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@combat_boot @fluff9999 Pah We had .303 Martini Enfields Best described as "well used" but didn't really matter because you only got 5 rounds of click-bang or very of often plain click ammo

@fluff9999 I remember firing those. Had to hand load rounds one at a time, as using the magazine was too risky.

At briefing: “some of you older ppl might remember the SA80 A1 dramas…it is not as if anyone still serving used the SLR”

@Funminz Because New Builds are priced at a premium so that on a 98% mortgage will be in instant negative equity

Wonder why no new build. x.com/Funminz/status…

@KathrynPorter26 @AllisonPearson @Ed_Miliband Using national figures is misleading. Seat-by-seat projections have consistently flagged Doncaster North as being increasingly vulnerable May have been a Labour safe seat but now trending to a marginal

@AllisonPearson How about @Ed_Miliband 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

Wes Streeting will lose his seat at the general election. Angela Rayner will lose her seat. Labour are a Zombie government. It’s over.

@RobertJenrick Always have been It is ritual ceremony with no legal or constitutional force during which the Monarch gets to read stuff out written by Govt.

The King is about to announce the Government’s legislative agenda. Meanwhile, the Health Secretary has told the press the Government is over. The King’s Speech is now a pantomime.

@moving_charlie He has his orders

Labour MP says "It's time for honesty". Like that's an unusual thing and there hasn't been any until now. Nice to hear it admitted.

@TheGriftReport Friend worked at a bank and was stricken by cancer. Started receiving calls and emails which he presumed were from scammers: poor English, intrusive questions and demands to click links Sacked for failure to comply with Absence Management System His settlement was a lot more

Disabled man, 59, sacked after being filmed lifting a bag of potatoes while on sick leave wins £329,000 payout Alan Jones from St Helens, Merseyside, worked at Pilkington UK Limited for over 30 years before cancer treatment left him with radiation-induced neuropathy and depression disabilities accepted by the company. In 2019 he was placed on long-term sick leave. Pilkington secretly filmed him briefly lifting a small bag of potatoes and passing a hosepipe while on a farming errand helping a friend. The glass manufacturer sacked him for gross misconduct, claiming he was secretly working elsewhere while unfit. An employment tribunal ruled the dismissal was unlawful disability discrimination, finding the firm acted on mistaken assumptions without proper medical evidence. Pilkington’s appeal was dismissed. Jones has now been awarded £329,000 in compensation.

@GuidoFawkes Those amendment votes won't happen gor a few days

SNP TO FORCE VOTE ON STARMER VIA AMENDMENT TO KING'S SPEECH DEBATE

@GBNEWS The Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV double decker bus has a Gross Vehicle Weight of 19.2 tons But that's OK....

HGVs to be banned from historic bridge and face diversions as 120-year-old structure deemed unsafe gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars…

Cabinet Minister insists ‘there is no leadership challenge’ as he backs Keir Starmer to fight on gbnews.com/politics/nick-…

@BethRigby "At end of play on Weds" Have you a time machine or just puked out your fantasy briefing intendedfor publication later today without having read it? He is done

ANALYSIS: It was a little calmer in No 10 at end of play on Weds - an insider saying the mood a lot better that first thing - as cabinet ministers & 100+ MPs came  out publicly to support the embattled PM.  Senior figures say many left leaning MPs are rowing in behind Starmer cos they want to wait for Andy Burnham to be back in Westminster. “The power to keep this controlled is with the PM. We can’t be reckless” But it is all extremely uncertain. Over 85 MPs want Starmer gone. And there is a very open question as to whether Wes Streeting will try to trigger a leadership race. He’ll come to No 10 on Wednesday for a showdown with Starmer. x.com/BethRigby/stat…

