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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 22h

We'll know 'gold standard' apprenticeships really are 'gold standard' when politicians think their own kids should do them rather than getting a degree.

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly don’t understand - outside of a lack of understanding or believing conspiracy - why anyone is opposed to a digital ID scheme. The arguments on this topic really died as soon as absolutely everything, from govt held data to company held data, was all digitised over the last 20 years

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

‘People wanging on about government control actually just want the government to chuck out people they don’t like.’

James O’Brien connects the dots between digital ID outrage and Brexit hypocrisy.

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest issue with right wing politics in terms of what they claim they can deliver, is just the total and absolute lack of any consistency in their logic, positions or arguments. It’s all such a mess and by definition is destined to fail

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3d

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely stuff

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 4d

Agree. Victimhood is such a powerful emotion. Enacting any policy or change, whether it’s beneficial or not to people in this instance becomes increasingly thankless

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Hollow laughter

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 4d

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned.

Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 5d

A Watford fan surely having a laugh on the Luton next manager betting market

Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 5d

I genuinely wonder if anyone in that auditorium can make the connection. JFC….

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 5d

The Kemi Badenoch speech in summary. Totally pathetic

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 5d

Rebuilding from what? 14 years of Conservative harm? Not sure this is the best line

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. And if you’re going to set yourself up as apparently being supporters or social mobility and especially integration of 1st/2nd generation immigrants, surely universities are an incredibly useful and important tool for both of these

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 6d

It seems to me that Farage is likely to be a racist, but he’s doing a reasonable job of trying to convince people he isn’t, whereas Jenrick isn’t really but is trying to convince people that he is. And that’s the current state of right wing politics in Britain. Grim

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 6d

A situation where the people who are literally the most vocal about Muslims and economic migrants coming to Britain, are the biggest supporters of British people becoming economic migrants emigrating to an Islamic country. Intellectually backward and fundamentally dishonest. Pure hypocrisy

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 6d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 6d

Beyond anything else, it’s such a lazy explanation. Having areas which are either majority white or majority non-white says very little in and of itself about integration. It’s just post-fact justification of Jenricks obvious racism, plain and simple

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 6d

These fools are so illogical and inconsistent. Immigrants make up 89% of the the UAE population, where of course, Oakeshott is an economic migrant herself

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 6d

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 6d

Not that sort of segregation Lewis, there’s NEVER a problem with that type of separation

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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 6d

He talks about mixed communities - does he have a problem with places that are 98-99% white British? Of course not. This is such obvious bollocks

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