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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Timidity has been the curse of British politics for ages. If you study the achievements of the 1945-51 labour government, it is astonishing that it achieved so much. Our whole perception of time seems to have shifted since then & I wonder if it was the urgency of wartime persisting into the '50s.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The risk for @uklabour.bsky.social is that if they chicken-out and don't have rejoin as a manifesto campaign, the @conservatives.bsky.social just might. Far fetched perhaps but with such a polling advantage it would be foolish to ignore.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you need, or currently benefit from, the use of a tax haven to manage your cash? If not, Brexit is costing you a lot of money & you need to reverse it ASAP If you don't want to, you are either financially illiterate or just have an irresistable need to show charity to your billionaire betters.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There, right there, is why Britain can't have nice things. Room reading not her strong suit, I'll wager.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hiring more people with the incentive that they can personally keep 1% of any unpaid tax recovered would be my suggestion. I suspect the recovery rate would skyrocket!

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A simple test to check whether Britain going back into the EU is good or bad: Do you need a tax haven to manage your cash? If not, rejoining the EU will be good for you. If yes, keeping those saying 'no' deluded enough that they think being out of the EU is good for them is your only option.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting into local government was the best thing Deform could have done. Closely voter facing with maximum responsibility but zero budget and lots of statutory obligations they couldn't wriggle out of coulpled with zero experience and competence. Marvellous!

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I clearly have the winning number. All Bridge have to do is choose it!

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The one and only real reason for Brexit. Hiding in plain sight for 10 years. Funny how the tax haven using owners of the British media failed to promote it in their pre-referendum analysis, isn't it?

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Indeed. Living in Birmingham & the Black Country in the early '80s where the policies of Thatcher's first term wiped-out an industrial ecosystem that had kept the area as the most prosperous outside London for 2 centuries. Not all of us spent the '80s driving around Knightsbridge in Porsche 911s.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remarkable that we who lived & worked in the 1970s have a remarkably different lived experience from those who didn't & comment on that period today. I remember that time as good money, secure jobs, full pubs and public services that still functioned. The Awful Thatcher destroyed that entire world.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is going to bring a return to 'Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's', isn't it? These herberts want you to join their invisible friend in the sky club to keep your job? Sure, I believe in your excellent religion. Yes indeedy. Yep. [Not too bright these chaps, are they?]

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm so old I can confirm that all these things were invented way before 1979. We definitely had all 3 when I was growing-up in the 1960s but then remembering the 1960s when you were actually there has always been a little questionable.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...or 'In 30 years it will still be terrible for all of you mere plebs but I will have died still in full possession of my tax haven bank account.'

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Carney & Macron tell it as it is but the herbert voters of Britain prefer to believe Garage because, in their fact-free world, he drinks a pint and tells them it's OK to hate forriners. One hope I have for Bus Burnham is that he can cut though with at least some of those taken-in by the Brexit con.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Experts, eh? Mark Carney called it absolutely spot-on. As Governor of the Bank of England & a highly qualified economist he could, and did, accurately predict exactly what would happen to Britain if it left the EU. The herberts preferred Garage & his goons' fantasy. Who's laughing now, I wonder?

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Harsh. Also: Reliant Robin, surely? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant...

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Reliant Robin - Wikipedia

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Little Reg[ina] (After their walk on the wild side, he's become she) thinks 'Free at last - next stop Norway!'

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely this. ...and it caused Theresa May's downfall, when she was accused of proposing the 'dementia tax', that she couldn't bring herself to outline, to a largely ignorant voting public, what the current position is without inciting a riot.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When does the ownership of the locomotives and rolling stock return to public ownership, I wonder?

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've always relied on the phrase 'What would Profumo do?' as my guide in life. Yep.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All going a bit Downfall, isn't it?

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In other words, we've dillied, we've dallied, we've dallied and we've dillied, we've lost our way and can't find our way home. There a song in there somewhere.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Mirror, mirror, on the wall....'

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As always, don't listen to what they say, watch what they do. #ReformAreNotYourFriends

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spode addresses the ninja cosplaying postal workers?

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let's hope their tax haven set steer them away from destroying their precious Brexit fiddles and leave the stage wide open for a @uklabour.bsky.social victory.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If it won them the next election why wouldn't they?

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bus Burnham's biggest incentive is that if he doesn't adopt the rejoin EU policy in his manifesto, the @conservatives.bsky.social , seeing the huge electoral advantage of this direction, just might.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent idea. Here's another: Let the HMRC staff keep a percentage of the currently uncollected tax they manage to bring in. As an incentive, I suspect it would be hard to beat and would probably remove any recruitment challenges HMRC face.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Holiday over - welcome back to blighty with: Couldn't get out of the long-stay parking. M25 anti-clockwise closed at the A10 junction. A12 closed for 7[!] jns inc. a detour with a missing sign that had us looping infinitely. Left Heathrow at 23:00 - arrived in Darkest Suffolk at 03:05 Marvellous.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Alan says he's grateful for the extra hours.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One does wonder how far these herberts are from issuing party insignia arm-bands. #VoteSmarter

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Finally a @uklabour.bsky.social government is in power with a huge majority. Bus Burnham needs to realise that they are actually in charge and can change this. Leadership 101: Inaction = Endorsement. If you don't endorse this state of affairs then act or you join the list of those who condone it.

mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The celeb version is less problemetic for me because they are all wise to the premise. The 'regular' show I find exeptionally distasteful. People rewarded for behaving apallingly as entertainment sticks in my craw. It normalises in the TV world what is already over present in public life - awful.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bus Burnham needs to stop the insanity & declare an Article 49 application to join the EU. The herberts will go ballistic - let 'em. They're outnumbered 2:1 by those who understand the true need to rejoin & the only real losers will be the tax haven set who got us into this mess in the 1st place.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Darkest Suffolk as free of buses as it is of mobile phone signal. Perhaps someone could fit mobile mobile phone masts to a new bus fleet and the two problems would be solved. I have low hopes.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just reinforcing the assumption that Brexit was just the start of the journey to return Britain to a toffs & serfs society. No thanks. #ReformAreNotYourFriends

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Going ot on a limb here but might it be that we rural types are not on the mains gas netwok? Trying to economise on a fuel you've never had access to seems an unlikely outcome.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They need to learn from other industries that have been down this road before. Take the best regulatory processes and industry self examination/improvement techniques of the aviation and nuclear communities would be a good starting point.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Currently experiencing 'The Footage Detectives' on Talking Pictures TV for the first time. Mike Read and Noel Cronin presenting archive film and reading out viewers letters [Answers on a postcard please...] on a zero budget basis. Suddenly struck me - it's 'Waynes World' for pensioners.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Meanwhile, in entirely unrelated news, someone in the Kremlin is dancing with delight as his cunning plan comes together.

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mark norris @marknuclearman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bus Burnham needs to pull his finger out and make this @uklabour.bsky.social policy before the @conservatives.bsky.social adopt it for themselves. Raw electoral logic dictates that it has to be in the manifesto unless you think the Brexit herberts vote is going to win you the election [it won't].