Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Lets be positive for once: – instead of calling them “Hate Marches “ for political gain – how about “Semite Support Marches” where Christians, Muslims, Jews and Atheist can show support for Palestinians and sympathetic Israelis, who are also attacked by the Israeli Government. 100
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Let’s hope so – but US Strategy includes supporting right-wing European parties e.g. this image of Vance and Orbán 7April26. Hungary’s system gives some immunity to interference, but ours under FPTP is an open goal to US intervention. FPTP is not only dis-proportional, it’s a political security risk 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/04/2026US National Security Strategy includes supporting right-wing European parties e.g. this image of Vance and Orbán 7April26. Hungary’s system gives some immunity to interference, but ours under FPTP is an open goal to US intervention. FPTP is not only dis-proportional, it’s a political security risk. 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Donald Juvenile Trump has been awarded several prizes in lieu of the Nobel Peace Prize to keep him sweet, including this sick commemorative plaque from Netanyahu. Is it time to award him the ? ? War Prize - for services to Climate Change, and the removal of humanity, so leaving a peaceful world? 😕 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026The Rycroft Review says: foreign interests seek to interfere in our politics / in our newly volatile politics even marginal impacts could have a disproportionate bearing on democracy. However, it says nothing about the vulnerability and risks of using FPTP in this situation – a glaring omission. 011
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The Hillsborough Law (Public Office Accountability Bill) will make it a criminal offence for PMs and cabinet ministers to deliberately mislead the public – but not backbench MPs or peers. Over 30 MPs back Luke Myer’s amendment to apply it to all members of both houses of parliament. Does your MP? 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Labour was elected in 2024 on 33.7% vote share, but the figure includes ALL the Labour wish list votes. Party MPs, derived from a distortion of voters’ wish lists, represent us, not the party wish list. The vote share electing Labour MPs was 26.4% - the chart shows vote shares for all MPs similarly. 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 08/02/20261930 propaganda was a poster, now it’s a social media clip, with an irrelevant attention-seeking “poster boy”. Prior to infamous image, the clip gives a plausible (but debunked) explanation of State Election Fraud via “forensic access to a DS200 tabulator” - that's the deliberate propaganda message 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The hung parliament of 2010 gave us a coalition government, and prevented an EU Referendum by the Tories. But we stuck with FPTP - so Cameron, with a small majority in 2015, had to placate his ERG, gave them a referendum, and destroyed the country. If we had changed to PR, and more coalitions . . ? 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 22/12/2025We shot ourselves in the foot with Brexit, now we’re hanging ourselves with FPTP - why? With US strategy to help right-wing parties in EU & UK, unregulated political donations allowing “dark money” donations, topped off with a hackable electoral system, we do it because of failed-fptp.netlify.app 010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 14/11/2025What’s wrong with the First Past The Post voting system? Is it fit for purpose in today’s political scene? Try this Challenge - then go to makevotesmatter.org.uk/wp-content/u... for Actual Results and an explanation - you may be very surprised. 011
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Re FPTP Challenge Bonus Question - once FPTP could be said to be appropriate, but now it’s hopelessly inappropriate for our modern widespread political choices. It also gives us one of the most unrepresentative democracies worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank... 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/11/202550 years of using a 2 party voting system with multiple parties. It’s more a Poker Game than Democratic Voting - and the outcomes are becoming even more uncertain as FPTP struggles with more party options. QR code re An Index by Country = worldpopulationreview.com/countries 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/11/2025More implications of using a 2 party voting system with multiple parties. The 2024 GE gave many MPs elected on very low vote share, but you wouldn’t know it. For one reason we pretend that they are elected with a Majority when in fact it was a “negative Majority” or Minority. 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/11/2025We’re still using a 2 party voting system with an ever increasing number of possible parties. A result is we must pretend that MPs are elected with a Majority when in fact it’s a “negative Majority” or Minority. The correct term would generally be Margin of Victory - over the 2nd placed candidate. 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Peter Kelner (political commentator etc.) on LBC 26 May 17:10 ish said: “here’s the joker in the pack, we have a FPTP voting system which is basically designed for 2 party competition, when you put in 4,5 6 parties . . . leads to very very weird results”. See image re how we fool ourselves all OK. 