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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 12m

As my Bluesky search facility doesn't appear to be working I can't discover if others are sharing the same experience.

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 2h

Surprised Badenoch didn't promise a night out for blokes of a certain age with a member of your choice from Bananarama.
Everything else was directed at the comfortably off property owning pensioner.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 2h

What Badenoch doesn't understand is that many so called rip off degrees are proudly displayed on the mantelpieces of parents and grandparents who were denied the opportunity to enjoy HE.
It's known as aspiration.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 2h

I'm surprised Badenoch hasn't promised to scrap degrees in Modern History. She hopes people will forget May 2010 to July 2024.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

If Badenoch gets her way, the next generation will think a non sequitur is a broken pruning tool.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

From May 2010 to July 2024 the Tories were in government.
Badenoch seems unaware.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

Badenoch is good at identifying the problems the Tories created.
Not so good at coming up with solution.
#CPC25

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting. I did a degree in Civil Engineering but decided it wasn't for me. Researching road safety statistics led to teaching A Levels.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

Kemi Badenoch appears to be married to an Andy Burnham tribute act.
@skynewsrss.bsky.social

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

The ability to communicate and appreciate this country's rich cultural heritage is SO useless and overrated.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 4h

Think the owners of Scaffolding of North Yorkshire will shortly be getting a letter from a Japanese multinational electronic company about their branding.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 5h

I assume the plan is to drop a few of these on protesters and use the others to block the road.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 7h

The only buzz that's coming from #CPC25 is the faulty air conditioning.
The conference has all the atmosphere of a support group for owners of recently deceased puppies.
Badenoch, not for the first time, is bullshitting.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 7h

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 8h

The news that the greatest American is unwell is not the best start to the day.
#DollyParton

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 8h

Come again?

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 20h

Jenrick would have backed the England fans who couldn't understand why Viv Anderson was preferred to Phil Neal.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 20h

This is a reminder of one of the great historic injustices of puppetry.
Why was Ramsbottom the Snake so criminally underused by Harry Corbett? He was Corbett's finest creation.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 20h

She hasn't the with or speed of thought to answer. How about
"I admire his ability to attract the attention of hacks like you, Beth, but what he says is horseshite"

Sky News @news.sky.com · 21h

Kemi Badenoch repeatedly refuses to say whether she admires Nigel Farage

Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly refused to say whether she admires Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

news.sky.com

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

Don't know. One Nation Tories, unlike centrist Labour MPs, lack ruthlessness.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

"Well, Wiggy. What do you want to eat and drink? A bit of brown bread and butter with a bottle of bitter beer or shandy?"
"Shandy"

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

One Nation Tories are going the way of petrol pump attendants and bus conductors.
Street is one of very few Tories whose natural home isn't Reform.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

#Newsnight

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

Credit to my granddaughter's Primary School in an almost exclusively white rural village.
The children's education includes visits to a nearby Mosque and Synagogue.
Respecting differences and celebrating other cultures is the way forward, not a crass face count.
Jenrick is a racist.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

Uh? Questions from journalists are the reason for terrorists attacks?
Jenrick is deranged.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

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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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm not playing until I get a car that's powered by diesel or 5 star leaded petrol"

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