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Pooh Sticks

@sticketypooh.bsky.social

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Still thinks truth matters and, despite everything, reason will prevail - eventually. Let's hope we're not all living in caves again by then.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone that things that the ills of the NHS can be cured by cutting "managers" doesn't understand what the NHS actually is.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 3d

Or they are just saying out loud what they always thought or weren't paid enough to take such extreme positions, in the days they still pretended there was some sort of legitimate intellectual basis for the policies they supported.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 3d

Ironically though his comment does quite accurately reflect the situation of many on the far right, who go on about a out national pride but seem to hate everything that is actually good about the country.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely correct. The mask has well and truly slipped.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 3d

Mass uncontrolled racism more like.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 4d

And not only politicians in general, Daniel Hannan in particular.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 5d

Britain leans into decline.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 5d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 5d

Getting rid of McSweeney is the necessary condition for survival (albeit not a sufficient one). Labour has to wake up and understand that the majority of the electorate are still voting Labour, Lib Dem or Green, but to avoid a catastrophe, people will need to want to lend their votes to one of them

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 6d

I guess I wasn't really thinking about this only, just the general situation with any kind of penalty, where it can be very stressful

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 7d

I get the points about the visual artefacts, but the jokes are just as funny as the average US sitcom.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 7d

Bit of a stretch to call Yaxley-Lennon a man, or even a human.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 7d

The main point about this type of story isn't really that the minister should have had superior knowledge - she is not a professional landlord, people can understand that - but that for ordinary people making this kind of mistake the consequences can brutal and there is no leeway.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 7d

I only remember Goldsmith's campaign song 🤮

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 7d

As demonstrated on multiple occasions, Musk knows nothing sbout the UK.

There was a time when Musk railed against all the bots on Twitter, now they are his main source of "information"

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 8d

So that want to destroy a crucial part of national infrastructure to save peanuts. That is why they are called Refuk the UK, because it wasn't enough to do it just once.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 9d

Ain't nothing Christian about Banks. And if jobs should be based on merit, presumably he will resign immediately and start new career as a tape worm.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 9d

Is 5 people a statistically significant sample? I mean I hate them as much as anyone else but that is a well dodgy statistic.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 9d

This is very true. At the time one of the interpretations was the "politics of complacency" - the idea that people had been isolated from serious hardship for so long that they felt that you could be as reckless as you want (in your voting) and there wouldn't be a material adverse effect.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 9d

Yes it is comedy But you would be hard-pressed to find anyone in East Asia who disagreed with it.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 11d

This makes me think of how Chinese view Western ruce-making:
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Uncle Roger DISGUSTED by this Egg Fried Rice Video (BBC Food)

YouTube video by mrnigelng

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 11d

It's SUCH a minefield. All you need to do is say something massively racist and then people go around saying you said something massively racist.

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Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 11d

Exactly my thoughts when I heard it.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 11d

Let's wait for the Right to blame the books.

Pooh Sticks @sticketypooh.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my God, that disgusting woman is an MP?! Shame on whoever voter for her.