Prof Colin Talbot
@colintalbot.bsky.social
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Prof of Government (Emeritus) Manchester ▪️co-ops and cooperation ▪️progressive pluralism▪️ex Aikidoka ▪️Arsenal ▪️Born Dover (that's my Castle)

Colin Ronald Talbot is a British political scientist. He was until August 2017 a professor at the University of Manchester and held the Chair of Government in the School of Social Sciences. He is now Professor Emeritus at Manchester and a research associate at the University of Cambridge. He has also been an adviser to UK Parliamentary Committees on HM Treasury and on Public Administration. .. more

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colintalbot.bsky.social
BTW thats my personal view, based on my engagement with the issue for nearly half a century now. Including two visits to Israel, and the West Bank and Lebanon. And meetings with leaders from all sides.

colintalbot.bsky.social
OK. Well to start with “Gaza” is not possible to discuss without a much broader discussion about Israel and Palestine.

In brief, I support the Two States solution.

colintalbot.bsky.social
PS I am not a spokesperson for the Cooperative Party. Like any sensible Party affiliation should be, I don’t necessarily agree 100% with everything they advocate.

colintalbot.bsky.social
Sorry but I am not sure where this interrogation of my personal views on a range of issues is coming from?

And neither Gaza nor Climate Change are simple issues to address.

colintalbot.bsky.social
None of the above. Promoting the co-operative and social economy isn’t on the narrow Left-Right, Public-Private, spectrum.

colintalbot.bsky.social
OK. The Co-op Party does not stand independent candidates. It endorses some Labour candidates, who become Lab & Co-op. There are just over 40 such MPs in Parliament (1 in 10).

This arrangement has been in place for about a century.

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sammaclaine.bsky.social
I don't think anyone is proposing larger charges for the majority of people. Both from an economic (inflationary) and popularity point of view that wouldn't work. Surely the purpose is to make someone with a £10m house pay more than £1m house ? Would have the same right of appeal as anyone else 🤔

colintalbot.bsky.social
Excellent. If you can access it try resin Co-op News. My 5th article for them is appearing next month.

colintalbot.bsky.social
True. But in many cases relative land values in an area will remain the same in respect to one another. So collective re-valuations could be done?

Whether it’s council or land value, at some point valuations are going to have to be done somehow.

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hunphreysdad.bsky.social
You've just spurred me on to join, Colin.

It's something I've toyed with in the past during my 35+ year on & off membership of the Labour Party.

I was going to do it back in May when I left the LP but never got round to it.

Cheers.

colintalbot.bsky.social
A land value tax would combine stamp duty and council tax.

Every property revalued every 5 (?) years on a rolling programme (ie 20% a year). Smooth out the effect?

Done by the Valuation Agency?

colintalbot.bsky.social
For those who don’t know, the Co-op Party is an independent registered Party that’s been in an electoral pact with Labour since the 1920s. It currently has 41 Lab & Co-op MPs.

You can be a member of the Co-op Party without joining Labour (like me), or t’other way round.

colintalbot.bsky.social
Personal news: I’m now Chair of Luton & Beds branch of the Co-operative Party.

Given how invisible the Party, and Co-ops in general, are, it’s going to be interesting to see if we can generate more engagement? Our Beds PCC, John Tizard, is a member. But not our 5 Beds Labour MPs.

colintalbot.bsky.social
But what about downsizing? We could accept a lower price for our (now too large house) if we weren’t then going have to pay considerable stamp duty on something smaller?

This isn’t just a pure economic transaction. Houses have uses too.

colintalbot.bsky.social
Einstein: it’s all relative

Freud: no, it’s all relatives

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colintalbot.bsky.social
Slip of the tongue? I guess he meant national socialists?
ryanenos.bsky.social
The executive branch calling the enforcement of the law by judges "insurrection" is a five-alarm fire for democracy.
ottoenglish.bsky.social
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk

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ruthfox.bsky.social
7/ Digital ID may or may not be the right call.

But this is not the best way to make public policy that affects all our lives.
ozkaterji.bsky.social
Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

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Comment: As Parliament reviews its Standing Orders, Jonathan Boston suggests potential reforms to protect democratic governance in NZ.
Democracy in NZ isn't inevitable
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colintalbot.bsky.social
I know which road it is. But thanks.

I spent a lot of time on a farm not far from there. Just behind the Castle and below the radar towers

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roylonergan.bsky.social
They also used Finsbury Circus and Leadenhall Market as Paris.

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flipchartrick.bsky.social
A comment from @colintalbot.bsky.social on a post I wrote 14 years ago. The image of the 'giant sheet anchor' is a powerful one.

colintalbot.bsky.social
It is Dover. Folkestone harbour is nothing like Dover - it’s much smaller

colintalbot.bsky.social
The coastal road is also the wrong side of Dover if they were coming from London

colintalbot.bsky.social
It’s not the castle it’s a church in the castle grounds www.english-heritage.org.uk/siteassets/h...