Mark

Mark

@peelacres.bsky.social

Trains. Beer. Vegan food. Nature. Cats. Views. Folklore. Adventures. Typefaces. Trig pillars. Parkrun. Bridges. Liverpool resident. Green socialist. Seadog.

332 Followers 885 Following 393 Posts Joined Dec 2023
1 week ago
Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

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A photo of entertainers Little and Large. Large’s face has been blanked out and a question mark placed over it.

this photo leaves little to the imagination

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1 week ago

Yes, utterly baffling but well worth a watch.

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Prime Minister appoints expert Cost of Living Champion The Prime Minister has directly appointed Lord Richard Walker as the Government’s Cost of Living Champion today.

Urgh. I missed this obscene appointment last month. A man who offered people £1 vouchers to grass on shoplifters made "Cost of Living Champion". Fuck sake. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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1 week ago

Pleased the article started with the Calthorpe Arms. An excellent local boozer ran for many years by Adrian, a legend for his amazing basic but great value scran and his bonhomie. Was home to my Quiz League of London team for years and even hosted the wedding reception for my first marriage.

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Oddly, that's also not her husband but another person whose sob story has been tacked onto the article.

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I'd say it meets all of these really.

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1 week ago

I was just off to the right there and I said to my brother that I was a definite red but pretty everyone else around us was screaming at the ref that it was never a red. Overly partisan fans baffle me too.

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Went for a nice long walk today to blast out yesterday's beers. Been a decent weekend so far, Scarborough win would have been nice but we've scored more goals against Macclesfield this season than Brentford and Palace combined. Here's two photos from the walk.

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1 week ago

Lovely goal from Wakka.

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1 week ago

He does indeed, but will they listen?

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This might be the most perfect encapsulation of a Daily Mail front page, big racist splash headline, a focus on globally seismic events only through British tourists, some Royal bullshit

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1 week ago

God, I hate VAR.

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2 weeks ago

Best analysis I have read yet.

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2 weeks ago

and losing your deposit is dire
3) Find Out Now need to be removed from the list of respectable pollsters. It cannot be accurate to use a pollster than uses such small self-selecting samples through a site that Muslim voters will not use.

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2 weeks ago

Three takeaways from me.
1) If we count the Labour vote as mostly progressive (which I do, unlike the leadership), then nearly 70% of the vote was for progressive parties and 30% for regressive parties.
2) More needs to be said about the regression of the Conservative Party. Less than 1000 votes..

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2 weeks ago

😆

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2 weeks ago

RIP Rob Grant. The kippers are smoking.

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2 weeks ago

I miss Daft Punk

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2 weeks ago

Excellent, another one for my Scarborough-Liverpool train journey watchlist tomorrow.

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2 weeks ago

Excellent idea. Looking forward to living in Dingle constituency not just Dingle ward.

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2 weeks ago

An excellent preview of tomorrow's by-election from Andrew.

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2 weeks ago

Oh for goodness sake...

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2 weeks ago

Might have to stop watching Silent Witness, it's got so so shit. There's no way Jack would be remanded in prison having been charged with murder when the previous scene confirmed that the post mortem was inconclusive. At least Nikki will abandon all medical ethics to prove his innocence.

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2 weeks ago

No contest. Any type of melon.

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2 weeks ago

My policy is not to get into arguments on here as its completely pointless so won't bother reply. I'll leave you to your rather rudely put views and mute you.

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2 weeks ago

Thanks Robert, that is completely true. I also want the left to be more united and stop bloody attacking each other, it's infuriating.

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2 weeks ago

I am still glad we have a Labour government rather than the alternative fwiw.

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2 weeks ago

I have a very good left wing MP who I support and two good Labour councillors who understand our community but the leadership is lost and getting more lost and I think the Green Party have the best solutions.

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