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Callum

@scunn.bsky.social
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Books. No answers. Secondary school teacher. Philosophy, ethics, and the questions nobody wants to sit with.

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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Energy's a handful of regulated suppliers. Food runs farm, processor, haulage, supermarket. Cap the shelf price and somebody else takes the hit. i'd quite like them to say who, exactly.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The scam is calling the Duchy "private". Private how, exactly, when the title, land and deference all exist because the state keeps the whole costume drama in business? Public power, private cash. Lovely arrangement.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Built budgets on overseas fees and new glass buildings, then acted stunned when visa rules moved. I'm supposed to call that bad luck?
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
What gets me is the script never changes: vanity builds, hole in the budget, senior exit, then staff get the hiring freeze and students get the "challenging context" email. Funny how accountability always seems to leave campus first, eh.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Easy to back change when the PLP, the lobby and your wee media pals know it's never happening. Soon as it might cost them a column, a seat or a dinner invite, suddenly they're very serious about stability.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Aye, and I'm not asking for permanent surpluses. I'm saying you can run deficits and still admit recurring spend needs a tax base behind it. Borrowing patches a hole. It doesnae pay the same nurses, teachers and bins forever.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Seen it kick in around S3. Once exams and tracking start, every missed homework turns into data, interventions, parent emails, predicted grades. Folk blame age. Schools panic because the stats start counting.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Worth asking why the country's been run into a wall by folk with degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and LSE. Spent enough time in classrooms to know the problem never looked like a shortage of graduates.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For me, debt rising because a year's books dont balance isnt the same as building permanent current spending on borrowing. Capital can earn its keep. Salaries, bins and wards still need paid next year anaw.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Can call them made up, but markets price them as real. Truss had already shown what happens when a PM announces a big unfunded spree and hopes vibes cover it. I'd borrow for investment. Day-to-day and defence on debt was never flying.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Aye, and I mind later being told Scotland was "subsidised" by the same state that had already spent the oil and handed ex-industrial towns the bill for deindustrialisation. Handy wee trick, eh.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Aye but the sums are still the sums. A 1p income tax rise brings in roughly £6bn. The NHS can swallow that before you've touched councils, schools or defence, and borrowing for day-to-day spending blows up your fiscal rules straight away.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Grammar schools are the wee loophole. State on paper, socially a different country. I'd count that separately from the average comp.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Still stuck on the maths for me. Income tax up straight after the election and borrowing for day-to-day spending plus defence would've been political suicide, and you'd still be choosing between councils, schools and the NHS.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Aye, and i'm saying the mechanism matters. It wasnt just England getting a shiny bit. It kept the UK books afloat while pits, yards and steel were being gutted, including here. Thats why the stock exchange stuff is too wee.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Nah, you were spared a pile of nonsense. I had wee guys fine with planting bulbs till another boy called it girls' stuff, then suddenly they were too hard for a trowel.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Marked essays with less overclaiming than this. GDP moved a fraction and waiting lists dipped a bit after being wrecked for years. Steady on.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For me the bit that doesnt work is wanting better hospitals, schools, councils and more defence spending all at once, then acting shocked when somebody picks winners. Where was that money meant to come from?
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The stock exchange bit's a sideshow. The real theft was burning North Sea money through the 80s on tax cuts and mass unemployment costs while Norway set up a fund in 1990. That was the choice.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Aye, but vice-chancellors didnae get here by accident either. Freeze the fee at £9,250 for years, pile on shiny buildings and overseas-fee dependence, then act stunned when departments get fed into the shredder.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Saw this with boys at school. Reusing a bottle got called girly; chucking rubbish about got read as hard. Grim wee way to build a personality.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
For me the daft bit is treating 33.7% on 59.7% turnout as a blood oath to whatever they've cooked up since. That result said more about the Tories collapsing than voters approving all this.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
9GW is the number. Folk can squabble over the atom bomb line, but "double the state's electricity use" should've ended the meeting.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Future-proofing apparently means bin the staff and keep the powerpoint folk. I'd love to hear how 2600 redundancies produce "excellent teaching" except by magic.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Funny you skipped GDP per head. I'd check that before the lap of honour, eh.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Aye, I'd believe the principle if they cared this much when workers got sacked for politics or students got told to shut up. Somehow "free speech" only appears when someone's desperate to say the foul bit out loud.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The fee cap's been stuck at £9,250 since 2017. I mind folk pretending endless overseas recruitment was a funding model. Brexit made it worse, aye, but the hole was already there.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Needs the full VC trick first. I've had uni emails announce redundancies and a new student experience strategy in the same paragraph.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Three years later and I've no idea who this helped. The cohort's gone, fees were paid, staff moved on. That's just paperwork landing after the damage, eh.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How many of these Green defections are real at Westminster though? Labour's bigger problem is folk just staying home. The voter they bored into the sofa hurts them more than the one lending the Greens a council vote.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Aye, and that's why "they know fuck all" is a bit lazy. A bought argument repeated for years starts sounding self-evident to folk who never chose it in the first place.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Would want the turnout and vote split beside this. I've seen ward seats won on stupid wee numbers, then it gets written up like an entire city turned out to back the racist.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Nah, you've just misread it. I've been saying that stuff gets planted, repeated and dressed up as obvious till folk call it common sense. Hardly a confession, mate.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Europe watched Catalonia and kept the engine running. I'm still asking who compels Westminster beyond hoping folk abroad look disappointed.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
27% of votes cast isn't "most people" in Newcastle, never mind with that turnout. good result, daft line.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
North of Ireland's got a border poll route in the GFA. Scotland hasnae. That's the sticking point. I'm asking who forces the issue here, beyond making Westminster ragin.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Makes me laugh that common sense needed a £200m marketing budget. If it were that obvious, they wouldnae need the same line laundered through papers, think tanks and Facebook ads for years to sell me it.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Found a whole line for the Greens and couldn't manage seven words about his own councillor.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Aye and how does a nastier Illinois map fix Wisconsin or North Carolina? Democrats can squeeze a few blue states, sure, but the bias in where voters live still favours Republicans.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Me saying Streeting softens folk up for more private NHS provision isn't me saying Labour and Reform are identical. Sunderland didnae go Reform because a few people noticed that. It went because Labour stopped giving folk much to vote for.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Nah, it's usually folk treating their own habits as natural law. I've heard "common sense" used for school uniform, tax cuts and hanging folk. Funny how it changes by postcode.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Been hearing this for years and nobody ever names the policy that got more popular once Democrats watered it down.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Can see the sales pitch, but i cannae see how you cut trade barriers while keeping the same red lines that created them. No single market, no customs union, same forms at the border.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Aye, westminster has the veto. That's the whole constitutional problem. I'm asking what the next move is after London bins the request again, because "mandate" on its own changes hee haw.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Aye, Farage was cruder about the endpoint. Streeting's route is softer: carve off more services, call it partnership, then blame the public side when it's hollowed out. No insurance card on day one, same direction.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Aye but "communities" cannae buy lab kit, journals or time. The scam was shifting universities onto fees, visas and property debt, then calling the managers inevitable. Somebody chose that model, and got paid very well for it.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Aye. Farage just blurted it out years back. Streeting dresses it up as "reform", "choice", "partnership" and folk act like that's a different road. It isn't.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Means he said the quiet bit too plainly. If they regretted the policy, they'd bin it.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Still stuck on the boring bit: I'm not seeing where 73 seats magic up a Section 30 when Westminster still says no.
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Callum @scunn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Can blame Starmer for plenty, but i'm not pinning the breakup of the UK on him when Brexit handed that argument to the SNP years ago.
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