@Jenny_1884 How pathetic are you worrying about a stupid flag on a plastic bag?
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AJ McDavitt
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AJ McDavitt
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I like cars, boats, darts, snooker, whisky. I am Scottish too. All views my own etc.
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M&S have stopped using Union Jack carrier bags in Northern Ireland because of some complaints from Republicans.
I’m sure they’ve had more complaints about charging an extortionate 40p per bag that can’t be re-used but haven’t listened to the consumer & reduced the price.
How pathetic are these companies.
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UK 'can't succeed' says Donald Trump - read full transcript of his Sky News interview
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@DeborahMeaden No they are not purchasing more EVs.
My son has cancelled his order because of Rachel's incoming tax raid on EVs and guess what Renault saidbti my son.... "We are struggling because people are cancelling EVs and there may be lay offs"
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I think the encouraging thing is that despite the power of the fossil fuel lobby, people are responding to the oil volatility by buying more EVs, heat pumps and solar… and are not as stupid as the fossil fuel lobby think!!
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Part 2. I ran out of characters yesterday. There's more...
Courts. Crown Court backlog at a record 80,203 cases. More than double pre-pandemic. 2,600 trials not listed until 2028 or later. 29 not until 2030. Magistrates' backlog at 379,437. The courts minister herself called the system "on the brink of collapse." Justice delayed indefinitely, for victims and accused alike.
NHS dentistry. Around 18 million adults and children unable to access NHS dental care. Up to 96% of practices have closed their lists to new adult patients. 21% of NHS dentist posts unfilled. Tooth extraction is the leading reason for hospital admission in children aged 5 to 9. And dentists handed back nearly £1 billion in unspent NHS funding between 2023 and 2025 because the contract is so broken they couldn't deliver the work even when the money was there.
SEND. Children with Education, Health and Care Plans up from 354,000 in 2018 to 640,000 in January 2026. An 81% rise in eight years. Council deficits from SEND alone projected to hit £6.6 billion by March 2026. The NAO warned 43% of councils are at risk of effective bankruptcy because of it. The system is failing the children it exists to support and bankrupting the councils running it at the same time.
Energy, the deeper version. UK industrial electricity prices are the highest in the developed world. Around 50% more than France and Germany. Four times the US. We've been running an energy policy that makes it economically irrational to manufacture anything in this country. Then we wonder why the manufacturing base keeps shrinking.
Inflation. Prices have risen more than 25% since the start of 2021. That's a quarter of your money's purchasing power, gone in five years. Wages lagged behind for most of that period and the lost ground has only just begun to be recovered. The Bank of England missed its 2% target for years and is still missing it. Whatever the headline number says next month, the damage to household balance sheets has already been done and isn't reversing.
Business health. Company insolvencies in 2025 stayed near 30-year highs. Compulsory liquidations hit their highest level since 2012. Construction, retail and hospitality leading the collapses. The country isn't running out of bad ideas. It's running out of viable conditions for good ones.
Poverty. 14.3 million people in poverty in the UK, including 4.5 million children. Roughly one in three children. The highest figure on record. Food bank use at record levels. Destitution, where people can't afford to stay warm, dry, clean and fed, has more than doubled in five years.
Mental health. 8.9 million adults in England now on antidepressants. Roughly one in five. Prescriptions have tripled in 20 years. Children waiting years for CAMHS. Adults turned away unless in immediate crisis. And the question almost no-one in power wants to ask out loud: why are so many of us so unwell? What is it about how we live, work, eat, scroll, sleep, raise our children and treat each other that has produced this? Pills are not a substitute for an answer.
Migration vs housebuilding. Set aside every cultural argument and just look at the numbers. Net migration peaked at 944,000 in the year to March 2023. Even after the recent fall to around 200,000, the cumulative addition over the past five years runs into millions. Housebuilding has rarely topped 220,000 a year for decades. The arithmetic doesn't reconcile and never has.
