Well, quite. Though I don’t think that there was much of a rationale behind it, to be honest.
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Well, quite. Though I don’t think that there was much of a rationale behind it, to be honest.
I say If god didn’t want the races to mix WHY DO MIXED RACES HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BABIES & CHILDREN & ADULTS I wonder
Ten years ago today. A moment of horror, and a moment of hope that Western electorates and state might get past cruelty and indifference and actually live up to their moral obligations. And now, most of our citizens just don't care
I wish there were an app, though, and more settings like lists, and automatic posting to Bsky…
Yes. I was caught like that. Do the higher cost themes come with more options?
I like Ghost but it’s still a little low in options for my liking. Perhaps it will get better. I do love your stories, by the way.
I’ve tried to resist joining in with the flag discourse because of the shameful and nasty pile-on that happened to me on Twitter last year started by people I considered friends, continued by people happy to throw me under a bus. But was I wrong? Not allowing replies to this. Last year hurt enough.
£49 per week, and from that, food toiletries and clothes. It's illegal for them to work, and they can't choose where they live. And NO! We dont take our fair share.
Yep
Passive aggressive authoritarianism is a bit shite. Performance cruelty to appeal to idiots feels very Idiocracy.
Meanwhile all these performative gestures hurt people of overseas heritage here, who might have been more likely to vote for them.
No, no. You’ve got it all wrong. We don’t want clever people over here. We don’t want people to know that the forrins are as good as us. We don’t want them to pay their taxes and contribute to our public services. The sooner our people are grubbing around in the dirt, the better.
Many unis would collapse financially if it were not for foreign students contribution. Meanwhile
You are in my thoughts. I hope it goes as well as it can and that you are comforted by the thoughts of everyone who attends. X
The dragon is so cool.
ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)
That is heartbreaking. Someone chose for that to happen.
Is this what’s called sealioning?
Oh.
Superb film
So stylish!
Ahem. Presumably my house has washing facilities and towels they could use. I’ve probably got some clean clothes and an old phone lying around somewhere.
Moi non plus.
Last week I told one of their supporters, a fairly recent immigrant to this country, that they’d deport me, born locally, if they could. He tried to style it out but it did bring him up short. Good.
Was going to compare with Farrige comment about Romanians. Glad you did this.
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
Douglas Carswell was a key founder member of Vote Leave. Here, he is spouting monstrous religious and race hate. At the roots of the Brexit campaign lurked something dark and evil. And the bastard once threatened to sue me.
Why would anyone need to say that?
Was he drunk? On a bender?
Yes. Maybe. Though it wasn’t a “protected” tree in a conservation area, and it’s done now.
VERY British.
I came across a tree in my road being cut down at about 11pm a few weeks ago. Made me suspicious that they were doing it in the dark. Trunk is NOT mushy: it looked healthy. I hate to see trees cut down.
@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
“Which of your human rights are you happy to lose?”
Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently. This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." George Eliot
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Post a movie from the year you were born. One of my favourites. It used to make my dad weep.
Yes. If it weren’t so serious it would be laughable that they haven’t appreciated that the flags are at half mast.
Communities are being terrorised and terrified. I’m on a WhatsApp group where folks are talking about streets to avoid. Streets we grew up on. And yet it’s apparently unreasonable to hope that a theoretically centre-left Prime Minister might offer some moral clarity and moral leadership.
Ours is not neat.
We’ve just been gifted a red cross on a roundabout in a solidly middle-class area. In Wales.
And aren’t you grateful?
Without wanting to prejudge it looks like incitement to racial hatred.
Polpo Paul!
Maybe that’s his grift
Do they have jurisdiction in Mississippi though?
What is it to him how many Abduls we have if he doesn't even live here any more? From the river to the sea, keep the UK Carswell free!
No. People are still mentioning on the doorsteps.
Yes. This. And mine.
Are they coming for the rest of us, too?
Yes. Defo out of date.
@kuntieplopkins.bsky.social
Plenty LibDem.
I think it also depends where the line is.
Qwhite interesting, that.
I’m making a connection with Ulez in all the outer London boroughs. There’s definitely one here in SE London. And you can deduce what that’s a proxy for.
No. Exactly.
“Let’s” as if he’d have anything to do with it practically.
Ban the burka!!!!
She is heroic, and such an example to all of us to stand up for the facts; for the most vulnerable and for what is right.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social dealing with ignorance. Is there a Nobel prize for patience? youtube.com/shorts/PnxLn...
Sorry, are all foreigners stupid and without education?
The one at the bottom of that article. About whether people support flying flags etc.
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." ― Roald Dahl, The Twits
That poll needs help
Beg pardon. Mississippi.
Omg. He’s emboldened in Alabama by those US fascists.
Just couriered a food hamper to one of my old girlfriends, via FedEx.
Apparently the UK government are doing an emergency alert test on the 7th of September so just in case anyone knows any current domestic abuse victims who would need to have their safety phones switched off so as not to be outed, please pass it in.
We had swastikas and Islamophobic graffiti painted on a garage door and pavements in our solidly middle class road a couple of weeks ago. Red crosses are appearing all over the place on roundabouts and crossings. These areas are in no sense left behind. It’s really horrible.
Asylum seekers often have complex legal cases and a need to make backup copies. Indeed, many get seriously penalized for not having a sheet of paper. Banning them from photocopying seems necessarily cruel and pointless
I’m trying to say this carefully as I have religious family, love them dearly, and people’s personal beliefs are their business, but the US is what happens when you let expressions of personal beliefs in implausible woo be taken seriously as part of public political and policy discourse.
Silence is complicity
Right now, Sky News are platforming Richard Tice and allowing him to say "They're [the government] are more interested in protecting the rights of people who've come here illegally - therefore they are criminals - than looking after the rights of British citizens..." Seeking asylum is NOT illegal.
So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.
I have to tell you, as someone married to a white man; with nearly all white friends and family; living since birth in an overwhelmingly white area, I have at the age of 60 given up trying to explain racism to white people. It’s frustrating, disappointing and isolating.
No Meher. We have to understand the racists. We must not play the victim card. Had you not realised this? /s
💯 Thanks for saying this.
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
I love both of those things. I know that more refined people might sneer but that’s full of such stonking choons! And such a story! Contains one of my favourite spine-chilling moments in all of music.
*pouts*
It’s an especially silly thing for him to say when the only reason the movie got made was because George Harrison put his hand in his own pocket to pay for it… because… the studios weren’t interested!
My heart leapt for a moment there when you used the past tense.
Reminder that small boat migration is c.5% of all UK immigration. And asylum-seeking generally is far lower per head of UK population than most other west European countries e.g. 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇦🇹 🇮🇪. Yes even Ireland takes way more. Yet none have the same sense of crisis and moral panic as the UK.
@politicanimal.bsky.social Hello! Good to see you on here.
As is perfectly respectable
True
How many teaspoons full of spinach will this yield?
Natch. We both know that I was being ironic and that you are dead posh.
No.
You one of them thar lowest of the low then Ma’am?
What were they peekin’ at?
It’s so disappointing, Snig.
When I was a child, the very worst thing I could say was “I don’t care.”