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Cardinal Biggles McFerryFace @cardinalbigglere.bsky.social · Feb 11

I was just reading about profiling voters in a study.

* It's not colour
* It is the less educated
& those looking for an easy quick fix
* It's those who enjoy the sense of belonging, changing things
* It is cultist, racism, intolerance - complex Psychographics driven by emotive factors, not reason

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 12

Couldn't agree more

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 12

Pathetic and stupid behaviour from a labour government that is now effectively undistinguishable from it’s appalling Tory predecessor.

Siding with Trump’s oligarchical regime against the rest of the world in seeking proper regulation of AI

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thank you dear sweet Labour party Ifeel so much safer now

The US and the UK have refused to sign the Paris AI summit's declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” artificial intelligence, in a blow to hopes for a concerted approach to developing and regulating the technology.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Agreed all monopolies should be nationalised
Hell even socialist Texas owns it's own water supply

patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Some firms in his portfolio were shut down by the CFPB for scamming people. Zuckerberg says Meta is not a bank, although it has a payments business and Zuck wants to start a currency.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

The CFPB had proposed that such apps be supervised the same way banks are supervised. Well, scratch that now. No supervision. And no insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Brace yourselves for fraud and bank runs.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

follow the money

The shutting of the CFPB was welcomed by the crypto crowd, including Musk, and by those issuing Bitcoin traded funds, such as Trump

Besides his financial interest in crypto Musk has stated he’s seeking to create an “everything app” that could be used for all financial transactions

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

"We voted for Trump because he will protect us from the elites"

LIKE FUCK HE WILL

Saturday the Trump-Musk regime shuttered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) The federal government is no longer protecting consumers of financial products. Trump-Musk ordered all work to stop at the CFPB

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

The economy is flatlining; public anger at her attacks on pensioners is palpable; only the terminally dumb still believe that more austerity will do the trick this time; and Starmer has plummeted to poorer poll ratings than Rishi Sunak’s nadir within seven months of coming to power!

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Reeves has painted herself into a corner by ruling out tax rises on the rich, and by refusing to boot Britain’s debilitating infestation of privatisation profiteers out of our essential infrastructure and public services.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Improving living standards for the majority is impossible without measures to prevent the obscene wealth-hoarding of the mega-rich.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Instead of the systemic reforms that are required to drive down housing costs, all Starmer is prepared to offer are inadequate house building targets; planning reforms aimed at making it much easier for developers to make profits;

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Greater general prosperity is a pipe dream without fundamental reform of Britain’s broken housing market. Even if wages rise, it counts for nothing if mortgage costs and exploitative private landlords are allowed to eat up all of people’s income gains and more.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

It’s very dumb to try to boost growth by impoverishing people. Mugging pensioners, maintaining Tory sanctions on families, and impoverishing disabled people simply won’t make the country richer. All it does is take money out of the economy. Money that will be spent straight back into the economy

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

14 years of economic stagnation is evidence enough that ideologically driven austerity cuts to public services and infrastructure investment deliver neither prosperity nor growth. Despite this, Reeves is inflicting another round of damaging across-the-board austerity cuts to "balance the books"

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

With her claims that focusing on growth will somehow magically deliver prosperity for all, Rachel Reeves is pushing the same old discredited theory of 'trickle down economics'.

It’s an unworkable theory and an impossible fantasy. It’s like she’s pledging to swim across the Atlantic Ocean

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Rachel Reeves is sinking like a stone

anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/rachel-ree...

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Agreed👍

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

miscarriage of justice watchdog

“We’re talking about human misery for people possibly wrongly convicted in prison. It can’t just be a joke show. It can’t be a circus. It’s got to be a properly functioning organisation, and it’s essential

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Former solicitor general says miscarriage of justice watchdog is ‘beyond a joke

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...

Former solicitor general says miscarriage of justice watchdog is ‘beyond a joke’

Exclusive: Lord Garnier’s comments come after allegations about the ‘absent leadership’ of the Criminal Cases Review Commission

www.theguardian.com

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Stupid starmer stated that he was modelling his assault on the democratic state on Margaret Thatcher’s deregulation of finance capital, whose eventual result, in 2007, was the first run on a British bank in 140 years, helping to trigger the global financial crisis.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Starmer says, is inspired by his “conversations with leading CEOs”, who complain that their schemes are impeded by citizens’ objections, legal challenges and the need for consultation with regulators. Welcome to capital’s age-old struggle with that infuriating concept, democracy

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Starmer said that regulators rather than focusing on risk (which is what they exist to do), their role should be to “deliver growth”. Deliberately echoing Trump’s language as he promised to assault the planning system, Starmer said he will “build, baby, build”

Starmer is a Tory fuckwit

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · Feb 11

Labour's war against public protections launched last month by Keir Starmer and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who variously described them – using ever more violent language – as “weeds” that needed to be “cleared out”, or barriers that should be “ripped up”, “torn down”

Starmer is a Tory

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