Paul Stevens 🥀
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Anti-growth coalition; tofu-eating wokerati. Ex-Labour. Ex-journalist. Academic/hackademic/podacademic. BA (Hons), PGCE, MA, FHEA. #MMT . Bristolian.
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@BladeoftheS
I seriously don’t get how the royals can’t see how silly and, for the most part, undeserving they are of the bulk of their “medals”. Honestly, I wouldn’t have the brass neck to show up anywhere looking like that.
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@implausibleblog
Because it was all about leveraging the pandemic as a get-rich-quick scheme. That it was a public health crisis wasn’t important to the Tories.
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@PurePoll
If you’ve voted yes, consider the rights you’ll definitely lose. The Tories have manufactured the immigration crisis in order to justify their real endgame: leaving the ECHR. Once out of the EHCR, they’ll strip away every right you’ve ever had.
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@David__Osland
Prince William is the poster boy for absolutely nothing. And certainly not homelessness.
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@missgripper_
As a white, middle-aged, male I’m deeply disappointed to have actually scored a point. I’m hoping that can be cancelled out by being an actual academic and qualified expert, so clearly don’t hate myself. Well, not on a good day.
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@SaulStaniforth
@schneiderhome
Has Madeley discovered that the party started by and for working class people is supported by trade unions? Wow, hold the front page 😏
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@Danwhite1972
@RepublicStaff
A man with that much money, no real job to speak of, and who employs a team of people to run his life, will not be “juggling” anything.
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@Steven_Swinford
Frost is the sort of “unelected bureaucrat” he rails against. If he wants to be taken seriously he needs to win an election for once in his life.
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@MusicAndTruth
@ElspethNicol
@lostboylftv
@dionduel
@angelalambert14
We do. But who can afford to install it, let alone use it? Cost of living crisis plus leccy is more expensive than ever!
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@_JackJazz
That was a particularly revealing moment. And all so that her bankrupt ideology could lead us to where we are now: a broken country run by the elite, for the elite, rather than for the many, not the few.
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@soniasodha
It’s disappointing we’re not going to get the transformative government we could’ve had. But Starmer made it clear long go he doesn’t want us, and the polls confirm he doesn’t need us. So, we’ve gone elsewhere safe in the knowledge the Tories are going to lose however we vote.
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@implausibleblog
We did know the whole truth but some people branded it “project fear”, ridiculed it, chose to ignore it, and voted leave.
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@agirlcalledlina
@BBCRealityCheck
Surely someone of Marr's stature and pay grade (£390,000-£394,999) should've known all by himself that Johnson was lying?
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@Bob__Hudson
Students progress from foundation courses to first and also higher degrees. I've seen it happen. They are an essential on-ramp to HE for some learners.
An attack on foundation courses is an attack on such learners and will limit their potential. And for what?
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@Captain_Vad
And they say media studies is a soft subject. These days, if you don't understand the media's machinations you don't understand anything!
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@graceblakeley
Journalists don’t seem to be having much luck “grilling” Mick Lynch: he’s made mincemeat of them in the interviews I’ve seen!
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@Jeremy_Hunt
@RSCharity
This isn’t going to rehabilitate your public image. You’re part of a deeply cruel and dishonest government which has for 14 years chosen to enrich its members and donors instead of governing for the good of the people, adequately funding the public services they need and deserve.
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@Juliedewdrops
@BBCNews
Unemployment, zero-hours contracts, shift-work, day off, paid leave, unpaid leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, don’t need to work, too young to work, student, semi-retired, retired, here on holiday... So many legitimate reasons why 250,000 people are able to protest.
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@SandyofSuffolk
@GtGdPan
@RubyRedhead4
A pub within walking distance is essential. After a long week sewing; playing the piano; making my own Christmas cards; restoring my cars; working from home; and looking after the alpacas, I need a pint.
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@hannahfearn
This is not a society that values children, parenthood, or family life. The state barely provides an adequate education. Childcare costs are astronomical. And employers begrudge family life intruding into the workplace. Quite the “hostile environment”.
