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Andrew Osbaldestin

@ahosbaldestin.bsky.social

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Mathematics Professor. Husband. Father. Mancunian exile in the South. Politics: the left has to be flawless whilst the right can be lawless.

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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · Dec 8

Public healthcare - just say yes!

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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 7h

Regular reminder:

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 2d

The turd that won't flush.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.

But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.

Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 3d

Continuous but nowhere differentiable

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 3d

Rats in a sack

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 5d

How about "congratulations to the recipient"?

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 6d

Err…No.

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 7d

My daughter would like a word...

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 8d

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 8d

A house in Clacton bought with unknown finances, a Russian funded Welsh leader and now an investigation into the finances and tax affairs of one of Farage’s key ally.

The treachery and corruption is right in front of the media’s eyes and they do and say, NOTHING!

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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 9d

Is this a case of asking a question to which you already know the answer?

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 9d

New order????

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 9d

As the old joke goes: “there is no truth in Izvestija (News) and no news in Pravda (Truth).”

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10d

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 11d

“One of these men is a traitor to the UK.”
“You can’t say that.”
“OK. One of these men is not a traitor to the UK.”

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12d

£1.3bn profit has been paid out by the companies who own the trains which they rent to the train operators in the UK in the last 3 years

And it isn't even paid out in the UK, no it's paid out in Luxembourg so ZERO tax and ZERO spending in the UK.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13d

The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14d

In the 1970's the Government owned Energy, Water, Gas, Rail, Mail

They were the cheapest ever, the best service ever and they even cost the Government much less than they do now

Now they are privatised, ridiculously expensive, terrible service, and cost the Government a fortune

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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 14d

reminds me of

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and his hand on his face .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and his hand on his face .

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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 15d

The only remedy for things like this is for there to be jail time.

Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 15d

The only remedy for things like this is for there to be jail time.

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The only remedy for things like this is for there to be jail time.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 15d

When are we going to realise that people from foreign lands are not automatically our enemy… but the likes of Michelle Mone and her husband (and those millionaires and billionaires who are making money out of your misery and at your expense) are!

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 15d

James O'Brien: Farage is a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be. 💯 #ukpolitics

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15d

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

I decided this was unacceptable.

Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

Graphic which reads "Mayor of London / It was predicted to take 193 years to meet legal limits for air pollution in London/ We did it in 9"

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