Everything posted by Not in Crawley
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Meanwhile In England
Wrong. On so many levels.
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Our new Prime Minister.
Yes - its a business and its the biggest way we sell tickets and make money
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Ann Widdecombe
WiddecombeWays
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Ann Widdecombe
Yeah, fair enough
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Annual weightloss/get fit thread
Also, big thing is i stopped chasing the weight - im good at around 15 with my height - anymore at my age and my face starts looking a bit skull esque
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Annual weightloss/get fit thread
Thing is I'm 6 2 and running has always been my best sport (not sprinting mind) not sure ill ever go under 20 mins again but now love being fit enough that a 25 min 5km is an easy run.
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Annual weightloss/get fit thread
Been back at it properly for 3 months - back to under 24 mins for 5km now - feel a lot better than I have in ages.
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Ann Widdecombe
I'll have you know I'm sporting a rather dapper full growth of grey beard currently.... However, i am booked in for a holiday tint and trim tomorrow sweetie 😘
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2026 Holidays
Budapest is a great city - even in the market is crap, the ruin bars will make up for it. Would love to go back for a weekend break next year.
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Ann Widdecombe
Yup being is Aus is turning you into a right bellsniff. What a strange comment.
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Our new Prime Minister.
I'm a snob because i dont think cheap bus fares equip someone for being PM? Ok. That makes complete sense. He might prove me wrong, i just don't buy into all this Manchesterism stuff just yet, and being able to have a decent chat about which Smiths song you like best is a long way from holding your own on the global stage.
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Our new Prime Minister.
And TfL prices have been inexpensive and capped for years. I hear the bus route thing keep being trotted out as its some sort of great achievement. The baseline of any devolved system is good local transport as it fundementally helps economic growth if people can get around and pays for itself. But the idea that the towns surrounding Manchester are in boom times is a myth and its one that Burham is happy to play up to. Sorry, but you're going to have to give me more than the 526 being on time and inexpensive.
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Our new Prime Minister.
And that in a nutshell is the problem. Ego has lifted Burnham into this position, and as you say he can't massively make any huge policy decisions without calling an election. I don't buy 'Manchesterism' - I don't see the huge uplift outside of central Manchester and that is the real mark of the platform he rode in on. Come this autumn this summer is going to look like a dream to him.
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2026 Holidays
Princess avenue area is great, quayside is lovely as well - i said Beverley was a bit dull. So its not a shitehole.
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Our new Prime Minister.
Until he gives policies other than soundbites, I'll reserve judgement. If the country thinks the soft left will deliever more productivity or that our PM spending more time in Manchester will some how rebalance economic issues i two years, then they wiĺl believe anything. Flim flam.
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Our new Prime Minister.
Why are you bickering?
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2026 Holidays
Just looked - no tours around Lille's Decathlon stadium next week 😁
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2026 Holidays
I have family in Hull - its a great place, much underrated.
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2026 Holidays
Off to Lille on Saturday, didnt want a long drive this year. Booked a day in Ghent if anyone as been there rather than Bruges as it seems a bit less touristy but never been to Belgium so dont know whatnto expect really. Loads of galleries which seems right up my street, and the teenscan go shopping etc as none of them.wanted a beach holiday - i think living by the sea they're not that bothered. Got a decent appartment for not very much as well. Only concern is running oit of things to.do but comsidering we've managed to have decent family breaks in Conway and North Wales for ten years I reckon we'll manage it 😊
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2026 Holidays
Went about 20 years ago, thought it wasnt too bad myself. Seem to have been forgotten about by the english even then. Loads of Irish and Germans.
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Our new Prime Minister.
Based on the fact he has two years. It'll be some turnaround if he wins a mandate of his own. Sadly, i think that since Brexit this country has been divided too long, Labour got in because of the mess of the Conservatives, with a wide but not deep majority, so MPs are twitchy. Reform might be doing their best to implode at the moment, but two years simply isnt long enough to really instigate meaningful change; so it'll most likely be a hung parliment, more short termism and further churn of leaders. Calmness and longtermism would be better all round but that sadly is in very short supply.
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Our new Prime Minister.
Burnham will not be PM for long. Starmer is a much better PM - its annoying the country has got into this state.
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Our new Prime Minister.
You don't live here. So fuck off telling us what we should or should not do
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England V France
Third - bloody brilliant
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