My favourite Anne Marie Morris moments from my Twitter feed and other sources :
🧵 1. 2013 - I asked what the Government is doing to protect the railway line to the south west. Anne Marie tells me the government is doing everything possible. Less than 3 months later the railway is closed for the longest period in its history.

Shaldon Parish Council has cancelled its scheduled beach clean due to undisclosed reasons. However, the beach has been badly affected over recent days by the effects of the storms.—> The beach has been gradually eroding since the completion of the flood defences in 2011. The original beach level was at the bottom of the handrail and the stone work.

Someone has just broken the temperature sensor on the Dawlish wave buoy. I don’t believe this temperature. Will explain why in a reply. 13.2°C is the average temperature that you would expect in late May early June. It’s 4°C warmer than the average for March (9°C). I suspect a more realistic temperature is the 11.8°C I noticed earlier today. That’s still very warm but 13.2°C is crazy.—>

As Magna Carta is trending meet the activist lawyer who made it what it is today —> 🧵 Sir Edward Coke, Attorney General, Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chief Justice was a lawyer who lived between 1552 and 1634. He’s widely regarded as one of the greatest common lawyers in history.—>

There’s only one good thing about having a leak in your waders: it’s your own personal water temperature monitor. Yesterday, was quite warm in the river!

The more accurate official data from the wave buoy off Dawlish shows the water temperature is currently around 10°C. —> That’s despite all those easterly winds churning up cold water. It recently peaked at about 11.°C in February - more than 2.0°C above normal.

Last year saw really high temperatures (up to 22.3°C) which is well above the threshold for harmful bacteria such as Vibrio to grow… —>

Some observations about yesterday’s events in Parliament. Not so much about what happened but why?

First, none of the major parties have covered themselves in glory - none can be proud of themselves. —> The SNP used their opposition day to oppose the Government. That’s a good thing (and something Labour needs to do more often.) However, they also delighted in the opportunity to put Starmer in a difficult position.—>

She asked why people might think she is a fascist. I don’t think she is a fascist but it’s pathetic that that she can’t understand why that accusation has been made.

https://twitter.com/miss_snuffy/status/1658242453491654659

First, she brands herself as “Britain’s toughest headteacher” or something of that ilk. Now someone has to be that but claiming the title seems a bit off. As a good headteacher, she’s probably aware of the role of discipline and youth education in Fascist Italy.—>

Here’s the story so far in the Teignbridge - “Newton Abbot Says No” scandal. It’s really quite a shocker—>

https://twitter.com/shaldonangler/status/1627914210012278786

Basically a “complaint” was made about the conduct of two councillors on Teignbridge Council. The councillors represented the South Devon Alliance southdevonalliance.org —>

Doing some digging on the Standards Committee at Teignbridge and I have just found the most astonishing comment I have ever seen in any set of formal minutes I have reviewed (thousands).

“The powers of the committee are unfortunately limited by law.” democracy.teignbridge.gov.uk/documents/s112… The entire purpose of the Standards Committee is to ensure that the Council operates within the law. That’s easily the most loony toons minute I have ever seen.—>

A message to voters in #TivertonandHoniton. 🧵

I have been a Tory supporter since I was a child. My parents were as Tory as they come, our home hosted MP surgeries. Our front room was often piled high with election literature and envelopes. That is my dad in the photo.➡️ I have had the privilege of meeting 3 Prime Ministers, Macmillan, Heath, and Douglas Home, who came to our home when he was Foreign Secretary. However, there are no circumstances in the world that could bring me to vote for Johnson.➡️

Spoiler alert: real wage growth in the 1970/80s averaged 2.9%. In 1975 when price inflation was 24%, wage inflation was 29%. The three day week was under Ted Heath’s Conservative Government.

https://twitter.com/WestbyNick1/status/1538229842310725632

For balance real wages did fall under the Wilson/Callaghan administration and unemployment began to rise. Again for balance, the fall in real wages under Cameron/May/Johnson since 2010 has been the longest sustained period of decline since the 1870s. ➡️

New Yes Prime Minister script revealed.

Hacker, despondent: “I fear the game may be up Sir Humphrey.”

Sir H: “Fear not, Prime Minister, there is always hope in even the darkest of times.”

Hacker: “How so?”
➡️ Sir H: “There is a recognised plan in place for all such eventualities Prime Minister. The Civil Service is renowned throughout the civilised world and in America for its planning”

Hacker, taps nose: “That didn’t work so well with the pandemic, though did it?”➡️

A lesson from History…
➡️ Flashback to May 10, 1940 - at dawn, German troops massed on the border of Holland invaded. The Government received news of the invasion at 5.30am. The Phony War had ended and German troops were advancing quickly spearheaded by parachutists.
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