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David Ford

@david-ford.bsky.social

Was: Alliance Councillor, Antrim 1993-2010; MLA, South Antrim 1998-2018; Party Leader, 2001-16; Minister of Justice for NI 2010-2016, President, Alliance Party 2019-2022. Now: grandfather, p/t farmer, Alliance footsoldier, Rathlin CIC, Jubilee Farm, NFFN.

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David Ford@david-ford.bsky.social · 4w ago

So the Scottish Greens think that Scottish police should not provide mutual aid to the PSNI for events that "inflame tensions". I thought the role of police officers was to maintain public order and seek to reduce tensions. Presumably Ms Chapman won't ever want help to Scotland from NI (or E&W).

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Adrian Littlejohn@yorksfella59.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏

Louis 〓〓@louishenwood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
David Ford@david-ford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I see that Robbie Butler, the new UUP Health Minister is to set up an "expert committee" to advise on major HSC changes. With regard to Emergency General Surgery in the Northern Trust area, he already has a group of experts - the senior clinicians and Trust Board.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Matt Frei, "You heard the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham also say that Brexit was a big mistake, it led to a lost decade" "Must be music to your ears that government is finally being honest about this?" Daisy Cooper, "Partly, he's diagnosed the problem, but he's refusing to administer the cure"

Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yet still we're told "The economics of doing what's required to combat climate collapse don't stack up." And this will keep rapidly worsening until the fossil fuel tap is turned off. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds

Verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities

theguardian.com

Earl Russell LD@earlrussell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Believing in climate change as real but rejecting every plan to try & mitiagate it and deal with the disastrous consequences as not possible or not going to make a difference is not a political policy it is at best a surrender to disaster. If not this then what? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?

Flurry of articles has raised eyebrows and prompted a response from Kemi Badenoch defending stance on net zero

theguardian.com

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 3mo ago

The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."

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