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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 4h

If that were true for everyone, you would have a point. Unfortunately, those with a need for medical intervention are funded, and those with e.g. alzheimers are not, necessitating the home sale. How is that reasonable or fair?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 4h

I have yet to come across a single example where reducing 'red tape' (i.e., regulations, oversight, or legal constraints) has improved anything for the end user. I would love to be proved wrong.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 9h

It's a bit pointless since I drive an EV. When is Google Maps gonna tell me charging price info (it is already available elsewhere)?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 9h

When you are rich, where you live isn't necessarily the same as where you spend lots of time. This is a good example.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 13h

Agreed, but it remains the choice of the Tories to go there, rather than highlighting the lack of policies by Reform in almost every area but immigration and crypto, & putting forward their own proposals. I'm not voting for Parties with no manifesto & I suspect I'm not alone.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 13h

I think the future provision of publicly funded care homes, making most private ones financially unsustainable, would be a fitting way to address the issue.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 13h

It's a distraction from the Tories' lack of costed policies & their continued unfitness for office.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In memory of the Lone Ranger, could you not have asked (rhetorically) 'Who were those masked men'?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think we are moving into Trump/Truss/Johnson territory here. Just because KB says something, it doesn't mean it is important, relevant, accurate or even true. As with Trump & the others, the media needs to only report stuff we need to know, not the clickbait & barking mad stuff as well.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Majority decisions? Less than 200 people voted on the Zionism proposal, so a majority of 40 out of 200 is not a majority in a mass-membership organisation! It may be a majority of those voting, but it cannot be described as a majority decision, Harry.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There seems a very good case for a) the compulsory regulation & registration of all claims management companies, & b) the investigation of profiteering and collusion within the insurance industry between insurers and unregulated middlemen. Another case for Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every other political Party in Luton (not Reform Ltd obvs) should be saving this to remind voters what this character thinks & how well he knows his area, come future elections. As a great man once said: 'Twat!

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Frankly, they could campaign on abolishing gravity in London, free unicorns for the self-employed and giving the power of flight to Party Members, and it wouldn't matter. Unless the UK starts mainlining hallucinogenics, they are not going to form a government in the near or distant future.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whether he believes it or not, it simply isn't true. The police say it isn't true; local Christian groups say it isn't true; local Muslim groups say it isn't true. The headline should be 'Tory Shadow Minister tells racist lie'.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'serious savings on welfare' is another way of saying 'making the lives of the worst off deliberately worse'. Welfare should be the last area any decent country should consider cutting.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I also remember the 'Scunthorpe Paradox'. I also got a warning from Personnel after accessing the Children's Express website (children and sex in the title). Ah, how we laughed!

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The family will be devastated. Presumably she has now spent enough additional time with them?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Any chance of a link for pre-orders (or just to bookmark)? Need any more proofreaders? 😜

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If ICE can legally arrest her, surely the USA needs to change its laws/system so that asylum applicants can't be arrested whilst compliant? This seems to happen so often on my feed; it's been 2 years, why hasn't a law change been proposed?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Classic old-school Conservatives were privately educated white men. I'm quite surprised* that a classic old-school Conservative doesn't know that. *not surprised by anything Badenoch does any more.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Too confusing with Caesar, which is Trumpys title.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does that mean he has to look after the old shitty stuff? The new stuff is apparently called SI now. Which is good news for my friend Alan, who gets his nickname back, but pisses off Simon, who now loses his!

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Christianity angle makes me smile wryly. Jesus, apart from the religious angle, was a) a foreigner, b) didn't work and relied on the charity of ordinary people and c) hated violence. Everything Danno Tommo, Tommo Robbo Yaxo-Lenno, Nigeo Farro et al. profess to hate.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Unsurprisingly, she blocked me. I'm devastated.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Your experience of 40+ years ago is unlikely to be relevant today.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So the VP has admitted to doing the thing that the President used as an excuse to ban CNN. Will Vance no longer be allowed in Air Farce One either, for making up stuff?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I suspect it was coffee without biscuits, or even an interview without coffee!

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's going so well in the USA at present, isn't it?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Earning a fortune is not the same as working harder. Most people on minimum wage work significantly harder than most MPs, yet Badenoch spends her time demonising them.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She has never believed it and still doesn't. So why the fuck has she bothered to post something she has never believed it and still doesn't? Presumably for clicks, as it certainly isn't to answer questions, given her total disbelief.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He is making quite a bit of money out of his 'idiocy'. Like Yaxley Lennon, he has discovered that racism pays well in some circles.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Comparing this with similar stories about the leadership of Corbyn, Starmer, and now Burnham helps (for me) highlight the difference in the treatment of the political Right and Left by most media, including the Guardian.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's not an opinion, it's a computer programme. It doesn't have an opinion, because it's a computer programme. Its output isn't relevant because it's a computer programme.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Isn't it past time when people assaulting staff can be banned as passengers/service users/customers? Even the NHS could set up clinics for those with life-threatening need, who have assaulted staff in the past, with additional security? The technology exists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

‘The violence is off the scale’: staff and passengers at risk as assaults on UK trains soar to record high

Cases of abuse, spitting, head-butting and sexual harassment, have spiked as transport police numbers have dwindled

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe all those enormous basements will flood. How awful! /s

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Please read and repost. Bees are so important.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

14 water companies pay chief executives and chief financial officers a total of 25 million pounds a year. Given the completely awful job they have been doing since privatisation, that's a substantial pot to begin with.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Presumably, the cost of providing free childcare to people earning <£1000/day will be met by taking money from people on benefits? Party conferences are often useful to find out who most people are likely to vote for. It would seem the Tories are aiming for the rich, & the stupid who dislike £arage.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Surely, given that they can refer up to Crown Court for sentencing (if a custodial sentence is warranted), that shouldn't be an obstacle?

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I stopped reading after 'he thinks', because clearly he doesn't - unless someone gives him money to.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another man who doesn't recognise when someone thinks they are an arsehole but tries to politely end the conversation. Fuck off Steve, go patronise someone else.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Somebody who tells fibs about A.I. Alternatively, someone who thinks A.I. thinks and that one can have a conversation with it.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't be silly. If he'd been brown, Pochin would have wanted him shot!

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