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Recent content by simonw

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    Applied Customer Sales Assistant role Barnstable.

    Only advice I can offer is its Barnstaple not Barnstable https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstaple
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    2024 Local, Mayoral and PCC Elections

    There were London Assembly elections As seen here https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/results-2024-0
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    How does Waterloo only get 60 million passengers yet each SWR train I get is packed like sardines?

    Do many people catch the train into London just to threaten someone? :)
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    2024 Local, Mayoral and PCC Elections

    I'm not sure that those factors have such an influence at General Elections.
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    2024 Local, Mayoral and PCC Elections

    He's hanging on hoping 'something will turn up". It rarely does.
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    Delay Repay Fraud Investigation

    They won't know who your employer is, nor will they publish your name.
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    2024 Local, Mayoral and PCC Elections

    The Westminster government doesn't pay for the London Mayor elections
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    2024 Local, Mayoral and PCC Elections

    FPTP isn't "used in every other election in the UK".
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    2024 Local, Mayoral and PCC Elections

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/england/councils/E07000078 Shows Tory 3803975 I. Cheltenham
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    West Midlands Trains Fraud Accusation

    You cannot claim delay repay if you did not travel.
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    Generational moment ...

    Wolf of badenock : Kemi Badenoch
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    Reclaimed railway sleepers

    You are right that creosote is thought to be carcinogenic, but it is still available for use - new telegraph poles are springing up in a number of areas to feed fibre internet into homes. I think you would get far more creosote on your skin touching a recently installed telegraph pope than you...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I'm no Tory, but do you know that he doesn't ? Being a doctor at a hospital would give him exposure to a lot of issues facing constituents. 1714311352 I was making particular reference to this mp spending time practising medicine.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    There are many, maybe the majority, who would like to see a United ireland. The stumbling block is the huge subsidy the rest of the UK currently pays to support Ulster. I understand this is seen as too much for Ireland to contemplate paying.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I see nothing wrong in an MP spending time outside of the Warminster bubble, in fact I see it as a very good thing. MPs need to connect with people other than fellow politicians.

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