nowhereman007.bsky.social
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Listening now re Hungary, how about you interview Péter Magyar, the surprise opposition leader who came from nowhere 18 months ago? Or look at the economy of Hungary and not just the right wing politics. There are stories to tell that no one is talking about.
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Complex reasons including a level of racism against Ukrainians that is not strong in the UK.
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I don’t believe the MAGA faithful are uniformly stupid - and if they see Hungary’s illiberal politics as a source code of how to gain power and keep it, then the economy crashes, society is shattered but the politics stays the same. Of course in time the pendulum will swing.
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What is ‘genuinely contribute’? You know that almost all immigrants can’t claim benefits and many pay double NI contributions. I’m beginning to think that being British is actually a job description rather than a citizenship.
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Paywall - what are we missing?
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It’s really up to the US car industry to work out what would sell in Germany and then make that. Normal business practice.
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Grumpy texts and a few pivots sounds like a good option right now.
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Costs which also affect British citizens who want to live with their foreign partners, husbands, wives in the UK, their home country. Leaves families and children under huge financial and emotional stress.
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Increasing evidence that Trump and Musk really are foreign agents with the aim of destroying democracy in the US - bit like what the CIA used to do???
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This is already the case in some EU countries and the UK does not take asylum seekers from EU countries.
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Always strikes me as a vindictive policy. There is a huge price to pay financially and in terms of mental health, let alone basic human rights.
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@rfuk.bsky.social
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Would be great if the kind of analysis you suggest were to be published in in the magazine next week.
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It’s her but it’s also her advisers
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Yup - the day of the dead is not meant to be a tourist attraction or an amusing curiosity.
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A lot of keyboard warriors out tonight - let’s hope the help gets through to people in Gaza.
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Do I sense a new constitutional amendment … freedom of positive speech as defined by X.
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Always a huge assumption that mentally ill is a reason to explain mass murder. It’s not.
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@jdportes.bsky.social which stats tell us something about Brexit? How would you tell people what the impact has been?
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Probably human nature - tendency to minimise and normalise and avoid deep emotion
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That doesn’t make sense - what if it’s a relative or friend who doesn’t have ‘access’ but is also not someone you don’t want to lock up? Let alone blow up?
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It’s a positive that Labour government calls out the trafficking gangs way more seriously than the previous government. It’s a more humane conversation already even if there’s a long way to go.
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We’ll be there next Saturday - looking forward to it
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As I try to get my phone sorted with EE my experience of how a business provides customer service is absolutely not what I would want from a public service such as transport or health care.
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If everyone gets ‘richer’ including the already rich, then things just stay the same. The poor will only get richer if the rich are willing to spend more of their income and wealth so that low paid jobs are well paid.
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And the converse is the soft power for the UK as young Europeans enjoy living and working in Britain and take a love for the country with them for the rest of their lives.
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“Maybe they’ll find someone they love” - and if they want to live together in the UK they’ll have to pay almost £6,000 to the government and earn well above minimum wage. Love has never been so expensive as it is in the UK. @rfuk.bsky.social
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Imagine if it was British kids refused entry.. the headlines would all be about petty EU bureaucracy.
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There is a huge opportunity here for an EU based company to act as a hub for supplying items from UK small businesses.
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I also have Kafkaesque memories of being fully employed by a university for the 1.5 hour lecture I gave. Definitely a job creation scheme for admin.
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Brain? What brain?
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And reassuring that an MP is articulate and takes the time to inform her constituents and doesn’t resort to sound bites or oversimplification.
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It costs almost £6,000 for a British person to be able to live in the UK with their spouse or partner with no access to benefits. Dependents on visas are subsiding the NHS not taking from it. @rfuk.bsky.social