Matthew Dicks CIHCM

I'm off to a place where rational objective fact is still the basis of discussion and debate!

@GWRHelp 10.18 from Cardiff to Paddington. Now delayed until 10.52 but keeps going up a minute every time it flashes on screen. You're going to cancel and put us all on the 11.18, aren't you. So why don't you just tell us that from the outset! Honesty, a good virtue in public realtions!

@Mattydicks Hi Matthew, I'm sorry to hear this. Could you please let us know some details of the route that you are travelling on so we can take a look for you? - Gordon

Another day travelling with @GWRHelp.........another day of delays.....another day of absolutely no information....another day of absolute rubbish!

Well looks like @MoonpigUK has the worst customer servcie I think I have ever experienced......in thet they have none. Seems there isn't a way of contacting them about an order that hasn't turned up. None of the options on their "contact customer servcie" page work!

A reminder. Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas. Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas. Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas. Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.

White Paper stops short of right to adequate housing whq.org.uk/2024/10/25/whi…

Reform UK are pushing immigration hard as an issue in the Caerphilly by-election. Just for context, Caerphilly has the THE LOWEST, immigration rate of all Wales' 22 councils. 97.1% of people there were born in the UK. Only Cardiff and Newport have move that 10% born overseas and even those figures are low.

Parents - I advise you to look very carefully at what is being served to your children at school. A significant number of schools are offering ONLY halal meat. Ask the question. You have the right to know.

@Reform_West @RupertLowe10

@RupertLowe10 Halal meat is the only meat on the menu in Welsh schools, it's not right. Why would a Christian child/adult eat an animal that has had a muslim prayer whispered in it's ear?

It feels timely & appropriate to post this magnificent beast ... the ultimate vox pop! ✊️🫡🤜🤛

@kelvmackenzie Yeh,but thay haven't explained how they're going to fund it?

@GoodwinMJ Protesters dressed in pink blocking roads outside hotels housing assylum seekers, or farmers blocking roads 'cos they don't want to pay inheritance tax like the rest of us, "legitimate protest" Climate protesters blocking roads, "lock 'em up" Two-tier Britain.

BREAKING: Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones has been found NOT GUILTY of encouraging violent disorder Lucy Connolly gets close to three years for a tweet she promptly takes down This guy is found “not guilty” for calling to slit people’s throats Two-tier Britain

@RobertJenrick Violent Crime statistics since 1990s (Source: Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW)) Peak: mid-1990s, with around 4.5–5 million violent incidents a year. Now: down by 70–75% compared to that peak. Victimisation rate fell from 5% of adults in 1995 to under 2% today.

In just the last 60 days, we’ve had a sexual assault in Epping, a near kidnapping in Stockport, and rapes in Nuneaton, Portsmouth, and Lambeth. All, allegedly, by illegal migrants. People are right to be furious. We are losing our country. This can’t go on.

@darrengrimes This decline has been steady since the late 90s, with only small year-to-year fluctuations.

@darrengrimes Violent Crime statistics since 1990s (Source: Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW)) Peak: mid-1990s, with around 4.5–5 million violent incidents a year. Now: down by 70–75% compared to that peak. Victimisation rate fell from about 5% of adults in 1995 to under 2% today.

A very good mate of mine, a proper grafter who’s been paying through the nose in taxes since he swapped God’s own county of Yorkshire for the bright lights of London, was out for a quiet pint in the heart of the city last night. Bloke with a foreign accent – polite as you like – asks for directions to somewhere nearby. My pal, being the decent sort raised with Northern manners, stops to help. Next thing he knows, he’s doubled over on the pavement, winded by a boot to the gut. This thug doesn’t stop there; he piles in, kicking and punching like it’s a free-for-all. Shocked out of his skin, my friend fights back just enough to break free and legs it to the nearest station, gasping for help from the passers-by. What does he get? Sweet bugger all. Not a glance, not a hand, not even a “You alright, mate?” It’s like everyone’s too scared or too jaded to give a toss. He rings the coppers, tells them the lot, and what do they say? “Oh yeah, same thing happened to someone else an hour ago.” An hour ago! Like it’s just another Tuesday in Sadiq Khan’s dystopia. London never used to be this feral cesspit, where you can’t walk the streets without risking a mugging or worse. And it doesn’t have to be – but under this lot, it’s spiralling into a lawless hellhole that’s scaring off the tourists, choking business investment, and turning proud Brits into prisoners in their own capital city. We’ve got stabbings popping off like fireworks – two blokes knifed to death near Tower Bridge just last week, an 11-year-old girl and a woman slashed in Leicester Square, and violent crime stats creeping up year on year, with shoplifting alone rocketing 54% in this godforsaken mess. Overall offences? Up to 106.4 per thousand people, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Even the Mexicans are warning their lot to hide phones and ditch the bling when visiting us – that’s how bad it’s got! Enough’s enough. We need to grip this by the scruff: more coppers on the beat, zero tolerance for this imported chaos, and a boot up the backside of a political class who’ve let our streets turn into war zones. London, and my dear friend, deserve better than this shambles.

@crawfax @NoJusticeMTG No his claim was that he wasn't in the top 5% of earners even though he earned over £80,000. Only 5% of eraners in this country earn over £80,000 (at that time - might be slightly higher/slightly less now). So it's a mathamatical fact that he is in the top 5% of eraners

Nothing lives in my head rent free more than this moment

@JamesMelville Biggest cause of high energy prices is global spike in gas prices, especially following: 1. Ukraine 2. High reliance on gas - 40% of UK’s electricity generated by gas. Cost of green levies are small (typically less than 10% of a bill). Renewables are now cheaper than gas.

We are being fleeced. And part of the reason is the huge cost of net zero.

@ZiaYusufUK But your share of the vote is lower than the 34% won by Labour in last year's General Election, which prompted Nige to say that the FPTP system was "unfair", do you/he stand by that? - news.sky.com/video/voting-s…

Latest poll including Corbyn’s party puts Reform on 6x more seats than Labour and 10x more than the Tories. Amazing how the old regime have failed to clock what’s happening: Total rejection of the old establishment that destroyed Britain. Reform is the future. 🚀 🇬🇧

Nigel Farage today opened his 'Lawless Britain' press conference saying he now rejects the Crime Survey of England & Wales - the only validated crime level measurement. The 35,000-households Crime Survey is fatal to anyone wanting to present a picture of immigrant-driven crime surge...