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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧

@b31bowden.bsky.social

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Proud Brummie. Sceptic, pedant and is frequently sarcastic, but tries to be polite. Retired from Public Service, ex Local Authority Childcare, ex DWP Fraud, ex IPCC Investigator. Assume nothing, Believe nobody. Check everything.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 7h

Wouldn't it be fabulous if all the immigrants we really, really needed insisted on all communication (oral as well as written) in Welsh?

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 9h

It is increasingly obvious that the only way to stop Trump endlessly going on about being awarded the Peace Prize, is to put him in close proximity to Mr Nobels better known invention & walk away.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 9h

It does rather bugger up the chances of seeing Trump here again.
So its not *entirely* stupid
Just mostly stupid.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 13h

Gotcha! What might be an idea would be a) to set the requirement at, say GCSE level English - most children are expected to have that - and b) to reinstate free English as a Second Language classes, free, for anyone who needs them. Carrot, not just stick.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 14h

Why? It isn't a requirement for existing citizens. The Sun is written for a reading age of 8 FFS! Do you have an English A Level? I don't.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 14h

Jenrick wil be delighted. His fatuous arguments were only ever designed to give him publicity and this taking him seriously merely adds to that. Who cares what a minor member of a visibly failing Party says, especially when it isn't even endorsed by that Party?
Let him fade away in darkness.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone actually asked him, on TV, what 'antifa' stands for? Then, when he claims not to know (he will), told him & asked why they would be anti- government?
Thought not.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

To prove your ID at present, there is a list of documents. ALL of them are currently held by government.
It is therefore unnecessary for the government to have any additional data, merely collate it.
How would you prove your ID if you had no passport, driving lic and didn't pay the bills at home?

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it was in the back of my diary, but then I had to spend most of January copying it into the new one my mom got me for Christmas. So I upgraded to the Address Book. Filofaxes were for people who worked and had appointments!

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

And the Grinch is the Grtwopointfivefourcentimetres.
But it's probably abbreviated to Gr2.54cm & pronounced the same.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

If she was born yesterday, she would move heaven and earth to make sure that she didn't get citizenship.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old enough to remember giving people phone books as gifts. They had A-Z tabs down the long edge.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

I make a point of memorising my family's mobile numbers on the basis that, when I need them most, it's probably because I don't have my phone or it has no charge.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

If it's in the news, a senior politician WILL have been briefed on it. However, denial happens worldwide & for the same reason. They have no meaningful response, are bound by Party loyalty/scared of being fired, or the Party line hasn't yet been finalised. Everyone knows they have seen it.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

People in the EU do not need to do this, as it was done when they got their passports.
We should also be doing it (for the same reasons), given that we are now so obsessed with migration.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't sports James. Its Play & Youth Work. As non-statutory local authority services, these have been destroyed nationally. Please talk to e.g. the National Youth Agency & the Children's Commissioner about the huge return investing here again will provide.
www.playengland.org.uk/charter-for-...

Charter For Play — Play England

www.playengland.org.uk

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

I live with other people and plan ahead!

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

Reform now seeking an alliance with Narnia opposition leader The White Witch, whilst representatives for Emperor Palpatine refuse to rule out three-way talks.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

Why don't they simply interview a senior antifa representative and ask them?
Oh yeah...

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

He says a lot.
Most of it is unintelligible. Listen, for example, to his speech today to the Knesset. Has he been tested for LSD?

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

Additionally & importantly, we don't have free speech in the UK & never have. Thank God.
Freedom of speech is a construct of the USA & largely responsible for the mess they have got themselves into. In most other places, you are rightly accountable for the consequences of what you choose to say.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

These millionaires, they aren't taking their assets though, are they? Most of them have property wealth which will remain here. So they might as well sod off & stop moaning. There are apparently loads of immigrants coming to replace them!

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps it's time for a list of abandoned Reform commitments, pledges and promises. It'll help demonstrate that Reform can & does make stupid, unachievable announcements, merely for press attention, gets it, then discards said pledge with never a query from the MSM.
People continue to fall for it.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 1d

and doesn't belong to you!

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 2d

It would help if he'd start.