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Rex Sandbach

@rexs.bsky.social

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Retired company founder. Physicist & Passionate European. 40 years in international trade and high tech manufacturing.

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · Dec 4

Future us will look back and realise that the countries who figure out how to manage and use immigration for our benefit are the ones which did the best.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Dec 4

I've felt many things as a "pro-immigration fanatic". Anger at the hate, division and bs spread by likes of the Telegraph mainly, but never "humiliation". The evidence is clear, and global, people move, people have always moved, people will always move, and that is an overwhelmingly positive thing.

Pro-immigration fanatics are being humiliated
For years, the economic orthodoxy held that it was an unalloyed good. This edifice is now crumbling

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 1d

Thank bloody goodness.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking - PM WILL attend Cop climate summit in Brazil next month

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 1d

It's OK - I popped round yesterday and stocked up.

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that all cars appear to be left hand drive could also be just a teensy weensy bit suspect. Drivers might be handy, too.

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 3d

How long before the administration tries to block the import of such weapons of anarchy?

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

We have frogs everywhere. #NoKings

A photo of a person in a frog costume holding sings that read “You’re Fired” (alongside a drawing of Godzilla) at the No Tyrants protest in Tokyo, Japan.

A photo of over a dozen people standing on steps at the No Kings protest in Melbourne, Australia. There are multiple “NO KINGS” signs and a person in a frog costume is at the front of the protest.

A photo of over a dozen people at the No Tyrants protest in Barcelona, Spain. A person in a frog costume is holding a sign that reads “I STAND WITH OREGON/EL PUEBLO UNIDO/ABOLISH ICE/NO TYRANTS.”

A photo of dozens of people at the No Kings protest in Frankfurt, Germany. A person in a frog costume is shown walking alongside a person in a unicorn costume.

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 3d

What's 3 down - "snausages"?

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 4d

We were escorted to and from Molyneux by police - no stop at the pub!

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 4d

I was a student at Exeter uni in the 70s when Exeter City were drawn at home to Wolves - the whole stadium was trashed including breaking both cross bars. It was a terrifying experience.

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 4d

#explodey

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4d

There are reports that an ammunition depot was struck last night in Russian-occupied Donetsk.

Turn the sound on for some secondary detonation!

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 5d

Puh-leaze.

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 5d

They were much smaller back in the day.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 5d

Defibrillators save lives.

That’s why City Hall is investing £150,000 to support the London Ambulance Service in getting more of these life-saving devices into our communities. This funding will help ensure more Londoners get the urgent care they need, when they need it most.

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 5d

Duncan - as my physics teacher would say: Units of what?

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 5d

A functioning democracy would never allow individuals of such limited intellect into positions of authority. Society must be protected against such appalling ignorance.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 5d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 6d

They're clearly worried. Why do they keep mentioning it? It would be better for them to ignore it and hope that a docile press will only cover it in passing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

New in PN: The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

"Dismissal is probably the best result for the government, since it would spare the DOJ having its dirty laundry aired in court before getting spanked for having brought such a garbage case. But even so, it'd be very, very funny."

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 6d

My first vacation job was in a die casting factory. If we were more than 5 minutes late (aggregated over the whole week), we would lose 6p per hour for the whole week. It was the 70s, so my hourly rate was 71p.

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 6d

I was also born in that glorious year. My memory of the winter of 1961 was when our local substation exploded, presumably due to being overloaded.

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 6d

Why they aren't talking about the benefits of immigration is beyond me. Demographics and climate change will ultimately get us unless we are brave enough to talk about them in a grown-up way.

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 6d

Investment in productive activity is incentivised by increases in the cost of labour. Output should increase with little or no increase in employment. The increase in employer NI was a smart move IMO.

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Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 7d

Even if it's a long shot, I'd rather he went sooner than later.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Eric Trump: "If he wasn't heaven-bound, he wouldn't have been alive after Butler. If he wasn't heaven-bound, that flag wouldn't have folded up like a perfect angel right above his head. If he wasn't heaven-bound, if he wasn't meant for this purpose, he wouldn't have beaten Hillary."

Rex Sandbach @rexs.bsky.social · 7d

Nice ear.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie