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Keir Starmer said this in 2023: “Every day seems to bring a new existential risk to British farming. “Losing a farm is not like losing any other business, you can’t come back…you deserve better than that.” Instead, he did the opposite. He punished farmers.

Hey @Ed_Miliband , you are a complete and utter moron. WARM BEER ?…

@MarcIles Whilst Fergie holds on to his only fools & horses cameo 😀

Reidy has just auditioned for a role in Bugsy Malone. #bwfc

@RadioTimes @rickygervais Afterlife

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@OfficialBWFC Great celebration you can see what it means to him and the team 👏👏👏

"What an impact!" 🤩 An instant impact from Ibby yesterday 😮‍💨 #bwfc

@MarcIles No11 a @JWLeesBrewery pump clip getting in on the act.

Ten things you might not have spotted in the Big Sam's Bolton documentary. theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/25878386… #bwfc

Fair play @BlackpoolFC we’ve been Evatt’ed 😬

How Labour Priced a Generation Out of Work There is a cruel irony at the heart of Britain's youth unemployment crisis. A government that claims to stand for young people has helped price them out of their first job. Youth unemployment has surged to levels not seen in more than a decade. Britain now sits above the European average and is edging towards the territory once used as a warning to the rest of the continent. This did not happen by chance. It did not arrive like a storm from nowhere. It is the direct result of political choices made in the name of fairness and dressed up as progress. The moral story was simple and emotionally satisfying. Paying younger workers less was branded discriminatory. Age bands were cast as injustice. Equal pay sounded like equality. It sounded compassionate. It sounded modern. It also ignored how labour markets actually work. Young workers are not cheaper because society values them less. They are cheaper because they are new, untested and still learning. They need training. They need supervision. They change jobs more often. They make mistakes. That is not a moral judgment. It is economic reality. Youth wage bands exist for a reason: they are the bridge between education and employment. Remove the bridge and the crossing becomes harder. The government did not merely narrow that bridge. It hammered it from every direction at once. Employer National Insurance was raised. Minimum wages surged. The youth rate jumped by close to twenty per cent. Regulation tightened. All of this landed on the sectors where young people get their first foothold: retail, hospitality and entry-level service work. The very industries that teach people how to turn up on time, deal with customers and earn their first wage packet were handed a sharp rise in the cost of hiring. Businesses did what businesses always do when costs rise faster than productivity. They hired fewer people. Vacancies fell. Recruitment froze. Opportunities vanished quietly, one unfilled job at a time. Now almost a million young people wake up with nowhere to go and nothing to do. The country has more young people out of work than Europe. Even Greece, once the symbol of economic collapse, is no longer safely behind us. That comparison should have sent shockwaves through government. Instead we hear deflection, promises and stubborn refusal to rethink the policy that helped create the problem. What makes this worse is that the warning lights are not coming from political opponents alone. Former officials from the Office for Budget Responsibility, voices inside the Bank of England, economists from think tanks close to Labour's orbit are all pointing in the same direction. Employment costs rose sharply. Entry-level jobs shrank. Youth unemployment climbed. The link is obvious to anyone willing to see it. The government now finds itself trapped by its own rhetoric. Reverse course and it admits the policy failed. Stay the course and youth unemployment risks becoming a permanent feature of the labour market. Either way, the damage has already been done. The ladder into work has been kicked away in the name of equality. This is not a technical economic debate. It is a generational failure. Being out of work at the start of adult life leaves scars that last decades. Skills fade before they form. Confidence drains before it has a chance to grow. Ambition withers before it has time to take root. The first job is not only about wages. It is about dignity, independence and the belief that effort leads somewhere. Remove that first step and the climb never begins. A policy sold as fairness has delivered exclusion. A policy sold as compassion has produced idleness. A policy sold as progress has pushed thousands of young people to the margins of the economy before they even began their working lives. This is how lost generations are made. "Now almost a million young people wake up with nowhere to go and nothing to do."

@wheaterschin Heart on sleeve job must be fired up to F**k another MOTM performance 👏👏👏

Why’s Johnstone crying? #bwfc

@FEFLOfficial @BurndenAces @OfficialBWFC Amazing what a goal does for a striker’s confidence 🔥

Sam Dalby strikes twice for @OfficialBWFC ✌️ 🔹 ⚽️⚽️🅰️ vs Barnsley 🔹 Second consecutive home brace 🔹 17 GW28 points #FantasyEFL

@IanEcc01 Couldn’t agree more but you could say his absence was the reason why we absolutely romped the first half, who’d be a manager eh ?

Sheehan is so badly missed in the second half at the moment only one that can find a pass #BWFC

@KeyserSosse I’m going 77 Everton v Bolton league cup semi final ?

Name that game

@UKHospKate We have all seen the pint explanation. Here is the fish explanation for Hospitality as a whole.

There’s always a tweet.

@OfficialBWFC @destinology Dalby never gives up Grows on you every week, Tutu frustrates the hell out of me last week a world beater this week shoulders down after the first lost tackle…. Grow some Desmond!

💫 Who was your stand-out performer from today's win? Vote for your @destinology Player of the Match! 👇 #bwfc

@piersmorgan Deranged old man, stupid old fool or a simple C**T, I’m thinking the latter🤬

BREAKING: President Trump backtracks on his appalling comments re NATO forces in Afghanistan, but no apology.

Wow that’s the worse performance I’ve seen in years, how on earth have we sunk so low, somethings not right @OfficialBWFC

@OfficialBWFC @VertuTrophy Fickle set aren’t we! when Cogs was getting a run earlier in the season he was the boo boy, turn of results and we welcome him back with open arms 😬

🗞️ Your Wanderers side to take on Port Vale in the @VertuTrophy! #bwfc

@bbclaurak Unbelievable that you’re actually giving him airtime😡

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