Richard Perry
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Richard Perry
@perry383
Test Cricket lover. Retired Police Officer (Met) Interested in policing and social matters.
London, England Katılım Ağustos 2012
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The Reform Guide to Patriotism
Step 1:
Complain Britain is a “third world shithole” while living in the world’s 6th largest economy with free healthcare, free education, clean water and a functioning democracy.
Step 2:
Worship billionaires who don’t pay tax in Britain then blame immigrants on minimum wage for ruining the economy and your life. Bonus points if your hero is a crypto bro, a convicted fraudster or an American tech mogul who would never set foot within a thousand miles of your town.
Step 3:
Hate London with every fibre of your being despite not having visited since a school trip to the National History Museum. Call it a “foreign city” and deny it’s one of the world’s great capitals, the global centre of finance, culture, theatre, music and sport that generates a quarter of the UK’s entire GDP and quietly pays for your roads, your hospitals and your benefits. Disown it because you saw a TikTok.
Step 4:
Share hideously designed memes over and over again. Ideally featuring AI generated angry crowds with mashed up faces carrying upside down flags. Or barrel chested bulldogs.
Step 5:
Cheer every piece of bad news about your own country like you’ve won the lottery. Crime stats, NHS queues, potholes, you love it all. If it’s not true share it anyway. If something goes well pretend it didn’t happen. The only time you’re proud to be British is when you’re telling everyone how awful it is.
Step 6:
Discover Christianity despite not setting foot in a church since your mate’s wedding in 2014. Post about “defending Christian values” then spend the rest of the day calling strangers c*nts online.
Step 7:
Shout “Britain is broken” every single day while devouring GB News and trashing the BBC. Get your worldview from a channel owned by a foreign hedge fund or tax-dodging non-dom aristocrats.
Step 8:
Import American MAGA culture war talking points from people who couldn’t find Britain on a map and still insult your military, your cities and your food. Then call everyone else a traitor.
Step 9:
Obsess about boats in the Channel, the EU and the state of the entire developing world despite having practically zero personal experience of any of them.
Step 10:
Vote Reform, a party with no policies that benefit you or survive contact with a calculator. Then wonder why nothing changes.
Bonus:
Change your profile pic to a lion with a Union Jack painted on its face or a historically inaccurate crusader, misspell sovereignty in your bio and tell a stranger on the internet to “wake up” at least three times before lunch.
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"Dreamer" (1974)
Written by the lead singer when he was still a teenager, this became one of their signature songs.
Do you know the band's name, and is this one a listen or a skip?
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The words of a man who possesses no decency.
No dignity.
No conscience.
No empathy.
No humanity.
The words of a man who possesses no soul.
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This English band formed in 1979 in London. ‘This Is the Day’ was released in 1983 and it reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart.
👉🏻 Name the band.
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@InspM0r0s3 @BettyBoochichi2 Yes I was about to post… The Tax Payers Alliance … really ?… they really aren’t a serious organisation& and as such largely irrelevant
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@BettyBoochichi2 The ‘Tax Payers Alliance’ is a Tufton Street organisation - essentially a crank with a laptop.
While overtime can be gamed a bit - it exists because there aren’t enough officers to meet demand … and because some units can’t operate without it .. if they go home >>>
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Norfolk Constabulary is facing questions after it emerged a single officer had received £30,000 in overtime payments last year, with the force's total overtime bill topping £5.7m.
The officer, who has not been identified, is one of 25 who were all paid more than £17,600 for working extra hours, on top of their salaries.
Almost nine out of ten officers on the force received overtime payments, with an average of almost £3,000 going to each one.
The figures have raised alarm, with critics saying extra hours are draining budgets, with crimes going unsolved and victims unheard.
Darwin Friend, head of research at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers across Norfolk will be deeply concerned by these extraordinary overtime costs.”
"With police budgets already stretched, spending millions of pounds on overtime payments is simply unsustainable.”
"Norfolk police need to ensure every penny of taxpayers' money is spent protecting the public and catching criminals."
In total, the force made £5,012,402 in overtime payments to 1,714 officers - about nine out of ten of the total number - and £782,353 to 603 police staff.
Of the top 25 overtime earners, 23 were male and two were female.
The force say the spending is because of the hundreds of additional working hours clocked up policing large-scale weekly protests and counter protests that began last summer over the Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe being used to house migrants.
Similar protests were also staged at the Park Hotel in Diss and in Great Yarmouth adding to the overtime bill.
A Norfolk Constabulary spokeswoman said: “We recognise this is a significant overtime cost, and much of this was driven by the demands of policing a significant increase in the number of protests last summer.”
“Overtime is often required to police protests or large events, otherwise staff would have to be removed from core policing duties which would diminish our ability to respond to emergency calls or undertake neighbourhood policing.”
“Police regulations require that when rest days are cancelled at short notice, which is often the case when we are notified of protests at short notice, officers are compensated, and these national rules apply to all forces.”
