Bill Gibbon
@billgibbon.bsky.social
Ex teacher, adviser, HE tutor, Policy Adviser etc .. more fun being retired though.
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Fartrage & Tice say the minimum wage is “too high” – especially for youngsters. They want employers' NI contributions cut instead.
£1 in the pocket of the low-waged gets invested in the local economy. I don't know anyone on minimum wage who stashes their cash offshore to evade UK taxes. Do you?
£1 in the pocket of the low-waged gets invested in the local economy. I don't know anyone on minimum wage who stashes their cash offshore to evade UK taxes. Do you?
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Fartrage & Tice say the minimum wage is “too high” – especially for youngsters. They want employers' NI contributions cut instead.
£1 in the pocket of the low-waged gets invested in the local economy. I don't know anyone on minimum wage who stashes their cash offshore to evade UK taxes. Do you?
£1 in the pocket of the low-waged gets invested in the local economy. I don't know anyone on minimum wage who stashes their cash offshore to evade UK taxes. Do you?
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Please watch & share this footage of 2 lovely guys (faces clearly captured on CCTV) who just stole my bag from under my chair, bending it like Beckham in what is evidently their signature robbing move. Maybe it will be shared widely enough they don’t get to do it to anyone else. Stay safe out there.
December 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Please watch & share this footage of 2 lovely guys (faces clearly captured on CCTV) who just stole my bag from under my chair, bending it like Beckham in what is evidently their signature robbing move. Maybe it will be shared widely enough they don’t get to do it to anyone else. Stay safe out there.
Die Hard? Well, why not??
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Die Hard? Well, why not??
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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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Lifting 500k kids from poverty ✔️
Gambling Tax ✔️
Mansion Tax ✔️
Energy Bills down £150✔️
Min Wage up ✔️
Pensions up ✔️
Tourist Tax for local communities✔️
I’d say it was a bloody good budget myself.
Gambling Tax ✔️
Mansion Tax ✔️
Energy Bills down £150✔️
Min Wage up ✔️
Pensions up ✔️
Tourist Tax for local communities✔️
I’d say it was a bloody good budget myself.
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Lifting 500k kids from poverty ✔️
Gambling Tax ✔️
Mansion Tax ✔️
Energy Bills down £150✔️
Min Wage up ✔️
Pensions up ✔️
Tourist Tax for local communities✔️
I’d say it was a bloody good budget myself.
Gambling Tax ✔️
Mansion Tax ✔️
Energy Bills down £150✔️
Min Wage up ✔️
Pensions up ✔️
Tourist Tax for local communities✔️
I’d say it was a bloody good budget myself.
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Six months of total incompetence from @WeAreOpenreach on full fibre broadband.
12 houses in cul de sac, four different ISPs, permission to work given multiple times by all involved, including residents association for shared drive. 30 engineer visits. STILL NO DUCT!!
12 houses in cul de sac, four different ISPs, permission to work given multiple times by all involved, including residents association for shared drive. 30 engineer visits. STILL NO DUCT!!
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Six months of total incompetence from @WeAreOpenreach on full fibre broadband.
12 houses in cul de sac, four different ISPs, permission to work given multiple times by all involved, including residents association for shared drive. 30 engineer visits. STILL NO DUCT!!
12 houses in cul de sac, four different ISPs, permission to work given multiple times by all involved, including residents association for shared drive. 30 engineer visits. STILL NO DUCT!!
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My comedy creation “SLT Newbie” is getting extremely popular over on the Facebook. You really should check out her nonsense…
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My comedy creation “SLT Newbie” is getting extremely popular over on the Facebook. You really should check out her nonsense…
Someone from RAF Waddington had a lovely morning.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Someone from RAF Waddington had a lovely morning.
Yup .. “Harnessing Technology” programme, “Strategic Technologies Programme”, “Beyond Current Horizons programme” etc. all running from early noughties until kiboshed by Gove, and libdem Nick had a hand in that too ..
Gavin Williamson floundering on schools in the COVID Inquiry is unsuprising.
But Tory predecessors should share the blame for ignoring pandemics after some of us had helped plan for them!
That ‘Nobody could have seen this coming’ nonsense! – Parkin Space
But Tory predecessors should share the blame for ignoring pandemics after some of us had helped plan for them!
