Nicky B

The day that I’ve been dreading has arrived. RIP Benji, run free over Rainbow Bridge 🌈🐾🕊️💔 02/01/13 - 24/10/23

I spent all day yesterday in 30° heat cutting and planing doors outside, then lifting them into a house and carrying them up and down the stairs multiple times across five separate doors. I drank around five pints of water and had to stop about ten times to wipe the literal sweat from my brow. I was tired, yet I still got the job done. There is an argument to be made for things like mandatory water or shade breaks in manual labour, especially where employers are reckless. There is no argument for office workers sat at a desk with a fan or air conditioning.

You promised that energy prices would not rise at all. They have. You also promised that by the end of this Parliament, they would fall by £300. You lied. Resign.

🚨 This is now the SIXTH time energy bills have gone up under Labour. Anyone else remember all the promises about bills coming down by £300? Liars.

Heatwave history The Intense Summer of 1947 - temps hit 30C - (86F) Record-Breaking Easter of 1949 - 16 April 1949 - temps hit 29.4°C (85°F) - June 1941 - temps hit 34C - (93.2F) May 1944 - temps hit 32.8C - (94.4) #Heatwave

Look at the cast of characters pushing a “social media ban” AKA digital verification to get online And guess what? They've all independently arrived at the idea social media is "like smoking!" This isn’t about “clamping down on Big Tech” - it’s about clamping down ON YOU

So let’s get this straight. Everyone rightly respects the brilliant ownership of David Clowes, and the excellent decisions he has made as owner, but now some folk are questioning his decisions about potential new investment. So he’s either trusted to do the right thing for Derby County or he’s not, can’t have it both ways. If it’s good enough for David, it’s fine by me #DCFC #dcfcfans

What’s the point saving your money anymore? First Reeves wants you to move your savings to Isas now she may have decided “I’ll tax that too”. This government is determined to make the country go bankrupt. Completely incompetent. This is why young people are fleeing.

If the ‘record temperature’ is the same temperature it was 82 years ago, doesn’t this disprove everything we’ve been told about global warming?

Just saying … Britain hit 32.8°C in May back in BOTH 1922 and 1944. This was long before SUVs, budget airlines and air fryers. Hysteria from the media is not fact ..it’s narrative and fear porn. As you were!

So, let me get this straight, after decades of global warming, we've matched a temperature that happened 82 years ago.....

Derby County are in talks with Saudi sports supremo Turki Alalshikh over a potential investment deal. Negotations are advanced and now with the Independent Football Regulator #dcfc telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

@boro_alex2 You lot just can’t see it, Mel Morris put Derby on life support and Gibson tried to pull the plug. We are justified in our disdain.

Hang it in the Louvre.. 🤣🤣

Middlesbrough become the first team in history to lose both the Semi Finals and the Final of the Championship playoffs. Congratulations Hull, football has won today 👏🏻

not the point really but the creeping use of "could of" instead of "could have" in quasi-official social media statements is a shocking decline in popular literacy

HS2. A masterclass in how Britain destroys money. The cost: • 2011: £32.7bn • 2013: £45bn • 2015: £55.7bn • 2019: up to £88bn • 2020: up to £106bn • 2026: up to £102.7bn… for a fraction of the original route What’s been cut along the way: • 2021: Eastern leg to Leeds: SCRAPPED • 2022: Golborne link to Scotland: SCRAPPED • 2023: Birmingham → Manchester leg: SCRAPPED • 2023: Crewe hub: SCRAPPED • Euston terminus: paused, downsized from 10 platforms to 6, now needs private finance Original plan: 11 cities, 340 miles, £32bn, open 2026. What we’re getting: 4 stations, 140 miles, £100bn+, open 2039. A national embarrassment, paid for by taxpayers.

It costs more to build a train from London to Birmingham (£102.7 bn) than for NASA to return to the moon (£100 bn) England is so broken.

Hi Gary, sorry to keep ratioing you, and I suspect I will do it again. I only had to listen to 29 seconds to put this together because you revealed yourself by calling Reform the "far-right party". Perhaps after 29 seconds there is some sense in there, maybe I'll come back to it, anyway.... Let me first say, I am not a huge fan of Reform, but I am also not a fan of branding everything you dislike as far-right. Far-right politics, historically, means authoritarianism, racial supremacy, political violence, suppression of opposition and/or rejection of democracy itself. Agreed? So Reform then, well they support elections, free speech, lower taxes, border control and reducing the size of the state. You can dislike those ideas all you want, but they are mainstream positions held by millions of voters across democratic countries. Ironically Gary, or perhaps not, but parts of the modern far-left openly flirt with some of what you have branded: - Censorship and deplatforming - Punishing dissent - Political intimidation - Opponents as morally illegitimate (what you are doing here lad) - Expanding state control You can see this in support for speech laws, attempts to silence academics and journalists, aggressive cancellation campaigns and the belief that certain views should be excluded from public debate entirely. Please stop this stunted intellectual crusade, it is embarrassing. We know the agenda, you just want to expand the state, give more control to incompetency and loot the voters. Init.

A sea of 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 flags and Brits singing Sweet Caroline. No face masks, no genocide chants, no adoration for murderous regimes, no support for proscribed groups. @Keir_Starmer is this what hate and division looks like? Looks welcoming to me.

I can't help thinking that if the British Government brought the energy it has to prevent the "far right" from entering the country to preventing illegal immigrants from entering the country there might not be a "far right" in the first place.