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In view of the announcement that East and West Sussex County Councils wishing to delay elections again a few thoughts on witholding Council Tax. 1. Do not refuse to pay. The key word is witholding the relevant tax until democracy is restored. Tuck it away ready to pay. 1/n

STARMER - " I'll cut Government waste" and then he created 27 pointless new QUANGOS Here's the list of 27 bollocks departments created by Starmer in 9 months to funnel £ BILLIONS of your tax into private consultants. ▪️Regulatory Innovation Office - To erm... "streamline regulations and promote economic growth by reducing bureaucratic hurdles for businesses". ​ HAHAHAHA😂 ▪️National Infrastructure & Service Transformation Authority - This merges the National Infrastructure Commission with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Apparently to speed up infrastructure by adding MORE red tape 🤡 ▪️Great British Energy - Not an energy company but a risky investment vehicle spending $8.4BILLION of tax payers money, on erm... experimental energy ideas 🤡 ▪️Mission Control - (seriously it's embarrassing) to oversee and coordinate the government's Clean Power 2030 Action Plan. Which the previous 2 above should be doing🤡 ▪️National Energy System Operator - Created to manage the transition to a fully decarbonized and efficient energy system. Shouldn't the 3 above all be doing this? 🤡 ▪️Solar Taskforce - Set up to accelerate the deployment of solar energy across the country & destroy farmland 🤡 ​ ▪️Border Security Command - focusing on tackling smuggling gangs facilitating illegal migrant crossings over the English Channel. ​Abject failure already, with more boats landing than before it was established 😂 ▪️Jet Zero Taskforce - Created to advise on the development of sustainable aviation fuels and strategies to reduce aviation emissions. ​Also means, interfering in the private sector that they know nothing about.🤡 ▪️British Infrastructure Taskforce - Formed to build business confidence in UK infrastructure investments and develop a 10 year infrastructure strategy. ​er... 4 OTHERS similar, no idea why this group exist at all 😂🤡 ▪️Creative Industries Taskforce - Established to support and promote growth within the creative sectors. Centralised control of the creative industries by the civil service? 😂🤡 ▪️Circular Economy Taskforce: Set up to drive initiatives that promote recycling and sustainable resource use. ​Also known as Non Job eco grifting 🤡 ▪️Tree Planting Taskforce - Created to oversee national tree-planting, as part of environmental conservation efforts. ​Utterly pointless! we already have the forestry commission, which by the way is behind schedule on planting trees... which is its remit 🤡 ▪️Child Poverty Taskforce - Formed to reduce child poverty across the nation. ​There would be less child poverty if we spent more money on children and less on bollocks QUANGOS.🤡 ▪️Flooding Resilience Taskforce - Established to enhance the country's preparedness and response to flooding incidents. ​Pointless non jobs, we already had this within the environment department.🤡 ▪️Motor Insurance Taskforce - Private industry central government control. Created to tackle issues within the motor insurance industry and protect consumers. ​(we already have this function within government)🤡 ▪️New Towns Taskforce - Set up to plan and develop new towns to address housing shortages. ​Which we wouldn't need had the Border QUANGO stopped the boats.🤡 ▪️Onshore Wind Industry Taskforce - Established to promote and expand the onshore wind energy sector. ​Which is what 4 of the above QUANGOS were set up to do.🤡 ▪️Skills England - Created to oversee and enhance skills development and vocational training. ​Non Jobs, we already have this covered by DfE.🤡 ▪️Industrial Strategy Council - Formed to provide independent advice on the government's industrial strategy. What? advisors advising advisors?😂🤡 ▪️Passenger Standards Authority - Established to monitor and improve standards in public transportation. Non Jobs for pen pushers. 😂🤡 ​ ▪️National Jobs and Careers - Created to provide guidance and support for job seekers and career development. Total non jobs,could be done by the Skills England above & should be done under DWP anyway. ▪️Ethics and Integrity Commissioner - Appointed to oversee ethical standards within public institutions. ​NON Jobs, that's what HR is for 🤡😂 ▪️House of Commons Modernisation Committee - Formed to propose and implement reforms within the House of Commons. ​Not an entirely shit idea.✔️ ▪️School Support Staff Negotiating Body - Established to negotiate terms and conditions for school support staff. ​ What? 🤡 ▪️Independent Football Regulator - Set up to oversee the governance of football, aiming to ensure transparency and fairness within the sport. Total Non Jobs to interfere & centrally control a private industry🤡 ▪️Fair Work Agency - Created to promote fair work practices across various sectors, ensuring equitable treatment and conditions for workers. Non Jobs for no reason. See above point about HR. 🤡 ▪️Defence Innovation Agency - Established to drive innovation within the defense sector. ​What then is the point of the department of defence? isn't that literally its job?🤡 No private organisation would EVER run in such a wasteful and pointless way, over centralising and creating competing departments of bollocks, within the same sector. We don't need a chainsaw we need a bulldozer. All of the above need closing immediately 💣

