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Aerospace, Politics & Work.

[🆁🅾🅱 🅱🆄🆁🆁🅾🆆 @robburrow]

@LaraLewington @BBCClick @BentleyMotors what in the name of rubbish Photoshop is going on here 🤔

[🆁🅾🅱 🅱🆄🆁🆁🅾🆆 @robburrow]

@drbecky_ it's made it all the way to Swansea 👍

[🆁🅾🅱 🅱🆄🆁🆁🅾🆆 @robburrow]

@beertoday @BlackSheepBeer @Rob7Burrow

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Here's how the future is going to play out.

(Long - please expand the tweet.)

1. The Tories will wreck everything at an ever increasing pace as the GE approaches, like irresponsible teenagers who know they're not going to be the ones cleaning up the morning after their wild drunken binge.

2. Labour will win the GE on a desperate tide of people wanting to Get the Tories Out, but (and this will be VERY important later) their future freedom to manoevre will be hampered by the bright red lines they laid down on things like Brexit.

3. Labour will start trying to fix some of the stuff the Tories broke. It will prove very expensive. Mending is always more expensive than breaking.

4. Labour will try to Make Brexit Work. The RW tabloids will tear even bigger strips off them than usual.

5. Make Brexit Work won't. Work, that is. Trying to make Brexit work is like trying to get the toothpaste back in the tube after you've brushed your teeth with it.

6. Meanwhile, Labour are having to spend more more more just to keep stuff from literally falling apart (think sewers, water pipes, collapsing schools, crumbling hospitals etc.)

7. Tories watch from the sidelines, laughing and jeering. "Typical Labour. Always spending money they don't have."

8. If they're VERY lucky, Labour will go into the GE-after-next with the overall situation in Britain slightly better than it was when they took office. The country will only be knee-deep in metaphoric and real sewage, rather than thigh deep.

9. The Tories and the RW media will tag team to blame everything that's (still) broken in Britain on Labour. "Same old Labour. Can't be trusted with the economy. Can't be trusted with anything. Can't even fix Brexit, despite their lofty promises."

(Important intermission: Labour will never get fair coverage in our British media. But this is a "known known". They need to figure out how to win, repeatedly, anyway.)

10. GE2: Electric Boogaloo. Labour are stuck. The taunts about having failed their flagship Brexit fixing policy hit home, because they're true. That lubricates the way for all the lies the Tories and RW media are spinning about their wider performance to slip down like honey.

IF Labour pivot towards SM/CU/Rejoin, they might as well tattoo "we wasted 5 years because we didn't have a clue about what we were doing when it comes to Brexit" across their collective foreheads. They may pivot anyway, because the alternative is even worse. This is where those bright red lines (remember them?) will bite them in the fundament so hard they won't be able to sit down for the next six months. Because the press can absolutely legitimately scream "U-turn! Come and see the U-turn so big, it's visible from the Moon." And it will be true.

(Absolutely critical point: there is no "Get the Tories Out" vote. "Ooh, the scary Tories will get back in if you don't vote for us" doesn't have anything like the same impact, especially with non-core Labour voters who lent their votes last time but who are absolutely livid about Labour's failing approach to the Brexit they detest.)

11. Labour lose GE2. A one-term wonder, and they're done. The Tories do what they do best: keep blaming everything on Labour, while picking their looting back up where they left off last time.

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Scroll back up through the scenario above, and look at how Brexit runs through it like a vein pumping pure poison.

That is why Labour need to change their fundamental approach to Brexit, and they need to do so now.

Stop ruling anything out (not saying you won't do something isn't the same as proactively saying you will). Think along the lines of "Labour will do whatever it takes to mitigate the damage Brexit is causing". Make the change far enough ahead of the GE that the fuss about the U-turn is reduced to the constant every-day moaning and carping of the RW press by the time the GE comes around.

Also, Labour need to reconsider PR. It's the only hope they (and we) have of anything approaching long-term stability.

Many of the problems Britain faces will take 2, 3, 4+ election cycles to fix. And they need to be fixed. But the only conceivable way of getting the time necessary to do so is to form long-term partnerships via PR.