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Plse sign up & share to stop madness Windrush Against Sewage Pollution – general info. Sign up for news www.windrushwasp.org/our-work Surfers Against Sewage - Be part of the movement www.sas.org.uk/take-action/ Green Peace - Sign to stop sewage pollution www.greenpeace.org.uk/take-action/... 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Please sign up and share to stop the madness We Own It - Take Thames Water into public ownership weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin... Don’t Pay for Dirty Water - Join the boycott – and advise on doing so. extinctionrebellion.uk/act-now/camp... 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 23/02/2025T Water again pumping sewage into Misbourne and The Chalfonts. rb.gy/zw14lv It says Environment Agency allows discharge during periods of heavy rainfall. Should be exceptional heavy rain. Attached shows frequent discharge. We pay for a service using fly-tipping - in other situation it’s prosecutable 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025If we fall out with the US our very expensive Trident deterrent will have problems. The US could halt access to maintenance or resupply of missiles - we do have some but they rely on US made inertial guidance systems needing servicing, calibration, and software updates by the US (GPTChat). 🥺⁉️ 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 19/02/2025When will some kind person help Donald, and the World, and care for him at Mar-a-Lago? 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 07/02/20256/2/25 Netanyahu gave, and Trump accepted, a commemorative exploding pager – sick. Worldcrunch.com say: “Israel Killing People With Their Own Everyday Devices Is A War Crime — And A Threat To Us All” Plus Gaza Rivera - where does the Holocaust sit with all this? What's US voters given the world? 010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 06/02/2025When discussing Reform UK & Farage, Lewis Goodall on LBC referred to a Political Market. But - whereas the Commercial Market is regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority, any nonsense is OK in the Political Market. So why not “No more 'freedom to lie': follow New Zealand's example” ⁉️ 010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/01/2025A follow up to River Roding “aggregate of discharges & not during extreme rainfall” - this chart shows discharges from each of the 25 locations, all discharge but some very much worse than others. You’’ll have a hard job Sadiq. 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Mayor Sadiq Khan wants the River Roding, a major Thames tributary running through Essex, cleaned up for recreation & swimming – good luck with that. It’s a favorite sewage dumping place for Thames Water with 25 discharge locations – chart is aggregate of discharges & not during extreme rainfall 041
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Following a period of heavy rain . . ! ? ! . . Their system is incontinent – the chart shows regular discharges, this is not all due to heavy rain. Are you / we complicit in paying to fly-tip excrement? 010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Why do we pay water companies to fly-tip our waste? But how to prevent it? Storing increasing levels & frequency of storm water (excluding floods) for latter processing isn’t practical. Mitigating in rural areas is more feasible than urban – tackle at source, a modern version of night-soil-man?🤨😕 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Thames Water is updating 15 Sewage Treatment Works to cope with population growth (Business Plan 2025-30), but not Climate Change until 2030. Wantage is one of the works, and as chart shows it’s struggling with current levels of storm surface water now – why no plans to address this NOW? 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Who in their right mind would hand over an Essential National Service to the free market - and then not even regulate it properly? 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 19/12/2024From studying Thames Water’s 2025-30 Business Plan & email discussions with them, it appears Climate Change is not included in plans for 15 target sites, despite much talk about CC. They are following a Benign Climate Change Scenario until the last decade of the planning period – what about NOW? 011
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Are we a Democracy? Gallagher indx is based on a simple measure of the difference between % votes and % seats. The better the match, lower the score, indicating a High Level of Voter Representation. Our last election gave us our highest score yet, but because we use the wrong system it’s always high 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Disappearing BBC news item & the Party that should. I’m sure this chart was on News at Ten 9 Dec, but has now disappeared from iPplayer. Remember Cameron placating the ERG etc. with a referendum in 2016? It’s destroyed the country and Conservatives – why are they even in opposition? 000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/11/2024So 3 million want another GE and FPTP luck-dip now. Our results have little to do with voter numbers, see image, it’s about the mix & concentration of parties on offer. We have 1 of lowest Gallegher index (degree of non-representation) in world the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagh... . 010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Thames Water’s EDM map (www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map) not looking good (10:00 24nov). 179 Combined Sewage Overflows discharging over the last 48 hours. OK it rained a bit last night, but that wasn’t an excused exceptional once in 30, or even 10, year even. 000