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Sam Mearns
@SamMearns
Less government the better. Designer, Dad, Husband and Yorkshireman.
Hull, England 🏴 Katılım Nisan 2010
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@Suriyakmaps I don’t understand why Russian forces didn’t try and straighten the frontline alongside the Oskil last year… rather than focus massive effort on Kupiansk. Surely the natural barriers would have played in their hands?
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Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1477-1486:
Situation on northeastern front: During the last two weeks, #RussianArmy has managed to fully secure the northern part of Petropavlivka and continue advancing from the east and south after securing the wooded area along the road east of Kupiansk. Russian forces have also managed to fully secure Pishchane and take control of half of Kurylivka, up to the trench systems in the central part of the locality. From there, Russian troops have begun infiltration operations into the buildings of the former Kupiansk foundry and, further south, into the high-rise buildings in the locality of Kivsharivka. Meanwhile, in the western part of Kupiansk city, #UkrainianArmy made a small advance after securing the central hospital and some adjacent buildings, as well as positions to the north on Mechnykova and Davydova-Luchytskoho streets.
Map: [ google.com/maps/d/viewer?… ]
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Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1477-1486:
Situation on Hlukhiv front: During the last week, #RussianArmy has continued to expand the buffer zone along the border, taking control of forested areas and advancing towards the locality of Potapivka from the north and south.
Map: [ google.com/maps/d/viewer?… ]
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@bphillipsonMP Taking from one and giving to another is just a way to win votes whilst everyone gets poorer.
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😞 Our offer of 30 hours of government-funded childcare is no longer saving families £7,500...
...it's now saving them £8,000! 😃
Labour is delivering for working families and tackling the cost of living.
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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Surely it should be Athelbrough Or Athelham?
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🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns
- Elizabethtown (after the Queen)
- Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline)
- Attleeton (after ex-PM)
- Athelstan (first King of England)
- Seacole (after nurse Mary)
[@thetimes]
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@10DowningStreet When people voted for Labours socialism…they got exactly what they asked for.
What a weak nation we are.
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@rickysingtrader @BBCRadioKent It’s £600 more in allowances not wages. Over a full year. You know damn right you’re spending hundreds more just because of higher prices and inflation.
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@BBCRadioKent Wot do people expect ...grifters are going to grift..Reform is a sewer of swivel-eyed cranks, criminals, grifters, racists and traitors ..so people are getting EXACTLY what they voted for
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Members of the Reform-led Kent County Council have awarded themselves a 3.8% increase in wages.
More here: bbc.in/4bnCKaj
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Cyprus about to get lit up again. British out!
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking
UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz Follow live: bbc.in/3PB0sHr
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@Battlefield It’s a good map… for people wanting that locker grind. But having to redo old maps like Galmud just to make the old schools player base isn’t enough.
Just make a handful of really large maps where people can just go wild.
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Control the objectives.
Win the fight.
Take on Hagental Base in Season 2 Nightfall 🛰️
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@Iromg If that’s the commander the subordinates will be a lot worse.
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@Elf_Himself @Tendar Weeks as in months? It took them over two months. And whether you or other pro-Ukrainians like to admit it, they have been sacrificing a hell of a lot to get this far. They are now reduced to single vehicles pushing through.. and small infantry groups. It’s 2023 Verbove again.
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@SamMearns @Tendar What do you mean with struggling exactly? Haven't you noticed Ukraine took the same amount of land in weeks that has taken the russians months to capture.
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Ukrainian forces continue to clear the Dnipropetrovsk region from Russian occupation forces. There are only a few pockets remaining until this Ukrainian region has been completely liberated.
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Finnish MEP Aura Salla calls for urgent EU action to bypass Hungary’s vetoes and secure support for Ukraine. She urges limiting Hungary’s influence, expanding majority voting, and even preparing a mechanism to remove countries that repeatedly violate EU values.
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@spenniy I’m lucky I live in Hull it’s nowhere near as much as this even though it’s gone up 5.3%, but the downside, it’s a fucking shit tip of a city. We have to vote these sharks out as soon as we get a chance.
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I firmly believe that living in the #UK is becoming unsustainable for many.
It’s a bankrupt country.
There are too-few people to haul the heavy locomotive and quite frankly I’m fed up of being one of those people.
Something has got to change.
