Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud.
Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block.
Hundreds of jobs are at risk.
And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around.
It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”.
That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive.
This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist.
You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”.
You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”.
You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”.
You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes.
But eventually the spreadsheet wins.
And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close.
Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast.
Real ones.
Local ones.
The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials.
The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”.
This is the part Labour never wants to own.
Their policies are always sold as compassion.
But the consequences are brutally practical.
A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making.
A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”.
A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters.
And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”.
NO.
Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices.
That phrase matters.
Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.
Nigel Farage has gone all quiet about his friendship with Trump.
Let’s not let him distance himself from the trainwreck. Please share this fawning video.
Sarah Pochin looks absolutely pathetic here, like a mean girl at school, looking Hannah up and down with pure bitterness. “Get a life”? So you think it’s acceptable for MPs to be drinking before voting on policies that affect all our lives? #PMQs
Imagine if a candidate of any other party was found to have deleted an account with so many disgustingly offensive posts. I suspect we will hear very little of this as the Double Standards Squad continue to ply their trade to the benefit of the 5 million pound man
@EDP24 And people fucking protest at hotels but not this type of shit that is happening in our fine city these cowards need to be sorted its getting ridiculous
@GMB Because immigration is going down, the next group of people that the right-wing haters will start on will be the disabled. My wife has a blue badge due to mobility, and required pages and pages of evidence to get it.
Let me get this straight.
Trump, the only president since Nixon not to release his tax returns, and who promised he would release his tax returns when he was president, is suing the government for $10 billion dollars in "damages" for leaked tax returns which reveal his corruption.
And his DOJ, which is run by his personal lawyer who he appointed as "Acting AG," is going to settle.
So the American people are now gong to personally pay a corrupt president $10 billion of our hard earned tax dollars, because his feelings got hurt when his shady tax returns were leaked?
Got it. 👌
The main things I learnt working with @Nigel_Farage
1. His word is not his bond.
2. He does not write emails - no paper trail.
3. He has zero ability to do any detail: 1-hour meetings turn into 56 minutes of Nigel talking about Nigel and 4 mins on the subject the meeting was about.
4. Nigel has no real friends - everyone and everything is expendable.
5. Nigel has enormous energy, but a lot of it is wasted because he drinks and parties too much.
6. Nigel is not an intellectual - he thinks Jordan Peterton is boring.
7. Nigel has spies.
8. Nigel loves money and spends it like water.
9. Nigel surrounds himself with rather facile young men like the convicted posh George.
10. Nigel does not really like working if it is not him being a showman - I cannot even imagine him reading a policy paper.
11. Nigel dictates tweets to Dan Dukes.
12. Nigel has a powerful lawyer behind the scenes who keeps files on people.
13. Nigel is vicious - the plastic sheen is a facade that cons so many people.
14. No idea if Nigel actually has any morality or values or what he believes in except fame and money.
@RupertLowe10
BREAKING: The Muslim prayer room of Cafe Raha in Blackburn was fire bombed today, but thankfully, there was no synagogue nearby, so we're not bothering with a Cobra meeting x
🚨BASED: 18-year-old Lamine Yamal raised the PALESTINIAN FLAG during Barcelona's La Liga title parade today.
A teenager has more spine than every G7 head of state combined.
While the political class writes blank checks for bombing of children, the kid won the league and used his platform to expose Israel's war crimes.
Watch the Epstein media try to make HIM the villain by tomorrow.
@Nigel_Farage When the Labour Party stops backing labour and starts encouraging unemployment through welfare at the expense of workers, voters are bound to defect. Reform is the only party that cares for pensioners, workers, and business owners alike. ➡️➡️➡️
Betrayed voters have left Labour for good.
I will have more to say on expanding our offer to these patriotic Brits in the coming days and weeks.
We are the only party willing to truly represent them.
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Coked up, gurning, gammon-chopped, Mossad-whore, tiny-ten-names little jack in the box begging again to unite the kingdom…whilst living elsewhere…
Go on, sheep - give him your cash 💪