Andy Ibbs 💙

Experiences Ménière’s disease. Passionate about theatre (so Trustee of @TRPlymouth) and making beautiful homes (so MD of Ex NHS CEO.

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Thread on #Plymouth
I’ve lived & worked in Plymouth for >20 years. When I arrived it felt like a dying giant: the dockyard employed a fraction that it used to, and the city seemed in decline: it didn’t seem to know what its purpose was. 1/10

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@ShaunLintern Hi Shaun. I think you have unintentionally misinterpreted the figures: the Inquiry “reviewed” 570 cases of those who had responded to a questionnaire. I believe there were many more: we used to work on basis of 60-70/year (I used to coordinate investigations for the SouhWest)

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They gave everything for the badge. Argyle gave them an email. Save PAWFC - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/GKgxEqreTB via @UKChange

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This…

Disruptive idiots are destroying theatre - they deserve to be berated https://t.co/8bQgXTZpPZ

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@CarlEveCrime Blimey - I hope I’m not a jinx or something. St Peter’s is my local church….. and I got married in St Thomas’ Wells in 2009…. https://t.co/vAl01bQNGE

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Yes things may seem bad at the moment, but it makes small pleasures even more important…

And here - something that disappeared with Covid, and I thought we had lost forever….

Welcome back the Pont Aven soufflé!

Thank you @BrittanyFerries !

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@forwardnotback @JohnRentoul TBH wish he’d had longer: the concept of the National Care Service was exciting, and offered opportunity finally to solve - cross party? - social care for long term conditions. But tories came in, austerity, and then HMT prevented a just solution.

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@forwardnotback @JohnRentoul He wasn’t bad at Health either: the constitution (although what impact has it had?), the right to personal care at home…. “Preferred provider” created a quagmire for procurement. Would have been better either to leave alone or completely reverse requirement to tender.

Conts…

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@TomABacon June ‘66 - June ‘16 - 7 different PMs (altho Wilson served twice).

June ‘16 - June ‘26 - likely to be 7 different PMs.

The UK currently is like Italy in the 70’s and 80’s - without the frequent elections.

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@forwardnotback So, so pleased for you Tim (but you really need to change your display name: you’re clearly anything but unremarkable)

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Hey @mybuilder - you’ve clearly been hacked. 3/4 of my msgs from you are now spam or phishing. What are you doing about it? Are you going to tell your users anything?!

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@forwardnotback Has any athletic barrier being broken been as symbolic since Bannister’s sub-4 minute mile? Sub 10 secs 100m in the 60’s doesn’t feel as great? Any field events?

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@exitthelemming @DrMatthewSweet @WatkinsHuw But did you ever master the simultaneous triplet against quavers? Never ever could …. My mum said “just think: “cold cup of tea””. Didn’t understand what she meant 50 years ago; still don’t.

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@KeruboSk I imagine there are millions of us. I’m 60; all my grandparents were born in the 1800’s. 3 were still alive when I was born.

Do the maths.

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@CazB52 @JohnRentoul I’ve frequently made statements that later turn out to be incorrect…. That doesn’t make me a liar, (but possibly a fool!) because they don’t satisfy the “deliberate intent” requirement.

Where is the evidence of Starmer’s “deliberate intent”?

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@CazB52 @JohnRentoul Couldn’t disagree more. To me a lie has to tick both the following:
1) be untrue (obvs)
2) be stated, *knowing* it to be untrue, with the *deliberate intent* of deceiving others. (cf Johnson)

I don’t know if Starmer lied, but don’t yet see any evidence satisfying (2) above.

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@PVHaltonOBE Hi Paul. In WW2 we were capable of producing a major naval war vessel pretty much every four days (90 commissioned/year).

Even if we were to get the rapid expansion needed now, what might we hope for today? What’s our potential capacity?

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@CarlEveCrime Plus?

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@PVHaltonOBE Depends which playground you’re in

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@MichaelLCrick Apparently Plymouth Argyle players are like that when leaving away changing rooms…