@Jemimasgarden @pikobi1 @PhillipMPope @mitchellsnik @BBCSurrey We should eat more pheasant though. Healthier than factory bred chickens!
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GTP Engineering and farming
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GTP Engineering and farming
@GtpFarming
Fix dirty oily things and farm some crops. Cricket (Durham CCC) , punk rock, comedy, anti racist, anti R*form, anti brexit
Katılım Kasım 2014
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A 12-year-old boy from Addlestone, who reportedly became the youngest registered beekeeper in the UK, said helping the pollinators "will be a big step in changing the world".
More here: bbc.in/4e14MJH
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@RobertJenrick What about people who don't get the chance to have overtime? It's basically screw them then?
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People have asked what Reform’s no tax on overtime means for the Armed Forces Reserves.
You won’t pay *any tax* on time served in the Reserves, where it’s on top of a full time day job.
This will be a huge boost to recruitment.
Thank you to those serving in the Reserves 🇬🇧
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🚨 NEW: Sarah Wakefield is the Green Party candidate in the Makerfield by-election
She is a charity director and a Manchester City Councillor
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@DaveDuddri26061 @archer_rs I don't know he seems to hide any intelligence he has quite well!
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@ChappellJe13586 @archer_rs No you don't. My neighbour is uses his own tools on a company van. Only specialist tools are provided
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@archer_rs Are you that thick???? Asking for a friend....
When you work for a company as an employee you use the company tools... When you go self employed or setup your own Ltd Company you have to buy your own tools... Simple logic....
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@alternativesay @VINUK2025 @leftyclowns @donmcgowan He doesn't know what it means for teachers as it's likely he's not allowed near schools!
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@VINUK2025 @leftyclowns @donmcgowan How will you destroy this woke ideology if you can’t give me examples of what that means in the real world for teachers !!
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I've seen a very dark side of this platform over the bank holiday weekend.
I wrote a post supporting teachers — thousands of replies telling me that they hate teachers.
Posts in which I called out Robert Kenyon's misogyny — thousands of replies telling me that he's 'proper bloke' and plenty of women saying they'll happily vote for him.
Allowing for the 𝕏 Bot Factor, I am really quite shocked by how many people are so entrenched in beliefs I thought we'd left behind in the 1980s.
Reform UK has dragged a sizeable proportion of this country back decades.
Racism.
Misogyny.
Anti-education.
A trifecta of bigotry being used to weaponise the far-right.
Very disturbing but, thankfully, in the UK, it's only around 23% of the population. Not enough for Reform to win a General Election.
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@leftyclowns @donmcgowan What actually is vile woke ideology
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@BlickyIan Not much point when there's hardly any buses in areas like rural Lincolnshire!
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What if people identify as under 15 ??
Preet Kaur Gill MP@PreetKGillMP
Free bus travel for children this August will help families with the cost of living and make summer holidays more affordable. Families in Birmingham Edgbaston will be able to enjoy more days out while keeping more money in their pockets. Read more here: gov.uk/government/new…
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@farmfriendlincs People can do number 2 now though!
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@AvinashMohanlal @nimishdubey Golf, snooker , decathlon.
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@nimishdubey Tell me which other sport requires 4 or 5 days to have a result?? In today's world people can't invest that much of time on a sport! It's common sense! Cricket had to evolve in changing times!! T20 is the way forward whether one thinks it's the real cricket or not!
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So true.
I have never been able to understand why cricket administrators have used shorter formats to cannibalise Test cricket. We seemed to have a decent balance of Tests and ODIs till the mind 1980s and then suddenly we were ODing on ODIs at the cost of Test cricket. Then along came T20 and hit both Tests and ODIs for a maximum. All through the script was “we need the shorter formats to help Test cricket.” In reality, they seem to be murdering it.
