The view from Malton
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The view from Malton
@MaltonView
Proud North Yorkshireman. “Far right”, according to the far left, so probably in the centre. The climate does what it does without our help. Wokery is comedy.
Malton, North Yorks. 가입일 Şubat 2018
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@GuzKhanOfficial It proves that lots of people want to see the back of Kier Starmer, doesn’t it?
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That’s not bad for a total loony.
Suffragent@Suffragent_
Green Party candidate for Makerfield, Sarah Wakefield, got 308 votes in the by-election 😂😂😂
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@ReturnOfDadbo No, dear, that’s the Muslims. Quite a different bunch of loonies.
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@MasterMaliq Is this the same Muhammad who urges Jihad? Who wants his followers to “kill the Jew wherever you find him”? To murder apostates? In whose name suicide bombs are triggered? With 72 virgins on offer?
Or some other Muhammad, who you’ve kept quiet in a cupboard somewhere?
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@TheGriftReport No thanks.
We don’t want to be involved in your car crash.
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Michel Barnier suggests UK could rejoin EU on special terms a decade after Brexit referendum pullout
The EUs former chief Brexit negotiator said the UK could regain opt outs keeping the pound and staying outside the Schengen Zone if it rejoins as not all member states are in them.
Barnier said it is perfectly possible to have opt outs in these fields and it would not be fair to say all UK problems are due to Brexit but they are more difficult because of it.
The comments come ahead of the 10th anniversary of the June 23 2016 referendum with a UK EU summit planned for July.
Would you want to re-join or is it a huge no?


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I am literally shaking. Some teenager threw a rock off an overpass and did this to my truck. I caught him, and his dad had the nerve to say, "He’s just a kid being a kid, I’ll give you $50 for the 'inconvenience'." $50?? This is a specialized windshield with sensors! He told me I was "ruining a child’s future" by calling the police. I feel like he’s raising a criminal and expects me to pay for it. Do I press full charges?

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@ConspiracyD101 @getbitcoin108 @JChimirie66677 Oh for gods sake. I’m not embarrassed. Just bored. Go pester someone else. 👋👋
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@MaltonView @getbitcoin108 @JChimirie66677 No.
I told you not to embarrass yourself didn’t I?
You’ve had all this time to check why there is two dates and you couldn’t be bothered.
Would you like to be spoon fed information or do you want to find out yourself?
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When You Can't Beat Reform, Change The Rules. Labour Just Did.
There is a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything. When those in power begin adjusting the rules of the game to determine its outcome, the game is no longer democracy. It is managed succession. That line was crossed again on Tuesday night.
Two days before the Makerfield by-election, Labour rushed a change to the mayoral voting system through the House of Lords. Regional mayors will now be elected using the supplementary vote system rather than first past the post. The change applies immediately. It will govern whoever replaces Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester if he wins on Thursday and stands down.
The government's defence is that it is simply restoring the system used before Boris Johnson changed it in 2021. That argument requires the public to believe that a change Labour could have introduced at any point in two years of government became urgent on Tuesday evening, forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect.
Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer and experienced pollster, was precise in the Lords. There is no other justification for the haste, he said, other than that it solves the Labour Party's problems and prevents Reform winning a mayoralty. Not clumsy. Not rushed. Designed.
The mechanics explain why. Under first past the post, Reform could win the Greater Manchester mayoralty on a plurality of votes in a fragmented field, precisely as it won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Under the supplementary vote system, voters express a first and second preference. Lib Dem and Green voters, given a second preference, will direct those votes to Labour overwhelmingly. The change does not affect Thursday's by-election. It affects the mayoral contest that follows it, constructing an anti-Reform coalition from the second preferences of smaller parties that Reform itself cannot access.
Lord Jackson identified the wider implication. This is potentially a strategy for a progressive alliance being rolled out ahead of a general election, he said, with the aim of locking out the Conservatives and Reform from power. Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation. The supplementary vote is the local pilot for a national project. Pool second preferences, lock out the right, govern indefinitely on a minority of first preference votes.
This is not the first time. Earlier this year Labour delayed local elections after the Electoral Commission stated explicitly that the justification was not legitimate, that extending mandates damages public confidence and creates a conflict of interest by allowing those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. The Commission's objection was noted and ignored. Reform demolished Labour anyway.
Now the same instinct has been applied to a different mechanism. Not cancellation this time. Electoral system change, deployed with surgical precision forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect.
Governments confident in their mandate do not need to change the rules two days before the ballot. They face the electorate and take their chances. The timing of Tuesday night's Lords motion is not a coincidence. It is a confession.
The voters of Makerfield vote on Thursday. The question of who governs Greater Manchester after that, and under what rules, was settled in the Lords on Tuesday. Nobody voted for that.
"Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation."

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Well, Zarah, you didn’t go to a local comprehensive.
You went to a highly selective grammar school for girls.
And we all paid for that, too.
Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana
What’s wrong with the local comprehensive? If state schools are good enough for everyone else, why not the future king? Meanwhile, we’re expected to keep footing the bill. One rule for them. Another for us. Abolish the monarchy.
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Elon Musk: ”I think there are great things in every culture. We don’t want the German culture to disappear. We don’t want French culture to disappear. We don’t want Korean culture to disappear, or Japan, or America, or anywhere.
I think we should be very cautious about having some sort of global mixing pot, because every place will be the same, and there won’t be any unique cultures in the world. Which I think would make the world worse.
So I think we need to preserve these country cultures, and that’s the future that I think is better. I think that most people would agree is better. We shouldn’t have cultures disappear.
And currently, based on the current birth rates and the sort of so-called multiculturalism and globalism, what we’re actually seeing is the dilution of individual cultures and the destruction and death of individual cultures, which I think is terrible for the future.”
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In the year 2000, the average Brit was about as wealthy as the average American.
Today the American is over fifty percent richer. Strip London out, and large parts of Britain are now level with Mississippi, the poorest state in America, the one they use as the benchmark for failure.
How did we fall this far this fast?
Choice. Theirs, not yours.
They gave you the highest energy bills in the developed world, layer on layer of red tape strangling anyone who tries to build something, and a state that grows while the people funding it shrink.
The same political class now wants to bind us tighter to a stagnant Europe and turn its back on the one major economy still actually growing.
This was not bad luck. It was a decision made over your head.
And you paid for it. Not just in money, but in the years, the holidays, the time with your kids you never got back, while you grafted just to stay still.
You were robbed of a better life. And nobody ever asked you.
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Imprisonment - and never hold a position of authority ever again.
Basil the Great@BasilTheGreat
What should the punishment be for politicians who turned a blind eye to the mass rape of children?
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I have to say that Clarkson's Farm is one of the finest pieces of television ever created. I started watching it for Jeremy doing stupid Clarksonesque shit, but then it became something deeper and more important to an entire community of Farmers across the UK, and subsequently to us, those who forgot how important farmers are to our country.
Clarkson himself, never afraid of being made to look like a knob, opened our eyes and his to the warts and all reality of farming. The show laughs and cries at and with him. Crafted drama could never carry the same pathos as watching a Journalist becoming a farmer.
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A father in the UK discovered his daughter had been kidnapped and was being abused by a Pakistani grooming gang.
Desperate to save her, he went to the property where she was being held.
Instead of helping him rescue his own child, British police arrived and arrested the father.
This is the same pattern exposed in the grooming gang scandals for years: authorities prioritizing political correctness, “community relations,” and fears of racism accusations over protecting vulnerable British girls.
The victims and their families are abandoned while the perpetrators are often shielded.
This level of institutional failure is unforgivable.

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