@history99917180 One of the first things I was taught on my bike course - slow in, fast out. A real lifesaver.

Serious Gareth time. Lots of bikes out today. A fast bike and all the gear do not make a good rider. Go in walking, come out running. Loose the view, loose the speed. Life savers might just do that. The last car you overtake is the first witness at your crash. Enjoy.

@WhatNowDoc Robin, this is excellent writing. You have had a long, full life and are able to present it in a way we feel just a little involved with it. I missed chapter 1 so will have to go and find it. Will it become a published book one day?

These are all members of the Family Clang. But they’re not all the members. Some are far away, some have passed over but we’re still all together.

Two adverts by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) promoting British beef and milk have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after television presenter and environmental campaigner Chris Packham complained that they misled consumers about the products’ carbon footprints. Here are the adverts. Support British farmers. Buy British milk and British Beef. 🇬🇧 🥛🥩

@WhatNowDoc It is a classic art deco building and I am intrigued by what crime you committed.

@happy_marv I have a complicated relationship with that building, as a lover of Art Deco, the iconography of this particular building is as a symbol of all that represented my young struggles, it is also the scene of my crime, my greatest, my only real embarrassment.

@history99917180 I moved to black coffee. A quick minute or so in the microwave and it was drinkable again. Tea was never the same reheated.

One thing #teagate has taught me is lots of my twitter mates are proper posh. Much feedback received regarding my brew making skills. It appears leaving the teabag in the milk is a sin. Can I just remind you that in my previous life I rated my tea by the fact it was still warm.

@TheMancMrT @PolitlcsUK Charles is just the messenger and you can see from his body language he is not interested in what he is reading.

@PolitlcsUK Deport King Charles NOW!

🚨 WATCH: The King confirms the Government will "proceed with the introduction of Digital ID"

@InkFromAStone @sheeplysoftly @DoctorLemma Ah, should I throw my 4 year old leather shoes away then?

@sheeplysoftly @DoctorLemma because you can't comprehend risks, I should buzz off? sure, sure. because leather (100% biodegradable) hasn't been used for footwear worldwide for millennia. This couldn't possibly be making a bigger mess trying to save money solving a problem, we'd never do that. clown.

There’s a shoe that adjusts and expands five sizes and lasts a child up to five years. It was invented by a young American named Kenton Lee, who was volunteering at an orphanage outside Nairobi, Kenya in 2007. Walking to church one day with the children, he looked down at a girl beside him in a white dress and saw she’d cut open the front of her shoes so her toes could stick out. Her feet had outgrown them and no new ones were coming. He went home to Idaho and spent the next six years figuring out how to build a shoe that could grow with a child. Nike, Adidas, Crocs, and Toms all turned the idea down. He ended up buying 20 pairs of Crocs himself and cutting them up to prototype it. The Shoe That Grows finally launched in 2014. Around 400,000 pairs have now been distributed in over 100 countries. Over 1.5 billion people worldwide get sick from soil parasites that enter the body through bare or exposed feet. Mostly children.

@Blueblaze002 @konstructivizm Did you not read the post? 🤡

@konstructivizm Yeah, a couple of cans of water and a machete. That'll work. If this is even real, the only reason they would have wasted that weight in 1969 was to survive a bad landing on Earth.

Apollo 11’s Hidden Lifeline: The 48-Hour Survival KitIn 1969, tucked away inside the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia was a small but mighty survival rucksack — a carefully engineered insurance policy for Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in case something went wrong after they returned from the Moon.Designed to sustain the crew for up to 48 hours until rescue arrived, the kit was packed with essential gear: water containers, a radio beacon, survival lights, chemical desalting tablets to turn seawater into drinking water, sunglasses, sunscreen, and — remarkably — a machete, just in case the spacecraft splashed down in dense jungle instead of the open ocean.These compact survival kits flew on every Apollo mission. Even though splashdowns were precisely targeted, the incredible speeds of reentry meant the capsule could drift far from the waiting recovery ships. NASA engineers had to make every item tough enough to survive the violent vibrations of launch, the vacuum of space, the scorching heat of reentry, and corrosive saltwater — all while keeping the pack lightweight.The Apollo survival rucksack stands as a quiet but powerful symbol of the program’s obsessive attention to crew safety. It was one more example of the extraordinary preparation that turned an incredibly risky journey into a successful one. Image Credit: NASA

@ken_hobbs @NetZeroWatch Ok, I'll bite. Show us the evidence.

@NetZeroWatch Except renewables have saved over £110bn off energy costs over the last decade.

High energy costs driven by green levies have left Britain £30bn poorer, experts have said, as UK businesses face the highest electricity costs of anywhere in the developed world. The surge in power costs have crippled the UK’s energy-intensive industries, such as cement, steel, glass and ceramics. Factory chiefs have repeatedly called on ministers to urgently address net-zero-related costs and green levies lumped onto energy bills. #CostOfNetZero

@Rob_KICBOSS @daveatherton It's simple. Come into the office where your work can be assessed. If you are deemed suitable and your work is of a high enough standard you can be trusted with hybrid working, in the office 1-2 days a week. No full time wfh at all.

@daveatherton Civic servants know they are unsackable but there are very many that work extremely hard. The accountability is what needs addressing so those gaming the system are found out. WFH isn’t the issue here. Many go over above….

Lord Digby-Jones was a Junior Trade Minister in the 2000s. He said you could get rid of half the civil service & not notice the difference. He added he was astonished how many were incompetent & needed sacking. Please leave, so we can adopt the American model of political appointments instead of your liberal group think nonsense.

@SamaHoole the t-shirt is out in the wild.

@watergypsi I think the Land Rover logo fits perfectly... One life - Live it! Good luck on your future adventures.

@ClaireCoutinho At least Barry Gardner had the de ency to actually let her finish her point. Many would have just shouted over her.

This is the problem. Every time you try to talk honestly about the role of Islamism in stoking anti-semitism, you get called racist or divisive. But we will not solve the problems we have as a country if we cannot name them.

Why is it that any time Tommy Robinson is mentioned, the media add “Real name, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon”, but nobody ever seems to say “Zack Polanski, real name David Paulden.” #localelections

What's your favourite World War Two aircraft?

@history99917180 Just how did you survive a career in the job?

Oh for fucks sake. Fuck me. I grabbed the electric fence, again. Fucking hell. Not had a shock like that since I saw the price of Sam’s new riding boots.

@KevinGSWatt @DaveKent101 What, exactly, is this supposed to represent? It is meaningless in its current form.

@DaveKent101 Because global temperatures are not rising ..... Oh

I always said that the political agenda known as the Climate Scam would self immolate, and that certainly seems to be happening now. Not only do we now know that many wind turbines contain asbestos (highly illegal) but the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) have now admitted that their doomsday scenarios used for decades to scare us are simply not true. Also 46 of their scientists have resigned or left them in disgust over the lies that they used to peddle. The clock is ticking on your lies, boys: @Ed_Miliband @DaleVince @GBEgovuk

@IanRea2 @KathrynPorter26 @INEOS @UKLabour Just one example from Autotrader. New price £23,495.

@KathrynPorter26 @INEOS @UKLabour I watched an EVanglist video yesterday, solar on roof, battery storage, claiming it will take 7 yrs to get his money back, doesn’t have a heat pump yet, has 2 EVs. He then goes to a car auction where EVs feature a lot. The devaluation is off the scales, cars barely a year old.

This... The government seems to think demand is going up. It keeps forecasting that demand will go up But the opposite is happening Why? Not because of efficiency gains but because heavy industry is shutting up shop in the UK @INEOS says @UKLabour is guilty of 'ideological political vandalism’ over its assault on the North Sea, but this is true of its entire energy policy @ClaireCoutinho