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I think people may be overestimating how much history Sky History actually shows. It's like Dave without comedy shows mainly.

Pretty much, talking about how amazing the Nazi engineering and building is, discounting the lives of forced labour that were lost building them.

whatever do you mean? They're a bastion of factual entertainment.

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He isn't a neo-nazi, but he has been linked with some splinter groups

i'm gonna log off if another pun fest starts

Hadn't twigged it could get that far

He got a load of stick so left the local Neo Nazi branch etc.

Where is @mitretester when you need him?

Ensuring all the right angles get covered

Andy Burnham tearing new a holes at every turn 👌

Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) Tweeted:
Great answer.

The question - I think from Nick Robinson - suggested haggling over £5m was ‘showboating’ over a ‘relatively small amount of money’.

This is what Burnham said: https://t.co/MIQkbyIy23 https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/1318580467151548422?s=20

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/19/leaked-review-of-met-police-body-worn-videos-reveals-officer-errors

a senior Metropolitan police chief says incidents captured by cameras worn on officers’ bodies, recorded examples of “poor communication, a lack of patience, [and] a lack of de-escalation before use of force is introduced”.

The memo also states that force used by officers on members of the public could probably have been avoided in some instances.

While we investigate the nature & meaning of Darren’s tattoos we have
removed the video featuring him from our social media, & will not be
broadcasting any eps of The Chop until we have concluded that
investigation. Sky HISTORY stands against racism & hate speech of all
kinds.

https://twitter.com/HISTORYUK/status/1318602183428968448

Grant Shapps has threatened to seize control of Transport for London unless Sadiq Khan accepts package of measures inc higher council tax, pension reforms, larger congestion charge zone and higher fares in return for rescue funding

https://www.ft.com/content/fc7ad30a-a23b-49fc-a254-643ea6237ed2

The blood bath is beginning.

Well ... that £5m for Manchester is earmarked for important stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/20/highways-england-rebrand-accused-of-being-an-offensive-waste-of-7m

In a sign of anger among “red wall” Tory voters, the Manchester Young Conservatives tweeted: “Boris has lied about helping us in the north. It’s time for him to go. He’s not a Conservative. He’s got no back bone or genuine deals. He’s incompetent. He has now lost all the seats we worked so hard in Greater Manchester to win.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/20/burnham-says-government-playing-with-peoples-lives-as-tier-3-covid-rules-imposed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCFsw2KU3ws

Lol

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Okay I did have a sensible chuckle at that.

That pic is classic angry 18 year old. Reminds me of so many people I've known in the ol' home town.

This Russian style disinformation campaign the cabinet are running on Sadiq Khan is such a joke.

In the face of irefutable evidence that he has been reversing the TFL deficit left my BoJo, every one of the cunts is on TV or radio saying the same thing "he's bankrupted TFL".

This is the absolute nadir of British politics.

Opinions are one thing, but you can't have your own facts

Have you been following global politics recently?

It's been planned for a long time. The Tories knew Johnson wasn't going to stand for Mayor of London again in 2016 and that the next Mayor would be Labour. So what did they do? They wound down government grants for London--starting in 2015, entirely coincidentally just before the Mayoral election.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/25/spending-review-transport-deepest-budget-cut

Note the nonsense from Osborne in trying to dress up long-announced funding as somehow offsetting the cuts. He had also cut £1bn from the Crossrail budget when the ConDems came in, contributing to the problems with that project.

So, TfL is meant to be self-sufficient and to cover a large part of its expenditure from fares. First Crossrail is delayed; I'm no friend of that project, but it's perfectly reasonable for the Mayor to factor the fares income from it into his forecast. Now we have a pandemic during which fares income is greatly reduced and public transport in general severely disrupted, exposing the folly of withdrawing all subsidy from London's public transport.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34923879

Instead of acknowledging this mistake, Shapps (over Hammersmith Bridge), and Johnson and Jenrick go on the attack, as obviously that always makes you look stronger in politics, even though it's entirely the fault of national governments over the last ten years that it's come to this.

Good on Mayors Burnham and Khan (et al., including plenty of cross-party support in Manchester) for hitting back, but the country really needs stronger regional government so that the interests of other regions can be addressed better. I mean, London is obviously at the level of a region, and the Mayor of London effectively a regional governor, but as the GLA has so few powers, there's not all that much political weight to the post (being a Blairite set-up originally, the Mayor is also almost unaccountable, as shown during the Johnson years, which I think hurts the standing of the Mayor; I think all Mayors of London so far, including Johnson, have called for more powers).

Anyway, as you say, blatant lying going on.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-accuses-boris-johnson-lying-parliament-transport-for-london-bailout-a4572450.html