James Durrant
@je_durrant
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Resident of Merstham and reader of interesting stuff
Redhill, South East
Joined June 2018
I’m sorry, what? A former Lord Chancellor saying being poor is reasonable grounds to justify state supported suicide? These people are disgusting
Lord Falconer is very clear here. If you are poor and don’t like your circumstances then you should be allowed a State assisted death. The ‘Be Kind’ lot have very odd morals.
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Lord Falconer is very clear here. If you are poor and don’t like your circumstances then you should be allowed a State assisted death. The ‘Be Kind’ lot have very odd morals.
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Norway drills the North Sea & gets richer. Britain bans drilling, taxes the industry to death, sacks 1,000 workers a month, then buys the same oil & gas from Norway. Same seabed. Same reservoirs. It’s the dumbest act of economic self-harm imaginable. https://t.co/hboQTvYWmr
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It is a huge political mistake for the Conservative Party to side with the (hated) Government and cancel elections Time to reflect and change course.
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Why does Labour hate the British public so much that it has to fiddle with the basics of life?
Utterly mad. John Prescott did this under the Blair government and it resulted in new housing estates with cars and vans parked on grass verges and on amenity land. Reducing car parking spaces will not deter car ownership in favour of bus travel. Obviously. Motorists face new
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At a time C4 is promoting stand up to cancer, it’s a piss take the govt is being told not to screen for prostate cancer
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How the hell can it be fair that your requirement to pay tax is based on your age rather than the amount you earn? This govt is just dreadful and morally bankrupt
bbc.co.uk
The chancellor says those who only receive the state pension won't have to pay income tax before 2030.
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So the recommendation to not screen for prostate cancer isn’t because it doesn’t save lives but because there’s no guarantee of the right treatment. Stuff men’s health then eh?
bbc.co.uk
It recommends that only men with a confirmed genetic risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease.
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The right to a trial by one’s peers is one of the most ancient rights in English law. To remove that right to speed up paperwork is beneath contempt and should see any government doing so be consigned to the rubbish heap
bbc.co.uk
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
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Already some degree of softening by the government. Need to earn over £12k for 3 years. Should be set at a level to make a person a net contributor
bbc.co.uk
Shabana Mahmood says becoming part of the UK is "not a right but a privilege – and one that must be earned".
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Britain is addicted to state dependency. The public to give them money and companies to subsidise profits. In this case, we should be looking at how to bring fares down rather than just asking the taxpayer to pay for travel:
bbc.co.uk
The Commons Transport Committee recommended scrapping bus fares for young people in August.
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What’s the point of doing the right thing in Britain any more? You pay your bills and end up paying for those that don’t. Ofgem is clearly not working for consumers:
news.sky.com
Energy bill debt has reached record highs as prices have increased.
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How can anyone take this seriously? £10m a job is being portrayed as a win?
Billions of investment commitments announced at the Regional Investment Summit will see a major boost for towns, high streets and communities across the UK. Read all about it: https://t.co/aocWvfMqhi
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If any government truly wanted to make house buying easier, they’d scrap the need for a notary to do conveyancing for registered land and make the digitised process available to everyone
bbc.co.uk
Under new proposals, sellers and estate agents will have to provide key information about a property up front.
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If ever proof were needed so called progressives want to concrete over the south east: https://t.co/zOb3BBMuoB You can’t build communities by destroying their character let alone losing the benefits of green spaces on well-being
southwarknews.co.uk
Tax tourists and build homes on Bromley's green spaces to pay for the Bakerloo line extension, a new report authored
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The more I read this article the angrier I get. Not only was local govt reorg based on 5 yr old research, they ignore the extra costs from insisting on mayors, creating a new 2 tier system. We are governed by morons
bbc.co.uk
The government relied on a report by a lobbyist group that now says reorganisation could make no savings.
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If anything shows the UKs crazy energy policy, it’s this. We’re building data centres faster than the energy provisioning for them, or worse, shutting down power stations with no replacement. The govt needs to get real:
bbc.co.uk
The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.
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Amazing how it’s OK for a female journo to say a man’s body is ‘repellant’ having got shredded, yet if a male were to say the same of a woman, it’d be misogyny https://t.co/ssyqXU0rSk
@Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk
The actor and comedian has revealed a buff new look after splitting from Isla Fisher – but what’s wrong with a ‘dad bod’?
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Today @Ed_Miliband has announced the prices he is willing to pay new renewables in the upcoming AR7 round of the CfD scheme Look how expensive they are!!! The average wholesale power price in 2024 was just £73 /MWh But he is willing to pay up to 57% more for offshore wind.
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Replace one regulator with another, bills go up, drive demand down, keep the (foreign owned) companies in profit. We’re an island, surrounded by water, and we can’t get affordable water working. WTF
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The wide-ranging review was launched amid growing public concern about sewage spills and rising bills.
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