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@_jhunsaker @60Minutes They cannot find the cars, they got stuck on a one way street.

@60Minutes how many attempts for waymo

After 55 attempts over five years, Anshu Moorjani finally completes “the Knowledge” series of exams, earning a London black cab license. cbsn.ws/4ftid6l

@iamizadore @60Minutes I wouldn’t trust Apple Maps to find my own foot.

@60Minutes they don't know apple maps exist in London?

@RobertJenrick Machines rejected by multiple councils after testing as being total junk

Reform councils buy best in class machine to fill in pot holes. Another devastating expose by the Guardian.

@NadineDorries @JCBagriculture Another corrupt politician. Councils have already tested this machine and rejected it.

Every council in the country should be using the @JCBagriculture machine - instead, contracts are given by corrupt councillors to small companies, some for 20 year or more terms. That’s why the roads are in the state they are in!

@PippaCrerar @rowenamason I wondered why that was being plugged when councils have tested it and said it’s crap.

EXCL: Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly promoted a new pothole-fixing machine by the construction company JCB, while the party received £200,000 from the British digger maker, @rowenamason reveals theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@TWBFarms Or you could fill your car for £5, and escape totally the oil cartel, the dictators and the world’s despots. Burning food for fuel, what a stupid idea.

Time for a solution ? Switching UK petrol from E10 to E15 would use about 1.8 million tonnes of UK wheat, already sat in UK stores right now. That’s around 660 million litres of ethanol, roughly equal to 2.7 million barrels of oil. Farmers could deliver this in months, not years, no strait of Hormuz to navigate. Energy policy is overlooking a ready-made domestic solution. And the best bit? This is a fully sustainable solution that would boost GDP and give a desperately needed immediate shot in the arm for British farmers 👍#EnergySecurity #Farming #Biofuels #UK #GDP #BritishFarming @agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy @TheFarmingForum @Iromg @MartinDaubney

@higgyboson @UKLabour “Basic rights for renters, screw that I’m selling up”. Human scum.

I'm currently in my kitchen having a chat with a friend who's selling both her rental properties, (a 3 bed semi detached in Torquay and a 3 bed detached bungalow in Paignton), as a DIRECT result of the new Renters legislation imposed by @UKLabour Yes, it's possible that someone may buy either or both properties in order to rent them out but it's rather unlikely. So 2 more good family homes will disappear from the rental market. Multiply by several thousand across the country and you have a MASSIVE problem - Thousands more homeless families. All caused by @UKLabour meddling in stuff they simply do not understand. Anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge about the housing market could have told them this would happen.

@RupertLowe10 If you want to increase deaths then fair enough, its a trade off. Bmw boy needs to get to mcDs, how dare we slow him down. But lead by example , pick one of your children to die.

A Restore Britain Government would raise the speed limit on British motorways to 80mph, and slash back 20mph zones other than around schools. Too much petty regulation has held Britain back for far too long - Restore Britain would gladly burn that all away.

@RuxandraTeslo OpenAI hasn’t done a single thing they promised, anywhere

This should be a national scandal.

@MelJStride OpenAI has backtracked on every single commitment they have ever made

This decision is a damning verdict on Rachel Reeves’ economic mismanagement. Britain should be leading the AI revolution. Instead, Labour are delivering high costs and lost opportunity. The message to investors is clear: under Keir Starmer, Britain isn’t open for business. We need cheaper energy, smarter regulation, and a government that actually understands how to attract jobs and investment.

@TheGriftReport Hahahaha. Keep smoking the crack pipe. OpenAI has backtracked on every commitment it has ever made, the circular ai scam has been found out.

Red Ed Miliband is being blamed after OpenAI dramatically pulled its planned £31 billion investment in Britain. The tech giant has scrapped plans for a huge AI data centre because of Britain’s cripplingly high energy costs and the Government’s Net Zero policies. The project would have created thousands of jobs and helped turn the UK into a global AI superpower. Critics say Miliband’s refusal to approve new gas-fired power stations and fresh North Sea drilling has left Britain one of the most expensive and unreliable places in Europe for energy-hungry industries like AI. Another major blow to Labour’s “Britain as AI superpower” ambitions.

