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@JRDixonltd Pls update your profile

Morning all. Its been a while but just wanted to finally say after 53 years we have closed the doors on #jrdixon an absolutely devastating time but we couldnt continue from increasing fuel costs and no rate movement from customers and lack of support from the shambles government

@Layo_FH I live in a Zone 2 council house, have done for 3 decades, I can assure you I have a ton of assets (pushing £10 million). Used to think it's a shame I couldn't own property, but it's turned into a benefit by pushing me into shares.

I often say how being given a council house in Zone 1 or 2 is like winning the lottery. However, while living in central London on a very modest rent is incredible, and might allow you to raise enough money for a deposit to buy your own home… it’s not quite winning the lottery, because you never actually own that property, you never gain that wealth. And any resentment I might have towards people with a £450 rent and a lifetime secure tenancy in the most glamorous parts of London, is hugely tempered by the fact that these people do not own any assets. And in the 21st century, the only way your kids can ever get on in life, and then your grandkids can get on in life etc, is if you have assets to pass onto them. In the 21st century, work doesn’t pay, but wealth transfers do. What John Wills and Sam Bowman have argued for, that these social homes simply be passed to the tenants after they show good stewardship, would really be lottery winning stuff. It’s literally not that far from Omaze. Imagine just being given a £500,000 flat in Clerkenwell, Shoreditch or Ladbroke Grove… after paying no deposit and paying off, essentially, a mortgage in 10 years of just £450 a month… a privilege private renters do not get after years and years of paying their much higher rent.

@Geosunshine1 @DanMcgreggor @JamesBWatt @_DHOTYA

@DanMcgreggor @JamesBWatt Not the point but wild that a party of 6 didn’t have a card between them

@ManchesterMill "Attendees often stayed over, and Rayner would cook breakfast in the morning" How Epstein-y of her..

Last summer, Angela Rayner was hosting a barbecue in her garden. An email invitation shows she wanted to thank her guests for their continued campaigning outside of election time. “Bring a bottle of your favourite bevvy and let’s have some fun in the sun!” it read...

@mymyxmu @broodhound @NormanBrennan @Jake11883906 I heard it was 13.

@broodhound @NormanBrennan @Jake11883906 I heard it was 5

Well Folks EIGHT days for an ABH & public order charge I have to say is absolutely ‘unprecedented’ in my experience; If the jury cannot give a Majority verdict one way or other the Judge will call it a day & record it as a Hung Jury for 2nd Time! The CPS then decide for 3rd Trial or to throw in the towel & call it a day!!👇🤷‍♂️

@Melissag0ec @Jenny_1884 @VivAnderson14 Lol. No.

We haven’t got a diagnosis for my nephew yet, but he’s 9, fully mobile, but triggers easily in public, sights, sounds, crowds, over stimulation. He is mute, He can become resistant and the environment can be unsafe for him, he may run into traffic. On top of that he has a 6 year old brother, who also needs to be kept safe. Now imagine how hard it is for his mum, or even me, when he becomes over stimulated and doesn’t know what to do to regulate himself, he’s very fit and strong, and will resist. The adult, has to get him and his brother back to the car, when we know he may resist. We may need to physically get him to walk, or even carry him. Now imagine how much easier it would be if mum had a disabled pass, she was refused, because he is fully mobile. Does that story change things Jen?!

Can someone explain to me like I’m 2 yrs old why someone who has ADHD which means they are hyperactive not physically disabled would be entitled to a blue badge & get free parking. I thought the whole point of having a blue badge was for people that have a physical disability.

@HellNoItsJudith @metpoliceuk Banger.

Hi @metpoliceuk I just tried to report a crime in San Diego but your website tells me you can only do London Please explain?

@LScordis @russellquirk @reformexposed Interesting. I prob lean a Reform fan, but lying like this from Russell is not cool. I saw the original post too, but not the "clarification". Sad to see so many low-quality Reform candidates.

