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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 6h

Eggs were rationed to 1 per person per week (if available) in WW2, and we certainly didn’t have fresh bananas or fresh coffee. Is this a photo of the King’s breakfast?

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 9h

I get that but would you be that sanguine about it if it was your pension pot that suddenly shrank? I’m not defending what the water companies have done, just that the fact that the pension funds and what government would do about that complicates the issue.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 12h

The whole downsizing theory is detached from the general human attachment to a home and the social network that is built around it. Even if there were properties people could reasonably downsize into, most people wouldn’t.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 14h

Guess we know what a big chunk of the £72m is going on. Sadly for Deform, this isn’t the US, so it’s unlikely to work. What a terrible shame. 🙄

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 14h

Pensions. Because privatised regulated industry worldwide’s lower risk as returns are guaranteed by monopoly providers billing captured consumers, the pensions industry is heavily leveraged in them. So nationalisation without compensation would hurt ordinary people who’d lose invested pension funds

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 14h

South East Water has never been publicly owned.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They will never escape Thatcher’s ghost. They have nothing but contempt for the poor, asset stripping & protecting profits for corporations, most of which are based outside of the UK these days. How they weren’t completely annihilated at the last GE is a bit of a mystery and they’ve not improved.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This isn’t a remotely serious proposal. It’s quite a problem that the main opposition party has gone this doolally

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve never actually heard Carlson before and after that clip I know I won’t ever again. What a thunderous level of stupidity.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The progress that the Green Party has made in England & Wales had the potential to force a sensible environmental policy position in other parties. That they have been hijacked by antisemitic people with no interest in their party progressing its overall political agenda is a great shame.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, if they’re talking about “renationalising” things, South East Water has never been publicly owned. Along with a handful of other water companies.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That would blow a hole in quite a few pension funds, wouldn’t it?

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Should we put up business rates to pay for training all of the extra NHS Occupational Therapists and related administrative staff to pay for this do you think? There’s not an army of them twiddling their thumbs at the moment strangely enough.

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

Save me a job, since you’re giving it a go and stick with it. I m sure I’ll enjoy the review.

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

We are many, they are few. Don’t let yourself think that a line on a map or an accent is what we are.

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

One of the big reasons that Reform will fail at a GE is that they will have to describe a broad suite of ideas out loud and they will sound as nuts as Braverman does here. Not many constituencies where 38%+ of the electorate are out and out racist morons.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What measles did to one family

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

And under Davey, as under Clegg, they have leaned far more toward the centre right liberalism that granted looks similar to the Labour right, but also to One Nation Conservativism. There is a tension between these Lib Dems and those more left liberal leaning members

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

The Liberal Democrats are more a small central government, pro local decision making, pro business but anti monopoly/oligarchy, and have far more democratic policy structures than Labour. Hence the Labour leadership can ignore members on things more easily as they have on PR until now.

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

I think “Labour in yellow“ is a lazy interpretation. Labour always has an authoritarian streak in power (eg ASBOs & Palestine Action) and despite Burnham’s recent uttering is very centralised in its governance thinking (eg see recent planning policy which locks councillors out of most decisions)

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

Serie A relegated its most successful club ever for cheating. Man City’s a club that historically has a smallish fan base compared to the biggest clubs and yo-yoed around divisions with occasional success. The only reason other EPL clubs wouldn’t want them punished that makes any sense is complicity

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

Is it re-titled for the US broadcast? It’s the Great British Bake-Off here in the UK. Honest question out of curiosity, would the original title be considered off colour or cause confusion for US viewers?

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

I was a kid in the 80s and came of age in the late 90s. There’s plenty that Labour under Blair got wrong but the idea that it wasn’t a better experience for ordinary working families is just silly. In the 80s we asset stripped the country and left entire parts of the country to rot.

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

Burnham can communicate through normal media with people that don’t already agree with him. Corbyn simply couldn’t and still can’t. If he had anything going for him in terms of leadership he could have made a better effort at setting up a new leftist party, instead of it falling at the 1st hurdle.