That way, you get rid of the short-termism that has dominated British politics to the ruin of us all. (In the current 5-year political cycle, the first year is spent learning the ropes and the last gearing up for the GE, so there are really only 3 even vaguely "productive" years to be wrung out of incumbency.)

Phew, and we're done. You may disagree. You probably will disagree. But please take a very deep breath and a big step back, and think about whether your disagreement comes because it feels genuinely too horrible to contemplate the real world in the stark terms I painted above, and whether your support for a particular political party is blinding you to the reality of what they can achieve in a short 5-year (really 3) period in office.

[Tinnitis Emeritus @pbontoast1]

So how does sound in water work? How would we detect and localize a sound under water? And in particular, what are the key things to know in the case of a possible sound near the missing submersible's area? A thread

[David Owens @asoundreaction]

Trust me this is one of the best things you will watch today, or any other day for that matter.

American gets all the feels and the passion as he hears Dafydd Iwan's classic song for the first time.

https://t.co/yNGgZsCNG0

[JonnyValleyBoy @JonnyValleyBoy]

For all the Gammons ranting "Nobody in Wales speaks Welsh"

Well there's a reason for that,

It was beaten out of generations of Welsh children,

And we will never forget...

[🆁🅾🅱 🅱🆄🆁🆁🅾🆆 @robburrow]

@LBGAmbYandH @runforall @Rob7Burrow

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

Here's a little look at German cost of living vs British cost of living, which goes a long way to explain why British people are suffering- despite the UK being ome of the richest countries in the world

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[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

I wish I were shocked…

That Serco got the contract for 109 asylum hotels

That Serco's CEO is the brother of a former Tory MP

That his partner is a Tory Party donor

That Serco's former top spin doctor was the Tory Minister for Health:

https://t.co/6VN9L7Xo0f

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

It's outrageous I'm having to write this, but the UK Gov have defined ANOTHER rail project that is only in England as Eng & Wal.

This time it's... wait for it... Northern Powerhouse Rail is defined as being beneficial enough for Wales to mean we miss out on cash.

(Angry) Thread

[🆁🅾🅱 🅱🆄🆁🆁🅾🆆 @robburrow]

so @KFC_UKI charged our account 3 times for one order and the only way to contact them for a refund is not in store but via a standard feedback form on their website, simply not good enough.

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

No tomato shortage here - but I’m in Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city that gets shelled by the Russians daily, not a British supermarket.

[🆁🅾🅱 🅱🆄🆁🆁🅾🆆 @robburrow]

An almost 14% increase in my @O2 contracts is simply opportunistic thievery. That's 3 customers they are losing in this household.

[Londoner in Colchester City 🇪🇺 @colchlondoner]

Electoral fraud UK

2020 - 0
2019 - 4
2018 - 3
2017 - 3

Almost every single one was a candidate cheating, voters simply don’t bother. Get a postal vote.

Voter ID is Conservative vote rigging. Is your MP on the list mine is @wilquince #Colchester

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

Let’s get this straight. The government’s nature watch dog @NaturalEngland has approved the killing of red listed birds such as Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Fieldfare and Redwing for the purposes of “sport.” FFS this is INSANE!! 😡😡

https://t.co/EDLhRH2tvR

[🆁🅾🅱 🅱🆄🆁🆁🅾🆆 @robburrow]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Vaughan Gething @vaughangething]

There's been lots of noise today from Tories about successful Levelling Up bids.

But it's clear this was never about directing money where it's needed most.

Whilst Rishi Sunak has given wealthy Tory constituencies millions, here's some Welsh communities that missed out.

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[Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OwsWills]

Greater London’s population is three times that of Wales. Yet London got £120 billion, while Wales got £208 million in “Levelling-up” funds.

i.e.
London gets £119,792,000,000 (that’s one hundred and nineteen billion, seven hundred and ninety-two million pounds) more than Wales.

[Georgina Lee @lee_georgina]

England’s NHS is now TEN times worse than in 2011 on four key measures:

🚑 Long A&E waits: 50,000 ➡️ 539,511

🛌 Long trolley waits: 8,000 ➡️ 135,182

🩺 Cancer referral waits +2 weeks: 3,700 ➡️ 51,919

👨🏽‍⚕️ Long elective care waits: 243,000 ➡️ 2,602,833

My @FactCheck analysis: