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@_UtdCharlie Dalot B ya fucking clampit having a laugh 😂

Grading each United players season: From A+ to F; Goalkeepers Lammens - A Bayındır - F Heaton - N/A Defenders Maguire: B- de Ligt: C (injury ruined his season) Licha: C Heaven: B Yoro: E+ Dalot: B Mazraoui: D- Shaw: B- Dorgu: C+ Malacia: F

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

A reminder it wasn't that long ago Ford would sell you a 200bhp, 1,200kg hot hatch with a manual gearbox, limited-slip differential and adjustable dampers. Now all they want to sell you is a bunch of dreary, unimaginative, distinctly average crossovers. How the mighty have fallen

@OpTicArceus @Chimeziiee @JacobsBen Exactly, so give him a one year-contract and see if he has the skills to keep good form running through multiple competitions.

@Chimeziiee @JacobsBen Yh let’s see when they don’t have to play one game a week lol u lot forgot Chelsea looked like United when they only had one game a week? Yh when theirs 4 comps to play that’s when squad depth quality will show and true manager identity emerge

Michael Carrick is waiting for formal talks with Manchester United, but is a strong contender for the role. #MUFC want to speak to multiple candidates as part of a thorough process. Qualifying for the #UCL will not alter that plan. Several senior players, including Bruno Fernandes, Matheus Cunha and Harry Maguire want Carrick to stay. Carrick is part of recruitment meetings for next season. Manchester United had wanted to include Thomas Tuchel in their process prior to the England boss extending his contract.🔴 🤝 @alex_crook

@blaiklockBP @TiffSandwiches @GWRHelp I’d be concerned at halal chicken without warning personally. I’d be more concerned however that you’ve consumed chicken 5 months past the use by date. Rest in peace 👍

I have today sent a 7-page Pre-Action Protocol Letter to Bradford-based Tiffin Foods @TiffSandwiches and Great Western Railways @GWRHelp for selling me an unmarked and unlabelled Halal chicken sandwich on a train between London and Plymouth. This and other actions are in addition to the Judicial Review.

@realpeterkay24 @TheDailyDraught Peroni isn’t bad but it’s too expensive for what it is.

@TheDailyDraught It’s because many people like shite beer. They’re the same people who drink Peroni Carling and Carlsberg.

I don't understand how has Madri managed to infiltrate it's way into so many pubs across the UK

@Martinonielcsc @Jamie_dftr129 @RangersFC Braindead as fuck. No actual clue about football.

@Jamie_dftr129 @RangersFC Cause am sure your tactical genius outweighs everyone at rangers football club you’ve not got a clue your teams a bunch of serial looser. Always have been always will be

Full-Time in Edinburgh Hearts 2 - 1 Rangers

Keir Starmer was asked a direct question in the wake of the stabbings on "Golders Green." Does your wife, from a Jewish family, fear living in this country? His answer: "I don't want to personalise it to my family." Let that sit for a moment. This is a man who has built an entire political persona on personalising everything. His dad the toolmaker. His mum the nurse. His mum the patient. His wife the NHS worker. His uncle the sailor. His sister the cleaner. The tale of a family sat around a table struggling to pay a telephone bill. Every speech, every pitch, every moment of manufactured connection anchored in the same family, rotated on cue. But when a journalist asks a plain, human question, one that tests whether any of that means anything, suddenly it's too personal. You can’t have it both ways. You don't get to trade on your family when it softens your image, then retreat behind abstraction when the question cuts too close. That's not dignity. It's not even discretion. It's the instinct of a man who has spent so long performing authenticity that he's forgotten what it actually requires. Authenticity, when it matters, costs something. And in that moment, when asked plainly, he stepped back from the very ground he’s spent years standing on. Happen, his handlers have not told him his position yet...

@Eq5tFpM2eBw9PZi @EDiamond136 @BBCnireland You don’t need money for a good lawyer anymore. Legal Aid has seen to that.

@EDiamond136 @BBCnireland I don't like vulnerable people on programmes like that. Making money for Nolans production company. Note we didn't see anyone that had the money for a good lawyer being arrested.

I’ve watched #Peelers on ⁦@BBCnireland⁩ it’s a show that has showed many aspects of policing in NI I found a lot of the situations very sad with lives destroyed by drink and drugs It shows the police as humans doing a job we all rely on Fair play to the BBC and Nolan.

@judicieuses @owenk98 Are you shite at it?

@owenk98 I’m a lawyer and I’m on less than 30k

How do you go about an adult life and only earn 19k?

Honesty and integrity matter. Today’s humiliating climb-down showed that the Conservatives know they can no longer defend the indefensible. It has never been more clear that Boris Johnson's authority is shot and he is unable to lead. Britain deserves better.

This one will require a stiff drink. In the early 1990s, the government came up with a clever idea. Instead of borrowing money cheaply to build hospitals, schools, and roads, it would get the private sector to build them and then pay the private sector back over 25 to 30 years. The Private Finance Initiative. PFI. The attraction was obvious. You got a shiny new hospital today. The bill didn't show up on the government's books. The cost was deferred into the future. Politicians got ribbon-cutting ceremonies without the awkward conversation about borrowing. It was, in effect, the nation's credit card. Buy now, pay later. Except the interest rate was extraordinary. The total capital value of everything built under PFI was around £50 billion. As of March 2024, there were 665 PFI contracts still running across the UK, with roughly £136 billion in remaining payments stretching out to the early 2050s. These are payments public bodies are contractually locked into. Hospitals, schools, councils, government departments. Paying for buildings that in many cases were constructed twenty or thirty years ago. And the terms are extraordinary. PFI contracts were structured so the private sector would not just build the facility but manage its services. Cleaning. Maintenance. Catering. Portering. These services are bundled into long-term contracts with built-in inflation increases that the public sector cannot renegotiate, cannot exit without paying massive penalties, and often cannot even fully scrutinise because of commercial confidentiality clauses. In one case raised in Parliament, a hospital was charged £333 to change a lightbulb. That isn't an urban myth. It was cited in Hansard. The NHS has been hit hardest. According to parliamentary analysis, the capital cost of NHS PFI projects was around £13 billion. The total repayments are estimated at around £80 billion. And the peak of NHS PFI annual repayments isn't even here yet. It arrives in 2029. The bills are still going up. In 2020-21, NHS trusts paid £457 million purely in interest charges on PFI contracts. Not services. Not maintenance. Interest. In the last five years, NHS trusts have handed over more than £1.8 billion in PFI interest alone. We Own It calculates that money would have covered the starting salaries of over 50,000 new doctors. One NHS trust, Essex Partnership, has reportedly paid back 27 times what was originally borrowed. Some hospitals are spending more on PFI repayments than on medicines for patients. And remember, these repayments come out of the same NHS budget that's supposed to fund patient care, staff, and equipment. Scotland got it just as badly. Audit Scotland reported that Scottish taxpayers will pay a cumulative £40 billion for PFI assets worth just £9 billion. North Ayrshire Council will have paid £440 million by 2038 for four schools that cost £83 million to build. Now here's what makes this worse. Many of these contracts are starting to expire. The buildings are being handed back to the public sector. And the NAO has warned of significant risks around the handback process, including cases where public bodies were dissatisfied with the condition of assets being returned to them. Decades of payments. And some of these buildings may come back needing significant further investment. So what actually happened? The government could have borrowed money at significantly lower rates to build these hospitals and schools itself. Sovereign borrowing has always been cheaper than private finance. Instead, it paid the private sector to borrow at a premium and passed the inflated cost on to the taxpayer. The private sector took the profit. The taxpayer took the risk. The buildings are now ageing. The debts are still being paid. And the services that were supposed to benefit are being squeezed partly because so much of their budget is locked into contractual obligations they cannot escape. PFI wasn't investment. It was an accounting trick. A way for governments to build things without the borrowing showing up in the national debt figures. It made politicians look fiscally responsible while loading future generations with obligations they had no say in and no ability to renegotiate. Both parties did this. The Conservatives created PFI in 1992. Labour massively expanded it after 1997. More than 700 projects were signed. The coalition eventually wound it down. The current government scrapped the latest version. But the contracts remain. The payments continue. And the damage is already done. This is what it looks like when a country chooses to buy its infrastructure on hire purchase instead of investing properly. You lock in above-market rates for decades. You lose control of the assets. You tie the hands of future governments. And when the bill keeps coming due, you're told there's no money for doctors, teachers, or social care. There was always money. It just went somewhere else.

