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Sally Longford
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Vice-Chair Nottingham Green Partnership, Former Nottm City Council Deputy Leader, Hon Alderwoman, Labour, Environmentalist, Interrail, ex Geography Teacher, School Governor, Grandma
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Government wd hv to come out and say that the whole board has failed, get them all to resign and then push their own people onto a new board, who would then appoint a new DG. You would have to have balls of steel to put up with the attacks from RW media but I think it would be worth it long term.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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India has now electrified almost 100% of their tracks, a poorer country with vastly more track. Over half of that has happened in just the last decade. The UK's poverty of ambition by comparison is truly staggering (and sad...) earthbound.report/2025/02/03/i...
India’s electric railway revolution
Every day, India electrifies 19.6 kilometres of railway line. In the last decade the country has electrified 40,000 kilometres of track, and it is due to reach 100% electrification this year, exact…
earthbound.report
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Deeply depressing. Short-termism rules again.
Feels like a different age when we intended to decarbonise the economy. Not going to happen.
Also rail will be in a bad place in (say) 25 years time, still heavily dependent on diesel - and many of those diesels will be very old.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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"We're the workers' party" but don't want you to have any sick pay, annual leave, maternity pay, paternity pay, etc, etc, etc, etc.....
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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They've already voted against strengthening of workers rights, for things like fire and rehire. They'll slash necessary jobs just as Mu$k did.

This is just another fucking lie.
They are not the party of workers.
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
With the puppeteer in attendance…
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on?

Guess where that data looks like it will end up?

In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it!

Larry Ellison’s Oracle!!
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM