Ruth Pudney

#carrythemhome #WearTheRose #scrumtogether We're ready. Come on England!

A young couple in England, the day before they were due to exchange contracts on what was to be their first home, received two phone calls in quick succession. The first was from their estate agent. The second was from their solicitor. The information was the same in both. The local council had outbid them for their house, by £20,000. The seller had accepted. The couple had been bidding for the house since the asking price was £150,000. The bidding had taken the price up to £190,000, already, by their own account, the upper edge of what they could afford. The council had come in at £210,000, a level they could not match. Their offer was abandoned. Their survey, costing £900, was wasted. They still owe legal fees of £2,200 plus VAT regardless. The fixed-rate mortgage offer they had secured, in a market where rates have been rising again, will now expire before they find another property. Their landlord has new tenants moving in to their current rental in the second week of June. They are looking, on the calendar in front of them, at potential homelessness inside two months. The reason the council bought the house was disclosed to them, after some pushing, by a councillor they happened to know personally. The council needed urgent additional accommodation for asylum seekers. The property they had been buying was already previously registered as a House in Multiple Occupation, which made the conversion straightforward. The taxpayer money the council used to outbid them comes from a £500 million national pilot scheme, established under the present government, in which local authorities are funded to buy properties on the open market in order to house asylum seekers and reduce the cost of asylum hotels. In other words, local government is, on the order of central government, using your own money to give housing that you should It's a representative case. 134,760 British households were in temporary accommodation as of September 2025, which is a record. 4,793 people were sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2025, also a record, and 171% higher than in 2010. 28% of all new social housing lettings in England in 2024/25, approximately 75,000 households, went to people deemed statutorily homeless. The number of new social housing lettings that included a member of the Armed Forces community was, in the same year, approximately 2,600. The number of new lettings that went to non-UK nationals, on the basis of the nationality data published by central government, was substantially in excess of that veteran figure, by, depending on how the data is cut, about 10x. This is the British state, in 2026, using the working tax contributions of two young people in the first weeks of trying to buy a home, to outbid those same two young people for that same home, in order to provide free accommodation for foreign nationals whose claims to be in this country have not yet been assessed and may well be completely worthless. The young people will, on the present trajectory, be made homeless in the same June in which the asylum seekers move into the property they were trying to buy. The young people will be paying, through their council tax for the rest of their working lives, for the accommodation in which the asylum seekers will live. It is likely, given the number of migrants to Britain whose lifetime tax contribution is net negative, that they will be paying tax to offset these new arrivals for the rest of their lives. It goes without saying that we need the most fundamental imaginable reconstruction of our asylum, housing, planning, and immigration laws to prevent such travesties of justice from happening again. We all know what is required by way of change in those areas. Progress has written a more extensively policy testament on this subject than any other political organisation in Britain. Beyond that there is one last thing worth saying. The young couple, on the available account, are not in a position to fight any of this through the courts. They cannot afford to. Their solicitor, on their telling, was pressing them for the legal fees on a debit card before the rest of the conversation was over. They will, in all likelihood, lose the home, the deposit, the survey, the rate deal, and the remainder of their tenancy in a single short summer. They will then watch the property they were trying to buy be filled, at the public's expense, by the people the British state has decided to prioritise over them. If that does not make you furious enough to do something about what is happening in Britain, nothing will.

I would like to know why almost everyone knows about Stephen Lawrence, but hardly anyone knows about the torture and murder of 15-year-old Kriss Donald? Why did the BBC only report on this story 3 times, compared to 100s of articles on Stephen Lawrence’s murder?

After nine years of service, police dog Indy heard his name called one last time before retirement. Please leave him a heart for his service ❤️

@CotswoldLadyB @Keir_Starmer You do make me laugh! I love this! 🤣

Extra buses are shipped in from the US as @Keir_Starmer runs out of London ones to throw his civil servants and staff under…

Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Inspiring generations through a lifetime of duty.

Please share far & wide. Should males be allowed to compete in sporting events, races, teams or competitions for females?

The Man Who Paid In & The Man Who Paid Nothing. Meet Frank, the man who paid in. Frank turned 80 last winter. He grafted 52 years as a builder in Manchester, his hands and back are broken from laying bricks in pouring rain. Every week he paid his National Insurance. Never claimed benefits. Never broke the law. He raised two kids on a council estate, paid his taxes and did his bit for the country he loves. Now he shuffles to the post office in the same coat he’s worn since 2018. His old Nokia phone barely holds the charge. His State Pension is £241.30 a week, just over £12,500 a year, but after gaps, Frank gets less. He counts every penny. Some weeks it’s heating or eating. Last winter around 2,500 people in England died from cold associated causes. Frank keeps the thermostat at 15 degrees and wears jumpers indoors. "I’m not living," he tells his neighbour. "I’m just existing." His wife, Margaret, has been in a care home for two years, dementia stealing her away. Frank struggles to keep their old car on the road for weekly visits. One more breakdown and those trips could end. Every pension day is the same. Frank walks past the bookies where young fighting age men fresh off small boats shout, laugh and slap down stacks of cash twice as thick as his weekly pension. He keeps his head down, clutching his wallet, praying nobody follows him home. His street no longer feels like his street. Fewer familiar faces. Foreign languages. The corner shop is now a Turkish barbers. He feels all alone in the city he once helped build. Meet Ahmed, the man who paid nothing. Ahmed arrived on a dinghy last summer, one of 41,472 Channel crossings in 2025, mostly young men from Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Sudan. He tossed his documents into the sea, then claimed asylum the moment the dinghy touched the beach. No passport. No papers. No contributions. The Home Office puts him in a hotel. Heating on full. Three meals a day. Security on the door.Ahmed strolls the streets in new clothes and the latest iPhone, using free bus shuttles twice a day, drinking and laughing with friends outside the same bookies Frank avoids. He broke immigration rules entering the country uninvited. Once granted asylum, the door opens to UK benefits and housing. Frank paid in all his life and obeyed every rule. He built the Britain that now houses Ahmed. Ahmed has paid nothing and doesn't obey the rules, he receives shelter, warmth, food, free transport and pocket money while Frank rations food, huddles under blankets to keep warm and constantly worries about money. Tonight as Ahmed relaxes in a warm hotel room with new Nike trainers by the bed, wondering what’s for dinner. Frank sits in his cold home wondering why a lifetime of hard work brings only deprivation. This story is repeating in towns and cities across the country. This isn’t fairness. This is a betrayal. #UKNews #UKPolitics #StopTheBoats

