Nanny state Conservatism: your child doesnโt decide whether they want to go to university or not, Kemi Badenochโs civil servants decide based on her quotaโฆ
07.10.2025 21:55 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0@larry680.bsky.social
A lover of all things gardening, travel, animals, crime dramas and the arts. Pro EU and follower of politics. Also known under the same name on the dead bird.
Nanny state Conservatism: your child doesnโt decide whether they want to go to university or not, Kemi Badenochโs civil servants decide based on her quotaโฆ
07.10.2025 21:55 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Drives me crazy. I made the mistake of using one of those random password and email generators for a minor app and had to take a screenshot as Iโd never have remembered it even under torture ๐
07.10.2025 21:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Chris Philp says starting Rwanda would have stopped all Channel boats immediately (which is v unlikely given its 1% scale). But it couldnt deter the 30k people in hotels and the 50k people in the UK, who the last government was pledged to refuse forever & renove, with no real world option for where
07.10.2025 21:51 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0I spent an hour today trying to log into online banking. Kept getting an Oops message. Ended up deleting the app and reinstalling . Normal Phone no, password all correct and then I had to upload a photo. It then emailed me to say is this you ๐
07.10.2025 21:51 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It wasnโt even a judgeโs wig.
07.10.2025 21:10 โ ๐ 69 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Yikes
07.10.2025 21:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Must be the love child of this guy Colin Crompton from the 1970s
Certainly has the hair to match all the leading conservative extremists
Of course, no one could have predicted that this would happen or that the AI chatbots would be storing that data and using it to answer questions from all of your company's competitors.
Oh, well .
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Absolute brainwashed weirdos.
07.10.2025 21:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm dying ๐คฃ
07.10.2025 20:42 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
07.10.2025 20:50 โ ๐ 885 ๐ 243 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 4A spam sandwich, bottle of Tizer and a Kagool.
07.10.2025 21:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Sounds like ReformUK and Farage.
07.10.2025 20:14 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I know , horrific .
07.10.2025 20:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Excellent article. BTW @sathnam.bsky.social โs memoir is a wonderful, moving book.
Highly recommended.
Amazing. Itโs outrageous how much we get ripped off here for substandard transport.
07.10.2025 19:53 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Public transport of any kind is disgusting. When I lived in Spain I often used the train and it was as cheap and reliable. Public transport in Scotlandโs was so much better too.
07.10.2025 19:48 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0NEWS. Car Finance Mis-selling: Payouts of ยฃ700 likely for 14 million people.
Martin Lewisโ instant analysis of the regulators just announced redress proposals. Everything you need to know.
youtu.be/lz54X6dX8N4
Have you seen russ in Cheshire train adventure today ? Over ยฃ800 and a journey from hell
07.10.2025 19:29 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"If you see something that doesn't look right, report it to staff or British Transport Police".
Okay then: I'd like to report the entire rail network. That's not right at all.
Oh
07.10.2025 19:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bloody hell
07.10.2025 19:21 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@rahag31749.bsky.social followed me. See the name ("tranny killer") - this is a disgusting troll account.
Report "name or description violates community standards".
Also, it's responding to people: "You have been marked, thank you for cooperating...", which sounds threatening.
Eww vile reported
07.10.2025 19:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Former Sunday Herald sports editor and deputy editor Stephen Penman appointed CEO of South Ayrshire Council @southayrshire.bsky.social
07.10.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Few people saying "actually she's right" about media obsession w Farage, but 1) it would OBVIOUSLY come up in interviews; 2) there are better answers than "SorryWhatPardon I don't understand"; and 3) it actually wasn't true here - first half was about her poor performance with no mention of RefUK.
07.10.2025 18:28 โ ๐ 86 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 1It is simply mad for people to say "integration matters" while proposing a segregated petrostate that does not want integration (just a transactional extractive relationship with exploited gastarbeieter & a hotel model for some affluent guests) as a vision for non-settlement, non-citizenship here!
07.10.2025 18:31 โ ๐ 167 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers