16leiba.bsky.social
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FDP getting 5% also means that there should be a visible pro-democratic right-of-centre opposition party if not in coalition. I don't know how successful they'd be, but an alternative to AfD nonetheless.
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Has any significant part of Labour post-~Corbyn expulsion been openly critical of New Labour's economic record?
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The former will be able to buy back the gold Brown sold... No, I have absolutely no idea.
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Agreed on the first point (I think if having a threshold, something like 3% nationally or 10% in at least a region would be better) and the third (more or less completely the opposite of LD tactics in e.g. CS&ER, O&S, NE Fife and Edinburgh W without strong 🏴-wide support).
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Whilst changing for destinations further from the UK than Paris–Amsterdam stays necessary, is there any chance that SNCF would make it easier to do so, for domestic passengers as well as Eurostar connections (e.g. having at least some Paris – Strasbourg services without compulsory reservations)?
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How much of it is RN actually opposing antisemitism and how much of it being the fact that openly supporting fascist occupiers isn't likely to be electorally beneficial?
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Welcome back!
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What's the smallest UK city which could somewhat realistically support a metro system? Stoke-on-Trent (especially given the lack of a station in Newcastle-under-Lyme and the fact that it wouldn't be seen as giving more to affluent areas)?
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Rome, Athens and Thessaloniki made it work somehow (but with large enough populations to justify a system to begin with).
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But much younger if having electoral gender equality's needed to be counted as a democracy.
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I think he rejoined the party slightly before Cleverly was knocked out.
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I don't think Hull Trains and Grand Central got support either, although those two had / have more convenient rail alternatives.
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No chance of a pro-Russian candidate winning at this point, but I'd be extremely surprised if they didn't try to interfere to undermine trust in an election or to try to get a candidate they see as easier to push over.
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I think some Conservative MSPs have publicly supported PR, although I don't know if that's extended to a leader of the Scottish Conservatives yet.
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Canada and not Australia? Dutton seems to be sticking with the non-US West on Ukraine although admittedly geographic distance and focus on China might be why Australia isn't being involved as much.
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And the only substantial attack is wrong; working towards multilateral disarmament when possible but keeping nuclear deterrence for now.
www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...
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Maybe Malta as well.
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...
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Less cohesive, but something I sometimes (rarely) think about is why SELMS includes e.g. Southend and not Thurrock.
selms.spydus.co.uk/docs/SELMS/h...
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As for whether more media outlets decide to draw a line, I don't think a lot will on this issue as long as Trump sticks with names where Americans could at least somewhat plausibly know under the new name.
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At this rate the Trump administration's going to insist that Foyle constituency be renamed.
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Happy birthday!
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"I am asking for selection in Welwyn Hatfield because I studied at Hertford."
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Also maybe the return of some four-way marginals in NE Scotland? Swinney seems to be trying the innovative approach of governing whilst in government, but a decade of mostly uninterrupted electoral dominance might make that area more competitive.
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May's and Farron's runs in North West Durham in 1992 comes to mind as well.
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Which other constituencies have had a high number of future MPs stand for s/election? I know Brent East had Damian Green (1992), Mark Francois (1997), David Gauke (2001), Yasmin Qureshi and Kwasi Kwarteng (2005), and Chris Philp in Hampstead and Kilburn in 2010.
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Ashford?
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Not sure about Jenrick, but Peter Dutton hasn't said anything yet that I can find. Maybe hoping that Trump won't put tariffs on Australia if he forgets it exists?
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The sender hopes the recipient finds the email well
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South West Wales barely needs a university at all, apparently, going off of what's happening with Lampeter.
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So if you stop making people called D(vowel) prime minister, government formation will speed up?
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That's the NE and west coast out.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Or divorced, died, beheaded, died, died, divorced, beheaded, died, survived, died, died (Catherine of Aragon died a few months before Anne Boleyn was beheaded; Anne of Cleves outlived Catherine Parr by nine years)
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It could be marketed as an even more ambitious rebuilding project than Notre Dame. Westminster's Folly?
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I think the additional speed only counted for around a tenth of the total cost (admittedly not a small amount), and a faster line definitely is needed from Birmingham to Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield if not from London to Birmingham.
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I wonder how much of that's being perceived either as "SM / CU is EU membership without a say" or "SM / CU is unknown, EU membership is back to 2016" (although I think if the UK rejoins it should be with fewer opt-outs).
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It reminds me of "Scotty from marketing" more than anything.
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Telegraph, Spectator and Mail columnists
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Australia is one country and it still took nine decades after federation to have standard-gauge railways between all state capitals (except Hobart), although I don't know if there were any specific reasons why it took so long.
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I think the DUP trying to pull the Stormont brake over changes to chemical labelling was the last news story I remember seeing from NI (apart from Éowyn).
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I think Serbia's in 1997 are an example.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Se...
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Fourth Cod War?
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(And I think the 1950s Liberal Party was a fair bit further right than successors for most of the last few decades)