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@puckoon.bsky.social
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Came here from the other place. Retired. Amateur folk musician and actor, Saints supporter, unexpectedly old. Naturist, but I don't feel the need to post naked pics of myself (sighs of relief heard throughout Bluesky).

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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
*Rumors*? Are we in the USA now?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well I'm not going to show you my bank statement. But you coild look here: www.gov.uk/new-state-pe...
gov.uk
The new State Pension
How to get and claim your State Pension, State Pension age - for men born on or after 6 April 1951 and women born on or after 6 April 1953.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Then you take it incorrectly.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't really understand this. I sit (and walk around) in my garden naked quite often. I have sensible neighbours but, if they weren't and decided to report me, I know that I am not breaking any law.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So the only criterion for voting at the Green Conference is that you have paid to be there? You're not a delegate from your local branch? And this motion is now binding on the party? And the leader decided to absent himself from the debate? Good grief. They haven't adapted well from a fringe group.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What about them?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It isn't less than £1000.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My state pension is £965.20 every 4 weeks. This equates to £1045 per month. It's not a fortune but let's get the facts right. Labour has pledged that the state pension will not be taxed. Private pensions, like other income, are taxed, they were built up with tax relief.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can imagine Philp doing that, and now I wish I couldn't.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quite apart from the societal good (which I wouldn't expect a current-day Tory to recognise), arts and music are major export earners. Britain punches far above its weight in the the arts.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If (yes I know it's unlikely) they win the next one, that's exactly what they'll be saying,
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I miss the intellectual heft of politicians like Michael Foot and from a very different wing, Denis Healey.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 From Threads.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So after 22 minutes, England's two goals have been scored and assisted by people who aren't English, according to Sue-Ellen's criteria.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I seem to be the only person who has absolutely no interest in #celebritytraitors or, indeed, its non-celebrity cousin.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reform internal enquiry clears party officials of any wrongdoing. Imagine my surprise. And Farage blusters again about starting legal action. I really hope he does.
theguardian.com
Farage hints Reform’s internal inquiry could clear two aides suspended after C4 investigation – UK politics live
Farage was speaking ahead of a rally in Doncaster
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whatever.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's not mutually exclusive to be concerned about the effects of losing Man City while still recognising that they cheated.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope you're not doing the catering on the Bellowhead tour bus.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I was also born in 1957. Separating that being a teenager is obviously (for most) a great time. But, objectively, I could leave one job on a Friday and have a new one on Monday. If I'd taken the university route then it would have been free. And you could see the Rolling Stones for about £1.50.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At what level do you define "rich"? How much more tax will they have to pay? How much will this generate per year?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not sure Farage would buy his round.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PM Burnham on privatisation: "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget: They are the ones that gave it away in the first place."
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't put words in my mouth. I knew about the Railways Bill. I did not know that rolling stock ownership was included, mainly because whenever rail renationalisation is mentioned someone pops up and says "what about the ROSCOs?". I don't do Tik Tok.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that, who takes a reaonably close interest in these things, did not know this was already underway, perhaps justifies its new emphasis. I can't have been the only one.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wanting to bypass Parliamentary debate is common to all governments, going back to the divine right of kings. Boris Johnson even prorogued Parliament to evade it. But I bow to your superior knowledge on the history of Fabianism. It's obviously something about which you care deeply.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think we need more evidence to support these quite-startling allegations.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bit of a long-winded Enid Blyton title.
theguardian.com
Five arrested for alleged terrorism offences after ‘major incident’ near RAF Fairford
Men held also suspected of explosives offences as homes evacuated near British airbase used in US attacks on Iran
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My experience of the Fabians has been that they're well-meaning, middle-class centre lefties. They remind me a little of Quakers. Why has the extreme right suddenly got it in for them?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Asylum seekers who could be murderers" could move in. As people who "could be murderers" coild move into the house next door to you. Should we ban all people moving?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Any tax?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How do they calculate the figure and how much tax will be lost in exchange? Not saying it's a bad policy but need more detail. Bicester Village is very popular with Chinese visitors. Would not paying tax make it more popular still?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All that money and he still can't get a decent haircut.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A "British Businessman" who left the UK years ago, who has a direct financial interest in opening up North Sea oil and who still thinks immigration is out of control even though it has fallen below sustainable levels. Where's the challenge in the article?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely awful. What has Britain become?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can't decide whether that apostrophe in the first sentence is supposed to be there. It is predatory wars? Or has he simply misspelled "its"?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nobody deserves credit for academies. Opprobrium, maybe.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The gaps weren't there to benefit the commentators but rather the other way around. The stage has to be reset between performances to accommodate the piano or dancers or whatever. And, of course, the conductor has to leave the stage between every piece for some reason. The concert is shown live.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, but that performance by Nicky Spence was like nothing else.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is this the same story that was in Private Eye?
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel slightly dirty after looking at the Mail website, but fair play to them for showing up this thug.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Donation made
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's another group of masked men claiming to do the Lord's work.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Not in the bit I heard but, in fairness, I didn't listen to the whole thing. They could have called on red-faced, reactionary, Father-of-the-House Edward Leigh who, to my surprise, wholeheartedly supported Miliband's statement.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
BBC 6 Music news this morning featured a vox pop with a supporter. And that was it.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Studland Naturist Beach
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The pay off at the end is a thing of beauty
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
She started off by being wrong about how long Reform has existed - they're new cut them some slack seemed to be her point. She said 18 months which makes it difficult for them to have had MPs elected in July 2024. It was all downhill from there.
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Tony @puckoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He let him move on to what he wanted to talk about rather than the lawbreaking. At which point I switched off. Did it get worse?
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