Michael Kilpatrick

#NAFO 'The word freedom is used for many purposes - sometimes even in the interest of freedom' -- Duke Ellington.

Baritone saxophone. Lib Dem. UK Federalist.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@PositivFuturist @BBCPolitics What's wrong with the term Anglo-saxon? Or if we used that, would you the complain about how that overlooks the considerable proportion of celtic blood that was assimilated into Englishness?

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@bro69018 @JESBradshaw1 It amazes me how people can deliberately misrepresent history and pretend that it wasn't made abundantly clear in 1975 that the EEC would move towards becoming a political union.

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@DanNeidle Christine, as a member of the Women and Equalities Committee, is there anything you can do about this such as even providing an opportunity for Ms Berki to give evidence to the Committee @cajardineMP

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@DanNeidle Hmm. Gruesome story. I looked up the HoC Women and Equality Committee. I see Christine Jardine MP is a member. She's not my MP but I've spoken to her a few times and she probably remembers. Would writing to her be helpful? @DanNeidle

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#bbcqt It's a very good point that things such as debt relief, technology transfer, etc, etc, is the right way forward. Direct reparations from British tax-payers is simply nonsense.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

#bbcqt Talking of commemorating WWI, as referred to in the discussion on reparations...

I'm tired of commemorating things from over 100 years ago. Enough.

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@DanielNotDan21 Tell me you know nothing about Liverpool without telling me you know nothing about Liverpool.

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#bbcqt it's interesting how the programme is actually half-decent this week because:
a) there's no twat from Reform on the panel
b) the Liverpool audience is reasonably sensible
c) the three non-MPs all outshine by a mile the inadequacy of the Labour and Tory MPs on the panel

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The tragic death of a footballer got as much airtime on @BBCNews as the footage on the ground from Zaporyzhzhia. Hmm.

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@BBusinesslamb I suspect it tells me more about the competence of other people queuing. Seriously, how can it take 5 minutes to negotiate a convenient appointment time?

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I'm at a loss to understand how I can wait 15mins on the phone to Addenbrooke's @CUH_NHS to book a blood test, with only 4 people in the queue, and it takes me only 90 seconds to pick the third time slot offered to me (more convenient for train times).

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@Michael17600411 @jlippincott And as a regular visitor to Washington DC, I constantly remind myself that it's undoubtedly one hell of a bubble and that there are so many places in the USA I wouldn't want to wander around in.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@MartynDav33 @jlippincott I was rather shocked, talking to a young woman in Washington DC a year ago, how much rent she and her sister pay for their flat, and from what I could gather, not only was it not in Washington, but miles away from Alexandria VA in some backwater. Median incomes mean nowt.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

#bbcqt why is there such a high correspondence between being a luddite on Twitter (with respect to covid vaccines, climate denial and other things) and having a specific mention of your football team in your Twitter bio?

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@Brandon_8900 Energy costs aren't caused by net zero. They are mostly caused by our stupid system of tying energy costs to the high price of gas.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

#bbcqt so many fucking luddites here on Twitter who think:
A) other countries emit more than us so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
B) investing in new energy technologies is somehow stupid - as if all of human progress for 1000s of years wasn't based on precisely that.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@oJARDINEo @ZiaYusufUK @campbellclaret Zia is a liar. Net zero is not responsible for high energy costs, and brown people on boats are not a significant problem compared to the lack of jobs for young people and other things.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@DavidAHoward Bollocks. Zia is a liar. Net zero isn't responsible for high energy costs, and brown people on boats aren't a significant problem compared to the lack of jobs for young people.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

#bbcqt Bloody hell, folks. Net zero is NOT RESPONSIBLE for high energy costs. Energy costs are tied to the higher price of gas, regardless of how much cheaper wind/solar/etc might be.

[Michael Kilpatrick @MT_Kilpatrick]

@rottenrod65 @HenryV10113 @PSQ17266 @UnityNewsNet Surprised he can type, what with his webbed fingers.