Woke Banker
Joined April 2009
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16 May 2020
An oft asked question: can you put a tandem on a turbo trainer? You sure can! Virtual London to Paris on 13 June! 300km in 24hrs on a tandem on a turbo on our patio. All to support research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Please support us if you can at uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Suz…
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Jun 14
Tom thinks building safe cycling infrastructure is virtue signalling.
I think he’s also advocating nationalising the private mobile phone companies.
Or he’s having a bad Sunday afternoon. Mouthed off on twitter and now can’t backtrack.
Jun 14
I’m in Dulwich. One of the more expensive areas of London, supposedly a global city, and I’m getting worse mobile phone reception that I did in Kabul a decade ago. I pay for two contracts: @O2 and @EE and neither is reliable so I can’t work.
Mobile phones are useless in vast areas of Britain and have got worse. You can never work on a train, unlike in France. But we’re spending £4.5 billion in bike lanes and crossings.
This government is prioritising virtue signalling vanity projects when we need infrastructure urgently.
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Jun 3
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"
Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"
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Jun 1
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Jun 1
Conventional wisdom says that leaving the European Union has harmed the British economy.
Listen to almost any Brexit debate – over the airwaves or on the professional conference circuit – and it’s invariably taken for granted being outside the EU has done serious economic damage.
Now we're in June, and as the 23rd approaches – the ten-year anniversary of that hotly-contested, era-defining referendum – this message will be rammed home again and again.
But it simply isn’t true.
My latest "Economic Agenda" column in @Telegraph
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May 27
If you read something and think to yourself, that can’t be right, look to @MonkEmma for the excellent debunk.
May 27
OK, so Helen Whately and the Express are doubling down and going all out hysterical at this point...🙄
They've actually "calculated" the state benefits a man with ELEVEN WIVES could claim!!
And this time, they've done it behind a paywalled article🤷♀️
But don't worry, I got behind it!🤓
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ALT Express Headline: 'Astonishing!' Fury that men with multiple wives are allowed to claim extra estate benefits. The Conservatives have vowed to ban husbands with multiple wives from claiming extra welfare benefits, closing a loophole that costs taxpayers thousands.
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May 25
Erm, I think we know a ceiling toaster when we see one, thanks very much.
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May 21
Giant pandas are officially no longer classified as "Endangered"
But it was nothing to do with them
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May 17
Anyone sitting their A Level politics exam on Thursday: Good luck, you got this and whatever you do, ignore everything @julianHjessop writes.
May 17
For those suggesting Labour should just put #rejoinEU in their next manifesto and get a mandate that way... 🤔
A General Election which might be won with just a third of the votes cast simply cannot trump a (single issue) Referendum where more than half wanted to leave the EU!
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May 12
Starmer is a bit shit, we know he is...but today ending with Chris Mason, Beth Rigby, Peston, Sophie Ridge & Sam Coates not getting the Prime Ministerial scalp they so desperately wanted all day has cheered me no end
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May 12
Knight Rider: Trust Doesn't Rust (1982). David Hasselhoff gets to grips with AI ethics as he discovers KITT has an amoral doppelgänger: KARR!
44 years later and we're still having the same conversation...
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May 7
Got to love @WestminsterWAG
May 6
NEWS! EasyJet won’t refund my cancelled BA flight! Your consumer problems with Sarah Vine newsthump.com/2026/05/06/eas…
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Apr 21
More hassle admin and cost thanks to Brexit. Thanks for nothing @DavidGHFrost
improve-ov.com/instructions/…
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Apr 2
Hi @TomTugendhat given you retweeted this, perhaps you could comment on who, as energy secretary, announced the closure of Grangemouth. Many thanks.
Last year Britain lost a THIRD of its refineries.
Why? A Carbon Tax on industry that Ed Miliband doubled.
We won’t need any less petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ceramics or chemicals - we'll just rely more on foreign imports.
We must axe the Carbon Tax and save British industry.
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Mar 26
Trees are good
Mar 25
Mr C from 90s dance chart toppers The Shamen puts his name forward as a potential Green Party council election candidate in Islington
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Mar 22
🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen!
It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week.
Regular as clockwork...
So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread!
PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji?
This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚
🤣 I digress!
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ALT Screenshot of a tweet: Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK X.com Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years. Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated. Yet now, Cadbury won't even use the word 'Easter' on their eggs. When did celebrating British traditions become controversial? Above a photo of Easter Eggs
ALT Screenshot of a tweet: ClIr Jaymey Mclvor * @McivorJaymey x.com Any chance I can get an Easter Egg please M&S? Will they ever learn It's like they do it on purpose to offend. Easter is not National Chocolate Day. Which extremists are you trying hard to not offend? @marksandspencer @GBNEWS Above images of Easter Eggs in M&S
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Mar 22
Finally, if you ever wake up from a coma and you aren't sure what time of year it is, here is a helpful calendar👇
We are right on schedule this year!🤣🙄
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ALT A colorful calendar lists monthly events labeled as "Manufactured Culture War Outrage," highlighting humorous societal issues.
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Mar 18
Number 1 Super Guy
On this day in 1975, the first episode of Hong Kong Phooey aired in the UK.
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Mar 12
I couldn’t care less about you taking me off a banknote but I’m furious about you proposing to remove the UK from the ECHR: the achievement of which I am most proud.
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Mar 12
Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%
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Mar 7
Peter Gummer is the poster child of the @Conservatives.
30 years riddled with dodgy affairs
Royal Opera House
<rewarded with a peerage>
Private Equity
Naomi
Land deal with Cameron
UK China Investment Fund
SG Recruitment.
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