john smith

@YMurat5019 its because wellington was the one who bought the building that is now the embassy

L'ambassade britannique à Paris a un buste de Wellington ? C'est comme s'il y avait une statue de Jeanne d'Arc ou du connétable du Guesclin dans notre ambassade à Londres.

@ItNeedsReform @WinstonLBrown1 @InspGadgetBlogs switzerland has one of the highest gun per capita rates in the world btw

@WinstonLBrown1 @InspGadgetBlogs That's as daft as saying -"There's more planes in the sea than there are submarines in the sky"..

Man shot by police after car ‘driven directly at officers during getaway attempt’ metro.co.uk/2026/05/23/man…

@jedi42c well yeah now it doesnt do just about anything but before everything got cancelled it was somewhat promsing

@js7959409 It was conceived and justified as unlocking the northern powerhouse, which it now doesn’t reach! It’s tripled in cost, halved in scale and forecast by govt agencies to return 30p on every pound. Whatever capacity it unlocks or creates it’s a fractional RoI.

Precisely. It’s hyperbole by the same glue sniffers who think £112bn for a railway saving 20-24 mins is VfM or a priority. The whole ecosystem is rotten to the core

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

@realmunchbob @libdembounce its worked on the east coast for several years now

@libdembounce Good luck running competing services on the same line!

as soon as british rail gets the slightest bit of private competition rail fares look like this yet people still think nationalisation is the answer...

@sentient_korma @LeftNatLeft @ToryWipeout thats what i meant

@js7959409 @LeftNatLeft @ToryWipeout Bing bong, the above is wrong. GBR branded trains will operate intercity services from England to all parts of Wales and Scotland. Local trains will retain their TfW and ScotRail identities.

Love that

@LeftNatLeft @ToryWipeout no because theyre already nationalised

@ToryWipeout Finally, should never have been privatised! Will these be in Wales and Scotland too?

Keir Starmer taking his anger out on the weather machine this afternoon

@grange_hillel @UKDefJournal thats the name of the island..

@UKDefJournal Why all this for one posh lad called Tristan?

In a UK military first, Army paratroopers staged through Ascension Island before jumping onto Britain's most remote territory to deliver emergency Hantavirus support to Tristan da Cunha.

Can we stop trying to force Türkiye it’s fucking Turkey

We have replaced those who owe their loyalty to historical birthright with those who owe their loyalty to political cronyism

ULSTER IS BRITISH 🇬🇧 GIBRALTAR IS BRITISH 🇬🇮🇬🇧 THE CHAGOS ISLANDS ARE BRITISH 🇮🇴🇬🇧 THE FALKLANDS ARE BRITISH 🇫🇰🇬🇧 F*CK THIRD WORLDISTS AND TRAITORS WHO WANT TO GIVE OUR TERRITORY AWAY

Greenland is Denmark. Donbas and Crimea are Ukraine. Falkland Islands are British.

@BearJFK to think chile used to back our claim too..

Frankly, this should trigger ending of diplomatic ties. Fuck em both.

@marionste @slidingblade @JacquiDeevoy1 yeah back in the 1990s when railtrack looked after the track it was not safe at all - getting a private company looking for profit to care for vital safety ended in several deadly accidents

@slidingblade @JacquiDeevoy1 Exactly. I was told in the mid-90s not to travel on trains because the rail network was unsafe due to repairs negligence

The train I’m on is going alarmingly fast. It’s making me wonder about the driver’s state of mind. How often do train drivers have medical and psychological checks?

My ex-wife got my model railway in the divorce and to this day the vindictive bitch will send me video of the trains running behind schedule

@KSI no you dont shut the fuck up

I need an apology asap 🤣🤣🤣

@stpeterslayout @GBRailfreight @BTP honestly the livery wouldn’t be too bad if they hadn’t gone for the stripes on the bottom

69016 at London Waterloo and officially named “British Transport Police” very nice work from Eastleigh Arlington on the livery! - 30th May 2025 @GBRailfreight @BTP

@JoannaRigba_ @Vinciuscastelob @Itxmaeel @ShellxCrypto @pedio94 @Sat_Ander fuck off you cheeky twat