Sarah Cowley
@bournemouth4eu.bsky.social
No such group now as Bournemouth for Europe - it morphed into Dorset for Europe, which is thriving, so personal views here.
Pro-European, #FBPE #FB99%
Former academic and health visitor, DBE 2013
Grandma, political (UK), hate injustice and inequalities
Pro-European, #FBPE #FB99%
Former academic and health visitor, DBE 2013
Grandma, political (UK), hate injustice and inequalities
And Brexit
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Brexit the Elephant decided to stand on the despatch box to see if Rachel Reeves would notice him as she read out her budget.
“I reckon she knows I’m here”.
“But they’re still pretending I’m not, though”, he lamented.
#BrexitTheElephant #Budget2026 #Budget #ExitBrexit
“I reckon she knows I’m here”.
“But they’re still pretending I’m not, though”, he lamented.
#BrexitTheElephant #Budget2026 #Budget #ExitBrexit
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
And Brexit
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Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Seems UK has same dynamic as US. Left struggles to get elected & is thus fearful of taking ANY risk, alienating their base. Right takes any margin of electoral victory as a mandate to charge unapologetically even further to the extreme. This scenario makes progress impossible & regress more likely.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Seems UK has same dynamic as US. Left struggles to get elected & is thus fearful of taking ANY risk, alienating their base. Right takes any margin of electoral victory as a mandate to charge unapologetically even further to the extreme. This scenario makes progress impossible & regress more likely.
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Downside: There is no plan and no courage. No attempt to sort the tax system. No strategy for the economy, like the one @johnspringford.bsky.social suggests here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk. Even good policies, like mansion tax, simply fiddle for pennies instead of properly reforming property tax.
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Downside: There is no plan and no courage. No attempt to sort the tax system. No strategy for the economy, like the one @johnspringford.bsky.social suggests here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk. Even good policies, like mansion tax, simply fiddle for pennies instead of properly reforming property tax.
Fair enough - different viewpoints. We certainly agree on the need to expose Russian influence.
I tend to think personal jibes are not helpful.
I tend to think personal jibes are not helpful.
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Fair enough - different viewpoints. We certainly agree on the need to expose Russian influence.
I tend to think personal jibes are not helpful.
I tend to think personal jibes are not helpful.
Trust me, I despise his politics and would be unsurprised if Nigel Farage were to be unmasked as a fully-fledged Russian asset.
But the annual Budget is supposed to be a serious event.
Jibes like that are not funny and not clever.
But the annual Budget is supposed to be a serious event.
Jibes like that are not funny and not clever.
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trust me, I despise his politics and would be unsurprised if Nigel Farage were to be unmasked as a fully-fledged Russian asset.
But the annual Budget is supposed to be a serious event.
Jibes like that are not funny and not clever.
But the annual Budget is supposed to be a serious event.
Jibes like that are not funny and not clever.