@Matt_Pinner No!

To the women who are on this app, be honest Are you OKAY with a man claiming to be a woman using the ladies room if you're in there? 🤷🤔

We wrote a song for our NFRSA family. Paying tribute to the amazing furry partners out there - and with love to all our retired service animals in the NFRSA family - past - present - and future. Every horse and every dog who has done so much for us - this is for you. Please listen to the words - they come from our hearts. And please free to share. Thank you for listening. 💜 @P_Wicks01 @DeborahMeaden @MrNickKnowles @nickyJphoto @AdamHenson @thelisamaxwell @DogsHmpps @WMPDogs @carolvorders @UKBorder @HantsIOW_fire nfrsa.org.uk

Outside the Home Office Today 🇬🇧

Planned strike action affecting London Underground ⚠️ Planned strikes by RMT Tube drivers will affect all Tube services on: Tuesday 24 March and Thursday 26 March - Morning - normal services expected - After midday - severe disruption expected Wednesday 25 March and Friday 27 March - Morning - severe disruption until midday - Afternoon / evening - services recovering, with some disruption likely until the evening Other TfL services will be running as normal but are expected to be extremely busy. Find out more and check before you travel: tfl.gov.uk/campaign/strik…

@EllisGenge We were in Italy last week & were deeply disappointed. Great game today, you all played the way we want to see you play, so we’re very proud of you. Take care & rest up. ❤️🏉

The support the fans have shown through out this campaign regardless of results has been incredible, we didn’t achieve what we wanted but thank you, we appreciate you.

@EnglandRugby well played lads, that’s how we want to see you play. Great game. ❤️🏉

They said English culture doesn't exist. They said it in English. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The most spoken language on Earth. Born on this island. Fifteen hundred years ago, three tribes crossed the North Sea. Angles. Saxons. Jutes. They brought words we still use today. Earth. Water. Fire. Love. Mother. Father. Child. They called their language Englisc. They called this place Engla land. Land of the Angles. Then the Vikings came. They didn't just raid. They settled. Became neighbours. And when you live next door to someone, your languages merge. Sky. Skull. Knife. Window, the Viking for "wind-eye." They. Them. Their. Those aren't English words. They're Viking. Ordinary people chose them because they worked better. Then came 1066. The Normans conquered England. The new rulers spoke French. For three hundred years, English had no official status in its own country. But the people never stopped speaking it. The farmer called it a cow. The lord called it beef. Pig and pork. Sheep and mutton. That class divide is still on your plate tonight. English didn't die. It swallowed ten thousand French words and came back stronger. Today. One and a half billion people speak this language. Every pilot on Earth speaks it. Half the internet is written in it. No academy designed it. No king commanded it. It was built by ordinary people. On this island. They said English culture doesn't exist. They said it in English. You're the reason these stories reach millions of people. Not sponsors. Not ads. You. proudofus.co.uk/support Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@EnglandRugby @Federugby @O2UK Italy are so exciting to watch, England were frustrating! Stop kicking the ball away & keep your discipline! We’ve now seen you lose at every 6N venue over the years! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤯 @MartinPudney @rph_woody

Congratulations, @Federugby @o2uk | #WearTheRose

Serious question… Why are groups of Islamists riding horses through the streets of Manchester wearing armbands and trying to ride people down… …while the police just stand back and do nothing? What exactly is going on in this country?

The Government has admitted the National Grooming Gangs Inquiry won’t cover: >the role of religion >ethnicity/cultural factors >criminal liability of powerful people, organisations etc. >all cases (will use select case studies instead) Labour couldn’t care less about justice. 𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙜𝙞𝙧𝙡𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨. First, they blocked it. Then, they voted against it. Next, they stripped it back to “local model” enquiries. Then, they U-turned and tried to claim credit. Next, they tried to use survivors. They took the same girls they once called white slags and child prostitutes… and put them on a “survivors’ panel” to pretend Labour cared and wanted change. Then, they isolated them from their families, friends and support networks. And when survivors spoke out and demanded better? They sneered, insulted and tried to discredit them once more. And now, they have resorted back to covering up and quietly dismantling the very inquiry they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to commission. Labour only cares about survivors when they can package them up in a red rosette or stick them on a campaign leaflet. They tried to exploit survivors of Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs to bolster their credibility. All to win back votes from the same people they’ve spent months calling “far-Right bandwagon jumpers”. They just want to save their own skin. Don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes. Never forget.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The bells of St Mary’s Church, Warwick, ring out “I Vow to Thee, My Country”!

@Matt_Pinner Yes if that was the best decision for them. I don’t understand why everyone goes to uni these days, they’re not more clever than the kids in the 60s & 70s when only the top brains went to uni to get degrees. The same as taking a year out. 🤷🏼‍♀️ We went to school then got a job. 🤔

Be honest because I’m trying to prove a point Would you back your child or grandchild's decision to attend trade school rather than college?