@russellquirk @reformexposed No you haven't, you've lied repeatedly. Honesty and integrity are part of the Nolan Principles every cllr is held to and you've failed in the first week multiple times.

Hi Russell, considering I am the only Labour Councillor on the authority and I was not at the induction (as I have been here 9 years), this is a complete lie and a breach of standards @reformexposed

@AlanJi73069669 @GayTory You were a councillor? How could you not know this?

@GayTory Not sure where you got this from "If my partner and I were to die today, our son would have to sell our house, where he lives, to pay IHT." Don't think its true.

@iAmJoshHunt Which one won't give away the Chagos islands?

This is the turning point. Up until now, there hasn't really been a challenge. Questions about whether Streeting would trigger a contest, rumours of a stalking horse, the odd name floated and forgotten. Now Streeting looks set to force it, and the field suddenly matters. In my view, Rayner is the only real challenger. I'm not discounting Miliband, Streeting or Burnham. They're serious people and one of them could win. But in my opinion, they're playing for second. To be clear, I fundamentally disagree with Rayner's politics. But I also have an immense amount of respect for her. She is a political giant, probably the biggest beast Labour has. And I believe the membership will look at what is increasingly looking like a wipeout at the next election, and reach for the nuclear option. Rayner is the nuclear option. She'd bring a different kind of politics to government. Labour will weigh up the characters they're up against, clock the varying degrees of bland on offer from the male candidates, and realise none of them cut through. We live in strange and difficult times, and that often means "stable and steady" gets swapped for a disruptor. Someone less predictable. Someone who operates as more of a maverick. And this is the part I find most telling... she said today she won't trigger a contest. The strongest candidate in the field is the one refusing to throw the first punch. That's not weakness. That's someone who knows she doesn't have to. In Rayner, the membership will see a voice of the people, and increasingly back her as their last shot at relevance in a country drifting towards the extremes. If Britain is heading towards a cliff, we may as well jump off it in style. Rayner would deliver a stunning forward 4½ somersaults in the pike position.

@rubabbx @PontistGirl "It's in ruins now" so like the rest of Pakistan then

@PontistGirl A university in Pakistan pre dates Oxford. It's in ruins now. But it existed long before oxford was a thing. It educated people around the world. It's located in modern day Pakistan, Taxila.

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

@biggle1908 @Gethens @janehetts @bhatti_saqib @KemiBadenoch Rouge? I think you'll find they're blue.

@Gethens @janehetts @bhatti_saqib This is another reason I will never vote Conservative again. @KemiBadenoch needs to get control of these rouge mps.

Statement from Cllr Samantha Gethen: I was asked to leave a SEND community roundtable this morning - not for causing disruption, but because the local Conservative MP, @bhatti_saqib, refused to begin the meeting until I left. I attend North Solihull’s SEND support group as a parent of children with SEND. Yes, I am also an elected Reform councillor - but today I attended as a mother wanting to discuss support for children and families. Rather than allow the meeting to become uncomfortable for the organisers or other parents attending, I chose to leave out of respect for them, and for the significant time and effort that had gone into organising the event for local SEND families. Their priorities should always come before any attempt by the local MP to ostracise me because of my political affiliation. It is deeply disappointing that a non-political family event was turned into a political issue. Excluding a SEND parent from a conversation about their child’s future is wrong. SEND families deserve to be heard, regardless of politics.

@SalemLola Rupert Lowe easily takes Norwich.

>Clive Lewis resigns, triggering a by-election >Andy Burnham resigns as Mayor of Greater Manchester to campaign in Norwich, thus triggering a by-election >Green Party wins Norwich >Green Party wins Greater Manchester >Andy Burnham ends up with nothing, still rattles the cage >Clive Lewis has more free time to rage on Twitter >Total chaos increases by 3.8%

@stemercer1982 @grok @RobertJenrick If no-one required licences, we could have interesting street food all over the country. Abolish all requirements.

@grok @RobertJenrick Ok, rob so if you argue against this you’ll surely argue against ice cream men paying for the same license?

