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@kevinhollinrake @HousewifePolish Hospitality in general.

“Restaurants are done.” “I have people calling me in tears every day… 40 years in business, now going under.” “Not the consumer… the government is totally killing the restaurant industry.” When experienced operators say this, the government must listen. The tax and cost burden is unsustainable.

@NormanBrennan @BethBryan63 This has been going on for years. Our local M&S (now closed) used to get the local druggies walk out with armfuls of clothing and the staff couldn’t do anything to stop them. The Conservatives pretty much decriminalised shoplifting.

BREAKING NEWS; Yet another Shoplifter who Brazenly walks into a M&S in London takes what he wants & just pushes past shop staff & off he goes & Tomorrow? He will be back here or another shop & WHY? He has been given a LICENCE TO STEAL >NO DETERRENT👇🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@GottCarl @joe1alister @dailybritainonx Politics is one big grift. Payments from shady donors, payments from lobbyists, payments for speaking engagements. There are no poor politicians. Not to mention their gold-plated pensions after two years ‘service’. The only people they serve are themselves.

@dailybritainonx Just how does a woman, who not long ago lived in a former council house, has only ever had 2 jobs, a Union Rep and a Politician, just bought a £900K property, manage, surprising isn’t it ?

He flies on billionaire-funded private jets. His party is bankrolled by a Thai-based cryptocurrency investor who has given £12 million. He attended Trump's inauguration on £28,000 of donor money. Is the working-class hero act credible - or is it the most elaborate political performance of our lifetime?

@DPJHodges @francessmith What a fraud the man is. The whole world sees it too.

The spectacle of Keir Starmer pretending to be the leader of a global coalition securing navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, when the Royal Navy does not have a single reliable destroyer in the region, is quite something.

A short🧵for those insisting on a fiction: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iran’s sovereign toll gate, private cash machine, or maritime revenue stream. It is an international strait used by the world. Geography may give Iran a coastline on one side of it. It does not give Iran the right to invoice the rest of the planet for passage.

@JeremyNLowe62 @wesstreeting I’m so sorry Jeremy. Angela was a beautiful lady. She received appallingly, unprofessional treatment. I have my own painful story of loss because of NHS incompetence. It happens far too often in an overburdened system. The NHS isn’t fit for purpose.

@wesstreeting I will end with a poll. If an NHS111 clinician decides an ambulance should be sent, and the ambulance crew, on arrival, disagree, is it OK for them to blame the patient? 18/19

My wife #AngelaLowe died because she waited too long for an ambulance. Following the advice of a paramedic cost her her life. I'll briefly tell you the story, and then I have a poll for you… 🧵 1/19

Today has been heavy reading the raw ambulance and NHS stories people have shared in Angela’s thread today. Paramedics arriving furious and throwing a phone in frustration while a dying patient slid unsecured off the stretcher… phone triage refusing an ambulance for a baby in respiratory distress… dismissive laughter when a parent feared for their diabetic child… and long-term cover-ups with withheld SARs and spoiled records. These mirror exactly what happened to Angela: a paramedic discouraging her from calling 111, leading to a fatal delay. Zero feedback to staff = zero potential for improvement. This is not isolated — it’s systemic across ambulance services. I will keep speaking out until real change happens so no more families lose loved ones to these avoidable failures. Thank you to everyone who shared today. Our voices matter. Please share if you can. #AngelaLowe #PatientSafety #NHS

@stuey_beef Is this an admission of a drinking problem?

Angela Rayner is trying to rebrand as a serious statesperson by going sober. But the public has a memory. This is the woman who dodged stamp duty on her home. The woman whose party secretly spent tens of thousands of members’ money on a personal legal clean-up. The woman who spent years proudly performing the hard-drinking party animal image as a substitute for substance. Putting down the glass doesn’t put down the record. It’ll take considerably more than this to convince the British public she belongs anywhere near Downing Street.

@joshuasdad22 Labour getting into government has shown us we are powerless against overbearing politicians. They want to control every aspect of our lives. Individual freedoms are being chipped away. Green Party is even harder left and in an alliance with people who hate us. Terrifying stuff.

My absolute fear in the next 3 years. While the right are infighting over reform, restore and to a certain extent Advance uk, The greens are gathering traction. What if in 2029 we wake up to Dave Polanski as PM? How catastrophic would that be with his insane policies, the state would take your home from you and ' redistribute' it, something you've worked hard for all your life gone by the stroke of a pen. Hard drugs legalised, can you imagine the state of the country if he did that? I dont even want to contemplate it to be honest. And then there is reducing the voting age to 16, reforming the electoral system, and abolishing voter ID.  This is BAD really BAD, but what happens when he becomes PM when his second in command Mothin Ali 'overthrows' him then boom we have an islamist party with a practicing Muslim in charge of the whole of the uk. But it gets even worse, imagine every other single Muslim mp crossing the floor to join this Muslim party. Its unbearable to think about but this is what is happening right now and if we ALL don't get our shit together Britain will have fallen.

@MDC12345678 I don’t want to hear their opinions. I want to see them held to account for the part they played in the ruination of our country.

Just days ago, David Miliband was warning about the impending food crisis, conveniently ignoring how he and his brother created a legislative and policy framework that gutted our domestic fertiliser capacity. Now George Osborne is lecturing on defence and security, while glossing over the defence cuts and energy policies he championed. We are living with the direct consequences of the choices that entire political class made in the 2000s and 2010s.

@Shunyaa00 I bet her family have endured years of woke preaching from this woman. Now she’s second class even in her own marriage. She will have a hard time trying to leave her chosen religion now.

American white woman Ally converted to Islam, married Abdul, wears the hijab, and is crying. She says: “My mother, siblings, and grandparents aren’t accepting me. Being a Muslim is a struggle.” Her husband now lives with his second wife. Any advice for her?

