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@TonyWard867811 Are these rates historically high, low or middling?

Look at what the bond market just said about Britain. 30-year: 5.73%. 20-year: 5.67%. 10-year: 5.06%. Every single one screaming. The bond market does not bluff. It does not vote. It does not protest. It prices the truth. And it has just told you Britain is uninvestable at the rates you are being offered. Higher yields are not a reward. They are danger pay. At noon today Andrew Bailey will speak. He will tell you everything is fine. The bond market has already called him a liar. You are watching the slow motion bankruptcy of Britain.

@bg_swfc @storchyowl If it's near his favorite wine bar it might just work for him.

I had a dream 🤩 @storchyowl make it happen 🙏🏼 #SWFC

@MichelleDewbs @studaviesreform Yeah, down with clever people who can see through the BS.

@studaviesreform A recent poll showed circa 80% of the people teaching children identify as left/liberal. That is a problem because it results in political indoctrination

I went to a state school. I used to be against private schools. I used to think they were toffs & people who thought they were better than us. Then I matured. I now realise that in the main, the people who send their kids to one are just normal folk who have decided to prioritise best education for their children and often make significant sacrifice to do so. Alongside this, they also help fund the state education system, which they don’t use. Whatever problems state schools face, it certainly isn’t as a result of private schools. If anything, kids going private eases pressure on the state system. The closure of these schools are utterly tragic for the kids affected. The policy attempts to damage the private system are an act of societal self-harm. Anyone who celebrates it, is frankly, a fool. edp24.co.uk/news/26058426.…

@FantasticMrOx @TheSun I won't be happy until every newsagents in Oxfordshire refuses to sell the rag. 😡😡😡

I see @TheSun prematurely relegated Oxford last night. Probably the worst thing they’ve ever done.

@soops_ @PippaCrerar Maybe because 'shouldn't have got through vetting' is your embellishment.

@PippaCrerar Please can someone explain to me why Starmer keeps saying he didn't know about Mandelson when Number 10 published docs last month that quite clearly demonstrate he was given ample evidence on 11th Dec 24 that Mandelson was wildly unsuitable & shouldn't even have got to vetting?

NEW: Foreign affairs committee chair Emily Thornberry says security was “secondary consideration” for Downing Street in Mandelson appointment. “Doesn't this look like for certain members of the Prime Minister's team, getting Peter Mandelson the job was a priority that overrode everything else?” Keir Starmer says if he’d known he wouldn’t have appointed him - and suggests a “deliberate decision” was taken not to tell PM.

@SamaHoole Yes but Thatcher knew you couldn't afford such luxuries and cut taxes for the rich at the same time.

A British school dinner in 1975 was cooked on-site, from whole ingredients, by a dinner lady who knew, without consulting a nutritional database, what a growing child needed to eat. The dinner was: roast beef, gravy from the drippings, boiled potatoes, cabbage, and sponge pudding with custard made from eggs and milk. Or shepherd's pie from real mince. Or liver and onions. Or fish on Friday, battered and fried in beef dripping. In a single sitting: haem iron from the meat, calcium from the custard, B12 from the liver, vitamin A from the gravy fat, vitamin D from the eggs, zinc from the beef, omega-3 from the fish, collagen from the gravy, complete protein from every component, and roughly 800 calories dense enough to carry a child through an afternoon of running around a playground in January. Then the system changed. In the 1980s and 1990s, local authority catering was outsourced. On-site kitchens closed. Dinner ladies were made redundant. Central production kitchens began manufacturing meals reheated in convection ovens. The roast beef became a turkey twizzler. The shepherd's pie became a pre-formed disc of processed potato and reconstituted meat product. The liver disappeared entirely. The fish was coated in breadcrumbs and fried in vegetable oil. The custard was made from powder, water, and yellow colouring. The sponge pudding was replaced by a yoghurt tube. Jamie Oliver's 2005 campaign filmed children who could not identify a tomato. Kitchens where the only equipment was a deep fryer and a microwave. Menus that contained less nutritional value in a full week than the 1975 dinner contained in a single sitting. The government pledged reform. But the on-site kitchen did not come back. The dinner lady did not come back. The roast beef and the liver and the custard made from eggs did not come back. The 1975 dinner lady, who had no nutritional qualification and had never heard of a DIAAS score, was producing, at approximately 30p per serving, a meal that contained more bioavailable nutrition than anything the modern system produces at three times the cost. She has been replaced by a supply chain. The supply chain is more expensive. The children are less well fed. The dinner lady knew what she was doing. Nobody asked her.

