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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

I also find it a bit weird ppl freaking out about smart glasses when they are being watched all the time by virtually hidden cameras all over the place (whether small CCTV or Ring doorbells).

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

What about smart glasses that actually help people see? e.g. glasses that auto adjust prescription. I dont see a luddite approach to this being the solution, just make people legally responsible for their actions.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

UK is so backward on drugs policy, even compared to the United States.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

The problem is that Israel took exactly the wrong lessons out of it. They have become just as blood thirsty as Hamas and on a much bigger scale.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

The Tories are fucked precisely because they have no futuristic vision, they keep harking back to the 80s.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

Dont give Messi that much credit, he was captain of the team that championed dirty dirty football and only got to the final because of it. Then you had all that Malvinas nonsense which he also did nothing about. He lost all credit in my eyes when that happened.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

It works if you force them into bankrupcy first. Pass a law forcing Ofwat to freeze all bill rises. If they sink and go bankrupt you nationalise for pennies on the pound.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 2h

Debt needs to get wiped out with any nationalisation.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4h

Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.

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Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water

The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 16h

Badenoch thinks she is the contender because she has 100+ seats, Farage thinks he is the contender because he is ahead in the polls. Neither will back down, especially when you have millions £££ entering the coffers of Reform, would Farage really give up those millions by doing a deal? I doubt it.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 16h

I think if one was massively ahead of the other I think you might be right, but while they are hovering around the same % in the polls and both think they can dominate the other I dont think that will happen.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 16h

Yes correct, but you are also forgetting how personality driven Reform and the Tories are. And unlike pre-Brexit there is no 1 thing for them to unite over. Farage would never accept Badenoch as PM and Badenoch would never accept Farage. There can only be 1 top dog.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 16h

All this is also ignoring the total egotistical nature of both Tories and Reform. There can only be 1 top dog, its Kemi OR Farage.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great, can they fuck off permanently now? Never again should our soil be used for illegal wars in the Middle East.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They will be ejected from conference by the burly Tory Polit Bureau

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Heres an idea, tell your fucking brother not to sue the Police and take his punishment like a man.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is an example of the absolute clusterfuck of the Royals. Cant use it to pay legal fees but just use it to pay for everything else so that money can be used for legal fees www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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King's funding for Andrew is not for legal action against police

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking action over search warrants issued ahead of his arrest in February.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When are the rest of them going to fuck off? The sooner the better.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*Also the salary sacrifice route is closing from 2028, where they will limit salary sacrifice to 2k per annum.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Most people will way up what they gain and what they lose without sacrificing anything, and for us, the extra income and employer pension contributions was worth more than the child benefit, so we just didnt bother claiming it.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think we are talking cross purposes. Yes you can use salary sacrifice to reduce your income below 100k in that scenario but noone in reality is going to do that as it means foregoing a huge amount of income which you cant spend for decades.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not sure the above is correct, the max. pension contribution for combined employer/employee is £60k per annum, they are nowhere near that on 120k+20% bonus.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

True it does, but turning down the promotion or pay rise to keep your benefit means you dont have the additional money to sacrifice, and you dont get the employer match on the money you have turned down.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The point Im making is that turning down more money would have led to worse consequences than losing child benefit, you dont get employer pension contributions on child benefit, you do on salary. So we just opted not to apply for it to begin with only to hv it clawed back.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Or you do the opposite. We crossed the 100k threshold around the time we had our first child. Rather than refusing promotions/more money we just didnt bother applying for child benefit. I saw more benefit in the money I earnt w my job than money paid out from the govt, pension contributions being 1.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And Im not saying that Rejoin is prepared. But AI will be one of the last things that the public will make their decisions on. If anything rejoin needs to be much more prepared to argue in favour of Freedom of Movement and why its a good thing.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wheres the evidence that the public cares about AI one way or another? Its the obsession of the tech bros not ordinary ppl who have much bigger problems in their lives than worrying abt AI.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It then also opens up the possibility for things like Universal Basic Income where how much you and your family earns determines whether you get taxed or receive a credit.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would like to see the dept for work and pensions abolished and all tax, pensions and benefits system put under HMRC with your tax code determining what payments you get. You cd then have an individual tax code and a family unit tax code which would determine what benefits you receive.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I actually think the debate misses a huge question. Why is our benefits system so antequated that it cant calculate a household income combined? My AI bot can do that in about 10 seconds. I would like to see a complete reform of the benefits and tax system.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How will the media handle any TV debates will be crucial to this. And I dont trust the media one bit to be capable of handling it in a fair way.

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Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @onemoregoodman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If the awful scenario of doctors desperately trying the save the life of a woman who the state twice tried to kill and who might yet be killed successfully by that same state, doesn't make every American question the morality of capital punishment, then I suspect nothing ever will.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fair Rents Guarantee simply doesnt work without a cap on mortgage rates also. Otherwise landlords will just sell up and you wont have any properties being rented.

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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brexit is becoming an election issue again. Sadiq Khan is making the case for rejoining the EU. James Cleverly says he is ready to defend the Brexit status quo. Good. Let's have that argument again now that we know how Brexit actually turned out. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An old crusty party that needs t9 die out.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

3 yes, 2 its not affordable for many but the Tories made that worse 1 Tories slashed Met Police budgets by 25%

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Burnham doing this just before a byelection where the Greens are threatening Labour is the best illustration of this so far…

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was never going to revive their fortunes mainly because it split their coalition into 2.

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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 04/10/2026

THE INDEPENDENT: Brexit was meant to revive the Conservatives, but polling suggests voters see it as a mistake. As Badenoch fights Labour and Reform on two fronts, Europe could become her arrow in the eye. - by David Maddox

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Why Brexit could end up being Kemi Badenoch’s arrow in the eye

As the Tories arrive in Birmingham for their annual conference still languishing in the polls, political editor David Maddox looks at how the party’s publicity team’s version of the Bayeux Tapestry is an ill omen for Kemi Badenoch

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You are in a small minority circle that isnt reflective of your wider age group (which is good).

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If there are so many of them then they should vote and not vote Tory or Reform. The stats show that the majority of older folk are RW nutjobs.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unfit for ownership is not the same as bankrupt.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To be frank there arent many people that arent over the threshold for care. e.g. If you own a home of any description anywhere in the country you will pay for care. Over 80% of households with a pensioner in it own their own home

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the real world, Labour draws the bulk of its support from people of working age. Meanwhile, the right - the Conservatives, in particular - are heavily reliant on the largely non-productive over-60s.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Correct, so older people got the benefit of tax breaks that they now want to remove from younger people.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'to reduce the pension contribution relief for people on higher rate income tax' Its to reduce pension contribution relief for younger people who are still working, while those who are older and benefited from 40 and 45% relief over the years are sitting pretty 'do as I say not as I do'

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guess the difference between a normal club and one owned by a sovereign state with unlimited resources is they cannot go bankrupt.

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