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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 6h

Nothing was ever going to change your mind because Zionism IS Racism.

reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An interesting spin on the facts! I only benefited from reduced income tax rates because I had been paying 33%. Later generations have had those rate reductions baked in without having to pay higher rates first.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't fear that at all because it is not going to happen.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cutting the next generations’ pensions is a strange gift to give them.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So what? It’s money well spent as it goes directly to people. Besides, removing one lock changes very little.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s a few hours of my time wasted taking and uploading my pictures to fill gaps in their catalogue.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I took 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership at zero cost. weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike

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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September

Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even if the first headline is true then the real story is the freedoms that we UK citizens have lost.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks for the info but I rather assume that all UK media is Reform linked!

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s only true if you count just the payments going out and not the taxes coming back as that money is spent. Add to that there are cost savings elsewhere, particularly NHS.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Aparo was never one of my absolute favourites but I still bought several books just because of his distinctive style, e.g. The Outsiders. B&B was fun too. Actually, now I think about it, Aparo really was a favourite!

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The only reason that I watch Ludwig is because most of it is filmed very close to me. They're filming it now.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are you listening to The History of the USA in 100 objects by the @99pi.org team? It's eclectic and glorious.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Second set of three plays duly booked at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social : - The Vortex on Saturday 24 April 2027 - Sapling on Saturday 05 June 2027 - Infamous Anne on Saturday 10 July 2027

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jumped on at 12:00:00 to book the first three plays, your website struggled a bit but we got there in the end! Will be back later today to book the rest of the season.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Similarly, but on a smaller scale, London Loop Section 21 crosses the A12 and the official route takes you some distance along the road to traffic lights and all the way back again; we walked straight across and I suspect many people do too.

Extract of the map for London Loop Section 21 showing that the natural route, following a river, goes straight ahead but a diversion is given to take you to a safe crossing place.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anthony Scaramucci has consistently been more wrong about Trump than anyone else yet still he gets platformed as a serious commentator.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was back on the London Loop today, 14km on sections 22 and 23. For the most part this was following Ingerbourne through a succession of parks and nature reserves with @gojauntly.bsky.social as our guide and #CityStrides to record it. #LoveLondonWalkLondon hamlife.blogspot.com/2026/09/lond...

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London Loop Revisited (Sections 23 and 23)

On Monday 14 September 26 my colleague and I walked London Loop Sections 22: Harold Wood to Upminster Bridge (7km) and 23: Upminster Bridge ...

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you think this is Twitter then that explains everything. Beyond dumb.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There is nothing left in BBC worth defending. I miss Woolworths too but I do not want to bring that back either.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Truth at Apollo Theatre was rather brilliant and extremely funny. hamlife.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ve signed this petition because we’ve already seen what climate change is doing to people’s health and to our ability to grow food.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Walking #LondonLoop Section 20, guided by @gojauntly.bsky.social, took me around and across several fields in a rural area that was part of Essex until 1965 and, frankly, should have stayed there. It is quite pretty but it is not London.

A landscape scene with a recently ploughed field in the foreground and more fields and trees behind. No buildings, cars or people.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I really loved A Slow Fire at @jstheatre.bsky.social. I went because Simon Stephens wrote it and loved it even more because of the echoes of Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney. hamlife.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-sl...

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A Slow Fire at Jermyn Street Theatre

I try to see Simon Stephens' plays whenever possible ( and to write about them here ) so when Jermyn Street Theatre (a favourite) announced...

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nicely close to the action for A Slow Fire at @jstheatre.bsky.social

Table in chairs in the stage about 1 metre away

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think I can take one week’s delay when I am currently reading issues from 2022! Plan is to try and clear the backlog within a year.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Very few people, if any, like all of a party’s policies and they certainly don’t like them all equally. When the parties negotiate they have little idea what really matters to their voters. I could have voted LibDem in 2010 solely to ditch Trident, a policy they dropped immediately in negotiations.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You’re still pushing PR as a silver bullet, “real change”, when it is nothing of the sort. Your hope is the problem here and resorting to insults just shows you have no arguments to make.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am intrigued that you think PR will change any of that. Large political donations will still carry weight, and possibly more so as it would make it worth the large parties’ while contesting seats like Brighton where they cannot will under FPTP but will get useful votes under PR.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You don’t seem to understand the word democracy. It means government by the people but under PR all the policy decisions are made after the election by the parties in private meetings with no involvement of the electorate.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

PR would also certainly mean coalition government and that means parties arguing over which policies to pursue with no democratic involvement. I think an outcome that zero people voted for is arguably worse than one where all the supporters of the largest party get the outcome they voted for.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

er… I have not made an argument for FOTP, I’ve only pointed out that it is impossible to argue against PR until someone says which of the many PR schemes and variations they are proposing. All PR systems have faults, as does FPTP, but at the moment it’s not a fair comparison.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Insults always show you’ve lost the argument, not that you actually made one.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why do you think it is better? What problem does it solve?

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Can you make your mind up?!! Either people vote for parties or for who they want as PM. And, yet again, zero evidence for your claims on why people vote. You’re just making stuff up.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ve been thinking and writing about this for years but your simplistic arguments suggest that you haven’t. Resorting to “PMSL” tells me you’ve lost badly and know it.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That may be true but PR advocates are very careful in not proposing a specific system. Once they do then the faults of that system will be clear too.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But that’s a choice we will all still have to make. My best here, Richmond, will still be to vote Lib Dem to reduce, hopefully to zero, the number of seats the Conservatives get.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s that sort of brief unevidenced argument that PR advocates rely on. What about independents? Did the people of Clacton vote for Farage or Reform? How did Livingstone become Mayor of London?

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And there you have it, PR means voting for parties not people and that gives more power to the parties.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

STV removes the 1:1 elector:MP ratio and with larger multi-member constituencies “my” MP will usually live some distance away and will not understand my locality well. Yes I might get a Green MP living in, say, Ealing but that is little better than now when I have one in Brighton.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

PR gives us a coalition the composition of which is not on the ballot paper and it then works to develop a joint programme that the electorate has no say in.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

PR is the Left’s equivalent of Brexit, the Silver Bullet that is hoped will fix so many things but it won’t. PR weakens or breaks local links (My MP), stops independents and produces a coalition that literally nobody voted for.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What evidence suggests that Russia is more of an actual threat to us and how does this compare to the demonstrable fact that we’re a threat to them by providing offensive weapons to Ukraine?

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

RBS let someone open an account at my address and all sorts of things arose from that, not least debtors letter.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And BBC Four used to do programmes by the likes of Jim Al-Khalili. Nowadays it all seems to be science shows for people who know nothing about science.

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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of the fun things about being on holiday is hearing ads for Shopify in four different languages while listening to English language podcasts.

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