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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 12h

He wouldn't know what "rococo" meant. It's got three syllables. Mind you, I think it's more "Baroque" and he wouldn't know what that meant either.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 13h

Delete "force" insert "allow".

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 13h

I agree with your stance, but I think you need to rephrase "£40 billion less per capita": "per capita" is posh for "per head" or "per person". I don't think anyone spends that much per person.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 17h

True. But the NHS isn't squeaky clean on that score. It poaches staff trained at great expense from countries that can less well afford it.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And as an early UK adopter (wish I wasn't) who bought all the bells and whistles, I wish I could turn off even more of the useless gimmicks I bought.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think you've fudged it. How can pensions keep pace with earnings if you remove that link? If they do, as now, where are the savings? What savings can go to the National Care Service (which we already have in Scotland, BTW) if pensioners aren't getting less than they had before. Smoke and mirrors.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He had one of those too: both at the same time. The fuel crisis had made the P6 almost valueless, so it became my mother's car while he ran the SD1.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How does she know what gender her fetus identifies as?

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When you say "during the First World War" (the family spat among cousins in which, luckily, hardly anyone of any importance was killed) you mean "near the end of the First World War when it became clear the German cousin wouldn't win".

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Justifying any opinion/policy by calling it common sense is a red flag. Every swivel-eyed loony on the planet thinks their opinion is common sense. They wouldn't hold it otherwise. Common sense is a logical fallacy ("appeal to incredulity") and about as convincing as "It's obvious innit?"

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember buying stick on ones. Also those stick-on plastic panels that "double-glazed" a bit of the middle of your rear screen. Neither worked very well.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can they return to her policy on the Single Market (of which she was a major architect). It was, after all, the only decent policy she had.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The "sovrintee" argument was always the stupidest. Every treaty involves limiting your scope for action (sovereignty) to some degree. You agree to do (or not do) something in return for your ally doing (or not doing) something...to your mutual benefit. The rot started in Windsor in 1386.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard agree. I got my Tesla M3 in 2019 (very early U.K. adopter...was on the waiting list for two years). It was, despite the shitty irritating gimmicks, by far the best EV on the road at the time. Now? Wouldn't touch one with a barge pole, even if the Space Nazi wasn't such an embarrassment.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's why they're trying to spin him as the one bad apple when the whole orchard is rotten.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Those are higher academic qualifications than you need to be the UK's head of state...or get your ugly mug on Canadian bank notes.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You got it right in a previous post.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Isn't weeding the garden working on the Sabbath? Isn't that naughty?

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She accepts that Zionism is racist on so many words, and adds "AND response to racism". How does accepting a motion that Zionism is racist (which she accepts) incompatible with that? I'm not taking sides here, just pointing out the illogicality of her position.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The article says it's a "vow to rethink Brexit". So he's leaving himself more wiggle room than a meeting of Wiggly Weasels Anonymous. Same as lifting the ban on public ownership of water, rather than banning private ownership. Both could result in nothing. Why would he leave himself that option?

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Except the only decent thing which was to help create the Single Market, and back the EU.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Repealing the ban on public ownership might result in nothing. Imposing a ban on private ownership would have been bold. He's left himself wiggle room. I fear he'll use it.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And can someone tell Manfred Mann that the Trojans didn't wait at the gates for weeks, and there was no question of the Greeks letting them in.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was driving an Alfasud. My father had a Rover 3500S, which is respectably high up the list for such an upmarket vehicle. It was a gem, TBF.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm astonished at how gracious the EU as a body, and so many of its constituent Member States are being to the U.K. I wouldn't touch us with a barge pole. "You flounced out? Stay out till you learn to be good members." De Gaulle wasn't entirely wrong when he vetoed our entry for so long.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If lying in the place where laws are enforced (the courts) is an offence (perjury) why isn't lying in the chambers where laws are made? The penalties should be more severe.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's depicting reality, offensive as that reality might be. To have the African in top hat and tails, or in a position of authority would plainly be silly.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I could be in that picture (student 1971-77). I took part in the yard of ale contest, but I'm not sure if it was that year.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hard agree. Left himself wiggle room, which his weasel words strongly suggest he'll use.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't repeal the ban on public ownership (which might have zero effect: I can hear the cries of "practical difficulties" already...again, he leaves himself wiggle room). Instead put a ban on private ownership.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Control" gives him wiggle room, which I fear he'll use. Hellfire, current (pisspoor) regulation could've described as "control". He could tweak it and announce "Job done!" Ownership would be the bold move, and a vote winner.* *but it might upset some donors.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What about factual/non-fictional cartoon characters?

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't be silly. The nineties were nothing like 30 years ago.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My Aunt Lily and her friend Clare, both British long-time, bilingual residents in France, were trying to spell something over the phone to a French official. Aunt Lily: "A pour Apple." Clare (correcting her): "No, no, Lily...it's 'A pour pomme'."

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

First foreign car my dad ever bought (for my mum, obvs.) His was a Jag.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026

Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You young ones! I always wondered what happened to him after Maverick.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Lowest form of wit" but it's as well to know one's limitations.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Obviously photoshopped or AI, The idea of Bone Spurs in combat gear is laughable.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, but Scottish pensioners are losing the triple lock for something they already have. Not to mention the higher rates of income tax.

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