Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭

8 grandchildren on 2 continents. Happily married retired nurse lecturer, proud supporter Southampton FC ! Ex Royal Navy.

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

We used it to light a difficult to start fire when I was a kid

[Justin @JDEubanks]

@kittenaround_51 Sugar is an excellent fuel source when highly heated. We actually made rocket propellant with it when I was a kid...

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Whilst it’s clearly morally wrong it’s not against the rules. Surely the time has come to stop all of these practices. Buy a hotel near Westminster, allow out of town MPs to stay cost free and scrap all these outrageous (additional to huge salary) allowances.

[Lozza @lbrewer190]

You won’t hear a word from Tory Journalist @FraserNelson about this.

In 2005, while serving as the MP for Leigh, Andy Burnham was living in the Dolphin Square complex.

When the complex was sold, he received an £18,200 payout from the new landlord to vacate. Instead of returning the money to the parliamentary authorities, he added it to his parliamentary second-home allowance to purchase and renovate a £215,000 two-bedroom, ex-council flat in Kennington, South London.

He submitted an expenses claim of £16,644 to cover stamp duty, legal fees, and a new kitchen. Under the rules at the time, taxpayers also covered his mortgage interest payments.

Renting While Being Paid Rent: Rather than selling the Kennington flat, Burnham kept it, put it on the private market, and collected rental income. Because he still needed a place to stay while working in Westminster, he utilized the expenses system to claim roughly £17,000 a year in taxpayer money to rent a different flat nearby.

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[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

I listen to @BBC6Music - they are always breaking new artists.!find them on @BBCSounds

[Michael Bianco @iloveitaly]

Has anyone found any new bands that are awesome?

Most friends are still listening to the same bands from ~10yrs ago. I'm sure there are multiple reasons for this, but I think I'm genuinely open to new music and I've only run into a couple new bands that are great.

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

To me Fleetwood Mac ended when Peter Green quit.

[Cale/Gallagher (Kate) @CaleGallagher]

@Mikehomeseller Peter Green's FM
Awesome mix of blues/rock riffs🎶🪄

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Townshend’s symphonic synthesisers are majestic.

[Old Curmudgeon Music Geek 🎶🎸🤓 @klcheshire]

Quadrophenia, it's not even close.

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

While we’re at it, make them work regular hours and create a new parliament building somewhere fit for the 21st C. Get rid of the arcane language, make PMQs a debate not point scoring confrontation and turn Westminster into a very marketable museum.

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

All the debacleabout Farage's earning - No MP should have a 2nd job, not on media, not promoting a product, no consulting - NOTHING - bar a very defined few such as hours to kept up qualifications, NHS etc.

All their time should be spent on their constituents' issues/problems.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The NHS turns 78 today!

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS in that time followed and retweeted we’d reach a million in minutes.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD.

RT if you want them both out of the UK.

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

As a retired university lecturer I agree with this. The 50% should go to uni doctrine effectively created great divide & may have badly affected the non-uni cohort. Learning isn’t always linear. IMO neither HE or Tech is superior. It’s the learning/skills development that counts

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

It is being reported that Andy Burnham is going to increase the opportunities and significance of technical and vocational education to create parity with academic education. Do you think this is a good idea?

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

I once worked for a major charity. Offices in Belgravia ! Say no more.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Add your fess: https://t.co/HsqBLpzY4k

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Yes

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The NHS will reward people who walk for 30 minutes a day with discounts and vouchers from next year

Do you think that’s a good idea?

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

White City - that’s a hell of a(n album) .. for those in the know 😜

[Old Curmudgeon Music Geek 🎶🎸🤓 @klcheshire]

Pete Townshend. I love his solo albums.

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Agree with you on all points Phil - whatever screening/immunisation they offer, take it up. I was saved by NHS aged 6 weeks. I’m 73 now with 4 sons and 8 grandchildren. Thank you NHS!

[Phil @pieandpint19]

3. Not 1 person I dealt with was white English
The NHS is nothing without immigrants so the racists can fuck right off
4.If you get the invite don't ignore it and get tested #nhs #untouchable

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Totally agree- also wrote great songs and his voice was perfect for them. Fleetwood Mac finished when he left.

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

I would go for Starless- I showed a video of Fripp’s magnificent left hand to my guitar playing son who thought he must have used an e-bow. Fabulous, haunting tune.

[Cale/Gallagher (Kate) @CaleGallagher]

Can you guess which song got my vote❓

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Entirely agree Clive. I know some caution against disrespecting those who voted leave but n the main they were at least easily duped. We are far worse off both financially and spiritually.

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

I’m living temporarily in an apartment overlooking the Rhine-Amsterdam canal. Massive barges pass up & down every few minutes. Sometimes cruise ships too. The barges carry aggregate, scrap metal, oil & God knows what else. Most fly Dutch flags but I’ve also seen Belgian, Italian, German & others.

Trade = prosperity & wealth. Wealth = freedom (happy to expand) & power.

The English, diseased in the mind & unable to compute the loss of an empire despite not losing a war, lost in cosy myth, cannot see this. Everyone in Europe’s once war-ravaged countries can.

The idea this project will be thrown away so they can hang flags on lampposts & paint mini-roundabouts is completely cuckoo.

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Awkward as I find it, as I think Sugar is a silly old dinosaur, his introduction of the affordable Amstrad word processor revolutionised my life and helped me through my first degree as a working father/student in the late 1980s. I respect him for that.

[Lord Sugar @Lord_Sugar]

48 YEARS AGO: In July 1978 Amstrad launched the Tower System hi-fi. Unbelievable as it seems now, before then you would have to buy the items separately - turntable, amplifier, radio tuner, cassette deck and speakers - and then wire them all together! Even crazier, hi-fi enthusiasts at the time would buy a separate turntable, arm and cartridge!

Of course we did make matching hi-fi separates before then, but it was the sheer waste of materials (and hence money) that inspired me to make the tower system. Read the full story in my autobiography here 👉https://t.co/xEeW95dSnG

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Saw as much of it as they ever did- Sundown Theatre Edmonton London December 23 1973.

[Old Curmudgeon Music Geek 🎶🎸🤓 @klcheshire]

Quadrophenia - The Who (original line up, of course)

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

Peter Gabriel

[RolandOrzabal @RolandOrzabal_]

Do we still have good music today, or has something been lost along the way? 🎶

I'd love to hear your thoughts. What song or artist reminds you that great music is still alive?

[Rick Fisher 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇸🇭 @drpie53]

As I’m sure you know it was written by Bob Dylan

[Prof Richard Barker @swrb1]

Jimi Hendrix ate fish and chips near here in 1967, a year later he released ‘All Along the Watchtower’ Tynemouth