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Tim Wakeling

Tim Wakeling

@timwakeling.co.uk

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Liberal, woke Green/Labour/climate advocate, web guy and Christian in the UK. Would like to see a more generous and equal (but not communist) society.

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Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 3h

Why did Scotland provide police for his trip at all? They didn't invite him as far as I know; therefore they should not have felt any obligation to protect him either. That's his responsibility. Unless, of course, the police operation was to protect Scotland from him...

Scotland demands £24.5m from Westminster for Trump and Vance visits

Treasury says trips were private while Scottish ministers point out US president met Keir Starmer and it had to stump up for extra policing

www.theguardian.com

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 7h

We can't use passports (or driving licences) in place of universal ID unless we're prepared to grant them to anyone. To be quite honest I wouldn't really mind granting passports willy-nilly to anyone who is legally resident, but I think the idea wouldn't be that popular. ;)

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 7h

If you are legally resident in the UK but not a citizen, you are not entitled to a passport, but you still need ID. So unfortunately that solution isn't going to work, though I like the simplicity of it.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 1d

Establishing the right to hold these people in general to account seems a better use of the time, agreed. Especially if that makes it simple to do the second bit.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 1d

To be quite honest I didn't realise he had just agreed not to use them. I thought they had gone. Fair point ... but valid to then ask whether removing them forcibly, which requires a full act of parliament debated and passed in both houses for one man, is really the best use of parliamentary time.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 1d

Good point. There will be a mixture of people who would always have voted Green if they had thought they could win (like me), and others who are now going with the Greens as their "least worst" alternative to the Labour they're now disappointed with. Both kinds are most welcome.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 1d

I think Labour is suddenly discovering how many of its voters were actually Green Party voters lending their votes to the party they thought could win at the time. I don't think the Green vote has peaked yet.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 1d

Odd, because he isn't a Duke. He gave up those titles just a few days ago. Didn't he?

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 2d

If it wasn't for the word "Trump" there, the wonky typesetting, staccato style and oddly misaligned horizontal dividers would definitely have made me think this was a screenshot of an article from 100 years ago. Have US newspapers not moved on?

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 2d

Yes, and there will be lots of articles claiming the victim ("I'm being penalised for the vehicle I 'need'...") but it will still have an effect, and perhaps a surprisingly big one.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2d

"The Green membership means NOTHING, when dastardly Jimmery Croopins was Labour leader *SPIT* he failed miserably in two elections at 500k lunatic members"

Guys, if the Greens can get 40% of the vote like Labour in 2017 it'll do just fine. We've already seen that a landslide is possible with 33%.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 5d

Encouraging ... but we need to move quickly from "deceleration in growth" to "decline".

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 5d

I imagine, despite the lack of red on this map, they're not particularly welcome in Ukraine either.

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 6d

One of our volunteers turned her #WoodBurningStove into Lego storage, and this is why:

“I grew up on canal boats, so didn’t feel at home without a stove. When I bought my house, I got one. After this, every winter I had chest infections. When I stopped burning, I stopped getting chest infections."

A picture of a stove that is no longer used to burn wood. It has Lego on top of it and toys around the hearth.

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Kirsten de Vos 🚶🏻‍♀️💚🚲🍃 @kirstendevos.bsky.social · 8d

🔥 Domestic wood burning is becoming a serious public health issue

Residential wood burning now contributes 11% of the UK’s PM2.5 emissions - tiny particles that can harm lungs, brain & heart

See how your area is affected with this interactive map from UCL:

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9231...

Where are the wood burners in England and Wales?

Mapping the distribution of wood fuel heat sources using Energy Performance Certificates

storymaps.arcgis.com

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 8d

They were climbing so fast on Friday that there's no way it took until Monday morning to pass it. More likely they withheld the announcement until after the weekend for admin or tactical reasons.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 8d

You only need to "win" if another party would otherwise get a majority. If no party does, you can be in government without "winning". That's why Corbyn had to "win" (and didn't) but the Greens can govern with less. Of course if the government had any sense at all, we'd have PR by then anyway.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 8d

So I thought ... and yet they aren't running a story about this explosive admission? In fact the Gill story has been remarkably quiet in the media overall.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 8d

Corbyn's Labour got 40% of the vote in 2017 on a thoroughly left wing platform. At the next election given the party spread, if PR is not enacted by then, only about 30% will probably be needed for a majority. He doesn't have to do "better" than Corbyn.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 9d

This sounds like classic scandal headline material, and yet 8 hours after he posted it, nothing at all on BBC or the Guardian? Either he didn't say it at all and this is fake, or someone is covering up something.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 9d

I expect the doctor was joking about him being the only president he's ever examined, and therefore healthiest by default ... and Trump either failed to understand the humour or wilfully misinterpreted it. Can't really tell which.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10d

This Is Fascism

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 12d

He is reported to have been one of the 338 nominations put in at that time, so he was theoretically in the running (never actually with a chance, of course). There are quite a large number of people who are allowed to nominate, and many nominations are spurious.

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 12d

Perhaps worth noting at this point that the full version of the phrase Farage is referring to is "One bad apple spoils the whole barrel".

Tim Wakeling @timwakeling.co.uk · 12d

Most icons don't visually indicate the program; they indicate the branding. Firefox is just a fox, nothing to do with web browsing. Bluesky is just a butterfly. And so on. That's normal. The new Word icon has a W on it, anyway, which has been removed (for some reason) in this shared graphic.

New 2025 Word icon, with a W