Paul Wooldridge
@alba187.bsky.social
Expect sarcasm, it'll save time & avoid unnecessary questions.
If something is illogical, or someone has made an error in their reasoning, I will call them out on it.
If I'm wrong, I'll admit it.
If I think it is funny, I will not explain why.
#FBPE #FBPPR
If something is illogical, or someone has made an error in their reasoning, I will call them out on it.
If I'm wrong, I'll admit it.
If I think it is funny, I will not explain why.
#FBPE #FBPPR
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This is the NEW petition for #FBPE folk to sign and share, please 📣📣📣📣📣📣
We want them to keep rolling in, so the government knows we haven't gone away.
As soon as one hits target, another sets off.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
We want them to keep rolling in, so the government knows we haven't gone away.
As soon as one hits target, another sets off.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Regularly assess & consider the economic benefits of EU Customs Union membership
We want the Government to commission independent bodies to regularly advise how joining the Customs Union could benefit Britain's economy. We want Parliament to regularly consider how that would advan...
petition.parliament.uk
May 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is the NEW petition for #FBPE folk to sign and share, please 📣📣📣📣📣📣
We want them to keep rolling in, so the government knows we haven't gone away.
As soon as one hits target, another sets off.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
We want them to keep rolling in, so the government knows we haven't gone away.
As soon as one hits target, another sets off.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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This is the NEW petition for #FBPE folk to sign and share, please 📣📣📣📣📣📣
We want them to keep rolling in, so the government knows we haven't gone away.
As soon as one hits target, another sets off.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
We want them to keep rolling in, so the government knows we haven't gone away.
As soon as one hits target, another sets off.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Regularly assess & consider the economic benefits of EU Customs Union membership
We want the Government to commission independent bodies to regularly advise how joining the Customs Union could benefit Britain's economy. We want Parliament to regularly consider how that would advan...
petition.parliament.uk
May 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.
April 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.
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Looks like Rachel Reeves has conveniently forgotten that Brexit brought about the need to duplicate many roles that EU bodies used to do on behalf of the UK?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
March 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Looks like Rachel Reeves has conveniently forgotten that Brexit brought about the need to duplicate many roles that EU bodies used to do on behalf of the UK?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This is what the right wing politicians want, a poorly educated population that they can radicalise to their own purposes.
The outcome is an oligarchy with dictatorial tendencies, the exploitation of the masses to enhance the wealth of the minority.
Democracy is a casualty of these ideologies.
The outcome is an oligarchy with dictatorial tendencies, the exploitation of the masses to enhance the wealth of the minority.
Democracy is a casualty of these ideologies.
March 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is what the right wing politicians want, a poorly educated population that they can radicalise to their own purposes.
The outcome is an oligarchy with dictatorial tendencies, the exploitation of the masses to enhance the wealth of the minority.
Democracy is a casualty of these ideologies.
The outcome is an oligarchy with dictatorial tendencies, the exploitation of the masses to enhance the wealth of the minority.
Democracy is a casualty of these ideologies.
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I think that the EU need to put in place a mechanism that could be used to boot problematic members out.
They have a pipeline of countries desperate to join. They don't need the aggravation of rabble-rousers like Hungary.
The mere existence of such a mechanism might have a stabilisation effect.
They have a pipeline of countries desperate to join. They don't need the aggravation of rabble-rousers like Hungary.
The mere existence of such a mechanism might have a stabilisation effect.
March 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I think that the EU need to put in place a mechanism that could be used to boot problematic members out.
They have a pipeline of countries desperate to join. They don't need the aggravation of rabble-rousers like Hungary.
The mere existence of such a mechanism might have a stabilisation effect.
They have a pipeline of countries desperate to join. They don't need the aggravation of rabble-rousers like Hungary.
The mere existence of such a mechanism might have a stabilisation effect.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
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"Taxing the rich" certainly wouldn't solve the UK's economic woes by itself, and it's foolish to tout the idea as a silver bullet that could magic all our problems away.
But by golly it would at the very least make the pain everyone else has to endure feel a bit more tolerable.
But by golly it would at the very least make the pain everyone else has to endure feel a bit more tolerable.
March 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"Taxing the rich" certainly wouldn't solve the UK's economic woes by itself, and it's foolish to tout the idea as a silver bullet that could magic all our problems away.
But by golly it would at the very least make the pain everyone else has to endure feel a bit more tolerable.
But by golly it would at the very least make the pain everyone else has to endure feel a bit more tolerable.
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So “anti-woke” actually meant “anti-democratic“?
March 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So “anti-woke” actually meant “anti-democratic“?
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If Starmer wants to free the UK from unnecessary paperwork, red tape, barriers to free trade, and isolation he really ought to #RejoinEU
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit
Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
If Starmer wants to free the UK from unnecessary paperwork, red tape, barriers to free trade, and isolation he really ought to #RejoinEU
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I will follow the seven journeys of itselfiness for the rest of my life, and will encourage others to also use their time, and extra time to unprison their think rhinos.
