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In the East Midlands UK.
Cannot stand the Tories or Reform UK.
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2024-10-05 09:19:16

'Awkward photos show James Cleverly's wife was at freebie despite record saying she wasn't
James Cleverly watched the Wimbledon men's final with his wife Susannah last year - but the official declaration of the freebie states she wasn't there
Yea, but, Starmer.
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2024-10-04 14:24:43

Does music on the Radio take you right back to a time and a place?
“Come On Eileen”
Dexys Midnight Runners, released in 1982
Howard and Hallum Shoe factory, Oakland Road, and we younger ones turned it up so loud we could not hear the older ones telling us to turn it down.

2024-10-04 08:25:47

'MP in fresh bid to change law on assisted dying
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What are your thoughts on this, I am for assisted dying if the alternative is a long drawn out painful death.

2024-10-04 07:51:51

Forgive me. I am not a super clever person, I sometime question those who are, but it is not meant to annoy, it is meant to try and understand complex problems that (I think) do not have simple solutions.

2024-10-04 07:40:47

Like it or not we are stuck with carbon omissions for a while yet so, is this a good idea or not?
'The government has pledged nearly £22bn for projects to capture and store carbon emissions from energy, industry and hydrogen production.'
What do you think.

2024-10-04 07:34:43

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Why?
explain i to me please.

2024-10-04 07:33:32

Israel is intent on starting an all out war in the Middle Est
'Israeli air strikes on Lebanon are intensifying, with massive blasts reported in southern Beirut
Perfect for taking the spotlight of Ukraine.

2024-10-03 09:11:10

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Muddy waters.
I was not talking about the Politicians.

2024-10-03 09:10:50

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Ignore their source of income, yes I agree many Politicians would love us to do that, but Starmer stopped and admitted his mistake, I have yet to read only other Politician in the 3 biggest Parties in the UK do that.
We have a Labour Government, can we at least give them a chance to address the mess the Tories left us?

2024-10-03 09:00:47

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Mr Davey has declared supplementary incomes to his around £86,000 annual MP salary in previous years.
So, he needed his MP wage and a supplementary one to care for his son, what about my Sister who is on a very low income? .
Uuumm, we know about Starmers £6,000 though don't we.
It is not always a good thing to stir muddy waters, because in my experience, next to no-one is perfect.

2024-10-03 08:56:00

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The word 'controversial' is like any other word, it depends on who is using it and for what purpose.

2024-10-03 08:46:23

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'Ed Davey took £25K from controversial donor to help look after disabled son'
Aug 3, 2024
Has he offered to pay it back?

2024-10-02 14:51:57

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I never did like the Beatles.
I thought them very middle of the road compared to other bands that came in at that time.
Rolling Stones 'I can't get no satisfaction'
Now they blew me out of the water.

2024-10-01 07:08:05

'Tories must back ECHR exit to survive, says Jenrick'
Why are the Tories so determined to take our Human Rights away from us, what do the Tories have in their pipeline for us if they succeed?
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2024-09-30 11:48:44

Our son desperately needs a GP appointment, we have been calling since 8am.
We finally get though and told no appointments today or tomorrow.
14 yrs of under funding by the Tories and their 'mates' has broken our NHS so badly I am not sure it will ever be the same no matter how much money Labour can scratt together to try and stop the rot.
But then the Tories never did want the NHS anyway.

2024-09-30 10:42:39

Rosie Duffield: What has ex-Labour MP said about trans ...
PinkNews
https://www.thepinknews.com
2 days ago — 'The MP for Canterbury has repeatedly been criticised for calling trans women “male bodied” and stating that she doesn't believe trans women '
I am so pleased that she has gone, he would be better suited to the Tories or Reform UK

2024-09-30 10:01:03

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1.2
Less than 6 months in, mush of that time with Parliament in recess and they are being crucified it does not matter what Labour does or does not do, so many have the hump because their Party they voted for did not win the election.
Let's face it all those screaming that they do not like Labour will happily use what the Labour Party put in place for them.

2024-09-30 09:52:20

I never thought that I would be in a minority of one one here, because I support Labour.

2024-09-29 16:59:41

I must be one of the very few on here that wants to give Labour a chance.
A chance to try and stop the rot caused by 14 yrs of Tories and their 'friends.'
A chance to re-fill our coffers and to spend it on what we need, not what so many just want.

