simmyn.bsky.social
CofE priest in retirement. Refugee from the mess that used to be Twitter.
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Same backers
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Trump and Leavitt: Why won't everyone just believe us?
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There are lots of other words I could add, but I'll take that one.
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He really said the quiet part out loud, didn't he?
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Because he wants to get in the other person's face to intimidate. Perhaps being in the position of (supposedly) the most powerful person on the planet isn't quite what Donny thought it would be.
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Someone should tell him he's not on The Apprentice any more.
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I started reading Conclave just before Easter. It was weird on Easter Monday hearing the news and finding the world right in the middle of the novel.
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Why bother negotiating with someone who never keeps his word? An agreement with Trump isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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And he and Vance had the gall to complain about Zelensky's attire being disrespectful.
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On Merseyside this week visiting old friends and definitely drinking plenty of flat whites here
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It can be both
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It seems that's all they've got now. How long can they string this out? Isn't repeatedly doing the same thing while expecting a different result one definition of "insanity"?
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The "sales pitch" is just a guilt trip now, that somehow it's *you* letting Reform in & not Labour telling their own supporters to feck off...
Rubbish eh?
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*Male
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Make teachers in primary schools have always been a minority. But the constant denigration of the teaching profession over decades by successive governments, coupled with ever-increasing paperwork, must take much of the responsibility for this current state of affairs
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It's bad enough when eg Americans confuse England, Britain and the UK. For a British newspaper to do the same is unforgivable.
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Thank you. I'll try my best 🙂
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It is, but we don't have just to accept what we are given, otherwise no progress would ever be made.
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But that's exactly the point. That 73% included many who would have voted for a rejoin party had there been one that could have unseated the Tories - all totally unrepresented under the present system that leads to crass assumptions being made about intentions.
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When I voted Labour it was in spite of, NOT because of, their EU policies, because I expected them to treat vulnerable people much more humanely and begin to undo the Tory damage to public services. Turns out I was wrong.
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14 years ago the UK was presented with choice between FPTP and AV (only), worst of the alternatives.
Yes, I would expect them to begin the process to rejoin. However, under FPTP, the only realistic way to ditch the Tories in most of England was to vote Labour. Which is why we need PR.
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No, we didn't. We voted for parties and their manifestos, based on a balance between a whole raft of policies, not just the EU. The iniquity of FPTP is that it has effectively created a two party system where nuance is completely lost.
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It will be a long hard road back, so the sooner we get started, the better
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They also had the chance to make the RW press more accountable. They didn't.
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Labour had a chance to change the anti-democratic FPTP system, which is what the majority of its membership wanted. They didn't. Any Reform enabling is down to them and the rest of us don't owe them a thing.
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I can understand your hatred of Starmer, but who knows what Farage's actual convictions are? Most of his utterances are performative and manipulative, designed to get him closer to power.
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That's true
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With lowering food standards, privatising swathes of the NHS and weakening digital legislation now key aspects of US demands (among others) it's difficult to see how either/or choices can be avoided
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Didn't know the CofE was now in the water industry. That's some diversification!
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If AI takes all the jobs who will be buying the stuff the AI creates?
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"We love America and capitalism," but if we had to choose, it would be capitalism every time...
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It's not about productivity. It's about control.
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Absolutely. I'm so glad I managed to go to Seattle to watch the Seahawks 18 months ago as a birthday treat with my son. Wouldn't consider doing the trip today.
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Well, well. One convicted from supporting another-imagine my surprise! But if Trump's support has the same effect on support for the Front National as Musk's had for the AfD, that's fine by me.