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Simon Edmonds

@sjsedmonds.bsky.social

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Full time carer. Retired ex Govt, Innovation, R&D, Industrial Policy, views all mine. Live in Dorset, happy place is Lohr am Main, Lower Franconia, rejoin EU. Bake sourdough. Walk a lot. Drink nice coffee. Garden a bit. Rescues plants. Grows veg.

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 21d

I wasn’t able to complete the Jurassic Trek for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social due a postponement but I have deferred to June 2026. I’m hoping for great weather to raise more funds for this charity that is so important to carers and patients alike. Roll on 2026 😎
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Simon's fundraiser for Alzheimer's Society

Help Simon Edmonds raise money to support Alzheimer's Society

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 1h

This👇

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11h

The most frustrating thing about this war is that the US could step in forcefully now with harsh sanctions against Russia and a large military package for Ukraine with ranged weapons as the centrepiece, and the war would end soon with a Russian defeat.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

Who would have guessed

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Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 11h

Why doesn't Trump send his National Guard and ICEmen across to the front line in Ukraine and help them out there. I'm pretty sure Portland and Chicago will wait !

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13h

Wander round Mumbai these days and you’ll hardly see a brown face.

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 13h

He needs to make us SpAds 🤣🤣🤣

Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 13h

The civil service trying to work out what the coalition partners could be and what the agreement might be will be very messy, was messy enough in 2010 !!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 14h

Mel Stride is totally unconvincing on fiscal competence, he really can’t have been paying attention when Fin Sec at Treasury.
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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 14h

So only the Green Party wants to rejoin EU then, everyone else running scared.
But they also want to leave NATO 🤷‍♂️

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 14h

Are you not posting because you’re recovering from those prices!

Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 14h

Heavens I remember that awful dial up noise when you had to actually connect to the email system !!

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The Sound of dial-up Internet

YouTube video by William Termini

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently Nigel Farage, in a pub in Clacton, was heard to say Kemi’s got a plan he can finally get behind.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21h

Oh and they're going to abolish stamp duty and business rates for high streets and triple stop and search....

I reckon we're well over £20 billion of committments here.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 15h

That. Looks. Great.
There should be an emoji for a Negroni.

Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 15h

Despite Labour are already reducing to way below Brexit levels and will have swallowed that cost saving.

Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 15h

When he gets to threatening the Republicans with jail for not approving him for a third term despite that thing called the Constitution

Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 15h

Having worked with him I’d definitely take him over any Minister in the May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak Cabinets - any of them !

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Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 17h

Just had my first “Servus” still can’t get used to that term ! 😎

Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 1d

I respectfully submit this as the Dorset daftest headline of the day.
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Sandbanks Volleyball Club struggles with fumes from nearby sauna

Mark Fry says playing near the sauna is like

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Heseltine, "I wouldn't touch Nigel Farage"

"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"

"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"

"It's all the same stuff"

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant, intelligent and rightly furious rant.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

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I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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