Peter Wharton

British & Canadian. 30 years international biz experience. Interested in languages, politics, motorcycles and boats. Not sure if I own the dog, or she owns me!

[Dan Turner @DanTurnerTweets]

1. How do we close Britain's regional divides? After a year of writing with @edballs, Nyasha Weinberg, @ElsdenEsme and @annastansbury, today we publish our thoughts on what needs to be done. A🧵...
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[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@welcomebreak Could I suggest better enforcement of 'Caravan only' parking? Only able to park at Gretna Green by getting one of the many motorhomes to park elsewhere. Non-articulated vehicles don't need these run-through spaces.

[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@Nigel_Farage Desperate or what?

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@DEH27250342 @LordCFalconer That's why we need a constitution that limits the power of government, otherwise we end up with an elected dictatorship.

[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@RMCunliffe @Dyson Similar experience except that multiple failures started during the guarantee period - it's the only device that we've ever thought the price of an extended warranty was worthwhile.

The engineer was a regular visitor. We never bought a Dyson product again.

[TAX LAND, NOT MAN @TaxLandNotMan]

If the solution to poverty was to tax the rich, poverty would have ended long ago.

So taxing the rich only empowers the governments keeping people poor (keeping labor cheap).

If governments REALLY want to end poverty, they will tax away the profitability of land hoarding.

[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@danielmgmoylan You want Horizon breakthroughs? If you've got a spare week I suggest you start here: https://t.co/P24nWRqEhK

Research beats ignorance every time...

[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@danielmgmoylan Then why are our top researchers so very keen to get back into Horizon?

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@_HenryBolton @Conservatives I think you're right that there's a campaign to inflict damage on the @Conservatives at every opportunity. But it's a self-harm campaign by those self same @Conservatives !

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@GarstangNews Could you tell me if there's an archive somewhere covering the 1970s onwards please?

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@sajidjavid Shame about your grasp of grammar - so Many Spurious Capital Letters. Don't you have someone on staff who understands, even if you don't?

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@john4brexit Because we're going back into the Single Market... it's the will of the people:-)

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@MT_Kilpatrick @JolyonMaugham You know it makes sense!

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@EndriTare @leedsblue67 @Intetyst https://t.co/y03S3Grqnj

[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@CraftyBrewerBlg @JurateJW @Otto_English Not true. I used to regularly enter and leave on a Belgian ID card.

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@SebastianEPayne @jamesrbuk ...but Brexit makes it all nice & legal

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

"A liar, a showman, a buffoon, a rank incompetent.. The most shameful PM Britain has ever had.. Anybody in parliament would be a better PM than Boris Johnson, Larry the Downing Street cat would be a better PM."

Rory Stewart on Sky News and CNN.

#FBPE #FollowBackFriday #FBPPR

[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@DanielJHannan @BorisJohnson "Delivered Brexit" - what a joke. The Irish issue isn't solved, no checks on imports only on exports to the great detriment of British industry.

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@MartinRemains Nadine Dorries as Chancellor maybe?

Heaven help us...

[Peter Wharton @peterwharton]

@LDNLutonAirport Just arrived this morning - saw a road sign saying "Taxi's". Why do you let people who can't spell write road signs?