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Bradwell Common, Milton Keynes
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Incredible growth (literally) - 1.9 per cent year-on-year.
It must be the higher per capita figure for a long time given net immigration will be around 30-year lows. Doesn’t feel like it…
GDP is estimated to have grown by 0.7% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2026 compared with Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2026 and has grown 1.9% since the same quarter a year ago.
Services grew 0.9% and production grew 0.1% while construction fell by 0.7%
➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdome…
ALT GDP growth in the UK July to September 2026 GDP up 0.7% Services up 0.9% Production up 0.1% Construction down 0.7% Publication: GDP first quarterly estimate, UK: July to September 2026
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So will Labour to be fair - the inevitable result of increasing life expectancy
The Conservatives will end up making people wait into their 70s for their State Pension theguardian.com/money/2026/n…
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Really disappointing that this is so low and chimes with my experience that far fewer people are wearing poppies these days.
Even looking at Reform voters, more than one in three say they haven’t bought a poppy
Why so few?
40% of Britons say they bought a red remembrance poppy this year
18-24 year olds: 23%
25-49: 29%
50-64: 45%
65+: 61%
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Who’d have thought?
h/t @Nigel_Gamble
What does the chart look like if you add the non-nationalised operators to it? Did they also see the same sharp decline in performance?
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Bollocks
Following its selection for live coverage on Sky Sports Football, our away fixture against Plymouth Argyle has been rescheduled for Monday 25 January (8pm). 📺
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The View from Bradwell Common retweeted
It turns out that if you just arbitrarily add 4% to your preferred party, the polls look really different! (And add up to more than 100%, fine, stop quibbling)
Published headline polling continues to rely on a methodological sleight of hand: discounting Reform support by four points through legacy turnout weighting while assuming full legacy party recall. In raw voting intention tables, Reform is already at 29%, breathing down Labour neck while the Conservatives stall in the low twenties. The uniparty uses weighted polls as psychological reassurance; the real arithmetic shows a dead heat across key parliamentary battlegrounds.
The consultation analysis literally reports responses of British citizens to each question 🙄
I wonder why she ignores the fact that 77% of British citizens disagreed with the proposals?
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This is MIND BLOWING. This Labour Government is making migrant policy to suit the wishes of foreigners and not those of British citizens. This is a national outrage.
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The View from Bradwell Common retweeted
1/9 We’re told England’s rise in the PISA rankings proves Tory reforms raised standards. But rankings alone cannot establish that. Comparing 2009 with 2022, the last PISA assessment under their government, the scores tell a more complicated story.
What events will be in the Northern Olympics?
Ferret legging?
Pigeon racing?
Gurning?
Plan for Northern Olympics to get £7m in Healey's Budget bbc.in/4zOcQ8G
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The previous government killed most of the rabbits and the US President mopped up the rest with his war on Iran
While this is welcome, it's indicative of what I think the entire theme of the budget will be.
Moving gas standing charges to unit costs will save the average household about £25 per year.
And that it may not happen for two years is just nuts.
Tinkering around the edges and kicking things into the long grass.
If there's no serious moves that will help people in the short term, the budget will be lauded as a disaster.
The cost of living measures leaked so far, just aren't good enough and will make zero difference to anyone.
Let's hope for more than one significant rabbit later.
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That’s a brave pitch to the electorate…
Trump defends skyrocketing oil prices by claiming US is 'making an absolute fortune' from war with Iran as gas hits $4.27 a gallon trib.al/0vvASd8
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Why is she so exercised about the Northumberland Wildlife Trust buying land in Northumberland? Weird…
£2 million is - for example - a lot less than Victoria Atkins has herself cost taxpayers since being elected as an MP in 2015
Spending nearly £2 MILLION of taxpayers’ money on nationalising our countryside! Why is this government using taxpayers’ money to price out local farmers and landowners from this land? This is no way to deliver proper outcomes for nature.
Yet again, Labour demonstrates they do not understand the countryside. Anyone with some common-sense knows that the best results for nature come from local people who actually know and work the land.
That’s why the @Conservatives will empower farming clusters, scale up Landscape Recovery Schemes and make DEFRA work FOR, not against, our countryside and coast.
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How are Thames Valley Police performing?
The inspectorate said - yet again - in July that it still wasn’t good enough.
Weak leadership was identified as one among many issues
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👮 How are Thames Valley Police performing?
Yesterday, Matthew Barber (Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley) publicly held the Chief Constable Thames Valley Police to account at the latest Performance and Accountability Meeting.
This is a key part of the PCC's role in ensuring policing remains transparent and focused on the issues that matter most to residents.
These quarterly meetings are open to the public and provide the PCC an opportunity to scrutinise police performance and ask important questions.
If you would like to watch the recording from yesterday's meeting, please visit our website: thamesvalley-pcc.gov.uk/our-…
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