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@higgyboson Totally agree.

Me and Mrs Higgy occasionally like to go out for a cooked breakfast (usually the local golf club or (believe it or not) bike shop), a lunchtime snack, (garden centre, cafe in a park etc) or an evening meal at various local pubs/restaurants. We like to support local businesses. But all these things have become increasingly expensive over the past couple of years. Paying £11 for a tea, coffee and single slice of cake is ridiculous. A sausage sandwich now costs £7.50. A burger from a van is £5.50. £5.50 for a 30p burger in a 20p bread roll is nuts. A very simple one course evening meal with a drink each costs at least £45.00. So we've decided to stop doing it. We live in a great part of the country so we'll still go out, but with a picnic and a flask of Earl Grey. I'm self employed and Mrs Higgy is a retired NHS Staff Nurse. We have no mortgage or rent to pay so we should be out and about frequenting these places on a regular basis but the truth is - We REALLY begrudge paying the prices. We can't be alone. I have no idea how normal families on average incomes can afford to eat out at the moment with EVERYTHING going up in price. I can see the almost total collapse of the hospitality sector in the not too distant future. I'll be as guilty as all the millions of others scaling back on their patronage of pubs and restaurants etc but I've been pushed too far and I'm not playing this game any more.

@henrywinter Sentimental tosh Henry, Wales are rarely at the world cup, nobody outside of Wales will notice their absence.

Devastating for Wales. They gave everything. Pens the cruellest way to miss out. World Cup will be the poorer without Craig Bellamy, Wales and their travelling choirs. Credit to Bosnia & Herzegovina, resilient and then ruthless.

@Osint613 Trump bottled it because he knew Iran would fire missiles at infrastructure throughout the middle east in retaliation

U.S. President Donald Trump: "As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well."

@EricLDaugh I think trump is still crying because he wasn't given a nobel peace prize.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just ended the Cabinet meeting with a VERY bad warning for useless American "allies" "I've done a great favor for the world. The world has not been, it has not been reciprocal because when I told NATO where we give billions and billions of dollars, trillions over the years, I said, do you mind coming up and giving us a little hand with the Straits, send up some, they didn't want to get involved!" "And I believe that's going to cost them dearly. Thank you very much everybody." Trump never forgets.

@Heidi_Labour @efoody @KiMcGuinness 27 billions and all you can highlight is a roundabout?

I’m particularly pleased to be taking forward plans for Moor Farm roundabout - thanks to the tireless campaigning of @efoody and @KiMcGuinness. This project will ease congestion, unlock growth and make a real difference to everyday life. chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

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…

@WarMonitor3 Us troops on the ground and Trump will have his own Vietnam

Expect mass deployments of more troops, if the US wants to hold these islands it will need more brigades.

@joni_askola Nato does that you illerate clown.

Brexit was a monumental historic mistake that left our continent vulnerable. Reversing it is the fastest way to unify our defense and guarantee Europe's collective security

@MartinDaubney @Traceymackenzi1 @beverleyturner @GBNEWS Is this orange freak still going on about guff?

🚨🚨TRUMP SLAMS STARMER🇺🇸🇬🇧 "He did something shocking... he didn't want to help us. I was very disappointed with him. It started with the island, he decided to give it away... "Because he's a liberal - and that's what liberals do" As told to @beverleyturner TUNE INTO @GBNEWS

@WarMonitor3 They haven't, more irrational gibberish from trump

I’m really confused about this “gift” why would Iran give the US 10 oil tankers…

@Northsider1060 @JayinKyiv And you wonder why Trump and the US is detested the world over.

@JayinKyiv We will credit your tab Don’t worry you’ll get your weapons later If you’re nice

So, European nations gathered $750M to buy US weapons for Ukraine, gave the US the money, and now Trump refuses to give them the weapons.

@sailor_rog19339 @JayinKyiv Trump has made a mess of his middle east war. No end game, no out without making himself look even more stupid than he is.

Seems fair and reasonable, it is not Americas responsibility to provide missiles for Europe's Defense. Nor to provide missiles for Ukraine at less than cost prices. It is America's responsibility to restock Americas supply of these missiles first, secondly to resupply our allies that actually assisted in the Iranian War, then maybe sell some to Europe, at a profit, if they are going to give them to Ukraine.

