Derek Jenkinson

@MatrixMysteries Centralised booking for hotels and travel, that’s what most medium to large businesses do.

A Houston, Texas commissioner requested $8,120 for a 3-day conference. $3,500 for a $249/night hotel. $1,700 for $1,070 registration. $1,500 for a $200 flight. Now multiply that across mid-level government nationwide. They’re siphoning billions — straight from taxpayers.

@AngelaRayner How many homes has the Labour party built? Pretty sure you stated it would be in the order of thousands upon thousands.

Everyone deserves a safe, secure place to call home. That’s why I’m so proud that our Labour government is building council homes, while protecting renters from unfair eviction and unaffordable rent increases. Vote Labour this 7 May so we can keep building together 🌹

@EndWokeness Maybe it can model wheel rims? As you can’t see the clothes which is the main function of a catwalk model.

Aaron Rose Philip blames "whiteness" for a lack of trans + black + disabled models on runways

@0Calamity Doubt it, more that the case reviewers are sympathetic to any cause given, and that the individuals are coached by charities and lawyer groups to ensure they remain.

On average, around 70% of those who crossed the Channel to claim asylum are found to be genuine refugees and have been granted protection status. If you want to remove people who have no legal right to be here, fair enough. As long as it is within the law. If you want to deny genuine refugees protection or strip them of their status for no reason other than their method of arrival in the UK - get in the bloody sea, you fascist fool.

@RAF_Luton Some one tell the RAF to leave the jokes to the other branches, you are only good for hotel bookings and room service!

Photo of the Day: The Millennium Falcon undergoing a £800.85bn refit at HNAS Yeovilton (Gloucestershire) to make her ready for this year's #MayTheFourth celebrations May the Force be with you! #StarWars Photographed from a Canberra

@its_The_Dr It’s ice, it would have destroyed itself in a few hours.

He was not committing a hate Crime what he was doing was destroying something that should not have been there to begin with, an advertisement to break the law. Anti -American Propaganda. The people that put that there should be in jail even if they are Politicians!

@politixintheuk You mean the same @carolvorders that recommended and advertised people to take on home loans as debt repayment, but was a money making scheme. Also who claims she is all natural! 😂

Carol Vorderman says she "loathes" Reform and is encouraging everyone - especially women - to vote in the local elections! She said: “I absolutely loathe Reform. I loathe them to the very cell of my being. All they want is division. And they lie. The scale of the hypocrisy is insurmountable. They say, ‘We are the party of the working people’, but I couldn't think of any party, even the Conservatives, that are worse than them.” And of Farage, she added: "He's just so thin-skinned. But people are beginning to see him for who he is." Source: Mirror

@RupertLowe10 Edinburgh and Stirling has similar. They have been done with zero forethought on functionality.

£500k on a cycle lane that has ruined a perfectly good road in my constituency. Well done, central planners.

@AlanLevinovitz Used to do 10km in 40 minutes. Could only wish if that now. Did a 1km sprint challenge in 3m 21 seconds. Couldn't walk for a while and was very nearly sick! Great machines.

why is the indoor rowing machine so widely ignored in discussions of the "best" exercise? IMO it's not even close: a unique combination of resistance training and aerobic training, extremely easy on your joints so low likelihood of injury...is it just b/c ppl find it boring?

@GriftReport Why can’t they seize the equipment and fine them enormous fees due to the damage?

James Cleverly has slammed travellers for "gaming the system" after they started turning a protected four-acre wildlife haven into a caravan site just hours after the local council shut for the Bank Holiday weekend, around 30 vehicles including diggers arrived under cover of darkness at the Willows Green site near Felsted in Essex with floodlights and generators, they ripped up vegetation, destroyed an ancient hedgerow and filled in a ditch to create a new access road while Uttlesford District Council offices were closed for three days, Cleverly said no legitimate builder would start major work late on a Friday night before a Bank Holiday and accused them of deliberately exploiting the timing, he warned this is yet another example of two-tier justice where travellers can flout planning rules while ordinary people face the full force of the law, residents woke up to noise, bright lights and heavy machinery tearing up the pristine countryside,

@WhamBaamX Brake! Don’t turn!

TESLA CRASHED MINUTES AFTER DELIVERY

@YossiBenYakar Let them lead by example first! Start at the very top and work down from there at every level of government.

UK: “About 8 million people live alone many could welcome a refugee into their home.” Government think tanks and the radical Left are now openly pushing to house asylum seekers inside private British homes. This was always the next step. They opened the borders. They filled the streets. Now they want them in your living room.

@RachelD1892 Borrowing more to give it all away, make it make sense. Offer contracts for renewal / rebuild contracts to be done by UK owned and operated companies would be better.

I just watched Starmer proudly announcing the UK will join a £78 billion loan to Ukraine. WTF!!?? We're broke, highest ever levels of debt, highest ever levels of tax, economy a total mess. Where is that money coming from when we simply haven't got it!? Something is very wrong!

@Lifeinvestmoney Politics!

Need a job where I can make six figures but I have no skills and I’m not very smart What field is this?

@LeeHurstComic Needs to be the same for pensions then as it’s a benefit.

