Tim Burnett
@tritim.bsky.social
GB Age Group triathlete, dad, DIY guru and (when I get the chance) data protection professional & public speaker
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Macron locked France down on March 17th, Johnson was threatened by Macron & he reluctantly locked down a week later.
Italy locked down during the night of 7th March 2020 and the major hospitals in Lombardia and Veneto were telling Europe to take notice, to lockdown, not to wait. Johnson waited another 10 days, but God forbid that Brexit Gov should listen to Europeans.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Macron locked France down on March 17th, Johnson was threatened by Macron & he reluctantly locked down a week later.
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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Italy locked down during the night of 7th March 2020 and the major hospitals in Lombardia and Veneto were telling Europe to take notice, to lockdown, not to wait. Johnson waited another 10 days, but God forbid that Brexit Gov should listen to Europeans.
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Italy locked down during the night of 7th March 2020 and the major hospitals in Lombardia and Veneto were telling Europe to take notice, to lockdown, not to wait. Johnson waited another 10 days, but God forbid that Brexit Gov should listen to Europeans.
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Le Monde has the text of the 28 point US/Putin plan for Ukraine. Negotiated without any involvement from EU or Ukraine it turns out to be a surrender document which grants Putin a victory without consequences. What does Putin have on Trump?
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Guerre en Ukraine : ce que l’on sait des 28 mesures du plan de Donald Trump
Les Etats-Unis ont présenté un plan, dévoilé par l’AFP et le « Financial Times », qui prévoit notamment que Kiev cède à la Russie les oblasts de Donetsk et de Louhansk et réduise son armée.
www.lemonde.fr
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Le Monde has the text of the 28 point US/Putin plan for Ukraine. Negotiated without any involvement from EU or Ukraine it turns out to be a surrender document which grants Putin a victory without consequences. What does Putin have on Trump?
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
It's not a price cap if you keep raising it. It's just a way of setting prices that all energy providers will use, instead of encouraging market forces and competition to push them down.
Ofgem is not fit for purpose.
Ofgem is not fit for purpose.
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It's not a price cap if you keep raising it. It's just a way of setting prices that all energy providers will use, instead of encouraging market forces and competition to push them down.
Ofgem is not fit for purpose.
Ofgem is not fit for purpose.
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From the CWS Archives. 19th December 2021.
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
From the CWS Archives. 19th December 2021.
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Sadly the most vulnerable communities in our country have wished this disaster on themselves. They might learn that it's not immigrants who are making their lives miserable, but greedy arseholes like Farage and Tice.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Sadly the most vulnerable communities in our country have wished this disaster on themselves. They might learn that it's not immigrants who are making their lives miserable, but greedy arseholes like Farage and Tice.
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Trump's "friends" are all dictators, authoritarians, pedophiles, sex traffickers, fraudsters or some other kind of criminal.
You are the company you keep.
You are the company you keep.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trump's "friends" are all dictators, authoritarians, pedophiles, sex traffickers, fraudsters or some other kind of criminal.
You are the company you keep.
You are the company you keep.
Bloody hell; @mrjamesob.bsky.social starts talking about ultra processed food just as I bite into a pork pie 🙄🤦♂️
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Bloody hell; @mrjamesob.bsky.social starts talking about ultra processed food just as I bite into a pork pie 🙄🤦♂️
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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
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Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I feel physically sick. In one fell swoop, the Labour Government have legitimised the whole racist, right wing narrative. Bravo you bunch of clueless cowards👏
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I feel physically sick. In one fell swoop, the Labour Government have legitimised the whole racist, right wing narrative. Bravo you bunch of clueless cowards👏
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Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
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We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
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I’m so bored with immigration grabbing all the headlines while this, surely , is the real issue. Poverty, housing, health, schooling…
news.sky.com/story/inside...
news.sky.com/story/inside...
Inside the town where 6 out of 7 children grow up in poverty - and live in fear of homelessness
As ministers prepare to act on child poverty, families in the area are backing calls for the two-child cap on benefits to be scrapped, and even local children say they are worried about becoming homel...
news.sky.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I’m so bored with immigration grabbing all the headlines while this, surely , is the real issue. Poverty, housing, health, schooling…
news.sky.com/story/inside...
news.sky.com/story/inside...
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Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
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Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
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Youll never hear about AI “replacing” C-suite jobs
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Youll never hear about AI “replacing” C-suite jobs
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Mahmood doing the full Braverman tribute act. What's dividing this country is not immigration - does she ever look in a mirror? - it's Brexit, inequality, poor housing, poor education provision, run down NHS, racism and a toxic right wing media - amongst other things.
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Mahmood doing the full Braverman tribute act. What's dividing this country is not immigration - does she ever look in a mirror? - it's Brexit, inequality, poor housing, poor education provision, run down NHS, racism and a toxic right wing media - amongst other things.