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IanB

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Retired now, back in UK after time away, likes walking, baking, motorcycles and warm weather. Definitely left of centre, pro EU. Don't DM me a generic "Hi" or "Hello" and little else it makes me guess you're a bot, ditto 1/2 naked pictures.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · Nov 30

A short and personal tale of why we need to keep free at the point of delivery health care.

At the beginning of this year my daughter and I were attacked walking to her house from a restaurant, a long tale[1]
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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 16h

Musk is a reason we should be threatening to dust off the plans for building guillotines, wind you neck in or else.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 16h

Just dropped into my letterbox this morning so I have my next few days of reading.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 16h

Sounds legit. I have relatives who live in rural Lincolnshire, amongst the most ardent Brexit supporting foreigner demeaning people I knew. They almost never see anyone who isn't whiter than Ariel washed sheet.
OTOH my youngest lived in an area where 75% didn't look like her, thought it was great.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 16h

Most of them make sense, I am unsure about raising council tax at least without safeguards. There is a definite subset of people often elderly in larger/expensive properties who have low incomes.
Another suggestion I have seen is to make LLPs pay employers NI that would raise a couple of billion.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 22h

They are not sorry, it is scripted to appeal to their acolytes who want to know Reformski are with them. The ½ arsed apology was too "I am sorry you took it that way"

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 22h

If the personal allowance had gone up linked as it was designed to be that would be about £18k now. It would take many of the poorer it off tax altogether. Compensate by increasing the 45% band and dropping the threshold to £100k.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 1d

Putain gets to have another seat on the councils.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 3d

Home with plenty to spare 😅

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 4d

Did you miss the UK's support for the genocide in Gaza? And Starmer agreeing that withholding water and food from civilians was okay. He rowed back after the backlash but too flipping late.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 4d

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 4d

Pay per Chop TV?

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure where it should be but way below £2B and perhaps graduated, ½% at £10M and increase by ½ every £10M exclude the primary residence as long as it has been so for at least 5 years.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot be the only one who is fed up of voting for the least worst option time and time again and getting more of the same. If enough vote Green they'd get in or more realistically might hold the balance in a fractured parliament.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

It is also the most wildly visited Royal Palace in Europe, think #2 worldwide with #1 being The Forbidden City where they also got shot of the inhabitants albeit unlike the French the Chinese chose not to lop their heads off.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

Sadly a significant proportion of the electorate have the political nous of retarded squirrel.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

I realise it is different on the equator where there is not the same swing in daylight but I did like living in Penang and not having this biannual nonsense.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

There are of course a load of people who live there that did not vote for this shitshow but I do not what you mean.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

And a glaring reason why when they still have a stonking majority Labour should introduce PR. Not a referendum or consultation just do it while they have the power to do so.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

I so hope you're right.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

Ha. I thought you were trying some regex there for a minute.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 5d

Crikey, the oldest disk in my NAS has cycled its SMART stats back to zero, i.e. now been running 7.5 years.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 6d

I've been wondering if we'll be getting the kerbs next. Recall those more than the flags from the times I was in the six counties during the troubles.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 6d

Couple of small areas a few miles down the road are covered with these flacid ½ mast cheap rubbish flags. It looks crap.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 6d

I looked recently and their push was to get back in the single market and less so on rejoining. Obviously a fair ambition but it is going straight for the consolation prize.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 6d

100% albeit I fear it would fail, there are far to many lickspittles in the UK.