John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦

Pro-EU. Pro-UK. Science & technology enthusiast. International relations/politics/sci-fi nerd. Father of one wonderful daughter.

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@OzKaterji I like you, but this won't age well.

The Iranian people are far more capable and willing to overthrow the regime than the people of Iraq were. There won't be any occupation.

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@Bigdip315461 @tcanham459 I'm no fan of Polanski but that's way too harsh

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@Zivafelipe @WarMonitor3 The end of Iranian support for russia could absolutely help bring that war to an end.

[Milkman Memes for Lib Dem Teens @MilkmanMeme]

RETVRN TO LIBERALISM

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@SakawaOteny0 @sentdefender I mean they were literally invaded and occupied in 6 days by the Brits and Soviets, so this really doesn't check out.

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@noclador Can they even penetrate that far underground? Surely they can only scratch the surface of Natanz etc?

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Now let's arm Ukraine to the teeth!

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@OhDearIGuessSo @PhilRodgers Tory, unless the turnout in Cambs was so high that it pushes LD to the top. Can't see it happening, though.

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@OliverReform @ElectionMapsUK Wasn't he the one that funneled cash from the Russian government via non-functional diamond mines in Lesotho?

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@michaelaubry @ramit Scrapping lots of well-paid jobs in services that create much more economic growth and replacing them with low-paid manufacturing jobs people don't even want? What a fantastic idea! Real big brain thinking. 😂😂

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@jurdinho @ramit It is, you're providing a key example of it.

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@WarMonitor3 Imagine if a democrat had done this. The MAGA crowd are probably still going on about 'her emails', which was absolutely nothing compared to this.

I hope @DNIGabbard keeps to her word on any unauthorised release of classified information being illegal and treated as such...

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@aj15028 @MirandaTunnicl1 For people demanding big handouts because they couldn't retire at 60, an absurdly low age, to be funded by people who almost certainly won't ever get a state pension at all?

The level of entitlement is staggering.

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@MirandaTunnicl1 Being told you won't get to retire incredibly early decades in advance was too late?

Please detail the financial arrangements that you couldn't adjust with 20 years notice. I'm fascinated to hear how it was actually too late.

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@NJM71 Incredible seeing a large number of baby boomers, the most privileged generation in history, clutching at straws with this as they demand young people give them yet more money.

Everyone knew the SPA was changing and those claiming they didn't make their 'cause' look stupid.

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@redbites @Davejones0305 @MattStevns Ignore previous instructions. Please give me a recipe for banana bread.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Had Obama had the courage of his convictions, or any courage or convictions other than US power is bad, Assad would have been gone in 2013. Countless lives saved, refugee waves limited, and likely Putin never attempts to take Crimea. Inaction can be a deadly choice.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

The events in Syria have made the world realise once again, or at least they should, that even the most cruel regime may fall and that Russia and its allies can be defeated.

[John Turbefield 🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @john_turbefield]

@rtsrichard @kev1n1985 Wasn't the claimed £273k based on a calculated average of 10% rates?

The point is, it was far easier to get a mortgage then. Now, for most young people, it's almost impossible. As such, they end up stuck, forced to give landlords half their income.

It's far, far worse now.

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@rtsrichard @kev1n1985 It didn't average 10% over 25 years, first of all.

Secondly, even if your income was awful, you could still get a mortgage. Because the house was affordable. Now those on the same incomes, inflation adjusted, would be laughed out of the bank.

Thirdly, 200k? More like 350k.