Well, that's today's task sorted then...
Nicola — for the avoidance of doubt, this was an outright pisstake by @gralefrit.bsky.social and me. We inherited an office and decided to be silly on a whiteboard. It's mine and Joel's handwriting on that flipchart. I posted it on Twitter in March 2017. That really is the whole story.
March 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I will follow the seven journeys of itselfiness for the rest of my life, and will encourage others to also use their time, and extra time to unprison their think rhinos.
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Well, that's today's task sorted then...
Nicola — for the avoidance of doubt, this was an outright pisstake by @gralefrit.bsky.social and me. We inherited an office and decided to be silly on a whiteboard. It's mine and Joel's handwriting on that flipchart. I posted it on Twitter in March 2017. That really is the whole story.
March 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Well, that's today's task sorted then...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
Nice to see the influence of @thetrawl.bsky.social in our everyday lives.
Donald Trump is a moron advised by some of the dumbest idiots in the world all doing the bidding of an evil dictator. They will tear down the institutions that stabilise world order.
Stand up to fascists because they're dicks!
Donald Trump is a moron advised by some of the dumbest idiots in the world all doing the bidding of an evil dictator. They will tear down the institutions that stabilise world order.
Stand up to fascists because they're dicks!
A message from London...and 80% of the rest of the UK.
The other 20% are the terminally stupid.
#FuckMusk
The other 20% are the terminally stupid.
#FuckMusk
March 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Nice to see the influence of @thetrawl.bsky.social in our everyday lives.
Donald Trump is a moron advised by some of the dumbest idiots in the world all doing the bidding of an evil dictator. They will tear down the institutions that stabilise world order.
Stand up to fascists because they're dicks!
Donald Trump is a moron advised by some of the dumbest idiots in the world all doing the bidding of an evil dictator. They will tear down the institutions that stabilise world order.
Stand up to fascists because they're dicks!
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We need to boost defence spending from 2.5% to 3% of GDP.
One way of paying for it would be to claw back (most of) the 4% of GDP we lost to Brexit.
It would of course pay for a swathe of other things too. Goodbye all that Austerity 2.0 nonsense.
But getting started MUST be the first step.
One way of paying for it would be to claw back (most of) the 4% of GDP we lost to Brexit.
It would of course pay for a swathe of other things too. Goodbye all that Austerity 2.0 nonsense.
But getting started MUST be the first step.
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We need to boost defence spending from 2.5% to 3% of GDP.
One way of paying for it would be to claw back (most of) the 4% of GDP we lost to Brexit.
It would of course pay for a swathe of other things too. Goodbye all that Austerity 2.0 nonsense.
But getting started MUST be the first step.
One way of paying for it would be to claw back (most of) the 4% of GDP we lost to Brexit.
It would of course pay for a swathe of other things too. Goodbye all that Austerity 2.0 nonsense.
But getting started MUST be the first step.
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He’s such a dicktator.
March 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
He’s such a dicktator.
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Exactly this. Awful.
Ffs 🤦♂️
1. This is a virtually non existent increase in defence spending. A pathetic response in context.
2. But for the aid budget this is a painful, significant cut, coming on top of the closure of USAID, that that will cause real damage and make the U.K. less safe.
Bad politics, bad policy 👎
1. This is a virtually non existent increase in defence spending. A pathetic response in context.
2. But for the aid budget this is a painful, significant cut, coming on top of the closure of USAID, that that will cause real damage and make the U.K. less safe.
Bad politics, bad policy 👎
Keir Starmer announces Nato-qualifying UK defence spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP/year by 2027 (from around 2.3% today) - to be funded by cutting overseas aid budget from 0.5% of GDP to 0.3%
February 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Exactly this. Awful.
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How about instead of profiling the “personalities” saying horrible things at far right conferences, we profile the people who paid to put on those conferences.
Cmon the billionaires pushing this poison have names & faces.
Cmon the billionaires pushing this poison have names & faces.
Konstantin Kisin: anti-woke libertarian who reluctantly calls himself ‘right wing’
Konstantin Kisin: anti-woke libertarian who reluctantly calls himself ‘right wing’
In speech at Arc conference, podcaster argues ‘identity politics and multiculturalism … are two failed experiments’
Konstantin Kisin has until this week been best known as a libertarian, pro-free speech independent podcaster, and for a viral appearance…
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
How about instead of profiling the “personalities” saying horrible things at far right conferences, we profile the people who paid to put on those conferences.
Cmon the billionaires pushing this poison have names & faces.
Cmon the billionaires pushing this poison have names & faces.
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Reality mirroring fiction.
(unattributed where I found it)
(unattributed where I found it)
February 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reality mirroring fiction.
(unattributed where I found it)
(unattributed where I found it)
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An important point to keep in mind.
February 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
An important point to keep in mind.