Mortgage time bomb. Millions of households fixed at sub-3% during the cheap money era are rolling off in 2026 and 2027. Typical hits of £200 to £400 a month. A slow-motion shock to household budgets landing exactly when nothing else has any give in it.
Potholes. The repair backlog is around £17 billion. Over a decade of work just to fix what's already broken at current spending rates. The most literal possible expression of deferred maintenance. You can feel it through your steering wheel.
Asylum. The Home Office's accommodation contracts were originally estimated at £4.5 billion over ten years. They are now expected to cost £15.3 billion. More than triple. Hotels alone cost £2.1 billion in 2024/25, housing 35% of asylum seekers while consuming 76% of the contract spend.
Same pattern as Part 1. Promises made for votes. Bills sent to the future. Hope that the music never stops.
It will stop. Some of it already has. The rest is just a matter of when.
I'd love to be more optimistic. I'm trying. The numbers won't let me.
I can easily do a part 3, 4, 5... probably to triple figures. As you can see, it's a mess.
On another quick note, I'm using a large number of different data sources. If you have updated numbers or spot anything that doesn't seem right, please say in the comments. I'm trying to be as accurate as I can, but can't guarantee the odd error doesn't appear.
Josh Hunt@iAmJoshHunt
People have been telling me I’m being overly negative about this country. Too pessimistic. Too doom-laden. I thought I was holding back. So let me lay it all out. Welcome to the age of compounding crises. Housing. Average home costs 8x the average salary. A generation locked out. Prices can’t fall without crashing the banks. Can’t rise without locking out more people. Water. £85 billion extracted in dividends since privatisation. £70 billion in debt loaded onto companies sold debt-free. Victorian pipes leaking billions of litres. Raw sewage discharged for 3.6 million hours in a single year. Bills rising 36% by 2030. Energy. Net importer. No sovereign strategy. One Gulf crisis and it costs the taxpayer £78 billion in emergency subsidies. Pensions. One of the worst state pensions in the developed world. Trillions in unfunded public sector liabilities off the books. Median private pot £32,700. You need ten times that. 43% undersaving. The triple lock ratchets costs up automatically with no mechanism to bring them down. NHS. 7.25 million on the waiting list. Staff leaving. Buildings crumbling. Cancer targets missed. Social care barely exists. A two-tier system emerging. A demographic wave about to make it all worse. Transport. HS2: £66 billion for 140 miles. Spain built 2,500 miles for $70 billion. We pay 8.5x the European average and deliver a fraction of the result. Roads falling apart. The North still waiting. Local government. Over half of councils expect bankruptcy within five years. Funding cut 29% in real terms since 2010. Libraries, youth services, social care… gone or going. Public finances. Debt approaching 97% of GDP. Interest payments exceed the defence budget. Taxes at their highest since the 1940s. Spending plans include cuts the OBR says may be undeliverable. Productivity. Flat for eighteen years. Worst record since the Industrial Revolution. Economic inactivity. 1 in 5 working-age people not working. 2.8 million out sick, a record. The only G7 country with lower employment than before the pandemic. Food. We import 48% of what we eat. 83% of our fruit. 12% of households are food insecure. One supply chain shock and the shelves thin out. We’ve seen it twice already and fixed nothing. Education. School buildings crumbling. Teachers leaving. £267 billion in student debt, most of which will never be repaid. Defence. Procurement Parliament called “broken and repeatedly wasting billions.” Equipment plan £19 billion short. A war in Europe and no money to respond properly. Prisons. 72% overcrowded. Hit 99.7% occupancy. Nearly 40,000 released early because there was nowhere to put them. 23,000 cells don’t meet fire safety standards. Cost to fix: £2.8 billion. Allocated: £520 million. Car finance. Biggest mis-selling scandal since PPI. 12 million agreements with hidden commissions. £7.5 billion in expected compensation. Another bill landing on an industry already stretched. Regional inequality. London pulling away from everywhere else. A country where your postcode determines your life expectancy, school quality, job prospects and access to healthcare. Underneath all of it, the same pattern. Sell the asset. Load it with debt. Extract the value. Defer the maintenance. Hand the bill to the next generation. None of this is unfixable. This country has the talent and the people to turn every one of these around. But that requires a political class willing to be honest about the scale of what’s broken. What we have instead is a political class that would rather keep us fighting each other than confront the structural failures staring them in the face. Because fixing them is hard, unpopular, and takes longer than an electoral cycle. So they commission a review, blame the last lot, and nothing changes. I’d love to be more optimistic. And the history and people of this country still make me somewhat hopeful. But our politics needs to drastically change if we’re going to get anywhere.
