Tim

🇬🇧 Retired Chartered Engineer & Director, IT Management Consulting. Worked across UK,EU,ME & US. Sailor with more enthusiasm than talent. Proud Dad & Grandad.

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@TracyEdwardsMBE @UN If UN is dismantled, do you really believe it will be rebuilt? The ‘Bannon Principle’ pushed by most people trying to kill it is ‘to change something you first have to break it’.

iMHO, to save the UN we have to avoid dismantling it and find a way to rapidly reform ‘on the hoof’.

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@DrChrisParry @UKLabour Mostly because every govt for 30y has ignored then forgotten the importance of manufacturing industry.

Parliament once debated how best to support strategic industries. How many MPs today could even name them?

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@Alian0216 @stylishealthyl2 @JamieJones77 @Conservatives I don’t know what they’re there for.

IMHO candidate selection is a big issue. Less about what one brings to the table and more on willingness to do as (s)he’s told.

Then there’s a self gratifying caucus, in it for what they can get out of it.

Leadership selection is no better.

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@Alian0216 @stylishealthyl2 @JamieJones77 @Conservatives There’s something in that.

But the other problem is the dire lack of talent. Even if there’s someone that sees what needs to be done, there’s no one with the backbone, integrity, vision & leadership to do it. It’s largely the same across Parliament. Just look at the PM fgs!

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@HeatherJeeves Unfortunately, @Keir_Starmer & @RachelReevesMP sold Defence, Growth, Illegal immigration, all underpinned by an EU Reset, to voters but couldn’t sell it to PLP or big donors.

It’s a surprise they managed to do anything positive given blocks put in place by PLP & its puppeteers.

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@peterhelm711 @Barristerblog I think you’ll find that’s the convicted rapist.

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@stylishealthyl2 @JamieJones77 @Conservatives 🤷‍♂️Politicians seem to live in an echo chamber. Everyone around them is saying the same thing, so disconnection from reality is routine.

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@pennygeer @Barristerblog Sounds typical of Brand’s arrogance to want an advocate who’d go after his accusers hard.

Did a very arrogant sexual predator receive advice that it wouldn’t go well to try that against victims of rape and sexual assault, & ignore it?

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@LucyTrims If @Conservatives were actually Conservative then Conservative core voters would turn out to vote for them, and maybe others would too.

But they’re not. That’s why millions of Conservative voters stayed at home for GE24.

No-one wants Reform-lite, or will vote for it.

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@Gosleepriya Really?

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@dave43law It’s easy for a small opposition party to say anything. They don’t have to deliver on it.

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@MyDearest2106 25

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@LouiseMensch Why are you sorry?

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@CliveWismayer He will. Even Hegseth knows that.

Pretty sure all of team Trump will have kept something on him to defend themselves with. They’re self serving and/or corrupt, not stupid. They know how it’ll end.

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@HeatherJeeves @easylec @LabourfutureUK Unlikely. In the last 15y media revenue has migrated from Print to SM, & the financial impact all-but killed investigative reporting. Then big titles were bought by people that shouldn’t.

Sadly, Woodward/Bernstein speaking truth to power is pretty much a thing of the past.

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@R007pert @dave43law I hope you’re right. I fear you’re wrong. Every time there’s been a break point where Trump might have been held accountable he’s changed the game somehow.

Whoever wrote that Project 25 playbook had the bases covered.