#CouncilTax
#Tax
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Check out the ten-year gilt yield this morning - after the UK's likely next Prime Minister tried to lecture international investors about the intricacies of fiscal policy and the UK's national accounts.
A subject about which she clearly knows absolutely nothing.
Nice one @AngelaRayner !!!
Markets now demanding 4.9% per annum to lend money to the British government. In Morocco, it's 3.4%.
And get this. In February 2026, the UK government a massive £14.3 billion - according to figures released this morning.
No less than £13 billion of that money borrowed last month went on interest payments on existing debt.
Think about that for one second - it's utterly insane. The UK's national accounts are now akin to a Ponzi scheme.
And yet still, lunatic MPs and potential Prime Ministers call for ever more borrowing and spending - "because it's the right thing to do"
Labour's chronic economic illiteracy and internal party-political posturing is driving the UK economy off a cliff ...
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Liam Halligan@LiamHalligan
This story below reveals the true extent of Angela Rayner's cluelessness when it comes to economics, the public finances and financial markets. I say that not with glee - but deep alarm and regret. If this is really how the probable next Prime Minister of the UK thinks - betting markets put a more than 50% chance on leadership coup by June - then the ousting of Starmer/Reeves by Rayner (or Miliband) is likely to spark an instant spike in gilt yields, from their already elevated levels. Just the fact that Rayner has said what she has below will put yet more upward pressure on the market-driven borrowing costs – whatever the Bank of England says is these days mere mood – that drive the interest rates faced by firms and households. I have nothing against more social housing – on the contrary, the arguments in favour of building more are at the heart of my book "Home Truths", along with policy mechanisms that could get that done. But if you think that, in the current environment, hard-nosed international creditors do - or even should - give a monkey's about the "social benefits" of subsidised housing then you are utterly and dangerously deluded. Again, I say this in sorrow, not glee. I knew plenty of smart people at the top of successive Blair governments. The architects of New Labour – at least the Blairites – always made sure there were financially literate and market-savvy people in the room when big decisions were made. That was important back then - when the national debt Britain had to service was 35pc of GDP. Now – with the same metric pushing 100pc of GDP and Britain paying more than Morocco to borrow money – it is absolutely vital. It seems that there is no-one – NO-ONE AT ALL – near the top of today's Labour government who has the first clue about the realities of public accounts and global finance. These are – once again – NOT tribal or party-political points, but statements of cold fact ....
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@Elf_Himself @Tendar They’re struggling to take back 300sqkm of ground. Even if they’re attriting Russian forces… they still ain’t moving.
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@Tendar All this is happening without US support. In fact all this is happening while the US is partially supporting russia and pressuring Ukraine.
A shame on those who said Ukraine would collapse without US support.
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@Tendar They’ve been in the same position for the last month if not more.
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Essex Police pauses use of live facial recognition cameras due to racial bias concerns
news.sky.com/story/essex-po…
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@thatbloodyMikey But people keep voting for useless parties. There has to be absolute reform too to bottom.
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Is this what you want? Is this what you’re prepared for? I am so fucking tired of seeing people led down rabbit holes of fucking madness by politicians & commentators who will not be affected by this.
They claim it all back, while we starve. Bills are Already too high to cope.
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: Energy bills are expected to rise by more than £300 this summer as the Middle East conflict pushes up wholesale natural gas prices. 🔗 Read more trib.al/tTY9r5B
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@SkyNews 2022 we were bit in the arse for been dependant on cheap oil from our perceived enemies. 2026 we again have been bit in the arse by our perceived allies because they attacked a so called enemy.
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BREAKING: Energy bills are expected to rise by more than £300 this summer as the Middle East conflict pushes up wholesale natural gas prices.
🔗 Read more
trib.al/tTY9r5B
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@ZelenskyyUa You don’t want to negotiate shit. It’s a performance you have to do to ensure you keep getting money and weapons.
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We have received signals from the U.S. side indicating readiness to continue working within the existing negotiation formats to bring an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine. There has been a pause in the talks, and it is time to resume them. We are doing everything to ensure that the negotiations are genuinely substantive.
The Ukrainian team – the political members of the negotiating group – is already on the way, and we expect a meeting this Saturday. Our priority is to do everything possible to create the conditions for a dignified peace.
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