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@Chris_Leigh_UK @RichardGCorbett What you say doesn't even make sense. Enjoy your isolationism and higher prices. You voted for them.

@RichardGCorbett We had a consensus … we voted to end our toxic EU membership. I will fight to my last breath to protect my nation’s independence. Whatever it takes.

UK needs ‘national consensus’ over rejoining EU, David Miliband says theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@Based_BG @SianaNache79742 You forgot Boiko Borissov 🤭

There are plenty of famous Bulgarian people. John Atanasoff Ted Kotcheff Stanislav Ianevski Nina Dobrev Julian Kostov Maria Bakalova Dara Veselin Topalov Hristo Stoichkov Dimitar Berbatov Grigor Dimitrov Aleksander Vezenkov Karlos Nasar Etc. We are a talented nation 🇧🇬

@SianaNache79742 Surely they created the Glagolic alphabet and their 'disciples' developed the Cyrillic alphabet?

In the 9th century AD Cyril & Methodius created an alphabet. This happened in the First Bulgarian Empire. This alphabet is now called the Cyrillic Alphabet, used by 250 million people. Every year on the 24th of May we celebrate this in my country. I’m very proud!

@Peston @TeresaC123 Price of the house plus stamp duty (second residence rate or is that why the girlfriend bought it?) How much would the final bill have been?

Reform UK told the BBC that he paid in cash for his £1.4m house in Surrey with his “I’m a Celebrity” fee from ITV and not with the £5m gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne - which Farage says was to provide him with security (physical, not financial). But the ITV “Celeb” fee was £1.5m, which would be £825,000 after tax, for a top-rate taxpayer like Farage. That’s £575,000 less than the price of the house. And even if the fee was paid into his “Thorn in the side” media company rather than directly to him, it would still be taxable, one way or another

@petedix57 @FullFact @Conservatives It's a misclassification enshrined in the law then. Incredible.

@here_posting @FullFact @Conservatives

The @Conservatives’ Alternative King’s Speech claimed the welfare bill is higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”. We’ve heard this a few times recently, but it’s not true. Welfare spending (including pensions) has been higher for years. fullfact.org/economy/income…

@Annawatton @FullFact @Conservatives Then it's misclassified. I'll never get it because I've never paid in as I worked abroad. No right exists. But theoretically I could claim benefits if I was on my uppers. Not that I will. I'm ok. But in theory I could.

@here_posting @FullFact @Conservatives Nope it's classed as a benefit. Over 50% of benefits are spent on older people

@_WildfellHall @FullFact @Conservatives I agree. The big problem with UK pensions is that a separate, ring-fenced fund has never been established. A fund completely separate from the welfare pot.

@here_posting @FullFact @Conservatives Whether you consider it to be ‘welfare’ or not, its inclusion in the total welfare bill is the only way it exceeds income tax receipts. It is by far the largest component. Take pensions out and the welfare bill is no where near the income tax take.

@AlexTaylorNews @Frances_Coppola Since the speech Lisa Nandy has again repeated the no single market, no customs union mantra so fake news again from Starmer.

Sorry, but listening to Starmer's (alleged) big "reset" speech here in the actual EU - if it's just more of his usual "we want to use more and more of the apparatus without becoming gym members again" pitch, the EU will just give up ! (especially with Farage chomping at the bit)

@SamCoatesSky @cathynewman Nandy ensures Starmer's end.

EXC: Lisa Nandy tells @cathynewman there will be no return to single market or free movement with the EU (raising the question of how far Keir Starmer's EU reset announced this AM can actually go) “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate. We had a referendum. That referendum was won by leave. "The majority of people voted for it…. there's no appetite, either from the government, from Europe, or from the public, I think, to start getting into renegotiating things like free movement, single market access. "We went around that track for years during the Brexit wars. This country doesn't need any more division."

@LaraLewington @MartinSLewis @BAFTA Well, for once an award I can wholeheartedly agree with. Congratulations.

Huge congratulations to my husband, @MartinSLewis on winning the @BAFTA special award last night. Couldn’t be prouder. ❤️

@MichaelTakeMP Yes, and the stench of their collective sweat will only abate once the local water company releases another load of sewage into the Thames. Typical, Londoners suffer for the whole country. Wanna do some good dear readers, pls sponsor me on Alzheimer's walk justgiving.com/page/chris-pav…

My wife Bunty & I have decided to have a day out in London & it’s been ruined by this bloody marathon!😡 Eateries full. The tube packed. Roads closed off. And huge crowds. Couldn’t they take this event to some out of town arena & leave people like us to enjoy London in peace? 😤

@EmilyThornberry @timothy_stanley The Germans would say she has "hair on her teeth" (sie hat Haare auf den Zähnen). A difficult woman. And rightly so on this occasion.

@timothy_stanley Here to serve Tim x

Thornberry has the right mix of authority and camp. It’s what made this country great.

@MichaelTakeMP Purple rain or golden shower is surely the appropriate question.

FAO of all chaps and fillies in the United States of America: I would assume your President Trump will ask King Charles, when he comes to visit you, how long as monarch he has ‘rained’ over the United Kingdom? 🙈 Gory to God! 😬

@SianaNache79742 Mmmm... Boiko Borisov isn't exactly Father Christmas.

For its relatively small territory England has 4 far right wing parties - Conservative Party, Reform, Britain First and now Resstore Britain. That’s 4 far right fashist parties in the small tiny territory of England. For comparison - in Bulgaria we don’t have a Nazi party

@SianaNache79742 Една година без... I saw it on people's front doors in many places in Sofia. Look after yourself.

I can’t believe that it’s one year since my Mum passed away. We’re going to gather tomorrow on her grave. My uncle, my aunt, cousins and some of her friends. Mummy’s grave is next to my Daddy’s. Dad passed away in November 2015. Please, excuse me if I’m rude sometimes

@danny__kruger What an angry 'little' man you are @danny__kruger Didn't Mummy love you enough?

Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong. Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square. What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions. What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church. A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution. As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree. It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country. Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square. But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing. It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.

@JonathanPieNews Thought she was in Dubai where everything's so much better. Or did she take a repatriation flight because they've suddenly started firing missiles in her direction and - shock horror - freedom-of-speech laws mean she can't photograph them? One contradiction/lie after another.

Here's Isabel, trying to help a vulnerable person by taking a picture of them and using the photo to promote her favoured candidate for Mayor. She's a saint.

@RhonddaBryant 'Tis lovely. Very bad tempered @BBCAnyQuestions today.

Have to say my constituency is looking beautiful today

@PhilibertLeslie @chrisdo68509786 @RhonddaBryant Thank you, Leslie. Saved me writing a rude reply to that poster that in normal times would have got me put in Twitter Jail. Some people have 100% opinions and 0% knowledge.

@chrisdo68509786 @RhonddaBryant Ursula von der Leyen was nominated by all member states, she is a member of the Conservative CDU and EPP that won a majority in the European Parliament.

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