@BBCBreakfast Er, you give an answer to the question 'where could the traveller be heading next' not 'where is the traveller heading next'?

Did you solve the first #BBCBreakfast Brain Test? Here's the answer to Monday's question... bbc.co.uk/news

@H2OBuildingServ @sc_wadsy @Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater That's a bit patronizing. The point is.. as income and cost have risen the necessary investment in treatment plants to deal with the increased volumes of waste water hasn't ... But dividends to shareholders have.

@Noneoft98554630 @sc_wadsy @Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater Not sure you understand the business, Customers pay bills for the service to deliver clean wholesome water and recieve your waste and transport to the wastewater treatment plants IE running costs such as wages-tax - materials-Energy all of which are increasing

Great News @thameswater are making huge improvements take for instance London Super Sewer tideway.london are but you dont want to mention the good stuff the substantial improvements

@H2OBuildingServ @sc_wadsy @Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater Yes but every new house over the past 30 odd years is a new income stream. Where has all the money paid by all of these new households gone if not into infrastructure investment to service these new properties?

@sc_wadsy @Noneoft98554630 @Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater Yes I would agree with that, HUGE increases in rainfall increases in population we use substantially more water hence more wastewater combined discharge to the Sewage treatment works

@Spencomms @henrywinter Because a late tackle is a foul anywhere else on the pitch maybe.

@henrywinter Disagree with you on the Kilman challenge, Stach gets his shot off Before Kilman makes contact so don't see why that should be a Penalty.

West Ham disjointed, lax in possession, missing Summerville. Leeds deservedly lead. Should have had a pen, too. Kilman on Stach: late challenge, anywhere else on the field and that’s a foul. #WHULEE

@SandyofSuffolk @32a80064 This is what they want. You two arguing with each other whilst billions are offshored out of sight.

@32a80064 Looking after little children is hardly a leisure activity 🙄

Younger generation to pensioners: "Why didn't you save more into a private pension?" Because most women stayed at home to look after your mums and dads and so didn't earn anything, let alone save anything. And your granddads were struggling to pay the 14% mortgage rates. And any 'pin' money your nans earned from little part time jobs was spent spoiling you on days out at the seaside, birthdays and Christmas and slipping your mum and dad a few quid on the sly when they were a bit hard up. Just so you know.

@Jenny_1884 It's amazing how money grabbing benefit claimants become deserving pensioners the moment they reach retirement ages.

For those that appear to begrudge pensioners their state pension just remember that the majority of these people worked from the age of 16yrs until retirement paying their taxes. Compare that to today when there are millions on benefits not paying any taxes but will still receive a state pension. Also the state pension is well below the living wage & yet a lot of pensioners are expected to get by with no additional help unlike people on benefits.

@BenGrahamUK Name the last ten things you bought online. Or will you claim you are an exception to everyone else in the country.

All these companies have formally entered administration, insolvency, or equivalent restructuring since Labour came into power: • Ted Baker • The Body Shop UK • Carpetright • Homebase • Claire’s UK • Play Music Today • Homes Direct 365 • Russell & Bromley • ISG • Ardmore Construction • Denby Pottery • Speciality Steel UK • Westbridge Furniture • Belfield Leisure • Rekom UK • Fusion Lifestyle

@simracer2025 @stephencanning So why haven't the incompetent leaders of the privatized water companies been sacked if the private sector is so ruthless?

£70000 is enough. Probably to much for idiots we currently have in parliament. Wouldn’t get that in private sector. They be sacked in weeks for incompetence. The reason many of the front bench became MPs was to line own pockets with back handers. MPs wealth doesn’t match income.

MPs' basic salary just went up to £98,599. The headlines are predictable. Outrage, "out of touch", the usual cycle. But the thing that actually matters about MP pay isn't the number. It's the structural problem underneath it. When you don't pay elected officials properly, you get two types of people. Those who are wealthy enough not to need the money, and those who burn out inside three years because they're doing a demanding job while worrying about their mortgage. That's not a hypothetical. I saw the same thing in local government. Good councillors, sharp, committed, representative of their communities, walking away because they couldn't balance it with their work. Meanwhile the retired professional with a pension and free time stayed forever. The same principle applies at Westminster, just with bigger numbers. IPSA says £98K reflects the complexity of the role. Maybe. But the real question is whether we've designed a system where the only people who can afford to serve are people who already have money. Nobody in the current debate is asking that. They're just arguing about whether the number is too high. Wrong question.

