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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷

@pascalr57.bsky.social

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Jack of no trade, master of even less. Don't follow me, I'm also lost. Grandad, dad, husband, pro Europe, pragmatic left, Bowie. Procrastinator. I don't necessarily follow back.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · Aug 25

Currently, elections are won on 20% of the electorate. Unless people decide that voting is worth doing we are going to end up with a racist PM voted in by a minority of racists.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 12h

1/ I think it'll backfire
2/ "it's shit but you voted for it, democracy bla bla..."

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

The queue to hell is longer?

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

Where did you dig him up from? 😂😂 I believe he still tours believe it or not, and he sang his own songs.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

Entirely my misconception, I get that now. Thanks.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

They should, and it is telling that the audience appeared to not have a clue what you were talking about.
A clear reflection on UK media.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I always thought banks used deposits to invest and lend, if they don't, why not? It makes sense to me that they should.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

No great demand for the Argentinian peso? I wonder why?

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like her though. 😂

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

Can't say I recognise it. 😁

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

Is the reason I can't get my head round much of this because of conditioning or because I'm just not very bright?

youtu.be/eVsVHVOwh4E?...

Why savings are dead money – and what we should do instead

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 1d

Is the reason I can't get my head round much of this because of conditioning or because I'm just not very bright?

youtu.be/eVsVHVOwh4E?...

Why savings are dead money – and what we should do instead

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

youtu.be

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

Well done. I'm pleased.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

Add that to the list of things which never happened.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

I think his government will be so weak and incompetent that he'll have no other choice but go full dictator.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

For what purpose?

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

I rarely do, only watched yesterday because Zach Polanski was on.
He didn't win me over, quite the opposite.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

I know, that's what I said. It was based on "the way people voted" only guessing about polling but now "political views nationally" I think is what they say at start of show.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

Based on current polling. "the audience reflects the views of people across the nation"
Starngely though, it changed from "the way they voted in that area"

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

IDK, I'm no expert in armaments. Good plane? Good price? No idea. Maybe all modern war planes are nuclear capable. (why wouldn't they be?)
What does nuclear capable mean anyway?

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

China is a member of BRIC which Indonesia has just joined.
BRIC members total about 60% of global population.
Trump still thinks USA dominates, I don't see how China needs USA to any great extent.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe just time constraint, or just that she needed to get the audience back from their torpor?

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe. I did think it would be difficult for him looking at the rest of the panel.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

Nuclear capable doesn't mean they're ever going to carry nuclear weapons. This is a ridiculous claim, I'm sure plenty of countries who have no nuclear weapons still buy these planes.

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 2d

Yes quite, and I thought Bruce was going to clarify for that confused audience, but she wanted to move on.

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