timash.bsky.social
Husband, father, and dog lover. Keen gardener, follower of rugby union and cricket. Weather enthusiast. Survivor of 3 liver transplants, so immunosuppressed.
East Midlands, UK #FBPE
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Farage has been on QT 30-40 times. As much or more than any serving cabinet member from any government.
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For that we need to dump the useless FPTP and adopt full proportional representation to elect MPs.
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I completely agree. I went to state schools, worked quite hard, and have had a series of decent jobs that I enjoyed and which paid me OK.
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The Tories had 14 years to improve military homes. They have no right to now demand that Labour does it.
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It's an absolutely stupid decision. The planet is already burning, and more fossil fuel licensing will only make the climate change worse.
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The government really must get rid of the stooges that Johnson appointed to prime BBC positions when he was PM.
No one will trust BBC news until he does.
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Yet if you complain to BBC News about their obvious bias, you get a bland, meaningless reply.
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It firkin hot, innit?
Yet I still see uncaring, ir stupid, dog owners walking down our street with their dogs. Dark coloured pavements absorb the sunlight & radiate it out.
🔥Don't walk your dogs this afternoon. A few days won't hurt them. Walk them in the early mornings, by all means.
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It's strange how he feels now compared to when he was in government. He could have done the things he speaks about now, then.
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I didn't respond because of your 'pigs' comment.
Calling some nationalities pigs betrays your bias and your right-wing outlook.
I don't really want to converse with that type of person.
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Great speech by Mr Sanders. I can't disagree with anything he said, or anything that you wrote.
But is Starmer interested?🤔
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Not this iteration of Labour. Centre right, more like.
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Do you have any evidence that tens of thousands of Spaniards will come to this damp, unwelcoming island if free movement is reinstated?
Or is it just your inner prejudice coming to the fore?
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Men like Tice and Farage are a danger to everyone, not just to women.
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The government must invest in employing far more tax inspectors to work in each regional tax office and to tackle this woeful performance.
Any costs of new inspectors will surely be dwarfed by the tax receipts they can ensure are generated?
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British media guesses far too often and makes shit up most of the time.
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Why did the LDs abstain?
I hate it when a party does that. Why not let us know where the party stands? It's cowardly.
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The UK government's duty is to protect UK citizens.
Not to assist homicidal lunatics that are temporarily in charge of other states.
There should be no support of any kind for Israel.
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We British people call baseball 'rounders'.
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Good. It has been a great success in Paris, cycling has grown enormously, and all residents appear to support it.
London should follow the example of Paris.
Right-wing newspapers can get lost.
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Whoever they are they can fuck right off.
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What a load of rubbish. There had been no exodus of wealthy people.
Stop repeating right wing bullshit!🤦♂️
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Trump's folder of papers came to Starmer's rescue by jumping out and onto the ground. It allowed Starmer to chuckle as he stooped to pick them up.
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Starmer is acting more like a dictator than an elected MP, which is what he really is.
Bypassing all parliamentary scrutiny and doing whatever he wants.
Parliament needs to reign him in.
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Do we have a parliament anymore?
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Agreed. We need to get rid of the HoL and have a much smaller upper house of elected representatives. Perhaps one from each county. Or maybe each region like SW, SE, Midlands, SWal, NWales, SEScotland, etc, etc.
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All this is being done without parliamentary scrutiny and so represents a dictatorial action.
Does Starmer even plan to consult parliament? 🤷♂️
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I fully agree with your sentiments, Zarah.
Starmer is acting very undemocratically and, I suspect, very much against public opinion
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They won't listen. The BBC is determined to make Reform more popular.
I wrote a complaint to the BBC about their coverage of Reform and covered the points you state about the Green & LibDems being bigger.
I got this bullshit reply:
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She needs to speak to the Patriotic Millionaires and heed their advice.
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These pompous looneys forget about who they work for. They become obsessed with their own importance. It's appalling.😡
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I don't understand the attraction. It's so similar to a T20, so what is the point?
Just a money-grabbing pointless competition.
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There are millions of pounds to be found just by taxing the top 1% of society a bit more heavily. Take away some of the tax dodges from those who derive their wealth from investments and equalise capital gains tax with income tax.
Billions to be found by modernising the tax regime.
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Surely, what is needed are the nurse training bursary is reinstated, and the 'bank' reserve nurse service brought back into NHS ownership and control. The Tories gave that to a Tory Lord.🤨
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The media is SO partisan and right-wing biased.
We need Labour to implement the Leveson2 enquiry.
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The Tories will Mone about anything and everything that Labour does, regardless of how good for the country it is.
They still don't realise how irrelevant they now are.🤷♂️
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But integration into a new society is not about hanging on to who you were. It's about letting go of those things and adopting the ways of the new country.
I am conflicted in how I feel.
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I think that is not unreasonable. English is the global language, and many children learn it at school.
What worries me is that people fleeing persecution and war, who have family here, may have a legitimate reason to come here and may not be very good at English.
It's a difficult situation.
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Why does that Green account post here and then not monitor replies?
Surely, that's the way to get people engaged with their message.🤷♂️
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It's a result of Johnson's lever.🤷♂️
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Very good, but that doesn't answer my question.😉
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The thing I hate Thatcher for is the privatisation of UK assets that she started, and successive Tory PMs continued.
Idealogical stupidity on steroids.😡
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Agreed, which is why I favour a return to local authority ownership. The councils are all underfunded thanks to 14 years of Tory theft, so rents from council houses can be used to maintain the properties, but also for other services.
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It's all part of the MSM's plan to get Farage into line as PM.
We desperately need #Leveson2