@Steven_Swinford @BethRigby He lied and ignored advice

Keir Starmer tells @BethRigby's Electoral Dysfunction podcast that he 'hates' the fact he appointed Lord Mandelson as US ambassador despite being told about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein 'I beat myself up about it' 'As I look back at it now and the mistake I made, I've been really hard on myself. In the immediate days after this all came out, I was particularly hard on myself. So yeah, everybody else was criticising, I get all that. But nobody was criticising me more than myself. I'm not trying to, you know, make that a mitigation or an excuse, but, I know I made a mistake. 'I hate the fact I made that mistake. And I dwell on it. I beat myself up about it. It's certainly not a mistake I'd ever repeat. But, there's no criticism anybody else can level at me that will be as harsh as the criticism I dished out for myself'

@kelvmackenzie @kakiOwakagirl Just shows how very easy it is to cheat our systems

This is welfare cheat Catherine Wiedland, 28, in front of her Motobility BMW who falsely claimed £23K in PIP payments for extreme anxiety saying she couldn’t leave the house despite going clubbing, partying and zipwiring in Calcun.She got 28 months suspended at Hove. Why not jail

@basedandbougie @vanitawinkler Less than half that will be spent on construction. The rest will be stolen or misused.

🚨BREAKING! The 🇬🇧UK plans to lend £746 Million to 🇳🇬Nigeria to help them refurbish their Ports. The consistent aid given to African is getting out of hand! Africa has received more “aid” in the last century than Britain did after the Blitz. The UK received $3.7billion in aid from the US and this was after a BRUTAL WORLD WAR and they used that money wisely to rebuild the UK into the state we see today. Not only that, most of the African politicians are living better than European politicians in 20 bedroom mansions whilst the general Africa public live in poverty …. Where is this aid going ???

@SBarrettBar @rosem165 Trump is an utter fecking idiot

Keir Starmer has betrayed the Special Relationship To get into bed with China Traitor.

@EricLDaugh @Charles88889646 Is he still talking?

🚨 HOLY CRAP. President Trump just dropped a truth nuke on American "allies" and the UK "WE come to their rescue, but they will NEVER come to ours. And I want you to remember that we said this, they didn't come to our rescue! Now they all want to help when they're annihilated!" "The other side is annihilated. They said, 'we'd love to send ships.' They actually made a statement, a couple of them, that we want to get involved when the war's over..." "...No, it's supposed to get involved with the war's BEGINNING or even before it begins!" "We had the UK say that 'we'll send,' this is three weeks ago, 'we'll send our aircraft carriers,' which aren't the best aircraft carriers, by the way, they're toys compared to what we have, but 'we'll send our aircraft carrier when the war's over.'" 😭 "I said, oh, that's wonderful. Thank you very much. Don't bother. We don't need it. And we don't need it. We don't need them!"

@PoliceInspForum @CPSUK Words fail me in this country these days.

@NPC14 @CPSUK Apparently ignorance of the law is no defence 😂

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@tomhfh More fluent bollox from that orange clown.

Trump continues, "26 days in we are extremely, really a lot ahead of schedule. The Iranian regime is saying they have been disastrously defeated. That's why they are talking to us."

Trump says Iran is "begging to make a deal". "They're begging to make a deal, not me."

@BBCNews @sharrond62 The most bizarre thing is that it was ever any other way.

Olympic women's sport to be for biological females only bbc.in/47la3Z5

@Osint613 Does this utter clown ever shut the feck up speaking utter gibberish? It's scatter gun contradictory nonsense.

President Trump criticizes allies, including the UK: “We come to their rescue, but they will never come to ours. And I want you to remember that we said this, they didn't come to our rescue! Now they all want to help when they're annihilated!” “The other side is annihilated. They said, 'we'd love to send ships.' They actually made a statement, a couple of them, that we want to get involved when the war's over...” “No, it's supposed to get involved with the war's beginning or even before it begins!” “We had the UK say that 'we'll send,' this is three weeks ago, 'we'll send our aircraft carriers,' which aren't the best aircraft carriers, by the way, they're toys compared to what we have, but 'we'll send our aircraft carrier when the war's over.'” “I said, oh, that's wonderful. Thank you very much. Don't bother. We don't need it. And we don't need it. We don't need them!”