Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome

Consultant @CGI_Global. Not powered by AI. Father of daughters. I mostly react to politics/culture. Sometimes opine on day job. Spirit animal: Bandit Heeler.

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

I note this site has been black-holing my replies for the last 24 hours. So that's fun to discover.

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@gemmaEdenham Even better: there's a shop there whose official address is 1½ Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate 👌🏻

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@SandyP18 @Pott_Shrigley_ Or just a slightly overexposed photo.

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@enchantedflms

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@aljhlester @StiffNips2 This is known as projection.

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@PurpleHayes1969 @screwloose1980 Other way round for me!

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@johnnychick @fesshole And what about the ones local to you that you can now patronise instead?

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@ChrisMartzWX Desk fans cost about a tenner, do the job, and then get out back in the loft for the remaining 350 days. Next.

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@Krissa_Kray_ You invented jaywalking. I'd sit this one out.

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@raymasseytweets @antoguerrera @UKLabour Sure, but you can't just turn on a tap and have qualified uniformed officers ready to go.

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@raymasseytweets @antoguerrera It's more that police numbers have been cut and cut and cut again. I didn't vote for the governments that did this...

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@bushontheradio Love it or loathe it, the Phil Collins gated reverb sound was a game-changer.

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@PurpleHayes1969 @screwloose1980 When did it become The Victoria?

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@PendleWitch_ @nazirafzal @calculus52 OK, if not invented then at least exaggerated out of all proportion.

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@nazirafzal @TiaKinay The problem is that populism remains popular, despite offering nothing but surface.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

British politics in a nutshell

Step 1: invent or exaggerate a problem
Step 2: blame migrants, the poor, students, minorities or anyone with the least power
Step 3: promise action
Step 4: forget you’ve already had 14 years to act
Step 5: Create a new party & Repeat

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

Every day, we're trapped in the paradox of the "Schrödinger’s immigrant", a mythical outsider who exists simultaneously as a lazy welfare dependent & an unstoppable machine taking all the jobs(both skilled & unskilled).

The immigrant remains a highly convenient shape shifting scapegoat designed to explain away ALL complex, systemic domestic failures.
Keeping this paradox alive ensures politicians never have to answer for a decade of chronic underinvestment, flatlining productivity, & broken infrastructure.

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@CW_Watchdog @tompfoster @m0w4q45 The point being that the CoE (or indeed any other Church) has been deconsecrating and disposing of old churches and chapels for a very long time, reflecting declining congregations. Not sure that's something anyone should want to, or should even be allowed to, legislate against.

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@CW_Watchdog @tompfoster @m0w4q45 Yes, deconsecrated church building, consecrated graveyard/churchyard.

[Paul Berry 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #RefugeesWelcome @pmberry2007]

@NukeGnome @ItsAndyRyan I thought they declared independence while the Soviet Union was (just about) still going.