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Simon Stretch retweeted
What a legend. Sorry, Japan, but we’re keeping Mr Suzuki forever!
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Simon Stretch retweeted
It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.
Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.
Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.
Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.
The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.
BREAKING: Europe's first Universal theme park is being built in the UK with £1.3bn in taxpayer support, it has been announced
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says that 'the £1.3bn is for infrastructure. It is for the roads and a new railway station.'
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Hey @GWRHelp you have kindly given me some free return tickets as part of your loyalty programme. That’s great other than your useless app doesn’t have the functionality to help me claim them and, as ever, your station staff absolve all knowledge/responsibility.
Hey @GWRHelp do you ever plan on fixing the new app so I can access historic tickets, or have I thrown that money down the drain?
Hey @GWRHelp I see you have updated your app. Surprise, surprise it doesn’t work and I can no longer access any of my booked tickets. Any advice?
Simon Stretch retweeted
Meanwhile in Australia...
This is how some of their press deal with the likes of Tommy Robinson, Farage, Ant Middleton and the likes.
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It's amazing what evidence based policy can do.
The evidence that the 20mph limit is working fantastic from the point of view of saving lives and saving the taxpayer money in Wales is overwhelming.
You can be annoyed about it.
You can be frustrated by it.
But you can't argue that it isn't doing what it was supposed to do.
Simon Stretch retweeted
We had a referendum to prevent the Tory party splitting
(The Tory party is hopelessly divided anyway)
We had the hardest Brexit possible to cut migration
(3.6m have entered UK since EU FoM ended)
What was it all for?? The sheer, incredible, jaw-dropping pointlessness of it...
Dear brands, not everything has to be reviewed. I need something, I order it. This is not usually not a significant life event yet everyone from the retailer to the manufacturer to the courier bombard me with requests to review the “experience”.
Simon Stretch retweeted
It doesn’t look very big.
We bought an uninhabited island for £24,000 — it was a lot cheaper than a house deposit trib.al/xsoZ4QQ
There’s no doubt that Oasis & Ticketmaster are guilty of price gouging. But that isn’t - and nor should it be - illegal. There are plenty of things/experiences that people would like, but cannot afford.
Un i ti @RhysapWilliam
Simon Stretch retweeted
Andrew Tate is a 'fighting age' 'migrant' who has now been accused of grooming underage girls, 'sex with a minor' and 'trafficking'.
Where is the outrage from Tommy Robinson, Farage and his other defenders?
Simon Stretch retweeted
I was once so emboldened to take my country back that i looted a vape store in Sunderland.
Simon Stretch retweeted
Lovely unscripted moment this morning in the Welsh Parliament as a brilliant young choir from Ysgol Treganna in Cardiff - singing Safwn yn y Bwlch in rehearsal - bump into the Prime Minister (watch their reaction at the end 🎶)
Simon Stretch retweeted
Big warning bells should be ringing Welsh Labour heads when the hangovers wear off.
2019 = 40.9% of 🏴vote
2024 = 37%.
Reform have done VERY well, esp in the Valleys.
The Senedd is a proportional system.
Vaughan Gething is v unpopular.
Labour look vulnerable for 2026.
