comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted less than a minute ago
Manchester and Salford has had the best development and investment pumped into it compared to when I lived there. Especially Salford.
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Definitely


With hs2 and the commonwealth games coming up things have really started to get good here now

NEW Bank of England HOLD interest rates at emergency 0.1% but indicates rises in coming months

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
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comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 1 minute ago
Yeah she's a horrible MP and person.

I don't know a single person in Telford who actually likes her, she only stayed on in 17 and 19 due to Brexit.

Didn't help also in 17 the Labour candidate refused the offer from the Green candidate to stand down, and then lost by basically the same amount of votes that the Greens got
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Why the hell did they refuse that??
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Pride
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No, Labour has a general policy of not doing electoral pacts because focus groups tell them it's seen as grubby backalley deals that will be used against them
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Ultimately if she lost by roughly the same number as the green vote she wouldn’t have won, not every green voter would have gone and voted labour.

comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 6 minutes ago
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posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted less than a minute ago
I lived in Telford for 6 months before moving to London when I was a kid, horrid area. I'm no fan of the midlands one bit.
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Midlands is the best !!!! Especially Birmingham 😀
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The Midlands gets a bad reputation from people in the South East, but having lived in both I much preferred living in the Midlands. I found most people in the South East look down on places like Birmingham, whilst over paying for everything, generally being grumpy and being no better off.
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Tbh it's really developed in recent times. Midlands have had some much needed investment which it has lacked for so long.
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Tamworth has grown considerably, even in the 6 years since I left. My favourite addition is still the Aethelflaed statue on the roundabout at the train station. She is supposed to be pointing her spear towards the town centre for all the arrivals, but it looks like she I pointing directly at the Domino's Pizza.

NEW BoE forecasts post tax, post inflation wages and salaries are now forecast to fall over the next two years by 1.25% next year and 0.75% the year after.

Pre financial crisis this grew on average for nearly two decades by 3.25% per year.

High wage economy lads

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted less than a minute ago
I lived in Telford for 6 months before moving to London when I was a kid, horrid area. I'm no fan of the midlands one bit.
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Midlands is the best !!!! Especially Birmingham 😀
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The Midlands gets a bad reputation from people in the South East, but having lived in both I much preferred living in the Midlands. I found most people in the South East look down on places like Birmingham, whilst over paying for everything, generally being grumpy and being no better off.
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Tbh it's really developed in recent times. Midlands have had some much needed investment which it has lacked for so long.
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Tamworth has grown considerably, even in the 6 years since I left. My favourite addition is still the Aethelflaed statue on the roundabout at the train station. She is supposed to be pointing her spear towards the town centre for all the arrivals, but it looks like she I pointing directly at the Domino's Pizza.
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Do love a good domino's 🤣

Dan Hannan on Politics live asserting that most people's definition of corruption goes hand in hand (nearly 100%) with views they do not agree with.

comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? Golf Club Defecator (U3126)
posted 21 minutes ago
Dan Hannan on Politics live asserting that most people's definition of corruption goes hand in hand (nearly 100%) with views they do not agree with.
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Pledges to cut emissions from farming..

Farmer on radio 1 tries to greenwash it by stating that "cows eat grass, which captures carbon" but their diets are entirely the problem, and he's being disingenuous, the amount of grass fed beef in this country is tiny and is almost exclusively cows from birth to "store" age, when they will go off to finishing farms at eat nearly exclusively soybean meal.

If we want to cut carbon emissions and realistically we won't all cut down to have just grass fed beef, it's time we start getting seaweed or hemp in animals diets, it causes a massive reduction in their methane because they burp so much less. Not to mention it's far better for the environment than growing soy, and has many other uses meaning the entire crop is useable.

Really wouldn't be hard to meet those targets (which aren't extensive enough for me) without majorly impacting people

https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1456060708131586049

Looks like Boris may have been working the changes to benefit himself, though given he suffered no penalties for all his previous breaches why'd they choose now when they could have done this for the sexual harasser a ffew months ago and been praised...

all he has down has brought this to the publics attention

comment by Samus (Isle of) Arran (U22669)
posted 2 minutes ago
https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1456060708131586049

Looks like Boris may have been working the changes to benefit himself, though given he suffered no penalties for all his previous breaches why'd they choose now when they could have done this for the sexual harasser a ffew months ago and been praised...

all he has down has brought this to the publics attention
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Probably thought using Paterson to change the system prior to his own visit to the standards committee was a machievelian masterstroke, oops!

comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
I lived in Telford for 6 months before moving to London when I was a kid, horrid area. I'm no fan of the midlands one bit.
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Be easier for you to get to Man Utd games from Telford.

Claudia Webbe about to be sentenced

Lord Frost and Clément Beaune met in Paris this morning & discussed difficulties arising from the application of agreements between the UK and the EU.

Spox: "Both sides set out their positions and concerns."

Not over yet.

Frost will meet Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels tomorrow.

comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted less than a minute ago
Lord Frost and Clément Beaune met in Paris this morning & discussed difficulties arising from the application of agreements between the UK and the EU.

Spox: "Both sides set out their positions and concerns."

Not over yet.

Frost will meet Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels tomorrow.
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UK have barely made any efforts to enforced the rules and have continually kicked the ball down the road.

Frost is a blowhard and we should all be embarrassed that he is negotiating for the UK

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 8 minutes ago
Claudia Webbe about to be sentenced
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https://twitter.com/osasubab?t=O5s3wItwQzglYFl5OFJPLQ&s=09

Think I've found one of her alt accounts

comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 20 minutes ago
Lord Frost and Clément Beaune met in Paris this morning & discussed difficulties arising from the application of agreements between the UK and the EU.

Spox: "Both sides set out their positions and concerns."

Not over yet.

Frost will meet Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels tomorrow.
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Permanent UK/EU trade envoy Darren Grimes met counterpart Fabien Barthez in Paris today to discuss the ongoing issues surrounding the three remaining fishing trawlers, and the carve up, of the seven cod, and nine herring caught this month.

Owen Paterson has resigned

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted less than a minute ago
Owen Paterson has resigned
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Resigned to stand by election or is he gone for good?

🚨 | NEW: Part of the M1 has been shut due to cows on the loose

Via @BBCNews https://t.co/0YQGGJqiH6

Owen Paterson has resigned as MP for North Shropshire saying "I will remain a public servant but outside the cruel world of politics" after he was found to have broken lobbying rules

For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/8OWd2TNmj1

"The cruel world of politics" = "consequences of my own actions"

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🚨 | NEW: Part of the M1 has been shut due to cows on the loose

Via @BBCNews https://t.co/0YQGGJqiH6
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shocking these cows could be blocking ambulances surely the farmer should be jailed or run over for their careless behaviour?

I actually feel sorry for Paterson

All his own doing of course and if he'd just accepted the sanction he'd have been yesterdays news in no time

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted less than a minute ago
Owen Paterson has resigned as MP for North Shropshire saying "I will remain a public servant but outside the cruel world of politics" after he was found to have broken lobbying rules

For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/8OWd2TNmj1

"The cruel world of politics" = "consequences of my own actions"
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Playing the victim.

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted less than a minute ago
Owen Paterson has resigned as MP for North Shropshire saying "I will remain a public servant but outside the cruel world of politics" after he was found to have broken lobbying rules

For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/8OWd2TNmj1

"The cruel world of politics" = "consequences of my own actions"
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Nothing cruel about being found guilty of lobbying by an independent body.

Good to know this former MP believes that punishing the guilty is a cruel thing?

and what has he benefitted from 500k and he got a 30 day suspension?

I am assuming he was allowed to keep all the money he gained