Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How much did they pay consultants for this? Labour got 33.7, greens got 6.7 33.7-6.7=27, 27-8.1 =18.9, 6.7+8.1=14.8, 18.9-14.8 = 4.1 Is that genuinely the maths they're doing? 000
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Over what time frame is this? 16,290 starts in that period? Or the period over 12 months raised to that then? 18,000 completions over what period? 000
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I think its more the "and recieve subsidy from people far less well off than them" 010
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Helps if in every job you've ever had you have been tasked with lying to people about what you believe and what you can do 000
Reposted by Purple GharialAdam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If I were to be charitable, this represents the political stance the Greens have historically taken: the party for the parts of the soft left who don't want to have to deal with trade-offs and want to believe they can have everything they want without loss of virtue. 1152
Reposted by Purple GharialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..." 7689872773
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Theyre not tweeting to let journalists know things. 000
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Because they require access to the audience to message them. 000
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I would suggest some different lessons, maths etc. 3959 is the number of deaths **in one year**. The 1 in 15.4 is proportion of total deaths. 69478 deaths in scotland in 2021. Thats 1 in 17.5 as the proportion. So extremely similar. Now ask if miners smoke more than Scottish children who die etc... 120
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 29/08/2025How does someone look around and tell which subjects have disproportionately fewer graduates in employment within that field? 000
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Yeh but you made that mesage up archive.is/rVYbyarchive.is 100
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Ah yes, who needs data when 18 year olds can just look around them and magically ascertain the proportion of graduates for their who get hired in the field and get a decent income from it? 100
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Those are the same thing.... that is the point being made. 000
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 19/08/2025So its a good idea but you haven't read it so it might be bad? Great chat. 100
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 19/08/2025You can drink and have friends without paying a 10% higher tax rate for 30 years. And the point is to be able to be informed of what the value of the learning is. I don't know why anyone would oppose that. 110
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 17/08/2025He didn't say people shouldn't go. He said that prospective students should be shown the earnings data of graduates from their course, and the 10% higher tax rate they'll pay for most of their career if they taking the course, so they can make a more informed choice 300
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Yes it does? Unless you think every fifth graduate went to uni for a fun pre-career knowledge-for-enjoyment exercise, then 1 in 5 people are paying a 10% higher tax rate on all their earnings for 30 years, having less resource to enjoy their lives for 30 years, because they were missold uni 100
Reposted by Purple GharialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Numbers of students are down 1.9% as opposed to the 25% predicted by the Independent Schools Council and various right wing think-tanks. 1119036
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 22/07/2025What is the STATED justification? Coz I would get "oh this is a waste of time", but why would you shut things down in order to prevent it.... unless you saw it as harmful 010
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 14/06/2025How would a farm with a pm emitting diesel tractor thrown up and down it be better for air quality than a solar panel? 100
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I mean the ford graph would seem to disagree? 000
Reposted by Purple GharialTom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 30/03/2025🧵 NEW: Is Britain really a high tax country? Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades. What’s going on? 1/7 @thetimes.com Free link 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/25aa... 74485178
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I mean in my experience loads of people are in your latter group, its actually what the main driver of the discussion is. They just don't accept that that cost of having a functioning system can suddenly balloon without taking action to mitigate it by changing eligibility or assessment. 000
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I get the need to punish encouraging people not to vote for your party when you're in a party, even if, in this context, you understand the reasoning. But it does seem strange that this would be expulsion when so many heinous things some members do result in suspensions. 000
Reposted by Purple GharialWarren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Rishi mate, the issue wasn't the slogan. The issue was that your plan did not actually deal with the issue. You had expensive policies, the most ridiculous laws (defining Rwanada 'safe'), but made no attempt to process the backlog, nor work with other countries, nor any attempts to stop any boats.theguardian.com‘Stop the boats’ slogan was ‘too stark’, admits Rishi SunakFormer prime minister says drive to stop Channel crossings was correct, but message ‘wasn’t quite right’ 2027859
Reposted by Purple GharialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025🇺🇦 UPDATE… Ukraine’s parliament undermines Trump’s (Kremlin-aligned) argument… 241802442
Reposted by Purple GharialTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Honestly, this is an insane thing for a major political party to be running with. It’s mad. It’s by mad people for mad people. 1561141168
Reposted by Purple GharialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Nice I hit the anniversary on this one 1148147
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Uhhh two of those logos could use a fresh set of eyes lol 030
Reposted by Purple GharialSir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025 408396308396
Reposted by Purple GharialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 21/01/2025It’s a sign of how far the GOP has become simply the Trump party and democratic norms and guardrails have completely weakened that the incoming president could issue pardons for insurrectionists who committed violence against police officers and the old party of law and order barely says a thing. 501257191
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 21/01/2025"Classic Yoon behaviour, pointing out that if the Scottish Parliament actually wanted this doing it could do it, but that it chooses not to" 100
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Its not Scotland's responsibility to pay for something Scotland wants funding? Bit odd that. 100
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 21/01/2025But it isn't pensions mitigation, its compensation for a small % of them getting a letter 2 years late. So, no, Scotland could fully do this for its citizens if it wanted. 100
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 21/01/2025<Throws liquid lead into water. The water freezes the lead> bet you feel pretty silly now 030
Reposted by Purple GharialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/01/2025Bit ableist of you people to make a big deal out of my invading Poland. Be better. 01154
Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 13/01/2025This is the film I thought I was seeing when I went to the cinema and asked for tickets to the conjuring (coz they're conjurers right?). Not the same film it turns out 100
Reposted by Purple GharialKevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Labour pointing out that the Tory amendment would kill the whole bill. Source: “It’s a bizarre approach to child protection to vote down a child protection bill which includes powers such as stopping another home schooling scandal as we saw in the tragic case of Sara Sharif.” 88441
Reposted by Purple GharialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 07/01/2025This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog. 1772559755
Reposted by Purple GharialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/01/2025In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now 25862292268
Reposted by Purple GharialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/01/2025Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault! 🧵 481752348
