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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social

Jul 7, 08:25 PM

"we want to do whatever we can to support parents with the cost of living" Oh good, so universal free school meals? Rent controls? Price caps on essential items? Tackling the profiteering utility companies? No. Temporarily reducing VAT on trips to amusement parks

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"Ydych chi'n ymwneud, oherwydd ydych chi'n cael adnabod ar y cysylltiad ar gyfer ffamiliau, beth yw hynny ydych chi'n dweud heddiw? Mae'n bwysig, felly pan rydym ni'n mynd i'r hollwyddiadau, rwy'n credu bod llawer o ffrindiau yn dechrau i ddweud, o'n bwysig, mae'n bwysig. Mae'r ddechrau o ddechrau i'r hollwyddiadau, cael eu ddechrau i ddechrau i ddechrau i ddechrau i'r hollwyddiadau, ac mae'n bwysig, felly mae'n bwysig, felly mae'n bwysig."

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 6, 06:38 AM

<div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:zekxa3hinmdj3amfxutqkqe2/bafkreibobrbua63go3yre7gc6f45d2lh32hdjth3cazubatkohumfvhu24" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Ro</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@boredoftheoldone.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 07:34 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">'If you can't afford to take your kids to theme parks are you really a 'parent'? Real parents earn enough to treat their kids so I think you'll find that making things marginally cheaper for those that already have spare cash *is* helping proper parents' *smug face*</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:xtbs4xd4gcmqfloysyfsspnv/bafkreibl2tlyrn2trzcjwfrbche6qqq2tvwhuliphdfiglwzag4goenfca" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Jo</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@hoojo.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 09:16 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Crumbs! Just crumbs, tossed distainfully at the people.</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:v7ftpkrs7gnyirsfjxembzus/bafkreic4y7ajgfimlbdyqi5kcnth273gbqtru2ba5gbosg5fwrvohvsr3e" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Gene O’Sullivan</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@geneos.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 11:06 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words"></p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <div class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full bg-slate-800 shrink-0 flex items-center justify-center text-[10px] font-bold text-slate-500">?</div>  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">cps10001.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@cps10001.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 06:44 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Allowing Ofgem to authorise energy price increases for profitable companies won't help.</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:rie7dw27ewa7hyzl6657pr6k/bafkreigqctknt7fg7wratjzzj22epy5uilrnhy3aauxjfdv764bxgq5lva" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Alex Monteith</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@alexmonteets.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 08:02 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Not &quot;those&quot; parents silly, the nice middle class ones</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:ochz5mczwzq36wuwbwd4elrp/bafkreif63sixtbo5ee2tl5qv75rp2jta6smyefunixololxnctx4hcmdhm" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">George Hotchkiss</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@hotchkiss13.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 11:22 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">VAT off some days out while children are eating out of food banks is weapons grade indifference to poverty.</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:ne3dlsflqlg5cdn2nqafaihl/bafkreiforj2j6rg3tmu7ed4352mpnppa26afeetnieuck5u4qdwfxpdjeu" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Jeswings</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@jeswings.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 11:24 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Was this Reeves 'bright idea'? I hope she's on her way out.</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:leerwn53wwkg4h23qlst35qs/bafkreiezshi265uzfey6la4qz6f7og5ezfjzkm2zn4qxzsb22pv5xpbybi" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">La Reine des Metaphores</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@metaphorqu.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 09:25 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Saul it isn't either/ or. One can be intelligent and a jerk at the same time.</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:h6ruubuojvsy46khmsxc3gga/bafkreiclao7npprg7kbk3x6a5iqcbyhi7apz72rm2yz6zz2qhgnbdt2gne" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Around the outside</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@around-the-outside.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 06:44 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">I do realise that it's inherently daft to try and read anything into body language in a short clip of person I don't know... but, ignoring all that, she looks like she knows this the thinnest gruel.</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:gb3wk46tw56rmrljrbmgjaiu/bafkreighbqb4huzb5mkb626mzxz5643stjtmq3yz4jvsem7vyoxm7ovfd4" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Seth</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@sethpiper.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 09:14 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Literally clowncar politics</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:d55awf2gqmihl4zrrkofwdac/bafkreicnttugzo7vphfnpuwqxmogxob5iww45wgagycy74lc27awq6alzq" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Terrence Nowicki, Jr.</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@deephurting.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 09:26 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">&quot;Have you tried 'raise VAT and kill all the poor?'&quot;</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:6u6ufdwmb3mikdwtm7eistcw/bafkreier533tiebsp467vcjscyqddhbhrsohawvrb4endgc5f5ju55hhva" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Madness</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@aquaplanetzone.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 03:16 PM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Let them eat Thorpe Park</p> </div> </div>  <div class="mt-2"> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:6u6ufdwmb3mikdwtm7eistcw/bafkreier533tiebsp467vcjscyqddhbhrsohawvrb4endgc5f5ju55hhva" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Madness</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@aquaplanetzone.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 03:20 PM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">... It doesn&#39;t quite roll off the tongue like cake. Eh.</p> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:6mtz2jt6twtihv44hd47rsaj/bafkreifefr3f2fjhwzahc23gxyvdj4rl52zcoj25jt7zwqxkxymlgeuwka" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">jmc123.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@jmc123.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 08:26 AM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">What happened to labour?Cos me, a mere layperson, can see that as policy goes, this has the comprehension of an aomeba and the empathy of a brick. Im surprised that they are not 'proudly' rolling it out over 10 years</p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5">  <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:3uadv5l6ela3o37glpe4stbp/bafkreicbyn5gwayxedvdg3uh4lvhvx2r35ekwpy7khg7qgfftadaepmmc4" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" />  <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">@raystonian</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@stonia2.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 6, 12:45 PM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Shit actor</p> </div> </div>  </div>

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