smt2008
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@freedom_007__ Can the Foreign Affairs Committee call Mrs Balls to appear before them to explain this, and/or give her an opportunity to deny it is true and put the story to rest?
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This is outrageous. Who do they think they are?
Paul Saunders, the digital communications manager for the Invictus Games, has stated that the organisation did not pay for Prince Harry’s trip to Ukraine.
Instead, it was funded and organised by the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence (WTF) under Labour’s Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, John Healey UK Secretary of State for Defence and paid for by UK taxpayers.
They have treated the British public like mugs, and this is beyond disgusting, disrespectful, and unacceptable. How dare they use my money to fund Harry’s ego trip — a visit that appeared designed to undermine the King’s important state visit to the US?
Harry has spent years criticising and trashing our country, our head of state, and the Royal Family. Now that his Hollywood career has failed, the British taxpayer is apparently expected to bankroll his mediocrity. What an entitled fool.
The Conservatives first and now Labour government has handed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle £26 million to stage the Invictus Games in Birmingham — a city whose council is bankrupt and cannot even sort out its own bins.
FYI Labour just lost around 48 seats in the 2026 Birmingham City Council election!
I do not want to pay for Harry’s ego visits. He is not an important or trusted part of our constitutional monarchy. He gave up his privileges when he quit royal duties to chase his wife’s Hollywood dreams. He does not represent our country or the Royal Family.
He is a private citizen — and one who has repeatedly shown himself to be a liability and untrustworthy.
Harry already receives a level of security, but his and his wife’s inflated sense of self-importance demands more. Driven by jealousy and envy, they want the same protection given to Prince William and his family.
William is the Heir to the Throne and an integral part of the fabric of our country, with an important constitutional role. Harry is not, does not and never will as Wills has three children in front of Harry in the LOS who will go on to have their own children pushing Harry further and down the line.
If she were alive today, Princess Margaret would be 25th in the line of succession to the British throne and she was once number three in the LOS.
It’s time for Harry to wake up to reality. He needs to stop behaving like a washed-up 2000s boyband member, still chasing yesterday and trying to make “fetch” happen. Six years have passed. Most people have moved on from him, his preaching, moaning, nonsense PR, chaotic life and are now focused on the now (King Charles) and the future, William, George, Charlotte, and Louis.
Princess Anne and Prince Edward receive security only when carrying out official duties.
But I swear, if they give that clown full IPP status and full taxpayer’s security just because he’s lobbying them hard and inventing scenarios to justify it, their party will keep on losing seats.
@UKLabour @JohnHealey_MP
@YvetteCooperMP @ShabanaMahmood

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@doctor_oxford Seems unfair to GPs as well. Does their training and experience count for nothing ? How will they feel if their advice and diagnoses have to be second-guessed by a faceless 'clinician', potentially an AI bot. Sounds like a step towards downgrading GPs.
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This week the NHS will undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote, electronic “advice and guidance” from hospital ‘clinicians’ (note, not necessarily doctors), making it even harder for patients to see a hospital specialist.
Does this sound part of a plan to genuinely ‘fix’ the NHS, as Wes Streeting vowed he would do so effusively when taking up office - or more like a tactic to ration hospital care by overriding GPs in order to massage the waiting list figures?
It is, of course, the latter, an extra layer of bureaucracy that at best will delay patients’ access to the specialist treatment they need, at worse sacrifice those patients on the altar of fake news about “falling” waiting lists.
You don’t need me to point out the patient safety risks it potentially entails. We all know that time, in medicine, can be everything. The Royal College of GPs has been crystal clear: “The use of advice and guidance should not be mandated in any area… We have heard reports of risks of delays, with tests being required before any referral, lost messages and staff without appropriate senior clinical oversight handling requests.”
The aim, says the Times, is to reduce the number of hospital outpatient appointments by 30 million annually. And the government, in a really quite breathtaking example of political spin, is presenting this as “good” for patients - as though all those people who’ve been waiting years months or even years for the first Rheumatology, Neurology or Orthopaedics appointment they so desperately need are just, you know, malingering. (I recently spoke to a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who’d been waiting over six months to see a neurologist for the first time – simply scandalous.)
I believe this is a national health scandal from a government that apparently cares more about good spin than it does about good patient care.
If you feel the same, please – please – write to your MP or the Secretary of State and tell them why. Please shout about this online, in the press, anywhere you can. Don’t let this slide. Thank you.

