Cinders
@cinders001.bsky.social
Uk based citizen of Europe. I want to rejoin, I want reasoned debate about subjects on which we may not agree. Never Tory. Never Reform.Refugees welcome.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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"From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party.
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
How Europhobia crushed Tories, and why Labour must beware
From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party. Labour risks repeating the same mistake
bylines.scot
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party.
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
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2.7 million people who qualify for Universal Credit are in work, but receive such a low income that tax payers need to pay them enough to survive. It's not people on benefits who are freeloading off us, it is businesses paying their workers too little.
#wealthtax #realwages #workersunite #joinaunion
#wealthtax #realwages #workersunite #joinaunion
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
2.7 million people who qualify for Universal Credit are in work, but receive such a low income that tax payers need to pay them enough to survive. It's not people on benefits who are freeloading off us, it is businesses paying their workers too little.
#wealthtax #realwages #workersunite #joinaunion
#wealthtax #realwages #workersunite #joinaunion
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April 2022 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
April 2022 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
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The beautiful thing about TWENTY of his classmates saying Farage was a huge racist at school, means that he'll lose any libel case he tries.
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The beautiful thing about TWENTY of his classmates saying Farage was a huge racist at school, means that he'll lose any libel case he tries.
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!
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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 4:13 PM
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
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The Labor Party in England is now proposing to get rid of almost all jury trials in England to make the criminal punishment bureaucracy more efficient. This should be a warning for us all. Neoliberals are walking us into the waiting arms of authoritarians.
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Labor Party in England is now proposing to get rid of almost all jury trials in England to make the criminal punishment bureaucracy more efficient. This should be a warning for us all. Neoliberals are walking us into the waiting arms of authoritarians.
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Labour Party seems to have moved from:
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Labour Party seems to have moved from:
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
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The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector
Never believe the Tories and their media.
Never believe the Tories and their media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector
Never believe the Tories and their media.
Never believe the Tories and their media.
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Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
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Get ready for all the people who said they didn’t mind how poor Brexit made them, they just wanted out….eg Michael Caine, “I’d rather be a poor man” plus someone I know said they didn’t care if it meant they had to live on bread & jam….complain about tax rises and the country’s finances today 🙄
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Get ready for all the people who said they didn’t mind how poor Brexit made them, they just wanted out….eg Michael Caine, “I’d rather be a poor man” plus someone I know said they didn’t care if it meant they had to live on bread & jam….complain about tax rises and the country’s finances today 🙄
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
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Bullying works, if you cave in to it. The more people who cave into it the harder it becomes to be someone who stands up to it.
Shame on the BBC for this, its disgraceful weakness.
Shame on the BBC for this, its disgraceful weakness.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Bullying works, if you cave in to it. The more people who cave into it the harder it becomes to be someone who stands up to it.
Shame on the BBC for this, its disgraceful weakness.
Shame on the BBC for this, its disgraceful weakness.
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It really matters because Farage relies on both a veneer of public ‘respectability’ *and* an undercoat of racism to further his bid for power. He won’t get there without both. So, it’s very important that the ‘respectability’ element is justifiably stripped away.
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It really matters because Farage relies on both a veneer of public ‘respectability’ *and* an undercoat of racism to further his bid for power. He won’t get there without both. So, it’s very important that the ‘respectability’ element is justifiably stripped away.
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Clothing Bans and Logic
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Clothing Bans and Logic
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When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
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I want him ( Johnson) to be arrested and charged. Anything else is a slap in the face for ordinary people.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I want him ( Johnson) to be arrested and charged. Anything else is a slap in the face for ordinary people.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
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But it IS hurtful and insulting, the concept of racism is exactly that you prick. It’s not about tone of voice, it’s about being prejudiced and nasty. Jesus Christ.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
But it IS hurtful and insulting, the concept of racism is exactly that you prick. It’s not about tone of voice, it’s about being prejudiced and nasty. Jesus Christ.
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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We need to drop this idea that exposing Farage as a nasty bloke is cutting much ice. We know this. His followers know it. Much better to relentlessly attack the deep and lasting harm he has done to the nation by securing hard Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage urged to explain conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism he voiced in US media
Exclusive: The Reform UK leader discussed far-right talking points in web TV and radio appearances between 2009 and 2018
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We need to drop this idea that exposing Farage as a nasty bloke is cutting much ice. We know this. His followers know it. Much better to relentlessly attack the deep and lasting harm he has done to the nation by securing hard Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.