westmerian.bsky.social
Blind Anarchist Chartered Accountant (not to be confused with the blues singer of that name).
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And poor people who can't afford a passport or get a driving licence (blind, epileptic, can't afford to learn).
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Cuando nacen más niñas que niños, la mitad de los jóvenes ¿significa la mitad de los machos o todos, con alguna que otra hembra también?
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Same as Blair and Blunkett 20 years ago. Labour has a streak of authoritarianism down its spine like "Blackpool" down a stick of rock.
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Just as well there's no QT equivalent. But Any Answers was just as bad back in the postal days of Gerald Nabarro, Russell Braddon, Alan Gemmell and (by post) Dr. FL Henderson-Smith
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Craven Streeting scared to call out Musk's lies. "Misimformed" Kakius Maximus my arse.
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Kekius ¿será una forma bastarda pseudolatina con etsignificado "gilipollas"?
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My guess is a kind of reverse takeover. All pretty much the same since the sale of Cadburys anyway.
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Sorry, should have stayed closer to this. But we got there eventually.
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Just that Macquarie the hedge fund was the biggest shareholder in Thames when it was loaded with debt to provide the cash for unaffordable dividends and bonuses. And having trousered the money they flogged it off, gearing and all, and walked away.
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Welcome to the island of sanity. I'm surprised nobody set up a fake account ahead of your arrival.
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Canon Jonathan Gutless, having recently been fired, should be available at short notice.
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Well said. On an individual personal level we need to engage, and then to ask and explore why, rather than be reactive. Better questions can lead to better answers.
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Welcome. Glad you're joining the Xodus.
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I have a small portfolio of water shares from a modest stagging operation 35 years ago. I'd love to see them revert to the people at zero cost to the public purse. After all, they cost me nothing. It was done in the vain hope of retaining an interest/modicum of control.
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£1.3bn in contracts to private providers taking over existing NHS services. Payoff for donations. And diddly squat from the media. Only Lord Sikka raising his voice.
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Give them ejector seats.
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Oops, that is actually Emir Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoun. Sorry, your Excellency.
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It seems to work the other way over there too. Loads of ostensible young women in US and Eastern Europe with good teeth. Probably innocent bots though rather than stalkers.
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That'll be Dubai Ports who have been handed the management of the Thames Gateway Freeport for the next 25 years. And yet it remains full steam ahead for the corporate fiefdoms that are the SEZs and Freeports. Sheikh Masood needn't worry.
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Apostaría a que no.
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Unless Tugendhat can find a plausible way to endorse Bad Enoch it will be Cleverly vs Jenrick and the born-again card-carrying loons will make the white choice.
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Anthony Seldon's is deeply damning too.
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Shame Walz can't say "nuclear" though. Makes him sound almost as thick as Trump.
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The two whose puppet-masters have the deepest pockets.
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Like Farage "Just putting this question out there" after the Southport stabbings.
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Ah, yes. I'd forgotten about the cinema remake. I only saw the TV version (after it had been unbanned).
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Unman, Wittering & Zigo
Powerplay
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Both of those sprang to my mind too. Made for TV?
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The cat was a stray that found a family to take control of.
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Genuine public sector investment or off-balacesheet PFI schemes that loaded risk on the public purse with the rewards going to private equity? The one I was involved with was definitely the latter. Like taking candy from a MoD baby.
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There is a clear economic model. It is a perpetuation of the dogmatic neoliberal con-trick we adopted in 1979 and our current sorry pass is the logical consequence, another milestone on the road to perdition.
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They're bringing back polio in Gaza, so why not Missouri and TX too? Before you know it they'll be twinning with the antivax wierdy-beardies in Swat.
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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? That International Financial Reporting Standards facilitate maximising reported profits over disclosing downside risks. Lehmans et al were the default not the deviant.
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Second Chamber thoughts. Electoral colleges representing diverse elements of the population? Fixed longish terms then out? A portion to rotate out every X years? PR (d'Hondt?)? How about a Royal Commission to come up with proposals?
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Yes, but I'm pretty sure yesterday's were for 2045 so although longish no adverse impact. Chapter and verse on Richard Murphy's blog.
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Innate Tory mendacity? Deliberately salting the ground for the incoming government?