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Can we get this story about Farage and his dodgy tax Retweeted 10,000 times?
#NoTaxNigel #FarageOut
#FarageTheFraud
theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
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Gareth Bowman
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Husband, Humanist, Democratic Socialist, Scientist, Environmental Health Professional
Leicester, England Katılım Haziran 2011
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If you will never vote for reform please like and repost
Let's show the polls are incorrect
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@JAHeale Since Sep 2023 Wales' 20mph limit, road casualties fell 26% (630 fewer), with 80 fewer fatal/serious injuries.
Over 18 months, 882 fewer casualties (25%), incl. 14 fewer deaths, 98 serious injuries.
Q1 2024: 23% fewer KSIs.
20% less insurance claims - premiums cut £45.
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A message from a Kindergarten teacher:
After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:
“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”
No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”
My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.
When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.
But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.
My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.
And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.
They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.
The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”
As if kindness were a weakness.
Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”
Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.
But this last year broke something in me.
The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.
I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.
So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:
“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”
I sat on the floor and cried.
No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.
I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.
I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.
So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.
Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.
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Ladies & Naughties!
Today is the day to reveal my latest upgrade: 1500cc -> 2200cc! I'm more excited than my skin is stretched - and my skin is very stretched. Thanks to everyone who contributed to my fundraiser! Thanks to all my followers - there are over 6000 of you already!❤️
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Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09/e…
LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.
Pls share
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We were deeply concerned by the incident involving the Israeli military delegation at the entrance to the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. The Museum had not been informed in advance about the planned official ceremony involving a military formation marching with flags through the grounds of the former camp. Failure to follow the required procedures led to an unfortunate and entirely avoidable situation.
The regulations about ceremonies and commemorations at the Memorial Site clearly state that flags and banners on poles „may only be brought onto the grounds of the Museum during organized and registered ceremonies, commemorations, or assemblies.”
These measures are in place to protect the dignity, solemnity, and neutrality of the space that is the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Approximately 1.1 million people were murdered here, primarily Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, and others. The special safeguards exist due to numerous past attempts to misuse this historical site.
Under no circumstances can the grounds of the former camp be a space for uncoordinated manifestations or ceremonies, even those carried out with good intentions. This is in no one’s interest. What is at stake is our shared and solemn responsibility to protect this site and honor the memory of all its victims.
In this case, the organizers submitted a request solely to hold a ceremony at the monument in Birkenau at the end of their visit. The entrance into the Memorial in the form of a procession with flags and banners had not been declared in advance. Therefore, the Museum Security had to intervene (not the Polish Police).
The failure to follow procedures by the organizers was the primary cause of this completely unnecessary incident. It is clear that had they, like many others before them, submitted a request for such a ceremony, the necessary permission would have been granted.
Therefore, we appeal to all those organizing similar visits to adhere strictly to the established procedures. Doing so helps to prevent any misunderstandings, which is surely in the best interest of everyone who carries the burden of this difficult memory.
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@MaddisonFox_ It is like most advances in Medical diagnostics. You find all the people who have a condition but have been undiagnosed so there appears to be a peak where as it is just the amount afflicted but from all generational cohorts.
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Too many people being diagnosed as ADHD… and no one’s asking why…
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Boxer is late for three reasons:
1⃣We under-estimated the amount of time needed to implement the 1,000 requirements specified by the UK customer
2⃣We under-estimated the effort required to establish a local supply chain to support UK production
3⃣The combined impact of three force majeures: (1) Covid-19, (2) Brexit, and (3) Russia's invasion of Ukraine. However...
...Production is normalising.
...The requested changes have turned a great vehicle into an outstanding one.
...And the UK is now well-positioned to export Boxer to overseas customers.
The most important thing is, If the UK can build a complete expeditionary war fighting division around the Boxer variants listed below, it will be able to go anywhere, do anything while having a vastly reduced logistical burden. This is transformational.
