Meh Engineer, upper sheeple/lower normie, NGMI, working class monoglot, 1, degenerate native, originally from Cardiff. ‘Low interactions’

Outer Marxhester
Joined September 2011
Protest name for however long bodybags lasts.
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
Altrincham #altrincham Look at the top 4 Worst food hygiene ratings in Altrincham
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This “everyday fix” could be worth less than 6 new pence a day.
Chancellor announcing an ‘everyday fix’ removing import duties which “could save £21 a year” on marmalade, gherkins & boiled sweets is too funny for me to be mad at. What.
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
The War on Low Pay (led by the likes of @resfoundation) is, in practice, a war on wage differentials. Relative prices are necessary to allow markets to function and clear properly. This is why the labour market is screwed up!
Minimum wage increases since 2015 have all but ended ‘low’ pay. In 2011, 21% of workers were low paid – defined as hourly pay below two-thirds of the overall median. By April 2024 3.4% of employees were low paid on this measure. Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
‘There is nothing socialist about a system of open borders that allows multi-nationals to treat people as commodities and move them around Europe to drive down Labour costs and create a race to the bottom.’ That's a proper ‘Old Labour’ Eurosceptic position which could have been articulated by Tony Benn or Peter Shore. It might present @KemiBadenoch with an opportunity at #PMQs, but he'll simply pivot to: ‘Ten years on, Brexit hasn't worked so we need an honest discussion..’, and in his earnest bleating he'll talk vaguely about things not working, and yearningly for hope and unity, and all his 2016 fervour will diffuse in his 2026 persona. He's just another charlatan who adopts whatever is politically expedient. Who knew?
There is nothing socialist about a system of free movement that is used by multi-nationals to undermine wages. WATCH my Brexit speech today.
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
Replying to @Michael_J_Hil
Might find this paper interesting - estimates that RTFO drove up petrol/diesel prices by 3.5 and 6p per litre respectively (2020-2025 ish) warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
Blimey! Only in Manchester 🙄😳😬
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My money is on “long term weather forecasting” for this winter predicting lengthy cold spells that risk collapsing the grid.
Our household is having a bit of a sweepstake on what the actual problem was that prompted the 3-day supplies advice to be rushed out quite so clearly unplanned. I had ‘water gets rationed’ so I’m quids in.
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
Absolutely floored by bus prices! My 2yo is obsessed with vehicles (diggers = the holy grail but a colourful bus will do) so we treated him and his baby brother to a bus ride from our village outside Swansea to the library, 2 miles away, to borrow yet another digger book. It's a journey we do regularly in 6 mins by car.
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Finally found substantive proof that I am not middle class. The NMKOTN family motor would NOT have been penalised under Labour’s suggested new car weight* tax and even brand new today, the equivalent wouldn’t be penalised by the ‘luxury car tax’. (*mass)
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
Replying to @rcolvile
Creating a tax break for those who have not made any other provision for retirement that those who have don't get is beyond stupid (and I don't think pensioners should get an income tax break denied to working people full stop).
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Broken Britian latest.
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
Replying to @NotMyDing
The neighbour
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It’s so windy I’ve had to dump bodies in my wheelie bins to stop them blowing over.
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An extra hour doom scrolling in bed? #winning
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I’m not sure if the first widespread network outages come just before or just after an early election. I’m struggling to decide which would be sweeter irony.
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Me contemplating 90 mins of youth sports in storm Austen
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Me after dodging storm Boelo for 90 mins of youth sports
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NotMyKingoftheNorth retweeted
I texted my children that we got the puppy they’ve been begging me for and sent them a link with pictures. 🐶When they clicked on the link, it took them to a webpage that said YOU’RE GROUNDED. They’ll be spending the weekend retaking our family’s cybersecurity training course.
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