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UK news: HS2 could cost up to £102.7bn and may not open until 2039 (BBC) This is Chongqing railway station rebuild in China. It cost £16.5bn and took only around 3 1/2 years to complete. Their high speed rail (350km/hr) cost just £5.9bn and took 6 years

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things. I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation. Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right. On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating. I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

Andy Burnham now now says: 1. I will stick to Rachael Reeves’ fiscal rules. 2. I will not seek to rejoin the EU. Two U-turns in one day. What exactly would he do differently?

That cartoon of someone going from slightly left of center to somehow right wing describes the average American

The same man who called the majority of the country far-right for daring to be upset after three innocent girls were killed in Southport. He has no shame.

Western society is currently divided between people who know this is a man and are prepared to say so and those who know this is a man but lie out of obedience to an ideology. There is no third option. Literally nobody on earth thinks "Roxanne Tickle" is actually a woman.

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election: Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister. Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour. We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run. We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the United Kingdom’s newly appointed Health Secretary who lacks the biological understanding of a primary school child, as he believes “trans women are women”. This Labour government is turning the UK into the laughing stock of the world.

Starmer’s just appointed James Murray as the new Health Secretary the man now running the entire NHS. And this is how he defines a woman when a actual woman challenges him: Woman: “Do you think it’s a bit strange that you’re a man telling me, a woman, what a woman is?” Murray: “I think a woman is an adult female and a trans woman.” Woman: “An adult female… and an adult male?” Murray: “You and I disagree on this.” Let that sink in. The bloke in charge of women’s wards, maternity care, single-sex spaces, rape crisis services, and NHS safeguarding can’t or won’t admit that women are adult human females. Full stop. This isn’t nuance. It’s dangerous ideological capture at the highest level of healthcare. How the hell is he going to protect women’s rights and safety when he thinks biological males can be women? This appointment is a disgrace. Women’s health and dignity are not up for debate or “disagreement.” We’re watching you, Secretary Murray. Closely.

Isn’t it odd that Rayner’s £40K tax deal is announced just in time for her to run for No.10 and she escapes any fine while tax expert Dan Neidle forecast you and I would have faced an £8K penalty. Stinks doesn’t it?

You can't buy land as a foreigner in Thailand. The Thais rightly set limits on the property and other rights the considerable number of foreigners in their country can enjoy. But in 'Progressive' Scotland you can move here and become a law maker after 2 mins. This. Is. Mental.

Andy Burnham is a full-blown gender ideologue. As Mayor of Manchester, he oversaw £100,000 of funding for an organisation helping children to get puberty blockers. He also criticised the Supreme Court judgment on biological sex. Labour cannot be trusted on child safeguarding.

I submitted my tax return to HMRC one day late. I was fined £100. And I didn't even owe them any tax! Angela Rayner tried to avoid paying £40,000 stamp duty for nearly a year and could have been fined £8,000 by the HMRC after she recently coughed up the money, (shortly after being gifted £50,000 from a refrigeration company for 'Office Expenses'). She wasn't fined a single penny. No fine. No penalty. No comeback whatsoever. Is it any wonder that us little folk are getting so pissed off with these freeloading, opportunistic, money grabbing, holier than thou, two faced charlatans?

The Speaker of the Flemish Parliament @freyabos summons the British 🇬🇧 Ambassador in #Brussels regarding the #UK-entry ban against MP Filip Dewinter @fdw_vb Freya Van den Bossche: “If a dissenting opinion is the only reason for an entry ban in the #UK, that is shocking.” hln.be/binnenland/fre…

Scotland is the only country on earth where ‘just here on a student visa’ is apparently a pathway to becoming a parliamentary legislator. Absolute Holyrood clown show.

This is what communism looks like in the 21st century. I have just been denied entry to the UK in order to speak at the largest patriotic event in Europe. Starmer will be sued by me. Not the government, not the Home Office but Starmer personally. Once you lose the next election, communist, we’ll meet in court! Tommy @TRobinsonNewEra , this communist cannot silence millions, nor can he take away their right to vote! UNITE THE KINGDOM!

Just a reminder, before the inevitable Labour leadership campaign, that Wes Streeting supports giving puberty blockers to vulnerable children. So much so that Keira Bell and I have had to bring legal proceedings in the High Court to stop him. He is not fit to be Prime Minister.

Filip Dewinter has been banned from entering the UK. A Belgian politician. A diplomatic passport. A speaking engagement at a UK rally. Denied. This is a dark day for freedom of speech in Britain.

Like a stubborn verruca, but less likeable.

We appear to be in agreement with Ian Blackford: “Quite frankly this should be an automatic vetting fail as a candidate on a student visa does not satisfy the ability to enter into full-time work...The Greens are treating the electorate with contempt" thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…