Scott

🇺🇲 living in 🇬🇧. European liberal. US and British political musings. Account is so I don't cram my main timeline with politics.

[Scott @ScottPoliticsUK]

This should be a helpful shorthand for folks - my https://t.co/MZ3KmwAfZl results. I tend to fall into a LibDem, Green, Labour blend as far as UK politics goes, but as an American who believes in republicanism, it's tough to have a specific political home in the UK

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@createstreets @Heidi_Labour @BritainRemade Worcester needs a tram! Used to have one in the 1920s so it's definitely possible!

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@LP_CLC Just an FYI, that piece of loo roll is named Stephen. Tommy is his stage name as a performance artist.

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As of this morning, I am now a voter as a new British citizen. Prepare yourselves for my republican notions and liberal ideas, the electorate lol

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@TheMoronfinder @BBCBreakfast Whereas a judge is a hammer that will only ever see nails. If accused as an innocent I'd prefer to stake my freedom on convincing a majority of my peers over one judge any day of the week.

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Labour appear to be amending Magna Carta to do away with jury trials. Pretty sure amending Magna Carta to remove basic rights is a bad electoral strategy, but then again the British public never ceases to amaze me at what is apparently tolerable

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@goSHIFTscheme @BikeWorcester @SaferRoadsYorks It's always disappointing to read these headlines and their use of passive voice and equivocation of incidents. The pedestrian and vehicle are not equally to blame for what happened! The driver did the action to the victim, always.

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@MartinMonmouth1 @BBCPolitics I pay a shitload of tax so that you get to benefits scrounge. If the conversation is about who is the biggest net contributor to the UK, you ought to bow down and kiss my feet for financing your healthcare, you ungrateful swine

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@MartinMonmouth1 @BBCPolitics Preventing people like me, who are by far net taxpayers, from coming to the UK isn't going to magically make Wales any less of a shithole.

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Hey @bbc5live why was I cut off? I had a third point to make

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Trump and Co are like the teachers who are "zero tolerance on violence" - a bully goes and punches the shit out of another kid, and both get in trouble for fighting.

Russia is clearly the aggressor in the conflict and therefore completely at fault.

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@Chris_arnade I honestly thought most people with a passing understanding of geopolitics or political economy knew this. Maneuver warfare is important, but only if your guys can shoot the surprised enemy. The industry is the machine

It really frames the last 30 years of CCP military policy

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@TeddySaginaw @Chris_arnade I say this with respect, but you are aware you're talking about NYC vs New York state, right? One is obviously more important, powerful, and prestigious than the other

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@Jax9799 @fakertarians Got news for you pal, based on the cringey description in your profile of your ethnicity, my ancestors emigrated to the US long before yours did. I think it's you who needs to go home, America doesn't need old world blood and soil nativist assholes. You don't even qualify lol

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@currermell @BarbraStreisand It's called legislation lol

Someone failed civics class

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@Electroversenet @ChrisGPackham Absent the climate impacts of CO2 emissions, fossil fuel fumes cause cancers.

The future is one built upon abundant, carbon-free electricity. Whether that's nuclear or hydro or whatever, I don't especially care. But we all benefit from clean air.

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@deathsurge @reason Most of them are voting for the libertarian party candidate, you betray yourself

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@nsarwark @reason I'm grateful that I discovered liberalism via Ron Paul's candidacy in 2008, but the more time goes on, the uglier and uglier the real core values of that movement look to me. The conspiracy nonsense, anti-semitism, closed border murderous authoritarianism, etc etc

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@nsarwark @reason Yeah, I'm going to be brutally honest and say he's worthy of absolutely no respect then. Sounds like typical Mises Caucus trash.

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@nsarwark Ah, so he's no one of note or consequence with a big opinion of himself on the World Wide Web, got it 👍