James Barham

@nowthenthee.bsky.social

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Dadding, nursing, PKUing

James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 10:01 UTC

I do hope so my worry is that the Conservatives are the UUP to Reform's DUP

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 10:00 UTC

That'd was degrading a national embarrassment

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 09:42 UTC

He's definitely not a comrade that's certain.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

Richard Tice has bankrolled them for years but Farage has been resourced by unsavoury characters for some time. Short money from Parliament helps too.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 09:38 UTC

Timpsons are great at employing former offenders. They are also good employers. Sure I dislike his Brexit stance but people are complex. He had his reasons I disagree with him but he has good things to say on criminal justice reform.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 09:34 UTC

They have to be taken seriously and fought. They are not a novelty act. Well financed and increasingly professional.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:12 UTC

I worry that a leader in the mould of Braverman will do exactly that.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:10 UTC

Trevellyan going was astonishing I never thought it would be anything other than blue. I know it had been Alan Beith's for years but he was special.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:40 UTC

Never had a direct election before defections previously.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

He is Trump lite. He was Brexits poster boy.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:53 UTC

Farage will have to focus on the xenophobia and nonsense "common sense"

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

Spain will be champions

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

That's glorious as you say. Gorgeous George has always been a shallow lightweight

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:37 UTC

Prime Minister The Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer. Sounds like a round of Late Arrivals on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

Clever, it lays the blame at the feet of the Tory party and absolves the new government of anything that happens subsequently.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:00 UTC

5 July 1890 | A Polish woman, Stanisława Zięba, was born in Poręba.

In #Auschwitz from 22 July 1943.
No. 50395
She perished in the camp on 7 December 1943.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:18 UTC

Yes that is a very good analogy.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:51 UTC

1st election where the right wing block is split

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:46 UTC

Jess Phillips' winning after all the vitriol will be hard for the Trots to take

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:22 UTC

Is there a Robert Peel figure for them to rally behind though.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:02 UTC

Same for me in Tatton

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:01 UTC

Tatton hold for conservatives the LD fought really hard to come 4th why?

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:00 UTC

Hunt is well liked in his constituency

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:59 UTC

Lettuce rejoice I'll see my self out

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:57 UTC

Wow really!

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:48 UTC

Whoop whoop

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

Nothing changes, it must have hurt to have lost to the former imperial power.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

That makes sense the officer class was not trained by a training programme was that right? Learn on the job and hope not to die?

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

Foreign Office

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

15 minutes is very fast. Was that typical, reading Hornblower isn't a great guide to reality I suspect.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:07 UTC

We need to see less typical seats than the NE ones declared so far but the collapse of the Tory vote is quite astonishing

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

The speaker and deputies don't vote I believe and SF dont even go.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

Yes they do but when do the traditional parties go there? Labour take their voters for granted and the Tories appear to be doing the same with theirs.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:46 UTC

Very Brexity up there they will be receptive to the arguments and ideas of Reform.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:35 UTC

Sure so go find out what the reasons for voters choices are. In the end political parties largely ignore the poor and the working classes so when someone comes along and doesn't dismiss them out of hand guess what they vote for them.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:23 UTC

It seems clear that political obsessives cannot understand that democracy is about choice when that choice seems outlandish to them.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:15 UTC

Reform will see it as a target seat now.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

Different time, the economy was improving and the world was a calmer less volatile place. This time the public finances are a mess.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:04 UTC

There is huge disdain for the working class amongst the middle class. Instead of talking to people they just snear.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:59 UTC

Difficult to face up to the sleaze and the failure to make any serious improvements in people's lives

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

It's always blame the voters not the circumstances they live in.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:40 UTC

God I hope not

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

Yes this is a catastrophe under any circumstances. In the end they have a core heartland they are just losing in it.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

Reforms numbers ate tremendously worrying

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

Even the names on that list that I approve of shows just why the HoL has to go. Its not a reward for exhausted former MPs.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:29 UTC

I remember him being asked why the US wasn't producing champions and he said but you have the greatest champion in tennis history Serena Williams.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:28 UTC

"The people have spoken...the bastards". Dick Tuck

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:26 UTC

He is a great player and a genuine good egg. I wish him well in whatever he goes on to do.

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James Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

Honk

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

4 July 1897 | Jewish woman, Bertha Fischer, was born in Russian Empire (today’s areas of Lithuania). In 1909 she emigrated to Norway. She arrived at Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

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