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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

But is there a limit? That's my point and nobody will answer. Until there is a coherent plan, some consensus and less shouting, the fascists will exploit our weaknesses on the issue.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

Just where did I say that ? Just what give you the right to call me a prick ?
I merely suggested that we need to talk about a limit to numbers.

Like I did say. We need to talk. Not broadcast and shout.
Just think about it. All the people who don't comment and respond but just vote fascist..

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

I know. But look at the fools who vote for these charlatans. They are everywhere.
But we are failing to address the limited concerns by self deception and smug confidence in moral correctness. We need to have a plan. We need to discuss and listen.
It suits them to polarise everything.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

We also manage an economic system that keeps these places poor. We can only be rich if these places are poor.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

If immigrants were happy, well fed and remunerated in their own countries they wouldn't seek to come here to work doing jobs either we don't like doing ( slaughterhouses, delivery, personal care, cleaning etc ) or we are too lazy to train for ( nursing, medicine, engineering ).
We exploit that.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

Why do you think you can put words in my mouth that I never said ?
You patronise and you insult. Perhaps you should listen.
Oh great playwright.

Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 18h

You know that? Do you ?

Ever had Sheriff Officers poind and remove stuff from your house when you were a child? Unable to pay the electricity bill so no lights , just candles, for months

Look it up sweetcheeks.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 19h

Nice and comfortable? Good income? Safe housing? It's nice to be secure and middle class.
It certainly sounds very smug.

You dismiss the concerns of the poor and the inarticulate at your peril.
Look at the rise of Reform and Maga. They are eating your lunch.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 19h

Really ? How many Eastern Europeans arrived ? How many from the Indian Subcontinent would come tomorrow if allowed?
If the only solution to immigration numbers is to make the country impossible to live in in a race to the bottom, then it's not a solution but a catastrophe.
It's nice to be nice.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 19h

And when the immigrants grow old and need cared for and are no longer economically active ? What then ?
There has to be a limit to the exploitation of poor people.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 20h

How many ?

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 20h

Great answer. Now tell us how many Zoe. Ten thousand a year ? A hundred thousand ? A million ?

There are limitless numbers of people who would like to come to the UK.
It nice to be nice. But surely there are limits and nobody is saying anything about that.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Turnip used to be huge and cheap. They were fed to farm animals in the winter and I think they were chopped up first.

I was looking at them in Aldi today. You'd be lucky if you could make a pot of stovies out of one of them...

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland's talent ...

Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Tremendous! Getting hold of a decent sized tumshie is a problem these days...

The smell of burned turnip from the candle .... awful.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 1d

My friend in Sri Lanka starts her letters, ' Dear Uncle ' and sends her regards to ' Auntie '.

It's used as a term of respect for an older person.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 1d

He thinks he is a God looking down on us mere mortals.

Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Very interesting piece.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 2d

No its not. Just duck a bit. Folk were shorter in the 1890s when the tunnels were designed.

Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Standing aboot...

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 2d

We used to listen to this on her Dansette record player. Terrible mono sound but she had this album and I didn't mind the two mile walk home to my flat off Byres Road in Glasgow at 2am.
Some 50+ years ago.

Its crap.

youtu.be/UEjAaLu8Dhs

Child in Time (1995 Remaster)

YouTube video by Deep Purple - Topic

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Just 25.

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Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Lucky with the birds...