ex-civil servant. Now less civil. And less servile. Pro Europe. Hate nepotism, corruption, tax avoiders, Trump and Musk.
East Cheshire, UK
Joined July 2011
- Tweets14.5K
- Following2.6K
- Followers1.7K
- Likes67.1K
Rob Wright retweeted
NUMBER 10 NORTH!!
Just went through the Civil Service jobs page for roles at for No10 North. 47 roles being advertised. Total salaries £2889908. This is without any pensions, expenses etc. TWO MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHT POUNDS!!
Rob Wright retweeted
I haven't laughed so much in my life o my god
They are a funny lot
Can we have more of this 🤣🤣🤣 teapawt.net/VanEmmerickKris/status…
Rob Wright retweeted
And Maya Jama who lost out in finale has given the amount she would have won to her charity Action for Children @actnforchildren which has confirmed her £83,500 gift.
Rob Wright retweeted
I just caught the start of a BBC radio news bulletin, and it started with what Reform say.
They have eight members of parliament.
This isn't public service broadcasting, it is manufacturing consent for a Reform government that wants to deport our family, friends, and neighbours.
Rob Wright retweeted
The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue.
My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
youtube.com/watch?v=6pEiZYoR…
Rob Wright retweeted
When we’re back in power lock this little Nazi motherfucker up and throw away the key.
Have never understood why these people refuse to take money from people who are so rich they'd barely notice it but would rather take a proportionately much larger sum from people who are so poor it cripples them.
6
226
Rob Wright retweeted
DO NOT pull apart the upcoming 8-page Reform newspaper going out to 15m homes across the country so it’s in individual sheets, before sending them to Reform’s freepost address one at a time. If enough people do this it would cost them a fortune, which is very bad and unfair.
Trouble is that, as a nation, we value people who can articulate answers to these arty farty questions more than people who can understand practical stuff like the potential of genetic sequencing or work out how we're going to cope with an ever aging population.
Today I learned about the All Souls examination, which is reputed to be the hardest exam in the world.
To even be considered, you need to have a degree from, or be a current graduate student of Oxford.
Hundreds of people sit and only two people pass every year.
Attached is last year's general exam.
Before I saw it, I wondered, how hard could it be.
Well, it turns out…it's "Defend ghosting.", "Does a pope matter?", and "Is body language a language?" hard:
1
87
Rob Wright retweeted
Only Trump can save Putin. Goodbye to US sanctions. Every GOP running for office must be confronted with this egregious act of supporting genocidal war in Ukraine, especially at the moment when Putin shifted all his fire power to killing civilians.
Trump saves the day for Putin. Just as Ukraine was changing the direction of the war by inflicting real economic pain on Putin by hitting his oil refineries, Trump steps in and agrees to buy Russian diesel. Now Trump can say that Ukraine is bombing American interests and they better stop. Up until today, there was a real chance of an unspoken aerial cease fire if Russian could no longer tolerate the pain, but that has now disappeared
Rob Wright retweeted
Terrible. The slow death of Radio 4 is for me the very worst aspect of current BBC mismanagement. Killing a gem to save relative pennies.
Or get rid of the loopholes (including the 7 year rule) and tax anything over £2m at 90%? Why do should greedy grasping offspring get anything? Where did this "principle" that what is yours is your children's ever come from? It's pernicious and obscene.
What she’s proposing is complexification. A silly new relief, which policy people across the spectrum can see creates bad incentives. Why not just reduce the rate or increase NRB?
36
Rob Wright retweeted
As usual the Tory leader has announced a succession of policies to benefit the very richest at the expense of the poorest.
As usual some of the very poorest will vote Tory ‘because they always have’.
We really do need critical thinking skills to be taught in schools.
Rob Wright retweeted
Richard Tice just can’t stop lying.
On Sunday he claimed an investigation into dodgy donations was being carried out by independent layers.
It wasn’t.
It was carried out by Adam Richardson a barrister working for Reform & the parties general secretary Tom Waterhouse.
#newsnight
