Duncan White
@dcwhite
Invest in #greeneconomy not airports, #proportionalrepresentation. Everyone is a 1st class person! Everyone has their own "obvious"! If all vested interest groups worked together we could have have decent standards for EVERYBODY.
Even faster way of boosting UK high streets and hospitality etc would be to put proper tax on ridiculously cheap, holiday flights. By making them more expensive, we wld fly aborad less and spend more cash at home. We wld not need to expand airports & cld invest in reservoirs/clean energy instead.
@anitaanand.bsky.social Loving the piece on #bbcbh re Raymond Briggs collection & @oxfamgb.bsky.social shop in #hove. The Oxfam book shops are fantastic; in #leamington -sadly moving recently to slightly smaller premises- is very good too and often full of YOUNG PEOPLE. #booksaregreat
Does it make sense to cut welfare for pensioners/sick to give "hand outs" to pubs, clubs etc! Real problem is super cheap flights encourage Brits to spend most disposable cash- £40bn net- overseas, airlines/airports also foreign owned. Raise tax on flying; use revenue to INVEST in UK. #newsnight
Is Friday bin day EVERYWHERE in the UK? If so it sounds like my kind of job!
So pleased for all those loyal fans, both French and English. who bothered to turn up for what was mostly written off as a non-match; they were treated to probably the best match of the tournament! #bbclauark #bbcbh
At least @hignfy.bsky.social team agrees with your maffs @eddwilson.bsky.social Shame all these PPE types at the beeb cant count! #r4today #politicslive
UK lost any real influence in EU following this perfidious behaviour from Farage and his buffoons! Imagine if Sinn Fein took up their parliamentary seats and turned their backs as the King entered for King's speech! #r4today
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social Great question from @GreenPartyHan on subsidised booze in parliament; the despicable response from most MPs tells us all we need to know! Keep it up luv! TBF not a bad answer from Starmer! #pmqs #politicslive
However much Starmer struggles, there are 17 million reasons NOT to vote for Farage & his buffoons! UK needs proportional representation and plurality of control of all media outlets in order for us to progress. Democracry not Murdocracy! #bbclaurak #bbcbh
"great Wetherspoons" is a bit of an oxymoron but making Parliament dry would make economic and medical sense. Do it now! #r4today #politicslive
@evanhd.bsky.social Doesn't this aviation fuel shortage highlight stupidity of expanding #heathrow Surely govt shld grasp opportunity to REDUCE flying by taxing cheap holiday flights; encourage us to spend cash at home! No need for new runways. Use revenue to invest in #greeneconomy #bbcpm
War or no war, put proper tax on cheap holiday flights VAT at least; curb demand. UK spends 2.5 x overseas as tourism brings in. No need for stupid #heathrow expansion. Less congestion driving to airports; more cash spent on UK hospitality. Win-win-win-win. #westminsterhour #iran
This still seems to be most significant piece of info which rarely gets a mention. If the missiles hitting Cyprus came, not from Iran, but from USA or Israel, would Ms Badenoch suggest we start shooting "archers" in New York or Tel Aviv? #r4today #weekinwestminster
How can a President who has treated his own ppl like this go around bombing other countries for similar offences. Why did Americans elect this absolute muppet. #newsnight
Even though I NEVER voted Tory, I remember agreeing with Maggie for supporting USA bombing of Libya 1986: "when they are under attack, you stick by your mates in playground!" Now; are USA being attacked and are they still our friends? #r4today #politicslive #wato
Great interview as usual from @vicderbyshire.bsky.social but what a guy & the courage of his poor wife. Based on this I wld vote for him for President and probably her too! Maybe there is still hope of USA post Trump! #newsnight #r4today
ONS figures on net Migration since 2013. Do we need to monitor and watch this - yes! Does the UK have bigger problems/opportunities to improve economy/social infrastructue - yes. What does the Murdoch/Farage media focus on? #r4today #politicslive
Starmer (and Reeves) have made several poor policy decisions eg NICs, SL threshold freeze and ludicrous expansion of airports BUT he has shown courage with VAT on private schools. He seems like a decent guy & not a politician. Compared to antics of Boris & Farage etc, Starmer is a king! #r4today
I counted 6 uses of the "c" word in Prof John Curtis "analysis" of Gorton and Denton ie "working class". Ill-defined, pernicious & discriminatory language is of NO HELP in understanding the issues involved! Income, education, wealth etc can all be classified but NOT people! #r4today
Just trying to remember, is this the fourth time he's resigned or fifth? If only Murdoch has half his integrity! #r4today
Am probably being very dim but when a person says: "it's not important", sometimes it actually means "this is REALLY important to me!" Am just wondering how AI generated "people" are going to cope with this! #questionoftheday #bbcaq
Is it just me or is there a more dehumanising term than "boots on the ground". Whose boots are they? Notwithstanding recent IDF actions, military people are PEOPLE too! Not just the dead we shld remember; the living ones count too! #r4today
Wld like to use Blue Sky more but dosen't seem to work very well on my PC (or I am not using properly). Anyone know a link to a good guide that maps twitter commands/fns to equiv in bsky? Yes I know I can google/AI etc but you still get all kinds of long winded rubbish! #r4today