Troll cricket unlimitedd@TUnlimitedd
"If we lose test cricket, we will lose the cricket we truly know. History remembers legendary test careers not franchise triumphs. Cricket without Tests has no real meaning. Winning a T20 World Cup may put you at the centre of world cricket today, but whether that is truly good for the game remains open to debate. Test cricket earned its name because it challenges every quality a player possesses, technique, patience, temperament,endurance and character. It is not simply about clearing the ropes for entertainment; It is about battling through pressure, adapting to conditions, and surviving the physical and mental demands of five intense days" - Sir Ian Botham
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@cashandcarrots We've got the American Mormons buying up land around here.
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@SamaHoole You forgot to add the American Mormons are starting to buy up lots of farmland here as they've had a block put on the in the US due to them buying so much
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Quiet question. Who owns Britain now?
In 2023, around half of all UK farm sales went to non-farming buyers. The figure has been climbing since 2018, only easing in 2025 as the inheritance tax shock froze the market.
The new owners include:
Aviva Investors and Par Equity, who acquired 6,300 hectares of Aberdeenshire moorland at Glen Dye to plant trees and restore peatland against Aviva's own net zero target.
Brewdog, which bought the 9,300-acre Kinrara estate in the Cairngorms for £8.85 million, killed more than half its 100,000 planted saplings in year one, collected £690,986 in Scottish Forestry public grants, then sold the estate to Oxygen Conservation in October 2025 for the same price it paid.
Oxygen Conservation itself, which now controls over 20,000 hectares across 12 UK properties and plans to build a £1 billion offset portfolio before flipping the lot by 2030.
Multiple anonymous shell companies registered in Jersey and the British Virgin Islands, hoovering up upland sheep farms in Cumbria, Northumberland, the Borders, and the Highlands. Beneficial owners undisclosed. The UK has not produced a public register of agricultural land ownership. Successive governments have promised one. None have delivered.
The local livestock farmer cannot compete. A Welsh hill farm grossed £25,700 in 2023-24. A corporate carbon buyer can outbid them every time and write the cheque from petty cash.
The farmer is outbid. The farm is consolidated. The village empties. The press release talks about nature recovery.
The trees, in many cases, are already dead.
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@WaltonBob @CWGC This isn't far from me. There's a small memorial to the Station next to the bridge
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A poignant sight at Sutton Bridge, in St Matthew's churchyard, where there are Commonwealth burials (60 in total) - of both wars & war graves of other nationalities. Sutton Bridge was a RAF station from 1926, training pilots over weapons ranges around The Wash.
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@Patriot1985B @HaddenBria98039 @NoresetRicardo @HiddenHistoryYT Fuck off back to your mums basement! Come back to us when you Yanks learn to play cricket and have some proper cheese
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@GtpFarming @HaddenBria98039 @NoresetRicardo @HiddenHistoryYT Ive seen videos, i wouldnt tolerate muslim prayer in the middle of our streets. You cowards do. Thats all i need to see.
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85 years ago today, in the freezing grey water between Iceland and Greenland, the most famous warship in the world died in under three minutes.
HMS Hood. 48,000 tons. The pride of the Royal Navy for twenty years. The ship British schoolchildren drew in their notebooks. "The Mighty Hood."
She was hunting the Bismarck.
At 05:52 on 24 May 1941, Vice Admiral Lancelot Holland gave the order to open fire at 26,500 yards. He was closing the range hard on purpose, because Hood's weak deck armor could not survive shells falling from above at long range. He needed flat trajectories, and he needed them fast.
He was three minutes too slow.
Bismarck's fifth salvo straddled Hood as she turned to bring her rear guns to bear. A single 15-inch shell punched through her thin armored deck and detonated her aft magazines.
Witnesses on Prince of Wales described a column of flame that rose higher than the mainmast, eerily silent at first, the sound arriving a moment later. Hood broke in two. Her stern rose vertically out of the sea, guns still pointed at the sky, and slid under. Her bow followed.
Of 1,418 men aboard, three survived.
