This is astonishing. Robert Jenrick accused of putting his "political ambitions first and the requirements of justice second". Great journalism by the Liverpool Echo www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
This is astonishing. Robert Jenrick accused of putting his "political ambitions first and the requirements of justice second". Great journalism by the Liverpool Echo www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
A friend who moved to the Netherlands said that it took 2 years before her Dutch friends would speak back to her in Dutch when she spoke to them in Dutch - they just replied in English. My old company had a guideline that when Brits moved to Netherland the meetings were in English for a month only.
Darn it... Can only hope there is a buy-back provision.
#HarveyElliott loan to @astonvillaofficial.bsky.social is good for both sides. He is too good to leave @lfcr.bsky.social - we want to keep him - but he needs more game time. Mind you I thought that about #BenDoak #ynwa
Anyone with the fantasy that large private sector companies are a beacon of good practice has either not worked in such a company, or has only worked there at such a high level that they were constantly told by (frightened) underlings that everything was fine.
Still on the EHCR are we? British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.
Ulcers 1983 apparently. A lifetime ago
Yup - I’d try to cover my embarrassment by saying Higgs boson, but really I’m just trying to Cover up. Not sure if Dark Energy/Matter are accepted fully yet.
Nah, that’s practical. Obvs they could take the Ring to Mordor
The exact opposite
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Continental Drift
What this move from the Home Office does do, and politicians have to know it will do this, is fuel the misinformation that people seeking asylum are living it up at the expense of others. It isn't just detached from reality, this actively stokes far right talking points. 2/
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Ashok was deservedly popular and died too young - we did joke though that his ethnic minority was Chemical Engineer above all else. He was a sad loss to the region, party and parliament.
you are forgetting the incompetent man theory, which could also be ascribed to Lord Cameron.
Are they all on drugs?
Is Mr.Kwarteng also a landlord by any chance?
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The number of times you have to reject any #AI involvement before you can do anything on a computer/internet is getting to be a real pain. If people saw the value in these tools they could opt in rather than having to consistently opt out. It is a particular pain when looking at legal issues.
Farage's plan is challenging democracy and Human Rights.
Conservatism in 2025 means low taxes, less regulation and making deals with a violent theocracy that we USED TO BE AT WAR WITH to send people to their deaths
No, don’t be daft
A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
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I suspect he is. Our leadership and media don’t seem keen on calling him Out on it
Lucy Connolly tried to claim in her appeal that she didn’t know what a guilty plea would mean. Her first lawyer brought *comprehensive* receipts demonstrating that wasn’t true. As Sunder says, she’s repeating claims a court very clearly found to be false.
The top management BBC is stuffed full of Tory political appointments, they're not there to be objective, they're there to oppose the Labour government.
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There wouldn't be this many asylum seekers forced to live in hotels if the asylum process hadn't been deliberately damaged and slowed down, fyi
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
Now this seems like a pretty dumb thing to be doing, don't you think? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Against people doing their jobs you mean
If?
Agreed
And you know perfectly well we have an ageing population, and a workforce moving to services. Not training enough welders was not the fault of the migrant workers. And if the jobs are there should we leave them empty till our training programmes come through?
So you would rather portray them as entitled parasites? Thanks for the engagement btw - genuinely. But you ARE convincing me the current Party is not for me. I thought it was just comms.
So nothing for kids then? Or most pensioners (you know and understand that NI contributions don’t cover most people’s pensions). And nothing for those who can’t work because of disability?
Many voters but not Labour voters.
Comments like yours are why I am Closer to leaving the party than I Have been in 40 years. You are betraying our country and our movement (and I voted ABC)
You know and understand that that is a false comparison. Why are you parroting right wing lines rather than Pointing out that this was the Tories lan to make the situation bad?
Jenrick is turning up to protest against something HE helped create?
@conservatives.bsky.social haven’t believed in the rule of law, or British values, for a long, long time.
And jolly fine it is too - I bought the download (sorry?)
I’d love to see an in depth interview with one of the Government’s big hitters to examine the rationale and metrics for this bullshit campaign. They’re switching off voters like me with every breath.
Feel the need to point out again that #applemusic is a janky POS which is a calculated FU to Apple's customers. Jerks
Surely sometime Trump will attack us driving on the left as a barrier to US exports
You forgot the fourth C - Conspiracy theory
The point as you well know, understand and are just pretending not to, is that those 3 in 10 despise the other 7 and want to damage our country.
Don’t be ridiculous.
Oh FFS
Making America Great Again Update: US President not in charge of who gets to attend a meeting taking place at a meeting he instigated on a US military base on US soil with a foreign leader whose country has an economy about the size of the New York City Metropolitan Area.
It’s farcical Not only should Leeds have a tram network, but it should be connected to Manchester/Liverpool and Hull by a fast train service
I voted for this government. I wanted it to win. And I am absolutely sickened by the way senior ministers have repeatedly refused to challenge hard right talking points, choosing instead to demonise some of the most vulnerable people in the country. If they want me to be nicer they should do better.
Just a reminder that an individual's national insurance payments do not fund their State pension. The average person's national insurance payments cover about half the cost of their state pension:
Which was always the plan….
"Brexit remains the elephant in the room, deliberately ignored by the Prime Minister and others."
Well your mistake was listening to Times Radio in the first place.