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@jemmm85517813 @CountBiffa Where do you suggest we get our energy from? Do you suggest coal, oil and gas have any negative impacts on flora, small birds and insects?
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@CountBiffa There have been studies showing soil is disrupted plus flora & small birds & insects are negatively impacted.
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Remember this? What was a rubbish car new might be an interesting used buy… #Echobox=1775487399" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/le…
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@hol40900 @MarinaPurkiss UK and countless other countries around the world are being affected by his lunacy
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@MarinaPurkiss The 25th is a US procedural fantasy. The real damage is hitting UK families now—fuel bills up £288, growth slashed to 0.7%, and a £3bn tariff bill. We can't vote him out, but we're paying the price.
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When one of your last slivers of hope is the 25th Amendment…
And then you remember Step 1 of it requires JD Vance and Trump’s sycophantic cabinet of compromised dipshits to invoke it.
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@KingOfMopar1 @Mileage_impo In UK at least you get D4 which is a 2 litre but 5 cylinder. I imagine this must be a 5 cylinder one. More reliable then the 4 cylinder ones
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2015 Volvo V70 D4 with 801,639 km (498,115 miles) on the clock.
Original engine,turbos, and transmission.
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New - Boss of Ryanair says the airline will have to cancel "5 - 10% of flights through May, June and July" if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
Michael O'Leary tells @ITVJoel people should book flights for the summer "as quickly as [they] can" to avoid rising airfares.
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@Mileage_impo Poor person driving that awful machine for that many miles
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2014 Lexus CT200h with over 999,999 miles (1,609,342 km) on the clock.
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@Face_de_Fact @SkyNews Right but this article is about jet fuel. Which the UK imports most of from the middle east.
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Ryanair boss warns of jet fuel supply disruption in May
news.sky.com/story/ryanair-…
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WHY?
Why is it that if Russia did this there would be worldwide rallying, condemnation, sanctions
But when it’s Israel….
SILENCE.
WHY?????
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Israel to ‘demolish’ all houses in Lebanese border villages ft.trib.al/BfRCGec
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@NeilBaldwin @RunningJonathan @AldiUK Also were they really zeroed before he placed the can on them? And he's using ml
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@RunningJonathan @AldiUK When were the scales last calibrated?
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Hello @AldiUK quick question, how come you have sold me a can of Professor Peppy weighing 203 ml, including the can. Just fresh out the box and still sealed
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@PistonHeads Still love the XF, and the poverty spec diesels are a proper bargain now
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I gave the Renault 5 a spotless report card but now it's tarnished by condensation...>> buff.ly/mpQWwWD
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@Bob_Christopher @WhiteHouse Why is sunak there twice and once in a uniform he head never worn
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🚨 “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST…” - President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@markwil147 @JacksonPage147 @British_Airways From the photo I thought you were in economy, so my tips were for that class 🤣
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My view for the next 15 hours with @JacksonPage147 on @British_Airways #ttisisgoingtobeaverling15hiytfkugthere
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2016 Jeep Cherokee 2.4L with 500,000 miles (804,672 km) on the clock.
Full service history.
Original engine and transmission.
No major repairs.
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