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The UK Met Office has again been caught publishing temperatures from weather stations that don't exist. An FOI revealed Lowestoft closed in 2010, yet the Met Office kept issuing official temperatures for it. The office said they were using well-correlated neighboring stations, but the FOI revealed that this was a lie. The numbers were actually coming from a model that was inventing data from 'phantom' neighboring stations. When exposed, the office quietly deleted years of readings for Lowestoft, as well as a number of other stations, and added a disclaimer saying their data is "for general interest only." FOIs also show over one third of Met Office stations never existed, and that real high-quality sites like Colwood are ignored. Also, more than 80% of the network is low-grade class 4 or 5, by WMO standards, giving 2-5C uncertainty. This is the foundation of the UK's climate record – closed stations, imaginary stations and synthetic temperatures. The Met Office isn't credible.

No, it stands for English civilisation winning. You stand for putting treacherous lawyers who collaborate with criminals in charge of lawfare against the SAS. A future regime will jail your mate Hermer and RICO through your network RETWEET IF AGREE

@FraserNelson I'm willing to earn less than minimum wage to do it

This is one of the more striking Reform policies: a UK version of ICE. To deport 2m would require a separate police force and methods more intrusive than anything seen hitherto.

@slimtimcann Yes, the Labour party have bought a load of bots. Up until now they thought they were the saviours of the UK (and a lot of us hoped they were), but now it's all "we must stay in power as long as we can, keep the wages coming in & bump up our pensions as much as possible."

Noticed a real shift lately — posts criticising Keir Starmer are increasingly met with people pushing back, often pointing to his decency and professionalism. That kind of defence just wasn’t as visible before. Something in the tone of the debate seems to be changing.

@CharlotteEmmaUK Green party voter = unlaid and bitter uni students

The Green Party are a modern day freak show….shudder 😳

@tittyfalar @higgyboson Knighthood, a pension you would die for, senior position in the NHS. She sold her soul a long time ago to be a

@higgyboson How much is she being paid

Does anyone actually believe these two are a couple? I don't.

@patcondell @Suffragent_ No idea,but I'll have a stab at it

There's a reason for this. Can you guess what it is?

@Channel4News Failure to stop and search black kids will result in more black kids getting stabbed. Anyone who is against it is a racist who wants to see dead black kids, and more black kids serving long prison sentences for GBH-murder

Black children across England and Wales are almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched by police than their white peers according to a new report by the Children's Commissioner. Nearly half of all searches resulted in no further action.

@CharlotteCGill Watching the likes of Andrew (the adults are back in charge) Marr squirm while they try to defend him

If Keir Starmer ever resigns, what will you miss about him most?

@JamesMelville @HHepplewhite 30 million drivers in the UK, yet they couldn't even find "tens of thousands drivers" or, 0.03% who support this

“Thousands of Brits have backed a call to halve the national speed limit from 60mph to 30mph on single carriageway roads.” This is absolutely ridiculous for so many different reasons.

@AllForProgress_ That's my youngest, 5 years apprenticeship, 6 years in post gaining experience, earns 3p more per hour than the new guys. Their Boss wants them to take a the supervisor and training position, which will raise their wages to 6p PH more than a new starter. Where is the incentive🤷

In Doncaster, the minimum wage is now 82% of the median local salary. In Sunderland, it's 80%. In Wigan, roughly the same. A person in Doncaster who has been in the same job for fifteen years, who did the training, got the qualifications, turned up every morning and did it properly - that person now earns barely more than someone who first walked through the door on Monday. The gap between the floor and the middle has been quietly compressed until there is, for practical purposes, no middle left. There is the minimum wage and there is something fractionally above it, and that's it. If you're a hard-working Brit ready to make something of yourself in the 20s, that is the offer. If you're in, say, Reading, the minimum wage is 53% of the local median. There's a bit of a ladder there. The rungs are spaced apart; you can see the next one from where you're standing. In Doncaster the ladder has been sawn off at the second rung and what remains is a stepstool. The North East pays its workers £200 a week less than London. One in five local areas across the North East, North West, and Yorkshire sits in the most deprived decile nationally. That figure - and this is the bit that should grieve anyone who has ever used the phrase "levelling up" without laughing - has not moved since 2019. Five years. Five years of levelling up, which was a slogan the Conservative Party invented because it tested well in focus groups; and five years of its Labour successor, which dropped the slogan but kept the strategy of doing sod-all and hoping the media would keep to its decades-old pact of not giving a toss about the North and not investigate the numbers. That's fine, as it turns out, because the numbers are exactly where they were. Raising the minimum wage every April and calling it economic policy is the equivalent of painting over damp. The wall looks fine for six months and then the stain comes back and the hazard is even worse, because the problem is structural, and you haven't touched the structure. You move the floor up because you've given up entirely on building anything above it; and the people who pay the price are precisely the ones who did the right thing - who trained and grafted and stayed in their town instead of leaving for London - and are now watching the distance between their fifteen years of experience and a first-day wage compress to a couple of quid an hour. There is a word for what happened to these towns, and the word is deindustrialisation, and it was a policy choice, a deliberate strategy. The mines closed. The factories followed. The skilled trades dried up. What replaced them was logistics, care work, and retail - sectors that pay at or near the legal minimum because the market for that labour was flooded, deliberately, by two decades of unchecked low-skilled migration that meant employers never had to raise wages because there was always somebody else who'd do it for less. I want to build Prosperity Zones all across the North and Midlands - special economic zones with lower taxes and lighter regulation, designed to anchor real industries with real skill requirements, not to attract another distribution warehouse or a spurious spot of gig work. Technical colleges running a dual apprenticeship system on the German model, training people in Doncaster and Sunderland and Wigan, Rhyl and Greenock and Mexborough and Grimsby, for the work that exists where they live. And a permanent reduction in low-skilled migration, so that the labour market is tight enough to force wages up on its own, without the government having to legislate another 20p increase every April so that they have something to call progress. We all know that 'progress' just isn't enough. Only Progress wil do. I think the North has been promised enough. I think it's time it got its own back.

@WASDxniel @LoftusSteve I doubt anyone is expecting Driffield town Council to start patrolling the channel or storm No 10

@LoftusSteve They are going to have a lot of explaining to do to their voters after May 7th when the small boats haven't been stopped, and we still have a Labour Government.

This is a good thing, and not for the reasons you might think.

@Brunte84 Except I think you'll find it was the other way round, Mandleson and his network made Starmer Labour leader and put him into No 10.

Tony Benn warned us 39 years ago... 👀 And Keir Starmer still put Peter Mandelson in one of Britain's most important jobs 🥀

@CSgtBourne We'll also look after you once your service is over, life long free accommodation and 3 meals a day. Would you prefer wormwood scrubs or pentinville?

“C’mon, Bro. Just sign up to fight and die for Starmer and Mandelson, Bro. Pls, Bro. Think of all the iftars at Westminster Abbey, Bro.”

How do I know that the climate *crisis* is a scam? Here are five reasons: 1️⃣ None of the politicians, celebrities, or “scientists” yammering about it have altered their lifestyles an inch. If they opted to forgo using O&G products, then I’d take them seriously. Actions speak louder than words. 2️⃣ Climate conferences aren’t being held virtually on Zoom using their large meeting extensions. It’s doable, they just choose not to. They like to fly overseas to lecture us about reducing our “carbon footprint” all the while they do nothing to lower their own. 3️⃣ Wealthier alarmists are still living on or buying oceanfront property. If ocean levels were really rising at a catastrophic rate (as opposed to the gradual increase that is actually occurring), then they would move inland and banks would not approve loans. 4️⃣ Alarmists rarely, if ever criticize China and India, and they always come up with all sorts of wonderful excuses as to why those nations get a free pass to continue emitting so-called “carbon pollution.” 5️⃣ The only solutions they offer involve increased governmental power. Higher taxes. EV mandates. Restrictions or bans on the energy sectors they don’t like. And, as an added bonus, no real-world data proves, much less suggests that we are facing an “existential crisis.” Even the IPCC doesn’t use such rhetoric because it isn’t based on science. I don’t deny that climate change exists. It always has. And, I don’t even deny that at least some of the increase in temperatures is anthropogenic. But I just don’t care because it isn’t that big of a deal. Extreme weather cannot be taxed away. Our vulnerability will continue to increase so long as we build in disaster-prone areas. Politicians cannot take our wallets and set a thermostat on the planet.

He is here on a UK dependent visa. Unfortunately the main visa holder has died so he now has to return to India where he has family. Should he be deported or not?

I used to wonder if there would come a time when they would say that parents cannot read to their kids because it gives them an advantage. It seems that time will soon be upon us. 😳

"To us, he's just Adolf"

Guy found an anthill in his garden. Poured gas on it. Lit it up. It did not go the way he thought 😬