Jill Woolf

Reform have now suspended SIX councillors who were elected just five days ago

Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB: ---- Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor? Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve. Got rubbish piling up? Email them. Bus vanished from existence? Email them. Streetlights dead? Email them. Care package delayed? Email them. Pavement like the Somme? Email them. Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is. Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes. Welcome to local government. The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward. The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated. Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.

History of the USA: - King of England imposes taxes - America declares independence - Things go well for nearly 250 years - America elects a moron - Moron imposes taxes - King of England gets taxes removed

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker. Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year. Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead. Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency. Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle. Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free. Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to. Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds. Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires. Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle. Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all. Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons. Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting. Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again. Pint, mate?

Some of the worst #CustomerService from a financial institution I've ever received has been from @kentreliance over the last week. I suggest you steer well away from them! #bigfail

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, "Let us say to our British friends" "If they stand ready to return to the EU Single Market with all associated privileges and duties" "They will be be met with open arms" Sounds like a plan. Who's in?

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I don’t want to be hasty but I’m beginning to worry that FIFA might not have thought that Peace Prize through properly.

No more meals at @wagamama_uk 😢 BBC News - KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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“So, you voted to build a wall. Well, dear Americans, even if geography isn’t your strong suit — because you tend to see America as a country rather than a continent — you should know that beyond that wall live 7 billion people. And since you may not like the word ‘people,’ let’s call them ‘consumers.’ Those 7 billion consumers can switch from iPhone to Samsung or Huawei in less than two days. They can trade Levi’s for Zara or Massimo Dutti, and within six months replace Ford and Chevrolet with Toyota, KIA, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Volvo, Subaru, Renault, or BMW — brands that often surpass them in quality. They can stop watching television altogether, and even if they don’t want to, they can stop watching Hollywood movies in favor of higher-quality films from Latin America or Europe that offer richer stories and better cinematography. Believe it or not, people can skip Disney and instead visit the Xcaret resort in Cancun or travel through Mexico, Canada, South America, and Europe. Even in Mexico, you can find burgers better than McDonald’s — and with higher nutritional value. Have you ever seen pyramids in the United States? Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Sudan have ancient wonders — but the United States does not. If it did, Trump probably would have bought and resold them by now. We know Nike isn’t the only sneaker brand — there’s Adidas, and even Mexican brands like Panam. We understand economics better than you think. And we also know that if those 7 billion consumers stop buying American products, unemployment will rise, and your economy — locked behind a self-imposed wall — will collapse to the point where you’ll beg us to tear it down. We didn’t want to do this, but… you wanted a wall? “Well, now you have it.” Her approval rating has reached a historic high: according to a recent poll, 85% support her candidacy.”

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph. I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it destroys millions of jobs with the prosperity, dignity and community that goes with them. The worst scenario is the destruction of the human race - a fear openly expressed by an increasing number of senior and experienced AI engineers who are leaving the industry. And somewhere in between a myriad of horrors such as yet more screen learning and screen addiction for our children. But I do see that it will make rich men even richer. And that’s the most important thing of course.

I'm no fan of Starmer but I suggest that the fault is actually with Tony Blair who put him in a position of power in the first place #corrupt BBC News - Mandelson scandal is 'serious' for Starmer but PM is 'man of integrity', Brown says bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.

It’s about time! We all had the same question back in November 2024. How did Elon Musk know Trump had won 4 hours before the election was called? Why did he say Trump would not have won without him? 🤔

I’m sharing this beautiful and powerful song from @springsteen, that he wrote in dedication to the people of Minneapolis and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Take a listen. The art of resistance, the voice of artists, well known and every day people all over the world singing, writing, speaking up and out is so inspiring. We the people are alive, empowered, and making a difference with our voices. My friends: use your voice in whatever way makes sense to you! Poetry, singing, writing, speaking, loving, cooking, painting. Show up in the way that you can. We are all creative beings with a voice. We the united people, of these United States, are rising above. We are showing that we care about our neighbors, our fellow human beings. Have no doubt the people are rising. It’s a beautful thing.

Calls for a boycott of the World Cup grow time.com/7358117/fifa-w…

London just joined Minnesota. Trafalgar Square filled with protesters demanding justice for Alex Pretti while opposing Farage. When state violence goes unchecked, the world notices. Solidarity doesn’t stop at borders. 🇬🇧