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simonoffthecuff.bsky.social
Chartered & Counselling Psychologist, music lover, writer of ramblings both academic and personal, disabled person
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Never. Forget. Never. Forgive. ✨

The way DWP has treated Andrea and thousands of carers like her makes my blood boil. The Carer’s Allowance repayments scandal has dragged on far too long, and ministers urgently need to put things right.

These finding should, I think, give pollster some pause for thought about what leadership ratings Qs they ask and how they report their data. In particular, Ed Davey is preferred as PM over Nigel Farage. But pollsters often do one of two things which are therefore problematic...

@clivebull.bsky.social you know what Clive … how do I feel about BREXIT - probably worse than when it happened- I’m 74 and so by the time we’re back in I’m hardly likely to benefit- so THANKS gullibles!

#trump may attempt to lie about crime, economy and other political realities but denying the weather and #climatechange will inevitably drown him I reality - trouble is will he take us down with him ?

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

If, instead of voting Labour 🥀 in the general election, people had voted Liberal Democrat, we already would have a firm plan for rejoining the EU single market and the economy would be starting to take off. Vote Liberal Democrat.

Lib Dem 🔶 GAIN from Conservatives 🔷 in Devon council by-election on Thursday this week It was the only Conservative held Council ward by-election in UK for more than a month 👇 @britainelects.com should report? bsky.app/profile/asso...

OK tell me #Trump wants #Greenland and #Panama Canal and the Gulf of Mexico to be the Gulf if American - no wonder he’s buddy friends with Putin !

#socialcare ! What a pathetic #Labour policy & obscuration - a complete disregard & avoidant decision - no wonder voluntarily(sic) being able to end our life is now on the agenda - it seems the agenda is to just ignore us until we just die or fade away www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I must be getting old or is it just extra irritated by the use of multiple barriers of passwords and codes and triple security just to order a loaf of bread ! Hardly transferring £millions or buying a car ! Cant help feeling this is overkill and data gathering rather than customer care

The UK and France, abandoned the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler through the Munich Agreement of September 1938. Do we have to repeat that mistake again LEARN FROM HISTORY !

Today is the anniversary of Holodomor — the genocide starvation of millions of people in Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin…. The abuse continues so we must all in the west stand firm behind the Ukrainians

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato

There’s been a lot of noise about the impact of the Budget on farmers and farming this week. My view is that the Government’s approach gives us the worst of both worlds. Here’s my explanation from BBC Question Time last night.