Christian Froggatt

@stopthemove_rp @ClaireLudlow2 @greatwallofella @ReigateRabbit @SurreyCouncil @Reigate_Priory @SurreyNews @surreylive @reigatebanstead Turns out - I was right

@00kik @ClaireLudlow2 @greatwallofella @ReigateRabbit @SurreyCouncil @Reigate_Priory @SurreyNews @surreylive Well @reigatebanstead have been having a very positive dialogue with me 😍 So I think there is hope!

This looks to me like @surreycouncil going on the record to say that they’re continuing to push on with their plans to relocate @Reigate_Priory to Woodhatch Place. You heard it here first folks! Though wish I’d been proved wrong 🙁 @surreynews @surreylive

@Culture_Crit A folly made out of wood and plaster gets knocked down to make room for a useable actual building?! 😂

One more: Festival Hall, St. Louis A gem of classicism built for the 1904 World's Fair — although designed as a temporary structure (plaster and wood) to host large-scale musical pageants.

America built some of the world's greatest architecture — then demolished it. A thread of the most beautiful buildings that were razed, and why... 🧵 1. Cincinnati Library: destroyed for a parking garage

@Peston Change is happening! This as important as when Jacob Rees-Mogg changed the escape distances in the Dartford Tunnel from (woke) metres to yards.

Trump confirms today he will sign an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

@OllyMetcalfe This is government policy in a manifesto that was democratically elected by a landslide. Children are transferring into the state sector because the private school chose to refuse to reduce their costs and pass it on to their customers rather than simply absorb it.

This is simply unacceptable. Children are transferring into the state sector as a result of government policy, yet there is no plan to ensure continuity of education - even when some will be just weeks from exams. It is a total dereliction of duty.

@ILA_NewsX @MarioNawfal 2017 from the article you’ve posted was during the middle of the 14 year tenure of the right wing conservative government. The (not very) left wing Labour government have only been in government for the last 6 months. Think you need to bark loudly at the righties not the lefties.

@MarioNawfal The UK justice system has issues.

🚨🇬🇧HORRIFIC FAILURES: UK TURNED A BLIND EYE TO RAPING CHILDREN “Anna” and Lucy Lowe faced unimaginable horrors—rape, forced marriage, and in Lucy’s case, death—yet Telford’s authorities failed them entirely. A 2022 review revealed that police labeled parts of the town “no-go areas” and witnesses alleged corruption and favoritism toward the Pakistani community. The inquiry noted a “nervousness about race,” with a reluctance to investigate crimes involving the “Asian Muslim” community for fear of backlash. This culture of inaction left victims vulnerable and allowed systemic abuse to persist for years. Source: The Telegraph

@daveatherton @GMB @elonmusk Don’t be a stupid twat. 165,000 of “Brits” is 0.0023% of the 70M population of Britain.

It looks like Good Morning Britain's @GMB poll blew up in their face. Nearly two-thirds of Brits welcome @elonmusk's involvement in UK politics.

@OllyMetcalfe I believe first class air travel is a luxury and provides better outcomes for passengers (who can afford it). The logical move is to expand first class (through govt support?! 😂) thus relieving pressure on those who can only afford economy and allowing for a better service. 🙄

If you believe that private education is a 'luxury' that provides better outcomes for students, the logical move is to expand the sector and widen access through government support and incentives. This then relieves pressure on the state sector, allowing for a better service.

@CreEnglish @kingston2707 @BellaWallerstei 😂 😂😂 100% earning £20,000 don’t send their kids to private school. 100% earning £20,000 do send their kids to state school. 100% of parents who earn either £120k or £200k have a 100% choice where to send their kids to school. 100% of parents who earn £20k have 0% choice…

@kingston2707 @BellaWallerstei 80% of those earning £200,000 send their children to state schools. 90% of those earning £120,000 send their children to state schools.

Education should never be taxed. It is as simple as that.

@TiceRichard VAT on private school fees should be absorbed by the fees ie. reduce the currently subsidised arms race to provide “world class facilities”. State schools have been absorbing cuts for decades. If private schools / businesses can’t manage this they should close and be state run.

Socialism is the dumbing down of all that works well VAT on school fees means bigger classes in state schools = less attention per pupil

@perittologos @LozzaFox Send those cars back. Stop the cars! 😡

@LozzaFox And just two foreign cars, a Fiat 124 and a Volvo 122 !!

