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Welshman exiled just across the border in #Stroud #Gloucestershire (Originally from Gwent)
Retired professional musician.
#Socialist.
#Pescatarian. Dad. #YNWA #lfc
The PM calling a degree a "rip off" because it doesn't lead to a high-paying job - and this framing being uncritically adopted by the press - is the UK showing it's a country that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66216005
Poor quality university courses face limits on student numbers

Ministers will ask the regulator to restrict numbers on courses that do not have "good outcomes".

BBC News
So it turns out The Sun were running a libellous forced outing/character assassination of a closeted gay man all along. The more things change the more The Sun remains a piece of shit poisonous rag.

Hello Mastodon!

This is my #introduction πŸ‘‹

I'm Chrissey, I'm new here. I'm kind of a Twitter refugee but I've wanted to join for a while and finally took the plunge today.

I'm an author, bookbinder and book cover designer, so a lot of my toots will have a bookish theme, but I also promise pics of my beautiful tortie cats once I figure out the mobile app!

Oh, and I just got married this weekend πŸ₯‚

#writingcommunity #nanowrimo #bookbinding #catsofmastodon #writer #urbanfantasy #books

Excellent from the Guardian
So the BBC β€˜scandal’ takes another twist! This is what happens when the national broadcaster is brow beaten into paralysis by the government. A government that is basically a criminal cartel with only culture wars left in its arsenal of lies. All stirred up by a main stream media so used to printing lies to sell papers it no longer even bothers to check. Sums up the UK today!

Staff at #asylum reception centre β€˜ordered to paint over welcoming pictures for children’

Tories are vermin

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jenrick-braverman-small-boats-b2368990.html

Staff at asylum reception centre β€˜ordered to paint over welcoming pictures for children’

Mr Jenrick wanted it to be made clear the asylum centre was a β€˜law enforcement environment’ and β€˜not a welcome centre’, it is claimed.

The Independent
My MP in #Stroud abstained. I guess she stands by her support for Johnson. I do hope Stroud remembers

Mortgage β€˜catastrophe’ will lose us the election - Tory MPs

In addition to tanking the economy, attacking human rights, botched Tory Brexit, fraudulent PPE contracts, unnecessary deaths from COVID, sexual abuse, lies, cronyism corruption and Partygate..

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/18/mortgage-catastrophe-will-lose-us-the-election-warn-tory-mp

Mortgage β€˜catastrophe’ will lose us the election, warn Tory MPs

Members in marginal seats fear Conservative party leaders have not understood the impact of rate rises

The Guardian
It says all you need to know about the despicable rag that is the #DailyMail that they now employ the most disgraced ex-PM in British history, serial liar #BorisJohnson to write their trashy columns.
Rory Stewart - Rest is Politics Podcast summarises Boris Johnston’s miserable political contribution