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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, yeah. It was great in the 70s.
It must’ve been - it says so on FB

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 18h

This is the system Farage wants for the UK.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Our health care system is so broken it’s insane.

Stop letting them make you believe a better one is impossible.

#MedicareForAllNOW

Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 18h

Great theme tune too!

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 19h

Party List systems are terrible.
The only people who want them are the people who see them as a way for their small group to keep tight control of their party, and so the country, within a ‘front’ of democracy.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 22h

Won’t they have to keep stamping passports until everywhere in Schengen is fully operational? (Otherwise the non-EES entries/exits won’t have any info)

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 1d

FFS Daily Mail

No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”

Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄

I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter

Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 2d

I think that on public health grounds other countries will soon require American travelers to have personal vaccination books proving they have been vaccinated against the major contagious diseases. Anyone without such proof will be turned back at the border. We cannot afford to import an epidemic.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

I see Matt Goodwin is adopting a US Marine/ICE cosplay haircut.
Can we hope that he sees his future on Fox News rather than the Beeb?

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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 2d

JD Vance wants his wife to convert from weird Hinduism, to the much more sensible religion of drinking the blood and eating the flesh of a 2000 year old dead Jewish guy every Sunday.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s one of the ways to use Limited Liability to ’steal’ €$£
1. Borrow $$$ to buy Co. X for 2x its value
2. Load that debt on that (Ltd) company
3. Use your control to strip cash from the operations (cut development, cut this, that) and pay it to yourself
4. Let the Co. die (with the debt)

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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 1d

All these victims of grooming "don't count" to Nigel Farage, Adam Brooks and the rest of these grifters and chancers.

No wonder they are so angry, with their lived experience being downplayed like this.

What is happening to this country?😥🤷🏻‍♂️

With the media in this state, things can only get worse

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

We never received any notification of the votes this year.
Could be a catastrophic error if this is widespread.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Partly to blame are all the politicians and media who refer to people ‘arriving illegally’ when under our treaty obligations, it is explicit that people claiming asylum can arrive any way they can. Tories saying “if you arrive here illegally you can’t claim asylum” for example (Sunak).

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

The USA is a danger to the planet.
Send for Keanu Reeves.

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

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CBS News kills its climate unit

David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

heated.world

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Hier steht er. Er kann nicht anders (weil er ein Playmobil Mann ist)

Photo of Playmobil Martin Luther standing under a model H & W crane beside a wind-up plastic nun.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.

Use the Quick Vote option.

Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them

Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand

secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Log In

Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.

secure.cesvotes.com

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Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social · 2d

Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Lucky you still had yellow ink left or you wouldn't have been able to print that.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

You aren’t making any sense now.
Bye 👋 Cauldron of Reform-pushing piss.

Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 2d

1. “tends to” is not = to “entire sample” watching it
2. As mentioned previously, it’s where I see their ads. It’s a hypothesis. If you have access to their ad placement schedule, feel free to share it - maybe I’m mistaken.
3. Poor results- there was a listing of polling accuracy shared on here.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 2d

The point is the sample are self-selected from a group that tends to watch daytime tv programmes on antiques and WWII, so they are culturally skewed.
Weighting ‘representative’ age or income sub-samples from this skewed base sample doesn’t correct that.
And explains their poor results vs outcomes.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2d

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]

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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:

Hello there

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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].

DAD:

Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE:

Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!

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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:

Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!

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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:

Listen - that's their call

[Calls emanating from the landscape]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:

They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.

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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!

[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].

[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke

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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:

Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.

[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?

NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…

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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].

NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…

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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:

Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?

[ends]

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Will Jennings🗠🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2d

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X

The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

inews.co.uk

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 2d

And I remember the ads for individual lifts instead of stair lifts.
Have to have serious £ to afford them.
But you’re not responding to my points, Cauldron?

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