@BGatesIsaPyscho This is classic “career politician”; our politicians need to have spent more time in the real world
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🚨🇬🇧 NO UK NEW DRILLING LICENSES
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says granting licences to drill an abundance of high-quality oil on the doorstep in the North Sea wouldn't make a difference to people.
Instead, the UK continue to buy oil from Norway who extracted out of the same North Sea.
These people are truly insane - the fallout from the Middle East WILL be huge. Just like Germany Britain will be brought to its knees, through an entirely deliberately manufactured energy crisis.
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Multiway check-raise → big turn bet/jam is one of the most under-bluffed lines in live poker.
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Poker is 100% a game of skill in the long run, and the best players in any particular game always come out on top in the end.
Do you agree?
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What you are witnessing in British politics -with the defections- is the realignment of the entire system
Something I have called for, and written about, for 13 years
Labour and the Tories - the Uniparty that presided over the managed decline of our country for the last 30 years - are now imploding
The Uniparty is philosophically, politically and electorally bankrupt, supported only by its self-serving cheerleaders in legacy media who still do not realise how out-of-touch they are
They betrayed the people, they betrayed the country
With Reform, we are now genuinely on the cusp of a historic political revolution - a revolution that will be led by the people and which will bring politics and power back to the people
Ultimately, as has always been the case in Britain, it will be the people who end up saving the country
But in order for that revolution to happen, in order for it to fulfil its true potential, both Reform and the people who defect to it must stay committed to the things that make us distinct from the Uniparty.
End mass uncontrolled immigration.
Leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
Do whatever is necessary to fix Britain’s borders.
Reverse the Boriswave.
Scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain.
End Net Zero.
Strip out woke ideology and DEI from taxpayer-funded public institutions.
Lower the tax burden.
Slash the state.
Remove regulation and red-tape.
Ban Muslim Brotherhood, take on Islamism and defend British Jews.
Stop tolerating those who do not tolerate us.
Pursue pro-family policies.
Defend free speech.
Protect individual liberty.
Overturn the Blairite regime.
And above all, put the hardworking, taxpaying, law-abiding forgotten majority of British people first.
Reform cannot become a Tory tribute act.
If it does, it will collapse.
So long as Reform remains committed to this vision then it will thrive and prosper.
So long as anybody who joins Reform remains committed to this vision then its members will welcome them with open arms.
And so long as the movement as a whole remains committed to this vision then the realignment and the restoration our once great country will continue.
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Let’s stop pretending the UK–US “special relationship” has collapsed because Britain has somehow lost its mind. It hasn’t. The British people haven’t changed. What’s changed is the government — and everyone in Washington knows it.
America doesn’t distrust Britain.
America distrusts who’s running it.
The UK today is a country with two faces: a public that still believes in loyalty, fairness, borders, and turning up when it matters — and a political class, led by the Labour Party, that can’t even agree on whether Britain itself is something to be proud of.
Labour didn’t inherit a divided country — they weaponised the division. They built an entire governing philosophy around grievance, moral lectures, and permanent apologies. Every policy sounds like it’s been written by a committee terrified of being shouted at on social media. Strength replaced by statements. Leadership replaced by “ongoing reviews.”
From the US point of view — especially someone like Donald Trump — this is fatal. America respects clarity. Loyalty. Knowing where you stand. You don’t have to agree with them, but you do have to mean what you say. And right now Britain’s government doesn’t mean anything long enough to be trusted with it.
Washington looks at Britain and doesn’t see a weak people. It sees a strong country being run by people who don’t like it very much.
And yes, cue Hugh Grant in Love Actually, standing tall and telling the US that Britain may be small, but it stands for what’s right. Great scene. Goosebumps. Absolute nonsense in 2026.
If that speech were delivered now, the cue cards would read:
• “We condemn, but won’t act.”
• “We’re considering our position.”
• “We don’t want to be seen to take sides.”
That’s not diplomacy — that’s cowardice with a press office.
The US hasn’t fallen out with Britain. It’s simply learned to bypass the government and quietly wait for the adults to come back. They trust the British public. They trust British soldiers. British workers. British instincts. What they don’t trust is a leadership class that confuses moral posturing with strength and thinks national credibility is something you can workshop.
So yes, the relationship is still special — just not official anymore. It lives in shared history, shared sacrifice, and shared common sense. It survives despite the government, not because of it.
Britain isn’t broken.
It’s being badly managed.
And America knows the difference
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@Nigel_Farage Thanks for your continued efforts to save the nation sir; a Herculean task, but I have no doubt we shall succeed. Here is to 2026!
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If this doesn't immediately make you sing 'wombling free' are you even human?
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@robprogressive prices are only too high when we stop paying them, it’s within our control to manage that
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@ThePosieParker Thank you for sharing this story, I have had comparable experiences. The more we talk about it and draw attention to it the better. The NHS and the UK is broken. The nation deserves better. It is up to us.
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After spending the night in hospital with my daughter, who is very unwell but not life threatening, I don’t want to hear another word about how great the nhs is.
The nurses have not looked after her at all. Loud unnecessary conversations throughout the night, lazy can’t be arsed attitudes, no explanation of what’s happening, at all, no desire to offer reassurance or comfort, not one question about whether she wants to sit up or lie down. We are being made to feel like everything is too much and we should be grateful for less than the absolute minimum.
She asked for more pain killers, as it’s been six hours. “We will come at six, as it must be six hours unless you’re in pain” (it can actually be four) we explained the doctor says to make it regular, she’s also had morphine and that she is in a lot of pain. “If you dont wait until six the next lot will be hours and hours and hours” I ask what time the last lot was as we think it’s been a really long time. “11:13, so she can wait until six, unless she’s in pain” I say that that’s six hours ago. “Yes so at six we will come round” I have to say “no, at six it’ll be nearly seven hours, she’s in pain now, please can you go and get the pain relief now”
She goes. When she returns, rather than coming round to the side of her bed to give a patient medicine, on a drip, she leans from the bottom of the bed and motions for my daughter to get up and take it from her.
I have to remind the nurse that she’s in hospital because she’s unwell and in agony. “Oh I didn’t know, I’m new to this ward” this ward is uneventful, nothing is happening. She must have read my daughter’s chart to give her the tablets. What sort of nurse gives tablets from the bottom of a bed?!?!
Imagine I wasn’t here? How many patients would have felt despite the pain they should take it from her? Imagine my daughter was a frail or vulnerable patient?
The entire experience has been god awful. The hospital is very empty, with wards full lit with no patients in them.
It’s utterly utterly shit.
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respond to this tweet with an image from a movie that always cheers you up, but don't name the movie. just the image. or gif.
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@UpSkillYourLife “Quotes are powerful because they’re concise, impactful, and capture complex ideas in just a few words.” Apart from often they don’t do the third thing at all 😉👍🏻
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