Signalman Ted Briggs, Able Seaman Bob Tilburn, Midshipman Bill Dundas. They floated on a raft of debris in near-freezing water, watching their ship's oil burn around them, until the destroyer Electra found them two hours later. Briggs was 18 years old. He lived until 2008, the last man who had stood on the Mighty Hood.
The Bismarck won the battle. But Prince of Wales, only just commissioned with shipyard workers still aboard fixing her main guns, had landed three hits before retreating. One ruptured a forward fuel tank. Bismarck began trailing oil across the Atlantic like a wounded animal.
Churchill's order to the fleet was simple. Sink the Bismarck.
Every available British warship turned to the chase. Three days later, at the edge of the Bay of Biscay, a Swordfish biplane from HMS Ark Royal, flying through a gale at near sea level, dropped a torpedo that jammed Bismarck's rudder hard to port. She could only steam in a slow circle, straight back into the Royal Navy.
King George V and Rodney closed at dawn on 27 May. They fired on her for ninety minutes. Bismarck absorbed over 400 shells and at least a dozen torpedoes before she rolled over and went down with roughly 2,200 of her crew.
The Royal Navy answered for Hood in 72 hours.
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@HaddenBria98039 @NoresetRicardo @HiddenHistoryYT He's an American so he's never left his own country to see what Europe is like! Suspect he's never left his mums own basement actually!
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@NoresetRicardo @HiddenHistoryYT Defeating nazism is what British people do kid.
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@Socialist_Crow That's good to hear that a business is growing at the moment as if you believe some parts of the media it is just all doom and gloom! Admittedly I'm in a industry that's at rock bottom at the moment but good to see some good news out there!
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@GtpFarming The actual solution to their problem - which is what they are doing - is to expand the business. They're setting up another warehouse. It's actually more jobs overall, not less.
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Better than nothing, but that's a hell of a lot of overtime for just an extra £83 a month.
If I do an hour and a half overtime every week, I'd only get an extra £16.67 per month.
Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick
If you work at the Heinz factory near Wigan, do an hour and a half overtime every day, you’ll be *£1,000* a year better off. Reform will make work pay again.
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@Socialist_Crow Even if Reform get in I don't think they will bring this in anyway. Just soundbites isn't it. For all Trump has said I don't think much has actually changed in America! Think it will be the same here!
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@GtpFarming It's funny because people are speculating without knowing what my employer's situation is. Someone suggested they would make redundancies and rely more on overtime, which couldn't be more wrong in my situation.
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@YcmiYcmiu @romfordroy @PulaRJS @FairyQueenOfBS Fuck off pal because I and all the farmers in my area pay well over min wage. What job do you do? Face it if you lost your job you'd do anything to avoid doing it cos it's bloody hard work !
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@GtpFarming @romfordroy @PulaRJS @FairyQueenOfBS It is below minimum wage. Employers can pay 80% of min wage plus exploited cheap Labour have to pay for their bed & board in dorms. Did I hit a raw nerve where the left supports exploitation? wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/the-agtiv…
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Reform is proposing the deportation of 2 million people - including people legally here.
"Politically it feels quite clever doesn't it," says Trevor Phillips, and leads a discussion that revolves entirely around whether it is affordable and practical.
These are people who sweep our streets, look after disabled people, keep the care sector functioning. People who work incredibly hard and are invariably very badly paid. People who have families, lives, hopes, dreams. Without whom the economy simply wouldn't function.
This country has arrived at an appalling place.
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@Socialist_Crow I'm self employed so doesn't effect me directly but at harvest time would look like a bit longer on the paperwork for a couple lads I'd have in!
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@GtpFarming I don't know. I don't work for most companies, but I do work for a very big company with a leading share in the market for what they do, and where I work they have been at max capacity for the last few years and need as much overtime as possible. They can certainly afford it.
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@FootballRemind Ridiculous how we've never held a world cup since then. Even back then our stadiums were better than most and now look at the standard of them. Wouldn't even need to build any new ones
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May, 1996
The Country was eagerly awaiting the start of Euro ‘96.
Great times! 🏴🏴
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