Greg L

Hard to think of a more midwit position than being anti-supermarket. Tesco is an unmitigated force for good. It supplies tens of millions of people with luxuries their grandparents couldn't imagine, employs 1 in 200 people, and runs on paper thin margins through sheer competence

@quevega Appears to be taken in a prison cell, so I’m guessing £0. Maybe remind the guard to take the spoon away next time, just for safety.

Guess the price

The more you read about the energy crisis the more you realise everyone else, every serious country, is going flat out increasing production, more oil/gas, prioritising domestic production where possible, ripping up policy assumptions, Uniquely, one major country is pressing on in the opposite direction. It would have to be us, wouldn’t it? Banning new oil and gas exploration and fields, by law! It is quite mad. Future historians will be astonished. Like looking back on Tony Benn’s policies in government decades later and thinking how on earth was that allowed to happen?

Spot on.

I hear Jordan Pickford is taking a keen interest in this breakthrough.

The idea, or movement to try and cap to supermarket prices is remarkable. 1) The govt must know some regulations are onerous, hence their Carrot dangling. Those regs should go, regardless. 2) No one can afford to cap prices, food retail is a low margin business, theft is at an all time high eg and drives prices up. 3) As do taxes; people heavy industries like retail, hospitality, food production etc have been hit hard with the NI rise and other associated taxes. 4) For example there is now a packaging tax that we're all paying for, alongside high energy prices (before Iran) that feed in to prices at the shelf edge. 5) No one can afford to cap prices in peacetime. Let alone now - things are hugely uncertain. Imagine signing it up to it and seeing Oil rise to $whatever a barrel, directly impacting prices. But being stuck to charging Y because the govt said so. 6) Why would anyone bother to innovate in foods if the prices are to be capped? There is more. But this is insanity. The government can take several measures to ease food inflation, some are naturally related to Iran (and that will start to feed through now in greater numbers). Iran is an impact but food prices were on the rise before this. HFSS is another one; moving products around the store aimlessly so no one buys them. Banning multibuys on govt deemed "unhealthy" products also hasn't helped food prices. Or consumer sentiment. The latest thing after hundreds of millions spent on changes, reformulation and the rest.... Is the news that the government are bringing more products in to the rules.... The ridiculous legislation, NI rises, tax rises, etc etc can all be looked at. Why not do that? IE the consequences of your own actions as a Govt? It would be funny, if not so serious.

@jack1024lfc @Carra23 I do like his description of Jones, tbf.

Really surprised @Carra23 can't get what Salah's on about here...

Surely cheaper just to give everyone in England a Tesla with FSD enabled.

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@JuliaHB1 This country is so utterly fucked

Yet again, we call for Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to resign or be removed from his post by @MayorOfLondon and @ShabanaMahmood. He allowed a hate march on the doorstep of a synagogue today. There were scant arrests as people called for ‘intifada’ and displayed the flag of Palestinian terrorist organisations. Placards claimed that the UK is controlled by ‘Zionists’ and destroyed by their ‘greed’. Masked thugs went unchallenged by police as they defied an anti-mask order. The outrageous scenes today showed that @MetPoliceUK had totally lost control of the streets of London. For all of the words after anti-Jewish terrorist attacks and arson, today proved that when it comes down to it, British Jews are not protected by the Met, they are gaslit by it. We are also aware of displays of some antisemitic messaging on the Unite the Kingdom march. It was absolutely dwarfed by the anti-Jewish hatred engulfing the much smaller hate march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, whose outgoing leader was recently convicted of inciting a crowd to breach police conditions put in place to protect a synagogue. For British Jews, the statements issued by @Keir_Starmer and @SadiqKhan about the Unite the Kingdom march applied far more to the ‘Nakba Day’ hate march. Their outrage and warnings about Unite the Kingdom but not today’s hate march show a glaring double standard and wilful blindness toward the years of hate marches that are the engine rooms of antisemitism at a time when British Jews are being stabbed and our community burned.

This is the best piece on Starmer you will read today, perhaps this year

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If this government were remotely sensible it would pass emergency legislation to stop this absurdity, like they did in New Zealand.

This Middlesbrough spying thing is a joke. They lost because they are crap. The end So if Southampton are kicked out, it’s only fair Millwall take their place in the final

I hope Burnham gets spanked here. Tories should stand aside and let Reform have a free run at this one, which isn’t something I’d normally say.

Bollocks.

@TorstenBell Maybe copy your colleagues and turn replies off, muppet.

Kemi Badenoch - a women who thinks what matters is being rude rather than being right

Just watched Kemi’s response to the Kings speech, wow!

🧵The "Energy Independence Bill" just mentioned in the King's Speech is something of a bombshell. Why? Because it compels the govt to rally Parliament behind fresh legislation to ban new North Sea oil/gas licences (this has NOT been written into law yet). This is a v big deal!