@BenjaminOCall

Birmingham first and foremost. Extremely pro-transit. Birmingham underground advocate

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Joined October 2023
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easy to blame this on prices but in truth it’s the internet that’s caused a great deal of this. why go out to spend time with your friends when you’re interacting with eachother on 4 different apps constantly? why leave the house when you’ve always got something to watch?
James Lynch
@jameslynch32Oct 20
Wow, Friday night has become just another weeknight in terms of socialization.
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i agree, we must pounce at the opportunity and invade france
Sharron Davies HoL MBE
@sharrond62Oct 19
As Paris burns our prime minister has stopped people playing loud music on buses & trains.
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if you’re taking an anti colonialism motion supported by russia seriously ive got a bridge to sell you
Andrea Corelli 🇮🇪🇵🇸@AndreaT2303Oct 16
Ireland are you fucking kidding here ???
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biggest issue with trains is for some reason the operators think people will book them weeks in advance like they do with flights, and not days if not hours in advance like they actually do
TJ@tomjohnst0nOct 15
How have we let this happen as a country
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and in the most american thing possible, instead of putting it somewhere useful they put it in a desert and built a car park
Ce jour-là dans l'Histoire
@CeJourHistoireOct 10
Il y a un London Bridge en plein désert de l'Arizona. Et c'est le vrai. Londres l'a vendu en 1968. Il a été réinauguré là-bas il y a 55 ans, le 10 octobre 1971. Ce pont de granit enjambe la Tamise depuis 1831. Mais au XXe siècle, il ne supporte plus la circulation automobile. Il s'enfonce dans le fleuve. En 1924, un côté est déjà 7 à 10 centimètres plus bas que l'autre. La ville de Londres décide de le remplacer. Et de vendre l'ancien. En avril 1968, un industriel américain, Robert McCulloch, l'achète pour 2,46 millions de dollars. Il vient de fonder une ville nouvelle en Arizona, au bord d'un lac de barrage : Lake Havasu City. Il cherche à y attirer des visiteurs. Chaque bloc de granit de la façade est numéroté. Il y en a plus de 10 000. Les pierres passent par le canal de Panama et débarquent en Californie. Des camions les emmènent dans le désert. Le pont est remonté sur la terre ferme, autour d'une structure en béton. Le chantier dure 3 ans et coûte 7 millions de dollars de plus. Le 10 octobre 1971, le lord-maire de Londres vient l'inaugurer devant des milliers de spectateurs. Au programme : feux d'artifice, parachutistes, montgolfières. Ensuite, on creuse un canal sous ses arches et on le remplit d'eau. Le London Bridge enjambe aujourd'hui un bras de lac, à plus de 8 000 kilomètres de Londres.
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Jordan@jordanbhxOct 12
The Midlands contribute 25% of all licence fee revenue - close to £1 billion annually - to the BBC but received the lowest share in the UK in 9/10 years up to 2023. That share was just 2.7%. London 39.8% The North 20.6%, The South 11.9% Scotland 9% Wales 7.9%  NI 4.2%
Bobby@Bobby_AldenOct 12
Shocking to hear that @BBC plan to reduce investment into #Birmingham and move our beloved The Archers out of the city. I have written to the Director General demanding they reverse the decision.
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no one even pointing out the map being lib dems with southern and northern numbers switched
Christopher Howarth
@CJCHowarthOct 11
The Welfare Party.
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i’m incredibly grateful to ed for his part in helping keep the party from fading into irrelevance and delivering us the best result we’ve had in 100 years, however it is becoming increasingly apparent the party is going nowhere under its current direction. (1/2)
Financial Times
@FTOct 9
A senior Liberal Democrat MP has launched an attempt to oust party leader Ed Davey amid frustration over the party’s falling poll ratings. ft.trib.al/ociJR2t
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it’s because of this i believe ed should not lead the party into the next election. a year ago we hadn’t had a single poll below 10% all parliament, now we’re averaging less than 10% in the polls. we cannot simply be the party of ex tories in the south west. (2/2)
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your issue here should be with the post office for not setting the border as a boundary between postcodes
Clwyd En Commun@ClwydEnComuOct 9
Hi @cineworld - Broughton is in Wales, not England. A big tell is the bilingual signs all through the building (and crucially, they followed Welsh covid rules, not English).
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didn’t take long for him to become a complete failure. who could’ve guessed!
Sky News
@SkyNewsOct 9
BREAKING: Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali has officially been declared the winner of the Holborn and St Pancras by-election with 12,292 votes. Green Party leader Zack Polanski received 8,928 votes. Follow live updates ➡️ trib.al/taoPQkU
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we’re never getting a bhx that isn’t being worked on again are we
Birmingham Airport
@bhx_officialOct 8
Birmingham Airport (BHX) has unveiled its draft Master Plan ✈️ Over the next 15 years, the proposed £2bn investment could see BHX grow to serve c30 million passengers annually, generating £7.2bn GVA for the regional economy and supporting more than 50,000 jobs. The draft Master Plan is now open for public consultation, giving local communities, businesses and stakeholders the opportunity to help shape the future of Birmingham Airport. Read more here 👉 orlo.uk/6kzIA See the video here 👉 youtu.be/Q9i2-SN4G0Y
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ask the average voter to name a second person on that leaflet
Tom Harwood
@tomhfhOct 6
Compare and contrast. Tories emphasising the team.
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less cars on the road and there’s less potholes to repair btw. local governments should be all over public transport initiatives
Giokielicious
@jokieliuOct 5
Something about the Romans didn’t know their empire had fallen, they just noticed one day that the roads were no longer being repaired.
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1 is 1 too many
Andrew Damitio 🏗️ (🏬🚝☢️🔆🔋♨️)@AndrewDamitioOct 4
What's funny is that this chart shows that Halloween is the absolute safest day for child pedestrians. 30-50x safer. Literally 100x the number of normal child pedestrians are out, but there's (only) a doubling of deaths on that day, a difference of 1.5 kids nationwide.
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you can tell it’s not true because birmingham isn’t in the top 10
Andrew Yeung
@andruyeungOct 2
New York City was just ranked the best city in the world.
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they’re rioting and you’re saying they aren’t french?
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnsonOct 2
France is currently seeing mass violent riots by migrant school kids. Schools have been set on fire along with busses and police assaulted. This is the second day of unrest taking over France. Over 1,000 have been arrested 400 schools have been closed 2 high schools were set on fire. This is the result of mass immigration.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The opening burning bus is from a Jan 2023 mechanical accident in Nîmes, not current protests. Passengers evacuated safely. Current unrest involves student protests over school conditions with violence and fires. tf1info.fr/justice-faits-… reuters.com/world/about-40…
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i hope that given the 4 years added delay they will have in opening the handsacre junction for hs2 that they’ll go ahead and build the junction for the eastern leg even if there’s no plans to build it currently. futureproofing now saves billions in the future
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intentionally misunderstanding the argument to the level that this is just made up
Dmitry@ChicagoDmitryOct 1
I'm sorry, is this dimwit suggesting that before I take my 2.5 hour, £100 flight to Rome, I should first take a 3.5 hour, £150 train ride to Manchester?
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Reiss 🦩@ReissOmariSep 30
Well as predicted, Cadent have come, destroyed less than 3 year old paving and left off leaving tarmac to blight the area. Another one to add to the list
Reiss 🦩@ReissOmariSep 25
So Cadent have absolutely DESTROYED the block paving on Waterloo Street in two separate areas, so just like Colmore Row, prepare for these areas to be replaced with tarmac for the foreseeable future. Fed up of finally getting improvements to the City just for them to be ruined.
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