@H2OBuildingServ @sc_wadsy @Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater Or maybe TW should do or not do things that result in fines in the first place. Maybe eh?

@sc_wadsy @Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater ALL fines should be returned to fund the environmental damage caused by the pollution no just given to the government

@janegreyhound @higgyboson Oh yeah paying the poorest a little bit more is definitely the problem. Don't you realize every penny they receive they spend which boosts the economy rather than offshoring it to a tax haven.

@Noneoft98554630 @higgyboson High minimum wage driving cost of everything up.

Me and Mrs Higgy occasionally like to go out for a cooked breakfast (usually the local golf club or (believe it or not) bike shop), a lunchtime snack, (garden centre, cafe in a park etc) or an evening meal at various local pubs/restaurants. We like to support local businesses. But all these things have become increasingly expensive over the past couple of years. Paying £11 for a tea, coffee and single slice of cake is ridiculous. A sausage sandwich now costs £7.50. A burger from a van is £5.50. £5.50 for a 30p burger in a 20p bread roll is nuts. A very simple one course evening meal with a drink each costs at least £45.00. So we've decided to stop doing it. We live in a great part of the country so we'll still go out, but with a picnic and a flask of Earl Grey. I'm self employed and Mrs Higgy is a retired NHS Staff Nurse. We have no mortgage or rent to pay so we should be out and about frequenting these places on a regular basis but the truth is - We REALLY begrudge paying the prices. We can't be alone. I have no idea how normal families on average incomes can afford to eat out at the moment with EVERYTHING going up in price. I can see the almost total collapse of the hospitality sector in the not too distant future. I'll be as guilty as all the millions of others scaling back on their patronage of pubs and restaurants etc but I've been pushed too far and I'm not playing this game any more.

@quotesdaily100 You haven't been to Siena then.

50 Places You Must See Before You Leave This Earth: 1. Santorini, Greece 2. Kyoto in cherry blossom season, Japan 3. The Amalfi Coast, Italy 4. Patagonia, Argentina and Chile 5. The Sahara Desert at night, Morocco 6. Machu Picchu, Peru 7. The Northern Lights, Iceland 8. Bali, Indonesia 9. The Maldives 10. Cappadocia, Turkey 11. The Amazon Rainforest, Brazil 12. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 13. The Great Barrier Reef, Australia 14. Banff National Park, Canada 15. The Scottish Highlands 16. Ha Long Bay, Vietnam 17. The Faroe Islands 18. Zhangjiajie, China 19. Plitvice Lakes, Croatia 20. Lofoten Islands, Norway 21. Torres Del Paine, Chile 22. The Dolomites, Italy 23. Lake Bled, Slovenia 24. Meteora, Greece 25. Petra, Jordan 26. Wadi Rum, Jordan 27. The Dead Sea, Jordan 28. Socotra Island, Yemen 29. Guilin, China 30. Raja Ampat, Indonesia 31. The Azores, Portugal 32. Madagascar 33. Bhutan 34. The Silk Road, Central Asia 35. Tbilisi, Georgia 36. Kotor, Montenegro 37. Dubrovnik, Croatia 38. Cinque Terre, Italy 39. The Swiss Alps 40. Black Forest, Germany 41. Transylvania, Romania 42. Hallstatt, Austria 43. Porto, Portugal 44. Seville, Spain 45. Marrakech, Morocco 46. Zanzibar, Tanzania 47. The Serengeti, Tanzania 48. Skeleton Coast, Namibia 49. Antarctic Peninsula 50. Easter Island, Chile More to add???

@sharrond62 We didn't do anything of the sort. Private oil companies do who sell the produce on international markets at their prices. The oil currently coming from the North Sea isn't available to UK residence at a discount.

Please make it make sense. It’s so depressing, whilst we cap wells & buy oil from countries taking it from the same oil reserves!

Israeli soldiers shoot into a Palestinian family's car in the illegally occupied West Bank. Khaled, 11, sees his two brothers, 5 and 7, killed by the bullets, and watches his mum and dad bleed to death. Soldiers, shouting 'We killed some dogs', grab the boy, beat him and yell 'Liar!' when he says the others in the car were his family. Another normal day in the West Bank. More here: archive.ph/ZOG4W