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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎

@baldockboro.bsky.social

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Economically inactive immigrant. Rural France (87) Owner of 2 dogs, a couple of canoes and a free standing 5 speed food mixer Left of centre, ex Labour, now Green Party member. Fan of the EU Sweary. Pedant. Football watcher #StevenageFC

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · Jan 21

Was leaving my #Twitter dormant.

Fuck that.

Deactivated.

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 10h

Compared to Labour of the last 25 years I'd say he's the furthest left there has been on the front benches. But I take your point(s)

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 16h

What's Caerphilly and Clacton got in common?

Neither's likely to see Nigel Farage today.

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 13h

If Labour turned to the left, (not necessarily the far left of Corbyn) traditional Labour voters like me, and there are a shit-ton of us, might return.

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 13h

Plaid are more centre left than socialist these days.

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 15h

Are Plaid likely to align with Greens and SNP in a future government if all win seats?

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 18h

The non-tipped minimum isn't nearly enough to rent a place in the UK either, unless you qualify for social housing (multiple dependents and/or a disability) and reach the top of the 9 year waiting list.

I'd hate to be a 20-something today looking for some independence.

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 18h

We (should) all care about poverty wages.

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

I worked in a restaurant kitchen washing dishes in my youth. (Waiting staff didn't split the tips).

And in a pub where customers would sometimes buy me a drink (but it wasn't acceptable to take the cost of the beer and keep it, you either had the beer or said no thanks). Nowadays no-one offers.

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

But the most popular President ever says everything is going so well... 😢

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

That's broadly similar to the UK and better than where I live now. And US cost of living is broadly similar, or it was a few years back.

(UK and France have govt benefits/credits to top up income for those eligible)

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

So he's only demolished half the house.

He's not all bad.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

If you're not going to answer my point, I respectfully suggest you ignore me and get on with your life. I'll help you by muting you now.

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

Can't read?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

Another stupid question...
If bars and restaurants pay shit wages below a living wage, why do people go there? Why are they not hounded?

I know pay in such places is always low, but I wouldn't use any bar or restaurant paying absolute poverty wages.

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not coming at you, i'm asking a question ro educate myself. I thought (wrongly it seems) Canada was better than the US in termsnof minimum wage.

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

I'm aware that is the case in the US, and when there I tip waiting staff routinely.

Thought Canada had more progressive worker protection and wages.

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

If i knew i wouldn't ask the question.

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

Is minimum wage not a legal requirement in Canada?

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously?

Do you tip shop workers routinely?

Even Walmart?

What about bus drivers?

Turnstile operators at a football match?

Your dentist?

As a European where the culture is completely different, (starts and ends with waiting staff and is very much discretionary) where does it end?

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

God's own food...

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

So do I, but enough about your mother 😆 🤣 😂

Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

Needs more gold.

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like they need a few packs of these.

Billy Bragg offering free stickers for flag-bearing lampposts, which say No To Hate - It's Our Flad Too

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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 1d

It's all about the barrel and conditions it's aged in, and French barrels have been used for hundreds of years to make whisky.

Probably decent.