide become an argument? https://t.co/Gr5s8i7AHw

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

How do these people think they’re in the right?

[Brodie Mitchell @BrodieMitchell1]

Fantastic lecture by Adam Wagner KC on how he represented British hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. How shocking though that security at @CityStGeorges allowed for these useful idiots to walk in with keffiyehs hiding their identity, leaving many in the room to feel intimidated.

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

@Luis_Cook1 Came within touching distance in '24, but I agree it's lost to Plaid for a long, long time now

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

Idk I don’t think reform are going to be winning in Gwynedd and Ceredigion anytime soon

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

Interestingly a lot of the countries accepting emirate diplomats still refuse to recognise the emirate. But accept officials on a quid pro quo basis.

Uzbekistan accepts them so they can build a railway, and Germany accepts them so they can begin deporting Afghans.

[Canderous Ordoliberal 🪏🤠 @butleriano]

Just checked up on this and the Taliban stopped accepting documents from rebel embassies and now a bunch of countries that don’t recognize the Taliban let them run embassies.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

n00b 4 lyfe

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

This feels a bit too Twee Britain (not to mention the red tunics are a mess).

A far more serious and aesthetically driven country would employ No.1 dress here.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Unreal Hamleys store vibes

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

Canary Wharf deserves something similar -- in what world should Aspire have a say in Britain's second financial hub?

[Workhouse Overseer 🌐🥑🍌 @RepealTCPA1947]

>Only surviving corporate oligarchy in the country
>Best run city in the country

Probably a coincidence

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

I can't tell you how many Welsh voters complained about Rishi Sunak's performence on the NHS.

A lot of them even asked me why it wasnt devolved! They were always shocked it had been for decades

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

This is exactly the problem with devolution in the UK: devolved govts and mayors want all the power and none of the responsibility.

Campaigning in Wales, I found the Welsh Lab gov deliberately obscured who was responsible for public services.

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

@ClwydEnComu Im more hopeful with Plaid, I think they do want to distinguish Welsh gov from UK.
Welsh Lab though made a living out of blaming everything on Westminster and playing pretend politics while standards plummetted

[Harry @HarryJDPye]

This is exactly the problem with devolution in the UK: devolved govts and mayors want all the power and none of the responsibility.

Campaigning in Wales, I found the Welsh Lab gov deliberately obscured who was responsible for public services.

[Tony Diver @Tony_Diver]

Exclusive:

Labour mayors are revolting against Andy Burnham’s plan to give them control over water companies.

Several mayors have made it known to No10 that the PM’s plans for regional water boards — revealed in @telegraph and confirmed in his speech last week — would put them “in the firing line” for underperformance.

Sources close to the discussions say some mayors would rather be left out of one of the most politically toxic issues in Britain.

It’s the first sign of trouble for Burnham’s wider devolution agenda on water.

What happens when you give people more power but they don’t want it?

https://t.co/vkUY7gsSdK