@AllForProgress_ Large scale reservior, theres been loads of smaller ones build to meet specific demands , eg glastonbury

Britain has not built a new reservoir in over thirty years. The last major one was Carsington, completed in 1992. Since then the population has grown by roughly ten million, underneath that growth was a series of quiet warning that parts of the South East will face serious water shortages by the 2030s. The plans exist. Sites have been identified for years. Havant Thicket, Abingdon, the Fens reservoir. They get announced, consulted on, judicially reviewed, deferred, re-announced, and then the cycle starts again, and meanwhile the leaks in the existing network lose enough water every day to supply a city the size of Birmingham. Britain is the butt of all the world's jokes about rainfall. It turns out we don't even know how to get rained on right. A serious country builds the things it needs to survive. We cannot build a reservoir. We cannot build a runway. We cannot build a rail line on time or on budget. Any megaproject mooted is dead-on-arrival. The phrase "shovel-ready" has become a kind of gag, because everybody knows that there is nothing shovel-ready here, because the shovels are stuck in a planning hearing somewhere off the M25, and the people who used to know how to dig with them have retired or left. When the taps run low in Surrey in 2034, somebody is going to ask how this was allowed to happen. The honest answer is that it was allowed to happen by every government of the last three decades, including the current one, and by a planning regime designed to make sure nothing large ever gets built by anyone for any reason. We have time to fix it. We are running out of it fast.

@NewsonTed What utter bollocks. They were offshored as the owners took the money and ran, and the new owners went for sweatshop labour.

As late as the 1990s, Britain was easily in the top five biggest manufacturers in the world. 1/6th of total GDP was generated through manufacture. Today, many of Britain's former great industries (textiles, machinery, shipbuilding) have been offshored because of energy prices.

@christopherhope @GBNEWS You’re the reform channel, no-one takes you seriously.

… and Defence secretary John Healey has just now refused to take a question from @GBNEWS today at his briefing in 9 Downing St. This is an insult to our viewers and listeners. I cannot remember a worse morning for snubbing of our Channel by this Government.

@UkandNireland He really is dumb isn’t he. Every uk household bill is lower than the USA, for the simple reason that the UK doesn’t have AC and Filling the car just dropped to £4!

They talk about energy reliance on Russia, but look at the UK, they pay the highest energy prices in the world and the middle class brits can't afford to heat their home, drive a car, and pay their bills. Bureaucrats in the UK and Brussels Won't stop talking about it Lower energy costs in Hungary and the US because of smart leadership unlike the United Kingdom

@WhiteHouse This is now full blown dementia, there’s no hiding it any more

“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” - President Donald J. Trump

@VoteTimBarnes Taxis don’t use it, it’s too slow. At least try and learn before posting.

#Labour’s Mayor of London wants Oxford Street to be more like La Rambla in Barcelona and workaround the “pitfalls” there. But this misses the point. La Rambla was always a wide, low-traffic street, that suited pedestrianisation. Oxford Street is THE major East-West artery for central London. It would have made more sense to look at pedestrianising individual streets nearby, like South Molten Street already has been. The traffic displaced from Oxford Street is not private cars - they went years ago - it’s necessary service traffic, emergency vehicles and the busses and taxis to drop off the very shoppers they are looking to attract! It’s a bonkers plan that will fail in its ambitions for the street while bringing misery to local residents and businesses in the nearby streets. Via @thetimes (£) thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

@but_cyclists Riding on the hoods, 10% breaking power. A flat bar could have stopped.

A cyclist encounters a pedestrian

@Stsantek I love stupid people, they actually think the money would come back to the people. Hahahaha. We have more planes that cannot fly and ships that cannot sail to buy. Plus the army…the army of millions of useless civil servants to pay for.

Posting this today while hopefully some you are still with your nans for the bank holiday and can explain it to them. We can replace the triple lock with a double lock, increasing pensions by the higher of inflation or wage growth. Pensioners will still more than keep pace with working people. They are currently racing ahead of them, their earnings increasing faster than those of working people. The 2.5% floor is arbitrary, invented by the Lib Dems in the same manifesto that promised to scrap tuition fees, then adopted by the Tories as a bribe to pensioner voters. The reality is that we can’t target investment and support if arbitrary amount of public money is distributed to all people of pension age regardless of need (and yes, contribution). It has no logic… it will keep boosting pensions faster than the rest of the economy indefinitely, with no ceiling. I am a socialist but the triple lock is just a bribe to dependable voters.

