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Trainee Bristolian Thoroughly retired All photos posted (except reposts) are mine, all mine Left Xitter (@StrumstrumStrum) Hedging my bets with Mastodon (@[email protected]) More of me @ www.strum.co.uk My profile picture is me, over 70 years ago.

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strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 44m

So what? What does the Times pay for desk & chairs?

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 54m

Win friends like Cicero.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1h

So what?

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. All these things. If it doesn't, it isn't a constitution. We have failed, miserably, to address these things individually. It's time to buy wholesale.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1h

A CCC would rise above 'partisan fury'. If partisans didn't like what the people wanted, they can get lost.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1h

"cobbled together in a contested process, that lacked broad public support ... would be a high road to disaster"
Whereas a carefully-considered document, in a process above contest, brought before Parl & approved by referendum, would be extremely difficult to overturn.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 2h

The majority of those shows were original drama. Most of them were in the last few years.
(The only reason those older shows are in the list is because I have been countering this daft golden-agery for a very long time.)

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 3h

The kind of drama you like?

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 3h

#ASongOrMovieForTypesOfPeople
Arsehole on Fire

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 3h

BBC has been *churning* out huge amounts of drama, over the last few years.

Here's a non-exhaustive list:-

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 4h

Anzio & Nettuno - Lazio coast
#photography #Anzio #Nettuno #Lazio #BlueSea #BlueSky

A panorama of a long stretch of coast, between blue sea & blue sky.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 19h

You only need to wait for a sitting govt to decide it doesn't want powers.
500 years is optimistic.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 20h

You are proposing a raft of changes, far more difficult to achieve than a CCC.
"Getting rid of Henry VIII powers"? Would only take another 500 years.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 20h

I don't think there's evidence of that.

Epstein used those girls to draw influential men into his orbit - to make connections. After a certain point, connections breed connections. He doesn't need to blackmail anyone; they're all in the gang.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 20h

You want simple? Do nothing - that's simple. Good luck with that.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 21h

" a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged"
Then assemble a Citizens' Constitutional Convention - draw up an unrigged, widely-acceptable document, for HoC to vote on (& dare them not to).
Our*current* constitution continues to deepen our problems.