2024-09-29 12:11:24

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Keir Starmer vows to re-negotiate 'botched' post-Brexit ...
Euronews.com
https://www.euronews.com › My Europe › Europe News
27 Jun 2024 — Labour leader Keir Starmer has vowed to get a better deal on trade relations with the EU if he becomes prime minister in next week's UK general election.
We cannot just walk back in but a start of the process of re-joining is a re-negotiation of the botched greedy non-EU Deal force on us by the Tories and the Leave voter.

2024-09-29 07:45:48

Oct 2019
'Sadly, Labour lost the vote to amend the Queen's speech and protect the NHS from further privatisation 282-310.
However, Jo Swinson and the Liberal Democrats refused to support the motion to bring an end to the widely-despised privatisation of NHS services, causing a furious backlash online. All Lib Dem MPs abstained from the vote, as did 8 rebel Labour MPs.'
Whoops.

2024-09-28 10:39:03

Reuters
'BERLIN, Sept 22 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far-right in a state election in Brandenburg on Sunday after trailing behind the Alternative for Germany (AfD) throughout the campaign, initial official figures showed.'
I really do hope so.

2024-09-27 11:45:05

How do I take something from You Tube and download it to mastodon?

2024-09-27 09:39:21

Washington Post.
'Musk’s Twitter investors have lost billions in value
Elon Musk bought Twitter with a combination of his own money, bank loans and capital raised from friends and associates. Here’s how far his investors are underwater.'
Looks like Musk is not the only one losing money, aawww bless.
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2024-09-26 09:21:50

UK only.
Do we get this years Flu jab or not, we have never had it yet, we are both 71 yrs old.

2024-09-26 08:12:44

'The world's richest person, Elon Musk, has not been invited to the UK government's International Investment Summit in response to his social media posts during last month’s riots, the BBC understands.'
Good this man is pure poison.
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2024-09-25 12:46:47

'Traditional conservatives believe humans are innately selfish and greedy, '
Well those who vote Tory certainly are.

2024-09-25 12:24:32

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Let's hope this time a bloody car does not take up places people could be in.
'A car was airlifted out of Kabul during the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation operation'
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2024-09-25 11:54:02

A bit of a random Toot this one, my Husband and I were talking this morning and he said "what we see today as abnormal weather, the kids of today will grow up and think it is normal weather"
Quite a thought that one.

2024-09-25 11:47:11

If you are in the UK (or not as it happens) and are looking for Christmas Pressies idea, check out the RNLI web-site, they have loads of Christmas stuff.

2024-09-25 11:44:07

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My guess still is most of us want it rather than need it.

2024-09-25 07:02:53

Let's try this.
Good Morning Mastodon.

2024-09-23 11:52:16

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Our Son who is 37yrs old has a massive collection of Heavy Metal LPs, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, ACDC, Metallica and others, it started when he was 12, and he used to get fed up with me when I told him I knew these songs.
I spent hours searching Record shops, Market and second hand shops for his Birthdays and Christmas's.
I still think the sound from an LP is clearer and better quality.
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2024-09-23 09:11:40

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Is it not more about what Labour will do for us because of that donation?

2024-09-23 07:42:08

'Rachel Reeves declares war on tax dodgers to win back billions for public services
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set her sights on closing the £39.8billion tax gap by pursuing those who are avoiding or evading paying their fair share of tax'
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2024-09-23 07:34:54

It seems to be the general consensus of agreement that Labour have been in power less that 100 days and they have not put everything that the Tories and their mates destroyed in 14 years right yet.
Naughty, useless Labour!!!

2024-09-22 09:01:44

It's a very wet Sunday let's all have a laugh.
'Bigots not welcome in Reform UK, says Nigel Farage'!!!!
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2024-09-21 12:30:03

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I was a teenager in the 1970's and very, very much into my music but oddly I had never heard of this band and this LP.

2024-09-20 17:57:33

'A former cabinet minister's challenge to a parliamentary probe that found he broke lobbying rules has been dismissed by European rights judges.
Owen Paterson quit Parliament in 2021 in the wake of a report that found he had breached its rules while working a paid consultant for two firms.
In a legal challenge launched the following year, the ex-Tory MP argued the inquiry was procedurally flawed and' had breached his human rights.'
I can't stop laughing.
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2024-09-20 17:55:47

' Reform UK flogging 'Save Britain' T-shirts - but embarrassing label spotted'
Made in Bangladesh.
Prawn heads .
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2024-09-19 13:29:19

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I was at a hotel in Scotland in the Summer and they had a Swifts nesting in the hole near a down pipe, and you could actually see, 4 young birds popping their heads out waiting to be fed.
It gladdens the heart.

