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@waitrose it’s a while since I have had one of these pizzas from Waitrose. This is not what I was expecting. I expected a pizza comparable to the size of the box. Come on Waitrose I expect better than this.

Ban Argentina from the next World Cup. Their nastiness is endemic in the team and has been for decades.

@FarmingUK Because this govt wants to destroy this nation. And they are succeeding. It’s time for the ‘shires’ to rise!

Who else thinks British food should come before imported food? 🙋‍♂️ 🇬🇧

@AndyBurnhamGM @DrAseemMalhotra He was utter sh!t and did his damndest to destroy this country. If you do not drastically change course you will not last 5 minutes either!

Keir has given huge service to our country and I want to thank him for his leadership and dedication during such a challenging period. His decision marks the beginning of a transition and it is important that this process is conducted in an orderly and responsible way. I will put myself forward as part of this process. The country expects stability, seriousness and a continued focus on the issues that matter most and that is what it will get. As we move forward, our priority must be to work together to get the country back to where we all want it to be. People want to see progress on economic growth, cost of living, public services, housing and opportunities for the next generation. Political change should never distract from the responsibility to improve people's lives. The Labour movement has always been at its strongest when it looks forward with confidence and purpose. This is what we will do from here and we will make sure this transition is a positive process of renewal for our party and our country.

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud. Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block. Hundreds of jobs are at risk. And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around. It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”. That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive. This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist. You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”. You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”. You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”. You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes. But eventually the spreadsheet wins. And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close. Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast. Real ones. Local ones. The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials. The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”. This is the part Labour never wants to own. Their policies are always sold as compassion. But the consequences are brutally practical. A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making. A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”. A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters. And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”. NO. Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices. That phrase matters. Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

Heartbreaking. Henry Nowak’s name has hardly been mentioned by anyone in the Mainstream Media. That’s why we must use our voices on platforms like X to raise awareness Henry’s friends and family posted this video of him and his sister Olivia with the caption “Henry is missed so much by so many. Henry's family have a drive and that is to keep Henry's name alive by raising money for “2Wish” the charity that continues to help them navigate their grief.” Rest in peace Henry. Sending love and prayers to his family right now. @elonmusk is already doing a great job of spreading awareness but collectively we must do more.

@elonmusk this needs to be shown to @POTUS @JDVance @Kash_Patel . It's not just Don that Keir Stasi Starmer is banning from entering the UK...

@stuartpullen @Bose @Change Thanks I have signed

@Cues2 @Bose Urge Bose to maintain SoundTouch cloud support - Sign the Petition! c.org/HGstj5CXXP via @Change

@Bose I have always liked the quality of Bose and I invested in 2 SoundTouch speakers for my home. I won’t be buying Bose again. Turning off the preset option is terrible. I don’t care for airplay linking. I want to be able to have radio without my iPhone connected. Bye bye Bose

@danny__kruger what is reform going to do to stop political Islam taking over this great nation. You need an answer otherwise Restore will grow.

@darrengrimes what is reform going to do to stop political Islam? It is the biggest threat to this great nation.

@Nigel_Farage what are you going to do to stop political Islam in the UK?

@itvpeston @SteveBakerFRSA @Peston @ZackPolanski He is dangerous dangerous dangerous

.@Peston: [Does Israel] have a right to exist? @ZackPolanski: I don’t believe any country has a right to exist The Green Party leader says getting caught up in semantics about countries’ right to exist results in “gatekeeping” #Peston

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg GBNews needs Liam Halligan back, this nation needs to hear his important views on the current financial issues that face this nation. Can you have a word with ‘The powers that be’ please. Thank you.

@SamaHoole @Artemisfornow If you don’t like that ‘scab’ then I assume that you never buy tomatoes in the winter. They have to be grown somewhere! They only exist because the consumer likes summer produce all year round.

There is a region in southeastern Spain called Almería. If you pull it up on satellite imagery, you will assume the screen has glitched. A vast, blinding white scab where a landscape used to be. It's not a glitch. It's 64,000 acres of plastic greenhouses. So much plastic sheeting that it is, genuinely, visible from space. The entire region has been wrapped in industrial farming film to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce for European supermarkets in January. The plastic has created its own microclimate. The reflective surface is so vast it has measurably lowered local temperatures by bouncing sunlight back into the atmosphere. Scientists have a name for it. The Albedo effect of Almería. The only place on earth where human activity has cooled the local climate, and they did it by accident, while building the world's largest open-air plastic factory. The plastic itself is single-use agricultural film. It sits in UV light for three to five years, degrades into microplastics, blows into the Mediterranean, and ends up in the ocean and the soil. Every year, 45,000 tonnes of plastic waste is generated just from replacing degraded greenhouse covering. Every year. Just the covering. Inside, workers from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa labour in 45°C heat for €30 a day. No contracts. No rights. Spraying crops with pesticides at concentrations that would be illegal on outdoor fields. Ventilation: minimal. Chemical exposure: constant. The aubergine looks lovely. The groundwater underneath Almería is so contaminated with agricultural runoff that it has been declared unusable. The region now imports water from elsewhere in Spain while sitting on top of a poisoned aquifer it created. The land that was meant to feed Europe more efficiently has become a place that needs water flown in to keep the show running. And this is what supplies your fresh vegetables in January. Grown in plastic factories. By exploited workers. Using groundwater they have already destroyed. Wrapped in more plastic. Shipped across Europe. Refrigerated the whole way. So a person in Manchester can have a tomato in February that tastes of nothing. But sure. Cattle grazing on Scottish hills are the environmental problem. Pull the satellite up. Have a look. Then tell me which system is the one that needs explaining.

@foxmulder1969 @AllisonPearson @Dominic2306 I run the family business and I echo every word.

Been in manufacturing for 35 years with circa 100 employees. Never have the odds been more stacked against manufacturing companies. Energy, tax, Employment rules. This government don’t have a clue what they’re doing. Or maybe they do and they just acting on somebody else’s behalf.

Yup. One of the deepest signs of SW1 pathology became very striking in 2020: despite the Covid disaster, MPs very clearly had lost interest in the economy and productivity. Blank stares. No interest. Changed the subject, mainly to California-originating culture wars like trans cult and BLM madness. MPs never had interest in tech. But the collapse of interest in productivity/economy is new and a sign of impending disaster

@ZiaYusufUK Well make sure you do not become it

The whole “unite the right” BS many Tories push is a deliberate psyop. Politics is no longer about right vs left. It’s establishment vs anti-establishment. The establishment must be smashed.

@waitrose shame on you for sacking a member of staff for doing what every right thinking person thinks ought to be done. You should be supporting those who do the right thing. And, if you think that shoplifters should walk free, then you are part of the problem.

This is well worth reading - whether you are a minister, opposition politician or anyone trying to understand the UK's energy vulnerability and how we address that. The exec summary alone is hugely informative and well-argued. Congrats to @CeeMacBee and co-authors. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

@DGinCheshire @AllisonPearson It’s time to do something about it. The grown ups need to take control

@AllisonPearson Many of us have been saying this for years. How can a country function without border, energy, fuel, parliamentary, military and economic security? It cannot. UK is no longer a secure, functioning country. We're running on empty. 😡

Why has our country been so badly managed? Why no fuel security. No border security. No military security. No water security? No gas security (Theresa May closed Rough storage)? We are the sick man of Europe. Shameful.