neiljg.bsky.social
Ex rugby player, ex triathlete, ex runner, ex cyclist. MS since 1990, now SPMS, doing as much as I can while I still can!
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You haven’t watched the BBC lately have you.
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What’s wrong with treating others how you’d like to be treated?
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Genocide being #1.
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I’m not sure we expected a labour government to be doing the tilling for it though.
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I thought it was a trial of free breakfast clubs? Happy to be wrong.
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They could have watched the BBC & done their commentary from home!
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‘has yet to show any benefit to anyone’ is what I replied. If you’re going to nitpick as a defence please get your quotes right. I think we’re done now. Enjoy your evening.
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I’d just hoped they would have chosen to help the poorest first rather than targeting them for savings.
I’m disabled these days (not affected by PIP proposals) & I don’t have the energy to enter politics at any level. I enjoy debating it however - & I don’t have to be right all the time!😉
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Changing my gripe? Specifically, the warm homes scheme will have marginal benefit. I have changed none of my previous statements.
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& the wealthy in UK, at least some of them are asking the government to bring in a wealth tax.
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No, never in politics but worked all my life in local government finance. In that role I spent around 10 years. Working with urban regeneration companies in some of our poorer wards. I guess I have a strong social conscience & have been disappointed that labour seem to have lost theirs.
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A trial of breakfast clubs started today.
The warm home grants, like previous grants schemes will have marginal benefit & as so often happens, be ruined by ‘specialist’ contractors & consultants.
The steel takeover was v last minute, could have been done earlier & they’re STILL not nationalising.
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& much of what is in your list has yet to show any benefit to anyone. They’re all things that may or may not benefit the country economically in the future. There’s little there that helps the poorest.
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They’re not ‘mistakes’, they’re deliberate decisions taken that affect some of the poorest in society (not all pensioners, I know) when there were plenty of easy alternatives - a wealth tax for one.
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Removing winter fuel allowance without first sorting pension credits.
Removing PIP from anyone not scoring 4 on any module in the daily living component.
Not removing the 2 child benefit cap.
Continuing demonising of asylum seekers - no safe routes considered.
League table of foreign criminals.
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I think so. Continuing attacks on the weakest & poorest in our society show a government a long way from what I’d hoped a labour government. Even today, searching for reform votes with a ‘league’ table of offending ‘foreigners’.
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$3,000 in cash?🤔 Something smells……a bit🐡🐠🐟.
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You weren’t arrested & deported? Burner phone?
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Hate makes you so ugly.
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Just watch them.
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Fancy talking about your daughter’s rape to justify the actions of an adjudged rapist.
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Not me.
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Sorry for my language but, bastards! How dare they.
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LBC is no longer nice to listen to on weekend afternoons. A failed Tory candidate & then, just why is VF on at all?
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He looks demented.
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Phillips needs to be retired. He gets worse every week.
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Good luck getting a new iphone in a couple of weeks time.
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I’m shocked!🙄
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I thought the same.
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That’s great news - from someone with a vested interest!!
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It’s easier just not to go.
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Usually within 24hours of getting it whilst said product has yet to be removed from its wrapper!
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It wasn’t always. It used to be funded directly by central government but responsibility was transferred to local government together with sufficient funding at the time. Although social care costs since then have risen at a much higher rate than LAs are able to charge for within council tax.
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Too much money involved for the arms trade.
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Suspended sentence? I watched a ‘true crime’ type programme on tv last night. A guy who hit someone with a crowbar got 9 years even though the victim ‘only’ received treatment in a&e.
& as for 5 year driving ban. Why should he ever be allowed behind the wheel again?
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He’s the worst interviewer I’ve ever come across.
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Did he empty a few bins while he was there? Or maybe some of the dissbled residents could do some for an extra tenner.
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I’ve given up listening to LBC in the afternoon at weekends.
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Where are the safe routes that would end the need for the treacherous journeys to get here?