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@BashyMc1 Be tasting those Monday when I fly out

1litre Bocks 😍

@pk9025212687878 @SaulStaniforth @lisanandy @Keir_Starmer They are all the same, no one to vote for

@SaulStaniforth Exactly why you lost badly today @lisanandy @Keir_Starmer . No one likes hypocrisy. Especially from a party that champions human rights. Right here is political suicide.

One from the archives In October 2023 Nandy was asked 3 times whether Israel breached intl law when it cut off power & water to Gaza & she refused to answer. When pressed for the third time she said it would be grandstanding to answer I haven't forgotten

@MattCas04807118 Hanging

What is Katie Price doing? What in the wtf is that bit of backside actually doing there? 😳 Stop! 😳😳

@GaryHal23032948 @AlexEveritt91 @PeterBakerMcfc I agree they have lost their way with the working class. But a lot of the stuff is trying to get it sorted, im no fan but at least judge after 5yrs and vote them out, if necessary?

@AlexEveritt91 @PeterBakerMcfc @10kingrd Look at the state of the country. Tax rises. National insurance hike to fuck small businesses up. Miliband refusing to open the north sea gas/oil fields up , but import oil/gas at a higher price. Labour aren't for the working man anymore.

The people who say we're fucked if reform get in Do you idiots think the country is doing well now?

@AlexEveritt91 @PeterBakerMcfc @GaryHal23032948 I wanted a reply from Bert Swales on what damage has been done in last 2yrs? I'm massively intrigued

@PeterBakerMcfc @10kingrd @GaryHal23032948 In there with labour. Who do not give one fuck about you or your family. Personal gain for them that is all.

@GaryHal23032948 @AlexEveritt91 How?

@AlexEveritt91 Labour moan about the "14 years" under the Tories blah blah blah. They've done more damage to our country in under 2 years. Biggest bunch of fart parcels in political history

@SamaHoole More bullshit

Every British school dinner between 1944 and 1980 ended with custard. Real custard. Made in a steel jug the size of a small child. Whole milk, double cream, egg yolks from the school kitchen, a vanilla pod if the dinner ladies were feeling generous, sugar, cornflour. Heated until it coated the back of a wooden spoon. A skin formed on the top by the time it reached the dining hall. Poured over a sponge pudding, a slice of treacle tart, a wedge of apple crumble, a spoonful of jam roly-poly, the flat brown thing called Manchester tart that nobody could quite explain. The custard was the point. The dessert beneath it was a vehicle. The skin on top was either fought over or refused, depending on the child. There was no middle ground. Whole tribal allegiances among nine-year-olds were determined by the custard skin question. By 2010 most British school custards came from a powdered packet, mixed with hot water, containing modified maize starch, palm oil, emulsifier, colour, and a flavour described on the label as "vanilla flavouring (vegetarian)". It does not form a skin. The skin was the egg yolk and the cream coagulating at the surface as the custard cooled. The packet does not contain either. An entire generation of British children has now grown up without the dinner-hall ritual of arguing about whether the skin is the best part or the worst. The argument has been resolved by removing the cause of it. The recipe is six ingredients. The pan is in the cupboard. Try it on Sunday.

@broseph_stalin Good work, she is vile.

I dismantle the “Green Party antisemitism” smear point by point until Julie Hartley-Brewer can’t name a single example. The one she finally reaches for? Her own Islamophobia. Incredible.

@JeremyClarkson @David__Osland Whats the answer then? Because I bet you a pint if people are paid less, then prices would not go down.

@David__Osland I’m no economist but I think you might find the cost of the beer would also go up if you did that.

If a pint of beer now costs a tenner, is £15 an hour minimum wage really such a Big Ask?

@bushontheradio Prince

When you were at school was there an urban myth about a celebrity having a rib removed so they could give themselves a blowie?

@SamaHoole Never heard anyone apologise for ordering a full English.

The fry-up has been quietly demoted, over the last forty years, from a daily British breakfast to a Saturday indulgence. A hangover meal. A guilty pleasure. The kind of thing you order in a Wetherspoons at half past eleven on a Sunday with a slightly apologetic look at the waitress, on the understanding that you will be having a salad for dinner to make up for it. Your nutrition app flags it. Your doctor sighs at it. The newspaper runs an article every six months explaining that it will kill you. This is one of the great practical jokes of modern British life. The traditional Full English is one of the most nutritionally complete breakfasts a human being can sit down to. Two eggs from a hen that scratched about in a back garden, eating grubs and kitchen scraps. Complete protein, choline, B12, vitamin D, the whole fat-soluble suite delivered in a yolk the colour of a marigold. Two rashers of dry-cured back bacon from a Wiltshire pig. Stable saturated fat, B vitamins, selenium. A pork sausage made that morning with three ingredients by the village butcher. A grilled tomato. Mushrooms cooked in the bacon fat. Black pudding for the iron. A slice of fried bread. A pot of tea strong enough to stand a teaspoon in. This breakfast fuelled the men who dug the coal, laid the railways, fished the North Sea, and walked twelve miles a day delivering the post. Their cardiovascular disease rate was a fraction of ours. Their diabetes rate was a rounding error. Their obesity rate was zero. Then sometime around 1985 we were told this breakfast was killing us. We were instructed, by people in offices, to switch to a bowl of corn flakes with skimmed milk. To a yoghurt with fourteen ingredients. To an oat milk latte. To a green smoothie containing more sugar than a can of Coke. The cardiovascular disease rates climbed. The diabetes rates climbed. The obesity rates climbed. The breakfast did not change. The advice did. The advice was wrong. A plate of eggs, bacon, sausage, and black pudding will outperform any breakfast designed by a wellness brand in a Shoreditch office. It costs less. It contains no seed oil. It has been keeping the British upright since the Iron Age. Your grandfather did not feel guilty about his breakfast. He had bigger things to worry about. So do you. Eat it on a Tuesday. Without apologising.

@Dan1876 Haha, nah cock

@10kingrd Want to swap?

Not one to give people grief for not attending games but I’ve read / heard some wank excuses for swerving this. Big following needed!

@carl_thompson70 Where do ypu access this?

Cracking little walk along a dead viaduct. Manchester

@PeterMcCormack Silly employment rights? What a parcel you are.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

@HylandIan Sue Cook pulled out

Nice to see Alison Hammond finally picking up some work on the telly. Long overdue.

@SaulStaniforth Why is this unelected cretin on QT again?

Zia Yusuf is asked about Nigel Farage not declaring a £5 million 'gift' from a crypto currency investor based in Thailand, when the rules state that all 'gifts' received in the 12mths before someone becomes an MP must be declared. Yusuf says Farage has does nothing wrong.

@ZiaYusufUK You're banning everyone in that head of yours

This beautiful diamond is currently on display in the Tower of London That is where it will stay. Mamdani may be looting New Yorkers, but he will have no joy in Britain. Unless he retracts this insult to our King, as Home Secretary I would ban him from entering Britain.

@henrywinter What are you on about, its a fucking crest not a grave

Ben White clearly made an innocent mistake when walking across the Atletico Madrid crest. He's not showing a lack of respect. He’s caught up in the emotion of the occasion. Simeone father and especially son were unimpressed… #AFC 1/2

@GBNEWS Who gives a fuck

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