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@darrengrimes_
There’s only one reason a country would want to leave the ECHR: and that’s because it intended to violate people’s human rights. Once out of the ECHR, how long do you think it would be before the UK started abusing the human rights of its own citizens, not just asylum-seekers?
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@DanNeidle
So much for Sunak’s promises to bring “integrity, professionalism and accountability” to his prime ministership. Zahawi has driven a coach and horses through that little lot. (Not to mention the PM’s penchant for collecting fixed penalty notices 🙄).
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@implausibleblog
First, Sunak is not “a good man”. Second, he’s not doing “a great job”. And the Conservatives are about to find out how many people think those things. It’s not going to end well for them. Except for Cameron, who loses nothing because he’s not elected and can’t be unseated.
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@AndyGJBurge
@Conservatives
What’s irrational is ordinary people actually voting Tory. If the only people who voted Conservative were those who’d genuinely be better off under them, they’d’ve died out as a political force years ago.
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@markjenkinsonmp
Good grief. Weaponising Starmer’s intention to have some sort of work/life balance is pathetic. Plus, you might want to google Shabbat.
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@mikegallacher1
Immigration isn’t the endgame: the endgame is leaving the ECHR and permanently removing our human rights.
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@Haggis_UK
That went badly: for Stayt. But better than the Conservatives’ education secretary Gavin Williamson, who “couldn’t remember” his A-level results. Still, like a true Tory he failed upwards: he’s Sir Gavin now.
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@PeterStefanovi2
@buffybatik
Does anyone who supports leaving the ECHR get that they lose their human rights too. Rights such as…
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@cylinderhead
@Michael_Mooney
@budgie
@_SalmanAnwar
It looks like a Breton cap to me. My question is: why use a very old picture of Corbyn wearing a hat in the first place, unless to convey something specific? Why not picture him in a suit and no hat, as Williamson was?
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@implausibleblog
What on earth is wrong with Sunak? Does he seriously think if he just says stuff that’s not true no one will realise?
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@LondonEconomic
@ProfDaveAndress
Those pesky human rights: holding us back since, well, Magna Carta.
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@ColinBrazierTV
Don’t worry: this complete coincidence won’t happen again until 2086. But feel free to put the date in your diary so you know when to post more faux outrage.
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@WasOnceLoved
@HelenSalmon10
@heather63262308
One can only hope the days of PPE degree-holders running Britain are over. They’ve been spectacularly bad at it.
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@implausibleblog
There is no job the Tories won’t trivialise and dumb down. I think it stems from the massive inferiority complex they all have, being unqualified amateur generalists in a world of qualified professional specialists.
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@implausibleblog
According to Torynomics, taxes fund government spending (they don’t, but bear with me). Tax (or as Tories call it, government income) is at a record high, and so spending could be high too. Yet spending is repeatedly cut. Why? It’s not economics: Tories just hate public spending.
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@premnsikka
This is heavy-handed and unjust in many cases.
Mind you, if energy wasn’t so stupidly expensive in the UK, and the state pension so derisory, people wouldn’t need government help with heating their homes. Why does the state even subsidise Big Energy profits like this?
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@mikecosgrove
These are distinctions some people don’t get. But does it matter to them whether Truss crashed the economy or the bond market? All they know is things got pretty crappy for their mortgages pretty quickly. They blamed her. And they’re not wrong to do so.
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@DanielBerke1
@Keir_Starmer
@UKLabour
I’m no Starmer fan, but all that’s going to happen is that schools which sell the provision of education as a service will be treated like the businesses they actually are. There will be consequences for their customers. That’s business.
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Today's
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@DonalSkehan
's doing a great job. Annoyingly young-looking for one so accomplished! 😉
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@edwinhayward
Mail readers say they’ll be voting Labour in significant numbers. The game is up for the Mail: it’s happy to take Labour’s money while backing the worst government I’ve ever lived through. Its so-called principles have never been more clearly for sale.
