JonathanK
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JonathanK
@JonathanK56
Optimistic retired SME businessman but disillusioned British citizen. Hoped Starmer was the answer but looking unlikely. My advice? Buy a V12 before you can’t.
Port Talbot, Wales Katılım Mart 2009
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@Cai_ParryJones As a retired businessman who started a business in the WDA era and saw its demise I can wholeheartedly say the WDA was a positive influence on inward investment AND organic growth in the Welsh economy. Look what’s happened since it’s gone. We need it back
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Plaid's Minister for Enterprise is already getting desperate in trying to sell the idea of a new Welsh Development Agency (WDA) quango:
'I lived in Boston for two years, and every time I met somebody and introduced myself and they heard I was from Wales they said "What happened to the WDA?"' 🤥
- Adam Price. Politics Wales, 24/05/2026.
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Please sign my Senedd petition calling for a Register of Lobbyists.
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2469…

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@v8oholic @LUDENClassics Wouldn’t fancy doing 185 with those on. You’ll lose your license then you won’t drive.
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Killer shouts 'I didn't see her' after jury finds him guilty of murdering woman with his car - crnch.it/25cxQ-xe

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@Paskins_tache @GorkaPintado18 The first thing they tell you on a speed awareness course is that the default speed limit is 20mph. That’s everywhere unless advised otherwise advised. That’s blanket.
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@GorkaPintado18 You’re a really boring fuckwit Rodney.
According to the failed Tories, there is a blanket 20mph limit.
Which is completely fucking nonsense.
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It doesn’t even exist. If you live in wales, you know this.
There is no blanket 20mph speed limit.
Dan Thomas MS@DanWalesReform
Vote Reform on May 7 to scrap blanket 20mph.
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Morrisons manager fired for tackling violent drug-addicted shoplifter says: 'They just threw me under the bus for standing up for what is right'
Share If you think @Morrisons should give him his job back!!!
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@JacotheNorth @WelshLabour If I could understand what they did I might be able to tell you if it was a good investment but after 35 years in a business that made a profit every year bar one I haven’t a clue. £7m thrown away on snake oil as far as I’m concerned.
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Another great Welsh success story. Put @WelshLabour in charge of money and this is what happens.
businesscloud.co.uk/news/flagship-…
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A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:
“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.
At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.
But cancer doesn’t care about plans.
Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.
I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.
Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.
Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.
Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.
Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.
Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.
Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.
Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.
And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.
Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.
And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”
Holly 🩷
Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️

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@LBC @LukePollard @NickFerrariLBC What a load of bollocks. How does he have the nerve to say this crap on air and then go for a beer with his mates and take their banter? I know, because they don’t live in the real world and his mates all do the same thing.
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‘They didn’t yesterday nor the day before!’
@LukePollard says the UK has the power to interdict Russian vessels.
@NickFerrariLBC asks why we haven’t already acted.
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All Mouth and No Trousers. Putin Just Proved It.
Keir Starmer promised in March that Britain would go after Putin's shadow fleet even harder. He promised to seize sanctioned Russian vessels. He promised Putin and his cronies would be in no doubt that Britain would always defend its sovereignty. This week Putin sent an armed frigate through the English Channel to escort two sanctioned oil tankers past the white cliffs of Dover. Britain followed behind in a tanker. Not intercepted. Not seized. Followed.
The Admiral Grigorovich, a missile-armed Black Sea fleet frigate, sailed between two sanctioned Russian vessels carrying oil that funds the war Starmer claims to oppose with every fibre of his being. Since his threat was made, more than three hundred shadow fleet ships have passed through British waters. Britain has seized none of them. France has intercepted tankers in the Mediterranean. The United States seized one in January. Britain follows behind and issues statements.
The timing could not be more perfectly chosen by Putin. Starmer was in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, being photographed with regional allies and visiting British troops, in what Labour sources told the Telegraph was a deliberate attempt to recast him as a global statesman ahead of next month's local elections. While he was performing statesmanship in Riyadh, a Russian warship was performing something rather different in the Channel. The contrast requires no commentary.
Connect the dots and the picture is complete. Iran arms Russia with the Shahed drones that have been killing Ukrainian civilians throughout the war. Starmer refused to support action against Iran. Putin's shadow fleet carries the oil that funds those drones and that war. And now Putin is sailing armed frigates through British waters to demonstrate that Starmer's threats are precisely as consequential as his promises have turned out to be. Every link in that chain leads back to the same place.
HMS Dragon, Britain's only deployable destroyer, took three weeks to reach Cyprus after a Shahed drone hit a British base. It has already had to return to port with water supply issues. The defence investment plan that should outline a decade of military spending missed its autumn deadline and remains unpublished. Trump has called British aircraft carriers toys. His defence secretary mocked the Royal Navy. Kemi Badenoch called the delays a national scandal and said Starmer was all mouth and no trousers when it comes to defence. Putin appeared to agree, and expressed his view with a frigate.
A Prime Minister who cannot enforce his own sanctions in his own waters, whose only deployable destroyer breaks down, whose defence plan exists only as a promise, and who chooses to be photographed in Saudi Arabia on the day Russia sails an armed warship past Dover, has not merely failed on defence. He has advertised the failure to every adversary watching. And they are all watching. They have been watching for six weeks. The Channel proved today that they have drawn their conclusions.
"Keir Starmer promised in March that Britain would go after Putin's shadow fleet even harder. [...]. This week Putin sent an armed frigate through the English Channel to escort two sanctioned oil tankers past the white cliffs of Dover."

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