mistlethrushb.bsky.social
Welsh Francophile, former languages teacher, translator and benefits advisor.Family, friends, reading, music, Wales rugby and Rollo,the dog. Labour member, hoping for closer ties with Europe
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Not sure the army would find a suitable role for meā¦
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Courage, mon brave!
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The noise and the fear it will detach from its fixing and land on my head.
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It was a free vote - people should have voted with their conscience not according to Party allegiance - though it does look as if the Tories were informally whipped.
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Iām calling you cynical ā¦
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What is notable is that for Labour this was certainly a free vote, whilst the Tories seem to have followed a Party line - a fact underlined by Badenochās statement that under a Tory government a future vote will change this.
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I agree. He didnāt do well in the Health role but he was measured and intelligent compared to most. How different he would be from Badenoch and/or Philpā¦
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Misquote/misheard? Nitpicking?
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Iām guessing/hoping this is a form of sarcasmā¦
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I am aware of thatā¦
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Does he have any information about how many members of āgrooming gangsā arrived on small boats or is this another ploy to spread hatred and division?
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Think sheās quoting Johnson.
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If he sees himself as being in competition with Badenoch though, she still wins for spitting venom and faux outrage.
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Not entirely sure about that. I think she was concerned about whether Baroness Casey, speaking at exactly the same time, would double down on her criticism of Badenoch.
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Numbers have certainly increased, as have the numbers being repatriated, but the evidence for this particular headline is about āone small boatā and the numbers attempting to board it.
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Quite sure the timing was deliberate - a kind of burying the bad news.
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Just watching that personification of hypocrisy live on BBC news. Nothing stops her jumping on a bandwagon to promote her own self image. If this is genuine concern and altruism, where was it during those times when she had the power to do something about grooming gangs?
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What a waste of space but heās just a sheep following his leaderā¦
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Badenoch - personification of hypocrisy.
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How can you avoid those themes if you study Shakespeare? He, like most successful writers, focused on issues that cause hatred and division, racism and sexism being amongst the most important.
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Very loud, persistent squirmingā¦
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Indeed, but her rapid delivery seems to prevent Emma Barnett from opening her mouth. The one and only thing about her to impressā¦ Iām just wondering whether there was an agreement between them that Badenoch would be allowed free rein! I am exhausted just listening.
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No excuse and no surprise! I doubt she realised that Broomfield was in her constituency. It is right on the boundary and in 2023 when my son made a formal complaint about the hospital to the local MP, he was told he had to contact the MP for Chelmsford. A recent boundary change perhaps?
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I vote Labour and live in Norfolk - an often forgotten area. You can be an altruistic voter and accept that other areas also need investment.
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One of the worst Crace articles Iāve read! What has Rachel Reeves done to deserve this level of ridicule in the dubious guise of humour. Analyse and criticise her reasoning and decisions but the Guardian should leave the rest to the right wing rags.
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Sometimes but not always trueā¦
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They do realise that the person responsible for DOGE in the USA is now very much out of favourā¦. Slow on the uptake?
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When youāve read what Iāve said youāll see Iāve already made that point. The endā¦
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It doesnāt harm those who donāt require it but itās money that should be spent on those who need it most. Universality was an error that needed change and I would sooner see money spent on disability benefits and the two child benefit limit.
We are expressing opinions - different but equally valid.
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Speaking as one who might be assumed to have lost out, I donāt agree.
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They were right to means test but wrong to take the easy route of pitching eligibility at the same level as the PC cut off point.
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Itās the attention grabbing headline that is the worst part of this article. It misleads the reader about the main points of her writing. She raises some important points about the difficulties of reinstating WFA for more people and doing so in time for the winter.
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Apologies for replying without reading the behind a paywall article, but it shouldnāt be one or the other, as both categories could have broadly similar aims with altruism playing some part. A risk of failure comes from the assumption that they are merely trying to be all things to all people.
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Has the Suffolk Show acquired new political powers?
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Iām just hoping theyāre giving him the rope to hang himself, though I doubt his supporters would see it that way.
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I regularly fill in YouGov surveys. From their records they will know I am a Labour supporter and they seem to have stopped sending me any political questionnaires. Strangeā¦ Coincidence or design?
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I thought I was an arch nit picker but I seem to have met my match.
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Btw - nor did I say that! Read my post.
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No,he didnāt and it was taken out of context but that was the impression the electorate was left with. He should have realised this in drafting the speech - ludicrously careless of a lawyer.
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Not too sure thatās an accurate basis for a judgement. There are probably many millions in the UK to whom youāve never spoken. In any case, even if your assumption were correct, is likeability essential in a politician? It may win votes but it gives you Johnson - apparently liked by many.
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I was appalled by Starmerās immigration speech and his reference to our becoming an āisland of strangersā and continue to question his continued failure to speak out on Gaza but, at least today brought a sign of something better. Unfortunate timing for maximum effect, Owen Jones.
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Just jealousy and Johnson having difficulty in coming to terms with his inadequacyā¦Btw, Iām almost 80, voted Remain and am overjoyed at even the slightest sign of the UK improving its relationship with the EU. Farage is a loathsome opportunist.