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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 8h

This is what it boils down to, I'm afraid ...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 9h

I think the public funding would need to be restricted to election expenses - perhaps a set amount per candidate, or whatever.

I agree it can't really be for other purposes, and also agree on a cap.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 11h

About time those fish did what they were told.

In fairness, Dean might be related, so perhaps he can have a word ...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 11h

Done, and shared - have been saying the same thing for a long time ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 11h

Please consider signing this - no large donation comes without strings attached, quite obviously, and accepting money from overseas non-nationals, and bizarrely crypto, is clearly absurd, and banning at least those ought not to be controversial in the slightest.

It should have been done already.

Pete @petelihou.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly nobody seems to care.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Political parties to be funded only by membership fees and a government grant

Change the law so that all political party funding is exclusively by capped membership fees and an equal government grant to all registered parties.

petition.parliament.uk

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 12h

Yes - if recent years have taught us anything, in the UK as well, it is that no matter how absurd, laughable, incompetent, and corrupt a politician might be, that is no impediment to achieving high office ...

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 13h

Always makes me giggle that naive flag shaggers up and down the land fund all this and his many holidays. Utterly gullible fools.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 16h

Imagine when they realise that the best way to reduce civil service staff numbers will be to remove the reason that we had to add thousands to the headcount a few years ago.

Can anyone remember why that might have been?

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 17h

Came into the kitchen and there was a rat on the outside windowsill 🤣

Sadly, that was the last straw, so we put some bait traps down too ...

David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 17h

We had that, and I was told by the local pest guy to remove the food for two weeks, and also keep moving stuff about as rats don't like changes in the environment.

In our case, the rats were after the fat balls too! We had some by a window that they could climb up to, so that wasn't great!

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 18h

The separation of church and state is crucial in 2025 - we can't have the personal belief systems of a minority being translated into legislation that affects everybody - it's clearly absurd.

People are entitled to their faiths, but they are not entitled to force their beliefs onto others.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 19h

I'm not sure the Brits have the social discipline. Our daughter lives in Vienna, where it's all done on trust - no tickets or passes are required to get on the trains or trams etc. but random inspections take place, and if you are caught without one a dim view is taken!

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 19h

I suspect this is something else - I use it on Android, and apart from a few times when it is sluggish to refresh I have no issues ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 1d

Plus the blue is the wrong colour, but that might be a dodgy photograph!

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 1d

Incorrectly drawn flag, as usual ... not reversed or inverted, but just wrong.

Top right diagonal red bar of the St Patrick saltire should come to a point beneath the blue, not alongside it.

Farage has done this before - some patriot! 😀

The official specification design for the Union Jack flag, from the Flag Institute

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 1d

Like most of Trump's deals - that's why he is such a failure.

If he can't bully you or cheat, then he loses. The story of his life ...

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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody can predict the next election. But you can choose a system that behaves predictably – one that translates votes into seats in a consistent, transparent way.

The danger of choosing a voting system that works for you today

We all have a party we lean toward. Maybe we’ve stuck with them for decades, maybe our loyalties shift with the times. But when it comes to how we elect our parliament, our choices sho

buff.ly

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 1d

The art of the deal ... obvs 😉

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 1d

Nads has always had her head easily turned by bottom-dwellers with dodgy hair ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 1d

The irony is that most of the people taking the piss because of the hypnosis thing are massive tits already ...

Being attacked by Tice is a rite of passage for any potentially moral person with a bit of integrity.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 2d

The only thing they do that is clever is pick genuine problems that everyone can see are real, but then lie about the causes, and propose unworkable solutions based on those lies.

But because people can see the problems are real, they look no further ...

David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 2d

Once you get this far right it's all about negativity - resentment, spite, bigotry, envy, and every other vice you can throw in.

Just bitter, out-of-touch people who think they represent the mainstream, but are just howling into the void.

We've all seen the damage when they get their way.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 2d

He presumably satisfied whatever the requirements are to get the licence (the article implies that he did) so it just looks like a classic bit of IT/bureaucratic incompetence, as opposed to some massive conspiracy or systemic failure ...