@fawwon1@hwallop@hackneycouncil Even worse the same council did it with both paddling pools - one in leamington and one in Warwick AT THE SAME TIME - apparently a failure in project management!
@fasc1nate Highly recommend Peter Gurney’s autobiography ‘Braver Men Walk Away’ which incudes a chapter on this event. It’s a fascinating insight into the bomb squad and the troubles written by a man who won the George medal twice
@kelvmackenzie If he doesn't raise income tax, then he will have to go after taxes that are much less 'fair' - e.g. council tax - that's much more likely to lose him seats at the next election in places where it's a labour/reform marginal in middle England.
@TheCinesthetic If your British there is a high chance you’ve seen the great escape more than any other film and it always evokes memories of wet bank holidays and staying in in front of the fire with tea and biscuits
@ATRightMovies Surely felix buchannon in Paddington 2 is the role grant was born to play - he steals the show from under the noses of every other actor in the film a d that’s saying something! #paddington
@BY1959 Seriously the rest of the world came up with not one but TWO different solutions to this 'problem' - half went with something called proportional representation, the other half went with non-political boundary setters....
@IngrahamAngle@SpeakerMcCarthy Seriously the rest of the world came up with not one but TWO different solutions to this 'problem' - half went with something called proportional representation, the other half went with non-political boundary setters....
@TheCinesthetic It was the best place to end - though rumour has it there was a unfilmed scene where he subsequently walked to freedom through a gift shop full of Truman Show merchandise
@KemiBadenoch If you try and means test the state pension, you'll never win an election again and what's more your party will be consigned to history. Reform will eat the Tory party alive and it will be unfortunately well deserved.
@TimesRadio@vicrayner@petercardwell I don’t think that’s true - I think people do realise that it’s a massive issue that needs sorting, they just want leadership to be shown and someone to explain properly the options on how it is paid for!