Great recommendation, thank you ๐ This is one to bookmark.
27.06.2025 08:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@davidpm59.bsky.social
Mostly-retired oldish liberal bloke. Sourdough enthusiast and grateful post-brexit plastic Irishman (thanks, Granny!) Hopelessly optimistic sometimes. Extreme left + right evangelists, crypto crap and sex-bots ignored or blocked.
Great recommendation, thank you ๐ This is one to bookmark.
27.06.2025 08:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yer man trump outside the White House with three blokes wearing hi-viz vests and workmenโs helmets around him.
Village People have gone right downhill recently..
18.06.2025 20:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What I cannot work out is *why* Labour thinks saying "It was right to cut Winter Fuel Allowance last year and it's right to reinstate it this year because circumstances changed so much"
Is better than "We listened to you, we got it wrong, we've fixed it, and we're sorry".
It isnโt even privilege. Itโs corruption.
18.05.2025 16:40 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโve just ordered your 2019 book, so let me read that and get back to you
08.05.2025 13:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I get your point Jonathan, and weโre on the same side, but the data you and I have presented in this thread only counters a narrow aspect of whatโs generally alleged by the right wing. I really want to offer broad well-evidenced counter arguments to them, but donโt have the data Iโm looking for atm
08.05.2025 13:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0โฆ and I should have said the graph is in the OBR Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report from Sep 2024
08.05.2025 11:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0OBR chart showing average net contribution to the UK economy for immigrants and residents from birth. It shows high and average wage immigrants making a greater net contribution to the economy from the assumed arrival age of 25 years.
I havenโt seen an OBR graph that breaks the data down by origin as well as age, but hereโs an (OBR corrected) graph by age and migrant earning category:
08.05.2025 11:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Iโll applaud when I hear news of a more significant deal, with the EU. Steel and cars will be beholden to the vagaries of Trumpโs USA, which canโt be a good thing beyond the shortest term.
That said, thanks for the reply - nice to see from an MP ๐
Or you could negotiate a better trade relationship with our vastly bigger neighbours, who also have the advantage of not being ruled by a nutterโฆ
06.05.2025 18:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Love that ๐
03.05.2025 12:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐๐
23.04.2025 17:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Weโre getting there ๐
30.03.2025 09:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nice mod - I didnโt catch it on first sight ๐
28.03.2025 12:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Road sign to the village of Wank, near Garmisch Partenkirchen in Bavaria
Quite right - we should all stop giggling like children over foreign road signs that just happen to match rude words in English โฆ
(David is sixty five and a half)
Hmm, inflammatory nonsense from Elon Musk or knowledgeable analysis from Ciaran Martin. I wonder which will be more reportedโฆ
11.03.2025 10:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The afternoon lows have been pretty good over the last few days. Iโm guessing one contributory factor is that everyone with solar has charged batteries in the morning and is exporting everything in the afternoon - does that seem credible?
07.03.2025 10:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Good article which I enjoyed, thank you, but on a point of pedantry I donโt think you could fit all the Reform MPs in a telephone box - have you seen the size of Lee Anderson?
06.03.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โMinister Eagleโ? Have you suddenly discovered youโre American?
03.03.2025 18:52 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I imagine the founding fathers hoped for a slightly better epitaph than โwe werenโt all evil idiotsโ.
24.02.2025 23:09 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I do hope @fcdo keeps a close eye on what @lordrickettsp.bsky.social says, and pick up on gems like this if they arenโt already working on something similar.
23.02.2025 15:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So weโre paying polluters to produce dirty and more expensive power, while also paying wind turbine owners ***not to*** produce clean cheaper power? The worldโs mad โน๏ธ
23.02.2025 10:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is a really sensible and well-argued article by @blairmcdougall.com and I canโt argue with any of his proposals. Well worth reading for anyone whoโs seeking a path through the current mess.
18.02.2025 11:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0All true, and welcome. But he isnโt too far from finding himself at the fork in the road saying โrightโ on one side and โwrongโ on the other. I wish I was more confident heโll make the strategically wise choice.
15.02.2025 22:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I suppose they could argue it increases pressure on the people smugglers, but only if theyโre also introducing alternate safe and legal routes. Howโs that going? ๐ฃ
12.02.2025 14:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Their compo-faces need a ***lot*** of work if theyโre to break through in the tabloid market
12.02.2025 14:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I ***quite*** like it, but I donโt think itโs up there with your best tbhโฆ
12.02.2025 11:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Well yeah, but youโve got to think of the donations and votes the Tories got from that investment by taxpayers as well โฆ
08.02.2025 20:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I see you complained of people trolling you in the last few days, which seems a little ironic. I think this discussion has run its course. You should probably go and chat with your fellow zealots and reflect on the fact that ~70% of the (mostly agnostic/atheist) population disagrees with you.
03.02.2025 12:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โThis is the false narrative pushed by the lobbyistsโ is not a fact, it is your opinion.
03.02.2025 09:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0