Steve Rackett 🇵🇱🇬🇧🇪🇪🇺🇦⚽️

Chairman, Newport IW FC Supporters Association. Baltic music, Polish history, weird stuff about Rhode Island. ski-jumping.

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Up The Port! #UTP #Wessexleague #NewportIW @Newport_IW_FC @WessexLeague

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It was an incredibly intensive operation to try and keep any merchant convoys safe in WW2, & the Battle of the Atlantic was the theatre of operations that gave Churchill the most concern.

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Mainly convoys were across the wide open Atlantic, not the confined situation here. The threat was submarines (uboats), not multiple threats. Even so, a lot of ships, including many tankers were lost, in total about 3,500 merchant ships were sunk, as were around 750 uboats....

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@JAParker29 @StevenPSchrage How'd they do convoys in WWII?

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In the rugged conditions of the Falkland Islands, true STOL performance isn’t a luxury, its essential.

Watch this fishery patrol departure as the Britten-Norman Islander lifts confidently from a grassy strip.

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@Sam10672202 @theiaincameron https://t.co/8KYqoRvebC no

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@Adzter961 @YouGov In a poll this size, that is two people, or may be just one, depending on the methodology. And it could also be that person misunderstood the question!

And once you allow for the margin of error, this stat could actually be... zero.

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@PosiTroll @ChrisO_wiki No it doesn't. But both from an abundance of caution and the sudden rise in insurance premium if you now fly over a country that is being bombed, airlines may think about alternatives. Iran after all has the ability for ground to air targeting, & this might be seen as a warning.

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@Reddsab @SamCoatesSky Doesn't have to be direct transfer. Also, some may decide 'Restore' or not to vote. And allow for margin of error, usually 3%. Never take a single poll at face value. Compare with previous from same pollster. Look at trends across polling companies.

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@Sshankara @StephanAJensen Might be worth reading his pinned tweet when you ask if he will personally 'deploy'.

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@FletcherDeRouen @owenjonesjourno What the data is or how it is collected?

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@MajimeKoala @l1d11zzz__ Different rumble. Les Mis set in a later kerfuffle a few decades later.

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@Ennui20202 @malonebarry Photo is after his release.

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@Kirsten5050 @BladeoftheS Good question. Also deals were often for lifetime of franchise, (say 25 years) including paying full cost of trains and depreciation for the lifespan of rolling stock (perhaps 40 years). In theory, the next franchise

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@cultureenrichuk @BladeoftheS Companies have no guarantee the next franchise will lease those trains, so need to get investment return & maintaince costs and make a profit in shorter time scale, so more expensive. I don't expect Scottish Government can afford to buy out the rolling stock.

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@cultureenrichuk @BladeoftheS Leasing deals were generally based on the length of a franchise, so when Government takes over a franchise 10 years in, they might still have 15 years lease payments to make, and then still won't own those trains. The rolling stock might have a 40 year life, but the rolling stock

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@areyoflight Do you get any warning signs a migraine is coming?

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@DarrenJohnson66 Obviously not genuine when they have undervalued their pitch by such a significant amount.

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@icelandcricket So how much turn does that pitch take?

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@Kitingbikinguk @TheCinesthetic https://t.co/1V85CSKzVf