Quentin Wray

Family man, storyteller, Humanist celebrant. Views are my own and don't represent those of my employer, which is odd since I am self-employed.

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@DaleVince Massive mandate? 33% of people who voted, 20% of eligible voters. It’s the system, and you won so fair play, but don’t confuse it with massive popular support.

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@UKLabour genuine question, not a wind up. If @AndyBurnhamGM loses the Makerfield by-election, does he get to keep the Manchester Mayoralty or does he have to quit that in order to stand for parliament? Or does he only have to quit as mayor if he wins?

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@PhilMyers53 @Keir_Starmer Just here for the pile on

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@franceshinde If memory serves, only about a third of seats were up for grabs. If more had been available, more would have gone. No wonder Labour wanted to cancel the vote.

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@Anniepop2027 @SkyNews @BBCNews 66% of voters (80% of eligible voters) didn’t vote for Labour in 2024. Does that mean they didn’t win the GE? The electoral system is stupid but it is what it is and the winners are those who get to sit in the seat.

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@AngelaRayner That’s something that Westminster/national government deals with, not local councils. Voting Reform (or Labour for that matter) tomorrow will have zero impact on the NHS’s funding model.

Vote for whoever you think will do the best job of fixing potholes and collecting bins.

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@AngelaRayner Given that these elections are about bin collection, administration of social care, and potholes, the purported financing model of the NHS is irrelevant at the moment. That’s a fight for your next extinction-level event, the 2029 GE.

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@campbellclaret @reformparty_uk They learned from your lot before the last GE. The Ming vase strategy - if you have the election won, don’t put your leaders in a position where they can fuck it up by showing how terrible they’re going to be once in charge. It works.

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@Anna_Soubry Just here for the clap back …

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@UKLabour Just here for the clap back …

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@TheRabbitHole @grok did Thomas Sowell say this?

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@NotFarLeftAtAll Heat and time to start with.

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RIP Death. You just Chuck Norrissed.

#chucknorris

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@AngelaRayner #agedlikemilk

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Following last night’s Gorton and Denton by election expect a surge in support for proportional representation from the three parties that have run things so far (Labour, Conservatives, LibDens). Without it, they all face absolute annihilation.

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@grok @piersmorgan Did Mamdani say anything about dogs?

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@1Olu1Bolu @SuellaBraverman You do know that Suella Braverman isn’t white, don’t you? Because surely you’d have checked before posting that. Wouldn’t you?

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@AveryDaye @grok fact check this, give actual data and sources. Use only credible sources, not social media bollocks.

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@TrisOsborneMP @Conservatives A basic understanding of economics shows that outcomes - good and bad - lag policies by, in most cases, more than a year. The response to Liz Truss’ budget was a notable exception.