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

The EU also hinges on shared opportunities and costs. The UK needs free movement of capital, services & people more than goods. Other countries have different priorities but all have the same obligations. Of course we are constantly gaslighted that we don’t need free movement of people!

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Andrea Hacker @ahacker.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi, European here. Little tip if I may: look up and see the bigger picture. Europe is an idea, a joint path forward. Carney got that better than most Brits ever did. If you're only in it for the money, maybe don't bother.

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

It’s a constant surprise that they just don’t realise how cooked they are. Davey is firmly positioned now as a liberal 1 Nation centre right liberal, Farage & Lowe are hoovering up hard right voters and the Tories have nothing but opposition for opposition’s sake. They are a busted flush

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NigelFarage has been named Terrorists’ PR Professional of the Year after once again demonstrating that people can be made to #fear a terrorist attack without terrorists even having to organise one. #ReformPanic

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

That’s a pretty narrow interpretation of the speech.

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

It’s almost as if the government has a lot of influence over messaging. One of the huge problems with Starmer was that he couldn’t work the news agenda competently.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If it was a good system it would be widely replicated. It can work in a 2 party system but with 5/6 viable parties on the ballot you end up with a government supported by no more than a 3rd of the electorate, which is clearly untenable.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be fair, this is harsh on the players and on the fans. Yes, the club cheated and must be punished but that tarnishes entire careers & happy memories. Also a lot of good innocent people will lose their jobs when City are punished & their billionaire owners cut costs. Whole thing’s a horrible mess.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagine if we were using this to figure out how to arrest the impact of climate change by modelling how to sustainably fish, or how to adapt agricultural practices at pace to adapt to the chaotic weather patterns. I can write my own damn emails!

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely, what is the market for this stuff? Where are the academic studies evidencing that a use case has been found that justifies the financial and environmental costs of this? What is the end game? The more it creeps into everyday life the less useful it appears to be.

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And where social care is concerned, we’re told that gambling that you’re not going to be one of the unlucky ones that needs it in old age is the best way to go. It takes everything from those that are unlucky. Stupidest lottery going.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

She’s so weak. Marr or Neil would have actually researched around the policy area and asked some forensic questions. All she’s got is “say you’re raising tax” as if it’s a given that taxation is bad. I sure wish my taxes weren’t paying her outrageous salary.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Spanish rules for them are just hilarious. The driver on the outside lane can use any exit but the inside lane is for faster moving traffic. Makes no sense!

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had to read that for GCSE or A-Level. Can’t remember which or anything about the play at all.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

8,000 miles Now you could give me the potted history of Argentinian indigenous peoples of the islands and their governance of the islands. I’ll wait 😂

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Samuel L. Jackson: Tick Tock, Muthafucka!

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Roughly 7 miles between the Isle of Wight & the mainland. Roughly 300 between Argentina and the Falklands.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Should we not apply the same thinking to pensioners, especially those in receipt of pensions credits and winter fuel allowance? Given half of working age benefits are subsidising businesses that don’t pay a liveable wage surely all benefit recipients should have equal morality policing?

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Polling two years out from an election and running it as news is criminally stupid.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One 12 cup mokka as 2 americanos. One cup of tea.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You’re right of course. The cordon sanitaire and a basic respect for the rule of law are essential on both left and right. If that fails we see the horrors of Nazis & Soviets. Crazy that Rees Mogg of all people is pulling people up on ethnic nationalism rather than the entire Tory front bench.

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We definitely need more right of centre advocates for the rule of law at the moment. Dover Port being effectively closed and there being zero consequences is completely unacceptable, especially when there are people imprisoned for just planning to disrupt the M25. Crazy days!

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roblotsanumbers.bsky.social @roblotsanumbers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reported by Sky as being “of no fixed abode” which might cause him bail problems I guess.

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