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ferryoons

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Superannuated management consultant, company director, lapsed politician, recidivist old house restorer, reader, food, wine, arts, humanitarian wokerato, fulminateur for Scotland’s independence

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Wen, to random
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Starmer warns of ‘difficult choices’ over NHS, tuition fees and two-child benefit cap – UK politics live

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/24/keir-starmer-rishi-sunak-uk-general-election-2024-labour-conservatives

So that will be Scotland on our own again? Potential Labour voters in Scotland listen and be very afraid.

ferryoons,
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@When Wes Streeting has already told us “the door is wide open” for privatising the NHS. And we know what “difficult choices” means. Scotland, be very careful.

alexanderhay, to UKpolitics
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By the end of this, Larry The Cat will have gone through more PMs than 'Boris' Johnson has had mistresses.

ferryoons,
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@alexanderhay Can you be sure of this?

ferryoons, to random
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Be honest now. You didn’t expect it to be vaguely competent , did you?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/brexit-border-it-outages-delay-import-of-perishable-items-to-uk-by-up-to-20-hours

simon_brooke, to random
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"this is why any government in Holyrood is destined not to deliver. It can't, because London created a system that was bound to fail as a way of securing continuous control whilst ensuring that blame would be directed inward in Scotland itself, as might well happen now" -- @RichardJMurphy

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/26/scotlands-political-problem/

ferryoons,
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@simon_brooke @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @HighlandLawyer @iaruffell @RichardJMurphy Poppycock. I’m not a fan of either of those myself. But if you expect to like, let alone agree with everyone in any political party, you’d better start your own. And then your colleagues will argue with you. And then you’ll have to start another one.

ferryoons,
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@simon_brooke @RichardJMurphy Noting that Scotland’s block grant is now the lowest it’s ever been, while the SNP gets the blame for the impact.

patrickhadfield, to random
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We've gone from resolute to revolving-door in double quick time.

"Humza Yousaf poised to quit as first minister"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/humza-yousaf-considers-quitting-as-scotland-first-minster-snp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

ferryoons,
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@patrickhadfield @rebelrebel62 Where did this “moving to the right” narrative suddenly emerge from, other than a media construct? In terms of social initiatives actually delivered within increasingly tight financial constraints and malicious interference from Westminster, this is the most liberal government I can recall.

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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LOOK OVER THERE! IT'S CHINA 🙄

And the evidence you asked Israel for about the mass graves where children were buried alive?

<tumbleweed.gif>

ferryoons,
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@fkamiah17 be fair, Mia, lots of bad stuff is going on at the same time.

ferryoons, to random
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While Russia is attacking Western societies asymmetrically in all manner of ways (I just read the news and I know this, so you do as well), government leaders are full on channelling Neville Chamberlain. That went well last time.

You can’t appease a madman. Rearm. Deter.

Wen, to coffee
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Can I say I f***g well approve and will continue to insist on a Black Coffee no matter what the confusion that causes behind the counter

ferryoons,
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@When They’ve missed-spelled froffee coffee.

raghnallborders, to Bulgaria
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Today 67 years ago, the and the establishment of a wider family of European nations.

What a pity the government in England has dragged us out against our will.

ferryoons,
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@raghnallborders @yianiris @Indyposterboy Having worked in five European countries (plus Monaco) over the years, they know fine well they’re independent. Latterly, it’s clear that Russian money has been effectively funding dissenting parties, because there’s always a malleable section of humanity that is easily persuaded to hate. But we have to work with that.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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FFS.

Rachel Reeves, yesterday morning: "We love Thatcher"
Darren Jones, yesterday morning: "We definitely love Thatcher"
Rachel Reeves, yesterday afternoon: "I didn't say the words "we love Thatcher" ackshally 😡 "
(but we do love Thatcher)
David Lammy, this morning: "We love Thatcher"

https://www.politico.eu/article/margaret-thatcher-david-lammy-visionary-labour-united-kingdom/

ferryoons,
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@fkamiah17 Oh yes, the Thatcher who was captured by the nutty theories of Milton Friedman, couldn’t speak to or understand working people, destroyed UK manufacturing and entire communities in the process, and left us with the destruction of public services still going on. Remember “there’s no such thing as society”?

