@KevinASchofield This is what tories want people to believe so they can keep cutting funding. Wonder who she thinks deals with safeguarding, children, social care, SEND, public health, safety, trading standards, enforcement...
@doctoriaindarcy A lawyer, now saying it's law-breaking but actually by breaking the law he's doing us all a favour? Can I do the same because tbh I don't really use many council services at the moment?
This headline makes it sound as if the Reform Cllr wanted Nigerians to do the road maintenance.
The actual quote was โthe amount of Nigerians in town.
Should melt them all down and fill in the pot holes!!โ
How on earth could Tice not bring himself to condemn that?
@Johnmcternan Please for the love of all that is good - I've got a mortgage renewal coming up I'm alrrady skinned for a small flat please don't help make my bank account even redder when I renew next year ๐
@andrewjb_ Totally. the groundwork is being erased. all those protests and naysayers, all the difficult decisions over the years that only show fruit a decade later. that's the real lesson of 'manchesterism': long term vision driven leadsership.
@lewis_goodall I lived in Birmingham for 3 odd years for study. It was a hot bed of politicisation because of the Iraq war. It's when Salma Yaqoob started making a name for herself on the university speaking circuit, marches, etc. 20 years later it feels like this evolution was inevitable.
@lewis_goodall@lewis_goodall speaking as a muslim, these 2 and everything they represent, along with their supporters, terrify me. I'm of the same conservative tradition as they are, born and raised here like them, but it feels like we inhabit 2 different realities.
.@Peston: [Does Israel] have a right to exist?
@ZackPolanski: I donโt believe any country has a right to exist
The Green Party leader says getting caught up in semantics about countriesโ right to exist results in โgatekeepingโ
#Peston