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davidchild.bsky.social
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What I cannot work out is *why* Labour thinks saying "It was right to cut Winter Fuel Allowance last year and it's right to reinstate it this year because circumstances changed so much" Is better than "We listened to you, we got it wrong, we've fixed it, and we're sorry".

submitted 13 hours ago • 41 comments

Today's poll on 'if you had an unexpected bill for £1,000 could you cover it', with results compared by platform. Some interesting differences...

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

While Robert Jenrick MP spends his days wandering about the underground tackling fare dodgers and going on about the capital for clicks... his constituency has a genuine problem. ● Newark crime rate: 123 crimes per 1,000 ● London 105.8 per 1,000 But you know... "Sadiq"

submitted 12 days ago • 84 comments

Since we have video now, what better use for it than to share Dame Edna Everage on Cilla Black...?

submitted 268 days ago • 6 comments

Worth noting that literally every other leader is preferred to Nigel Farage as PM. This could become quite important if/when a general election approaches with polling suggesting Farage has a real shot at being PM

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

Good piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social . Reversing the winter fuel allowance cut is pure politics but scrapping the two child benefit cap is actually about the merits of the policy on.ft.com/4kz4GJN

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

This is what it's like to live in a racist society. If the perpetrator is white, they're just some lone madman whose actions have no political implication. If they're an immigrant - in particular a dark-skinned Muslim immigrant - they represent their group and are part of a political attack.

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 15 days ago • 1150 comments

Deeply, deeply worrying news emerging from Liverpool city centre today where there are reports from police that a car has hit a number of pedestrians during the LFC parade My colleagues are finding out as much as they can and reporting it here www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Patti LuPone is a generational hater. We are so lucky to have her.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Americans put sugar in all kinds of dishes that don’t require it. And one of the main reasons for this national aberration is … Prohibition. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 45 comments

No matter how much I read about this story it still totally baffles me how it’s gone on so long and not yet been fixed. It cannot be that difficult to just say “anyone who’s earned less than £1k in a year over the limit should be even investigated let alone proseecuted”.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Every day I wake up, and I dream that someone a position of influence in the Labour party will just propose putting up the basic rate of income tax.

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

The conversation implied in this - to someone who may just have been assaulted - is deeply horrible.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

1) I'm pretty sure that people with a GRC can get a new birth certificate, so this doesn't even work 2) if you present every gym in the country with the guidance "unless your service is unisex you need to impose this embarrassing and legally risky process" guess what's going to happen

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

A takeaway from this debate - pretty much all the supportive MPs quoted their constituents as to why they support trans rights. We are cutting through Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

submitted 22 days ago • 203 comments