Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.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
Personally, I think that anyone in a position of authority (so Police(wo)men, MPs, Cabinet ministers, judges and so on) should have to pay a fine 10x that given to an ordinary bod in the street, as they bear a huge responsibility for disciplining the likes of you and me. Prison sentences should also be at least doubled for such offences!
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If we've learned anything in the last few years, it's that you don't have to be smart to be rich, you just have to be willing to fuck people over.
Maybe try amazon.se
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Billionaires lost $1.9 trillion in 2022.
Elon Musk lost $115 billion.
Jeff Bezos lost $80 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg lost $78 billion.
None of this has any real consequence on their daily lives.
Hoarding wealth like this is grotesque.
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@maureenk
It is strange looking at houses in the USA which are predominately built of wood and comparing them to the houses here in Luxembourg of the same sort of age, which are predominately built of stone. The house I'm sitting in right now is about 100 years old and has walls around 75 cm thick (= 30 inches) of local ironstone which, as its name suggests, is in fact iron ore and it's incredibly dense due to its high iron content.
@The_Colbobs
Oh don't be ridiculous!
Pumping money into the schools attended by the proles is not a worthwhile or responsible way of spending government money - even if prole children get long Covid they are, as Jacob Rees-Mogg pointed out, just potted plants - Covid, long or not, won't change a thing for them!
Obviously the goal of a tory government with a massive majority, is to line the pockets of their public school chums. Covid Test,track and trace was an absolute triumph of tory policy - £37 BILLION siphoned off into the pockets of our chums - MARVELLOUS!
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RT @YvetteCooperMP@twitter.com
New Home Office figures show 200 rapes reported each day - record high
But just THREE of them made it to court
Just appalling
Charge rate so much worse than 7yrs ago
Complete failure by Conservative Govt & criminal justice system to tackle violence against women & girls /1
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1618564688287236096
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@EnPrimeurLefty
W - well-informed
O - open-minded
K - knowledgable
E - everywhere
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👆 So all of the sex our ancestors had prior to churches inventing marriage was 'sinful', huh?
It's a wonder all of those gods allowed that (apart from them not existing, obviously).
Being a bit of a woodcarver myself and having seen one of the examples; he carved a number of them, of his stupendous virtuosity with wood carving tools in V&A in London, I would like to add Grinling Gibbons to the honour list.
I know, I know; different material and a quite different subject but my mouth was agape at the skill needed to carve it when I saw it in the flesh
I think deserves a medal - perhaps a George Medal would be appropriate!
It's long overdue time that these tory thieves and murderers were held to account!
I popped into the bank whilst I was in town today as it's bang opposite the hospital where I had an outpatient appointment.
I wanted to ask them about a loan for a car, what I had in mind was to put in 6500€ of my savings and borrow 6500€ from the bank to buy a decent second hand car. however, what they proposed, in view of my age, 72, (so they said) was to lend me the money on the condition that they could block an equivalent sum in my savings account.
Now the whole idea of using a bank loan instead of the cash that I have in my savings account was that that way, I would still have my savings available in case I needed them for something urgent like for example medical treatment that is not refunded by the healthcare system here.
So the bank are proposing to borrow 6500€How stupid do you think I am of my money, block it, and then lend it back to me at 4.5% interest!
Fuck that! How fucking stupid do they think I am?
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HMRC investigate Zahawi and extract millions in tax from undeclared profits
I hope this is the start of a long list into money salted away offshore by Politicians.
Suspect, some MP's are updating old returns
But we need people to highlight fraud to HMRC and reporters to bring us the news
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RT @Haggis_UK@twitter.com
Alastair Campbell: "For Sunak to say nothing to see here... while Zahawi kept changing his story... frankly lying, a straightforward breach of the ministerial code... & the public do care... they care that this lot are utterly incapable of doing anything, b/c they're dishonest.."
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1617943543460548609
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RT @BBCMarkEaston@twitter.com
Whoops! That much-quoted ‘UK had the fastest growth in G7’ claim in 2021 turns out to be wrong. @ONS@twitter.com admits a ‘manual error’. Growth was second SLOWEST.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1617474719175053313
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Billionaires should not set climate policy.
Billionaires should not set water policy.
Billionaires should not be setting any policy.
Billionaires should not be platformed to give opinion on crises & injustices they helped create & have financial stakes in monopolizing policies on.
Billionaires should not exist.
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Under the leadership of Rishi Sunak, the UK Treasury helped the boss of Russia’s murderous mercenary army to circumvent its own sanctions and launch a targeted legal attack on a British journalist
Find out more about this story here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prigozhin-government-russia-ukraine-hack-libel-slapp/
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RT @zoenicholson4@twitter.com
We have “95% of the renewable technologies” to power the world now. We don’t need miracles we need political will and not in the pockets of fossil fuel giants. Using what we have now and stop using fossil fuels could get us to 80% renewable usage by 2030. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/23/no-miracles-needed-prof-mark-jacobson-on-how-wind-sun-and-water-can-power-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/zoenicholson4/status/1617828576887291905
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