UndisScot, to Scotland
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Beautiful and mysterious Rosslyn Chapel south of Edinburgh. What was actually built was only a small part of what its founder intended before his death in 1484, yet it remains a truly remarkable achievement. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/roslin/rosslynchapel/index.html

ferryoons,
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@NormanDunbar @UndisScot OK

DarkGalloway, (edited ) to random
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Not a standing stone. but a rocking stone. Lawrence Field, Owler Tor, near Hathersage.

ferryoons,
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@DarkGalloway I hope there’s a great guitar solo

simon_brooke, to random
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"Gove thinks racist jokes are funny, has elevated scientific racism within the Department for Education, and worked with an organisation – the Henry Jackson Society – which for years has acted as a transmission belt amplifying mainstream far-right white nationalist ideas into the centre-right of UK policymaking"

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/03/14/michael-gove-the-extremist/

ferryoons,
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@simon_brooke “Hester has at least apologised”. But has he really. He did apparently utter the “sorry” word in the general direction of Sunak. But has he apologised directly to Diane Abbott? Or indeed, to the female CEO he was actually targeting when he dragged Abbott into it?

ferryoons, to random
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If you’re a Tory Cabinet in a hole, I guess you just take another donation from JCB and make your hole bigger and deeper.

ferryoons, to random
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You’ll have seen this morning’s announcement of an investigation into vet practices’ profiteering, and unfair corporate behaviours.

Remember this is the situation that Tories and Labour both want to create for our own health, by privatising the NHS.

Looking forward to that?

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While media obsess about the Oscars and Kate Middleton’s photoshop, how many people did Russia kill in Ukraine over the weekend? How many died in Palestine from Israel’s war crimes?

Concentrate, people.

DrALJONES, to random
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    ferryoons,
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    @DrALJONES this will be what we call a concentration camp. Israel, always learning from the Nazis.

    fkamiah17, to random
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    "I did not bat an eyelid before the black wall of seething water. I caught the shipwrecked beauty in my arms, and the next second I was swept off my feet in the boiling surf.
    With supermoominal strength I fought for a foothold and at last I laid my sweet burden on the beach, safe from the wild and cruel sea!
    'I'm afraid my powder's sea-damaged,' she said sadly.
    'You're every bit as beautiful without it,' I replied gallantly."
    from 'The Exploits of Moominpappa', by Tove Jansson

    ferryoons,
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    @fkamiah17 Anyone who can come up with ’supermoominal strength’ gets my vote.

    ferryoons, to random
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    For two days now, you London politicos have been contemplating your navels, and screaming insults like small children .

    Meanwhile Israel keeps on slaughtering innocents in Gaza.

    It’s not about the effing Labour Party. Pull yourselves together.

    ferryoons,
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    Reposting this because the London political navel gazing is still going on. It’s not about your political chat shows or your Xshitter spats. It’s not about you lot down there at all.

    There’s a holocaust being inflicted by Israel. Maybe you’ve noticed.

    ferryoons, to random
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    I read this cartoon was removed from over 400 US newspapers at the weekend. So don’t let any Americans see this toot.

    thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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    Construction work on the new Govan-Partick pedestiran bridge which will cross the Clyde at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

    ferryoons,
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    @thisismyglasgow I hope it has a silly shape so it can have a silly name.

    ferryoons, to random
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    While all you London politicos are busy contemplating your navels, and screaming insults like small children (or, indeed, Old Etonians)

    I’m wondering how many innocents have been slaughtered by Israel in Gaza, this morning alone.

    Pull yourselves together.

    simon_brooke, to random
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    So this famous UK aid drop into was FOUR TONS. That's one seventh of the load of one articulated truck, or slightly less than two grammes of aid for each person in Gaza. That isn't 'aid', that's theatre: more about avoiding criticism of the UK than about helping anyone on the ground.

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    @peterbrown @simon_brooke I remember when there used to be a Royal Navy.

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