Ben Carpenter
@ben_carpenter1
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Love rum, hates bananas (unless in a cake)
London
Joined November 2011
Hey @AddisonLeeCabs. Why aren’t your drivers wearing masks anymore? The last 3 taxis driver haven’t been wearing them/had it hanging on their steering wheel/under their chins. Not good.
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Lovely work @Ciaran_Dowd. Nice to see some new comedy on @BBCTwo. Hope we get to see more!
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Brilliant response from @ThangamMP just now. Shame @RobertJenrick didn’t answer her questions. As leaseholders, we still have so many unanswered questions. The main one is does this extra money just cover cladding or other remediation and interim work?
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Summary of @RobertJenrick’s announcement: ❌ Levy for developers ❌ Loans capped at £50 per month for leaseholders in buildings <18m ❌ For those in buildings >18m, assurances of not having to pay for cladding remediation. No mention of interim costs or other remedial work
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We didn’t build the buildings, choose to install flammable cladding or miss fire breaks. We didn’t sign these off as safe or write legislation that said they were safe. We don’t own the buildings. We didn’t make billions in profit. #WeWontTakeLoans ✌🏻 #EndOurCladdingScandal
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About time!
Joe Biden beats Donald Trump to win US election – live 2020 updates
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These new road closures in Hackney are so badly planned. The pollution must be much worse with all the traffic on the main roads. Please sort it out. Some people need to travel for work and this is a nightmare @hackneycouncil @mayorofhackney @Meg_HillierMP @HackneyAbbott #hackney
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So many people have already tested their eyesight by watching this projection on Barnard Castle (2M+ views and 55K+ shares on social media). Chip in here to help us hold Johnson’s government to account
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Johnson and Cummings: A Timeline of Failure (Part One) Location: Barnard Castle (Sound on - thanks to @GavinEsler for narration)
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Why did the #DailyBriefing turn into Match of the Day today? Another fail from this government. I hate to tell @BorisJohnson and @OliverDowden but not all of the UK population care about football.
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This government just never seems to get their tone right. 184 have died today, but hey, footy is back! #DailyBriefing @OliverDowden
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This is the International Comparison Chart which the UK Government no longer includes in their daily briefing slides Updated to include DHSC data released on 05/06/2020 I will continue to issue a daily update
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You couldn’t make it up. Let’s hope they have to knock it down! #DominicCummnings
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There’s another Starlink launch tonight. To be precise 2.25 bst Thursday morning. This new batch of 60 Satellites will be designated Starlink 7. They have new umbrella like sunshades in an effort to make them less obvious in the night sky, lets hope they work.
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I want to thank the British people for the extraordinary sacrifices you have made during this pandemic. They will not be in vain. But the stakes are still so high. We must all continue to follow the public health advice and guidance.
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Word of the day is ‘bloviator’ (19th century): a speaker of empty rhetoric and blower of hot air; someone who talks a lot but says very little.
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What’s his constituency? The fucking sun?
Conservative MP Robert Courts says he thinks Dominic Cummings' actions were reasonable "when I look at the explanation that's been given" "When you look at the regulations as they were, the question you have to decide is whether he had a reasonable excuse" https://t.co/jdEYfaOszu
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Don't miss some great @Space_Station passes coming up. Tonight at 22:08 (UK), look west towards the setting Moon and watch for a bright light moving to overhead. Tomorrow night you'll get both the ISS (21:20) and then if @SpaceX launches as planned, you'll see that too at 21:50.
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Is the finding here that the most powerful man in Govt (bar the PM) edited his past writing in April to include a reference to coronaviruses darkly alarming or hilarious?
A claim that a 2019 blogpost by Dominic Cummings was edited in 2020 to include a warning about coronaviruses is correct. The change appears to have been made in April. He claimed Monday that he’d warned about the virus last year. https://t.co/rFoL0zAVCm
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Hands up who thinks they can drive a four year old child for 260 miles WITHOUT STOPPING?
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