Barney

Inflation “unexpectedly” fell by 0.5% to 2.8% Growth was an “unexpected” 0.7% - the highest in the G7 Net immigration “unexpectedly” fell by 82% NHS “unexpectedly” met it’s interim 18 week target Our media have so deceived the public that all positive news is now “unexpected”

Anyone struggling for transport I can take 2 from Adlington way preferably dad and lad (no alcohol) drop me a message #bwfc

Chips fried in beef dripping were a different object to what passes for a chip today. Walk into a Whitby chippy in 1978. The fryer has been on since 11am. The fat in it is beef dripping, held at 180 degrees by a man in a white apron who has been frying chips since he was fifteen. There are no seed oils in the building. The idea would not occur to anyone. Thick-cut Maris Pipers, ninety seconds in the dripping. Dark gold at the edges, fluffy inside, crisp in a way that sets your teeth against them. Salt. Vinegar. Paper. Two bob. You eat them walking home along the harbour wall. The chip tastes of the chip and also of something underneath the chip, something deeper, something you don't have a name for because you are nine and nobody names it, it is just what chips taste like. That taste was beef dripping. By 2002, 90% of British chippies had switched to rapeseed, palm, or sunflower oil, on the advice of public health officials citing research since quietly retracted. A stable saturated fat used for ten thousand years, swapped for an industrial oil invented in 1911, oxidised at fryer temperatures for twelve hours a day. A seed-oil chip is lighter, flatter. The crust doesn't hold. The flavour stops at the potato. No deeper note. No roast beef on a Friday. Ask a British person under thirty what chips are supposed to taste like and they will describe, with complete sincerity, the chip they have always eaten. A chip their great-grandfather would have considered a practical joke. They cannot miss it, because the reference point was removed from the national palate before they were born. A handful of chippies still fry in dripping. The Magpie in Whitby. A few survivors in Yorkshire, Lancashire, the Black Country. Go. Drive. Queue. Eat them standing up, out of the paper. You will understand, in one bite, what was taken. The cow is still in the field. The suet is still at the butcher. The fryer could be switched back tomorrow. A whole country forgot what a chip was.

I don’t smoke. Never have. I have no skin in the game. But this really is draconian. It should not be within the power of the government to interfere with the personal choices of citizens like this.

I mean, bottling four competitions is still a kind of a quadruple, if you think about it

@peakydav_bwfc @JuliaHB1 Only us mugs that pay for cars, insure them, tax them, then get some stupid parking/speeding fine and actually fucking pay it 🙄

@JuliaHB1 Does anyone in Britain genuinely fear the police or justice system any more?

Does anyone seriously believe those marauding teenagers will REALLY face the full force of the law? Seriously? 🤔

@AntiWokeMemes you should be nowhere near children

@jeremycorbyn Fuck off Jeremy, nobody gives a shit what you think

This is a reckless act of escalation that endangers us all. No discussion. No debate. What a disgrace. How on earth can the Prime Minister still pretend we are not involved? It doesn't matter how he dresses it up. Britain is participating in an illegal war of aggression.

@piersmorgan Or Piers Morgan 🤣

Two things nobody is now talking about: Ukraine and the Epstein Files.

@LynnWal12343534 No place in football, piss off

@peakydav_bwfc @TRobinsonNewEra @DekBWFC Don’t even recognise it as my town these days 🙄

@TRobinsonNewEra @DekBWFC My home town completely ruined

Bolton England last night

@jeremycorbyn I tried to think of a good way to say this but I think the most simple and effective way is, Fuck Off Jeremy

The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable. Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, Israel and the United States chose war. This is the behaviour of rogue states — and they have jeopardised the safety of humankind around the world with this catastrophic act of aggression. Our government must condemn this flagrant breach of international law, and urgently pursue a foreign policy based on justice, sovereignty and peace.

Conservative MP Esther McVey has called for a law to label halal and kosher meat so people can decide not to eat it 'Individuals concerned about animal welfare would want to know if an animal had been stunned prior to slaughter,' she said

@Sniffa80 Simple response, no she’s definitely not ok

@jeremycorbyn Why Jeremy? What have you got to hide?

I am very concerned by the government's mass rollout of facial recognition technology. This is a grave threat to privacy, and turns the presumption of innocence on its head. We are hurtling toward a mass surveillance state. It must be opposed!

@Sniffa80 🤣 wrong, so wrong

@Sniffa80 Is that broccoli and cauliflower on a full English????

The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic and we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election.

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Donald Trump: ‘NATO is nothing without America’ Meloni: ‘Perfect! Then we’ll close your bases, ditch your trade deals, and boycott McDonald’s for good measure. 😏’ Meloni dropping truth bombs like a boss! 🔥🇮🇹🇺🇸