Reposted by Chris AdamsThe Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial] @mirror.co.uk.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026mirror.co.ukTory economy plans compared to 'arsonist running a fire service'Kemi Badenoch's party has been ridiculed after pledging to abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency, as well as end net zero regulations to help build houses 011
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No. Badenoch is clueless. Can’t look beyond worn out old tropes and doing what will keep the editor of the Daily Telegraph happy. Any suggestion that she’s anywhere near Burnham’s ability or level is for the birds. 000
Reposted by Chris AdamsNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#ClimateEmergency #AMOC “It is irresponsible to wait for absolute certainty before preparing." Yes www.politico.eu/article/clim...politico.euA climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale. 48632
Reposted by Chris AdamsPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The head of Jewish Greens has said she might quit the party, amid growing anger among some members at Zack Polanski for his inaction over the party’s policy motion equating Zionism with racism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comHead of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ voteVivien Lichtenstein says she believes motion is unhelpful as anger grows over Zack Polanski’s absence for vote 3014332
Reposted by Chris AdamsDMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Zvyagintsev returns to filmmaking with a tale of Russian alienation, seeking to tie family dysfunction with compulsory military conscription Grand Prix winner at Cannes shows at the 70th BFI London Film Festival: dmovies.org/2026/05/20/m...dmovies.orgMinotaur - DMoviesGRAND PRIX WINNER AT CANNES: Zvyagintsev returns to filmmaking with a tale of Russian alienation, seeking to tie family dysfunction with compulsory military conscription - from the 70th BFI London Fil... 1104
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@quietriotpod.bsky.social I’ve just listened to Friday’s episode looking at Burnham’s Nation Care Service proposal and Triple Lock reform and wanted to come on here to sing its praises, but I can’t say it better than Georgie has below, so I’ll just say thank you for a truly wonderful episode. 0154
Reposted by Chris Adamsgeorgie-momo.bsky.social @georgie-momo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Everytime you think they can't get any better another episode comes out and blows your mind! Beautifully personal and wonderfully patient when explaining a issue that people are determined to present as a full dismantling instead of the readjustment that it actually is. 2207
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The average pensioner isn’t in poverty and Burnham isn’t scrapping the triple lock, he’s tweaking it. You’re just talking complete bollocks. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Because we have ever growing numbers retiring earlier and living longer, who own their own homes outright and don’t have the costs working age people paying mortgages rent snd childcare do. There’s also fewer working age people who are having fewer children mainly due to costs. It’s unsustainable. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Says the guy who came for me first. Have a nice day. Bye. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No shit! My response was a joke. You know, those things for people that have a sense of humour. Now be a good egg and kindly fuck off. Ta! 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That’s not my argument but I agree workers have been massively underpaid for too long. Hopefully, we’ll see wages increase, pension payments increase and some fight against corporate greed and the erosion of workers’ rights. That said, I still think the TL was flawed and this new version is better. 010
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And I wonder who you’re accusing of being a “middle class centrist”. Your language is very telling. 🙄 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks, pickle. Glad the Esperanto lessons are keeping you busy. 101
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It is if it fixes a flaw in a system and also gives you money to help others in need too. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m sorry, what?static.klipy.comDrew Scanlon Blinking Eyes Meme ReactionALT: Drew Scanlon Blinking Eyes Meme Reaction 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I agree but the old triple lock was not the answer to that problem. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These employers need state support then to pay fair wages or the employees need state support to make up the shortfall between what employer can afford to pay them and what’s fair. I’m all for that. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But it’s gone ahead of wage growth and was exponentially accelerating ahead further. Wages and pensions need to go up but pension increases shouldn’t exponentially keep getting greater and greater than wage increases, as they were under the old TL. All that’s changed is they’ve stopped this ratchet. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s not linked solely to wage increases. Do some research before you talk nonsense. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m not saying it’s bad that some pensioners were protected. I’m saying that the mechanism wasn’t sustainable and the new one is more sustainable. That doesn’t mean I don’t want pensions to increase or that I don’t want wages to increase. I can want less poverty and still think the TL was flawed. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m not saying it’s the cause. It definitely isn’t. I’m just saying that the old triple lock was flawed and the new one is better. Increase pensions and wages. I’m not arguing against that. 200
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026By that logic, you’re saying we should continue increasing pensions until they are the same as average wages? And, only then, should we change the TL so that both go up the same? That’s mad. The state pension cannot be the same as average wages. 510
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This medium really doesn’t work for a conversation, does it. It’s very frustrating. I get your point but you still don’t understand how the triple lock works. Let me try and explain. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I completely agree. Increases wages. Stop corporate greed. 010
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ed, you’re missing the point. The two thinks are linked because of the old triple lock. If wages go up, pensions will go up ever more so. Yes, of course, put wages up, give pensioners more, but under the old TL we’re getting more than workers. The change stops this and makes it equal. 310
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Of course but keeping the triple lock as was isn’t the answer. You need to look into the triple lock it’s not solving the problem you think it is. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Because it was going up by more than wages. If wages went up, pensions would go up by more. Since its introduction, the old triple lock has meant pensions have gone from well below wages to ever increasingly above wages. You need to get your head round this, Ed. This change is fairer. 210
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh course but, under the old triple lock, pensions were increasing at an ever greater rate than wages and the gap was ever widening. It’s why there are now more children and working age people in poverty than there are pensioners in poverty. 400
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fuck you! You don’t know me. I don’t support an anti-lgbt party, thank you. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Because the TL was broken. It was giving an ever widening amount more to pensioners than compared to workers. The change yesterday aligns it to wage growth but not wage growth and inflation, as it was before. It’s why working age people in poverty has overtaken pensioner poverty. It was unfair. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If he’d announced universal credit of £5 million a year for everyone yesterday, he was still right to fix a flaw in the triple lock. Yes, improve the conditions of the bottom but to do that you need to take money from where it’s not being used wisely as well. 200
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maybe he does, Leanne. But legislation voted for when he wasn’t even an MP is nothing to do with him. He may want to repeal. I don’t know. But, as I said, some on here, like our foxy friend, will accuse him of stuff that’s not true because he hasn’t instantly done so. They’re insane! 200
Reposted by Chris AdamsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...youtu.beMost TV is Just This NowYouTube video by Michael Spicer 55973308
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They are urgent for me, thank you. You don’t know me, what problems I have or how urgent I think they are or need/ want them to be addressed. Get over yourself and don’t put things in me that aren’t true. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fair enough. I think the change to the TL is the right move. It’s deeply flawed. This makes it better. Yes, we need to target wealth to reduce inequality and make the UK more equal but there are now more children and working age people in poverty than pensioners and the TL was widening this gap. 200
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think you give some on here too much credit, Leanne, but fair enough. 000
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I know he isn’t but I’m just saying that, if he didn’t instantly announce an end to sales the second he became PM, I’d bet some on here would. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m talking hypothetical based on how some of Zack’s supports on here react. I know Zack’s opposed to arms sales to Israel. Good on him. My point is that, if the second he became PM he didn’t announce a ban on arms sales to Israel, some people on here would instantly call him a Zionist warmonger. 100
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s funny. You and I probably want the same things. The difference is you want them instantly and, if not given them, claim Burnham is continuity Starmer/ Blair/ Thatcher/ Hitler. It’s tedious. The UK’s been taken further and further right over 50 yrs. You can’t expect anyone to instantly fix that. 500
Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No, of course. I mean, if he were to become PM, the second he met Trump and didn’t instantly call him out to his face they’d call him a fascist appeaser. And if he didn’t instantly stop every arms sale to Israel they’d call him a Zionist warmonger. They’re utterly mental. 100
