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@botzarelli
Brentford Fan Advisory Board co-Chair and supporters association Chair. In house lawyer. Comprehensive school governor. Conservative ex-regional Deputy Chair.
Hang on, did I go to school with Nemone off R6? She just mentioned my sixth form college’s band, Thumpasaurus (never saw them as the smug jazz funk sound didn’t appeal even in 1989 but my Physics practical partner was in them).
I’m YIMBier than most Tories but pretty much all of this gave me the ick.
From @CJAWorrall I didn’t leave the Labour Party because it changed. I left because it refused to conservativehome.com/2025/07/23/chr…
Maybe just ask him about housing stuff and let him, as the experienced former cabinet minister he is, just follow his leader and party’s policy when it’s decided on rather than try throwing purity gotchas at him?
James Cleverly insists he is on "exactly the same page" as Kemi Badenoch on the ECHR. But he repeatedly refuses to say if he agrees with her statement that she was "increasingly of the view that we will need to leave". He said he will wait for a Tory review on the subject.
Are there any Britannia hotels which weren’t terrible already? I stayed at the Canary Wharf one a few times a few years ago (it was v cheap and walking distance to my office) and felt sorry for the tourists who were holidaying there.
Ooh, just the man to really sell the party’s new ultra-YIMBY growth and youth appeal policies to the grassroots membership and embed it in the 2026 local election campaigns!
Shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake set to become the new Tory chairman
Bryan's best goal. As far as today goes anyway. Well worth £70m to stop him doing it again.
Hello young people! If you want a job in London you’ll just have to bally well cough up sky high rent or spend a fortune and more than a whole working day of your spare time every week on trains! It’s better for your mental health so suck it up.
This working from home SHIT has to stop, it’s destroying mental health for millions of young people, and forcing many others to spend far more on housing just for the extra office space. It may suit middle class, middle aged, middle management, it does not suit most young people.
Don’t forget the Monkey Tennis Bill that was due for second reading the week after the election was called.
Sometimes I think about when the Tories had three months left in government, staring electoral oblivion in the face, and for their final policy swing went for a football regulator, national service, and a ban on smoking.
I suppose these days making up stories and pretending they are accounts of real life events is fairly lucrative.
I had a new student who would come in and tear up the classroom. Ripped posters off the wall. Throw desks. Break things. He had trauma. He had a condition. He had a diagnosis. His anger was very justified. But actions have consequences, especially in the world outside of Room…
We do. But as a story it is “dog bites man” rather than “man bites dog” so it doesn’t make the news or get seized upon as rage bait.
Why don't we have Muslim children visiting Christian Churches to learn what they are about why is it always the other way around? Surely that would be a fair idea?
American are much richer than most Europeans but for some reason much angrier about it. That said, I don’t mind having a leisurely dinner rather than one where the waiter regardless of quality of service will glare at me if I didn’t think them taking my order and bringing it…
Hot take: Europe is a bunch of third-world countries with better branding. No A/C. No dryers. Ice is a luxury. You’ll sweat through dinner while the waiter ignores you for 2 hours. Say what you want about America, but at least eating out doesn’t feel like hot yoga with bread.
I’m old enough to remember when gay meant wanting to have sex with men rather than marrying women.
when will people finally acknowledge the epidemic of men marrying women and being turned gay
It would be worth proscribing the Sovereign Citizen movement and imprisoning its proponents.
When I went to Krakow in May the country looked prosperous and safe in a way much of Britain doesn’t. You could see signs it had been a poor country in recent memory and how it isn’t one now.
Britain built its last reservoir in 1992. Since then Poland has built *six* new reservoirs. Britain built its last motorway in 2003. Since then Poland has added over *1,300km* of new motorway. And each year per person, Poland builds *twice* as many new homes as Britain.
Imagine the exhibition we could have if Boris could part with his collection of wine boxes painted as London buses.
Trump loves to draw. Just saying
We probably have enough people who are bad at making well-informed political decisions already and so don’t need to add to their number.
I’m approaching that stage of life where I might have to consider taking up golf as all the other options for leading a fulfilling and non-solitary middle/old-age start melting away.
Let’s raise the voting age to 26 then?
It is difficult to square votes for 16 year olds with the scientific research behind the Young Persons Sentencing Guideline - ie due to brain development u should be judged less responsible for your actions until you are 26