Ben DC
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Railway Lawyer & Consultant | Moves Trains & Hires Railway Equipment & Cranes | @RNReserve Officer | Classical Liberal & Opinionated. (RT≠Endorsement)
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Joined September 2012
Chagossians and Greenlanders both are owed their inherent right to self-determination. For Starmer to pit one against the other is disgusting.
@realBenBloch Disagree. His attempt to pretend that concerns about inexplicable Chagos giveaway are "undermining govt over Greenland" one of the most shameful things he has ever said at PMQs, in a very crowded field. If you support self-determination for one, you should for the other
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The polling is brutal. Anglican churchgoers don’t want £100m diverted to slavery reparations. They want parishes supported, trustees to stick to their remit, and many say they’ll take their giving elsewhere if ignored. The Church’s elite has lost the pews. Read why at The
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When I say that there is no reason to give away Chagos I don't mean I disagree. I mean there is no reason, at all. It's like a Government dumping the contents of the National Gallery in the sea
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From what he’s just said in the White House Donald Trump seems to think we’re selling the Chagos Islands to Mauritius (‘do the Brits need the money?’). Of course the UK is surrendering sovereignty AND paying Mauritius up to £34 billion over the next 100 years to lease back the
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This is very disappointing from the Archbishop of Canterbury. The £100m that the church plans to spend on slavery reparations is for local parishes. It must be spent on that, not on a divisive vanity project.
The Right Rev Dame Sarah Mullally defends a £100m seed fund after a group of MPs and peers called it a ‘legally dubious vanity project’
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Stop being so tribal. Trump is right on the stupidity of the Chagos deal and it is quite right to praise him on this issue
Whatever the merits of the Chagos deal, praising Trump as he threatens to invade a NATO ally (and levy tariffs against the UK if we object) is very revealing.
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“We got the islands by accident.” 283 British soldiers and sailors were killed in the Mauritius Campaign, 700 more were wounded. This tweet is nothing but disrespect to their immortal sacrifice and a sensible person would withdraw it.
TRUMP's Chagos Distraction 👉He agreed the deal - going halves (UK pay the lease - US pay the base upkeep. ~£100m a yr each. 👉Int'l court decisions against UK were non-binding (so ignore them?) A binding decision would only follow. 👉 The history? We got the islands by
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Legalising sex selective abortion and condoning cousin marriage are two decisions that will disproportionately harm women and girls. Why is the government allowing this?
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I have said before (as have others) that if the BBC were to make available its substantial back catalogue, it would solve its funding in perpetuity. Millions would be happy to pay the equivalent of the licence fee for access to it all. Issues of cost and rights are surmountable.
Why are there so few old BBC documentaries on iPlayer? Is it a cost or rights thing?
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Given that this transport announcement is total and utter fantasy, it's not really increased it's credibility to have produce a map where there are: - Two Huddersfields - *Three* Warringtons - Hull is both north *and* south of York... - and York is also north of... itself. 🤔
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Wow these knitted postbox toppers are getting wild
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Just spoke to my dad in Tehran. He’s still alive. There is no water, no food, and no electricity.
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Wonder how all those Labour MPs who went out to defend compulsory ID feel today
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Bravest people on Planet Earth right now.
Khamenei is losing control, what a turnout tonight despite the killings!
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Is that three U-turns in three weeks? Farms tax, pubs and now this
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🚨 Breaking: The flag of Iran's embassy in London was replaced with the lion and sun flag 👇
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Seems like “Free Palestine” does not want Free Iran 🤷🏻♂️
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Today I picked up one of the two old station clocks that omce sat in the main platform hall of Munich central station. No car? No problem! Transported it via train x3
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