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Viktor Orban didn’t cancel any elections and never arrested people for social media posts. He also stepped down after his election loss and is partaking in a peaceful transfer of power. But, don’t forget, he was a dictator. Keir Starmer attempted to cancel about 1,000 local council elections next month and arrests about 12,000 people a year for social media posts. He also refused to let a rival run for a seat in a by-election because he was worried it would be a threat to his leadership. But, don’t forget, he’s a democratic leader.

You know what I think is broken That children of working parents have to pay for holiday club, breakfast club and after school club, in order to be able to keep working when children are off school etc But the children of parents who don’t work, get those things for free even though they don’t need them because they’re home and can look after their children These ‘benefits’ should be for those who work full time. Not the other way round

Your mortgage is more expensive today than it was three years ago. Your energy bill is higher. Your council tax is higher . Your food shop is higher. Your National Insurance is higher. In the same period your MP got a pay rise. That is not a cost of living crisis. That is a transfer of wealth from the people who create it to the people who manage it.

People have been telling me I’m being overly negative about this country. Too pessimistic. Too doom-laden. I thought I was holding back. So let me lay it all out. Welcome to the age of compounding crises. Housing. Average home costs 8x the average salary. A generation locked out. Prices can’t fall without crashing the banks. Can’t rise without locking out more people. Water. £85 billion extracted in dividends since privatisation. £70 billion in debt loaded onto companies sold debt-free. Victorian pipes leaking billions of litres. Raw sewage discharged for 3.6 million hours in a single year. Bills rising 36% by 2030. Energy. Net importer. No sovereign strategy. One Gulf crisis and it costs the taxpayer £78 billion in emergency subsidies. Pensions. One of the worst state pensions in the developed world. Trillions in unfunded public sector liabilities off the books. Median private pot £32,700. You need ten times that. 43% undersaving. The triple lock ratchets costs up automatically with no mechanism to bring them down. NHS. 7.25 million on the waiting list. Staff leaving. Buildings crumbling. Cancer targets missed. Social care barely exists. A two-tier system emerging. A demographic wave about to make it all worse. Transport. HS2: £66 billion for 140 miles. Spain built 2,500 miles for $70 billion. We pay 8.5x the European average and deliver a fraction of the result. Roads falling apart. The North still waiting. Local government. Over half of councils expect bankruptcy within five years. Funding cut 29% in real terms since 2010. Libraries, youth services, social care… gone or going. Public finances. Debt approaching 97% of GDP. Interest payments exceed the defence budget. Taxes at their highest since the 1940s. Spending plans include cuts the OBR says may be undeliverable. Productivity. Flat for eighteen years. Worst record since the Industrial Revolution. Economic inactivity. 1 in 5 working-age people not working. 2.8 million out sick, a record. The only G7 country with lower employment than before the pandemic. Food. We import 48% of what we eat. 83% of our fruit. 12% of households are food insecure. One supply chain shock and the shelves thin out. We’ve seen it twice already and fixed nothing. Education. School buildings crumbling. Teachers leaving. £267 billion in student debt, most of which will never be repaid. Defence. Procurement Parliament called “broken and repeatedly wasting billions.” Equipment plan £19 billion short. A war in Europe and no money to respond properly. Prisons. 72% overcrowded. Hit 99.7% occupancy. Nearly 40,000 released early because there was nowhere to put them. 23,000 cells don’t meet fire safety standards. Cost to fix: £2.8 billion. Allocated: £520 million. Car finance. Biggest mis-selling scandal since PPI. 12 million agreements with hidden commissions. £7.5 billion in expected compensation. Another bill landing on an industry already stretched. Regional inequality. London pulling away from everywhere else. A country where your postcode determines your life expectancy, school quality, job prospects and access to healthcare. Underneath all of it, the same pattern. Sell the asset. Load it with debt. Extract the value. Defer the maintenance. Hand the bill to the next generation. None of this is unfixable. This country has the talent and the people to turn every one of these around. But that requires a political class willing to be honest about the scale of what’s broken. What we have instead is a political class that would rather keep us fighting each other than confront the structural failures staring them in the face. Because fixing them is hard, unpopular, and takes longer than an electoral cycle. So they commission a review, blame the last lot, and nothing changes. I’d love to be more optimistic. And the history and people of this country still make me somewhat hopeful. But our politics needs to drastically change if we’re going to get anywhere.

