Nick Dowling

Software developer, author, vegetable gardener and cook. Have always felt at home in the EU.

[Nick Dowling @dowlingual]

Twitter is like a football match. There’s a few players on the pitch that everyone is watching; the rest of us are chatting on the terraces, our conversation lost in the hubbub. But occasionally we all sing the same song and people notice.

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@Melodia_FM Re Willie Nelson. Highwayman = salteador de camiones. No hombre de autopista.

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@colinrtalbot @implausibleblog It’s a benefit in the same way that Rwanda is a safe country - they passed a law to say it is. Next they will pass a law to hold back the tide like the bunch of Cnuts they really are.

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@Michael62754808 @PythiaLatis @pnr1977 @pjwb01 @paulloli @RachelCurtis82 On that basis it would never fly. The nature of a Ponzi scheme is that the longer it runs the harder it is to put right. It may have been possible in the 1990s, much more difficult now. Lots of victims of a Ponzi scheme go on defending it right up until the moment of collapse.

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@MaggieM45283823 @Jenny_1884 Most private pensions pay out multiples of the contributions paid in. That’s how savings and investments are supposed to work. The fact that the state pension is run as an enormous Ponzi scheme doesn’t make it a benefit. Don’t believe the con.

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@flounders912 @colinrtalbot @implausibleblog Most private pensions pay out multiples of the contributions paid in. That’s how savings and investments are supposed to work. The fact that the state pension is run as an enormous Ponzi scheme doesn’t make it a benefit. Don’t believe the con.

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@Simm_88 @Shakatak7 @paullees496 @implausibleblog But of course contributions are not invested. Pensions are funded out of current revenue. On this basis you could argue that the state pension is the ultimate Ponzi scheme.

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@Simm_88 @Shakatak7 @paullees496 @implausibleblog It’s a canard. If you saved money from your salary every month into an investment fund and at the end it wasn’t worth more than the sum of your contributions then you would want to know why.

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@Sillyshib @JasonReidUK @williambyrne_ That would be the ‘stupor’ after five years of Labour government under Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan. Not sure that this makes it any better.

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Anyone who thinks that praising Margaret Thatcher will win back votes in the red wall has never watched Billy Elliot.

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@petiole10 @nialloconghaile Be careful who you side with. @niallconghaile is really only interested in sticking it to the Brits and blocks anyone who points out when he makes this clear.

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@TheNewEuropean Look again at the front page of that Greek newspaper with the message for Sunak. It also has a picture of Charles wearing the very same tie. If you believe this is a coincidence then there’s some timeshares available on Atlantis that may interest you.

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@JasonManford If you want to britch up a bit before going try this. Visiting the Normandy Invasion Beaches and Battlefields: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals https://t.co/RpKMvgJgOy

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@CameronDLWalker Definitely not a reference to the front page of that Greek newspaper with the message for Sunak that also has a picture of Charles wearing the very same tie. Of course not. 😹

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@LondonEconomic Bass Rock is a better choice for all of them.

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@bbclaurak On the “F*ck you, B@stard” front page of that Greek newspaper, above the picture of “mouse faced” Sunak is a picture of Charles wearing precisely that tie with the Greek flags on it. Royal trolling of the highest order.

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@chrisshipitv On the “F*ck you, B@stard” front page of that Greek newspaper, above the picture of “mouse faced” Sunak is a picture of Charles wearing precisely that tie with the Greek flags on it.

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@TheNewEuropean Before they next meet perhaps someone should remind Rishi that our monarch is, in fact, half Greek.

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@Mickmac45049764 @nialloconghaile Two sides of the same coin.