@OliverJBradshaw The state pension has still not returned to the previous level it was at before we let it slide to nothing. Meanwhile we import millions of people to replace the millions too bone idle to work, setting off a welfare timebomb, somehow it’s all pensioners fault.

This weekend, boomers have been calling my generation entitled, ungrateful, and straight up lazy for questioning the state pension triple lock. Apart from a barrage of playground insults, the same old arguments kept coming: “We paid in our time,” “It’s your turn now,” “Just move somewhere cheaper,” “16% of you lot are out of work,” and “Stop buying coffee and going out.” Here’s the nasty truth they conveniently ignore. You talk about a fair “pay-it-forward” deal. But back when you worked, there were roughly five workers per pensioner. Today it’s 3.6. By the time we retire, it’ll be closer to 2.5. You had far more people sharing the load. That contract got stretched thin on our backs. You say you worked harder, faced 15% mortgages, had no luxuries, and Uni was basically free. Interest rates were brutal, sure. But you bought houses for 3-4 times your wages. Ours cost 8-10 times or more. Over-60s now hold 55% of the country’s entire housing wealth, nearly £3.84 trillion, mostly mortgage-free. Many of you enjoyed full mortgage interest tax relief (MIRAS) until 2000. We pay sky-high rents with zero tax relief while real wages have barely grown against inflation for 15 years. My generation was sold a lie, study hard, get the degree, land the good job, buy the house, pay your National Insurance, and the system will look after you. I know friends and colleagues who followed that script to the letter, straight-A students, graduate schemes, full time work from day one. Now in their late twenties, they’re still renting, saddled with £50k+ in loans, watching every spare pound vanish into rent and bills, while being called “entitled” for noticing the numbers don’t add up. “Just buy a house somewhere cheaper!” Sure, in towns where property is dirt cheap and jobs are non existent. Good careers don’t magically appear out of thin air. That advice is pure fantasy. “Just cut back on coffee and nights out”? As if skipping a £4 latte can magically fund a house deposit when homes cost 8-10 times our wages. Our money has far less purchasing power than yours ever did. We spend nearly 30% of our income on housing (up from 20% twenty years ago), and under-30s households devote 70% of their budget to essentials versus just 56% for over-65s. We’re not splashing on luxuries, we don’t want to live like hermits just to scrape by, and nor should we have to. You throw out the 16% youth unemployment rate for 16-24 year olds and call us bone idle. That’s not laziness, it’s a brutal job market. Job vacancies have tanked. We’re stuck in retail and hospitality roles that get cut first when times are tough, five times more likely to be on zero-hours contracts. Nearly a million of us (12.8%) are NEET simply because the jobs don't exist. Many of us are already paying National Insurance from the first insecure job we have, yet we’re still expected to bankroll your guaranteed above inflation rises. Work in Britain no long pays. The state pension already costs £138 billion a year, the second biggest single expense after the NHS. The triple lock alone will add £15.5 billion extra every year by 2030, three times the original forecast. Pension spending is heading from ~5% of GDP toward 7.7% in the coming decades, with more than half the extra burden coming directly from the triple lock itself. Waste exists elsewhere and public-sector pensions are far too generous, but this locked in, exploding cost is the elephant in the room, and they all need reviewing. I’m not pitting generations against each other or begrudging anyone a dignified retirement. But the system you defend hands one generation guaranteed rises no matter what the economy does, while the shrinking number of us paying the bill gets saddled with a heavier and heavier bag. I’m not against pensioners. I’m against a policy that’s mathematically doomed and dumps the heaviest load on fewer and fewer contributors. The truly entitled position is demanding a blank cheque forever while slapping down facts as “division” or “whining” or pretending our small treats are the problem. So go ahead, tell me exactly where I’m wrong. But this time skip the playground insults calling me and my generation entitled and lazy. I’m done being polite about a system that screws my generation while you demand a blank cheque.