saltednuts.bsky.social
Education. Coaching. Cricket. Old farts music eg Pink Floyd with Syd. All dogs and especially underdogs. Left.
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That’s like asking whether I want a broken leg or a broken arm
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And how much does it cost and for how long.
(Remember journalists?)
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💯
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Yes I do.
We had a great time and loads of rounders. PE, Art and Drama. Nobody was watching.
Was it better?
More productive?
I have no idea.
But what fun we had.
Not sure we will ever know.
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Starmer punching down again.
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Depends what their basic values are died t it?
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The damn thing is always spoilt for me because they all talk so bloody fast😮💨
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I have no time for LibDems having experienced coalition. But just think if they were overtly racist, had a fraction of the seats and fought like rats in a sack, they would be plastered over the media every day.
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Plenty more nut jobs out there awaiting their turn. Here and abroad🤮
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Fosters enjoyment
Builds confidence
Secures belonging
That OK?
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Alan Johnson
😂😂😂
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Thing that amazes me is that if you put a dozen of the right-thinking people in a room, we (coz I know we are), could very much improve the offer we make to children everywhere. We could help create a system where they were encouraged to think, imagine and be curious and critical.
So guess what…!😮💨
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PS if it’s worth anything, I would parcel it as ECB
Enjoyment
Confidence
Belonging
But same underpins as your thoughts for sure
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I absolutely agree with knobs on, bells, whistles the lot👍
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Like Alex (Boris) Johnson and a million others like him?
I get your point, but like all centrists you only choose to see a bit of the point rather that the substantial part that is buried deep releasing its poison.
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Too be be fair he wrote maybe two decent songs
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I knew Clegg (and many of his Tory pals) were serious bad news at the time.
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Yes
This is what stops me from joining
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True
But the balance of probability…..
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I don’t know.
But he owes everything to Gove’s patronage
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I know a bloke who used to be with CPS
Bloody useless
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So many popular, easy and comparatively cheap wins ignored because he so enamoured by his billionaire backers
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This fits into the ‘oh my God don’t give them any more ideas’ category
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There is a simple test.
Were events terrifying for those involved?
Then it’s terrorism
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I can’t wait😛
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The one who makes me laugh is Sam Freedman. All he did was run to the pie shop for Gove. Now he is a leading educationalist😂
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🥱
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Plenty more where that came from.
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Never trust anyone whose mouth moves as fast as that!
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Typed in dark pub with no glasses so feel free to take piss out of any typos
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Much as he is hated, (still) he would have been the only Prime Minister since Thatcher who actually believed in stuff. And the only one in my lifetime who believed in the right stuff.
So I’m sorry you think I’m aggressive. But truth is I still feel the total betrayal he endured.
4/5
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‘Prime ministerial’ should have been in “”
He was in an impossible and truly unprecedented position.
And of course with regret far too many people (like you) bought it all to a lesser or greater degree.
Personally I think he would have been assassinated, so I’m glad on that front because..3/4
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..2/2 terrified and so something had to be done. So we were presented with ‘spy’, ‘anti-Semite’ ‘ supporter of terrorists’ and much more. No amount of hope and empathy could withstand the attacks that were only comparable to those on Benn and Foot. So he absolutely became ‘unelectable’ my ref to 2/3
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Right seeing as you are so affronted, I’ll take the time to explain.
You used the term ‘unelectable’.
In 2017 that was patently untrue as he was very nearly elected on a flood of hope and unprecedented support amongst the young.
The establishment and especially the Labour Party establishment..1/2
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BBC (🤮) referring to these people as Israeli ‘far-right’
Think that should make it clear to us all that the lunatic fringe will ALWAYS want more and will never be sated by appeasement.
In other news Starmer continues to appease Reform
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‘Attack’?
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PS
Corbyn for all his faults gave hope.
Now there is none.
(And you know it)
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‘Us’ (subjective)
‘7 elections’ (objectively ludicrous)
I don’t believe Corbyn was Prime Ministerial.
But he certainly wasn’t genocidal and unlike current Labour couldn’t be bought.
Fact is we are totally shafted with little or no ‘left’ in sight.
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I’m a retired old fart, but was decent in the day….always happy to have six pennorth if required👍
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Zoe that’s terrific. Please don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.
I’m afraid you will never get it ALL right, so avoid the stress by accepting, apologising and learning from the stuff that goes awry🤔
(Also be dead good at asking well considered concise questions)
👍👍
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True
But when there was a chance you rejected it.
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I’ll have a pint of what you had
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I’ve sort of given up on all this stuff. But the more I read the more the following question comes to mind.
‘How desperate for work must you be to train as an OfSTED inspector?’
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That Simon Jenkins has been robbing a living for donkeys years