@TiceRichard Who’s paying for the flagpole? (Or is it party policy just to cable tie a tatty £3 Temu flag from China to the gate post)?
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Sideways Shropshire
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Sideways Shropshire
@SidewaysShrops
Snark from the Marches
Shropshire Katılım Haziran 2019
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Reform will require schools to fly Union Flag & display a picture of the King
Common sense patriotism telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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@keith0582456611 @SandyofSuffolk So.. keep your cushy job until 2029, or chuck it all in now and call an election? I know which one I’d choose.
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@SandyofSuffolk It could be before Christmas if/when Labour get decimated in the Local elections next month and Labour back benches realise their cushy jobs are on the line
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To everyone who's saying the general election isn't until 2029, I've news for you.
Labour won't last that long.
Nigel will be in No 10 at least a year before that. At least. Mark my words.
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@Miss_Snuffy I don’t mind a uniform policy, and track suit may not be it. But please get rid of blazers and ties etc, which are not standard work wear for most, and expensive to boot. Jumper and polo shirt is fine (and hopefully not required to be branded).
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Why get them to wear a uniform at all?
Indeed why do any of us wear clothes to work?
Why not wear pyjamas?
They are far more comfortable.
Perhaps tmrw I should deliver assembly in a track suit.
Does nothing matter anymore? 🙄
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Children should be allowed to wear tracksuits in class to make school uniform 'more inclusive', MPs say trib.al/iFPfWl6
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@obviousenigma1 @SamCoatesSky Sam Coates is posting the results of weekly polling, conducted under British Polling Council guidelines, which he does every Tuesday at 6am. Some weeks it’s up, some it’s down.
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@SamCoatesSky It’s 06:00 and Sam Coates is already posting this. It seems Sam can’t wait to take Labour down. Well done in your part in promoting Reform over the last couple of years via your failure to effectively call out Farage, his sleaze and Reform lies.
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YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention
RefUK 27%(+3)
CON 17%(-2)
GRN 17%(-1)
LAB 16%(-1)
LD 14%(+1)
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@abxc___ @22jenson09 In some (developed, Western, football-loving) countries, that $100 still feeds a family for a week. So we’ll hard pass on that and watch on TV, thanks.
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@22jenson09 It’s just $100usd just pay it
The World Cup is a once in a lifetime opportunity in America
In 1 week what will that $100 usd cost you ?
In a month ? A year ? 30 years later ?
You’ll be fine that $100 usd will literally not do anything to your life
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Amazing to be informed by local residents that the concept of walking to a stadium from a train station is so alien that it is in fact illegal
Gregor 🌹🇪🇺🇦🇹@salingergregor
if they keep this bs up there will be 50k intl fans each game day who just take a regular train to Rutherford and WALK the 1h to the MetLife Stadium. I know walking is an unfamiliar concept for most Americans, but it is a thing in the rest of the world.
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@sales_belinda @adamboultonTABB That stance is fine if you think the press was wrong to prosecute Partygate a year after the event. I’m more on Starmer’s side than Johnson or certainly Farage, but competence (and integrity) in government matters.
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Please get over it. It's done. Over with. PM apologised. Mandelson was sacked after a few months. We have wars to deal with. Cost of living crisis. Why don't you journalists take a responsible stance & focus on what matters? Not this storm in a teacup exaggerated by Tories.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
Peter Mandelson’s appointment was a political one and FCDO knew that Keir Starmer/ Morgan McSweeney wanted it to happen even though the due diligence process had raised red flags. Olly Robbins’ response to this question gives, I think, an insight into why he overruled the security vetting decision: “The PM took advice and took a view himself and we then acted on that view”. What it doesn’t explain is why he didn’t flag security concerns over Britain’s top diplomatic appointee with No 10 - or if he told officials why they didn’t share with the political side of operation.
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@mrdanwalker It’ll happen until people just don’t go. If people moan but pay it anyway, you’re not a “true fan”, you’re a mug. Get your mates round to the pub with the biggest telly and watch it there (by the way, on free TV because of UK policy on big events and public service TV culture)
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This can’t be right…
A train journey from Penn Station in New York to the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey normally costs $12.90 or just under a tenner.
During the World Cup this summer that same ticket will cost $150 (£110.75)!
Some might say it’s just about supply and demand but they have closed all the car parks at the stadium and there are no concessions - that’s $600 for a family of 4!
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@wendlingere49 @Matt_AKA_Keefy Hmm… I’m Team Starmer over Boris any day of the week, but the coverage of Partygate was in a *very* similar vein.. daily revelations at the top of news bulletins.
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Interesting that Dominic Cummings didn't have clearence either but practically lived at No.10 with Boris,& was given the rose garden to mount that ridiculous excuse of driving to Barnard Castle to test his eye sight.Where was the witch hunt daily to get Boris out, then?
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@SarahForRuncorn @ReformUKTelford Are the council housing them? Or profiteering providers working for the Home Office? In most places, Capita went round buying up beds without councils having a clue.
