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MPs are being encouraged to take their dildos into Parliament in the hope they can fuck themselves rather than the country for a change.

It’s amazing that this even needs to be said in 2026, but the collapse of communism was a good thing:

So apart from trying to give away the Chagos islands. Recognising Palestine. 13 ministerial resignations. Showing full confidence in Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandelson, Sue Gray and Lord Ali. Blaming the far right for an island of strangers. 16 Policy U turns and rising. Having no operable warships. Not smashing the gangs. Approving a huge Chinese embassy in London. Spending 23 seconds laying a wreath in Southport only to rush back to a drinks party. Appointing an anti Muslim hostility tsar. Raising income tax. Raising inheritance tax. Raising national insurance. Raising capital gains tax, Raising council tax. Raising value added tax. Raising mansion tax. Increasing welfare spending and the minimum wage whilst freezing tax allowances. Scrapping jury trials. The only boat he has stopped is HMS dragon from crossing the channel. What has Starmer really achieved apart from breakfast clubs and the decay of our country?

Exercise Turnstone: What the Government Knew and Wouldn't Tell You. Peter Kyle went on television this morning to tell us to relax. Enjoy your beer, he said. Enjoy your meats. Enjoy your salads. This from a minister whose own government has been war-gaming, under the codename Exercise Turnstone, a scenario in which Britain's carbon dioxide supplies collapse to 18% of normal levels by June. A scenario in which chicken and pork disappear from supermarket shelves. A scenario in which competition rules are suspended and emergency legislation is rushed through Parliament within days. The war in Iran is the convenient explanation. But convenience and truth are not the same thing. Britain did not arrive at this moment of food vulnerability because of events in the Strait of Hormuz. It arrived here because of choices made in Downing Street and the Treasury long before a single missile was fired. The Iran conflict is the match. This government built the bonfire. Start with the land. At the last count, ground-mounted solar panels already cover an estimated 52,000 acres of British countryside. The government's own target requires solar capacity to increase to nearly three times its current level by 2030, with up to 65% of that coming from large-scale ground installations. CPRE analysis shows that 59% of England's largest solar farms sit on productive agricultural land, with almost a third classified as the nation's best and most versatile farmland. Fields that grew wheat are being sealed under panels for up to 60 years. Rewilding compounds it. Hundreds of tenant farmers across England, Wales and Scotland are being removed from land their families have worked for generations, replaced by carbon credit schemes, ESG funds, and institutional investors. The National Trust has plans to rewild 250,000 hectares of its estate. One farmer walked away from land he had worked for 30 years after being told to cut his livestock by 85%. The government's own land use targets earmark 760,000 hectares, nine percent of all agricultural land, for full conversion to non-food use by 2050. Nine percent. Gone. Then there is what the Chancellor has done to the economics of farming and food production. The April 2025 National Insurance hike and the minimum wage rise, up 40% since 2020, have driven costs through the entire food supply chain from field to shelf. Food inflation hit 5.1% by August last year. The Food and Drink Federation forecasts it will reach at least 9% by December, and that projection was made before the Iran conflict added further pressure. These are not global commodity prices at work. Analysts are explicit: the current round of food price inflation is domestically driven, a direct consequence of fiscal decisions made in the October 2024 Budget. The IMF has already said Britain faces the worst economic hit in the G7 from the Iran conflict. That is partly because we are more exposed than we needed to be. A government serious about energy security would not have banned new North Sea licensing while Norway, drilling from the same sea, reached a 16-year production high and sold us £20 billion worth of oil and gas last year. A government serious about food security would not be converting prime arable land into solar parks and rewilding estates while war-gaming CO2 shortages in secret. Peter Kyle said the public should be reassured. Reassured by what, exactly? By a minister telling them to enjoy their salads while Cobra plans for the shelves to empty? The government does not have a food security problem caused by Iran. It has a food security problem caused by itself. The war simply made it impossible to hide.

@TortosaExpat 28 years since Bing was stolen from the Bull's Head, Ranmoor (England vs Tunisia, WC France 98). He's still missed.

Bring the monkey back! They do a great Sunday lunch there.

@Oldtimers365 just once.

@clairebubblepop There was no austerity. Govt spending increased every year. Govt borrowed every year to fund spending. The national debt rose every year. Austerity would result in the opposite of that.

SICK of people saying they want the old UK back. We ALL do. WE want same day GP appointments, ambulances within mins, dentists, a decent police force, good education, affordable food, clean water ways, BUT it’s not migrants who caused this. It was 14 YEARS of Tory austerity!

@dailybritainonx How?

🚨 NEW: Green Party leader Zack Polanski unveils sweeping plans to tackle Britain’s “affordability crisis” today. His proposals include: - A 10:1 pay cap, limiting how much top earners can make compared to the lowest-paid workers - Free school meals for all pupils - Universal energy bill support - Stronger rent controls - A customs union with the EU to cut business costs Zack Polanski says: “The affordability crisis is something affecting nearly everyone… any change in circumstance can push people over the edge into requiring a foodbank.” “This crisis is totally avoidable and down to choices made by this Labour Government and previous Tory Governments.” “The Greens have a plan… taking on corporate power and vested interests to give ordinary people a way out of this crisis.”

@TheAliceSmith @r0ck3t23 @RevDrJestus To learn what i learned at uni in the 80s required a lot of very expensive gear. Book learning of principles and concepts is fine but use of such gear was essential for full understanding of what I'd learned from books.

@r0ck3t23 @RevDrJestus I enjoyed my time at university but I didn’t learn anything I couldn’t have learned from staying home and reading books.

