joacie.bsky.social
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Works as Finance Director for a Learning Disability support organisation. Opinions my own.
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I'm seeing people who were posting it was "clearly intentional" an hour or so ago now parroting this position. The audacity is unbelievable.
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What I am seeing is a pivot in the narrative now he's been identified as white 🙄 unbelievable...
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And yet if public gatherings like this were curtailed there would be an uproar. Stuck between the rock of a low likelihood but massive impact risk event and a hard place of (largely far right) outrage at our freedoms being constrained.
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Agreed. Sad but necessary. And hopefully cuts the head of the far right snake off very quickly.
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‘A white British man from Liverpool area’
Its unbelievable that the police have to now quickly name the ethnicity of the person driving just so the far right don’t kick off.
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This sounds a lot like what the likes of Putin, Xi and Jong un get up too... 🙄
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I never knew that about Tesla... fascinating!
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I do sometimes wonder how he has got to where he has got to in the industries he's involved in? 🤔🤨
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Agreed. That vehicle is a travesty.
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Came here to say the very same thing!
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And rapidly turning off soft left voters like myself who are increasingly disillusioned by the approach Labour are taking in government...
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Well I don't disagree with that in the slightest. But that's why the government has to lead by example here which they are not doing in my opinion. Reducing aid to fund defence is simply pandering to both Trump and to Reform-inclined voters who actively dislike foreign aid spend.
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I mean I totally agree. But part of the reason they pay a pittance is that they have the money to pay the tax advisers to find the loopholes...
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It's hard to tell your tone here. Are you being genuine or patronising?
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Completely agree
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But reducing aid to fund that increase is what's the problem here. Why not fund it with a tax rise to avoid the impact on crucial aid budgets? And blame the rise on Putin and Trump, as the reason to depart from manifesto pledge - no one prepped for this (although arguably should have done 🙄)
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It's precisely the outcome they want, part of this wider destabilisation of the West in order to weaken alliances 🙄
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So the aid organisations who've already had their funding from the US decimated face a potential loss of their UK-sourced funding too now? Excellent 🙄😕
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Labour is doing this to, once again, avoid a tough conversation with the electorate on tax. Dodging that conversation is coming at a very high price in this instance. And the sums may well not add up in any case.
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And here's the answer... Cynic in me would say this is done for its appeal to Reform leaning voters...
bsky.app/profile/paul...
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That's a rather Trumpian approach 🙄 way to kick these aid agencies across the world while they're already down...
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Given Labour's sitting in their self-painted corner on taxes which they should never have got themselves into even before Trump threw everything up in the air 🙄
so many areas already at breaking point, spending review already in action and this just tightens the vice further #defencespending
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This made me literally LOL 😂
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Well, also true. But if you never say them at all, whether in public or private or even somewhere you perceived falsely to be private, then there wouldn't be a problem in the first place. Basic principle=be nice and treat others as you'd want them to treat you (and not just when they know about it!)