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@BraisbyI @Wishfullthinki9 The customers and the farmers. The farmers do not get anywhere near a fair price for their labour or produce.

@Wishfullthinki9 But the supermarkets are still making billions in profits, the only people losing are the customers, as they pay the inflated prices to cover the loss from shoplifting.

When are Supermarkets going to wake up and revert back to traditional checkouts. The ever increasing loss due to self scanning and self checkouts is increasing at a fast rate. I can't be the only one to witness this happening.

@Iromg @UKLabour I hope this is the case but we still have an alarming number of Labour voters who were brought up with chips on their shoulders and grandfathers who had voted Labour since the worst days of the mills, mines and Tolpuddle Martyrs.

No one is going to vote @UKLabour on May 7th. Liars, cheats, charlatans and crooks. Mandelson, Doyle, Campbell, Brown, MacSweeney, Blair, Starmer. All compromised. All finished.

@sandieshoes Don’t think qualifications, experience or skills are involved.

@seagull4a A new PM would surely change the Chancellor 🤞 God knows who is qualified to do that. Mind you they can’t be worse than Reeves surely.

I think the public is definitely allergic to Starmer. “A former Labour cabinet minister says: ‘The public are allergic to Starmer and the party cannot stand him. He has no friend in politics apart from [the attorney general Richard] Hermer. He trusts no one. He has not a single real supporter in the cabinet. The civil service loathes him and the military are contemptuous. The media have seen right through him. Starmer is now thoroughly paranoid. He is terrified of the Rayner-Burnham threat to him. But Labour MPs cannot yet gather round an alternative.’ Spectator. That would certainly go someway to explaining why - In 22 months, the PM is now on his third chief of staff, third cabinet secretary and fifth director of communications.

It took me 2hrs 25mins to drive a return trip from East Sheen to Charing Cross Hospital this evening. 😩😤 #DialysisTransport #TubeStrike #Roadworks Why is there never any urgency to complete roadworks @TfL?

@algarve32c @ZiaYusufUK @Xplo_onyX @wesstreeting Well, we know how much priority Labour place on vetting. Wes Streeting is a disgrace.

@ZiaYusufUK @Xplo_onyX @wesstreeting Did anyone vet Wes Streeting before placing him in charge of others well being ?

Really @wesstreeting? Have you not read your own tweets repeatedly threatening gruesome murder?

@EdwynNich2828 @ZiaYusufUK @wesstreeting Do the people in his constituency not follow him on social media? Why do they vote for such a vile man?

@ZiaYusufUK @wesstreeting Madness. Streeting has a long history of publicly fantasising about hurting and killing people. The man also casually uses misogynistic language.

@sandieshoes Welcome back! Missed your rants! Hope you were away doing something nice and not quiet whilst having to lie down in a dark corner!

@sandieshoes I’m wiling to bet Mandelson was somehow involved with the approval for the Chinese embassy in London.

So the security risks identified about Mandelson could be "managed and or mitigated" through specific strategies. Interestingly none of the mitigations was about Mandelson’s connection to Epstein. They all related to his  business interests in China and Russia.  I’m willing to bet Mandelson isn’t the only one sweating on the outcome of the investigation into allegations of misconduct in public office.  By appointing Mandelson did Starmer enable him - we will see.

@ScotlandTheGr8 @JamesMelville I hope it won't... but it's following a trend. Less space is being made available for cars and they are all being slowed down to the point where even trying to use a car will break the sanity of anyone behind a wheel. Rules need to be sensible and are lot are not.

@seagull4a @JamesMelville I don't get your point...as I said, the petition is basically for single country lanes...it wouldn't affect any other streets (nor do I think it'll actually go anywhere)

“Thousands of Brits have backed a call to halve the national speed limit from 60mph to 30mph on single carriageway roads.” This is absolutely ridiculous for so many different reasons.

@crappyhiker2016 @Calexander0011 @Pompytrunk @JamesMelville There is probably a reason why you have been on X for 10 years and only have nine followers. Everyone obviously blocks you, just as I am about to do.

@Calexander0011 @seagull4a @Pompytrunk @JamesMelville so?

@crappyhiker2016 @Calexander0011 @Pompytrunk @JamesMelville I have driven on plenty of country roads and inner city roads over the course of 49 years. Back then we were taught the Highway Code but also to be very aware of our surroundings, on the road and alongside it, and to drive accordingly.

@seagull4a @Calexander0011 @Pompytrunk @JamesMelville You sound very easily offended and also that youve never driven on a country road 🤣

@ScotlandTheGr8 @JamesMelville I live in SW London. On Saturday it took me 35 mins to drive 2.5 miles, largely due to roadworks, cycle lanes and the fact that the A306 has now been reduced to 20mph despite it being dual carriageway with a central reservation & no housing on one side.

@JamesMelville To be fair, it's referring to a petition which is specifically asking about single carriageway roads in rural areas. Not everywhere, and not on normal roads...just on those roads where there's literally only one lane

@crappyhiker2016 @Calexander0011 @Pompytrunk @JamesMelville Most people do use their judgement and experience. Saying ‘people seldom use their judgement’ isn’t true and is insulting to the vast majority.