2024-09-19 13:11:23

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I find the idea that someone can explode a Pager or mobile phone by remote control absolutely terrifying.

2024-09-19 09:14:54

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If you are saying the mobile phone shops in Beirut - allowed their products to be 'modified' I am not sure that I agree with you.
I thinks the 'modifications' would have been done before they arrived in the shops.
Either way, I think it was a despicable and frightening way to target people.

2024-09-19 08:49:19

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Sorry what?
Do you mean the pagers and mobile phones?

2024-09-19 08:36:30

I am in a minority on here I know but, I want to know how 'whoever' set the pagers and phones to explode knew for certain who they were going too?
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2024-09-19 08:02:23

'No electronic equipment considered safe after Lebanon device attacks'
I believe, doctors use Pagers a lot, but I could be wrong.

2024-09-17 08:32:12

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'5 hours ago — Sir Keir Starmer has left the door open to changing the fiscal rules in the upcoming Budget to allow more borrowing to boost public investment '
Yes/No?

2024-09-16 12:54:24

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Nar, you just do not like Labour, the Tories had 14 years to crash the UKs economy 3 times, start race riots and spaff £Billions of our Tax.
Do you really think the Party you voted for would not find the same big black hole in the UKs economy?
Hold hard, let's give them a chance for at least 6 months uuumm

2024-09-16 12:44:20

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And do you think that the Tories were appreciative ?

2024-09-16 11:06:56

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All of it depends on who people believe. I believe from my own experience and from Newspapers that Reeves Black hole does exist, as do many not far right wing Newspapers.
HuffPost June 2024
'Tories Squandered £130bn Of Taxpayer Money Since 2019'
As for Putin pal Farage, well Putin got his monies worth there.

2024-09-16 09:25:29

'Crick later described GB News as a "right-wing propaganda channel". In the financial year to May 2023, the company's losses grew by 38% to £42.4 million, bringing the total deficit to £76m since its launch.'
#GB News is jointly owned by hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall and investment firm Legatum'
It would have been cheaper for them to pay their fair share of Tax.

2024-09-16 09:10:10

Morning Star
'Privatisation destroying NHS's ability to carry out common surgery, TUC fringe hears. Professor Allyson Pollock, a consultant in public health medicine, said: “If you look now on the website on every large foundation trust, they will all have a webpage dedicated to private patients.'
Sept 2023 the date of this article is important

2024-09-16 08:55:12

The Independent.
'The Liberal Democrat chief whip has questioned the commitment of Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson to their roles as MPs.'
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2024-09-16 08:47:20

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We?
It is time now that Corbyn started his own Political Party, that will solve all the problems that he and his supporters are facing, mind, he could have done that ages ago but chose not too.

2024-09-16 08:10:21

Maggie Thatcher helped bring the NHS to its knees by imposing a management structure on it so that it 'works more like a business'
Churchill's Tories voted to stop its creation 21 times.
This G.E. a vote for Labour was for me, a tactical vote to oust the Tories who if they got in again would sell of all of the NHS because we here could not afford USA style Health Insurance and my bet is millions in the UK could not either.

2024-09-16 07:52:01

I am not trying to be controversial, I am putting my Political beliefs out there in the same way others are, for debate, I know that my Political persuasion is not popular, I voted Labour ever General Election but the 2010 one.
Labour is not perfect, it never was, no Political Party is perfect, and any Party other than the Tories or Reform UK would have said the same thing, the UK is broke hard decisions need to be made.

2024-09-16 07:31:03

I have only not voted Labour once and that was 2010, I voted Lib Dem and they gave my vote to their nearest allies Political the Tories.
We have to go to the local Hospital later to see a NHS COnsultant who save my partners life and leg, it took months of being in an in Patient and 5 big operations with Frames.
Free at the point of need I thank Labour for putting the NHS into place for u, I despise those that brought in under-funding austerity that has nearly broke it.

2024-09-16 07:20:04

Twitter was Tory and Reform/ far right wing bashing, Mastodon is Labour and Starmer and Left bashing.
So not Labour then who, who did you want in Government and would they have said the same thing, we are broke and difficult decisions need to be made?

2024-09-16 07:15:19

Is there nothing that Starmer and Labour can do that will make those who did not vote for them on Mastodon give them some credit?
I really would like to know which Political Party(s) those that hate Labour would have like to have seen in Government.
I have ask before but on- one answered me, I wonder why?