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@DanielKebedeNEU
Portacabins and the like have been present at every school and college I’ve ever been a student at. Decades later I became a lecturer at my old college … and they were still there.
The other constant in my life is Tory governments which deliberately underfund everything.
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@implausibleblog
Rees-Mogg can only be relied upon to enrich himself before all others. Everything he says must be filtered through knowing this.
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@GigaLiving
@adam_wafc
@liamyoung
@NathaLFC25
Offering a free vote on the resumption of fox hunting strongly suggests she must be okay with the possibility that fox hunting will resume.
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@David__Osland
What companies say: "We're experiencing exceptionally high call volumes."
What companies mean: "We're experiencing exceptionally low staff numbers."
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“If you're excited about conservatives joining your party and you're excited about socialists leaving your party, you're a conservative. It really is that simple.”
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@implausibleblog
What the letter writers, and would-be letter writers, can’t or won’t see is that the problem isn’t Conservative leaders, it’s Conservatism. Their whole ideology is bankrupt. It doesn’t work. Privatising everything in sight and underfunding the everything else has failed.
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@Eyeswideopen69
“…forced to sell”?
“The family could have minimised inheritance tax if their parents had passed on their wealth before they had passed away, so that it was exempt using the seven-year rule.”
Still, the Mail doing its bit to make inheritance tax look cruel and unjust 🙄
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@joerichlaw
@afneil
If the Conservatives hadn’t spent 14 years treating the UK like their personal cash machine, they wouldn’t be about to lose the election. They’ve chosen to lose. Whatever Labour is about to do, the Tories could’ve prevented it by governing better, and not in their own interest.
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@PoliticsPollss
The UK can’t be bankrupted by any government. You really need to be more responsible with the wording of your questions. You’re asking people to express an opinion on something that can’t happen. What’s the point in that?
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@Ripleynoms
@campbellclaret
Not forgetting Dr Hannah Fry: the best of the team on the night in my book.
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@PoliticsPollss
The BBC is run by Conservatives, who are appointed by the Conservatives. I wonder where its bias could emanate from?
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@AdamBienkov
Losing hundreds of Tory MPs for a generation will be one of the best things to happen to this country in my lifetime.
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@implausibleblog
There’s nothing cynical about the narrative of decline. Sunak can call it “doomsterism”. But it isn’t. The decline is real. It’s the lived experience of millions of us. And Sunak and his ilk are responsible. They’ve wrecked everything. Deliberately.
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@ClaireCoutinho
I can see why a bunch of law-breaking scoundrels such as the
@Conservatives
would be concerned by courts in general and this one in particular. But I’m happy the ECHR is looking out for us, because our government isn’t.
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@savasavasava
@ThePhDPlace
“Attended” more conferences than ever in recent years, since online participation became commonplace. If online options are scaled back, my participation will scale back accordingly.
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@mk1969
@asda
@Morrisons
Great splash designs (I'm an ex-chief sub). At least the village Co-op here in True Blue fox hunting country still sells the
@TheNewEuropean
and the
@M_Star_Online
. Which I regularly make a habit of buying, just to annoy the Mail/Express/Sun brigade (of which there are many).
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@Telegraph
@chunkymark
The army has 81,920 full-time regulars. The Labour Party has 552,000 members. If it weren’t for the guns and tanks and whatnot, they’d be outnumbered 😉
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@implausibleblog
Sunak thinks he and his merry band of hard right economic vandals are “making progress on reducing inequality”. Priceless. Not to mention delusional and insightless.
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@LiamThorpECHO
Proof, if proof were needed, that the Conservatives don’t, and never will, care about most of us. All that you’ve read about above was and is unnecessary, but deliberate. It’s the inevitable consequence of putting orthodox economics and ideology ahead of what’s possible.
