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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 8h

Most of our new towns are no more than 100000 and they took decades to build, even one of Britain's most expanded cities, Plymouth is around 260000 and the new areas and city centre took 25+ years to develop. Building somewhere the size of Birmingham from scratch is a megalomaniac pipe dream!

azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 10h

In 10 or 20 years, streets like this will be wonderful, thanks to the shade.

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 12h

They sure want us to have short memories, don't they? I'll never forget or forgive the Tory coalition of chaos!

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 1d

No problem. I'm finding Your Party quite perplexing and disappointing at the moment. But it's more the structures being set up and the way they are going about it. I was expecting a broad coalition of the left and unions, federal in nature, rather than one group trying to dominate everything.

azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I see the difference now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 1d

It shouldn't matter. I can't remember everything I want to say the way I say it and having it in front of me helps me know when to stop/ say everything I wanted to say. I find it hard to speak in front of people, this just makes it sound like I should not bother.

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly! So what if someone is using their phone as a teleprompter. For some of us, it's only way we know we have said everything we actually wanted to say.

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank god for that! I hope results like this are across the board next May!

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:

🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant, that cheered me up! I hope it works out for him.
Also learnt from the interview, Andy Burnham and GM has a neuroinclusive code of practice, they need this everywhere! Discrimination in the workplace is still such a massive problem for the disabled and neurodiverse.

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 2d

www.gmgoodemploymentcharter.co.uk/bee-neuroinc...

Bee Neuroinclusive Resource Hub | Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter

Explore our Bee Neuroinclusive Code of Practice for Employers within the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. Empower your organisation with inclusive practices, resources and insights to foster a workplace that values diversity, equity and accessibility.

www.gmgoodemploymentcharter.co.uk

azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 2d

Good to see such a positive turn of events, I hope it works well for him, I really do! Also didn't know that Greater Manchester has a neuroinclusive code of practice, hopefully other regions will copy this. I'm university educated and autistic and work is so hard to get, it needs to change!

ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 2d

He’s been offered a job at Asda!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda

Tom Boyd's mum says she is

www.bbc.co.uk

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 4d

They have nothing on him, ideas never die!

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 4d

Surely some of this has to filter into and benefit Hertfordshire, the county sandwiched between London and the Arc.

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 4d

reform should just stand aside and let the grown ups take charge!

azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 4d

What a bunch of assholes Waitrose are! Next time benefits are attacked, this is what the disabled face trying work! He may have volunteered but clearly liked the routine, he needs to be paid. Obvious exploitation & discrimination from a multi billion pound company!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Autistic volunteer 'sacked' after family asked if he could be paid

Tom Boyd, who has autism, was a volunteer at a Waitrose in Cheadle Hulme for four years but when his mum Frances asked if he could have paid work he was told he could not continue

www.mirror.co.uk

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 4d

What a bunch of assholes Waitrose are! Next time the right wing attacks benefits, this is what the disabled have to put up with when they work! He may have volunteered but obviously liked the routine, he needs to be paid. Obvious exploitation and discrimination from a multi billion pound company!

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 5d

It's a growing problem in Britain. Rather annoyingly the government did a consultation on pavement parking 5 years ago and then sat on it, doing nothing! Joke really, as it causes so many issues locally and no one seems willing to fix it! In London and Scotland, it's finable but no where else.

azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 6d

Not isolated to Cornwall, Kent and Derbyshire too, reform's lot are bitterly divided so much infighting. Would be entertaining if people didn't rely on councils for so many services. You'd think a mechanism would exist where competent people take over if the existing councillors are unfit for office

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 6d

How many parties elect 5 MPs and have to kick out 2 of them already anyway? They need to be taken seriously but are not a stable force in the slightest. Even more obvious signs of that in the councils. Just chaos!

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 6d

That's true but the right are too. In fact, reform are bitterly divided in a way that makes Labour appear to be at peace! reform elects people who quit in days, they have no programme but rhetoric

Also for my own sake I don't see much point in looking at polls until a year before general election

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 6d

Probably won't be as hard as people think, the way reform organises itself means its numbers are doubtful. And it's not just who's paying dues, but if they are even active in local areas, momentum is not on their side. Just seems like a lot of noise and little substance.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6d

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉

📈 125,000 members and counting.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
MORE MEMBERS than the Conservatives
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe Labour's unpopularity and pressure on them from both the left and right will do us all a favour and end up with something good.

azlarryan.bsky.social @azlarryan.bsky.social · 7d

Trains like this or trams to connect cities, suburbs, towns and even villages would surely be the best way forward, where demand is lower/ more spread out, over busways or Glider type schemes.

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