2024-09-15 10:37:25

Silent Sunday.
The last glimmers of sunlight on Normanton church, Rutland Water, Rutland, England, UK
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2024-09-15 09:21:24

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'The inside story of how Tony Blair's New Labour all-but ended rough sleeping
The last Labour government almost got rid of rough sleeping.'
Big Issue. July 2024
'These Tories won’t fix the rough sleeping crisis, no matter what they say,. ‘Rough sleeping has increased by 165% since 2010.’
They all but did it before, why not during this 5 yr term, but give them a chance uuumm.

2024-09-14 14:19:32

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Yes PR and I agree, and I would accept it, but it is not all good, and the answer to everything, under some PR systems in the 2016 General Elections UKIP would have gained 100 Seats and real hold on our Parliament.
That is something I hope never happens in my lifetime.

2024-09-14 08:52:10

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Labour?
Whose broad shoulders, and I say again they have been in power for less than 3 months, why I ask is all the mess the UK is in all Labours fault, why not spread some of that around to say the Tory/Lib Dem pact that brought us 14 yrs of Tory or the Tories themselves who brought us (IMO) Russian funded Brexit that crashed our economy 3 times.
Spread that load more evenly.

2024-09-14 08:48:27

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OK i accept that, but let's at least wait for the Budget shall we.
It sometime seems to me that everything that is wrong in the UK is blamed on Labour, not the Tories and not the Tory/Lib Dem alliance that brought in 14 ruddy years of Tory lies, debt, corruption, racism and sleaze.

2024-09-14 08:38:11

I think that I am in a minority here but I feel sorry for Labour. There have been in power for less than 3 months and they are slating by some, for what for telling us the truth!
We all know that the Tories crashed our economy and an tough decisions are going to have to be made to address this, but every thing they say and do is battered down.
Maybe some would have preferred a Tory/Lib Dem Government, again?

2024-09-14 08:28:49

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How about this for a radical idea, let's give Labour a chance shall we, say 2 years and see if they impose austerity as deep and cutting and harmful onto the people of the UK as the Tory/Lib Dems did?
If they do, then we can put all 3 Political parties into the dustbin

2024-09-13 13:18:06

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Running scared.

2024-09-13 13:14:47

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it is a typical KGB ploy, deflect them blame of what you are doing onto others.

2024-09-13 12:04:01

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Be honest Richard you just don't like Starmer or Labour.

2024-09-13 12:02:54

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Far, far to many guns in the USA but that is only my opinion looking at it from the UK.

2024-09-12 07:09:57

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Rod Stewart - A Night On The Town |
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2024-09-10 11:01:55

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The last thing (IMO) that Maggie Thatcher did was treat the UK Tax coffers as an Household budget, but, yes you could think along those terms when the Household budget is stretched to it's limit, it is best not to get into more debt but cut your cloth to suit your income.

2024-09-10 09:18:38

So many on Matodon ripping into the Labour Government, and you have the right to do that, but can I suggest that those of you who do not like Labours decisions Toot what they would do given we in the UK all know that the UKs economy is in bits and the Tories stole £Billions of our Tax.
If you were in charge, what cuts would you make in order to try and steady the ship?

2024-09-10 08:52:24

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So are you saying that the Tories did not make a total mess of the UKs economy Patrick?

2024-09-10 08:27:16

'TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak took aim at the Reform UK leader in a fiery speech, where he said unions must work with the Government to face down "tin pot politicians and street thugs" who promoted hate after the Southport riots.
Mr Nowak, whose grandfathers came to the UK from Poland and China during the Second World War, said immigration had enriched the country and represented Britain better than the far right ever could.
Mirror
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2024-09-09 08:21:59

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Sacary uuummm?
'Elon Musk now controls nearly two thirds of all active satellites orbiting Earth following the launch of the 7,000th Starlink satellite this week'
3 days ago'

2024-09-09 07:11:30

BBC News
'‘Tate raped and strangled us’ - women talk to BBC
The Tate brothers, aged 37 and 36, currently face charges in Romania of human trafficking and forming an organised group to sexually exploit women. Andrew Tate is also charged with rape.
If found guilty, the two men could be jailed for more than 10 years. They strongly deny the charges against them'
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2024-09-08 08:59:46

'Nadhim Zahawi: ‘I came to the UK as a refugee, but immigration has gone too far’'
I really, really do not like people like him who enjoyed what the UK had to offer to immigrants in his case his parents were economic immigrants, who now go about whipping up hate of 'immigrants.
Selfish is the best way I can describe him and others in the Tory Party without being really blunt.
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2024-09-07 03:52:13

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And I am back out of bed and this made me laugh.