Abolish all benefits. Simplify it. Pay everyone the same amount. 40 hrs a week times min wage. Get them onto skills training to earn it or community work. If they are genuinely disabled give it to them. If a family member is designated a full time carer for them pay them too. Pay it to full time University Students for 3 years and ditch the loans. As a society we get something back for our money. People upskill, stuff needed doing gets done. What is wrong with this as an idea? If you have ever had to deal with the benefits system it is ridiculously complicated and expensive to run and get nothing back for our tax money.

@benonwine Why are people assuming it’s nationalism? You are hardly allowed to fly the nations flag, so it’s representing blindly following any structure I.e the EU, Palestine etc.

BANKSY STRIKES AGAIN: “BLIND NATIONALISM” APPEARS OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL LONDON 🇬🇧 Banksy (if it is him) drops something like this right in the heart of London… So be honest….what do you think it’s really saying?

@KaiRuhsert Click the steering wheel, say defog screens. Done, no eyes off the road so even safer than reaching for a dial etc.

Stellt euch vor: Autobahn. 130 km/h. Regen. Die Scheibe beschlägt. Ihr müsst die Lüftung umstellen. Auto A: Ihr greift nach rechts. Dreht den Regler. Kalt auf warm. Fertig. Augen auf der Straße. Auto B: Ihr tippt auf den Touchscreen. Menü öffnet sich. Untermenü Klima. Ihr wischt. Der Bildschirm reagiert nicht beim ersten Mal. Nochmal tippen. Lüftungsstufe ändern. Gebläserichtung anpassen. Augen drei Sekunden auf dem Bildschirm. Bei 130 km/h sind drei Sekunden 108 Meter. Blind. Das war der Alltag in den letzten fünf Jahren. Weil die Autobranche dachte, Touchscreens seien moderner als Knöpfe. Jetzt kommt die Korrektur. Mercedes bestätigt: Echte Tasten und Regler kehren zurück. Für wichtige Funktionen. Die Displays bleiben. Mercedes sieht sie als Premiumfeature. Und für Navigation, Musik, Einstellungen machen sie Sinn. Aber für die Heizung? Die Lautstärke? Den Gebläsemodus? Dafür braucht man keinen Touchscreen. Dafür braucht man einen Knopf, den man fühlen kann. Ohne hinzuschauen. Bei 130 km/h. Im Regen. Das ist kein Rückschritt. Das ist Sicherheit. Und es ist gut, dass Mercedes das jetzt versteht. Von "Benzin im Blut" auf FB

@BenGrahamUK Why not have genuinely qualified people in relevant posts; teachers as education minister, doctor/nurses in health. That’s what a sensible business would do, why can’t our government do the same?

Rumours suggest Angela Rayner could take over from Rachel Reeves as Chancellor. Would that improve anything? I've been critical of Rachel Reeves impact on the economy, but I have real concerns that Rayner could take things even further in the wrong direction.

@narindertweets So he got life for the rape which was deemed to have racial elements. Yet dozens of cases of specifically grooming Caucasian girls, abusing and raping get minimal sentences and it’s known to be racial.

A sikh woman was horrifically raped in her own home in a racially/religiously motivated attack. This was the 2nd rape of a sikh woman in months. Yet no one called for the banning of the Tommy Robinson hate marches, even though sikh woman felt too scared to walk outside anymore and carried alarms. If you ban one march- then you ban ALL marches. I absolutely stand with the Jewish community. I dont want them to feel afraid walking the streets as much as any marginalised community including my own.

@aisarcore The film is amazing because it’s a true story. Loved watching it and genuine smile of pleasure at how they shared their fortune,

A retired convenience store owner read a lottery brochure for 3 minutes and found a loophole the state missed. He and his wife made $26 MILLION and got a Hollywood film. – In 2003 Jerry Selbee walked into a corner store he used to own in Evart Michigan and picked up a brochure for a new lottery game called Winfall. – He read it standing up and in less than 3 minutes spotted something the state had missed entirely. – When nobody won the jackpot and it hit $5 MILLION the prize rolled down to lower tier winners dramatically boosting their payouts. – He did the math. If he spent $1,100 on tickets during a rolldown he would statistically guarantee an $800 profit every single time. – He bought $3,600 in tickets on his first try and made $2,700. – He bought $8,000 worth and nearly doubled it. – He still had not told his wife Marge – One night sitting by a campfire he finally told her. – She said nothing for a long moment. Then said she could see the numbers. – They formed a corporation called GS Investment Strategies and sold $500 shares to their six children friends and neighbours including three state troopers a factory plant manager and a bank vice president. – They drove 900 miles to Massachusetts every six weeks when a rolldown hit spending up to $720,000 on tickets in a single session. – They checked into a motel room and spent hours sorting through 360,000 tickets by hand. – In 2011 the Boston Globe investigated and found no wrongdoing. – The state made $120 million from the Selbees buying tickets. – An officer said "I was dumbfoundedly amazed that these math nerd geniuses had found a way legally to win a state lottery". – Their corporation grossed $26 million over 9 years with nearly $8 million in profit after taxes. – They kept 65 plastic tubs of losing tickets in their barn in case of a federal audit. – They never bought a hot tub a sports car or a timeshare. – Bryan Cranston played Jerry in the 2022 Hollywood film Jerry and Marge Go Large. – The original 60 Minutes interview is on YouTube right now. He found a loophole in a state lottery brochure in 3 minutes that the state missed for years. Made $26 MILLION legally and got a Hollywood film.