Chris Puttick
@putt1ck.bsky.social
Audiophile, biker, dog-owner, entrepreneur -
just messing with stuff.
just messing with stuff.
⚠️Reform UK taking in some of the worst Tories.
Check out Best for Britain’s new Tory to Reform UK tracker. www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
Check out Best for Britain’s new Tory to Reform UK tracker. www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
Tory to Reform UK Defection Tracker
Reform UK are presenting themselves as an insurgent political party, yet their adoption of former Conservatives shows they are nothing more than the 'Tories in disguise'.
www.bestforbritain.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:55 PM
⚠️Reform UK taking in some of the worst Tories.
Check out Best for Britain’s new Tory to Reform UK tracker. www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
Check out Best for Britain’s new Tory to Reform UK tracker. www.bestforbritain.org/tory_reformuk_defection_tracker
Quarrel? Honey Ryder? Kerim Bey?
September 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Quarrel? Honey Ryder? Kerim Bey?
Hard to empathise with someone from a different era? Someone with PTSD?
The racism issue is interesting. I mean against whom? Russians?
The racism issue is interesting. I mean against whom? Russians?
September 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Hard to empathise with someone from a different era? Someone with PTSD?
The racism issue is interesting. I mean against whom? Russians?
The racism issue is interesting. I mean against whom? Russians?
Examples of leftwing governments banning things? Enforcing their own preferences over others, and against evidence? Is that a serious question?
September 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Examples of leftwing governments banning things? Enforcing their own preferences over others, and against evidence? Is that a serious question?
No idea. No idea. And probably not.
September 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
No idea. No idea. And probably not.
The books might help.
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The books might help.
Certainly Labour shifted right to get elected and seems firmly committed to continuing that movement, at least when it comes to asylum seekers and immigration. But the left are equally prone to reaching for the authoritarian stick.
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Certainly Labour shifted right to get elected and seems firmly committed to continuing that movement, at least when it comes to asylum seekers and immigration. But the left are equally prone to reaching for the authoritarian stick.
I think it's the political class as such, though liberals (true, rather than e.g. US insult version) specifically try to avoid it, even though as liberals we're very sure that the world would be better off if it was more liberal.
September 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I think it's the political class as such, though liberals (true, rather than e.g. US insult version) specifically try to avoid it, even though as liberals we're very sure that the world would be better off if it was more liberal.
For people in Oxford it's not bad, though views would differ depending where you are. Oxfordshire though, bus service is city-centric. The council mandated a connection one. This means despite so many efforts to make car journeys longer it still takes longer on the bus. Working people are time poor.
September 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
For people in Oxford it's not bad, though views would differ depending where you are. Oxfordshire though, bus service is city-centric. The council mandated a connection one. This means despite so many efforts to make car journeys longer it still takes longer on the bus. Working people are time poor.
Oxford is a case in point. Basically the only provider of a number of Oxfordshire health services is Oxford JR. Oxfordshire meanwhile is a long rural county. Driving is the only practical option for most people, patients and staff alike.
August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oxford is a case in point. Basically the only provider of a number of Oxfordshire health services is Oxford JR. Oxfordshire meanwhile is a long rural county. Driving is the only practical option for most people, patients and staff alike.
Back in old microblogging platform days, my pinned tweet was "Politics isn't a line. It's a circle with a dirty authoritarian bottom". Left and right politicians both end up there because they are convinced that "if people lived like I think they should it would be better"
August 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Back in old microblogging platform days, my pinned tweet was "Politics isn't a line. It's a circle with a dirty authoritarian bottom". Left and right politicians both end up there because they are convinced that "if people lived like I think they should it would be better"
This in Oxford JR, which has the stupidest ratio of parking spaces to hospital capacity ever seen; the parking pass allowed use of staff car parks as well as visitors, which meant you could get a space in "as little as" 30 minutes after arrival...
August 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This in Oxford JR, which has the stupidest ratio of parking spaces to hospital capacity ever seen; the parking pass allowed use of staff car parks as well as visitors, which meant you could get a space in "as little as" 30 minutes after arrival...
I think it should be free if you're visiting the hospital for health reasons, like when you have to get a ticket from the checkout at the supermarket. And charged for visitors except in special circumstances (when our son was in critical care after being born, we got a parking pass so I could visit)
August 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I think it should be free if you're visiting the hospital for health reasons, like when you have to get a ticket from the checkout at the supermarket. And charged for visitors except in special circumstances (when our son was in critical care after being born, we got a parking pass so I could visit)
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Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation".
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy
Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy
Deputy leader says archbishop should stay out of matter after Stephen Cottrell calls policy isolationist and kneejerk
Reform UK has engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all asylum seekers who arrive in small boats, after the church’s most senior bishop called the proposal “isolationist, short-term [and] kneejerk”.
Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, hit back against the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on Sunday, accusing him of interfering in domestic politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation".
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
He's referencing a global elite plan where the Australian government are being funded by the UK. And Soros.
August 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
He's referencing a global elite plan where the Australian government are being funded by the UK. And Soros.
Vintage Red Leicester is sooooo much nicer than the stuff my mum used to buy
August 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Vintage Red Leicester is sooooo much nicer than the stuff my mum used to buy
You'd think she could be looking into the Epstein papers and whether Trump is suppressing them.
August 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
You'd think she could be looking into the Epstein papers and whether Trump is suppressing them.
Also when you ran out of tracing paper you could just go grab some toilet rolls
August 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Also when you ran out of tracing paper you could just go grab some toilet rolls
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You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
August 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
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Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported
August 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported
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As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
August 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
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Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
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Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
"We should say at the outset what this appeal hearing is not about: it is not concerned with the merits of Government policy in relation to the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers, in hotels or otherwise."
(The "not" is underlined in the original)
(The "not" is underlined in the original)
August 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.