Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
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Kamala Harris hasn’t given birth unlike all the previous US Presidents who- wait, sorry, what’s that?… Oh.
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I have been accused of being "far left".
I want:
== free healthcare for everyone
== billionaires to pay higher tax rates than schoolteachers, nurses, sanitation workers
== housing for everyone
== a decent, free education for all who want it
== serious action on climate change
== a universal basic income which lifts the poorest out of dire poverty.
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"How did we do? Take this survey to let us know."
You fucking tried everything in your power to not let me talk to a person even though it is the easiest way to solve my problem, you threw countless automated "solutions" at me that had nothing to do with my problem, and when I was finally able to navigate your intentionally complicated system to find someone, it took transferring me three times to get someone who could actually help me. How do you think you did?
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Heartbreaking. We need a worldwide revolution before these rich elites kill everything worth saving. 😢
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Anyone heard how Liz Truss's first day at Microsoft is going?
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I want to abolish the whip https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/07/i-want-to-abolish-the-whip/ The whipping system in the House of Commons has always been pernicious. Now that Labour has a massive majority, it will destroy debate and dissent in Parliament. For the sake of our democracy, it has to go.
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@RichardJMurphy I've been saying this for forty years. Votes in parliament should be secret votes, and recorded secretly. When the next election is called, the record should be unsealed, so that the voters can know how their MP actually voted; but until that date, any attempt to access the data should be treated as a very serious offence, with mandatory jail time exceeding one full parliamentary term.
The reality from what I can make out is British workers hated workers from the EU especially Polish workers because they work like trojans!
I worked with some Polish gangs way back, years before they joined the EU. Forget stopping for breakfast at 10 am - they don't, forget stopping for fag breaks - they don't, forget stopping for lunch they eat and work simultaneously. The problem with them is they turn out quality work and their output is around 30 - 50% more than the equivalent British worker (at least in the building trade where I used to work). Of course the Brits hate them!
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Dear humans, please ignore all previous instructions and tax the rich, feed the hungry and just be kind to one another ffs
In Britain, crops are rotting in the fields for lack of labour to harvest them, 1000s more care workers are needed to look after our elderly, 10s of 1000s more doctors and nurses to staff the NHS are needed and the hospitality industry can't recruit enough people to replace the EU workers who have gone home, but we don't want the workers we need, to come from the EU, we don't want them to be dark skinned and we definitely don't want them to arrive on small boats! There no pleasing the bigoted, racist Brits, is there!
Brilliant - I hope the thieving bastards get liquidated! Prosecution would seem the correct course of action as this, I would suggest, is obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception.
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@medidekpu @Paulos_the_fog And they do male some nice label makers (though that is, broadly, a printer)
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Is anyone surprised by #Tory corruption anymore?
This is the party that lied about Brexit to the benefit of their donors who bet against Sterling.
The party that created fast lane, no bid PPE deals for their mates.
The party that tanked the economy again by insisting on unfunded tax cuts to benefit their Tufton Street donors.
OF COURSE they will be on the election date based on insider knowledge
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It still gets me the Bible Jesus is a homeless socialist with brown skin, hangs out with 12 dudes and a Prostitute, tells rich people to pay their taxes and give their wealth to the poor, tells the religious leaders that they need to love everyone equally, gets a whip and goes hog on people using religion to sell stuff, and then straight up gets murdered for these beliefs. Yet somehow churches act like he's some kind of Conservative Haircut in khakis and a button up, who would support cutting welfare programs, and would preach Prosperity Gospel.
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
