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Listen to this from 1m20 - this is Lord Bethell, ex Conservative health minister. "...the treasury took the view that spending money on health was basically money down the drain, and all that would happen is that it would lead to people living longer & costing us more... "

@jackgooner123 @MichaelLCrick @FindoutnowUK Now tell me the sample size for that poll.

@MichaelLCrick @FindoutnowUK No faith because you don't like their results? They were bang on with Lincolnshire Mayoralty election last May

Newsnight are bonkers to mention an opinion poll in Gorton & Denton with a sample of just 143. 1,000 is the normal respectable sample size.

@charliemansell @MichaelLCrick @FindoutnowUK I've already had a ding dong today with someone over quoting betting odds. They can't accept that odds have more to do with betting patterns than an objective judgement.

@MichaelLCrick @FindoutnowUK But people seem to be quite happy to cite self-selecting betting odds as part of social norming news stories and no one seems to criticise that.

@implausibleblog From The Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament.

@implausibleblog "Members shall at all times conduct themselves in a manner which will tend to maintain and strengthen the public's trust and confidence in the integrity of Parliament and never undertake any action which would bring the HoC, or its Members generally, into disrepute."

LibDem MP Max Wilkinson makes an important Point of Order, "During #PMQs I was sitting behind Nigel Farage I made some comments related to his second earnings" "A Reform UK social media account digitally manipulated those comments to give the appearance that I had described Nigel Farage using a four letter expletive" "This is misinformation, it is fake news, this is Trumpian tactics" "It was reported to Elon Musk's X, no response was received" "If footage in this House is allowed to be digitally manipulated for political ends, in the name of members of this House, then that puts at risks, proceedings in this house" "And that puts at risk democracy" "I raise this point of order today to put on the public record the facts, so my constituents and everyone else can know exactly what happened'

@lisarn0901 @Number10cat Don't be silly.

@Number10cat That dear Larry the cat, is why your country is over 50% Indian and Pakistani now!

Unlike certain other countries, we know how to welcome and be hospitable to guests.

@TruthJones74 @MariaDean261217 @miffythegamer Let me get this right. You think White British parents are calling their sons Mohammed? 😂

@phelecPaul @MariaDean261217 @miffythegamer The Muslim influence of course.

WTF is this pure shite appearing on my timeline? Please, let’s all block @ BritainForTrump

@TruthJones74 @MariaDean261217 @miffythegamer Quite true. However, I'd love to hear your explanation for that, given that a significant majority of UK births are to White British parents.

@MariaDean261217 @miffythegamer Stating facts is not racist, so kindly get bent.

@baggottsilver Such sad news, my most sincere condolences to his family and those close. Goodbye Michael, your wit and wisdom will be missed.

@MartinSLewis @Daily_Express Starting to see these type of bs stories elsewhere too, particularly on local newspaper social media.

Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by @Daily_Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.

@CoherentMoney @MartinSLewis Platforms give scammers the tools to operate. Making it even easier for them? That's just crazy.

@MartinSLewis There are always going to be places to scam people. Humanity should be focussing attention on going after the scammers themselves, not the platform’s individually. That just shifts the problem elsewhere.

This looks a seismic change. It affects all areas. Focusing only on my work area though. Having sued facebook over scam ads in the past. Is there's no mention of scams here. Will this free up more people to be ripped of?

@MartinSLewis It will certainly free scammers to rip more people off.

@Pott_Shrigley_ @tanita_tikaram Takes me back a few years...

@GaryHeron2 @paul1964Jam Mr Deryck Lennox-Brown

@paul1964Jam On the radio he was one of the 'Men From The Ministry'.

Who remembers Deryck Guyler

@RobertJenrick Of course, you wouldn't be interested in any "moral" case.

Every day, another sell-out by Starmer.

@HereLiesBlueDog @MaryLTrump Your adversaries are not laughing, they're rubbing their hands.

@MaryLTrump This is officially the dumbest fucking country on the planet, and our adversaries are laughing at us.

Well done, America.

@iandalrymple9 @EddyCanforDumas @MichaelLCrick @fifisyms Is anybody claiming she was an economist at HBOS?

@EddyCanforDumas @MichaelLCrick @fifisyms I did it for him....

These alleged false CV claims by Rachel Reeves are serious. Unless she can produce a good explanation, she should resign as Chancellor & MP - or be sacked. I know that won't happen, but brushing the allegations aside will only encourage others to make false claims.

@baggottsilver I thought you had been a bit quiet, hope everything is okay 👍 While you were away, lots of folk have left and gone to Bluesky, it's quite nice over there.

Forgive continuing radio silence Plane crashed in a strange distant land Two survivors and me UPDATE: (They were both delicious)

@exitthelemming My thoughts are with you all.

@EngineerLondon Is there a workaround? I joined a while ago, but it was a bit quiet & not done much with it. Seems there's been a bit of an exodus recently...

BlueSky limits vids to just 60s… They really need to up that I think ⏱️

Carl Sagan had a good idea of what could lay ahead. It applies to any modern, liberal democracy, including the UK. Because over time, this is what capitalism does - it concentrates wealth & power in the hands of a few. Building new, democratic, participatory institutions and capacities - from water to social media - is the only answer to the rising alt-right. That means taking on the billionaires, banks & corporations that have too much of it and redistributing it throughout our democracy. 'Populism' isn't the problem. Rather it's the answer. “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” Carl Sagan