Simon Begg

@DarrenRJones At least we agree on Uni...kept them off the NEET numbers as they had no where else to go. Still the case now. Unfortunately not enough trade or industrial apprenticeships around.

@simon_begg The huge growth in financial services was beneficial. The huge collapse in industry was wrong. It is a pity that the Blair-Brown partnership took it to levels that Thatcher did not get close to. Sending most kids to Uni cemented in its decline.

Destroying the industrial base of the country by artificially creating some of the highest energy costs for on the planet is a good way to ensure it isn’t just a “lost generation” but also ends opportunities for even more generations to come. This is not a mystery or accident.

@DarrenRJones Ill go for the ones backed by research and verifiable facts.

@simon_begg What is written and what transpires are before our eyes. We can choose which to believe.

The UK now has a sectarian and race influenced justice system, police, CPS, judges and even juries acting according to ideology rather than facts. It also has a sectarian “democracy” similar to that seen in the Subcontinent. This is no longer a United Kingdom.

@DarrenRJones I would also suggest that there is very much a bias towards the rich and powerful in the law courts.

@DarrenRJones Lol. You shoukd stay in London. Safer than SW. England and Wales violent crime rate by region 2025| Statista share.google/7BDLMrkQ331Tqk…

I have had to leave the peninsula for 48 hours. I am in Sadiq’s Stabdon. Head down, speak to no one. Survive. Obviously with beer.

@DarrenRJones A bad act that was removed in 2022. So what's your point old chap.

Remember when the Lib Dems pushed ,and got, a Fixed Term Parliament Act. Absolute twats.

@tnewtondunn @DarrenRJones like I said. Centre left vote still strong overall.

There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK

@DarrenRJones Aye. Irony is that the votes for PC,SNP and greens show that there is still a place for centre left parties. Unfortunately lab in this blue Labour guise has alienated many of its long tine supporters.

Other than family tradition, why has anyone voted Labour? What do they offer? They are a proven failure?

@martinkelner Great Adam Faith? Run that one by Leo Sayer to see how great he was.

The great Adam Faith reportedly said ‘Channel 5 is shit’ just before dying. Be thankful Adam you didn’t live to see the appalling Missed Call. It makes absolutely no fucking sense. Any of it. Was it written & produced by AI?

@DarrenRJones @Starlink @grok Thank goodness for non fossil fuel power alternatives. 😉

In 2026 you can go to an illiterate village in a desert with a phone, a solar panel and a @Starlink ,show them how to talk to @Grok and 2 hrs later they’d hold humanities entire knowledge. Awe inspiring.

@DarrenRJones Bloody Reform.

The Labour government tells us inflation is 3%. Councils have just issued you with 5%+ increased Council Tax bills. 🧐

@BenGrahamUK Bloody yanks. Coming over here and killing own Christian traditions.

Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years. Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated. Yet now, Cadbury won’t even use the word ‘Easter’ on their eggs. When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?

@extinguiendonos @HealeyCartoons @barneyfarmer George?

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@arthurliverpool @RupertMyers If this is all he's got to attack her on, rather than the content of her words rgen she is winning

@RupertMyers I’m surprised that a barrister is striving to make a point based on first impressions. Is this how you perform in court? Deflected by first impressions? I rather remember we were directed not to be influenced on the basis of first impression but to focus on fact.

@DarrenRJones Id say let's see what happens after may elections

@simon_begg They were in many ways held to account by their own parliamentarians. Johnson ousted, Truss ousted. Today bunch look to be (even) more interested in staying at the trough than enacting change.

The current UK Labour government has not only been shown to be incompetent, it has also been shown to be demonstrably corrupt, it could also be argued, immoral. How long can this be allowed to continue. How and what can bring it to account?

@nimishdubey Witches Abroad for me.

Guards Guards Interesting Times Both by Terry Pratchett