Richard Peat
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Richard Peat
@rtpeat.bsky.social
Techie / ex Churchwarden of #stjfinch / Sometime Geocacher / #waze-er / Ioniq EV and Soul EV owner
Highland Council issued £1.3 million of parking tickets across their region last year, but about ⅓ of them - £430,000 worth - were just on the Isle of Skye...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This was an interesting YouGov survey - it’s already clear that Labour voters don’t agree with the winter fuel payments policy. Now 69% of them think the government should be focusing on tax avoidance not welfare fraud.

https://buff.ly/3Xx5TaA
September 25, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,747,334!
September 18, 2024 at 6:02 AM
All the more impressive when you spot what map they were apparently using…
September 2, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Betting on the election date up to the day before Sunak called the election.

Just a note, betting with insider information is an offence under the gambling act punishable by up to two years imprisonment.
June 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Wow - if you thought the new YouGov MRP poll was bad, the exclusive MRP poll commissioned by the Telegraph is a total Conservative bloodbath.
June 19, 2024 at 10:20 PM
May 23, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Wow, even a majority of the voters who have kept them in power since 2010 think the UK is worse off than it was when they were elected.

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
January 8, 2024 at 4:50 PM