Diversity is our greatest strength!

@AllisonPearson Dear Allison, We’ve left the EU. Welcome to your many Brexit benefits. 🙄

Dear HM Treasury, It is illegal in the EU to tax education. School fees are not a “tax break”. Parents have already paid for a state-school place. Stick to being sh1t at running the economy.

@benonwine Oh Jesus Christ the fucking Lord @benonwine is quoting Alf Garnett to promote right wing thoughts 😂😂😂😂

Alf Garnett described Labour best when he said the Labour Party thrives on poverty and if poverty was abolished that would be the end of the Labour Party. Who Agrees?

@RupertLowe10 Do your bold plans @RupertLowe10 to slash back state interference in key sectors include defence and the economy aswell as education, healthcare, housing etc?

We need to slash back the size of the state, urgently - it is too big, too powerful, too far-reaching. I always thought it was a mess, but since being elected an MP? Far, far worse than any of us realise. Never underestimate the damage a do-gooding arrogant bureaucrat can inflict on productive Britain. There is an army of these people now, building their own little empires in councils, quangos, hospitals and public sector institutions all across the country. Entirely untouchable, accountable to nobody. Constructing this self-sustaining industry, which contributes nothing, but obstructs everything. Anyone who has dealt with the state, or those decent people working within it, will know exactly the type of individual I am referring to… Cosy work environments, zero accountability, great pensions, job security, no targets. The out of office reply in regular use... It’s a scam. These bureaucrats have embedded themselves into the system, building it so that their own little role seems irreplaceable. An overly complicated form for this, diversity training for that - who can solve it? The do-gooding bureaucrat. So wonderfully encapsulated by the thousands of diversity officers now roaming the corridors of hospitals, departments and local councils - searching for racial wrongs to right. We need to root these people out. They wouldn’t last a fortnight in the private sector, but are protected in their own cosy little bubble. All funded by the men and women doing actual work. The bureaucratic monster state must be challenged. I detest how these freeloaders are gliding through life on the back of productive Britain. Brutal cuts are required to the management class. As the great Javier Milei so eloquently says - AFUERA!

@chriskeebs @DystopianFemale @therealGDJ @KingBobIIV @EssexPR Nope. I think you don’t understand the difference in percentages of a countries’ population vs those who are eligible or actually bother to vote? The OP has clearly used the former rather than the latter for his UK election analysis. Typical RW trope.

@00kik @DystopianFemale @therealGDJ @KingBobIIV @EssexPR Where do you get that figure (20%) ? I think you've been lied to.

I’ve actually had messages believing that there could be a General Election, I get the anger, the worry & the frustration at what Keir Starmer & Labour are doing, but the fact is,we are stuck with them for a few years,no one calls an election after just getting in. Let’s be real

@BasedMikeLee And syphylis

Who else wants to bring back real light bulbs in 2025?

@aubreystrobel I’m surprised no one has bothered to build a global chain only selling irish coffee tbh

you can just put Bailey’s and whipped cream in your coffee, no one checks

@Con_Tomlinson How can any local authority have any influence over who buys or lets a retail property in their borough. If the use class (A) doesn’t change then it’s a given whether it’s an independent coffee shop, Starbucks or a Vape shop. It’s a free market economy or are you a communist?

Here's a small high street in south-east London. It's less than 1 km long. The population was 15,000 at the last census. In the last two years, five phone repair and vape shops have opened here. One opened this week, right next door to another. All the staff are immigrants. How do they make enough money to stay open while other businesses are closing? Who in local authority approved the sales to these businesses? How can it be argued that this many shops of the same kind are an improvement to the area? I took these photos while visiting family for Christmas, but I'm seeing this all over the country. Anyone else seeing the same?

@darrengrimes It’s more anti royalist IMHO

@elonmusk Billionaires buying elections is very 2024 it seems. And all the proles clapped and cheered! #1984

Interesting

@mattletiss7 Says the white male former footballer. Great to bring the gates crashing down now, but how would your football career have panned out 20-30 years ago if you hadn’t been both white and male? Think you might have struggled…

Diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) is in itself a racist concept. Let’s get back to a place where the best person for the job gets it irrespective of race religion sexuality etc it’s the only way to make the world a better place