HackmanHartley
HackmanHartley
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Apparently I blog now https://medium.com/@HackmanHartley LGBTQIA Pro-EU Free Palestine Truck Frump Public services should be publicly owned Free NHS
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Missing three points: 1. Other countries pay higher taxes while working which means there's more money to around pensioners. 2. Pension populations vary from country-to-country 3. The State Pension isn't means tested which means people who will never need it, still get it. Ideological idiocy
Two million pensioners live in poverty. We spend less on pensions than other rich countries. Yes, we desperately need a National Care Service. Don't make today's workers poorer in their old age to pay for it!
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Reform UK’s Welsh leader works for firm that helps foreign workers migrate to the UK nation.cymru/news/reform-...
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More people need to hear this. I certainly did.
OK now I'm back at work I want to talk about GB Grid. I think the govt did the best it could at communicating this announcement but it's quite technical and you need to understand the energy system to fully get it, so it's almost impossible to sum up in a soundbite. Let me explain as far as I can:
"Oh it's not what Europe wants" Hmm, where are those voices now? We WANT to come back too! Do it Andy, fuck the naysayers. It's not the "Will of the people" when: A: We were lied to B: A lot of people who voted for it are dead C: WE WERE LIED TO
"Welcome back - if the British want to come back it's very good news!" 🇫🇷 "Spain would welcome it with open arms and once again embrace our friends in Britain.” 🇪🇸
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When we say "Thatcher ruined the country" There isn't enough paper on the planet to detail the destruction and the legacy of her campaign. It all boils down to that old witch. Maybe we can finally close the lid on 40 years of despair and making-do Maybe. Maybe we can hope again?
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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The population can longer be the prisoners of the pensioner populace. Everything can be brought back to parties being in-hock to pensioners and it is about time someone had the guts to cut the tie. They caused Brexit then demonised the youth whose futures they inadvertently ruined. Enough.
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
Best Labour conference we've ever had and of course the mouthpieces and the Never-Labours now call in to places like @lbc.co.uk Really wouldn't wanna be @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social right now.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I think it boils down to despair I have a friend who is 34 and he spends most of his day on his phone. Doomscrolling and watching nonsense I asked him why and he said "Why would I want to look away from my phone when the world is so horrible?" It's not just young people
Why is @lbc.co.uk platforming liars and criminals? Jenna Ellis is NOT a constitutional attorney - she was suspended because of her actions in 2020 She was indicted by a grand jury. Are we that desperate for an American voice? I don't think so...
Know why people are released on bail? Because there isn't enough evidence to bring charges and hold them. Can we stop with the conspiracy? @lbc.co.uk
Favourite moment from @LBC today? @mrjamesob.bsky.social saying: "how did I write the word "Fly" in a way that I can't even read it?...it's only 3 letters!" I love #MysteryHour so much
So @lbc.co.uk had Liz Truss on this morning talking about her "time as the PM" I often like to refer to this as the "Honeymoon from Hell" Why does ANYONE take this absolute nut-case seriously?
I was gonna say maybe it's to avoid libel laws... But it's featured on the internal pages so that definitely isn't it. This is a choice. They want him. They need to protect him.
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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