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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    The original plan was that she'd stand as Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, but then Labour stood a threatening-looking lettuce, so she pulled out and tried for something with a less-discerning electorate. 1711621351 Sounds like the worst kinds of candidate in practice. Lots of people...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    You certainly can - they're a few pages back on this very thread.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Police and Crime Commissioner has always been a joke role to be fair. Typical turnout for the elections is about 10%, and the candidates are usually either failed politicians or malcontent weirdos the parties didn't want in real roles. Even the Tories have basically been trying to abolish them...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Good point. I haven't had to read a VDU shot for ages and read those as real signals. I probably should have thought to check the actual data feed yesterday. Map is now corrected anyway, and slightly extended to cover the fringe signals which appear in the feed.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    One assumes they noticed it getting built when they resignalled through it last year.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    None of this happens in a vacuum, and the current situation is that we have an embarrassingly terrible government making the country much worse every day. If the opposition weren't allowed to point that out then they'd be forced to just make up a bunch of fictional stuff that they won't...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    By the time the lunatics in local membership were finished, there was only one remotely credible candidate left, and he had to drop out when a sexual abuse allegation surfaced. Personally I thought he was just as much of a lunatic, and in any case the choice of candidate doesn't matter much...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Please let me know about any glitches on here or by email. I basically did the map based on information in this thread, which may well not have been final.
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    People are often determined to be disappointed by whatever happens, such is the nature of news.
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    East-West Rail (EWR): Oxford-Bletchley construction progress

    People work on industrial estates. There are sites like this where you wouldn't see anybody on the path all day and then there's 50 or more people who use it in the space of half an hour.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I tend to agree. It was essentially a chance for him to mention that he genuinely does care about football, and is sufficiently in touch with the real world to think that charging 115 quid or more for a shirt is a pretty significant expense for most people. Whilst I don't personally care a...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    White Rose is a replacement station rather than a new one, so it shouldn't significantly affect performance. Moreover It seems unreasonable to pause a half-built station in order to consider the implications of a tram which probably won't ever get built anyway. The most likely reason for the...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I think the only positive way to look at it is that voting Labour/Lib Dem is probably a vote back towards normality. Labour are unfortunately at such pains to not over-promise that they aren't saying anything positive at all, but there's honesty in a manifesto that says "we've been digging a...
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    Closing Railways in London

    Pretty low quality drivel even for the dregs of YouTube. Not worth a click
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    Supermarkets discussion

    You wouldn't believe the amount of dishwasher salt and softener people waste in soft water areas. Most people seem to have little or no idea how hard the water in their area is, or in fact about the fact that water softener just doesn't work on already-soft water.

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