Don’t let them eat cake! Just when you thought you’d heard it all from Labour, this happened… Labour run Bassetlaw District Council, which covers part of my constituency, is imposing a tax on people selling homemade cakes or fresh eggs from boxes at their front gates. They’ve set this absurd tax at an astonishing £1,007. Yes, you read that correctly, everyone who has the audacity to try to make a few quid from a bit of home baking, or offers boxes of fresh eggs, usually with an honesty box, has to pay Labour a stonking great fee for the privilege. As most people don’t even make £1,007 a year for doing this, presumably this is designed to end this harmless and in fact very endearing practice altogether. Honesty boxes, eggs, cakes, biscuits, sold at a farm gate or the end of the driveway in a rural village.. what could be more quintessentially English. Well, not under Labour. These people govern us as if they hate our country. To make the whole thing more absurd, the fine for failing to pay the £1,007 had been set at £1,000. So you would be better off not paying at all and get fined… I’ve written to Bassetlaw District Council to protest. Bassetlaw’s common sense Reform UK councillors are committed to reversing this idiocy if they take control of the council next year. Another reason to boot out Labour and back Reform UK. Has there ever been a more incompetent and out of touch group of people running our country than this Labour government and their town hall toadies?

@OldStationSt @SecuritySheep Am guessing they dodge paying business rates somehow?

@SecuritySheep Last time I checked it was still nestingsgroup.com/kingsway

I lived near this. I wanted to buy it, restore it and open either a bar or a cinema. Finding out who owned it was IMPOSSIBLE

@simonpatkins @rcolvile @kevincoyle Not true. Simply hire a private company to do the bins, and fire all the existing binmen. Problem solved. They just don't want to solve it.

@rcolvile @kevincoyle The bin issue in Birmingham is a result of national legislation. Parliament broke this, it is only possible for parliament to fix it.

Remember Tahir Ali? He's the Labour MP who got very upset when people pointed out he seemed to care more about airports in Kashmir than bin strikes in his own Birmingham constituency. Well, I owe him an apology... (1/3)

@Ye_Olde_Holborn Can anyone do this? Can you start a company that does nothing, just so you can pay these contributions?

>>>This is another way 52 x £3.50 = £182 for a year. There’s no need to pay £957. *I probably wouldn’t waste £182 unless you’re close to retirement

@Khaledhzakariah Until they pledge a max income tax of 40%, I'm not voting for them again.

People can be impressed by how clear, logical, and principled Kemi Badenoch is. That's perfectly normal and reasonable, and I am one of those people. But, at the end of the day, the Tories lost 170 seats. She's still not winning (as I predicted), but, with Jenrick gone, she's now all the Tories have got.

@fergustp @Ye_Olde_Holborn @CrowdControl2k8 So name a physical part?

@Ye_Olde_Holborn @CrowdControl2k8 Strange I had mine serviced last week and it cost me £120 to buy the pack from the plumbers merchants with all the parts needed

>>>These are the sorts of fairy stories used to scare old ladies. I’ve never my gas combi boiler *serviced & it’s 20 years old. *A gas combi boiler has no serviceable parts.

@Jonthemon6 @Ye_Olde_Holborn You mean CO

@Ye_Olde_Holborn My tenant asked me to install a CO2 meter in every room at my own cost I said ‘no’ (there’s one in the utility room where the boiler is) The guy who came to do the gas cert told her it was the law, it isn’t, only required in rentals in rooms with a boiler or solid fuel fire

>>>Grok estimates that circa 5~8 people per annum die of carbon monoxide/any other issues relating to gas boilers. So we have a £2 billion industry devoted to saving a handful of lives (maybe 1 or 2 realistically) Surely the money would be spent on cancer research if the goal is to save lives The hard truth is that boiler “servicing” is a non~job, that benefits no one apart from the servicing contractors This is the same type of thinking that brought us the Covid fukwittery. I’ll wager you’re also triple jabbed (tell me I’m wrong)