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Then you will agree that this was the headline of the news story:

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The leading headline was this:

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The most relevant headline about the result is that Labour came top and the Greens second. And guess what? That is exactly what the BBC live feed leads with. Can I suggest you check out whether things you read on Bluesky are actually true before you start defending them?

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Indeed. That is what the BBC's headline at the top of the live feed is about. Labour and the Greens.

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In the Live feed, the winner is mentioned first, on page 1 (see below). That is followed by several pages of other facts and stats about various candidates' performances, and including the one you don't like, which is on page 3. It is a truly odd thing to object to if you don't mind my saying.

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In this one, are the BBC favouring the BBC or the Greens or both? Or are they just giving you a fact?

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And I suppose this is the BBC favouring Labour?

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The last words of Pitt the Younger were even cooler.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It isn't pragmatic. It's offensive. Supposing I appended a row to that graphic using the flag of the League of Arab States, to reference the colonisation by Arabic dynasties of other lands including Spain and Persia? That would just be "pragmatic" and not at all offensive in your view, I presume.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No. Not even the obsessive @bladeofthes.bsky.social managed to get Israel into his OP.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a stupid, selfish thing to do. Destroying schools is really upsetting for communities and destructive to children's education. Utter madness.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It isn't going well, is it?

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Conference specifically voted down this amendment. It made its racism clear to the oublic when it did so.

B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After £125k the tax rate then goes down. The 60% tax trap between £100k and £125k is an anomaly that does deserve to be smoothed out. The cliff-edge loss of child care allowance at £100k is another undesirable feature of the tax thresholds.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not quite. After £100k you lose £1 of personal allowance for every £2 above £100k. Eg the tax take on the portion of salary from £100k to £110k would be 60%.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

However, to overcome the "my vote doesn't count" fallacy, these bigger constituencies would have to be pretty big. If you look at a current parliamentary party map, parties tend to cluster in contiguous locations.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No source for your table but on replacement rate, this is from the OECD.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have two thirds of them closed?

B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a good definition.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the measure of replacement rate, the UK is about middling. Replacement rate is the %age of your earnings when in work you are likely to have as total income in retirement. Not the best but not the shittiest. Source: OECD

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The post you are quoting is from an account that is notorious for lying.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here ends the free advert for food giant Danone (owners of the Évian brand).

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lie is always worth saying on the 18th of every month.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The @bladeofthes.bsky.social account doesn't like facts. He likes obssessions.

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Your document contradicts the ranking you wrote in your own OP. This document says the UK is not at the bottom at all. It is above Poland, for example, which your own made-up ranking put *below* the UK.

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If you look at how the UK ranks in terms of income in retirement as a proportion of income in the working life that preceded retirement, ie the replacement rate, the UK comes in neither high nor low: it is average. Average is not, however, bottom, as the unattributed OP implied. OECD:

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I am indeed wrong. It is about 1 in 8. www.independentage.org/policy-and-r...

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Not sure if there are any particular deductions you would make?

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You might be looking at the past through rose-tinted spectacles. The pension for a man was 26s a week in 1946. That's £1.30 in decimal, which is just £48 per week in today's money. And no, it didn't get significantly better in the next couple of decades. It was means-tested too (see footnote).

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Under the Triple Lock, pensions have risen faster than inflation.

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Why waste a good lie by saying it only once, when you can say it once a month?

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It hardly sounds like a ringing vote of confidence in AI.

B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I doubt his summit will make any difference to anything but his sentiments are ones we all applaud.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A pensioner being taxed at the basic rate for a £200 pa Winter Fuel Allowance would pay an additional £3.33 a month. It would not be £33 a month.

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B O'Brien @bobrien.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Unevidenced conspiracy theory rubbish, as usual, from you.