"Interesting … where were you measured for this, bud?"
"My tailor. Savile Row."
"That’s so? Mine’s a guy in Washington."
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Feb 10 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Rachel Reeves has reduced Labour's economic policy down to paying off a bit of the Government's 'mortgage' whilst at the same time, restraining the purchasing power of consumers and encouraging British based businesses and entrepreneurs to look elsewhere to start and expand.
If the Tories don't bequeath Labour a recession, Rachel Reeves seems to be hellbent on creating the conditions for one as the price of goods imported from within the Single Market rise due to the UK belatedly increasing its customs and border checks to match those of the EU.
Dec 3, 2023 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Labour Party's split from top to bottom over the issue of women with penises and their legal right of access to single sex spaces for biological women.
If the issue ever flares up out in the open then who knows where it will end.
Our male dominated polity says otherwise.
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There are now transwomen who, due to possession of a valid Gender Recognition Certificate have a legal access all areas pass to single sex spaces for biological women.
A right awarded to them in 2004 by this man.
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May 8, 2021 • 52 tweets • 12 min read
Labour Party may be charged with taking its traditional working class support for granted whilst pandering to urban youth, a minority of whom, admittedly, were at least born into the working class. Labour went into #GE2017 pledged to scrap universal university tuition fees ...
... on its first day in office and with a perceived intent to, at some point, write off outstanding student debt, incurred to pay for tuition fees. Only a minority of 18 to 21 year olds go to university, a disproportionate number of them are drawn from the middle and upper class.
May 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#VoteConservative means for many never having to worry about the cost of home furnishings in their old age ...
When one joins the Civil Service, one enters the membership of a club.
A club with traditions, good and bad, going back centuries.
Its past members include Sir Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell and Samuel Pepys.
Truly one stands on the shoulders of giants.
And it is a club one never leaves, even on exiting the employment of the Civil Service.
The code of omerta still very much applies, even in retirement.
GOD these days, in that other place, those Elysian Fields, sets us a good example.
Apr 16, 2021 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Having read the Blueprint for Children’s Social Care John Seddon wrote the following letter to people listed as interviewees. Tis relevant to note that every reply John received stated clearly interviewee did not concur with the report’s recommendations.
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"I’m writing to you because you were listed as an interviewee in A Blueprint for Children’s Social Care: Unlocking the potential of social work. Your listing as interviewee suggests you might concur with the report’s recommendations, but I am aware some of the interviewees don't.
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