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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 54m

I went from SDP to Lib-Dem to Green then to Labour for the last 3 General Elections, because I desperately wanted to see the Tories out. I believe Labour has a lot of decent folk in it, but it's leadership seems to have been captured by a populist mob of spads developing policy via twitter & insta

Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 15h

Is that the West Wong coming down? It was full of those Libs anyway

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

I recall the Richard Dreyfuss character annoying me when he frantically built the hill of mud, why climb in through the window when he lived in the house, just use the effing door!

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

He really flew didn't he!

Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

A little lighter reading for yourselves.

Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

US bullys look just like Brit bullys, run like them and trip like them too...
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=109...

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www.facebook.com

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

And now that is £12k isn't it?

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how he works that out. When I started earning money in 1976, the base rate of income tax was 35%.

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/4...

Finance Act 1976

www.legislation.gov.uk

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

...and get a free flat-screen telly presumably, once they were available 80 years later

Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

"What seest thou else In the dark backward and....oh bollocks"

Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 1d

And you chose a railway line...

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not talking about the Silvertown Tunnel. Good grief....
The Lower Thames Crossing will make HS2 construction look like a sandcastle on a beach.

nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/lo...

Lower Thames Crossing - National Highways

Lower Thames Crossing - Home

nationalhighways.co.uk

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

Useful idiots unknowingly working for the air and road lobby. Imagine boasting that you've managed to induce panic at a public transport terminal....

Red Rebels London @redrebelslondon.bsky.social · 3d

At Euston station to protest that the vile white elephant project that is @hs2ltd.bsky.social wants to cut down even more ancient urban trees. TFL staff found Red Rebels a tad scary and slammed the gates shut in a panic. Most satisfying.

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

more trains on them as we don't have line capacity. HS rail is being built all over the continent and you lot are boasting of shutting down rail station access. We need to move more people onto modes such as rail, you are opposing that.

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

road modes accounted for 90% of distance travelled, including:

cars, vans, taxis (85% of total distance travelled)

buses, coaches (4% of total distance travelled)

motorcycles and pedal cycles (1% of total distance travelled each)

rail accounted for 9%

Our railways are full, we cannot run

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

We cannot move trips from road & air to rail while useful idiots like yourselves are boasting of creating panic at rail stations.
Rail is the least polluting mode of strategic transport we have, and you're opposing it.

Of the 799 billion passenger kilometres travelled in Great Britain in 2023:

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

Then he's not been looking

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: [email protected] @gazza-d.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus. The replies to this.
Staff aren't entitled to free parking any more than anyone else.
Free parking at hospitals would take money away from frontline care.
Does anyone want to reduce say cancer care do drivers can park for free?
Park legally or take the sodding bus.

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 3d

Staff tell of 'lack of care and compassion' as more than 25,000 workers at NHS hospitals issued with car parking fines, Channel 4 News investigation uncovers.

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Exclusive: Thousands of NHS staff fined while parking at work

Staff tell of 'lack of care and compassion' as more than 25,000 workers at NHS hospitals issued with car parking fines, Channel 4 News investigation uncovers.

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

You are campaigning against public transport you bloody fools. There's a new road bridge going over the Thames 40 miles upriver that will cause a lot more damage.
Useful idiots!

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously you have no idea who Dan is. Maybe read his profile?

www.rusi.org/people/kaszeta

Dan Kaszeta

Royal United Services Institute

www.rusi.org

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

This is all bollocks. Just flush eyes with water, nothing else, clear clean water, lots of it.

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

Funnier fact, almost nobody on the sub-continent would recognise curry as eaten in the UK as an Indian dish

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Mark, good luck with this.

Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 3d

Hear, hear, well cooked wild salmon, Yorkshire pudding and we've some fab root veg. Sub continent food is fantastic as well, it's not a one or the other.

Let's face it, the worst 'Indian' food is a hot sludge, the best is an explosion of spice and flavours.

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 3d

It's extremely weird that you choose to believe that. Cheerio Barry.