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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@richmountbasket.bsky.social

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Just another Dick with an opinion. Author, journalist, 9th baronet, #Humanist, #Unitarian, Twitter refugee.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · Nov 15

I didn't switch to Bluesky because I want to avoid right wing people with different opinions. I mainly want to get away from constant weird adverts, abusive comments, and a perverted algorithm that amplifies misinformation and hate speech.
#bbcpm

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 30m

And becoming Home Secretary makes turns emotionally shallow MPs in fascists. Usually it takes a while, but it shows what a shallow puddle Shabana Mahmood is that she's already frothing at the mouth after a few weeks.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 32m

It's even more damning now we know the boost in growth Labour are crowing about is only the result of immigration, and without factoring in immigration we'd be the slowest growing in the G7!

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 37m

Nigel Farage? Keir Starmer😎

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

As a cyclist I'm forever seeing people blundering into oncoming traffic with their face buried in their phone. And of course it's the cyclists who always get blame for hitting them!

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed. And he wasn't even properly called Stalin, it was just one of his many shady pseudonyms.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

#NeckVagina

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11h

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

And like most revolutionaries they weren't working class heroes - they were middle class social climbers with a chip on their shoulder. Both Lenin and Trotsky had comparatively wealthy families.

Only the middle classes have time for revolution, the workers are too busy surviving.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

I can't find any reports of what happened, and the details here are sketchy, so I suspect there's more to this sacking, given the power of unions.

Last year a tube driver said "Free Palestine" on the tannoy whilst driving, he was suspended but reinstated.
www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

London Underground driver who led pro-Palestine chant avoids being sacked

Transport for London said the driver has apologised to faith groups before being allowed to return to work

www.mylondon.news

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 2h

Lol. Personally I find it more offensive her saying "gay men are gay because they only have orgasms up their bum", which I can confirm is incorrect😎

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 4h

"The Gaza agreement is not a route map to peace in the Middle East", and "there is no evidence of the political will necessary to make a real peace deal".
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump's role in Gaza ceasefire was decisive, but not a roadmap to peace

Trump's Middle East visit was a victory lap - but peace does not emerge just because a president decides it.

www.bbc.com

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 14h

He doesn't deserve to have a car.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 14h

The tears should be for the Sandy Hook families who still haven't received the damages he should've paid them years ago.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 14h

Obviously cis white men who drive Bentleys and carry £13,000 in cash in their pocket are an oppressed minority😎

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 18h

Growth is nothing to boast about, it's easy to have high growth when you start at such a low level. It's median GDP per capita that counts: people in the UK are pretty poor compared with our competitors. #bbcpm

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 18h

How is this Tory crap from Shabana Mahmood supposed to help integration, given even most BRITISH people don't write and speak English to an A-Level standard? It's just going to alienate migrants from flag shagging gammonflakes who can barely spell their own name! #bbcpm
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

They don't care about racism. They care about protecting their industry. I don't want to diss the poor girl, but it's interesting IPSO recruited a young girl from communist China to do the job of complaints officer.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

I looked up the poor girl doing compaints - she's Hong Kong Chinese, a recent law graduate and only been doing the job a few months. Ugh.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

Ah but it's not ALL races. Just the blackface ones. You know, like you used to see on telly in the 70s. And everyone loved that right?

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

*No-one* has the right to all my information except me. That right is enshrined, for now, in the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights. The state should only be able to forcibly access private information if they demonstrate a legitimate prima facie cause, to a judge in court.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

Got a reply to my complaint to IPSO about The Spectator's racist depiction of Palestinians and Palestine protests. Because it "discriminated against people of colour in general [and] did not relate to an individual", they don't consider it a breach of their code, and so they rejected my complaint!

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 27d

I'm sure I'm wasting my time, but I'm Currently reporting The Spectator to IPSO for their incredibly racist front page, depicting Palestinians using classic racist blackface imagery.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

So you've got a Canadian "journalist" covering the trial of an Irish citizen, who lives in Spain and whose costs are being covered by a South African born migrant living in the United States.

Break out the flags lads....

a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it

ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it

media.tenor.com

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 20h

Tommy Tit aside: charging you for terrorism if you refuse to give police your phone PIN is a frightening abuse of our civil liberties.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 23h

Is it any wonder it's difficult to return the bodies of hostages, when tens of thousands of bodies are buried under the rubble of Gaza City?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Israel identifies four dead hostages as next steps for Gaza peace plan uncertain - live updates

The IDF names two of the deceased hostages as Bipin Joshi and Guy Illouz, but is yet to name the other two. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says it's scaling up operations in Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1d

I don't care about Tommy Tiny Tears. My objection is to the extremely worrying power that police have to demand access to your phone on the flimsiest grounds, without a court order, and if you say no they can charge you with terrorism. This puts all our freedom in serious danger.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1d

Bearing a legitimate Irish passport is not a crime these days, but he should've declared carrying £13k. Taking £10k+ out of the country without doing so is an offence, but it's not terrorism.

Searching your phone should require a warrant imo, just like searching your home.