Chartered Accountant. Former Equity Capital Markets Manager. Former MP for High Peak. Former Government Treasury Whip. Former lots of things…
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Jun 13
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts. And I looked, and behold a pale horse. And his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him…
Jun 13
Ed Miliband is pushing to be made chancellor if Andy Burnham becomes prime minister, The Telegraph can reveal.
🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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Jun 12
Your steam engine is British.
Your Industrial Revolution is British.
Your railway is British.
Your underground railway is British.
Your modern railway timetable is British.
Your suspension bridge is British.
Your iron bridge is British.
Your modern lighthouse is British.
Your marine chronometer is British.
Your global time standard is British.
Your time zone starts at Greenwich.
Your telephone is Scottish.
Your television is Scottish.
Your radar is British.
Your jet engine is British.
Your tank is British.
Your programmable computer is British.
Your World Wide Web is British.
Your fibre-optic communications were pioneered by a Briton.
Your modern telecommunications network was transformed by British inventors.
Your antibiotics are Scottish.
Your vaccination programme was pioneered by an Englishman.
Your modern nursing profession is British.
Your public sanitation system is British.
Your modern sewerage system is British.
Your clean drinking water infrastructure was pioneered by Victorian Britain.
Your weather forecast is British.
Your life boat service is British.
Your modern fire service was pioneered in Britain.
Your parliamentary democracy is British.
Your constitutional monarchy is British.
Your common law is British.
Your independent judiciary is British.
Your trial by jury is British.
Your presumption of innocence is British.
Your habeas corpus is British.
Your rule of law is British.
Your modern police force is British.
Your modern civil service is British.
Your modern banking system was shaped in Britain.
Your central banking model was shaped by the Bank of England.
Your stock exchange model was pioneered in London.
Your global insurance market was built at Lloyd's of London.
Your international maritime law was shaped by Britain.
Your global trade routes were mapped by Britain.
Your anti-slavery patrols were British.
Your modern university model was influenced by Oxford and Cambridge.
Your scientific societies were pioneered by Britain.
Your peer-reviewed science was advanced by British institutions.
Your laws of motion are English.
Your theory of evolution is English.
Your economics is Scottish.
Your electromagnetism was transformed by a Scot.
Your geology was pioneered by Scots.
Your thermodynamics was advanced by Britons.
Your stainless steel is British.
Your carbon fibre is British.
Your steam turbine is British.
Your hovercraft is British.
Your ATM is British.
Your cash machine is Scottish.
Your postage stamp is British.
Your modern postal system is British.
Your football is English.
Your rugby is British.
Your golf is Scottish.
Your tennis was codified in Britain.
Your badminton was codified in Britain.
Your cricket is English.
Your worldwide language is English.
Your newspapers were shaped by Britain.
Your global news agencies were pioneered by Britain.
Your public broadcasting model is British.
Your music charts are British.
Your modern popular music owes a great deal to Britain.
Your neighbour may be an immigrant.
But a fair chunk of the modern world is British.
Pull yourself together.
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Robert Largan retweeted
Jun 10
Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, famously commented on a London newspaper stand as a sign of the highly-civilised society of Great Britain in the 1940s.
His words came to mind when I saw the state of this newspaper stand in a London tube station this afternoon.
It’s remarkable how far we’ve fallen in such a short amount of time.
His words:
“Perhaps the most impressive sight I came upon was when I emerged from the tube station at Piccadilly Circus. I found a little table with a pile of newspapers and a box of coins and notes with nobody in attendance. You take your newspaper, toss in your coin or put in your 10-shilling note and take your change. I took a deep breath - this was a truly civilised people.”
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Jun 10
NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal
Earlier I attended a Makerfield hustings event hosted by @MENnewsdesk, in which Burnham said: “I stick by campaigners that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families, I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.”
Stressing he wouldn’t ditch his longterm support for Waspi women, he said he felt “uncomfortable” that some politicians threw their support behind a cause but then went into government and “didn’t do anything”
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Jun 10
Rachel Reeves will reimburse British firms £5,000 per foreign worker in a bid to make the country more attractive despite the UK’s growing youth unemployment crisis
🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/w…
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We don’t have to live like this.
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Jun 8
You may have seen some bizarre AI videos on this platform today.
Whilst Andrew Bailey and I have our disagreements, I would never take it that far!
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“If you want the legal protections of marriage, get married.”
Jun 5
Many unmarried, cohabiting couples have limited legal protections if their relationship ends or a partner dies, even after long-term relationships or raising children together.
Labour is consulting on reforms to strengthen the legal protections available to these couples.
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Robert Largan retweeted
Jun 5
Voter behaviour has been so consistent. For my entire life, voters’ stated preferences has been for immigration to be dramatically lower and for the pace of demographic change to slow dramatically. In top of that, voters’ revealed preferences, shown through large scale ‘white-flight’, has suggested the same*.
*Even among white liberals moving out of places like inner London for *cough* ‘better schools’.
I don’t think most people have quite grasped the scale and pace of demographic change taking place. A change that people were never consulted on and voted against at every opportunity since it became apparent.
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I don’t think most people have quite grasped the scale and pace of demographic change taking place. A change that people were never consulted on and voted against at every opportunity since it became apparent.
Jun 4
White British percentage of total school enrolment by parliamentary constituency.
The constituency with the highest White British percentage is North Northumberland at 92.5%
The constituency with the lowest White British percentage is East Ham at 2.3%
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My uncle bought what he thought was a greyhound from a man down the pub, intending to race it. Turned out it was a whippet.
Jun 4
A man pours a beer into an ashtray for his dog to drink in Manchester, England.
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4 years ago, I finished second in a mechanical bull riding competition to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Only bested by an 8 year old…
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“Building for the past twenty years”
May 29
Too many young people in Britain are struggling to get a foot on the jobs ladder. The problem has been building for the past twenty years - we're determined to tackle it head on.
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May 29
May 29
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham would end all Government contracts for asylum accommodation and hotels if he becomes Prime Minister
The responsibility for providing accommodation would instead be given to local authorities
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Robert Largan retweeted
Happy Birthday to former High Peak MP @robertlargan born exactly 20 years after Liam Gallagher.
Here he is in his, "I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that shaves me, cause after all you're my wonder @Wahl_UK" phase.
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May 29
I’ve got this brilliant birthday present this year. An educational map produced by the Attlee Government.
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May 29
Celebrating my birthday by fighting over a toy pheasant with a mountain hound.
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May 28
Important from Alan Milburn today - the Tories let NEET numbers soar to near 1m, cut youth apprenticeships by 40% & never got youth employment back to the levels seen under Tony Blair. We must reform our labour market, welfare, education & health systems to invest in young people
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May 27
1. There is no understanding here of why taxes have risen over the past decade. If you look at the data you’ll know this most significantly reflects two things
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May 27
For those wondering when I will stop quote tweeting Torsten with this graph, the answer is: never.
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