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Colin Hicks

@docfilth.bsky.social

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You might know me from Doctor Who fandom or from somewhere at the back of your Twitter crowd. Centrist. Not fond of TERFs, bullies or burnt toast. Nerdy about many things.


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According to the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, everyone.

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If yesterday is anything to go by, he'll make it fairly clear when he *is* there, by acting like a twat.

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It's "bloke in the pub" thinking. Solving the world's problems in ways that even the most booze-addled can comprehend.

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I've just seen both of them go through the swearing-in routine in quick succession, so I can assume they've just had a meeting of what's left of the Committee.

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“Vince Cable” is a great name for an 80s action hero.

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Number of days since Nigel Farage made a tit out of himself in Parliament: 0

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Whenever I see Edward Leigh in his role as Father of the House, I can't help thinking "That's only because we in Worthing West voted his predecessor out" #UKParliament

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Strong “Phil from The Thick of It” vibes.

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Was one of them the Urban Spaceman?

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The one thing Wikipedia can be relied upon for, is not being reliable...

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Going by Wikipedia, I make it 5? Nus Ghani, Bob Blackman, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Tom Randall, Martin Vickers. Or is Wikipedia out of date?

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Jonathan Gullis swinging vacantly on a tyre.

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When Clive was saying on election night that Reform aren't the same thing as the BNP, a comment I sent to someone else was "I'm sure they'd both call him the same thing".

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I can actually pick out my MP in that crowd, she's near enough to the front.

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"The Base". Given the original meaning, I'm not sure if I should be offended.

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We get them quite a lot here in coastal south east England. They were always fairly common round railway lines, and in towns in the small hours, and they got a lot bolder during lockdown.

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I've spent most of the weekend listening to podcasts about #GE2024 . Every time I hear the phrase "new Labour government" I have to remind myself it's real.

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Take Fart

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Some amazingly cinematic storytelling. The mainly-narrated page of Scott and Jean being pursued by the Imperial Guard, generates its own epic soundtrack in my head.

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Is it too much to hope that a series of centrist/left wins internationally will have a gravitic effect on the US?

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The final series of Game of Thrones put me off the whole universe so hard I've never bothered with HotD. Despite the Matt Smith factor.

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What's the best episode of television you've ever watched?

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2015: Forrest is visiting the Uk, gives Ed Miliband a sandwich.

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Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD

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“There’s a Breville out back”

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Wait for the King to stop glitching and attacking you. You can't kill him, but you don't want to grief his secretary by mistake. If that doesn't work, you'll have to reload from before the election.

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RHLSTP!

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There's a fight scene in this run between him and Captain America that looks amazingly kinetic.

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I assumed he'd been in to have his emotion chip installed.

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If you see this, post a Bird

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The Inside Out characters in my head

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For the first time ever in a GE, the candidate I voted for won, *and* unseated the Father of the House in the process. So I feel like I actually matter for once.

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That's the first time I've ever voted for the winning parliamentary candidate in a GE.

The Father of the House is gone!

#UKGE2024

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30p Lee holding Ashfield is a nasty blow.

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He could have said some of this while he still mattered.

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Isn't it great?

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Looking at the board behind Jeremy Vine, Bassetlaw looks like one of them.

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How long before Alastair Campbell lumps her one?

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The Reform results in the exit polls have got Anne Widdicombe on C4 gurning in triumph like an 80s cartoon supervillain. I feel slightly ill.

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It's a thing of beauty, as always.

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Bring a centrist, I feel about as popular as a fart in a lift here, but I genuinely feel Labour will be a significant improvement over the Tories. At the very least, a majority of them seem to want to actually do good by the country, rather than thinking of themselves and their mates first.

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I'll be voting in Worthing West today. Be amazing if we can finally shift Bottomley.

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"Let the bodies pile high"

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Nice day to commence national de-fuckering.

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Sandy Balls, Hampshire.

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Nice day to vote the fuckers out.

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Game of Cronies

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I hate that contemporary politics has got to the stage of me actually *hoping certain people die*, but I agree.

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We've got a whole generation now that have been raised on social media. The urge toward inceldom (incelness? Whatever the term is) certainly isn't going to have decreased.

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