J_Bhoy
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Celtic run the league and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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The unwritten rule of Scottish football. When Celtic are in trouble, they get a penalty.
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Congratulations to Hearts. The real champions. The vile Celtic & disgusting Martin O’Neill can pretend all they want.
But everyone knows. The whole world has seen it.
Hearts are the Champions ❤️
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Raise minimum wage, yet pile more tax misery on SME's, increase pension contributions, NI contributions all whilst material costs are going through the roof, margins are being squeezed to unsustainable levels. Build millions of houses, yet there is no consideration for sub contractors. No protection against bad debt or payment terms. Labour are stripping the innards from SMEs and the construction industry and they are pushing towards a black hole... p.s im a life long labour voter.
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Our party has suffered a historic defeat.
Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.
What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.
The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.
We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.
Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.
Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.
Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.
In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.
We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.
The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.
Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.
For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.
But we have the chance to fix this.
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These are tough election results for Labour and I’m sorry to all of those colleagues who have lost their seats.
Keir Starmer won a mandate to change our country.
We must get on with delivering that mandate - and show how politics can improve people’s lives for the better.
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@sentdefender Flew straight over my house low. Didnt show up on flight radar either
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A U.S. Air Force B-1B “Lancer” Long-Range Heavy Bomber seen arriving at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England earlier today, as preparations are now fully underway for the deployment of additional bombers to bases in Diego Garcia and the United Kingdom.
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@lexfridman And amongst all of this vast emptiness that we huddle up on our little flying rock...its also my Birthday 🙌 Which means nothing to the universe, but everything to my family. Perspective is everything
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It might be the caffeine speaking, but I love you all ❤️
Happy Valentine's day you sexy mf'ers.
I'm writing this at a coffeeshop. Rain outside. A first date happening next to me, I'm hoping they make it.
I'm feeling happy & grateful for all of this, human civilization, life on Earth, a spinning rock in space. There are 100-400 billion other planets in our galaxy alone. And there are ~2 trillion galaxies in just the observable universe.
And somehow we have a chance to crack open the mysteries of the universe, to solve physics, biology, intelligence, to understand our own mind, to travel out toward the stars.
And at the same time, we often bicker about the stupidest shit. The whole thing is hilarious and beautiful.
All of this is a miracle ❤️
PS: It's definitely the caffeine speaking 🤣
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Your employer matches 5% pension contributions.
You earn £40,000.
You put in: £2,000 (after tax relief)
Employer adds: £2,000
Govt adds: £500
Total: £4,500 invested
Your cost: £2,000
That's 125% instant return.
Yet 1 in 4 UK workers don't claim it.
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Thanks to everyone who bought tickets on the pre-sale. Extra shows in Glasgow, Manchester and London added.
If you missed out / can’t be arsed joining mailing lists and shit then don’t worry the full tour goes on general sale this Thursday.
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