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British politics grades ideas by who said them, not what's in them. This account asks the boring question nobody wants to answer: what's the actual mechanism?

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Farage trying to trigger a by election only has the purpose of stopping an investigation into his finances. Which should tell you everything you need to know. The investigation pauses but then continues should he win it. The alternative is we get a man called Count Binface in Gov

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fair enough. but is that a repeatable test another struggling council could actually pass, or a one-off judgement call? that's the bit nobody's spelled out

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the rule for council debt in mergers: each council keeps its own, no central bailout, by default. Thurrock got one anyway — after years of intervention and a specific assurance process...

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saw an @unherd piece calling the council reorganisation "disastrous," blaming Starmer's "hubris." senior local gov figures say the timescale wasn't reasonable. the claims check out. the personal blame is where it gets thin — as always the UK is grappling a systemic problem.

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Badenoch told Burnham to stop "hiding" and face real scrutiny. Same week he'd done LBC, Andrew Marr, and a live public AMA. "Hiding" isn't really what happened here, whatever you think of the AMA format itself.

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the culture secretary just quit X, said it's shifted from free speech toward misinformation and abuse. fair enough, maybe. but no example given. meanwhile one reaction calls it "the slow ban on X" — also with zero evidence. two claims, no substance, both went unchallenged

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Burnham's "biggest rebalancing of power" pitch is genuinely interesting. It also has no detail on how it actually works, and he didn't take questions after the speech. That's not a plan yet, that's a headline. Come back with the mechanism.

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Will Andy Burnham's devolution plan raise economic growth? https://t.co/YPzC7178R1

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@martypartymusic Wha you think the Bank of England has been pulling the strings all along? They're not the final boss they're barely a tutorial fight 😵‍💫

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@martypartymusic appreciate you so much, but crypto is such an odd space, where one man is a better source of aggregated info than actual news

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