Arguing daily that adequate housing should be a universal human right in law! @CardiffCityFC. Proud Dad. Views my own. Over on @mattydicks.bsky.social
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I'm off to a place where rational objective fact is still the basis of discussion and debate!
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Who can forget this famous reenactment from Don’t Look Up via @gbnews in 2022
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Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:
"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."
It's not true, it's utter garbage.
I'll go through facts and figures. /1
Another day travelling with @GWRHelp.........another day of delays.....another day of absolutely no information....another day of absolute rubbish!
Well looks like @MoonpigUK has the worst customer servcie I think I have ever experienced......in thet they have none. Seems there isn't a way of contacting them about an order that hasn't turned up. None of the options on their "contact customer servcie" page work!
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A reminder.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
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White Paper stops short of right to adequate housing whq.org.uk/2024/10/25/white-…
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Reform UK are pushing immigration hard as an issue in the Caerphilly by-election.
Just for context, Caerphilly has the THE LOWEST, immigration rate of all Wales' 22 councils.
97.1% of people there were born in the UK.
Only Cardiff and Newport have move that 10% born overseas and even those figures are low.
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It feels timely & appropriate to post this magnificent beast ... the ultimate vox pop!
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Nigel Farage today opened his 'Lawless Britain' press conference saying he now rejects the Crime Survey of England & Wales - the only validated crime level measurement.
The 35,000-households Crime Survey is fatal to anyone wanting to present a picture of immigrant-driven crime surge...
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What we are watching is Trump’s tariff-induced crash turning into a Truss-style fiscal crisis. The collapse in US government long bonds, Treasuries, is startling, scary. It is precisely the opposite of what Trump and his advisers expected and wanted. It partly reflects heightened fears of US recession - which would see ballooning of US deficit - and may also be revenge selling by sovereign holders in tariff-hit countries. This bond market turmoil also increases risk of margin calls and forced sales by over exposed institutional investors. Another huge day.
If the US government struggles in its auctions when selling new government bonds to fund its current deficit, at that juncture surely Trump capitulates to market pressure. The other actors to watch are the central banks - the Fed, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank - and whether they are obliged to act intervene by cutting interest rates and providing liquidity
The most profound and disturbing work of drama I've ever seen!
I hope this pushes the issue of how our young people interact with, and are influenced by, bad actors and damaging content on social media further to the top of the political agenda!
netflix.com/gb/title/8175606…
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Dan Snow, "If you're worried about the rules based order, it turns out getting an internationalist lawyer in charge of your country, Keir Starmer, is the right man for the job"
"He's been sober, he's said the right thing, been strong about Ukraine"
"Not annoying the Trump administration while also trying to form this coalition of the willing"
"And I'm very glad I'm not a diplomat or a politician at the moment"
"What if they French say that to be part of this new procurement process we need to build closer links with the EU?"
"What do we do about whether we buy from America or whether we buy from German or other EU countries"
"This is Churchill sayings we're fighting on the beaches.. The next bit is how do we deter Putin"
Very good from @thehistoryguy 👏
Two tier policing? Is it when one set of protestors who block roads are forcebly removed by police and sent to prison, while another set(in tractors) who also block roads, aren't?
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Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’?
BBC Verify carried out extensive searches of HO guidance across that period & found no evidence any document containing that advice exists
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