Richard Armstrong

Openly Scottish, semi-professional grumpy old git. I've been enjoying the better weather here in England for over 30 years.

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@wendybrownreid @cliffc100 @higgyboson @rospay15 The benefit cap doesn't apply if you you or your child receive disability benefits.

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@staylorish I think the government's position now is to negotiate the separation agreement before allowing people to vote on it.

This will stop the nats telling people that Westminster will pay their pensions & benefits while Stephen Flynn will have full veto rights on UK interest rates.

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@FrenScottish @Little_G2 Don't be ridiculous. Wheely bins are not for self defence.

They're for transporting alligators.
https://t.co/8nsxJ16QBh

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@cliffc100 @higgyboson @rospay15 You can get up to £36k in housing benefit alone in Central London. Personal and disabled child benefits will be in addition to that.

It used to be unlimited until 2010. There were people renting flats for £1500 a week in Belgravia who had welfare income of over £100k.

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@BenGrahamUK Give three piece a chance.

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@thesundaysport @ITVNewsPolitics Happens all the time.

Sam Brinton was the US Assistant Secretary for nuclear power.

If only there had been some way to tell that he was a deranged pervert who exposed himself to blackmail by stealing womens' underwear.

Preferably before he got access to radioactive waste.

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@PravdaBrian @ViveClara If I was a raging old cynic, I might think he'd transferred ownership of all his assets, or moved them abroad, to avoid confiscation.

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@michaelhills8 @SancastleAir Kenneth was in the concert party with Stanley Baxter in the army during WW2. It ain't half hot mum, but for real.

His anecdote about the "no mincing" standing order from the CO in Singapore life changing.
https://t.co/rGqOBIX6uF

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@UK_GB_NI @afneil No, Molly the TV star .....

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@GaryGaryholman @WillMackie82 Here he is in 1999 with Carlos Menem, then President of Argentina, after receiving his medal. No idea who the dodgy looking Lt Cdr is.

On arrival at the ceremony, he was greeted by dozens of Argentinian veterans who had been treated in his hospital during the war.

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@SartorialThug That lad's an amateur. He isn't fit to lace up Lewis', err, whatever those are on his feet.

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@shinobu472568 Impossible to solve.

Are the people initially in the room alive or dead?

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@Stuarty771 @MMTUK_PRG That's true. In Britain, since the 17th Century, it's been illegal for the Bank to print money & hand it to the government.

Quantitative easing has to be done via intermediary banks. It still stokes inflation but not as much as in places like Zimbabwe & Weimar Germany.

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@Stuarty771 @MMTUK_PRG There are plenty of precedents, going all the way back to Imperial Rome when Nero tried shaving bits of gold off the coins to make himself rich.

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@MMTUK_PRG A picture speaks a thousand words.

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@PounderJane1 @markhickey53715 @RosieDuffield1 Uncertain at this time but we're waiting to hear from the vulnerable prisoners wing at HMP Barlinnie.

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@PounderJane1 @RosieDuffield1 Later that night...

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@briscoe_x We still use them where I work.

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@Calavera437 @narindertweets Do you think she promised him a free pardon as soon as she becomes President of the Republic of Scotland?

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@staylorish This fiasco began when Murrell told the SNP accounts committee that he'd prepared the accounts himself. He asked the committee to sign them off without access to receipts or bank statements.

Three of the committee resigned immediately followed by the treasurer & the auditors.