@CheallaighNiamh @GeeKeee28 @TheNotoriousMMA If you think this is all because the Strait of Hormuz is closed, you’ve got another think coming.

@GeeKeee28 @TheNotoriousMMA Ah yes, that's why oil prices are rising. Nothing to do with illegal wars. Nothing to do with the Strait of Hormuz. Christ you're thick.

The Black Forge Inn will be supplying food and support to the protestors in Dublin City Centre. The heroic stand of the Irish people has just begun! 🇮🇪 🙏 #OnlyWarmingUp

I have been forensically digging through these asylum contracts, and one stands out to me. It is absolutely staggering. Please read on. £1,593,535,200 for 'Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services’ awarded to ‘Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited’. According to the official record, they’re based in Bradford… Let’s dive into it. It’s related to the Bibby Stockholm, housing illegal migrants on a barge off the coast of Dorset. Bradford is certainly a strange place to base such an enormous contract. What is all of that money, OUR money, being spent on? All this information is taken from official documents, labelled ‘sensitive’. The illegals must be provided with a ‘varied daily menu’, taking into account all religious needs. If the illegal arrives late and missed the evening meal? They must be provided with a ‘light snack’. What about cleaning? A ‘cleaning programme’ must be delivered to the standards set by the ‘British Institute of Cleaning Science’. Routine cleaning must be provided, and their cabins are cleaned on a ‘twice weekly basis’. A ‘house-keeping laundry service’ is included, with a maximum '48-hour turn around’' Information on the local area is provided - including amenities and facilities. Illegals are assisted to make contact with a local GP surgery and dentist - they are assisted to do this. The illegals are to be taken and returned from medical appointments. A ‘programme of organised recreational activities' are provided, seven days a week. Activities available ‘morning, after, and evening each day’. Full Wi-Fi coverage is required, with a bank of mobile phones available '24/7'. Transport requests will be taken at short notice, all day every day. The transport must be ‘punctual’. ‘Adequate transport links’ must be provided to assist the illegals into the local area - and booking of transport services must be delivered for those ‘who wish to travel beyond the local area’. Warnings against ‘unconscious bias’ are made, and it’s adamant that ‘the interests of the Service Users are best served.’ It goes on and on and on. Are you happy that your tax is being spent on these services for illegals? For transport? Recreational activities? Shipping them into local communities to roam the streets? One of these illegal migrants was sentenced for sexually assaulting a teenage girl on a beach. There will be many, many, many others. 'Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited', based in Bradford, received this astronomical contract. A strange company name for such a service. What was the procurement process? How was this decided? I have put these questions to the Home Office, and I am demanding answers. The Bradford firm was told on the 24th of February 2023 that they had been awarded this £1.5 billion contract, excluding VAT (with an extension option.) Who was the Home Secretary at this time? Reform’s Suella Braverman. Who was the immigration minister at this time? Reform’s Robert Jenrick. They were the ministers, they were responsible. I want to know exactly why these outrageous contracts were signed off. It is scandalous. SO much more information on these contracts is redacted. I am going to find it... We should not be caring for these illegals, we should not be housing them, we should not be accommodating them. We should be deporting them. On an industrial scale. They are treated better than British citizens. FAR better. It makes me sick. The amount of OUR money that has been spent on these third world criminals by politicians (Reform, Conservative and Labour) is the biggest scandal of our time.