The particularly hilarious thing about Brexiters being aghast and disgruntled at the direct consequences of the thing they wanted to happen happening, is that without the EU side guiding the UK through it by the hand and not giving up on getting a deal in place they would be far, far worse.
It is easier to fight Farage on Brexit - an acknowledged disaster - than immigration - which is a nebulous problem where Farage can move the goalposts. If he bring up immigration, point out that migrants can be sent back to Europe when you're a member, but Farage argued to give up that facility. 7
the Guardian asked me to write about the Elizabeth Line! 193 comments in 90 minutes! that's gotta be good, right? right?
My twins play/played ice hockey to a good (U.K.) standard. They make it look easy. I can barely get round an ice rink without falling. AND they got better degrees than we did. (As any parent should, I take all the credit of course)
Sorry i dont pay for the FT, so does the article explain that for the younger generation the trends are a perfectly understandable reaction to older generations (such as mine) making their lives as difficult as possible?
Interesting chart from this @stephenkb.bsky.social piece. Should be viewed alongside the birth-rate chart (see next post). www.ft.com/content/107a...
AND @economist.com
yes, the comms
Once more for those at the back. Working as an undocumented delivery drive is not a "pull factor". People are not risking their lives crossing the channel to work for Deliveroo. Doing so is an outcome of the system once people are here. 1/2 #r4today news.sky.com/story/ban-as...
increasingly convinced govt has to seriously prioritise making everything feel less tired and shabby. from leisure centres to litter to high streets. the visible signs of decline are such easy fuel for bad actors and also why george osborne should be in jail
Boris
also does #KeirStarmer think that asylum seekers subscribe to his X profile? Given the abuse they face on X, they would have to be rather masochistic to be on that platform at all, let alone following the PM.
Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.
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In my limited experience, if you pick the cheaper option there is a high chance you will get 2/3 of the way through the project and find you face a choice: you can upgrade to a price similar to the main cluster or get a slightly lesser version of the thing. Manual vs electric crank. Whatever.
B-52s & Madness = Punk and violence? I must have missed those tracks
For a moment a majority was for it. And at peak leave we voted bit.ly/45cjF6p Like every summit, all around it was only downside. “The greatest act of national self harm” as many have said from Geldof to Ian Kershaw to Heseltine.
Last season Leeds were very entertaining with late wins - different type of grit needed this season. Good luck (apart from against @lfcr.bsky.social )
Ah, on. Damn autocorrect
Too soon. (I say this every year)
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
Oh I think it will be to them. “Journalist” stopped meaning truth seeker some time ago for those in the Right. And that is most popular media.
But to be fair, he was playing a lunatic
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save up for a MacDonalds
Sadly I don't think "Tracey's" has quite the same cache as Lucinda's. Ben & Tracey's sounds like ice cream. Frost and Fire? Plain Sailing - could work Singles bar might be misunderstood Another Bridge?
Ooh, I havent had an exchange like this for ages. One with an unreasoning and deliberately argumentative Brexiter trying to sow division in the UK in the service of foreign powers. Anyway, I have finally got through to @virginmedia.bsky.social customer service so I'll be off. Give my love to Vlad
Indeed I wish he had done better, but saying he should have done better in opposing rather than focussing on the people who actually had the power is not helpful. (more to the point would be to blame the Labour voters who elected Corbyn I guess - they did make a difference. I was not one of them).
And of course Trump is USA First, which is what he was elected to do, so you are supporting him over your own country and mine. So you are betraying both countries. Good to be clear about it. Why not move to the USA? Of course, then you would be an immigrant there too - which they dont want.
Short term pain, long term pain. And no it was not - the line at the time was it would be painless and immediately beneficial. And of course you like to lie about that - and pretend that the short term pain was made clear at the time (very very few Brexiters even suggested it).
Again, thanks for being clear that your view is not guided by logic, reality or the interests of the British people. Like all Brexiters your aim to damage the UK. Thanks for making that clear. I am sure it will be helpful for people.
and your @virginmediacorp.bsky.social apps are so awful - deliberately I know.
The endless verification loops - the constant resetting. The refusal to provide contact details or answer the phone. The way the apps just keep glitching - all designed by @virginmediacorp.bsky.social to stop their customers engaging with them. We must be such a burden to you.
No you didnt. But thanks for outing yourself as a 5th columnist. An enemy of the British people. Helps to know that.
@virginmediacorp.bsky.social I think I know why you do it (to stop us contacting you) but you really treat your customers with contempt with the way you make it so hard to contact you.
Then why are you a Brexiter? Campaign to damage your own country, not mine.
Don't you get bored doing pointless attacks rather than trying to win the argument? Your lack of British values shows through.
Your evidence say the exact opposite of what you claim - they just want more money from the CAP. Did you READ the article? I'm in the cult of objective reality - I imagine you are not a fan
I'm no Corbynista, but blaming someone not in power for decisions made by those IN power is just what the Right want you to do.
Guy provides evidence. You say why dont you have different evidence that doesnt exist. And you say HE is in a cult?
Great @hulldailymail.co.uk letter rubbishes idea leaving #EU good for #farming & #agriculture. 86% of #farmers think Leave promises broken, says writer. Now #Brexit chickens home to roost, what's best solution to tackle #BrexitShambles & help #UKAgriculture? #RejoinEU #SingleMarket something else?