@Calexander0011 @Pompytrunk @JamesMelville But people seldom use their judgement - thats why we have road deaths

@SkyNews @BethRigby If Starmer thinks he’s out of the woods & this issue has been put to bed, he needs to think again. He is clearly delusional. Not so long ago he would’ve been locked up in the Tower! Regardless of process, none of his behaviour, actions or policies have been of benefit to the UK.

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@sandieshoes I used to be quite impressed by @LeeAndersonMP_. Far less so during the last year or so. @reformparty_uk seem to be arsenal of loose cannons.

Lee Anderson booted out of the House for calling Starmer a liar, I sympathise and agree. But when asked for specifics - why is he a liar? the best Anderson could come up with was his inbox. He had no reasoned argument to back his claim.  I suspect this was a publicity stunt. When that was put to him he became belligerent, same as Farage when he’s challenged.  🙄

@gillcolesyahoo1 @SamaHoole A half shoulder of lamb was the norm at home when I was growing up, so I assume it was one of the cheaper options. Lamb is unfortunately, way outside my budget these days… except for very special occasions.

@seagull4a @SamaHoole Chicken was the rare treat. It has swapped round now.

Dry dripping on bread, with a pinch of salt, was, for approximately four hundred years, one of the most common things a British child ate when he came in from school. The dripping was what was left in the pan after the Sunday roast. Beef fat, mostly, sometimes with a dark jelly at the bottom where the juices had settled. Your mother spooned it into a white enamel bowl, covered it with a plate, and kept it on the cold shelf in the pantry. It lasted a week. Sometimes two. It fried the Monday bubble and squeak, the Tuesday eggs, the Wednesday onions. On Thursday afternoon, before it ran out, you got a slice of bread spread with the stuff, a pinch of salt cracked on top, and that was tea. It was a treat. It was also just food. A child in 1930 would have looked at you blankly if you had suggested that beef dripping on bread was in any way remarkable. It was what was in the bowl. It was free. It tasted of Sunday lunch three days later. Beef dripping is approximately 50% monounsaturated fat, 40% saturated fat, and carries the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K from the pasture the cow grazed on. The cow ate grass. The grass had been growing on British soil since the end of the last Ice Age. The fat was the end product of ten thousand years of continuous ruminant grazing. A slice of bread and dripping delivered, for roughly the price of the bread, a dose of fat-soluble vitamins and usable calories that the rest of the British afternoon was going to need. Nobody got heart disease from bread and dripping. The British cardiovascular mortality rate of 1930, when almost every family ate dripping several times a week, was a fraction of what it is now. The British obesity rate of 1930 was essentially zero. The British type 2 diabetes rate was so low that the Royal College of Physicians considered the condition a medical curiosity. Then the dripping was quietly removed. First by margarine, invented in 1869 by a French chemist trying to feed the army, mass-marketed in Britain after the First World War as a modern, clean, scientific alternative to animal fat. Then by Crisco-style vegetable shortenings in the 1930s. Then, decisively, from the 1960s onwards, by the dietary advice that saturated animal fat caused heart disease. The advice was wrong. The research behind it was flawed, selectively published, and in some cases deliberately manipulated. The corrections have been appearing in the peer-reviewed literature for thirty years. The public-health guidelines have not been updated. Bread and dripping was replaced, in the British kitchen, by margarine on bread. Then by low-fat spread on bread. Then by skimmed-milk spread on industrially processed bread from the Chorleywood process. Then by a plastic tub of something labelled "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter," made from a blend of palm oil, rapeseed oil, emulsifiers, and flavouring, spread on a slice of Kingsmill so pale and so soft it could be balled up in one hand. The cardiovascular disease rates climbed through the same decades. The obesity rates climbed through the same decades. The type 2 diabetes rates went from medical curiosity to national crisis through the same decades. The fat your great-grandmother scraped out of the Sunday roast pan and spread on her child's tea was never the problem. The problem was what replaced it. Industrial seed oil, chemically extracted from seeds using hexane solvent, deodorised, bleached, and sold in a plastic bottle as a health food. A substance no human population had consumed in meaningful quantities before 1910, and which now makes up roughly 20% of the total calories in the average British diet. The dripping bowl on the cold shelf was a complete piece of nutritional engineering, evolved over centuries, running on the natural waste stream of the Sunday roast, costing nothing, delivering real nutrients, and causing none of the conditions it was eventually blamed for. It was thrown out of the British kitchen on the basis of a mistake. The mistake has never been corrected. The bowl is still at your grandmother's house, probably, at the back of a cupboard, unused since about 1985. The cow that built Britain is still in the field.

@ScaryEurope TAKES TWO MINUTES. Petition: Ban non-stun & recoverable stun slaughter of animals petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7621…

@lfg_uk This post and the replies are truly shocking. It’s amazing that our country was somehow rebuilt so quickly after the war, despite everyone being broken and exhausted economically, physically and emotionally. People and values were obviously different back then.

The A27 Arundel bypass was supposed to be built. £67,000,000 was spent on the planning. It was then cancelled. £67 million was basically wasted. Nothing got built. Not a single metre. People wake up, they go to work, and they pay tax. Should it be spent like this?