michael-fox.bsky.social
Posts about my life and what interests me including: gardening, cooking, cats, the Lib Dems, politics in general and construction.
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He was running a Harley street practice and getting provoked in the Sun. Nobody believes he was scraping by to pay the bills.
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Yes but it’s also way worse, right? Like at least farron’s views are actually his moral beliefs… Hypnotits is literally a con man.
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Hmm from my perspective I was sneering not because we need better maths education - we absolutely do - but because he wanted to 1. force people to do it to 18 and 2. In a system that can’t possibly cope with that sudden dramatic increase in teaching.
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Greens were not new. They got just under 10% last time
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Thank you to everybody who volunteered!
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I tell people on the doorstep about this when they raise ‘concerns’ and I get overwhelming support to let them work
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Ok that just sounds like a good film
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Last week I got a local BBC story about the fact that one (1) man had submitted an objection to a licensing application. A whole news story about the opinion of single random guy that didn’t want a pub to stay open a bit later.
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There isn’t an apostrophe in Lib Dems 👌
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Yes fair. there are some big items in there but when I run down the list there’s also bus fleet replacement and station upgrades which imho should just be standard in a functioning country not announced as growth driving capital investment padding the figures. Maybe just my gut reaction
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It’s a good piece and I basically agree. I do think though that these projects are really unambitious. You mention hs2 but I can’t help but feel if they want to grow the economy there are much bigger and better projects out there. Maybe I’m looking a gift horse in the mouth though
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I’m jealous. My little garden is swamped with aphids and I’m begging the ladybirds to come and save my lupins
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What really winds me up is when people say they “support” something when what they actually mean is they ‘like’ it. Supporting is an action so you can’t say you support something while doing the opposite. I think FPTP & big tents exacerbate it. He spent a career supporting things but now complains.
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Thursday 12th
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This conversation is fascinating because honestly I had no idea people had such strong feelings about other fans in a stadium. I used to go to all the Newcastle away games and never really noticed a difference between clubs’ fans honestly.
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Yeah mate I was totally responsible for everything the coalition government did a decade ago.
You’re literally supporting a charlatan.
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And to think we could have had hypnotits on instead.
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It is never a good time to mention national service.
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You know that "No True Scotsman" is literally a named logical fallacy, right? Your argument is so idiotic they had to name it and teach it in schools.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true...
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A vote is a vote. You don’t get to explain away the party that other people vote for. That’s their choice. That fact is that pretty routinely about a 6th to a 4th of Scottish people vote Tory
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Yes that is funny.
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I think it is very funny how little you are capable on engaging with what people actually say to you.
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What’s that got to do with anything though?
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Uh huh. So you maintain that Scottish people never vote Tory even when they demonstrably did vote Tory.
Truly an intellectual heavyweight.
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Only 14% of Scots think the independence question should be a priority. But sure all anybody votes about in Scotland is independence. Whatever you say.
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In 1979 the conservatives won 28% of the vote in Scotland. The nationalists came 4th with 12% behind three unionist parties.
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In 2019 the conservatives won 25% of the vote in Scotland
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In 2017 the conservatives won 29% of the vote in Scotland.