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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

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Just another Dick with an opinion. Author, journalist, 9th baronet, #Humanist, #Unitarian, Twitter refugee.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · Nov 15

I didn't switch to Bluesky because I want to avoid right wing people with different opinions. I mainly want to get away from constant weird adverts, abusive comments, and a perverted algorithm that amplifies misinformation and hate speech.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 18m

Precisely. The police and CPS have been spectacularly weak here.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 20m

Fuck em. The next general election isn't until 2029. Starmer could do what he likes with that massive majority, he's just too weak and spineless. He has all that power and has done nothing positive with it.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 42m

Knowing I'm on a strict diet, my husband has left a pack of pains au chocolat on the kitchen table.

Is he testing my resolve? Or saying it's ok if I eat them?😎

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

Macron should resign. He doesn't even lead the largest party in parliament.

Tho he might wish to change France's stupid presidential voting system first, even though it's better than the US system.
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Macron reappoints Lecornu as French PM after days of turmoil

Sébastien Lecornu resigned on Monday after 26 days in the job and he said two days later his

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

That would absolutely destroy the basis of British entrepreneurism, which is fragile as it is. Limited liability is meant to allow companies to innovate and fail. It's not meant to protect fraudsters like in this case.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

I believe the technical term is "hamster in a wheel"

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

We joined the Common Market in the 70s without a referendum. The referendum was held 2.5 years later, to confirm.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

Starmer only wants to mention Brexit now that he's losing grip on power and absolutely desperate? What a weak and pathetic little man he is.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 1h

The same lobbying company which paid for the private briefing event on Starmer's speech before the Labour conference, which gave "feedback" to the PM on the contents of his speech.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 18h

Actually the Equalities Act was quite sloppily written, with wording that was open to interpretation. That's why the SC came to the judgement they did. It's the government's responsiblity to tighten the law to protect trans rights. For some gods unknown reason, they won't.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 18h

If you read the Supreme Court judgement they deliberately made it apply very narrowly. It's Starmer's government who have allowed the EHRC and other organisations to apply it widely. Starmer could've clarified, or proposed better guidance, or updated the law. He didn't. This is all his fault.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

I bet there were. With used £50s in, no doubt😎

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

I agree, it's shit. And of course men can lie to trick women into bed for all kinds of reasons and not face any legal penalties. Sending her to prison is completely wrong.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 19h

Presumably it will be something in your Gov.uk app. I'm not against it, but he's made such a mess of the announcement now I suspect it will never happen. There are very good reasons to introduce it, but immigration is not one of them.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 20h

The legal justification is that she misled him and that denied his consent. But does that warrant prison? Given that a man who claims to be a wealthy businessman to get a woman into bed doesn't? It's completely out of proportion.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 21h

They mean sex assigned at birth, ie your genes which are immutable, as opposed to your identity as a man or a woman.

Of course having 'biologically male' XY genes doesn't mean you aren't a woman, having XX 'female' genes doesn't make you not a man.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 21h

I don't make the law, I'm just clarifying the law as it stands in this case.

As I said: no, you don't have to disclose being trans. But she told him they couldn't have vaginal intercourse because she was on her period. That was judged to be active deception, and therefore negated his consent.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 21h

You're right, the law says you don't have to disclose you're trans to have consensual sex with someone.

But if you actively lie about your sex and set out to deceive (as she did in this case), that negates their informed consent. We might disagree but that's the law as it stands.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 21h

And Donny T wants it for his struggle to achieve a violent transition from democracy to dictatorship.

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 22h

Looking back at the history of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, they're actually very rarely people who have actually achieved peace. They're mainly symbolic, encourage and reward a good effort. A cynic might call it the ultimate in virtue-signalling.
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List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - Wikipedia

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 22h

Too right. Women with a masters degree should keep quiet eh?

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 22h

"We need to science the shit out of this conspiracy theory!"

Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 22h

I'm delighted a tyrant who supplied weapons for Israel's genocide, put troops in his own cities, and disappeared people off the streets, isn't getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

But Machado is an odd choice. She's a great example of courage, but hasn't achieved any peace?
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Trump doesn’t get Nobel Peace Prize; María Corina Machado awarded

President Trump failed in his bid to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, with the Norwegian Nobel committee announcing Friday that María Corina Machado was given this year’s award for promoting democ…

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 22h

She def said tenterhooks imo.