@mriordan__ And Tuchel hasn’t taken the goal scorer to the World Cup…
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This goal just pisses me off , we never even tried to attack before we conceded, when we did we got this
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@AndyBurnhamGM Ummm….shouldn’t you wait for the official announcement? The Palace takes a dim view of people leaking the news.
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If it is true that the incredible Kevin Sinfield is to be knighted, then that truly is the best news I’ve heard in a long time and starts to restore my faith in the honours system. 🙌🏻
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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Hilarious. So the French are making France safer by sending all the dangerous criminals to the UK under the scheme, while deciding who they will take back? Top marks to the British negotiators😅
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🚨 NEW: The Government has limited the "one in, one out" migrant deal with France - currently 896 in, 921 out - due to the risk some migrants pose
"They’re mainly young men more likely to engage in criminal activity, so we don’t want to take many more"
[@thetimes]
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@Hawkeye_74 Would love to see a similar breakdown for “Communist” China.
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HMRC show you a breakdown of how your taxes have been spent.
It's beyond my comprehension that Welfare is above everything else.
To those who think there should be VAT on school fees, I'd ask for a deduction for the amount of my taxes which go to a provision I don't use.
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@macastel3 Have the Chinese actually…you know…bid to host the World Cup? 🤦🏻♀️
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Still don't understand why China doesn't get to host the world cup
People love football, they have infrastructure, it's cheap, VISA free, good time zone
Would easily be the most popular edition (in terms of visitors)
Is FIFA boycotting? Why?
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@NickCohen4 And because after WW2 a bankrupt UK couldn’t afford it any more, irrespective of the NHS.
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How utterly ridiculous. The British empire died because the colonised would not accept colonialism
Dr S Maitra@MrMaitra
Blame Attlee. The British empire died, more than anything else, because of the insatiable demon named “Our NHS”. Can’t have both.
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@Alihashem Is that not that busty old sexy Latino lady...I've forgotten her name
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Two supposedly Lebanese. One World Cup. Proof that Lebanese can do everything, except qualify for the World Cup. 🇱🇧😂
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Arrived Venice airport 3 hours early for the new non-EU exit. Biometric registration: 2 minutes. Passport control: 2 minutes. The queue horror stories non existent. Any more EU myths need blowing up?
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Don’t really see why the government should rush madly to appoint a defence secretary - better to do the vetting and get it right
Tony Diver@Tony_Diver
Understand the delay in appointing a new defence secretary is, in part, due to the propriety and ethics process in government. No10 is required to submit its potential names for a fast-tracked check by the Cabinet Office to look for any skeletons. They can then be approached. In this case, obviously, the delay may have been compounded by some people on the list not wanting to take on the job…
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Yvette Cooper also on resignation watch according to a couple of Labour MPs.
She has just spent two days talking defence spending with John Healey and the Australians and previously told Starmer he needs to go.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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That should make those with student debt feel better. Wow.
Family Education Trust@FamEdTrust
Chief Treasury Secretary Lucy Rigby has defended the Government’s decision to not reduce interest rates on student loans, saying the money is being used to fund benefit schemes including ‘free breakfast clubs’ and lifting the two child benefit cap. Trapping graduates in a lifetime of debt in order to fund breakfasts for children whose parents should be feeding them at home is not beneficial to anyone - children, families or young adults starting out in life.
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@TedUrchin @UKLabour A study by the GMB Union designed to show that if you give us more money then there will be fewer strikes 🤦🏻♀️
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Another bit of good news under Labour.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it I say.
@UKLabour
#StickWithStarmer
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@PolitlcsUK @spectator Well, that will alienate their core electoral base, the Muslim community.
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🚨 NEW: The Green Party has launched a consultation to make banning circumcision a party policy
[@Spectator]
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@RichardGCorbett So all the extra money went on pay rises and housing, not new kit?? 😮
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Curious thing about John Healey’s resignation letter to Keir Starmer is that it actually points out the significant achievements of the Labour government on security and defence:
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@FraserNelson Any thoughts on the forthcoming wave of ILR and citizenship and access to welfare? Any thoughts on illegal immigration and the levels of asylum grants? Why on earth are you speaking on behalf of the Labour Party?
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Odd to see Tories claim "mass migration is still happening" as if there has been no change.
Here's the latest:-
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I was asked earlier on the BBC why other NATO countries have avoided DIP-like crises.
Part of the answer is the large and growing share of spending taken up by nuclear deterrent & adjacent areas, leaving less for conventional forces. That is partly why German conventional spending will be around double UK spending, remarkably, by the end of the decade.
Part of the answer is that other countries are willing to allocate amuch higher share of national output to defence. Poland & Baltics nudging 5% of GDP. Healey's letter points out today that UK would be at 2.68% of GDP by 2030 on the DIP settlement he was given.
But more important than this is the gap between spending and military commitments: the UK spends more (it is third highest spender in NATO in absolute terms) but also commits considerably more, leaving a wide and in recent years growing chasm between promises & delivery.
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@EdwardJDavey What? Vote LibDem and give us Zack Polanski more like 🤣
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There it is. Vote Tory get Farage. Vote Lib Dem to stop them both.
Lee Cain@MrLeeCain
Extraordinary nugget in @ShippersUnbound’s excellent interview with Kemi Badenoch. Asked directly if she’d put Farage into No.10 if he fell short of a majority, she made clear the answer is yes. Seems very politically naive in both directions. Voters on the right now have one fewer reason to back the Tories over Reform. And in London and Lib Dem swings seats, the anti reform coalition just got a gift: “Vote Tory, get Farage.” No real upside to announcing this two years before polling day. Fascinated to see how CCHQ handle the follow ups….
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@ScottGoetz_ She’s actually admitting that the government deliberately seeks to make a profit from student loans in order to fund welfare???? 😳
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You would think that student loans exist to fund the continuation of the higher education system but no they are just rip off taxation to fund welfare.
Family Education Trust@FamEdTrust
Chief Treasury Secretary Lucy Rigby has defended the Government’s decision to not reduce interest rates on student loans, saying the money is being used to fund benefit schemes including ‘free breakfast clubs’ and lifting the two child benefit cap. Trapping graduates in a lifetime of debt in order to fund breakfasts for children whose parents should be feeding them at home is not beneficial to anyone - children, families or young adults starting out in life.
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