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@higgyboson 😂🙄

@SchoolboyOwn To be (completely) honest I (really) do go (a bit) over the top (sometimes) but (as you know) you can't beat a couple of these things - "(" and ")".

Me and Mrs Higgy occasionally like to go out for a cooked breakfast (usually the local golf club or (believe it or not) bike shop), a lunchtime snack, (garden centre, cafe in a park etc) or an evening meal at various local pubs/restaurants. We like to support local businesses. But all these things have become increasingly expensive over the past couple of years. Paying £11 for a tea, coffee and single slice of cake is ridiculous. A sausage sandwich now costs £7.50. A burger from a van is £5.50. £5.50 for a 30p burger in a 20p bread roll is nuts. A very simple one course evening meal with a drink each costs at least £45.00. So we've decided to stop doing it. We live in a great part of the country so we'll still go out, but with a picnic and a flask of Earl Grey. I'm self employed and Mrs Higgy is a retired NHS Staff Nurse. We have no mortgage or rent to pay so we should be out and about frequenting these places on a regular basis but the truth is - We REALLY begrudge paying the prices. We can't be alone. I have no idea how normal families on average incomes can afford to eat out at the moment with EVERYTHING going up in price. I can see the almost total collapse of the hospitality sector in the not too distant future. I'll be as guilty as all the millions of others scaling back on their patronage of pubs and restaurants etc but I've been pushed too far and I'm not playing this game any more.

A Country Within a Country: Tower Hamlets Shows What Britain Is Becoming If you want to see Britain's future laid bare, look to Tower Hamlets. What you see there is the end point of a national project our leaders have pushed for half a century: the slow replacement of a shared country with a patchwork of imported political cultures, each loyal to itself and indifferent to the nation that hosts it. Tower Hamlets is the clearest case study. Councillors elected to serve one of the poorest boroughs in England are now standing for election in Bangladesh. Not hiding it. Not ashamed of it. Simply treating British public office as a secondary concern – a hobby between campaigns for a foreign parliament. And the political class feigns shock, as if this isn't exactly what their model of multiculturalism produces. When you spend decades telling newcomers that integrating into Britain is optional and that expecting loyalty is racist, don't act surprised when they build a political life that points elsewhere. The borough's leadership shows the scale of the shift. Eight Ahmeds, three Choudhurys, three Hussains or Hossains, two Islams, five white councillors out of forty-five. The mayor, Lutfur Rahman, has returned to power despite a High Court judgment voiding his previous victory for corrupt and illegal practices. He came back the moment the ban expired because his authority doesn't come from British civic standards but from communal blocs that vote as a unit. That's not "diversity." It's a transplanted political culture operating on British soil. A borough governed not by national norms but by imported habits of clan power, patronage, and sectarian mobilisation. This is the Britain our leaders built. Whole districts where English is not the common language and Britishness is not the shared identity. Places where local politics resembles the old country more than the one that pays for the schools, hospitals and roads. Professor Matt Goodwin's warning is already visible: parents arrive with their own culture and transplant it intact, creating islands of political life that orbit London rather than belong to it. A million people in Britain cannot speak English. In London alone, more than 300,000 cannot speak it at all. You cannot build a nation on that. You can only build silos. And here lies the truth no minister dares utter: multiculturalism has not created diversity. It has created enclaves. Tower Hamlets is not a vibrant tapestry. It is a near-homogeneous political bloc where the old civic order holds no authority and where foreign identity trumps national duty. The double loyalty on show is not an aberration. It is the natural result of demographic engineering pursued without consent and enforced with moral blackmail. "Welcome everyone," the elites said, "and never ask what they owe the country." Now we reap the consequences: councillors who serve two nations, marches in the name of "diversity" where masked young men chant in one direction, and boroughs where British citizens feel like tenants in their own streets. The greatest lie of the last generation is that multiculturalism makes a country stronger. The truth is simpler. A nation with many identities and no common one is not strong. It is weak. It cannot demand loyalty, cannot enforce standards, cannot defend its own culture without apologising for it. Tower Hamlets shows what happens when the national story fades: other stories take its place. Other loyalties follow. And eventually the question becomes unavoidable – who is this country for? If Britain continues on this path, more boroughs will follow the Tower Hamlets model. More councils run by imported machines. More politics shaped by clan loyalty rather than shared citizenship. More places where the British state retreats and foreign allegiances take hold. The warning is staring us in the face. Tower Hamlets isn't a scandal. It's a forecast.

@MilitaryBanter Not picking it up by hand shows just how tech savvy we are 😂

GOC visit tomorrow Got them hoovering the concrete

Just Stormzy living his best life with his new family. He doesn't run so much as he bounces along! Love him

@MilitaryBanter It reminds me of a mate of mine who asked one of his guys if he’d taken care of a piece of equipment that wasn’t working properly, the bloke said “yeah I fixed it and now it won’t run” 😂

The SA80 is perfect, reliable, durable, and the contract is good value for money. it’s only when user error occurs like pulling the trigger that the rifle has issues.

