AlanS
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'Climate science' is the Left's new religion, and if you dare to question it at all you're a Climate Blasphemer.
And what an irony that someone who helped create Life of Brian — a film that mocked intolerance and certainty — now thinks people should be locked up for wrongthink.
Eric Idle@EricIdle
People who deny climate change should be locked up. Ignorance is not an adequate response to danger.
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FUN FACT: all man-made carbon dioxide emissions in the entire history of the human race across 100,000 years add up to less CO2 than Mother Nature emits every 4 years. Go figure.
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Will the Green Party explain how mankind’s minuscule net contribution to atmospheric CO2 (less than 1 atom per million per decade) can dramatically change climate? Of course not. Because it’s total baloney
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@126_alan @catharfury @NeilDotObrien CS are some of the laziest workers about, likely plenty of areas where the job of 2/3 competent people is currently split between 5/6 half arsed types.
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This is why we can cut the size of the civil service to that of a decade ago and still increase productivity
James Heale@JAHeale
Instagram influencers are a Taxpayers’ Alliance dream
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@asiageoff Still a lot better than Flower of Scotland - that is truly abysmal.
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Can’t really blame the majority of British sports fans wanting to replace ‘God Save The King’ as a national anthem (according to The Athletic). It is a miserably trite and banal piece of music, with meandering one step scalic movement and few intervals - a dirge. Time to off it.
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@JamesKelly If people always say something, maybe it's because it's always true.
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@126_alan That's the sort of thing people always say when they can't find fault with a point but want to shut it down anyway.
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In the steeplechase the other night, an English athlete started to make a late comeback and the stadium announcer excitedly said "when you're racing on home soil anything can happen!" If you have a Team Scotland, why let announcers treat it as a fiction or a technicality?
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@JRB_O_Liverpool @catharfury @NeilDotObrien Shouldn't we have some sort of study to show whether job cuts are viable? People on here just decide job cuts are fine then think of a number. I'm sure they wouldn't be happy if their Pension claim was delayed due to lack of staff.
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@catharfury @NeilDotObrien There is a lack of talent and high calibre people in the CS, it’s why we cannot justify higher salaries. We need to cut at least 50-100k jobs, with a focus on keeping higher performers with increased pay and attracting genuine talent with higher base salaries
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@NealOKelly @ade__87 @catharfury @NeilDotObrien I don't think they have had 1/2 day Xmas shopping for a long while.
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@ade__87 @catharfury @NeilDotObrien + Queen's Birthday; half-day Maundy Thursday; half-day Xmas shopping.
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@ulookingatmefu @londonHenryGB I presume she's using annual leave and flexi that she's built up. What exactly do you object to - civil servants having annual leave? Flexible working hours? Pay?
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@126_alan @londonHenryGB Ur exactly the issue. Total weapon. So U would allow people to swab about rather than working?
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This is what happens when you don’t have profit incentives.
Dr Lawrence Newport@lawrencenewport
Civil servants are now making videos about how little work they do. There are now nearly 550,000 civil servants in Britain. Do you feel like your public services are better as a result?
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@MilenaAmit Just a thought. I'm 64 and my best friend is a 30 year old woman. It isn't a sexual or romantic relationship and I don't want it to be. I'm not sure why I would neceesarily have more "in common" with a 60+ year old than with her. Please enlighten me.
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I have yet to see a single individual offer a persuasive argument of what a 40+ year old man offers a young 20 year old woman full of potential. All I am seeing is men and their wants - sex, fertility, no baggage - it's ALL ABOUT YOU. What are YOU bringing to the table, partner?
Milenka~@MilenaAmit
If you're a 40 year old guy, what the fvck do you have in common with a girl that just graduated high school a few months prior?
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@RJSHutton As I understand it, the DWP lavishes money on those who don't need it but is extremely stingy to those who do. That's what the press and social media tell me.
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Can confirm. I simply waked into a Job Centre and said 'scuse me mate, I am having some ADHD'. They immediately gave me a cheque for £10 million, a free palace, and carriage made out of a pumpkin drawn by two unicorns.
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Queen Bee@KingBobIIV
@SandyofSuffolk @TalkTV I am a taxi driver, and, for the bants, I decided to apply and see if I was entitled to PIP and free transport to work - based on my medical history, I am indeed entitled to free transport to and from work...as a taxi driver. The entire system is a joke.
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@MilenaAmit What do you do when you're not minding other people's business?
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Civil servants are layabouts
They’d be fired by lunchtime if they were to work for a private company
Dr Lawrence Newport@lawrencenewport
Civil servants are now making videos about how little work they do. There are now nearly 550,000 civil servants in Britain. Do you feel like your public services are better as a result?
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I'm still fascinated by the fact that the same people who say "the climate has always changed, therefore humans have nothing to do with it", claim the exact opposite when there's a wildfire - must be arson.
If you believe humans can cause wildfires why can't they alter climate?
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@BenGrahamUK @ECOuteSvp It's dry in summer so naturally fires spread easily.
You're so close to getting it.
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@ECOuteSvp It's dry in summer so naturally fires spread easily, that doesn't take away the fact that if nobody started the fire in the first place we would not have forest fires, it has nothing to do with climate change.
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Europe doesn't have a climate change problem.
It has an arson problem.
Every summer we're told the fires are proof of climate change, yet time and again people are arrested for deliberately starting wildfires.
The real question is: who benefits from turning every wildfire into a climate narrative before the cause is even established?
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband
The wildfires in Europe remind us that the climate crisis is happening now. It knows no borders and impacts us all. The UK, France and Spain are committed to the Paris Agreement. We will continue working together to build resilience and tackle climate change.
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@BenGrahamUK Gary Player once said "the more I practice, the luckier I get".
It seems the hotter it gets, the more arson we get.
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@obr43724302 @nightingales2_2 It's interesting that we spend a lot more time discussing people who don't need benefits but get them than we do discussing what people need.
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@nightingales2_2 Don't think people begrudge genuine folk who receive it. It's the spongers who play the system people don't like and there's far too many of those
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It amazes me that some people are jealous of disabled people getting PIP... and yes i said 'jealous'. What kind of country do we live in where disabled people are demonised, vilified, made to feel guilty, like a common criminal for something that is beyond their control.
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