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Post by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jul 6, 2022 8:08:00 GMT
If I did it, I wouldn't be typing this now. Don't think they avail you of access of VUK in HMP Huntercombe! Are you a foreign natiobal? Afraid not. Do they get special Internet privileges? The lads on C block get away with all sorts I heard.
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Post by maxque on Jul 6, 2022 14:31:31 GMT
Are you a foreign natiobal? Afraid not. Do they get special Internet privileges? The lads on C block get away with all sorts I heard. Huntercombe is only used these days for foreigners awaiting deportation.
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Post by carolus on Jul 6, 2022 16:57:55 GMT
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Post by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jul 6, 2022 21:25:37 GMT
Afraid not. Do they get special Internet privileges? The lads on C block get away with all sorts I heard. Huntercombe is only used these days for foreigners awaiting deportation. Makes sense. It's the nearest adult prison to where I grew up, thought it was a regular one.
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Post by carolus on Jul 9, 2022 7:18:32 GMT
Leicester, Western. Lindsay Broadwell, Labour to Independent.
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Post by casualobserver on Jul 12, 2022 19:04:34 GMT
Leicester, Western. Lindsay Broadwell, Labour to Independent. I was very surprised by this defection. I can find no trace of what the cause was, although it is certainly confirmed on the Leicester City Council website. Labour’s local website hasn’t yet caught up with the news, however: www.labourinleicester.org.uk/vote/western/
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Post by carolus on Jul 12, 2022 19:50:27 GMT
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Post by carolus on Jul 12, 2022 19:50:51 GMT
Leicester, Western. Lindsay Broadwell, Labour to Independent. I was very surprised by this defection. I can find no trace of what the cause was, although it is certainly confirmed on the Leicester City Council website. Labour’s local website hasn’t yet caught up with the news, however: www.labourinleicester.org.uk/vote/western/I don't really know anything about Leicester - is there something that makes this particularly surprising?
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Post by ricmk on Jul 13, 2022 14:25:54 GMT
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Post by Strontium Dog on Jul 13, 2022 15:17:43 GMT
I am shocked that she describes herself as an "ardent Brexiteer". Shocked, I tell you.
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Post by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jul 13, 2022 18:14:37 GMT
Leicester, Western. Lindsay Broadwell, Labour to Independent. I was very surprised by this defection. I can find no trace of what the cause was, although it is certainly confirmed on the Leicester City Council website. Labour’s local website hasn’t yet caught up with the news, however: www.labourinleicester.org.uk/vote/western/It's not surprising if you know Cllr Broadwell or follow her social media accounts. She is very passionately left wing Labour and has been significantly discontented with Starmer's leadership for months. Quite a strong, knowledgeable advocate of nuclear power so will be a big loss to pro nuclear members.
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Post by mattbewilson on Jul 13, 2022 18:39:55 GMT
I don't know her but unsurprised as there was a relatively left wing presence in the party that end of town
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Post by greatkingrat on Jul 13, 2022 18:48:07 GMT
I was very surprised by this defection. I can find no trace of what the cause was, although it is certainly confirmed on the Leicester City Council website. Labour’s local website hasn’t yet caught up with the news, however: www.labourinleicester.org.uk/vote/western/It's not surprising if you know Cllr Broadwell or follow her social media accounts. She is very passionately left wing Labour and has been significantly discontented with Starmer's leadership for months. Quite a strong, knowledgeable advocate of nuclear power so will be a big loss to pro nuclear members. I'm not aware of any plans to build nuclear power stations in Leicester, so I'm not sure that knowledge is particularly vital!
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Post by Chris from Brum on Jul 13, 2022 18:48:24 GMT
It's not surprising if you know Cllr Broadwell or follow her social media accounts. She is very passionately left wing Labour and has been significantly discontented with Starmer's leadership for months. Quite a strong, knowledgeable advocate of nuclear power so will be a big loss to pro nuclear members. It used to be that the left wing of Labour was really, strongly, anti-nuclear, both weaponry and power generation; this is the tradition that Jeremy Corbyn represents. But there was always the suspicion that some of them were shills for the USSR at the time - let's put it this way, you rarely saw them demonstrating outside the Soviet embassy about their nuclear arsenal.
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Post by aargauer on Jul 13, 2022 19:21:58 GMT
It's not surprising if you know Cllr Broadwell or follow her social media accounts. She is very passionately left wing Labour and has been significantly discontented with Starmer's leadership for months. Quite a strong, knowledgeable advocate of nuclear power so will be a big loss to pro nuclear members. It used to be that the left wing of Labour was really, strongly, anti-nuclear, both weaponry and power generation; this is the tradition that Jeremy Corbyn represents. But there was always the suspicion that some of them were shills for the USSR at the time - let's put it this way, you rarely saw them demonstrating outside the Soviet embassy about their nuclear arsenal. The mask did slip a bit with Stop the Wars ludicrous victim blaming on the Ukraine war.
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Post by Chris from Brum on Jul 13, 2022 20:03:17 GMT
It used to be that the left wing of Labour was really, strongly, anti-nuclear, both weaponry and power generation; this is the tradition that Jeremy Corbyn represents. But there was always the suspicion that some of them were shills for the USSR at the time - let's put it this way, you rarely saw them demonstrating outside the Soviet embassy about their nuclear arsenal. The mask did slip a bit with Stop the Wars ludicrous victim blaming on the Ukraine war. Yeah, well Stop the War has long been a poorly-fitting wig and moustache disguise for Stop the West.
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Post by batman on Jul 13, 2022 20:23:36 GMT
Stop the Wars We Happen To Disagree With.
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Post by Chris from Brum on Jul 13, 2022 20:30:38 GMT
Stop the Wars We Happen To Disagree With. That's about the long and the short of it. Wasn't Jeremy Corbyn national chair of it before becoming Labour leader?
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Post by Merseymike on Jul 13, 2022 20:32:53 GMT
Stop the Wars We Happen To Disagree With. That's about the long and the short of it. Wasn't Jeremy Corbyn national chair of it before becoming Labour leader? But it's opponents tend to agree with the wars they oppose. And are usually sympathetic to Zionism.
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Post by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jul 13, 2022 21:28:19 GMT
It's not surprising if you know Cllr Broadwell or follow her social media accounts. She is very passionately left wing Labour and has been significantly discontented with Starmer's leadership for months. Quite a strong, knowledgeable advocate of nuclear power so will be a big loss to pro nuclear members. I'm not aware of any plans to build nuclear power stations in Leicester, so I'm not sure that knowledge is particularly vital! It's not a comment on her local role, I was talking nationally she's one of, if not, the strongest advocate(s) if you're pro nuclear (I'm only pro fusion personally and have had some robust debates with her on Twitter over fission), but I suspect you knew that!
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