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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 53m

Isn't this sad? Now the hero employee on the Peterborough train turns out to be a Muslim immigrant, I note the faragistas are looking for white heros to celebrate instead. Folks, they're all heros, regardless of colour or race.

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 9h

And once it's agreed, the developers then invent a story to say they need an amendment or they'll go bankrupt.

Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Or an archaeologist.

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 1d

I do feel that Farage needs to apologise to the passenger who was wrongly arrested just because he was black. He is whipping this up. I listened to several of the eye witnesses and most said it was a single attacker so I was puzzled when they arrested 2.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 3d

It's not a grassroots working class movement.

"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 2d

How they got away with some of that remains a mystery. Innuendos'R'Us.

Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 4d

I do realise this was a very Pomponian reaction but I meant it. So instead I had a fascinating chat with her very dashing security officer. Win-win, actually.

Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 4d

Princess Anne came to Bath. We were told we must curtsey if we were introduced. I said I'd be polite, I'd shake hands but I couldn't see why, simply because I was born into a humble Pompey family and she was born into the Royal Family, I needed to curtsey. Very silly all the bobbing looked, IMO.

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 4d

Which is exactly what Charles tried to push through years ago but the Queen stood in his way and wouldn't abdicate. Why everyone thought she was so good is a mystery to me. I think William is a different kettle of fish, however. Unofficially, the French still revere their ducs and vicomtes.

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 4d

That's true. As regards Royal Family - it's clearly illogical and not great for the family. But when you look at the present crop of presidents worldwide, you wonder about a possible alternative. We had a Republic and Cromwell promptly became a de facto king. What's the answer? I don't know.

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 4d

I now have osteoporosis, thanks in part to a negligent doctor who didn't take note of my concerns. But Camilla has worked for this charity for years when it was regarded as 'just' an old ladies' disease. So I will stand up for her.

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 4d

Not despised by the whole country. Some people knew how hard she worked for that unglamorous charity the Osteoporosis Society - which now has a Royal title.

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Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 4d

The Queen's lovechild - that's why they didn't. It's time that was acknowledged. If Charles weren't so ill - all the signs are he's not in great condition - I suspect he'd have got rid of him sooner.

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