Ed Mitchell

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What a completely silly front page from the Daily Mirror today. Wrong and simplistic on so many levels.

Agreed. Absurd otherworldly figure. Completely detached from what’s really going on.

UK rate of price increases falls to 2.8%. That’s a figure utterly detached from what’s really going on in shops, garages, restaurants and pubs. Where on earth does this fiction come from?

@SamaHoole I was milk monitor in the mid-sixties. A big perk of the job was drinking the left overs. A huge boost to my protein intake, although I had no clue then what protein was.

Every British primary school child between 1946 and 1968 had a small ritual at morning break. Eleven o'clock. The crate had been sitting on the back step since seven, where the headmaster had been told to leave it by the council, on the grounds that the milk was supposed to come up to drinking temperature before the bell. Whether this was a kindness to the children or a kindness to the cleaners has never been satisfactorily explained. By July the milk was warm. By September it was on the turn. A whole generation of British adults can still describe, with uncomfortable precision, the taste of a glass bottle of full-cream milk that has been standing in the sun for four hours next to a brick wall. You drank it anyway. You put a paper straw through the foil, stood by the radiator, and got it down in two minutes flat because the milk monitor was watching and the bell was about to go. The cream stuck to the inside of the foil cap and ended up on your nose if you were impatient. The empties went back in the crate. You ran outside. The 1946 School Milk Act, pushed through by Ellen Wilkinson, the first female Minister of Education, gave every child under 18 a third of a pint a day. Infant mortality fell by close to 90% over the post-war decades. Rickets, a routine paediatric diagnosis in industrial towns in the 1930s, more or less disappeared from British wards within a generation. The milk was not the only reason. The milk was a substantial part of the reason. The programme was withdrawn in two stages. In 1968, Harold Wilson's Labour government cut free milk for secondary schools. The headline never quite stuck because Wilson, Wilson, Milk Snatcher does not scan. In 1971, Margaret Thatcher, as Education Secretary under Edward Heath, cut it for primary schoolchildren over seven. The headline stuck to her for the rest of her career. The under-sevens kept their third of a pint. Everyone else lost it. A piece of national nutritional infrastructure built brick by brick between 1906 and 1946, that had survived two world wars, was dismantled in two parliamentary acts inside three years on grounds of cost. The kids who got the warm September milk are in their seventies now. They will still tell you, given half a chance, that it was disgusting. They will also tell you, in the same breath, that nothing tastes quite the way it used to, that they walked four miles to school in the snow, and that they are not on any tablets. The cream is still rising. Just not in any school in the country.

@MarinaPurkiss @PlexNetflix @JeremyVineOn5 Imagine the weakness of our bargaining position (and inept negotiators) if we crawl back to the EU. Huge EU contributions, enforced membership of Schengen and the Euro. The process would take years…well beyond the end of this hapless government. Referendum essential.

People now debating whether we should rejoin the EU… Surely the real question is: Why on earth wouldn’t we?!

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC Daft as a brush

‘Come on, Nick… we know what Tommy Robinson’s about.' @NickFerrariLBC questions Deputy PM David Lammy on how he would know Unite the Kingdom marches were spreading ‘hate and division’ without attending.

@bbclaurak A great way to lose 17.4 million votes.

Meanwhile Streeting makes his first big speech of the shadow contest, he says leaving the EU was 'catastrophic mistake' and says the UK 'one day' ought to be back in the bloc

@PolitlcsUK Labour should’ve had its “battle of ideas” while in opposition for fourteen years instead of wasting two years in government without any ideas.

🚨 BREAKING: Wes Streeting calls for the Government to rejoin the EU "Leaving the EU was a catastrophic mistake"

@PolitlcsUK Why does Wes Streeting want the UK government to have a government? Why does he want our laws to be made abroad?

@DavidLammy I suspect, David, you want it to turn violent…perhaps even prompting it.

The Unite the Kingdom march organisers are spreading hatred and division. They do not reflect the Britain I’m proud of. Peaceful protest is a fundamental right and one I will always protect. But if protest turns violent, we will act swiftly, with extra court capacity in place.

@Keir_Starmer You’ll be a footnote in history by the autumn.

Today the voices of division will be loud. They don't speak for the country I know, one that belongs to all of us. That's our Britain. A Britain worth fighting for. lbc.co.uk/article/keir-s…

@TRobinsonNewEra @Keir_Starmer There’ll definitely be false flag incidents.

@Keir_Starmer Have that

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

Our poor country 😢

@PaulEmbery Scottish nationalism good. Welsh nationalism good. English nationalism bad. How does this make sense? Labour hates England.

@EvacTony @BraisbyI There’ll be false flag incidents.

For all those going this Saturday, understand this: KeirStarmer is on the ropes and desperate for a distraction, he'll do all he can to try and make YOU that distraction if he can. He'd be over the moon if you kicked off and became what he says you/we are, so expect provocation between then and now and DON'T rise to it when it show itself because thats exactly what he/they want. 🇬🇧 👊🏻 #UniteTheKingdom #TommyRobinson

@MatthewStadlen *despite* Starmer and Reeves.

Well, well, well. The UK economy grew 0.6% in the first three months of the year under Starmer and Reeves.

Tony Blair is the missing piece.

@Goosey30111568 Surely that would be it if true.

Im Hearing. Wooly Mamood. Is next one over.