3/ ... this thought by @peterwalker99.bsky.social crossed my mind too 🤔
#NT #NationalTrust #RestoreTrust

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2/ 🧵 @sundersays.bsky.social with a history of how #RestoreTrust have been defeated in their attempts to be elected to the #NT #NationalTrust Council

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Places £10 bet on Bradley Walsh, plus one of them from It's Take Two. Beeb will want a big name, comfortable fronting a big show, and familiar with Strictly.

What appears to be the restaurant's entry at Companies House shows various winding up and liquidation statements for the last couple of years
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1180...

Would appear there's a bit more history than just the whine on the website.

Choose male vs female black poplar trees carefully - there's a female BP nearby which produces fluffy cotton wool-like seeds in abundance, covering the street, houses and vehicles for weeks in spring. Understandably, female trees were/are considered a nuisance and very rare these days.

There's a searchable archive of BBC listings genome.ch.bbc.co.uk
which includes listings for "How Do They Do That"
genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?...

Separately, there were 17 progs in the early 1990s referencing "Mona Lisa"
genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?...
... if that helps you forwards?

Important info about the International Space Station bsky.app/profile/iss-...

Bluesky is not a porn site. It is a social media site that does allow sex workers and doesn't automatically censor sex-related (including explicit content).

Bluesky says it will now block that and other content unless you have scanned your face, identification documents, etc.

Garratt was hooked out of role, Hall back in charge.
www.cityhallconservatives.com/post/susan-h...

Given Restore's/ Lowe's stated agenda, it's quite clear was Hall believes.

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Many in SW London remember the introduction of wheelie bins across Croy/Merton/Sutton/ Kingston (?), with huge opposition, petitions against, claims of apocalyptic consequences, ...
A couple of weeks of teething issues, world continued to spin, naysayers moved on to other stuff to oppose

..cont/ Many councillors and council officers roll over quickly as their post & email boxes are overwhelmed. More battle hardened officials log the stuff and continue on, knowing that the opposition noise dissipates when implementation happens and such folk move on to the next thing to object to.

Journalists like @peterwalker99.bsky.social will have a more evidence based insight, but my experience of London consultations relating to transport/ cycle lanes/ LTNs etc is that there are well resourced and organised blocks who are quickly mobilised to submit reams of opposition / cont

There's at least four and an ex Chronicle journalists with the Chronicle on this platform ... maybe they can explain the editorial strategy?

As usual Goodwin & co are claiming that anyone of Irish descent living here is "foreign".

Section 2 of the Ireland Act 1949 is clear: Ireland is not a foreign country.

Don't know about Wilson, but every time I see Starmer with his beloved red folders, I think he looks like Eamonn Andrews*

(*ask your grandma)

Ah, Cllr Finch, the 18yo with the Saville Faux wardrobe
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Well, BBC "winning over Reform voters", innit
/s
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Tories are possibly hugging the More-in-Common surveys which give them a rosier position.
Lord knows why.
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