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Jim Prescott

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It's important to remember that the inventor of the aeroplane also invented the plane crash. Politics with a bit of rugby. Idiots muted, whatever the tribe. #Annibyniaeth #FBIW #RejoinEU

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 5h
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 3m
Precisely
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 11h
You spelt "knows" incorrectly
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Very good 👏👏👏
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
False eq. is SA, which was never abolished, it just changed its constitution in 1996 (and not even for the first time). Israel's formation has nothing to do with the post you countered, namely that Israel won't voluntarily abolish itself and thus it would require military intervention to achieve.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You need to have a rant about something when you're going to be out of power for at least a decade.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TBH, it's all they've got
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's quite a false equivalence. South Africa's constitution changed, but the nation state's the same. You may as well suggest that post Jim Crow US was different nation state. As for Germany, well military conquest and in particular occupation by the USSR led to the 2 states in the first place.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Case in point: today's news of BT's rescue deal for TalkTalk, 5 years after a leveraged buyout that ended up more than doubling its debts to c£1.5bn. LBOs, along with their public sector cousin PFI are some of the worst examples of the neoliberal prioritisation of profit over true economic benefit.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very bad AI at that. Apparently there are a lot of near identical twins, even identical triplets! Also, I'm guessing they wouldn't do a critical poster that didn't include the sitting Primer Minister.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The "Labour" Party fgs
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Indeed. And the Irish point is a total false equivalence. No-one is currently suggesting that supporting the Irish status quo is racist or asking for it to be Green Party policy. The Green Party in NI supports self determination on the Island of Ireland as per the Good Friday Agreement.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The billionaire tech bros might not want AI to be regulated but I was advised by AI itself that regulation "is essential to prevent existential risks". Even their own AI bots don't trust them...
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This wasn't Klein, it was AI generated, although Klein says she thought she might have she'd said it "because I have said things very similar". It's truly ironic because the quote itself demonstrates the very issue being pointed out in the quote.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No it isn't. Mortgage is a secured loan with house as collateral but you have liability. If there's negative equity (eg market falls) YOU are the one on the hook. If repossessed, you still owe any shortfall. With LBO the private equity isn't liable for debts or losses if the corporation goes bust.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's bit like taking out a buy to let mortgage in the name of the house you are renting out rather than in your own name.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nothing to do with being a dummy, I have a degree in economics and MBA and it still astounds me that businesses can effectively be bought utilising leverage against the very business being bought. Leveraged buyouts are possible because corporations are treated as legal entities.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, I've lost count of how many times Ive heard people claim that Labour implemented the three day week...
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Narrator: sadly he hasn't...
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nice
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is rare you see the words "Trump's words" and "correct" in the same sentence without the word "not"
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When Jeremy Hunt made two populist 2% cuts in NI in 6 months - that we now know to have been completely unsustainable & uncosted - where was the right wing media pearl clutching or the constant BBC questions about "how are you paying for this"? The media in the UK is a right wing stitch up.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If Starmer/Reeves or Burnham/Healey had been in charge in 1945, there'd have been no NHS, and no massive housebuilding programme. It's not "Fiscal discipline" to stick to a bunch of made up neoliberal rules, ostensibly designed by a Chancellor whose programme was built on an error in a spreadsheet.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The lack of withholding tax on these dividends at least on a par with the US is absolutely scandalous - in the US Swiss investors would pay 15% under their double taxation treaty
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"Stevieboy" @stevieboy1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Its Chris Philp. #bbclaurak
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was totally unsurprising how frequently she interrupted Burnham, while allowing Philp to spout his evidence free bollocks - eg. he said we're a high tax economy when virtually the entire continent of Europe has a higher tax wedge than us - and yet not even the slightest challenge. #BBCLauraK
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura keeps banging on about all these economists calling for cuts. Plenty of economists fully understand the benefits of government stimulus and also appreciate how the economy was skewered by Tory austerity - which is why so many opposed it. #BBCLauraK
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, the old local ITV channels were excellent too
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Ancient Romans enjoyed an afternoon watching people being thrown to wild beasts or burned alive or crucified. And this chap identifies with that... while dubbing other people "barbaric"
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Back in the day when mainstream TV did good, detailed long form politics coverage. Now we are told that the young don't want "long form" coverage so they give us snippets. As a result the young are switching to podcasts doing long form coverage...
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With regard to Cooper-Lesadd's defection, I suspect that Plaid would have made it a condition of being accepted that she completely disown Reform's platform. Now, though, she could point to the vile (largely misogynistic) abuse she has received online to say she made the correct decision...
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤡 B-Side: Carry On Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Farage's lot suffers rapid unscheduled disassembly in Wales - @willhaycardiff.bsky.social explains. 👱‍♀️ @pimlicat.bsky.social behind the scenes at Lib Dem conf. 🔥 Peak Wokey Dokey; Peak Old News. 🎧 open.spotify.com/s/OIC7QYu 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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B-Side: Carry On Cymru
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 25 September · 1hr 10min
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great ep, thanks! I for one would love to see a collab episode with For Wales See Wales... 👍
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jenrick would lose his seat. General Election now please.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think @darrigomelanie.bsky.social said everything that needs to be said.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I remember a story about teenagers who started saying things were "book" rather than "cool" because in the early days of keypad texting, book was the default predictive text if you pressed 2-6-6-5 and of course teens are notoriously lazy. Thank God that never caught on! 😂
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fluidity of English I guess. Weirdly, the American "dove" (past tense of dive) sounds completely wrong to me, it has to be dived. My pet hate is the TV habit of putting -ness at the end of everything - so you have tenaciousness instead of tenacity etc. Eventually it'll become acceptable.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Indeed 😅
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I concur (similar education timeline). Personally I say strove, strived just doesn't sound right to me even though it is fine. Striven is definitely the past participle - one wouldn't say "I striven" it even sounds wrong, whereas "I have striven" works.
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Slightly ironically, when I worked in Cathedral Rd in the 90s it was The Poachers Lodge & some called "Y Mochyn Du" a "terrible new name" lol. For the record, I liked it and of course it became iconic, so I'm glad it's back. Now we need to stop this Chippy Alley nonsense, it's Caroline Street!
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They could call it "Lake England"
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sadly he's more likely to say they have legitimate concerns
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For those who want the end-to-end info on the exact parameters of what happened to Macklemore, Noah Samsen has done the legwork for you here. I'm... kinda overwhelmed by my level of respect for M., because he said a LOT more than I initially saw in a clip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5-...
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Ed Sheeran is so cooked
YouTube video by Noah Samsen
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
lucky you I say
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Coming soon - "The Piddington Wall"
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'd like to wish Piddington Parish Council good luck in explaining why everyone in the village now has to pay the surcharge to use the NHS
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"All of the remaining support acts on Ed Sheeran's US tour have quit". Good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ed Sheeran's support acts quit tour in support of Macklemore
The star said he was not responsible for Macklemore being dropped from the line-up after he made pro-Palestinian statements on stage.
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YesCymru @yes.cymru · 16/09/2026
Diwrnod Owain Glyndŵr Hapus! 🟡🔴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am simply pointing out that your massively assumption laden argument could be used by a motorist. Why do weight or blind spots matter if the road's deserted? Unless you are saying that it might not be in which case your original argument falls apart.
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