That ‘Nobody could have seen this coming’ nonsense! – Parkin Space
That ‘Nobody could have seen this coming’ nonsense!
Written in response to all those, “nobody could have seen this coming,” “online learning is showing it is poor at replacing real classroom teaching,” and, “isn’t…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Yup .. “Harnessing Technology” programme, “Strategic Technologies Programme”, “Beyond Current Horizons programme” etc. all running from early noughties until kiboshed by Gove, and libdem Nick had a hand in that too ..
RSA Newcastle Network Encounter tonight. Tyneside Cinema Bar/Cafe.
September 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
RSA Newcastle Network Encounter tonight. Tyneside Cinema Bar/Cafe.
Well indeed … www.gov.uk/government/n...
Government tackles postcode lottery of school technology
Every school to have reliable, safe tech in classrooms as government rolls out plans for the future of digital standards to ensure no child is left behind
www.gov.uk
September 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Well indeed … www.gov.uk/government/n...
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People cannot catch shingles from someone with chickenpox. But they can catch chickenpox from someone with shingles if they have not had chickenpox before.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#health
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#health
Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS
All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
People cannot catch shingles from someone with chickenpox. But they can catch chickenpox from someone with shingles if they have not had chickenpox before.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#health
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#health
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Would love the King to tell us today in his speech why he gets £132m a year for charging rent to Wind Turbines for worthless seabed.
The money comes straight from your energy bills, £3.30 each.
The money comes straight from your energy bills, £3.30 each.
August 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Would love the King to tell us today in his speech why he gets £132m a year for charging rent to Wind Turbines for worthless seabed.
The money comes straight from your energy bills, £3.30 each.
The money comes straight from your energy bills, £3.30 each.
Don't rush - but Morrisons have mince pies on sale already ...
August 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Don't rush - but Morrisons have mince pies on sale already ...
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Good luck everyone involved in Results Day. May the tears be mostly happy, and the unhappy ones turned around after a couple of phone calls.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Good luck everyone involved in Results Day. May the tears be mostly happy, and the unhappy ones turned around after a couple of phone calls.
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To quote an old line, the average IQ of both parties has gone up.
So Jake Berry joins Reform. There's a surprise. Unpleasant man joins unpleasant party.
July 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
To quote an old line, the average IQ of both parties has gone up.
Defining Culture Shock. A couple in their mid seventies walking down Dean Street in Newcastle on their way to a theatre on the Quayside. On a Saturday evening.
June 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Defining Culture Shock. A couple in their mid seventies walking down Dean Street in Newcastle on their way to a theatre on the Quayside. On a Saturday evening.
So there’s the first Xmas card catalogue in the inbox.
June 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
So there’s the first Xmas card catalogue in the inbox.
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We went to Blaydon Races, ’twas on the 9th of June, Eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on a summer’s afternoon…’. Happy 163rd anniversary of your anthem, Geordies!
June 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We went to Blaydon Races, ’twas on the 9th of June, Eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on a summer’s afternoon…’. Happy 163rd anniversary of your anthem, Geordies!
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It’s June, and that means many things, but one of them is also the release of a new tube map on the TfL website.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...
London's new tube map: Bond Street shuffles, step-free changes, and Cutty Sark closes
It’s June, and that means many things, but one of them is also the release of a new tube map on the TfL website.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It’s June, and that means many things, but one of them is also the release of a new tube map on the TfL website.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...
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Old fogey or what. At airport at 5am (yes!?) and the place is heaving with families and hordes of men drinking pints of beer. Noise is twice what we usually experience with a mid afternoon flight.
May 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Old fogey or what. At airport at 5am (yes!?) and the place is heaving with families and hordes of men drinking pints of beer. Noise is twice what we usually experience with a mid afternoon flight.
So I wonder how long it will take before we'll get the truth from Musk in revenge about how he the rigged the election ..
Trump has wiped Elon Musk’s name from Truth Social as GOP insiders admit he’s ‘finished, done, gone’
Trump wipes Elon Musk’s name from Truth Social as GOP insiders say he’s ‘finished’
President Donald Trump was posting about Musk on Truth Social an average of four times per week in February and March
www.independent.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
So I wonder how long it will take before we'll get the truth from Musk in revenge about how he the rigged the election ..