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.” That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance. You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule. Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.” The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command. Four years of obedience dressed as education. Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.” The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission. The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test. Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.” They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low. The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement. It is not. It is the floor. A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the ones who never needed the assignment.

@TheatreSpoonie @CreativeDeduct @PolitlcsUK cutting the CEO's income wont make one iota of difference to the ability of Tesco to give more to the lowest paid.

@CreativeDeduct @PolitlcsUK Are you saying it's okay for Tesco to rely on tax payer money to cover their employee wages instead of just cutting the CEO's pay to pay their staff enough to survive? I'm not really okay with my taxes funding Tesco, not sure why you are

🚨 NEW: Green leader Zack Polanski will call for policies to end the "affordability crisis" tomorrow - The introduction of a 10:1 pay ratio, whereby the highest-paid employee earns no more than ten times the lowest-paid - Free school meals for all primary and secondary pupils - Universal energy bill support for households and stronger rent controls - A customs union with the EU to cut business costs

@emlawrance @CreativeDeduct @PolitlcsUK Sure, if you want to pay £20 for a pint of milk. Supermarket chains work on margins of 1 to 4%.

@CreativeDeduct @PolitlcsUK Or they could increase the wages of the lowest workers? 10:1 ratio doesn't mean the people at the top take huge cuts, but the people at the bottom can have their wages increased to be within that ratio.

@BladesArchives @TweedLive I wasn't there for this one....

127 years ago #OnThisDay Sheffield United won the FA Cup for the 1st time 🏆 On 15th April 1899 #sufc beat Derby County 4-1 at Crystal Palace in front of a record 73,833 spectators 🏟️ Walter Bennett, Billy Beer, Jack Almond & Fred Priest all scored for Blades #twitterblades

True.

The welfare state in a nutshell...

This is an almost perfect symbol of how deranged the British Left has become. A descendant of a slave-trading Nigerian family, which fiercely resisted British abolitionism, is now demanding reparations from Britain on behalf of the Green Party.

If you think Britain is struggling now, hold onto something solid. Because the Green Party, currently polling ahead of both Labour and the Conservatives, has published a programme that makes this government's failures look like a golden age of competence and order. Start with immigration. Not controlled immigration. Not managed migration. Open borders. The Greens' own internal documents describe a system that treats every arrival as a citizen in waiting, entitled to NHS access, welfare benefits and the right to vote in all elections, including those who have never achieved settled status. A Panmure Liberum analysis estimates that under Green government, net migration would run at around 900,000 a year, adding 4.4 million people to Britain's population by 2034. Call it what it is. A demographic transformation imposed without consent. Germany provides the evidence of what happens when a government throws open its doors and works out the consequences later. Angela Merkel's open borders decision in 2015 was greeted with the same progressive applause the Greens would generate. According to German government statistics by 2021, asylum seekers made up 2.5 percent of Germany's population but 13.1 percent of all sexual assault suspects. In 2023 there were 761 registered gang rapes, almost two every day, nearly half involving foreign suspects. Knife crimes in North Rhine-Westphalia nearly tripled between 2020 and 2023. Berlin's own police chief stated publicly that violence in the capital was young, male and had a non-German background. The lesson sits there, documented, ignored, while Zack Polanski's party proposes to repeat the experiment at four times the speed, in a country already facing an active Iranian state threat and twenty foiled terrorist plots on British soil. Then there are the other policies. Legalised heroin and crack cocaine. The disestablishment of the Church of England, severing a constitutional settlement that has held for five centuries. A conference that descended into chaos over a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism while party WhatsApp groups contained messages describing Jews as an abomination to this planet. The abolition of immigration detention. Amnesty for every failed asylum seeker. And the scrapping of Prevent, which for all its flaws has kept people alive, at the precise moment MI5 assesses the domestic threat as the most complex it has ever faced. Picture the Britain that emerges from a single Green parliament. A population swollen by four million, the border a memory, detention abolished, Prevent gone, heroin dispensed on the high street, the Church disestablished, campuses already hostile to Jewish students rendered ungovernable, and the IRGC, which this Labour government cannot bring itself to proscribe, operating freely through networks the state has just defunded its ability to monitor. Labour under Starmer is a kakistocracy, paralysed by demography and incapable of naming what it can see. That is dangerous enough. The Green Party is not paralysed. It has a programme, a growing membership of 226,000, a youth wing that is the largest in Europe and a polling trajectory built on a generation of left wing progressives processed through captured institutions who have been taught to call this manifesto enlightenment. It knows exactly what it wants and it is acquiring the means to deliver it. What is happening now will seem like order.

@SteveMorgan2022 @BladesArchives i think it was probably the best team performance of a United side i've ever seen. Only performance i've seen since that i think was comparable was that first 45 minutes against Man Utd in the 3-3 draw in 2019?

@Ranny_Blade @BladesArchives So annoying there's no footage of that match. I'm lucky to have been there on the kop that night to witness it aged 14. I remember my dad saying we'll get 9 or 10 here after that opening 17 minutes. Went home almost disappointed we only managed one more for 5-0. Fabulous game.

If you could relive one Sheffield United match all over again, what game would you pick? 🤔⚔️ #sufc #twitterblades

@bulmer1889 @bagshaw2112 @1961_ian Nicky Tams?

@bagshaw2112 @1961_ian First lads hol abroad 18yrs old dancing on the tables in lloret de mar to come on Eileen can only be 1982 Tried doing it when we got home and got thrown out and barred from 3 pubs spoilsports 😟

THE MUSIC CHART QUIZ ❤️❤️ What year ?? Please repost so others can play ! A nice UK chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . . #music #popchart #tuesday

DEI: Because nothing says 'progress' like replacing 'the best person for the job' with 'the best checkbox for the quota.'