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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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 18h

I live with other people and plan ahead!

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

and doesn't belong to you!

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

It would help if he'd start.

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

I'm struggling with the concept of left and right-wing judges in the USA. I grant that UK judges aren't politically appointed, but I am pretty sure they are universally regarded as being politically neutral 'at work' & guided entirely by the law. The US system of political law seems dangerous.

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

Except for the parts that are true.

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

They were not.
No they don't.
Not true.
See, anyone can write unevidenced bollocks.

Play Centres/Youth Clubs work.
www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/the-big...

The Big Ambition for Youth Work | Children's Commissioner for England

Childhood is precious. Every child deserves the opportunity for play and leisure time, alongside a great education – the two things are key to developing the skills to succeed in adult life.

www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk

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

For years, we provided space for children/young people to go after school, weekends & in the holidays. Now its been wiped out, we are surprised that they get into trouble, join gangs and don't behave. I think we are bloody lucky things aren't worse.
Fund Play & Youth services, they're cost-effective

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

Using ChatGPT, etc., is no different from asking someone else to write messages for you and then passing them off as your own. If you can't write in the way you would like, either learn to or admit you can't. It seems stupid to try to begin a relationship based on a lie.

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

What other reason is there then?
You keep making these bold statements without a shred of supporting evidence. You think it's a benefit, no explanation. I've explained why I don't think it is multiple times, which you've ignored.
It's pointless debating further with you.
Bye

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