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Apropos of absolutely nothing, this bit of local government boundary between Hull and East Riding councils is a crime. More than one house where the front door is in Hull and the back door is in East Riding.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The logic of English local governance in one sentence.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's very "Talk about democracy whilst your opposition is campaigning on the price of eggs"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Deeply weird thing to post.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Logged back in to Twitter for the first time in weeks this morning for something. It is a complete bin fire, but one that contains fireworks. I am glad I stepped away but it is compelling to watch from a distance!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This would be a hellish result to try and make a government out of.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder how one would say "Treasury Brain" in Irish Gaelic?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"I can't believe that the Lib Dems win by actually doing things for people rather than just being arseholes on social media"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

New post just out On the return of "Blue Labour" and why attacking liberalism would fracture the government's fragile coalition. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Feels like a case of "Is it a big number or little number?" What seems like a big number to the public doesn't always mean that it is a big number in practice.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The "graffiti" is now immortalised on Park Hill flats with the words now created in LED lighting.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The move by Ed Davey and the Lib Dems on being vocally "Anti-Trump and Musk" is a master stroke. Ideologically coherent and unusually popular with the public, I can see why they are keen to keep banging the drum.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

From the outside, feels like a lot of Labour factional stuff can be summed up as: Labour right = the tin man (needs a heart) Soft left = the lion (needs courage) Hard left = the scarecrow (needs a brain, and access to an iron) Blue Labour = Dorothy (just wants to get back somewhere black and white)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Who would want to get involved in local government when this is the outlook... martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-death-...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

No one could love a Lib Dem

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Reeves: "We need to help people back into work" DWP: "Yeah, but not like that"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Yikes

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"Don't buy BrewDog" latest

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely incredible headline from the Guardian here

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It is difficult to enact change when the only fiscal lever is regressive council tax. But is the wild west of British democracy, local government, capable of handling more levers?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is just frankly embarrassing for Google to be serving this up to me in the UK.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine deciding on a policy for a single day of headlines that will impact lives for decades.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Found out today that Network Rail can effectively close a Public Right of Way for the reason that making a crossing safe is too expensive

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The "bat tunnel issue" in the fight against that pesky thing called human rights. Find a framing of something that everyone agrees is ridiculous, then use it as a totemic issue in the reasoning as to why the whole system needs to be scrapped. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The modern world would collapse within a week if logistics managers were suddenly raptured.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

When "expectation management" involves floating the idea that you could lose your final power base, you really need to take a hard look at yourself.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

When you are in politics, it is helpful to assume that everything you ever send to someone is screenshot. Life is more peaceful that way.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment