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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 17h

I could climb to the top because I weighed nothing but swinging back and forth was more fun.

A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 18h

The RW in the UK atm:

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 21h

Badenoch accuses Reform, Lib Dems and Corby of magic money tree politics.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 21h

This is an idiotic idea from the Tories. Abolishing stamp duty almost certainly leads to an offsetting increase in house prices.

Doesn't make housing more affordable and flows straight to homeowners.

Badenoch says next Tory government will abolish stamp duty
Badenoch says, because of all the savings she has promised, she can afford one more announcement.

As the Conservative party, we know who our people are. They are people who work hard, they are the people who plauy hard, they are the people who understand the importance of putting down roots.

They are the people who make sacrifices today for a better life.

They are also people who want to own their own home, she says.

But there is a barrier – the tax you have to pay – stamp duty, she says.

Stamp duty is a bad tax, she says, an un-conservative tax.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 1d

My total experience is a 16 hour layover in Dubai on my way to Bishkek. Since it wasn't tourist season it was extremely boring.

Some of the other Gulf states have interesting tourist sites. But people I know who go are instead going to hang out in the holiday equivalent of shopping malls.

A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 1d

Come on Bob, we all know you don't have friends.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick: You asking me questions about my racist policies causes terrorism. Me attacking and naming judges in the media doesn't.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 2d

I watched as a teenager. My memory is that it was a lot more hit and miss after Angus Deayton got fired and that was over 20 years ago.

However maybe nostalgia and the fact there was a lot less choice of what to watch that makes me look back on the early series fondly.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 2d

I'm Britian and so is my wife.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

People would have signed this off.

Others will have been shown the product.

Further individuals will have put them in the goodie bags.

How on Earth did nobody spot it?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

www.theguardian.com

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 2d

Tory pitch to immigrants: come to the UK to do work the country needs. Once you retire we'll boot you out without a pension.

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 5d

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 5d

Fascist kitsch.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 6d

The economic policy is more left-wing. They're willing to raise taxes and spend money. But the social policies are fairly rightwing.

No idea who the Tory-lite social policies are supposed to impress.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 7d

This is too generous to Matty.

A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 7d

Matt Yglesias drifting across my timeline because he's taken a break from bad US politics commentary to offer bad UK politics commentary.

A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 7d

Someone needs to blow his mind by pointing out that migrants from the Commonwealth may also have parents/grandparents who fought for the Allies.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 8d

"Almost every day during the hunting season you see at least one item in the newspapers about somebody who has shot somebody else, under the impression that he was ... a deer with a red hat perhaps? Maybe a large flesh-colored squirrel."

Tom Lehrer

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 8d

The military is supposed to disobey illegal orders. They've very recently, obviously failed that test. That's not a great sign.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 8d

The US Navy has shown it is willing to break the law to periodically blow up civilians in the Caribbean. So really how sure is anyone that enough of the military won't go along with repressing internal dissent?

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 8d

Time to update the ending of Animal House. Tyrns out Niedermeyer didn't get fragged, he became the drunk in charge of the DoD.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think Labour's policy agenda is a winning one, but combining some quite traditional leftwing economics with, essentially, not being willing to talk about how you are leftwing feels like the worst *possible* way to govern and campaign:

Memo for Labour: globalisation is good, actually

This government is in many ways the party returned to its factory settings. But the product was faulty in the first place

www.ft.com

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 8d

fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck OFF with this bullshit

chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 8d

Krishnan Guru Murthy: "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country." #Labour

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8d

Shabana Mahmood: Farage has “blown a very loud dog whistle to every racist in the country.”

Reform UK plan to scrap settled status is cruel, and needs to be called out.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/shabana-mahmood-calls-nigel-farage-worse-than-racist-over-dog-whistle-politics

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 9d

Lol

Haynau faced similar treatment in Brussels, where he was reproached for the whipping of women. In Paris, the government had to do everything to ensure his safety, as the Parisians organized in groups to search for him upon learning that Haynau was in the city.

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A man for all seasons landscaping @bexleylister.bsky.social · 11d

Can confirm. Was sat next to a couple of Kiwis and they were cheering Canada.

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