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They've done it again 😂 Jim Leighton & Rudi Voller are fuckin brilliant

@TonyJuniper @Sam_Dumitriu I don’t recall electing Tony or anyone else at ‘Natural England’ to deliberately obstruct vital infrastructure projects with frivolous justifications, inevitably costing hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer money? Another cancerous NGO that needs to be closed down.

@Sam_Dumitriu Are you working closely with EDF? We are. And this is not right. You’ve seen this from us before, but in case anyone looking at this believes what you’ve said, here it is again. naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/03/hin…

NEW: Natural England are set to delay Hinkley Point C by insisting on even more measures to protect fish. A two-year delay to Hinkley Point C Unit 1 would mean about 24TWh less clean firm power on the grid, between 2-4bn cubic metres more gas burnt, and between 4-8m tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. Even though EDF have spent £700m on fish protection, including a £50m acoustic fish deterrent that is 93% effective, regulator Natural England wants them to do even more. This is likely to involve creating a salt marsh on nearby farmland. This could take years. samdumitriu.com/p/natural-engl…

@CoatesMania The kind of family who, in days of yore would have quite rightly been cast as one into an oubliette.

Disgusting and embarrassing behaviour from Elias Calocane, your brother brutally murdered my innocent father and this is how you conduct yourself? #NottinghamInquiry #Calocane

@lewismitchell87 @PatriciaNPino Shows how easily they hand out Masters degrees nowadays.

@PatriciaNPino Sorry, you have a *Masters* degree in economics and finance?! And you're suggesting *this*? Are you high?

Stop issuing bonds. See how quickly the bond markets fall in line.

Modern Britain is a tyranny of organised, corrupt & self interested minorities. Why the majority of ordinary people are incredibly angry. British farming's interests subordinated to an obsessive children's TV presenter with Asperger's Syndrome. As mad as it sounds.

@BidSurreal @McGoohanAgain @paulmasonnews Yes. By all means borrow hundreds of billions and use it to build reservoirs, power plants, roads, airports & tunnels. That’s eminently sensible. Don’t use it to fund the twin supermassive black holes of NHS & Welfare (including Pensions).

@McGoohanAgain @paulmasonnews Moreover, markets are sympathetic to borrowing for large infrastructure projects.

Honestly, bond markets do not "go into hissy fits" - they can destroy an economy and its democracy. Makes me sick to my stomach that politicians don't understand this after Greece and Truss. Even Lenin understood bond markets!

At what level do you even pitch political coverage to a nation which thinks the NHS makes a 34% profit margin whilst not charging them for anything?

NARRATOR: It was because, in fact, successive governments had done none of those things. They had done the exact opposite.

@lionelbarber @KayBurley It’s all moot at this point; the country is on an unstoppable slide into a financial abyss because no politician (Reform included) has the bottle to get to grips with the deadweights of regulation, welfare and NHS spending that are going to drown us and bankrupt the country.

The UK is not a football club. Chopping and changing managers is for Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. We don’t need another Tudor. Starmer is a third rate communicator with no skills in picking people and leading teams. But toppling him midterm without an obvious alternative is a recipe for political and financial instability

A reminder that Hezbollah will only get Champions League football if Al-Shabaab win the Europa League.

@LegacySiu Marco Asensio

Guess the player Very Hard

@LukeEdwardsTele It’s not even really that; the true cause of our decline is successive governments who simply haven’t had the backbone to implement the top down clean sheet restructuring that the entire public sector (NHS included) will inevitably need at some point either by choice or force.

Wonder what happened a decade ago that made the country so divided, poorer and it seems ungovernable? #Brexit

@Alonso_GD £66k puts you in the top 10% of earners, even more so if you’re deliberately avoiding the additional £350 a month in tax all us other suckers are forced to pay for councils to waste on idiotic schemes instead of fixing roads & collecting bins.

Do not look at the rich guy with the £5 million undeclared donation who appointed a Russian spy to lead Wales! Look at the bloke making 66k who lived on a boat to save money and may have fumbled paying £4k on Council Tax 🙄🙄🙄

@HACKETTREF Got this badly wrong Keith. Trossard has two arms around Pablo before the ball has even arrived at the scene, that’s the first foul and results in him not being able to rise high enough to clear Raya. There’s no defending this, it’s just plain dogshit refereeing.

The foul on the goalkeeper was the first offence

@AngelaRayner Give it a rest. It’s so easy to fix but none of you lot have got the bottle to sort it out. 2 easy instant wins for free: - lower energy prices by scrapping eco taxes & stupid spot pricing. - stop giving welfare & NHS treatment to people who’ve never contributed.

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@FrankieMaguire The commentator was Andy Hinchcliffe, a dim, fat, unfit nobody who unbelievably ended up as a professional footballer despite not being able to run, head or kick a ball, or tackle. And, harbours an irrational and longstanding hatred of Villa.

As frustrating as Villa were again today, it's worth mentioning that is a penalty on Emi Buendia. What the hell was the commentator going on about saying he's 'exagerrated' the contact? His boot came off!? Three pens in Europe & zero in the Premier League. Surreal. #avfc

I’ve seen some clown content from this account previously, but I think this might take the biscuit. Incoherent slop for low IQ work dodgers

@LeeBond17 @LeggupFitness @afneil You have to ask yourself, if such a policy was announced and the party to endorse it gained a large proportion of votes in countrywide elections a few days later, then maybe - just maybe - it’s what a majority of the country want to see, whether you think it’s right or not.

@LeggupFitness @afneil Nope. Reform (Zia Yusuf) announced internment camps this week. To be placed in areas that do not vote Reform If you are comfortable with that then there is no hope, lines must be drawn, and we should pick a fucking side

Blah blah blah blah. What does any of this mean to Mrs Jones in Wigan, who just voted Reform. You don’t even speak her language.

@StanCollymore The Kamara stand in we always needed and never knew we had! The first time since BK’s been out that someone has done that 2nd DM role so well - slotting into the back 3 to allow Cash to get higher & overload the opposing fullback

Exceptional. Physically dominated his opponents, front foot ball retrieval, willing to move forward into space. Most underrated element he brought last night though was getting in front of Wood when Forest went long, nicking almost everything of the Kiwi's first touch. Gave Ezri and Pau confidence that Wood wasn't going to pop everything onto an oncoming Forest midfielder. Wonderful performance and key to everything the team did well. UP THE VILLA!!

@DV1874 The players and staff on the bench need to be more aggressive with officials in these cases Damian; Atleti showed exactly why last night by hounding the official to review the decision which occurred in their favour. It’s not nice but we have to manipulate every situation now.

We need to win to go to the final. At Villa Park will be our time. Match of our lives. This is not over. And one important question If VAR came to help football and bring justice…. If VAR called the referee for the penalty why they didn’t check at least the red card for Anderson?. Huge mistake of VAR referee tonight, it did not help the field ref. I am sure UEFA refereeing people would be agree with us in this unfair situation. Now, time for Villa Park. Let’s do this. UTV!!!