@Steven_Swinford 08.00 this morning Timing is not a coincidence

The briefings about the Streeting and Starmer meeting being 'just two blokes having a coffee' this morning are bizarre The context: We know that Streeting was going to confront the PM. We know that he was going to ask him how the hell he intends to get us out of this mess. We know that he was weighing up whether to suggest he set out a timetable for his departure We know nearly 100 MPs have gone over the top, including many of Streeting's closest allies We know that Streeting is prepared to resign once the Starmer's premiership reaches 'the point of no return'. Which feels close We know the meeting lasted just *16* minutes. That is barely enough time for a proper cup of coffee All of this points in one direction. It certainly doesn't point to a convivial cup of coffee We'll see how things pan out - Team Streeting is going to ground today - but the whole thing is a tinderbox

@TalkTV @DPJHodges @jkyleofficial This will help no end then: x.com/i/status/20544…

🚨'Starmer went NUCLEAR on Shabana Mahmood.' Dan Hodges says Sir Keir Starmer has locked himself in his private study and is refusing to meet MPs and ministers that want him gone. 'This is the level of dysfunction we're at.' @DPJHodges | @jkyleofficial

@AvonandsomerRob Friend turned up in a Porsche Boxster. Very far from new but in good condition and well maintained Also leased a small VW for getting to work at a Local Authority The pure hate he got about the Porsche had been unreal

Would you judge someone by the car they drive?

𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗥'𝗦 𝗔𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 Labour’s affiliated unions have been clear that Labour cannot continue on its current path. Whilst we recognise progress has been made, such as aspects of the Employment Rights Act and the increase in the minimum wage, the results at the election last week were devastating. Labour is not doing enough to deliver the change that working people voted for at the General Election. Our focus is on the fundamental change of direction on economic policy and political strategy that unions have been clear is needed, and not on the personalities and unfolding political drama in Westminster. It’s clear that the Prime Minister will not lead Labour into the next election, and at some stage a plan will have to be put in place for the election of a new Leader. This is a point where the future of the Party we founded will be debated and determined, and we are working closely as unions to shape a shared vision on policy, political strategy and economic policy that will re-orient Labour back to working people, so Labour do what it was elected to do: govern in the interests of workers.

@Goosey30111568 But hey, Andy Burnham will be different!! He was a journalist! Ah yes, unpaid internship/work experience at the Middleton Guardian followed by a couple of years as a junior hack for shipping and transport trade magazines Then straight into the Labour politico bubble 🤢

Just Look. At the state of Westminster. It's full of career politicians, many of whom have never had a job outside of it. They have no interest in the real world or real people.. They're self-serving careerists. Their only priority is trying to save their seats.

@TheBritishIntel Lammy: reliably and hugely wrong every time x.com/i/status/20528…

🇬🇧 WATCH: DAVID LAMMY DEFENDS STARMER AMID LEADERSHIP CHAOS David Lammy says “no one has the names” needed to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership. He urged Labour figures to “step back” and focus on the upcoming King’s Speech instead. Let’s see how well this ages.

@SandyofSuffolk Ah townies Property with orchard and woodlands purchased by a couple with dreams of something involving Yurts, lovely people and a lot of Woo Sadly had not understood that "Woodlands with growing colony of wild boar" had been a warning disclosure, not a marketing feature

Escape to the Country Series 26 episode 45 Oxfordshire Middle aged Naomi runs a woodland school (nope, me neither) and her partner of 4 years, Kevin, has won BAFTAs for doing something with sound on the telly. 📺 Hey, Kev, if you're reading this, turn the background music down so we can hear the dialogue, there's a good chap. 😜🤣 They've got too much money for their own good - £1.6 million - and want acres of land for this woodland school nonsense and for Naomi to counsel bereaved people. Although she seems a bit too hyper and full of herself to have any empathy with anyone else.🤔 They're shown three massive piles in acres of land, all stunning, the second of which is so perfect, according to nutty Naomi, it represents everything they've been looking for. For 3 years. Yep. 3 years.😲 So what do they do? Go back and have a second viewing of property 1. So not the perfect one. Not the one they've been searching for all this time. 🧐🤔 And..........🥁🥁🥁🥁.....of course, they don't buy any of them. And are now into their 4th year of property hunting. 🙄🤣