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@smt2008 Shouldn't you already know this being from the UK?
True aristocrats or those following strictly traditional British, upper-class rules eat fish with two forks, rather than a specialized fish fork.

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The menu:🍤
Guests were served a soft-boiled egg tartlet with watercress and kale and a basil sabayon to start.
For the main, there was fillet of turbot, lobster mousse wrapped in spinach, beurre blanc sauce with sprouting broccoli and hollandaise sauce, fricasse of peas and broad beans and Jersey Royal potatoes. There was no meat served.
Desert was an iced black current soufflé with red fruit coulis.

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@JasonD60 @Sicktothebackt1 @nmdacosta Kim Lbtr herself said on Radio 4 that she was picked by a lottery to bring forward "a" bill and *then* it was suggested to her that use this to bring forward assisted dying.
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@Sicktothebackt1 @nmdacosta It's not convenient, it's randomly drawn. But yeah, feel free to insinuate he rigged the ballot too.
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The Health Secretary KNOWS Starmer's Bill is NOT safe. People will be "compelled to take up an assisted death" because of the state of NHS and palliative care.
He is an honest man but the Prime Minister has compelled his and every minister's silence.
🙏Josh Fenton-Glynn MP. Watch for the emphasis on 'workability' - not safety - at the end from the Permanent Secretary.
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@MJK10797588 So of Ukrainian descent? Is this Victoria 'Nuland' all over again?
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🫵🏻So Now She is Ramping up The Rhetoric 🗣️For Mi5 Spreading Propaganda about Russia 🇷🇺
Blaize Metreweli
Career: She joined MI6 in 1999 as a case officer and has held various operational roles in the Middle East and Europe, as well as a director-level role in MI5. Most recently.
Her Father father is Constantine Metreweli, a physician and radiologist who adopted the surname from his stepfather, David Metreweli, after his mother married him in 1947; Constantine Metreweli's birth name was Constantine Dobrowolski, and he was the son of a Nazi collaborator also named Constantine Dobrowolski interesting 🤔
Constantine Metreweli (Blaise's father) came to England as a child with his mother from Nazi-occupied Ukraine after his birth father (the Nazi collaborator) was involved with German forces.🫵🏻

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I’m nearly at York. The reason why he’s needed is awful but well done @LNER for your brilliant security man. He announced he is on board, will help with anyone’s concerns and offered to tell (bad) jokes.

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@Matt_Pinner @WstLondonGarden Never mind where we are from, where is this? Is us AI or enhanced in some way? Looks almost too perfectly composed but a beautiful image nevertheless.
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@Hail_Manowar @JohnSimpsonNews Maybe it’s this: many are slagging off London these days (likely objective: to divide the country) and some internalise what they hear without question. But remember: we will prosper when we are united. Others will prosper when we are divided.
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@MannyBernabe You mean the next feature of an app you are building needs a fresh chat with the agent? I love Replit but I have had to move my half-finished app to a different platform bcos Replit burns through the minutes trying stuff that doesn't work.
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@tylerwillis @Replit And yet the agent will still try to carry out operations it knows it cannot complete.
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@theLucyStrange @WalkerBooksUK @LBA_agency That cover is not Gothic. The covers look like cheap Madeline in Paris knockoffs. Missed opportunities to use a literate artist with some feeling for the stories and a modicum of talent. Calls into question the ability to simplify the texts.
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