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
Paul Brownjohn
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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.
Paul Brownjohn
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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.
@seb321 @GeofCox @petealexharris @simon_brooke
In many countries, voting is legally obligatory - Australia and Luxembourg are two that I am certain of, but I'm sure there are a number of others!
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!
One of my favourite breakfasts - scrambled eggs on toast.
My mother always used to add milk to scrambled eggs and massively overcook them to a rubbery texture. Then a classically trained chef taught me how to cook them properly. NO MILK and LOTS and LOTS of BUTTER and only cook them for the time necessary whilst whisking constantly they should be a slurry, not great rubbery lumps swilling about in the liquid from the milk.
I'm in Luxembourg but I had this one down as Hemaris fuciformis
They do look very similar but I understand the species found in North America is not the same.
Trump is the Devil
I think educationally sub-normal is the word you want! The word is that he can barely read and write!
Paul Brownjohn
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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.
Paul Brownjohn
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@medidekpu @Paulos_the_fog And they do male some nice label makers (though that is, broadly, a printer)
I'm not a Scot but I support Scottish independence. I hope Starmer wins the general election but I agree that his attitude to independence is worrying. However, task number 1 is to get rid of the venal tory scum then other matters can be dealt with in a civilised manner!
I have found HP (as in the printers and computer peripherals) to be of the most inferior quality with loads of problems. I now buy only Brother brand printers (I have two printers an A4 colour laser and an A3 inkjet specifically for printing colour photos) and I find the quality of their printing and their reliability to be outstanding!
Like most US companies, they don't have any morals or conscience they just want the $s
@cynical13
I have been having troubles with Goggle Chrome just lately so I have abandoned it in favour of other browsers.
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