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Halton Borough Council has a waiting list of 3,800 people requiring social housing, yet the Labour controlled council is currently housing 600 illegal asylum seekers.
This is pure betrayal of local people. A Reform led Council would put a stop to this.
Vote Reform UK on 7th May.
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@AdamTynemouth92 @LewisJWarner The 80pc of the population who don’t live in a social media bubble claiming everyone’s moved to the extremes.
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@LewisJWarner Who in their right mind is still going to give Labour 23% and who is also giving the Conservatives 22% 😆
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EXC: More in Common / ITV News Central / Birmingham City Council poll
🌹 LAB: 32 (-33) — 23%
➡️ RFM: 26 (+26) — 22%
🌳 CON: 25 (+2) — 18%
🔶 LDM: 10 (-2) — 10%
🌍 GRN: 7 (+2) — 16%
👤 IND: 1 (+1) — 11%
No overall control — Labour projected to lose HALF its seats
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@Norfolkforever @LewisJWarner @eddiedeanNYC3 ITV commissioned More In Common to do a poll about BCC. Agree it could have been clearer, but I don’t think this is BCC marking its own homework.
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@LewisJWarner @eddiedeanNYC3 Hang on, are you suggesting that the City Council actually commissioned (as in *paid for*) this poll?
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@LewisJWarner @ITVCentral While that’s obviously a disaster for Labour, and I’m not pretending otherwise, being in front (and *clearly* in front of the Greens/Inds) might help stem a narrative on the left that only Greens can keep Reform out.
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@melissacreate15 @markrwilliamson It’s mentioned (albeit tangentially) in the full announcement today: gov.uk/government/spe…
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@markrwilliamson They haven’t mentioned Cambourne station at all? That really worries me be ause what if they plan to build it BEFORE Tempsford? They havd kinda missed out the tinnels in that time line too?
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The accelerated time-scale for EW Rail - Full railway and all new stations open by ‘mid-to-late’ 2030s. One to bookmark.
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@sharpe_le @RebeccaCNReid And the choice of an increasing number of people in their 20s and 30s is not to have any because they can’t afford it. Which is rather gonna fuck up the stream of taxes to pay for you being old.
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@RebeccaCNReid Having kids is a choice, getting old and ill is a fact.
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Breakfast clubs are not about breakfast, they're largely about pre-school care because it's impossible for two working parents to commute to their desks at 9AM if schools start at 8.40.
Julia Hartley-Brewer@JuliaHB1
The breakfasts are not free. They are paid for by taxes - mostly on parents who feed their own kids. Most of these 10,000 children would have had a perfectly healthy breakfast at home without these clubs. This isn't about helping the poorest kids, it's the state taking over the basic job of parenting.
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@horton_official Especially when differential pricing is a revenue maximisation strategy employed by many private businesses: drawing in people who wouldn’t pay the full price in a month of Sundays.
Totally illiterate.
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Why would a Reform government instruct private businesses how much to charge for their services?
Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick
Many of these museums - like London Zoo - are public institutions. Their management shouldn’t be charging working people more, to give discounts to those on benefits. And the prices they charge are already ridiculously high for most families. They should be finding ways to cut the cost for everyone.
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This is a classic scene from the British sitcom *Yes, Prime Minister* (1980s).
- The man with glasses monologuing about newspapers: Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne), the Permanent Secretary.
- The Prime Minister asking about *The Sun*: Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington).
- The civil servant delivering the punchline: Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds).
One of the show's sharpest satirical bits on the press!
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@DavidMooney In fairness, there’s a lot of “BBC News”.. TV and R4 led on Iran, R2 and Five Live went with Kanye.
I think that’s OK. If you think there should only be a single BBC news “voice”, stop doing news on Radio 1, 2, 5, local, etc and just have a dude in a bow tie 3x a day on Radio 4.
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This just isn't true. The BBC national news at 6pm led with US/Iran and that story has been leading the website all day.
For what it's worth... The Kanye West story was third, with the Artemis II story second.
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla
BBC News leading with a cancelled concert. Second on news list: US president threatens civilisational erasure
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@DentonSalle @Dr_HeywoodFloyd @gabydvj @emeriticus She probably didn’t go to St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Greenwich Village, though? 😂
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@Dr_HeywoodFloyd @gabydvj @emeriticus Yep. My wife was Episcopal, and that's what she called it.
She got better. It's liturgy now.
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@rogermosey And given what HIGNFY and SNL would do, hardly consistent even with shows on earlier than the News at Ten (to which I presume you refer!)
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I don’t see any reason why UK broadcasters can’t broadcast the Trump language in full, especially post-watershed. It‘s revealing , and shouldn’t be censored or treated as normal.
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@SidewaysShrops @JuleKreyling @Scaramucci Ask Grok is currently available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers only. Subscribe to unlock this feature: x.com/i/premium_sign…
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It was at this point that our Founders thought the best thing to do would be to remove a mad man who has the executive office. It became more formalized with the 25th amendment, but more people now should be calling for this man’s removal.
Jonathan Lemire@JonLemire
An Easter morning message from President Donald Trump
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