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@RichardJMurphy
What’s wrong with the NHS is deliberate underfunding since 2010, crashing it so we all have to buy US-style (not to be confused with European-style) health insurance. Some people think this is essential and inevitable. They’ll need to be very rich to afford such “luxury beliefs”.
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@implausibleblog
Sunak: “We're in the midst of building the biggest prison expansion program in many decades.”
Firstly, I suspect that’s a downright lie. Secondly, it wouldn’t take the building of many prisons to eclipse that of “many decades”: most of which the Tories have been in power for.
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@BellaWallerstei
The music spoke to, and for, the nation more effectively than Sunak ever could. Things can only get better.
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@char1iewatts
Not exactly unprecedented. Young people may be unaware that conductors and ticket inspectors “on the buses” were the norm.
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@Jenny_1884
If you have the misfortune to be born in a war-torn wreck of a country, where through no fault of your own you have no chance of a decent life, is it so wrong to seek a life in the UK? No one gets to choose where they’re born. They can try to choose where they live.
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The Conservatives still don’t get how unpopular Conservatism is. Or how ineffective it was. They really don’t want to change, do they?
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@jrc1921
Expect more “[x] is no longer a public service…” announcements from the more-Tory-than-the-Tories Labour Party.
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@Mr_JDTraynor
@KernowDamo
Well, perhaps four: the fourth being Lynch doesn’t have an “incestuous” relationship with the Westminster elite.
In the midst of another Boris Johnson scandal,
@BrianCathcart
makes plain the long history of the incestuous relationship between Downing Street and the Press.
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@AdamBienkov
Best news in a long time. And if Surrey of all places has fallen out of love with the Tories, then the Tories are in even more serious trouble than even they had possibly imagined.
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@implausibleblog
This word “disapply” that’s being bandied about today: it’s a very, very, dangerous concept. If the government can “disapply” laws and obligations it doesn’t like, where does that end?
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@LoftusSteve
Yes school fees. No university tuition fees. Just because higher education has been marketised, doesn’t make it a private sector activity. The universities are not a paid form of private education. They are public sector, and should never have been forced to levy fees.
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@RachelA1892
Yeah, what an example she is to us all and just the sort of image of our country we should be promoting to the world 😏
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@anthonyboutall
“Pumping taxpayers’ money into union pay deals” 🙄
Paying public sector workers more is long overdue.
But not one penny of “taxpayer money” will “fund” public sector pay rises.
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@Jenny_1884
The exodus is predominantly Conservative, with 83 out of 121 MPs. Eleven of those 83 have announced they’re quitting since their own leader called the election on Wednesday. What they’re telling us, through their actions, is that standing is pointless.
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@ZacGoldsmith
Sunak despises his own MPs marginally less than he despises the rest of us. That kind of money insulates a person from pretty much anything: including failure, and not being liked very much. A man with no discernible talent for public life, and no skin in the game, needs to go.
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@me_myrddin
The state pension isn’t unaffordable. The triple lock isn’t unaffordable. Both are unpalatable to the Tories, so they feed you the lie that they’re beyond the means of the country. Don’t believe them. If you’re not a pensioner, the Tories will come for you soon enough.
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@BladeoftheS
The Conservative government, like any other modern-era UK government, can afford what it likes. It can afford the triple lock. And NHS pay rises. And teacher pay rises. It is ideologically opposed to paying up, not economically prevented from doing so.
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@EuropeanPowell
Sunak plans to sack 70,000 pesky Marxist civil servants. Problem solved as far as he’s concerned 😏
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@PippaCrerar
@PaulbernalUK
Quite what makes the Conservatives think Britons who live abroad are their natural constituency is beyond me. Especially those who live in countries where their UK state pension is frozen. As you say, this could really backfire, like voter ID arguably did.
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@witandwhiz
The Tories’ natural instinct was not to protect the populace as best it could, but to audaciously use the crisis as cover for looting public funds. They didn’t care then about us then, they don’t care about us now.
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@implausibleblog
Reform of the NHS is “difficult for Conservative governments to do” because they hate the NHS and want it gone.
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