@cristo_radio @UKLabour "...no plan. No idea. No direction." That is very broadly the conclusion of post election assessments by numerous analysts

This has turned into an angry rant. Apologies. I admire you if you get to the end. But @UKLabour this is all on you. I am so utterly despairing of the mediocrity, dishonesty, lack of ideology, selfishness, cowardice, self indulgence, and complete incompetence of this government under @Keir_Starmer 400 MPs. A huge majority. But no plan. No idea. No direction. Crisis after crisis. Sleaze, followed by U- turn, followed by lies, followed by scandal. No proactive answers, just reacting day after day to messes of their own making. I'd have respect if they actually *believed* in something. But they don't. They have nothing. No strategy. Just endless platitudes which mean nothing. Imagine having 14 years to come up with a plan and this is what we get? Imagine this being the best that Britain can do? These wasters are so obsessed with being liked, with pleasing themselves, the back benchers, their unions or other interests, they haven't the backbone or intelligence to do what's right for the country. And the gas lighting. Starmer having the cheek to tell us yesterday he's "stabilised" the economy. The talk of inflation being "under control". They've made those things worse, under the decisions of the glorified accountant @RachelReevesMP creating utter chaos and a dire economic situation, yet not only do they not take responsibility, they tell us everything is going great. No one feels it's great. You've raised a different tax every TEN days you've been in government. You're fleecing people until the peeps squeak. Unemployment is up. Business closures up. Borrowing costs up. Debt interest up. You've flailed around with ill- thought out decisions which belong in student politics, and are in such a bubble you don't even realise, or worse you do, and don't care. The cabinet are a joke, the back benchers part of the lanyard class, there's barely any real world experience between them, and they prefer ideological wars with wealth instead of doing what's best for the country. Do any of you think any of this will change if Starmer goes? I doubt it. Spending won't be reduced, the back benchers in their gilded gold plated lives will see to that. Taxes won't be reduced. Bills won't be reduced. Benefits will still cost billions. It'll be more of the same with just a different face selling it, and lying to us all. No wonder people don't vote. No wonder those who do go elsewhere. You'd probably call them the 'far right' as that's easy fodder for you. You're so entrenched in your world view, you can't possibly talk to these disillusioned people. Just call them far- right then stay in your bubble, that's easier isn't it? Starmer says he wants to 'get on with governing'. What does that even mean? More words. More telling us about 'change' and big ideas, when none are forthcoming. Oh, unless it's a tax rise, or more restrictions on business. Those ideas are easily thrown around. Anything that actually makes the UK economically stronger, or gives those with ambition a chance to thrive, they're nowhere to be seen. And this is it Britain. We're stuck with them. But as far as I am concerned, and how I am feeling at the moment, @Ed_Miliband @DavidLammy @bphillipsonMP @wesstreeting @AngelaRayner @LucyMPowell @SteveReedMP @YvetteCooperMP @ShabanaMahmood @darrenpjones and all the rest of you can get in the bin. And now, breathe.

@LeeHarris Silence = Consent That's how it works, right?

🚨NEW: Earlier we heard that about 100 MPs had signed a letter supporting Keir Starmer. I kid you not, Labour MPs are now complaining that they HAVE NOT BEEN ASKED for consent to add their names to the list. It's another colossal lie. It just keeps getting worse for Starmer.

@KathrynPorter26 @t_pressland @UKLabour Hanlon's Razor states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." I am however convinced that there are many Labour policies where only substantial and outright malice can be at work and even then delivered stupidly

@t_pressland @UKLabour I think they're too stupid for that

Agree. The entire PLP is in denial... Denial about the 2024 mandate Denial about what the local election results mean Denial about the need to cut borrowing, cut tax and cut public spending They claim to want economic growth and represent "working people" but @UKLabour is implementing policies that will do the exact opposite. And the sad part is, they're too stupid and too insulated in their echo chamber to realise it