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Andy
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Between Knotty Ash and North Cave. Posts about bikes, Lib Dems 🔶 and occasionally intensive care medicine. All views own and probably not that interesting.
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Good job it wasn’t the UK’s second city #GlasgowsMilesBetter
Brummie and Manc arguing over which city has the honour of being crowned England’s second city. Brummie understandably says ‘Birmingham’, Manc says ‘London’.
Enjoying the benefits of the Brexit he campaigned for by moving to Monaco.

And then there’s his stupid vanity truck.
Pedro’s downhill tyre lever for the win
Aye, that’ll be it and not just the tube perishing.
Puncture fairy once visited me on the turbo #How
All of tomorrow? 🤔
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This is a real red flag about any boss let alone the PM.
Streeting’s combination of ambition and dislikability is something else, isn’t it?
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Always enjoy talking to Hannah on here, but this observation in particular is a real missing tooth of a “I really wish I’d thought of this and written it”, on how Brexit accelerated so many parliamentary careers.
Wheras for Badenoch ten more years would have either put paid to her via a dumb scandal or have seen here consigned to the fringe, and Starmer would have never risen beyond cabinet minister.

This is all still the echoing consequences of one bad vote in 2016.
I’m dreading the @libdems.org.uk ballot paper because I know I’ll feel obliged to vote.
I can remember a BMA election where there were about that many candidates, elected by STV.

I can remember giving up long before I got anywhere near the end.
Well, he does deserve some slack for not starting WW3
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Lessons of Caerphilly by-election IMV:

1) UK has become a country with bloc politics
2) enough voters don't want Reform that they are very vulnerable to being on the wrong side of it
3) but Labour, an essential component of that anti-Reform bloc being able to win, are too unattractive at present.
Labour’s Caerphilly humiliation is a bad omen
Result shows how Reform’s polarising nature may also be its weakness
www.ft.com
On the other hand hand, KB doesn’t appear to know it‘s official policy and Lam is a convenient scapegoat.
It’s hard to see what the political gain is in Lab being soft on social media companies.
It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.
Has Lam been sacked from the Tory front bench yet?
The Conservative Party isn’t getting back near power without recovering the Home Counties.

Now imagine how the sentence “The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population” come across at the breakfast tables of middle class professionals in Surrey reading their FT.
"The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population"

"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
But taking on Reform (and this goes for Lab as much as the Tories) is not pursuing a strategy of “Nigel is right but vote for us instead”
Your occasional reminder that opposing #ActiveTravel is a really poor choice of wedge issue to run on.
Yet another election where a noisy online minority against LTNs doesn’t translate to the ballot box.

The three candidates campaigning explicitly to halt and remove the LTN in the Moseley by-election received a combined total of just 11.4% of the vote.
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I'm reading a book about anaesthesia but I keep nodding off.
I'm reading a book about plant pathology but it's a dying field.
I’m reading a book about proctology but it’s a pain in the arse
It’s Smith & Aitkenhead, isn’t it?
I'm reading a book about anaesthesia but I keep nodding off.
I'm reading a book about plant pathology but it's a dying field.
Bus deregulation was a profound mistake.

We need to stop treating #PublicTransport as a nice-to-have luxury and start treating it as an essential public utility and enabler.
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Keep at it Ian we need @financialtimes.com and @economist.com to fully grasp this and promulgate it so it seeps into the deep state metrics cross party and generations. We nearly got there a few years ago then Johnson Cameron etc just got older and comfey in limos and Range Rovers
The most annoying thing about that FT article - and yes, I shouldn't give it the oxygen of publicity - is that it's largely based on the claimed economic benefits of road investment. But this fails on its own terms, as we know the RoI on non-motor travel is better www.ciht.org.uk/media/mjloxl...