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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
C2C, which serves my constituency, has consistently been one of the top-performing rail lines in Britain, topping customer satisfaction polls. That's why Labour chose it as one of the first to be nationalised - they thought it would make nationalisation look good.
Before nationalisation, 94% of trains were on time. Now it's 71.5%. I joined a cross-party group of local MPs this week to raise the alarm - but these were fears I set out before nationalisation.
Labour needs to demonstrate to my constituents why their approach is an improvement, not simply a recipe for decline.
thetimes.com/uk/transport/a…
Before nationalisation, 94% of trains were on time. Now it's 71.5%. I joined a cross-party group of local MPs this week to raise the alarm - but these were fears I set out before nationalisation.
Labour needs to demonstrate to my constituents why their approach is an improvement, not simply a recipe for decline.
thetimes.com/uk/transport/a…
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Absolute wrong 'un from start to finish. But the world is full of prophet seekers: eager believers willing to dismiss or downplay any behaviour if someone tells them what they want to hear, or rallies the masses to their flag. Not all these people live in the past tense.
Minor in scheme of things.
But had to "apologise" to Brand who threatened me with lawyers at Guardian in 2014.
The correction read "This article was amended on 31 October 2014. An earlier version said 'A lot of what he says is ghostwritten sub-Chomskyian woo'. This has been corrected."
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
The London Assembly has voted by a huge margin, 17 to 3 votes, to call on the @MayorofLondon London to pause all floating bus stops on London’s streets.
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
In 2016 Sadiq Khan promised there would be no Tube strikes.
This will take the total to more than 160 days of strikes since he was elected.
That’s triple the number under both previous Mayors combined.
London deserves better.
This will take the total to more than 160 days of strikes since he was elected.
That’s triple the number under both previous Mayors combined.
London deserves better.
🚨 NEW: The RMT has announced that drivers on the London Underground will strike for 24 hours on the following days
* Thursday 26 November 2026
* Thursday 17 December 2026
* Saturday 19 December 2026
* Monday 4 January 2027
* Wednesday 6 January 2027
* Wednesday 17 February 2027
* Tuesday 23 February 2027
* Thursday 25 February 2027
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
I haven't been on this site for a bit.
But I haven't seen anyone share the photo the New Statesman staff staged in 2013 of Russell Brand as Christ, and themselves as his disciples. It seems to have been scrubbed from the web.
It made me angry then and it makes me angry now.
But I haven't seen anyone share the photo the New Statesman staff staged in 2013 of Russell Brand as Christ, and themselves as his disciples. It seems to have been scrubbed from the web.
It made me angry then and it makes me angry now.
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Bear Grylls has found more to say in defence of Russell Brand than he ever managed in defence of Baden Powell when the mob wanted to tear down his statue in Poole. And he was Chief Scout at the time. What a huge disappointment he is.
Brand’s faith seemed genuine to me at the time when I was a guest at his private baptism.
I have attended a few now. Even visiting in prisons with people who have committed terrible crimes. It's part of our calling as men and women of faith, to love and serve anyone. It is the sick that need healing. Judgement is for the courts and God… I wouldn’t want to ever discourage someone’s coming to faith.
It is right that justice has now been served.
I can’t imagine how hard this time has been for the victims, the heroes of the day.
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
Yesterday's motion concerned the fear that Britain's Jewish community is facing after the Greens passed their "Zionism is Racism" policy.
Here @NeilGarratt reminds us what specific part of the motion Mr Polanski takes objection to: concerns about antisemitism rising.
Here @NeilGarratt reminds us what specific part of the motion Mr Polanski takes objection to: concerns about antisemitism rising.
One Day, Everyone will have always been against this
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I'm sure impeccable leftie Richard Herring has a great explanation for why he found a rape joke so charmingly funny.
Obviously Brand have been instantly cancelled and never worked again if he'd said something truly unforgivable, like "JK Rowling has a point."
Obviously Brand have been instantly cancelled and never worked again if he'd said something truly unforgivable, like "JK Rowling has a point."
“ I raped someone once,” Brand said in 2013, to raucous laughter from the interviewer and audience.
As @LizKershawDJ writes in her Telegraph article, “Brand was a creation of some of the most powerful players in the media. They were in his thrall. And he was egged on. He was . He made “great telly”. His colleagues were collateral damage.”
Media bosses at the Sun newspaper who celebrated him as “Shagger of the Year” three times (2006, 2007, 2008) and executives who turned a blind eye to his sexual activities with competition winners in BBC lavatories, and allowed him to regale his Radio 2 audience with “what he’d like to do to a newsreader under the desk” should hang their heads in shame.
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
MOTION AGREED: We want the Mayor to press the Government, as a matter of urgency, for the funding to secure the new trains the Bakerloo line needs to restore the frequency and reliability passengers used to enjoy. london.gov.uk/who-we-are/wha…
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
The Mayor continues to dodge the question of what his comments about Palantir has cost taxpayers in the form of legal fees. @NeilGarratt has had enough of the evasive answers...
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
Nice to see today’s Bus Drivers’ #BillofRights March & Rally covered by @itvnews @GMB! B/c action conflicts w @LondonAssembly Plenary, statements of support from @KeithPrinceAM @NeilGarratt @CarolineRussell’ll be read out to the Rally. @MLiebreich will speak! HT>@LondonBusForums
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This is because people feel inflation as both a change and a level. The change, the thing economists measure as inflation, creates a wave of "It's gone up AGAIN!?" sticker shock, but unless it's followed by deflation those prices stay high and people hate it.
"People really hate inflation and stay mad about it" is the main political message of the last decade.
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We became complacent because we'd kept inflation low for so many years.
And it's worth noting that the cause of this inflation, printing a load of money to create economic stimulus during the pandemic, was extremely popular. Reigning it in was unpopular. And yet here we are.
And it's worth noting that the cause of this inflation, printing a load of money to create economic stimulus during the pandemic, was extremely popular. Reigning it in was unpopular. And yet here we are.
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Neil Garratt AM retweeted
Having won an election because people hated inflation, I simply would not have imposed tariffs, badgered the Fed for rate cuts, run enormous budget deficits and thrown in a Middle Eastern war. But I appreciate there are different schools of thought.
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Day One: new Democrats already showing a Trumpian attitude to journalists. Bodes well.
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
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The main lesson is that America has got itself stuck with red and blue the wrong way around, and seems fundamentally incapable of reform. Sad.
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Annoyingly, my auto-update process that adds each fresh new day failed the very day I published the link. Now fixed, so yesterday and today are now available for Bakerloo, Jubilee, and Victoria.
With all this talk of buses, what about the Tube? Tube replayer coming soon, starting with the Victoria and Bakerloo lines. Sneak preview:
neilgarratt.com/labs/tube-repl…
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US results less a flood and more a pendulum, as each party wins an election then concludes "People really love our crazy nonsense, let's do more of that."
Voters alternately vote against whichever set of crazy nonsense is currently in power, in hopes someone gets the message.
Voters alternately vote against whichever set of crazy nonsense is currently in power, in hopes someone gets the message.
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A lot of good responses to my lament about the lack of new, significant British and European companies. It's not as strong as America, but it's definitely a lot more than nothing! ARM especially I should have clocked, I'd assumed they were bought out by a US giant. Not so!
A better question is why no one in Britain has founded any company of real significance for about 50 years, nor the rest of Europe. Actually, I suppose there's Spotify in 2006. What else? I don't think it's because Europe is poor or uneducated, it's something else.
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