The British Army will be back in business.
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This whole store in a tea cup about the Online Safety Act, one question, do you expect every parent to go to a shop with their child to prevent them buying age restricted products or do you expect the shop staff to do that? This is the same but online.
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@BlackHorseLE2 I am sorry but he willfully misses the point of many of the things he is negative about, just to score a political point. That is the sort of politician he is don't be fooled.
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Can't say I'm a big @RupertLowe10 fan or even agree with his politics.
But this, although a long read, is bang on.
We speak for hospitality, but this applies to all businesses.
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it. You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe. Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked the wrong country to do it in. Registering the damn thing is complicated enough, and that’s the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? You’re treated like a criminal and it takes week - opening a cafe, not a terrorist cell. You manage to find a premise, good location. Oh, it costs a fortune. Rent through the roof and you’re forced to pay thousands to the council. For what? The filthy high street? The rapid customer service? Hmm. Yet another rip off. Inspections are a nightmare, it’s never-ending bureaucracy from people who have never created anything in their lives. But somehow you get it off the ground and things go well. You need to expand, hire someone. Ouch. PAYE, national insurance, pensions, HR policies, health and safety risk assessments. One wrong step and you’re facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk? It’s becoming more and more expensive, and risky, to hire people? Why bother? Maybe you try and get independent contracted help. Ah. IR35 puts a stop to that. We wouldn’t want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense. Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. They’re bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations. But let’s say it’s gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits £90k. The dreaded VAT threshold. That means if you essentially then have to start charging VAT. That means everything gets 20% more expensive for your customers. Or you are forced to absorb the costs. Or you deliberately make less money to stay below the threshold. Just brilliant. Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on? More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother? Waste collection even costs a fortune. Remind me, why are you already paying the council? You try and ring the council, you’re on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. They’re rude, and haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They promise they’ll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday they’re working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase. Incompetence reigns. Right. We’ve got through all of that, now you want to pay yourself? Not unreasonable is it? For working 16 hour days to get the business off the ground? Corporation tax slices your profit down. Maybe there’s some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so there’s less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well let’s take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe you’ve got student debt too which takes a large chunk? It is brutal. Even making money costs money. It costs to deposit, it costs to accept card payments. No holiday, no protection, no respect. All risk, and you’re treated like dirt by the Government. You look at it all and just think, why bother? Why not work for the public sector as some irrelevant bureaucrat obstructing everyone else? Get 60k, 35 days holiday and you can literally never be sacked. What’s the point? Why take the risk? Just do that instead. We desperately need to back British enterprise. Reward those who take all of the risk. And actually, support local businesses where we all can. We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends, brutalising red tape and PLENTY more. If you do these things, you will generate MORE tax revenue. It is really not a complicated principle. Does Reeves understand that? No. The woman is clueless. Absolutely clueless. She does NOT understand what she is forcing on business owners. Let’s see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance. I’m with the men and women who build businesses, create wealth, and generate opportunities. They have my full respect. The politicians running our country certainly do not. My message to our cafe owner? Keep plugging away, it will get better. Please know that at least one MP is fighting for you in Westminster.
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@BlokeOnTheRange Can't you see the utility of the connected cap?
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EU residents have no idea of the little luxuries that are possible in life 😁🤣
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@MrsCLewis1995 Ffion had a great day with you! So much so in about 30 minutes of leaving to go back to Leicestershire she was fast asleep!
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This is hilarious…
Sara Pascoe can't forget what Nigel Farage said to her
bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cv…
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@JohnHealey_MP @DefenceHQ @10DowningStreet we need more typhoons not F-35A and the full compliment of F-35B to sustain both carriers with losses.
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Today @CAMRA_Official chairman said we should be less dogmatic. Taking him at his word with a schooner of @BrewshedBrewery NZ IPA 6%. Keykeg, served with CO2 but not filtered nor pasteurised but very nice indeed.
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