@BenGrahamUK @HarrisDebra21 The moral vacuity of Starmer.

I’m genuinely struggling to understand this. Ye is banned from the UK for saying offensive things. Meanwhile, a former ISIS terrorist, Ahmed al-Sharaa was shaking hands with Keir Starmer and King Charles III last week. One said mean things. The other chopped heads off. This does not make sense.

@DeeDee84276236 @KensingtonRoyal Very disappointing. I was hoping William would be the fresh start the RF needed. Wading into this controversy with his opinion is doing them no favours. There are many counter opinions that contradict his beliefs. We have seen fundamentalist Islam at work too. Far from peaceful.

I will not accept the lie that Islam is a religion of peace and understanding. As a Catholic I do not need to learn anything from Islam (I have a Bible thanks) and I do not appreciate being lied to and gaslit by the heir to the throne. @KensingtonRoyal

@timmyvoe @Wilburgiles6 The Conservatives did the same with Net Zero. They were very incurious about the real-life impact on the economy and in lives. Philip Hammond apparently did tell Theresa May it would eventually cost trillions but she didn’t care. Posturing before the WEF is all they care about.

Labour are not on the side of the British public, If they were they'd have carried out impact assessments before implementing their policies, but they couldn't care less what impact they had. They are driven by ideology, Not our wellbeing

@kelvmackenzie @TheHaz5 Whatever happened to the disciplinary process? Did it apply in this case or was he sacked without a warning?

Two strange takeaways from the Waitrose sacking after 17 years of Walker Smith who tackled a shoplifter. 1) That the Left hasn’t demanded his reinstatement while the Tories have. Is he the wrong colour? 2) Thanks to Waitrose public statements every thief now knows to go into their shops and steal without retribution. A bloody awful decision by a bloody awful management.

@zatzi It’s shocking and I had absolutely no idea.

I loathe almonds. And it seems they are terrible news for our planet’s ecosystem.👇 People sneak almonds into loads of otherwise delicious puddings. I’m not deadly allergic but they do make my tongue and lips swell. And they smell of cyanide. Almonds should come with both a health and environmental warning.

@accountingetc The Assisted Dying Bill wasn’t as straightforward as they hoped.

Didn’t take long to go from tax the super-rich to scrap the State pension and forcibly remove granny from her house where she’s lived most of her life. Political discourse is nuts at the moment.

Exactly this - my brother and his partner have 4 children. Neither my brother or his partner work. They claim housing, unemployment, PIP x 2, carers allowance etc. They have in excess of £3k a month in benefits. Last year they all went to Lanzarote for 10 days, they have family days out every 2 weeks, regularly go out for family meals and have all the gadgets you can imagine. His partner and their eldest 2 have their nails done every 3 weeks. They don’t want to work because in their words “work doesn’t pay and they will be worse off” - thanks to Labour, this family will now be rewarded with thousands more a year whilst we work more to fund their lavish lifestyle. Thats not reducing child poverty - it’s encouraging people to become reliant on the state. Rewarding people fully capable of work to sit at home and take from those that work. Their children were nowhere near the poverty line - and now, after Labours latest reward, they are planning a Summer holiday in Spain and an October break somewhere else, likely the Canaries again. So yeah, thanks Labour - I’m so ‘pleased’ that you enable these people to rub salt in the wounds of the working class - bravo 🙄

The former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch warned people about #KeirStarmer before the election. Most of the media laughed it off. Many in Labour dismissed him. But he understood exactly what Starmer represented. Lynch said Starmer’s Labour was managerial, not political. A party run by lawyers, advisors, and communications professionals rather than people rooted in labour history, trade unions, industry, or working-class communities. A party that believed in management, not representation. Stability, not change. Administration, not politics. He warned that if Starmer won, Labour would not govern as a movement, but as a management team. If anything, Lynch understated it. What we have seen is not a political Prime Minister but an administrative one. Government by briefing note, by focus group, by legal framing rather than political vision. A Labour Party reshaped from a political movement into something closer to a corporate structure with MPs. Under Starmer, Labour has been changed more fundamentally than even under Blair. Blair at least had a political project. Starmer’s project has been control. Centralise the party. Remove internal opposition. Sideline unions. Purge members. Control candidate selection. Control messaging. Control policy. The result is a Labour Party that is now barely recognisable as a working-class party, and barely recognisable even as a democratic political party. It behaves more like an administrative arm of the state than a movement representing the people. Alongside this has come something else that should worry anyone who cares about civil liberties. Expanding surveillance powers. Restrictions on protest. Speech laws framed as safety. Increasing police powers. More powers for the state, fewer rights for the citizen. All passed in the language of responsibility and stability. This is managerial politics. Not leadership, not representation, not democracy in the traditional labour movement sense. Management of the population. Management of expectations. Management of decline. Mick Lynch saw a managerial Labour Party coming. What he didn’t see was a Labour Party rebuilt as a machine: centrally controlled, staffed with loyalists, a government with authoritarian instincts and no roots in the labour movement at all, parachuting in MPs with little to no experience outside political offices, hand-picked acolytes from outfits like Labour Together, selected not for independence or service to their communities, but for loyalty to the leadership. MPs whose first duty is not to their constituents, not to their country, but to the party machine and the people who control it. Labour didn’t win power for the people. Starmer won power for the global oligarchy and that little club he's been a member of since 2019... @PaulKnaggs , Labour Heartlands

@LeeHurstComic What replaces it? President Starmer? It will become a corrupt reward system like the HoL.

Starting to suspect that more and more Brits are coming round to my view, that I’ve always held, that the Royal Family needs to be abolished.