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Professional train wrangler oop North. Can still run up hills (just). Probably knows where the nearest decent pub/chippy is.
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A Treasury source said: "The Chancellor is determined to go further and faster to deliver growth and put more money into people's pockets. "She's listening to ideas on how to drive this work forward"

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I'd forgotten about this gem

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Tremendous, assuming the implicated causal link is correct

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

"Lucy Mitchell, Rotherham Council's regeneration manager, told a meeting the sum was an initial estimate and more realistic cost would emerge once a full business case had been created." "Don't be too horrified by the number, it should be pulled back significantly" Experience suggests otherwise...

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Kim Leadbeater reveals secret weapon as she admits High Court judges won't be able to decide on every case of assisted dying.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Seconded. The petty Brexit esque stupidity of Stockport (and now Oldham) wanting our beggars belief

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Come on Lord Keith, do something actually populist and take Thames Water round the back and "Stephen Byers" it. It's going under anyway, here's a chance to look decisive and do something the electorate actually want. But of course that would upset the City wouldn't it.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Me and my cat will vote Reform if Farage promises to bring back this level of catering to Great British Railways </jk>

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"'Unambiguously bleak'. Not my words, Carol. The words of the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report."

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

"They present as fact things which are merely optimistic conjecture on small nuclear reactor cost, speed of delivery and safety." Yep.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment