John Rimm

#Tractorrun #Dalston #Sundaymorning #charity @EVHandJigsaw ❤️❤️#Vintagemachines

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@rattycastle Cochranes, well worth a visit.👍😊

#Tomatoe #heaven what a outstanding #Gardencenter and nursery at #Longtown #beddingplants etc

It's a dry bright start but starting to cloudy over. Dry this morning with light rain expected this afternoon. Maximum temperature around 12°c. #Brampton #Cumbria

A campervan traveling through the Scottish Highlands was completely blocked by a herd of Highland cows. At first, people thought the cows were just being curious, but they soon realized the animals were actually asking for help. A calf was missing 💖✨ The men immediately got out, followed the herd along the road, and found the calf trapped in a deep roadside ditch. The group worked together to pull the exhausted calf to safety and reunite it with its mother and the herd. The moment the calf was reunited was incredibly heartwarming! 💗

🚨 Helen Whately has just said what every hard-working taxpayer in “Alarm Clock Britain” has been screaming for years — and she’s absolutely right. “Alarm Clock Britain is sick of paying out for Benefits Street.” Why on earth would anyone drag themselves out of bed at dawn, pay crippling taxes, energy bills and rents, just to watch others rake in £30,000, £40,000 or even £60,000 a year completely tax-free on benefits? The incentives are completely broken. Work doesn’t pay. The system rewards staying home while punishing the grafters who keep this country afloat. But let’s be brutally honest — this isn’t just Keir Starmer’s mess. The Tories had 14 years in power to smash the welfare trap and the mass-migration time-bomb that supercharged it, and they did next to nothing. Now under Labour the benefits bill is exploding, the housing crisis is swallowing entire towns, and native British families are last in every queue while foreign nationals and their families jump straight to the front. This is two-tier welfare in full disgusting view: British pensioners choosing between heating and eating, British kids priced out of homes their grandparents built, British workers taxed to the eyeballs — all to subsidise a growing underclass and the demographic replacement experiment both parties enabled for decades. Hotels packed with illegal arrivals. Council lists flooded by foreign-born households. And a benefits system that actively disincentivises work for far too many. The hypocrisy stinks even more coming from MPs like Helen Whately herself — happily claiming £39,000 a year in taxpayer-funded London rent on top of her six-figure salary and hundreds of thousands in expenses. The political class lectures us about “scroungers” while living very comfortably on public money themselves. The silent majority has had enough of being treated like cash machines for everyone except ourselves. We demand: ✅ A radical welfare overhaul — British people and British contributors first. Strict work requirements, time limits for able-bodied claimants, and a hard benefits cap that actually means something. ✅ An immediate end to benefits for illegal migrants, failed asylum seekers and anyone who hasn’t contributed. ✅ Mass deportations for foreign nationals living off the British taxpayer. ✅ A total halt to non-essential immigration until the welfare, housing and NHS crises are fixed. ✅ Real politicians who finally put Alarm Clock Britain — the hard-working backbone of this country — first, not globalist virtue-signalling and open borders. Enough is enough. The current system isn’t broken by accident — it’s broken by design. The Tories failed. Labour is making it catastrophic. Only real change will sort it. Restore Britain. Britain first — always.

#Lichfield #Burntwood #Hammerwich area - keep an eye out for this white van, caught on camera stealing from our farm today - plates are false please RT to warn others 👍

Margarine was the great winner of the low-fat era. It is worth being honest about what it actually was, and what it still is. The cheapest vegetable oil on the planet, beaten with hydrogen gas under pressure until it stopped behaving like oil and started behaving like a solid. The reaction produced trans fats. Molecules so structurally wrong the human body cannot metabolise them. Molecules that lodge in cell membranes where the fat that built you used to sit, drive inflammation, and raise the exact cardiovascular risk margarine was being sold to prevent. Trans fats are now banned or restricted across most of the developed world because they were, conservatively, killing tens of thousands of people a year. This is what an entire generation of mothers was told to spread on their children's toast instead of butter. Butter, which is cream that has been shaken, eaten by humans for somewhere between four and ten thousand years. Margarine, an industrial product invented in 1869 to feed Napoleon III's army on the cheap, reformulated repeatedly as each version was quietly found to be more harmful than the last, and marketed each time as the heart-healthy choice. The adverts showed sunflowers. The tubs were yellow. The names suggested a farmhouse. The product inside was an industrial fat the human body had no machinery to process, sold against the real food it had been brought in to replace, in the name of preventing the disease it was actively causing. And here is the part nobody mentions. The trans fats were quietly removed in the 2000s. The new version is a blend of rapeseed, palm, and sunflower oils, processed with hexane solvent, deodorised, bleached, and emulsified into a tub. Still industrial. Still seed oil. Still nothing the human kitchen had until a hundred years ago. It still sits on the shelf next to the butter. Still in the same yellow tub. Still marketed as the heart-healthy choice. The little symbol on the lid still tells you a charity has approved it. The butter was never the problem. The thing they told you to replace it with was the problem then, and a reformulated version of the same thing is the problem now. The cow was right. The factory was wrong. It is still wrong. They just changed the wording on the side of the tub.

Just sit back and relax. You’re about to listen to one of the most emotional live solos ever played. ❤️❤️❤️

🚨 MPs’ renting scandal just went nuclear — and the snout-in-the-trough champion of the week is none other than Labour’s own Deputy Leader, Lucy Powell. It’s now been exposed that a whole string of MPs have been renting rooms and entire homes to each other at full taxpayer expense. Powell raked in over £30,000 last year alone by renting out a room to another MP. Taxpayer-funded second homes, taxpayer-funded rents flowing straight into fellow MPs’ pockets — a cosy little Westminster property scam that makes the old expenses scandal look like pocket change. This is the same Labour Party that lectures working Brits about “fairness”, “austerity” and “paying your share” while their own elite treat Parliament like a private members’ club with an unlimited bar tab on your dime. While British families are crushed by sky-high rents, energy bills and taxes to fund this circus, Labour insiders are quietly lining their nests by renting to one another — all perfectly “within the rules,” of course. Because in two-tier Britain, the rules are written by the grifters for the grifters. Lucy Powell isn’t some backbencher caught with her hand in the till. She’s the Deputy Leader. The second most senior figure in Starmer’s government. The same government that’s busy hiking your taxes, slashing services and telling you to tighten your belt while they play Monopoly with public money. This isn’t a mistake. This isn’t an oversight. This is systemic corruption dressed up as “MP accommodation.” The silent majority has had enough of these champagne socialists treating the British taxpayer like a bottomless ATM. We pay for their second homes, their rents, their expenses — while our own kids can’t get on the housing ladder and pensioners choose between heating and eating. We demand: ✅ Immediate full public audit of every MP’s property dealings and expenses — names, amounts, everything. ✅ Resignations for anyone caught in this rental racket — starting with Lucy Powell. ✅ A complete overhaul of the MPs’ expenses system — no more second homes, no more self-dealing, no more pigs at the trough. ✅ Real consequences for the entitled elite who think the rules don’t apply to them. Labour isn’t just failing Britain. It’s looting it — one taxpayer-funded rental agreement at a time. Starmer Out. Powell Out. The whole rotten Westminster cartel out. The British people are watching. And this time we’re not forgetting. 🇬🇧 #MPSRentingScandal #LucyPowellExposed #TwoTierBritain #LabourGrift #RestoreBritain #PutBritainFirst #MPsExpenses #BritainIsBroken #EndTheCorruption

“As we drive around our farm picking up these paper lanterns - that our cows try to eat - we ask you to find something better to do to support your causes. “There is wire inside the paper that will get on their stomach and kill them “Donate money directly to your cause please, instead of lanterns or balloons!” 📸 Karen McCartin Foster

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It's a dry sunny start after another cold night and slight frost at dawn. After a sunny morning it may cloud over, odd shower is possible. Maximum temperature 13°c. Indications it may start to warm up next week. #Brampton #Cumbria

@dash_beck2 👍😊

@dash_beck2 top weed basher 🙂great job

@dash_beck2 Oh heck, Tarff Valley 🤔 we have not been there!🫣 You are becoming a bad influence on Mrs Rimm...😉😂

@dash_beck2 Powfoot... lovely👏👏 I remember the round posts on the walk to the beach. 😉 We must try to get over there again this year.👍😊

@dash_beck2 Yes, we know it - linked to Whitesyke - same ownership Mrs Rimm knows Pam at Whitesyke...🥰 Not many garden centres that we have not been to over the years...😉

@dash_beck2 Zoomed in - no Solway wind farm - but I can see Anthorn masts - so I must be in the right area. 😉

@dash_beck2 Beautiful, I am not sure - could it be Cummertrees - bird sanctuary, or Powfoot?🤔