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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Before 1830, nobody had a lawn. The rich had their grass cut by scythemen. Ordinary people had no garden worth speaking of. Edwin Budding was an engineer in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Working in a textile mill, he noticed a machine using a cutting cylinder to trim the surface of cloth. He looked at it. And thought about grass. He built a machine with a cutting cylinder mounted on a wheeled frame. Then pushed it across his garden at midnight. At midnight. So the neighbours wouldn't see. It worked. He patented it in August 1830. Within twenty years the Victorian suburb was born. The striped lawn. The neat garden. The Sunday morning ritual. Every suburban garden in America. Every cricket ground. Every football pitch. Every golf course on earth. Traces back to one man. In Stroud. With a cloth machine. At midnight. Right now, somewhere in the world, someone is cutting their grass. And they have no idea who Edwin Budding was. Help us share more of our history: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

NOTE and Repost: Phone theft amnesty to person who stole mobile phone stolen from Morgan McSweeney on 20th October 2925 in Belgrave Road. This is a National Emergency. Please do your bit for Britain and hand in to a Police Station. Make sure to get a receipt! @Daily_Express @dailytelegraph @DailyMail @DailyMirror @GBNEWS

@elonmusk The Tesla Model Y is probably the best car I have ever owned. (from an ex Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Vauxhall, Toyota, Mini, Bedford, Austin owner).

Model Y is #1

@XFreeze The Tesla Model Y is probably the best car I have ever owned. (from an ex Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Vauxhall, Toyota, Mini, Bedford, Austin owner).

Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car for 3 consecutive years 2023: #1 2024: #1 2025: #1 Cumulative global sales: 4,000,000+ units Not best-selling EV. Best-selling car. Period. Beating every gas, hybrid, and electric vehicle on Earth

@TheGriftReport @mikeannmcgowan Yet more ‘poor judgement’ by Starmer. This will come back to bite him.

🚨BREAKING🚨 KEIR STARMER’S SET TO MAKE SADIQ KHAN A LORD AND SLIP HIM INTO THE CABINET! Keir Starmer is preparing to hand London Mayor Sadiq Khan a life peerage in the House of Lords – opening the door for his loyal ally to join the government or tighten Labour’s grip on the Upper House. The move comes as Starmer’s poll numbers tank and he desperately needs to shore up his shaky administration. Despite Khan’s dire record, knife crime explosion, ULEZ backlash, housing chaos and endless London misery, Starmer sees the peerage as the perfect reward. Tories already branding it the ultimate “reward for failure”. Arise, Lord Khan?! Labour eating its own while the capital burns. Source [@FT]

@Heidi_Labour Must be something else going on, for which this is a cover over.

Today we have announced a huge £27 billion investment in our roads - one of the biggest ever investments in England’s road network. From fixing potholes to building major new schemes, this funding will be transformational for the drivers and businesses that rely on our roads every day. gov.uk/government/new…

@RWTaylors But it is not in the culture of the country you have chosen to live in, is it?

British MP Iqbal Mohamed became emotional in Parliament, arguing that a ban on cousin marriage would be discriminatory and Islamophobic, as he considers it a practice rooted in his cultural background.

@KemiBadenoch @KEdge23 Why wont you use PMQ to ask about Nick Brown?

Keir Starmer can't - or won't - tell us if he spoke to Peter Mandelson before appointing him as ambassador. The strange absence of Starmer's opinion in the Mandelson files. Now the curious case of McSweeney's 'stolen' phone. There's something fishy going on.

I had the same advice from my manager in my career beginning. Spot on!

@rj_abel @BritishSacred He is not good value for the public purse. Get him gone!

Portrait = £36,000. Speakers house renovation = £6.9M. Travel 2022-25 (19 trips) = £250,000 + MP salary £86,000 + speaker’s additional salary £70k. + Staff & office budget. Chauffeur-driven transport. Large number of official gifts retained. Worth every penny of your money?

@bphillipsonMP Seriously! You sunk so low to post this? You are a liability to British citizens.

Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@bphillipsonMP You really are a nasty piece of work. Have you spoken to your prisons minister, James Timpson? His dad's company (Timpsons) employs a lot of ex prisoners once they have repaid their debt to society. You could learn from him.

TIME’s new cover: SpaceX is racing to build its most powerful rockets yet with the goal of returning humans to the moon. Gwynne Shotwell is leading the charge alongside Elon Musk. Read it here: time.com/article/2026/0…

@SkyNews @LindsayHoyle_MP is no longer fit for office. Can’t be consistent with House rules. His time is up!

Prime minister is admonished by the Speaker during PMQs. Sir Lindsay Hoyle reminds Rishi Sunak that he is supposed to answer questions, not ask them. trib.al/93x9d7w

@benonwine Poverty expantion and an attack on middle-englanders.

What has been the most Serious Consequences of a Labour Government?

You were correct, Steven!

I told you. The Speaker is a dishonourable man.

If you HAD to CHOOSE your religious faith, between Christianity and Islam, no other options. What would it be?

@alinavisooo_net Racist is a misused term. Your race is what you were born into, Islam is a chosen religion. Why do politicians continue to gaslight the public? What is their endgame?

🇺🇲🇬🇧🚨 SHOCKING: NOT JUST STARMER‼️ Wes Streeting also gave a speech at last night’s iftar in Westminster Hall - saying that anyone who objects to Islam is racist. Would you vote to ban Islam in the 🇺🇲 🇬🇧 permanently? 1. Yes 2. No 3. Unsure