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Replying to @danielmgmoylan
Easiest case to make. Do you want to put up taxes to get state quality care in nationalised care homes with patients sleeping in corridors?
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The data tells us that UK energy consumption is plummeting and as a result the economy is going to hell in a handcart.
UK energy mix state of play: ✅ Record wind generation ✅ Renewables producing over 1/2 UK electricity ⬇️ Falling gas demand for power generation 📉 Declining North Sea oil & gas output What does the data tell us? 🧵 👇
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Replying to @SimonMagus
I struggle to see how anyone can look at the state of the NHS and say “that’s what we want for grandma , but not just for healthcare, we want it for her housing, care and feeding as well”
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So it's not the 'far-right' then
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Oasis touring and city in league 2. The 90's are back. 😎
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Burnham's glib promise of free social care will cost us a minimum of £34billion on top of the existing spend of around £30bn. Thats either £34bn in cuts to other services like policing, defence, schools or else £34bn in tax rises - 5 points extra on income tax. All to provide for less than 10% of the population who require residential social care. Most people have the resources to fund their own care. Workers shouldn't be paying taxes so my son inherits all my housing wealth.
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the fact that God created so many different types of cats… yeah, i think we know who His favorite is
Rare footage of Jaguarundi wild cat as they are very shy in nature 🐈‍⬛
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I was absolutely bang on about Thiel here...
Peter Thiel: I think we moralize way too much. And there's always a question I like to ask: What is the antonym of good? The moral antonym is evil. The functional antonym is bad. A Ferrari is an evil car because it doesn't get many miles per gallon. A Trabant is a bad car. It works. It's less good than a Golf car, you know, the former East German car. So, you know, if you're evil, you're at least competent. And if you're evil, you're not bad, and therefore you're actually maybe kind of good because you're at least getting something done. I think it's better to be good than evil.
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A rogue openai agent breached my icloud and texted my ex, I'm shaking rn this is extremely alarming
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"Burnham set to revive Help to Buy scheme in bid to boost housebuilding" Here we go again… 🙄 1⃣ Help to Buy (HTB) is a gimmick that helps only a small number of people onto the housing ladder while driving up house prices for everyone else. 2⃣ HTB is intended to boost housing supply by giving developers greater confidence that homes will sell. However, any benefit is likely to be swamped by rising construction and borrowing costs, planning constraints, and broader economic uncertainty. 3⃣ Independent evaluations of previous HTB schemes found substantial deadweight: half of participants said they could have bought a home without support. The schemes also had little impact on home ownership in areas that were already relatively unaffordable. 4⃣ "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results..."
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“We could say the government spends like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.” — Ronald Reagan
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RT @b_judah: This story confirms a deep fear of mine. That out of a mixture of carelessness, incompetence, indifference and denial the Home…
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A football manager doesn't need to know anything about Israel, Palestine, genocide or antisemitism. Then just say so. It's not your job to know about it. But don't present yourself, your players or Ireland as the victim. Antisemites are always the victims of the Jews, huh.
Ireland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson says he regrets using the word genocide and describes the intense pressure put on his players by fanatics in Ireland.
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EXCLUSIVE: The former bodyguard of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, was given asylum and citizenship in the UK — then “plotted” huge foiled terror attack targeting Jews in Europe last year Mr X had legal anonymity for 100 years: Sunday Times quashed this thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
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I am NO fan of Restore I don’t want them to win votes or be involved in Govt in any way. But they have an absolute right to campaign in a democratic by-election and to do so without being harassed by a far left mob every bit as facist in tendency as they accuse Restore of being
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>be Pope Leo >bless block of ice for climate >mocked incessantly for it >fast forward 2026 >0 Atlantic hurricanes since you blessed the ice >mfw it worked
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Simon Cooke retweeted
Oh you don’t want to have sex with people? SPECIFICALLY EXPLAIN yourself. I dare you! The court of who you need to shag to prove your liberal bona fides is now in session.
explain why you wouldn’t date SPECIFICALLY bisexual men without being homophobic, I dare you
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All these people marching to put Jews in camps.
NOW: Thousands marching for Palestine in Liverpool to the Labour conference to demand our government implement full sanctions on Israel and stop arming their genocide and apartheid. Palestinians cannot live with half measures.
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A message to the @IrelandFootball national team players.
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Brenda Power is a rare voice of moral clarity amongst the Irish commentariat on this issue. In under a minute she eviscerates Ireland’s hypocrisy. ‘There wasn’t a single peep of protest to the Irish cricket team voluntarily playing Afghanistan last month, where women are treated worse than battery chickens. It is the most extreme humanitarian crisis in the world right now, as far as I can see, the gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Not a word of protest.’ ‘Where was your indignation when we played [Afghanistan]? England wouldn’t play them, South Africa wouldn’t play them, New Zealand wouldn’t play them. The great humanitarians in Ireland had absolutely no difficulty. We’re hypocrites.’
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