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@thiago_peres @cornu__copia Albert Khan. Born in Prussia, designed and built just a few buildings.

@cornu__copia NY architects were heavily influenced by German Bauhaus, which started in 1919. During WWII, many escaped to the US

It always blows my mind that the German architect Walter Gropius who co-designed the (then) PanAm Building in New York was born in 1883. He was 20 when the Wright brothers did their first flight, 25 when Model T was first produced... And somehow drew this.

@TheEngineerXC @LaticsJosie They've had a couple of guys canvassing on Market Street in Hindley this afternoon. x.com/i/status/20589…

@LaticsJosie Restore support is primarily social media - influenced by viral posts and bots. It doesn't translate to electoral reality, people will come to realize this eventually.

I live in Makerfield as does my extended family. Not one of us has had a leaflet from Restore let alone a knock on the door. I’ve also not seen a single house with a Restore sign. Bryn Community Club meetings attracted two dozen (largely the same) canvassers all last week.

@sickoflibbullsh @AmericanFemnst Its not though. We did this in the UK. We didnt even have min wage until 99. I were 17 earning £120 a week. Had a 1.1 cinqucento sporting. Petrol was 59p a litre. Town was booming. Happy hours everywhere. £1 a bottle. Mitsubishis were a 5er. The young car culture was huge in 90s

This person is being paid to sow division between the generations. On it's face, it makes no sense unless you were filthy rich. In the 90's, minimum wage was around $4.50 - $5.00 /hr. Assuming this person was around 18 years old, with no real skills, that's what he'd make. So at $5.00/hr, if he worked 20 hrs part time, that's $100. Subtract $20 in taxes. With $80, you did not do all of those things. That means that your parents were also subsidizing this fantasy lifestyle. Which some may have, but most did not, could not afford to do. Particularly when most people had 3, 4, 5 children. It's a LIE.

When I was a teenager in the 90s, everyone had a car and we “cruised” for fun and never worried about gas. We ate fast food and went on dates at restaurants multiple times a week. We went to concerts and raves and bought name brand clothing at the mall. We worked part time and always had extra money. Our parents owned nice houses, worked ordinary jobs, and took us on vacation at least once a year. I feel sorry for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

@tomhfh Ah, I remember being at college in 1995 and working at Morrisons. £1.94 an hour. I used to get more of my old man for doing the hoovering and washing his car. Halcyon days. Not. It was fucking shite.

This is what entry level jobs used to do, before politicians raised the minimum wage to unrealistic heights and killed the key route in to work.

@BrexitDuck @RustySlaw79916 @fartharda95990 Why would you use a VPN if you're in the UK?

@RustySlaw79916 @fartharda95990 Now press the little shield, you moron. They are using a VPN.

Makerfield canvassing results today. One ward which I will not reveal. Reform 53% Labour 39% Restore 3% Greens 2% Lib Dem’s 2% Tories 1% This seems to be a very strong Reform area.

@WDRailways Came across this on the GCR line. It was the only one left standing.

@WDRailways The old Glazebrook line just after Hindley Prison. In-between Bickershaw station and Hindley South Station under the old GCR line at Bickershaw Junction.

Whitegate Station, near Winsford, Cheshire Closed in the 1960s, now a walking track © Lawrie Hardings

@Fred_Karnos @DaveKent101 What i won't be doing is voting for this party of con artists. x.com/i/status/20584…

@serchbloc @DaveKent101 What's 5 minutes from Leigh got to do with the price of bread...Family home now worth £1.3m...Hardly a 2up 2down is it fella? Did you by any chance vote for that wanker Starmer and his bunch of dickheads...?

Makerfield locals point out that Andy Burnham comes from a posh background - ie your usual champagne socialist.🤨 'I might have been born in a council house but I'm not stupid,' says Enid. 'He is obviously not from round here. Where he's from – where he grew up – is posh.' dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Oh dear. Would be a shame if this got circulating eh?

@Fred_Karnos @DaveKent101 Its like 5 minutes from Leigh across the East Lancs. It ain't no leafy Cheshire village ffs.

