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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Depends on the scheme. Some DB schemes compel external transfers, others compel internal only. It’s the external ones where the problems can emerge for the unwary

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Speak or publish. Witnessing what is going on in the US which has already filtered into Reform and the far right, this is only going to get worse because shame and self-regulation is disappearing. If elected members are lying blatantly and they know it, then out the door you go at the very least

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the simplest things the UK government can do to prop up democracy is to enable MPs who blatantly lie to be removed or even prosecuted. Sure, give them a chance to recant and apologise but if they don’t/won’t then that’s the consequence. This doesn’t just apply in the House but anywhere they

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But surely the baldies have mahoosive testosterone levels and therefore qualify on that weird metric alone?

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On the basis that approximately 90% of all bad faith attacks on their opponents are actually projection, I’m betting on this couch-botherer being arrested on some pretty grim charges in the years ahead

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don’t put them in the same sentence, please. Not remotely comparable

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The alternative plan is coming in the next 2 weeks

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They’ll move on to the far more sinister supplementary question, ah but what *kind* of British person are you

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One more time for the hard of thinking, the government do not prosecute people (thankfully) The police have operational independence when it comes to charging decisions (as do the CPS). Let the investigation and prosecution take its course without jeopardising the case.

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fine. Just keeping arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Putting aside what English law actually was at that time….

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Didn’t he have 4? Catherine of Aragon, jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr?

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A microcosm of why the world fails to take US sports seriously

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People don’t like paying taxes shocker! Timidity around IHT for the last 50 years has helped perpetuate and ingrain inequality.

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gaslighting right to the bitter end

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Talk about normalising stuff that should be burned with fire

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“What kind of American are you?”

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A walking example of Spoonerism gone wrong

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you think he and Isabel still be there as and when that happens? These people practice the ‘exhaust and abandon’ model where the whole world is just collateral damage to their narcissism

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh puh-lease. Why do our brains have to be constantly assaulted through lies and gaslighting

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TOLATA cases are not identified in the published court statistics for civil claims and even then a large proportion would be ‘family’ cases rather than cohabitees. It’s complete guesswork

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One for @andyburnham.bsky.social to answer. There is no longer any kind of justification for HMG to have any kind of relationship with Musk’s X. A collective back turning will send the best kind of message for a new politics

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My talented wife’s drawing this afternoon is now my screensaver ❤️

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

With justice for Ann thrown under the bus in the process

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I always knew that you’d end up on the news, but probably not for this

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When MAGA republicans are eventually expelled from Washington, Grindr traffic is going to feel like the 2008 Nasdaq.

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

You may well be right but with the kind of majority available to him, he could have embraced muscular democracy and legislated away the structural imbalances in the media and political ecosystem. Or at least explained what he was doing and started the process. Talk about low hanging fruit

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I was / am a huge admirer of the way that Starmer went about government. Yes, there were traps he fell into that he should have seen but he was making progress. The problem though is that he did not/ could not articulate a vision or communicate a strategy that embedded and inspired the public. Fatal

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be fair he was so far up Trump’s ass it was hard to tell with he ended and Trump began.

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Unity candidate (Tories should get on board given how much Reform is strangling their support) and let Restore have a free run at the right flank

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Take a look at Canada and think, this is what we could have had

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wonder which version of the bible he reads. The Thiel Version perhaps.

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Morocco would like a word in the QFs

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not content with trying to break the EU & ECHR, Farage also cofounded a group aimed at breaking the WHO. And would you look at that, it has links to the nicotine industry and doesn’t want regulations on vapes! As always with Farage, follow the money. He’s nothing but a political prostitute.

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

At least Adrian Chiles can look back fondly at his time on the radio, but I agree he’s also inexplicably paid by the Guardian to write shite. I often wonder if it’s some kind of performance art

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Imagine standing back and looking at your career and reflecting on the low quality, lazy shite you were paid to pump out

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Richard Barge @richardbarge.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

He’s positioning himself for 2028. Nothing more or less

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