@C_3C_3 Fat tub o’ lard 🙄

Doesn’t get any lower than this… Pritzker blames POTUS Trump for Sheridan Gorman being murdered in Chicago by an illegal the Biden Administration let in to America and Dems in Chicago released after he was caught shoplifting instead of being deported.

“Do it now! Or I’ll tell you to Do It Now again” 🙄

@Ziggys_Duck I met a guy recently who worked on the series

My man.

@MikeyHotspurs Can’t argue with much of that 😥

THE DON’T CARE FC VICARIO • Made some decent saves so can’t go in on him, not great with his feet but that’s not his specialty. Might be his last game in a Spurs shirt, I won’t miss him SPENCE • Hooked off at half time, didn’t offer much today. I think we all let 5 or 6 good games cloud our judgment on him. He’s an average player at best. I’m starting to think he’s better on the left side to his preferred right MICKEY VDV • Even if the reports are not true and he is committed to the cause, his confidence is shot to pieces and he has a funny way of showing it. Personally I don’t know what to believe with him. Actions speak louder than words and I can’t remember the last time he played well in the league ROMERO • There are two Cristian Romero’s. One is a world class centre back and World Cup winner for Argentina, the other is a bang average defender for Spurs who makes costly mistake after mistake. I’d get rid in the summer DANSO • Has been one of our better players this season but today wasn’t nowhere near his best. Maybe it’s the constant changing of systems, maybe Romero is rubbing off on him. He looked better with Dragusin last week, and that’s saying something PORRO • We learned one thing today, Porro is not a right midfielder. He’s a half decent full back, that’s it. I was counting on him to give a good performance when it mattered and he let us all down SARR • It’s time for Sarr to be dropped from the lineup, offers nothing in terms of football. The more we play him the bigger chance we have of going down. As much as it pains me to say it I’d rather play Conor Gallagher GRAY • I actually thought he was our best player in the first half but he’s playing with a handicap in a 2 man central midfield partnership. Especially when his counterpart isn’t up to the standard. Poor 2nd half but we are relying on a 19 year old to save us, sad times TEL • Similar to Gray had a good first half, I actually thought left midfield suited him. Was our brightest spark in the first 45, then came the half time change and his decent performance became a poor one. Not sure who to blame, him or the manager RICHARLISON • The jokes on me for putting him in my fantasy league starting lineup. That sums him up, goes missing when you expect him to score, scores when he’s not expected to. Piss poor today SOLANKE • Actually looking forward to him joining Newcastle. A waste of £65 million, not fit to lace Harry Kanes boots. Poor performance when it matters and we can’t rely on him to save us. He either doesn’t care about the club or isn’t good enough. I’ll give him the benefit of doubt and say it’s the latter SUBS • The subs changed the dynamic for the worse, Udogie and Bergvall are clearly not match fit. None of the subs impacted the game in a positive way IGOR TUDOR • If you want a lesson in how to go from looking ok to awful in the space of a half time break then study our manager. Not sure what he was thinking with the double change and change of system. Praying he’s sacked in the morning

@JulianDutton1 Do you think that’s wise Sir ?

'Don't worry men, these Iranian missiles won't get through. We've got the entire seafront covered from Timothy Whites to the Novelty Rock Emporium.'

@markyk1981 Spurs remind me more of Billy Smarts Circus at the moment …🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@SchoolboyOwn And Spurs is Ted Lasso in real life

I’ve thought for a while that the current government and civil servants have all watched every episode of Yes Minister and treats them like training videos 🙄

Working on a ship today and one of the crew had a very nasty fall onto his back (onto a steel deck) from a ladder. Excellent response from Broward County Fire Rescue, they had the guy down safely, efficiently and off to hospital in very short order 👏👏👏@browardsheriff @BCFR_PIO1

@JonnyH3232 @RAKing75606114 West Ham got wolves at home next week, we have Sunderland away 🤦‍♂️ easily be in the basement this time next week 😐

Keir Starmer’s calls with Donald Trump are mocked in the launch of Saturday Night Live UK. What do you think, any good?

@kevhillsy Sitting in the West Stand ….very posh 😂

Tomorrow is 57 years to the day when i first walked into the ground, a 1-0 home win.. I would settle for any win v Forest as i make the pilgrimage for well over the 1000th time 🙏#coys

Apparently the British are coming 🤔

@johnmyles68 @robertmdaws @SpursOfficial Pulled part of his cheek off on a net hook I think

@robertmdaws @SpursOfficial Didn't he suffer a bad head/facial injury too at some point, I seem to recall ? ⚽

MILIJA ALEKSIC @SpursOfficial (1978–1982) Joined Spurs from Luton Town in December 1978 for a fee of £100,000. He made a total of 32 senior appearances for the club. He lost his starting position following the signing of legendary goalkeeper Ray Clemence in 1981 and eventually moved to South Africa