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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 · 5h

He doesn't deserve to have a car.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 6h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

*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 · 11h

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 · 26d

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

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 · 14h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 16h

Not defending Tommy Twat: but why should any UK citizen give border police full access to our personal phone data, simply because they ask? And if you say no they charge you with terrorism?! They should get a court order, and cite legitimate grounds. "Vague replies" is not grounds for terrorism.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 16h

They can hack into it eventually, sure. Tommy Ten Names aside, personally I think its outrageous that police can simply demand access to intimate personal data on your phone, based on flimsy grounds, and charge you with terrorism if you refuse. To search a house they need a court order.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 16h

At the risk of defending Tommy Ten Names: why should ANYONE give Border Force access to their phone, unless they have very strong grounds?! "Vague replies" is not sufficient grounds.

They can't search someone's house without a court order. Why can they rifle through personal data on your phone?

Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 1d

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin, court told

Tommy Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is standing trial after being charged under the terrorism act

www.standard.co.uk

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

To spare them the shame of being seen on TV with this plastic racist?

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

So you're you'd be happy to get rid of English taxpayers paying for all that free education, free prescriptions and free elderly care?

But then it's clear you missed out on the free education.

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

Classic BBC double speak: Israeli colonists are "returned hostages", while Palestinian children illegally kidnapped and tortured for 20 years in Israeli death camps are "detainees".
www.bbc.com/news/article...