2024-09-07 03:08:24

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Thanks I might have to try one.
Back off to bed again it is 4am here and I must be driving the other half mad,.

2024-09-07 03:03:17

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I have just found out what the cuff is, I don't really know what is wrong with my shoulder but it is sending my arm right down the my finger dead.
I am used to a bit of pain but I cannot find anything to dull this one.

2024-09-07 02:48:11

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You and me both then.
I think I have trapped a never in the back of my shoulder and it is a bu*ger.

2024-09-07 02:46:06

Do you ever have those nights when you just cannot get to sleep?

2024-09-06 12:55:33

'Learn them to speak English?
30p Lee Anderson needs to learn to speak and write English himself.
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2024-09-06 12:35:20

'Man who set fire to asylum seeker hotel handed longest sentence yet for UK riots.
He was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to nine years in prison, with a five-year extension on licence'
Good
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2024-09-06 07:19:28

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I do feel sorry for the Lib Dems, it seems even now they are being punished for their power grab when they went to bed with Cameron's Tory Party.

2024-09-06 07:18:18

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The Guardian
'Life expectancy has stalled for the first time in more than 100 years and even reversed for the most deprived women in society, according to a landmark review which shows the gap in health inequalities is yawning even wider than it did a decade ago, in large part due to the impact of cuts linked to the government’s austerity policies.''
Pain just for spite from the then coalition Party
But the Tories soon found Tax for their mates and families.

2024-09-05 14:29:36

We brought a grow it yourself (at home) Mushroom kit, and the blooming thing has worked, we have home grown Oyster Mushrooms.

2024-09-05 09:23:16

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'Like any bully, the 'difficult' choice is not to target the weak & ill-resourced who fear or are unable to fight back.'
Do you mean like the Tory/Lib Dem coalition did with years of Austerity?

2024-09-04 13:28:51

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We have a lovely photo of me and my Husband down at , Durdle Door, we were lucky at the time we got there there was only one other couple so we took photos of each other, on the way back loads of people started to come down.

2024-09-04 08:24:59

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As far as I know we have never been to the Isle of Purbeck, maybe next time we go down we will look for it.

2024-09-04 08:08:38

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We were there a few weeks ago.
Portland Bill and Weymouth/ Dorset is one of our favourite places in the whole of Britain.

2024-09-02 08:26:17

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I think, what I am trying to say is,(IMO) we cannot just Print our way out of this awful mess the UKs economy is in post Brexit, we need to find a way to Trade our way out of it, but how we do that is beyond me.
The UK must be one of the only countries in the World to ever vote to impose Trade Sanctions on itself.

2024-09-02 08:17:32

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I never said 'no credit' I said I do not think that a Government is doing a Country any good by just printing stacks of cash the country has not earned, and given the mess the UK is in post the greedy Tory/Super-rich Brexit, I believe we should think long and hard about printing lots of dosh to ease our lack if it right now.
But, as I said, I am no expert.

2024-09-02 07:28:43

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Your academic qualifications far outweigh mine.
I base what I say about printing money a country has not earned on 2 things, my experience in the UK, i.e when the Tories had to prop up the pound they (often) crash, and what happened in Germany between the wars, although in Germany the hyper-inflation was not just caused by printing money.
I defer to your much higher qualification.

2024-09-01 12:49:12

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Thank you for answering, I am afraid it went over my head a bit.
All I know is, the Tories emptied our Tax coffers and put the UK into a massive amount of National debt, and that debt has to be addressed and paid back and with no money, there are going to be difficult decisions made.

2024-09-01 09:07:49

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Sorry I am going to push you on this subject, invest with what, our Tax coffers are empty
Question for you, do you think the UKs National debt is too high right now?

2024-09-01 09:04:15

I think it is sad that some of the really good Twitter accounts in the UK like The Good Law project and Open Democracy are not on Mastodon.

2024-09-01 08:26:24

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Thank you for your reply, what would be your ideal solution to the financial mess the UK is in?

2024-09-01 07:50:24

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Do you think Labour is lying when they say there is a massive Black Hole in the UKs Treasury and that the UK because of the Tories is both broke and up to its neck in debt?