@DaveKent101 Born in Liverpool, but raised in the leafy village of Culcheth, Cheshire. His father was a BT engineer and his mother a GP receptionist. Read English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Has never done a day's work outside politics. Genuinely "working class"...? You decide.🤔

@Benleo @Ryder56004614 Did Americans receive their DOGE cheques yet?

@Ryder56004614 Sounds good to me

NEW: NIGEL FARAGE PROMISES TO SCRAP TAX ON OVERTIME IF ELECTED PM If Reform UK wins the next general election, people who earn less than £75,000 and work overtime above a 40-hour week will pay no income tax on the extra hours. Similar to Trump's 'no tax on tips' policy

@ZiaYusufUK Yes. Vote Reform and get your free DOGE cheques through the post.

Many are asking if Reform’s new policy of NO TAX on overtime applies to those working 2nd jobs: YES, so long as total income is below £75k!

@AWills1995 @ZiaYusufUK @REFORMINGLONDON He wants to cut minimum wages. He thinks £12 hr is too much. £20k a yr is to much to pay someone for a yrs work.

@ZiaYusufUK @REFORMINGLONDON Holy smokes! This is the best policy announcement yet Tens of millions of hard workers are going to love you 🇬🇧

🚨Important policy announcement: Britain was built on the hard graft of people who go the extra mile. A Reform government will ABOLISH income tax on hours worked beyond 40 hours a week, for incomes below £75,000 a year. It’s time to REWARD hard work, not punish it! 🇬🇧

@Gavtaraysin @EssexPR @fredgs05 He's on about cutting £90 billion from the Welfare state, scrapping minimum wage and paying some random island somewhere so we can process boat people there! People in low income areas are going to be fucked over big time. Its hilarious watching them proudly shout Reform.

@EssexPR @fredgs05 So this will mean fewer people are paying tax? This is what's got us into to this situation.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Nurses, police, ambulance workers, fireman, etc Go on lefties, spin that.

@GoodwinMJ Returning migrants at sea back to France? How's thats possible when France has a bigger better Navy?

@GoodwinMJ How is Reform going to magically stop the boats. Send the Navy in?

The only way to stop Labour, to stop the boats, to stop mass migration, to stop soft-on-crime policies, to stop being treated like second-class citizens in our own country is by voting Reform in Makerfield. This is your chance. Don’t lose it.

@RobKenyonReform Do you want to drop minimum wage? You're about to go around Platt Bridge and Hindley and tell people £12 and hour is to much to pay someone? £20k a year is too much for a years work? Good luck with that 👍

Getting signs up right across Makerfield... Drop me a Facebook message if you want one!

@MarkStretford @RobKenyonReform Do the people from Waz, which is a low income town know that that candidate your pushing and possible future PM Farage think that the min wage is too high and should be dropped? x.com/i/status/20578…

Angry Andy is not a popular man in Platt Bridge or Hindley… Believe it or don’t believe it, but by all accounts, he isn’t as popular as he reckons in Ashton too. Our @RobKenyonReform is well liked. All to play for. Remember, this place elected RK a fortnight ago! #VoteReform

@MarkStretford @dereksmith15212 @RobKenyonReform Reforms full of career politicians though. Im from Hindley. I'll be voting Burnham. A guy who was Leigh MP for 16 yrs. GM Mayor. Burnham lives in Golbourne. He's local. There's a chance for our local MP to be PM. Instead of another Southern London-centric PM if I vote Reform

@dereksmith15212 @RobKenyonReform Says Derek the bot hiding behind his account... Yawn, get a red violin, nobody cares. People want a real, genuine person to represent them, someone who actually cares about and understands the place. Not a career politician. Have a nice day.

@SarahForRuncorn On the 18th June in Hindley, il be voting Burnham. What the fuck is another Southern London-centric PM going to do for Wigan? Zero. Zilch. Nothing.

On 18th June in Makerfield, support our local plumber to stop the drip.