Nick Taylor, chair Reform in Norwich, who stood for councillor in Bowthorpe losing by one vote, said police were underfunded and criticised the “extra burden” placed on the force by migrants being housed in the county.
He said: “Norfolk police is traditionally underfunded. People would be shocked just how few officers are on duty at any one time.”
“We need extra officers but instead money is being spent on overtime for an issue caused by people who shouldn’t be here in the first place.”
“The Brook Hotel has been an issue for four years with concerns among local people about who is there and associated criminality.”
"Inevitably that adds costs to the taxpayer money that could be better spent.”
At the height of the protests last summer, Norfolk Chief Constable Paul Sanford called for extra resources from the government, saying he could not "crackdown" on crime "if I've got dozens of police officers stood outside a hotel".
Other demands on manpower also came from policing protests about the Gaza conflict and demonstrations on issues ranging from the Norwich Western Link road to animal rights and transgender rights.
Police have said overtime can be the most cost-effective means of dealing with demands outside of day-to-day policing.
Overtime is paid to the usual hourly rate between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday and time a half between 7pm and 7am.
Extra hours worked on Saturdays and Sundays are paid at time and a half, but on public holidays it is double time.
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@policecommander Some will never get it John… they are ‘gone’…. Deluded & totally capable of critical or independent thinking… it is truly incredible
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It’s still staggers me that anyone can look at Donald Trump and think:
- There’s a man to admire
- There’s a man to trust
- There’s a man to believe in
- There’s a man who cares about me
Because all I see is a rotting carcass of failed humanity, wrapped in paper-thin orange skin
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Tough news yesterday. I’ll need 30 radiation sessions to keep the skin cancer under control. With all the chemo for my Multiple Myeloma, my resistance is very low. Right ear still deaf and my arse still painful,but I still got out for a walk.
Some days you don’t win
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Sky News ‘cuts back’ on Reform coverage after receiving thousands of complaints thelondoneconomic.com/news/sky-news-…
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"Mr. Blue Sky" (1977) was inspired by gloomy weather giving way to sunshine, and that bright, upbeat feel helped make it a classic.
Would this make your feel good playlist?
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Magnificent. There is no other song quite like “If You Could Read My Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot. It’s in a category all by itself. Something anyone who writes song lyrics can aspire to.
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This is Alex Roca Campillo.
He has cerebral palsy and became the first person in the world with a 76% disability to finish a marathon.
Alex showed the world that a person’s inabilities don’t determine their value or potential.
Truly inspiration ❤️
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"Magic" (1975), produced by Alan Parsons, was inspired by a sunrise and built on a simple, upbeat idea: finding something special in everyday life.
Do you know the band's name?x.com/calmalgodown/s…
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To me cricket is a contest between bat and ball. Watching people swing through the line and hitting sixes over 50 yard boundaries is not the game I love.
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@MichelleDewbs Er, no. Stop being silly Michelle. False flags, straw men.. you love them all. And kicking up a stink. I merely expressed what many fondly hope; that the hate-inciting, immigrant-hating, non-news network @GBNEWS should fail financially, as it does journalistically & morally.
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Er - Are you inciting someone to burn down my (and hundreds of others) place of work @BillNeelyReport ?
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@policecommander Cultists don’t do critical thinking… it’s beyond them
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All the patriots who have spent the last however long wanging on about sovereignty now suggesting that we should do whatever a corrupt, failing US President tells us is quite the look….
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No @ChrisMasonBBC . It’s neither bruising nor belittling for Starmer. Trump showed us exactly what he is - a petulant man-child who stamps his foot if he can’t get his own way. If you must proffer opinion then take sides with your own PM not the man engaging in an illegal war.
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I need to say some things on behalf of the United Kingdom to @realDonaldTrump
We went to war for you, we brought soldiers home in coffins for you, our soldiers bled and then you disrespect us, try to interfere with out democracy and install a far right puppet regime, You turn against your allies for Russia. You destroy our 'Special relationship' and apply tarrffs on out nation for profit just like you have with every other nation whilst destroying Americas reputation and embarrasing your whole nation.
Then you get mad because we wont suck Israel's dick with you. Fuck this guy. Fucking nonce.
There is a special place in hell for scumfucks like this.
America this story is getting boring now. Do it...
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I’m not a fan of Starmer, but whatever he does – literally whatever he does - he is ripped apart, ripped to shreds, by the telegraph, Mail, express, Sun, spectator, the very same people who installed Boris Johnson and the appalling Liz Truss.
The same people who installed the governments that caused Brexit and the financial chaos that has ensued, the same people who have driven this country into the ground.
I’m sick to death of them.
They are the biggest threat to this country and all of us across the board, no matter what our politics are. We need to get billionaires out of the Media
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This coffee shop employs people with Down syndrome to show the world that everyone deserves a chance.
We need more of this.
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