Richard Pumfrey

@afneil Happy birthday Andrew

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IN plain English: we’re going to send a ton of money to the warmongering Kremlin regime for fuel while refusing further exploitation of our own oil and gas in the North Sea. Brilliant.

@suziperry @alexmarquez73 @JohannZarco1 Thank you all for the way you dealt with two awful situations in one day!! Not sure there should have been a third start at all!! Recover well guys 🙏💪❤️

So relieved to see both @alexmarquez73 and @JohannZarco1 reassuring us ♥️🙏 what a horrific day for them, many thanks to the racing gods for being onside 🏍️ get well soon guys 🫶

🚨 MISSING PERSON 🚨 Have you seen 27-year-old Lydia from Bexhill? Last seen in a black tracksuit & black trainers with bright blue laces, carrying a black backpack with stickers/patches. May be using public transport or on foot. Links across Sussex, London & Scotland. 📞 Call 999 ref: 387 of 14/05

🚨 MISSING 🚨 Have you seen Law, 13, missing from Eastbourne? Last seen Wed afternoon (12 May). 5’8”, short brown hair (shaved sides). Wearing black Nike tech jacket, black t-shirt, black joggers with “TRAP STAR”, black Nike trainers. Links to Eastbourne & Seaford. 📞 Call 101 ref: 1269 of 14/05

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If you are being forced to share your private womens bathroom space with males, do not put up with it, your company is breaking the law. Put it in writing you want Uk law applied, if they don’t comply you have grounds for compensation

🚨 Green Party leader Zack Polanski just declared men have every right to enter women’s domestic violence shelters. “As long as they say they’re women.” This is pure insanity that puts vulnerable women and children at risk. Britain cannot let lunatics like this anywhere near power.

Philip Barton: "At no point did anyone consult me, ask me. I was presented with a decision and told to get on with it." "There was no space for dialogue." This is utterly DAMNING for Keir Starmer.

According to Labour MP, Emma Reynolds, we’re spending too much time talking about Peter Mandelson. A reminder that her party spent SIX months talking about a piece of birthday cake in Tupperware, whether a Zoom quiz was a party & mentioning gatherings where Boris wasn’t present.

So now we learn that the Cabinet Office argued that Mandelson didn’t need security vetting.

Groan. Almost every sentence in this ‘fact sheet’ is a lie. I’ve detailed the truth many times. ‘Thousands’ were NOT sent back. Indeed under Dublin, which was a two-way street, we were net recipients. There were few people coming by boat when we were part of Dublin because they were pouring in as stowaways by lorry/rail/car. When technology caught up with them they switched to boats. Nothing to do with Dublin, which was a damp squib. But I guess the Lismores of this world think if you lie often enough it will gain traction. Very Trumpian.

It’s now OFFICIAL. Shocking More than 150 individuals with convictions for violent or sexual offences have been granted PHV and taxi licences by Wolverhampton City Council. For years, people raising concerns were dismissed or attacked. Today’s figures speak for themselves.

So @parkrunUK got rid of course records (supposedly) to show they weren’t competitive, then brought them back in quietly on the Parkrun app. Over 200 1st places in the women’s category have gone to men. And over 20 women’s records are held by men! Either remove all elements of competition or protect the female category.

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Economy with words

🚨Please Repost🚨 One of my follower's friend's daughter is missing. Victoria Hain, 20, from Rayleigh, was first reported missing on March 28. She has links to the Basildon and Southend areas, and was last seen wearing skinny jeans, olive green boots and a black raincoat-type jacket. She's 4ft 10/11in in height with mousy brown shoulder-length hair which is partially dyed blue. If you have any information, dial 101 quoting incident 1452 of 28 March."

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Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨Can you sign and share? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/trigger-th…

They Never Accepted Brexit. Now They're Reversing It In her interview with The Economist, Rachel Reeves said: "If we could go back in time I would have voted again to Remain. I wish we had voted to Remain." She is not a minister reluctantly implementing a democratic result she inherited. She is a minister who never accepted it and is now in a position to reverse it. Everything she has said this week flows from that position: the claim of economic damage, the insistence that Brexit is the exception rather than the norm, the promise of gains through closer alignment. This is not dispassionate analysis. It is a settled conviction finally given power. Starmer will use the King's Speech in May to introduce legislation bringing 76 EU directives back onto the UK statute book. The government calls this technical alignment. Lord Frost, who negotiated Britain's departure, calls it what it is: subordination. The bill will make EU laws applicable in Britain without Parliament having any meaningful say in shaping them. The scope is wide; food standards, pesticides, animal health, and the regulatory framework governing genetically modified organisms. That last area cuts straight through one of the few clear gains ministers themselves once claimed for Brexit: the freedom to set our own approach to gene editing. Bringing those rules back under EU alignment contradicts that position directly, and no one in government has explained why. Peter Kyle made the position plain. The government's red lines on the single market and customs union apply to "the moment we're in". Not permanent. Not binding. A holding position. Chris Bryant went further, calling the 2016 referendum a pack of lies and refusing to rule out a rejoin pledge. Sadiq Khan has already called for Labour to fight the next election on a commitment to full membership. Within Labour, the direction of travel is not debated. It is assumed. Downing Street rejected Khan's demand. But it's worth looking at what that rejection actually said. The Prime Minister's spokesman confirmed the red lines stand for now, while also stating that where alignment serves the national interest it will be pursued and that the prize is considerable. The denial and the programme sit side by side, delivered in the same breath. That is not a government holding a line. That is a government managing a timetable. The Cabinet Office is already reviewing automotive and chemicals for the next wave of EU law adoption. The agrifood bill is described as the first in a series of sector-wide deals. The summit planned for the tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote in June is the intended moment for the food and agriculture agreement to be concluded. Sector by sector, law by law, the architecture is being rebuilt. The only question left is pace. Labour's 2024 manifesto was explicit. No return to the single market. No return to the customs union. No freedom of movement. That promise has now been exposed for what it was: not a commitment but a lie, used to neutralise opposition long enough to win the election. Kyle has said the red lines are temporary. Bryant has said the referendum cannot be trusted. Reeves has said she wishes it had gone the other way. The intent is no longer hidden. It is stated plainly, on the record. If the government has stopped pretending, the question is simple. When does the opposition stop pretending too? "Chris Bryant went further, calling the 2016 referendum a pack of lies and refusing to rule out a rejoin pledge."