Watching the world over the rim of a brew.

Joined November 2009
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Jun 11
Imagine all those LTN advocates, choosing to live in London complaining about traffic going past their houses.
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.

Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. 

It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
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Jun 4
Leave it as it is and just enforce the restrictions. There's more problems to worry about, like Piccadilly underpass, Hyde Park Corner and Park Lane. Work with Khan to get the borough moving again. He's brought commercial traffic in the area to a near standstill.
While we keep our options open on Oxford Street, if pedestrianisation is going ahead we want to make it the best possible for residents, visitors & businesses. The experienced @CityWestminster team is ready to work constructively with @SadiqKhan 2/2
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We want a fucking journalist class to hold to account politicised police forces that are literally allowing kids to die because their perverse ideas of “social justice” are actually resulting in an inversion of justice, itself. That’s the national emergency, you fucking goon.
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In June 2020 Shabana Mahmood tweeted that she shared constituents' anger at George Floyd's murder, called it an unspeakable outrage, and posted with . She referred to protests across the United States and expressed solidarity with that sentiment. No public statement from her at the time condemned the protests or any associated riots.
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May 31
I've turned London into the most congested city in Europe. I'm launching a plan with Will Norman to double down and do more of the stuff that's got us into this mess.
I’ve launched a plan to get more Londoners walking, cycling and wheeling through the capital - along with @TfL @WillNorman, we’re making our streets safer🚶🏽
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RT @MayorofLondon: I’ve launched a plan to get more Londoners walking, cycling and wheeling through the capital - along with @TfL @WillNorm…
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This Piccadilly underpass closure really is scandalous, the new administration at @CityWestminster must investigate
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Hello @Councillorsuzie, now that @CityWestminster has regained control, will that pointless cycle lane in Park Lane be decommissioned and a sensible speed limit be reintroduced?
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May 17
Pointing to his sign that's deliberately hidden from tourists, ripping them off. #london @CityWestminster @MayorofLondon @TfL @policylaila
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Just told them not to pay. He tried to charge them £400 from Buckingham Palace to Leicester sq. This is on your watch @CityWestminster
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So here we have 2 children, one is a racist, violent, far right thug, the other, well I’ll let you decide.
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London's black cab drivers are required to pass one of the most demanding qualification tests in the world, known as The Knowledge, which has changed little since its introduction in 1865. ​ The test requires candidates to memorise 320 standard routes through central London, covering some 25,000 streets within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross, along with thousands of points of interest within half a mile of each route. ​ During training, would-be drivers, known as Knowledge boys and girls, typically follow the routes on a motor scooter with a clipboard fixed to the handlebars, displaying the streets to be learned that day. ​ At the examination, candidates must identify two points of interest chosen by their examiner, then recite the shortest route between them from memory, naming every road, junction, turn, and landmark along the way. ​ The full qualification typically takes three to four years to complete, with candidates required to pass at least twelve one-on-one oral examinations throughout the process. ​ Research has found that training for The Knowledge can measurably alter the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for spatial memory, which is generally larger in London taxi drivers than in the wider population. ​ There are two licence badges upon qualification: a yellow one covering the suburban areas, and the considerably more difficult green badge, which covers all of London. © All About Britain #drthehistories
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Replying to @zarahsultana
I wont be reweeting that however i will be reminding you and eveyone else about the time you cheered on a man who got famous for punching women in the face and stealing their dreams. You even called him queen. Are you ever going to address this or nah?
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Replying to @thameswater
@thameswater day 4 hyde park corner , Grosvenor crescent. Shambles of a company, this is repeated all over London. @BBCLondonNews
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Replying to @LeoKearse
I don't know who needs to hear this...
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Replying to @EdwardJDavey
Charlatan ? Ed you trousered £275,000 on the backs of the misery of the sub-postmasters scandal, some of whom committed suicide as a result of their persecution.
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I must say I am *shocked* at how many of the highly ‘virtuous and kind’ left wing media and establishment politicians have revealed they view living near asylum seekers is a “punishment”. Whoever would have thought!
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Stood behind this stooge 4 almost 1.5min.. had plenty of opportunity 2 exit right but just stood ther with a driver inside causin backlog traffic. this is 1, what happens when thers hundreds!! @TfL @TfLTPH @MayorofLondon @TheLTDA @The_LCDC @UKLabour manufactured CHAOS to come.
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Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated. RETWEET IF YOU AGREE
A Morrisons store manager says his life has been completely 'devastated' after he was sacked for confronting a repeated shoplifter.  Sean Egan - who had worked in the Aldridge Morrisons in the West Midlands for 29 years - was escorting the shoplifter out of the store when the thief turned aggressive.
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