@RachelReevesMP You just say words instead of actions. Hopelessly out of your depth.
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Michael C
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Michael C
@michaelco_lis
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London and Essex Katılım Kasım 2015
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This is not our war, but it is now pushing up bills for families and businesses.
That’s why keeping costs down is my number one priority – and our economic plan has put us in a stronger position to face this crisis.
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In 1995, 45% of British milk was delivered to the doorstep before seven in the morning by a milkman in an electric float.
In 2026, it is 3%.
The milkman has been effectively abolished inside one human generation. The supermarket walked in, undercut the cost by a few pence per pint, and the daily ritual of British household life, glass bottles clinking on the step at half past six, was gone by the time the children of 1995 had finished secondary school.
The cost to the customer was a few pence per pint.
The cost to the system was, in rough order: the glass bottle that was washed and reused hundreds of times, replaced with a plastic bottle that is used once and recycled imperfectly. The local dairy that supplied one town, replaced with a national processor that supplies half the country. The milk that arrived four hours after milking, replaced with milk that arrived three days after milking after a journey of 200 miles. The conversation on the doorstep, replaced with a self-checkout beep.
The milkman himself, incidentally, had the lowest recorded rate of heart disease of any male occupation in Britain. He walked approximately 12 miles a day, finished work by 10am, and ate a cooked breakfast. He has been replaced, in the same delivery role, by a zero-hours Amazon Flex driver sitting in a Ford Transit.
A small piece of British daily infrastructure was quietly demolished.
Nobody was consulted.
The milk is still being produced. It is just being produced further away, transported further, kept in plastic, and sold at a different margin, by a different business, to a customer who never sees who milked the cow.
The milkman knew your name.
The self-checkout does not.
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@Daily_Hotspur @FootballLeagueW He’ll either be brilliant for them, or be found out and he becomes the Danish National coach,
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🚨 NEW from @FootballLeagueW:
Birmingham City are eyeing a move for former #thfc manager Thomas Frank. footballleagueworld.co.uk/birmingham-cit…
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@JeremyVineOn5 @mikeparry8 @narindertweets @theJeremyVine But if were Boris or any other Conservative. All bets are off as far as Narinderrrrr is concerned.
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"I'm sick of the Starmer bashing."
@narindertweets says the right-wing media won't be happy until the PM is forced out of office, and there are more important things going on than the Mandelson scandal.
@mikeparry8 | @theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine
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🚨BREAKING: Labour in chaos as Keir Starmer’s support collapses.
Furious Labour MPs are plotting a no-confidence vote.
If it passes, Starmer faces two options:
1. Resign and allow a new leader
2. Call a snap general election
Which ONE would you prefer?
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@Hybrid_Ola Lets just get out of phones and film it, rather than stop it. Society is sick.
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@henrywinter But Daniel saved a couple of million not going that extra mile, don’t you know?. He was a strength but the greatest weakness for Spurs. Sometimes you stay in a role too long and loose respect and no one wants to deal with you(him).
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Gibbs-White staying at Forest and not going to Spurs looking even more of hugely significant moment for each club.
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@TheGreenParty But if you’re right of centre, you’re not included in political conversations, as Dave reshapes society according to his doctrine.
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We need to win big on May 7. Thousands of Green candidates are standing across England and Wales.
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Help us get the message out: We deserve better.
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I’m white. I’m English. Im a young man.
I think that Reform UK and Restore Britain are despicable parties praying on hate and fear.
They are establishment charlatans funding dangerous far-right ethno-nationalists to try and seize power.
They are dangerous.
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@ZackPolanski What a vague meaningless statement, Dave. Hope normal again is what? what defines hope from one person against another??
I hope I get big tits.
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Vote Green.
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@mjdaly57 @narindertweets The f’n blue shirt he wears. I suppose it’s homage to be the son of a tool-maker
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So, Starmer WAS telling the truth.
Can we all calm down now..
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BREAKING: Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson That means it appears No10 WERE in fact unaware he had issues with his vetting And sources say in fact Mandelson DID NOT simply fail his vetting. Instead issues were raised and the FCDO security team and ultimately Robbins had to make a decision on whether to grant him DV clearance. It was their decision and there was no “overturning,” sources say As @SamCoatesSky reports via former security official Ciaran Martin, Robbins was prohibited from sharing information about what happened with anyone outside the FCDO security team Sources say the point of the vetting process is that it is extremely invasive and people who go through it must be confident they can tell the whole truth and not have highly embarrassing information about their personal lives leak or be spread around colleagues That means the circle of people allowed to know about what happens in each vetting case is very small and the information is highly privileged The decision on whether to approve Mandelson’s clearance, according to the vetting rules, is taken by a small team of FCDO security officials and ultimately Robbins, sources say Under no circumstance is Robbins or that team able to share the details of the vetting case with No10 or anyone else, sources say. Robbins felt he could not share it with any minister or private office, sources say It appears the PM and No10 were unaware of how these rules were perceived by Robbins and FCDO, and think he should have told them. Allies of Robbins think it is unfair he was sacked But crucially it appears right now that Robbins did not tell No10 and they were actually in the dark about all this until Tuesday. What an unbelievable mess
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"That I wasn't told that Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting when he was appointed is staggering," UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says
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Honesty and integrity matter.
Today’s humiliating climb-down showed that the Conservatives know they can no longer defend the indefensible.
It has never been more clear that Boris Johnson's authority is shot and he is unable to lead.
Britain deserves better.
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