The Sewing Machine

@AssalRad The clue is in the name - news, not storytime.

How is this not the headline in every major news outlet?

Stop with all this 'he's so young & so unintelligent, sending him to prison for gang rape will mess his life up'. It fecking should. What about HER life?

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

A 7-year-old boy gets on a train in Tokyo. Alone. No mother. No phone. No adult watching him at all. He bows to the driver, finds his seat, and folds his hands in his lap. He is going to school. By himself. Across a city of 14 million strangers. And not one person on that train thinks anything is wrong. A businessman glances up, then goes back to his paper. An old woman smiles at the boy and looks away. Nobody films him. Nobody calls anyone. Nobody is afraid. Because in Japan, a small child alone is not a victim waiting to happen. He is just a kid going to school. Like every kid before him. I grew up being told the opposite. Lock the door. Watch your back. Trust no one. Never let them out of your sight, not for one second, or the world will take them. And somewhere along the way, I started to believe that was simply the truth. Then I watched a 7-year-old ride home alone through a city of millions. And step off at his stop. And walk the rest of the way. Safe. We had this once, too. A street that watched your kids. A town that brought them home. Japan didn't find some secret. They just never stopped being decent to each other. Quietly. Every single day. While the rest of us forgot we ever could. That little boy will get home tonight. He always does.

In Britain, four British-Pakistani teenagers are on trial for repeatedly setting fire to Jewish ambulances over several months. They had been consuming jihadist content online. Despite the clear antisemitic and ideological motivation, British authorities decided not to charge them with terrorism. Instead, they are being prosecuted only for arson. This is yet another example of Britain’s refusal to properly confront Islamist-motivated violence. When Jews are targeted, the system goes out of its way to downplay the ideological motive.

After massacring 40,000 protesters in January, the Islamic regime in Iran started executing those who survived the bloodbath. British PM Keir Starmer? Silent. French President Emmanuel Macron? Silent. Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez? Silent. Italian PM Giorgia Meloni? Silent. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz? Silent. Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin? Silent. Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre? Silent. Canadian PM Mark Carney? Silent.

@NormanBrennan He cannot ever bring himself to mention that the culprits are radical Muslim terrorists.

A little but very important correction👇🤷‍♂️ Today we remember Fusilier Lee Rigby Mercilessly Murdered in cold blood when deliberately ran over by one of two Terrorist then stabbed to death with a Knife & Machete by them Both & left to die in the road👇🤷‍♂️

@bphillipsonMP From your own promotional video.

@bphillipsonMP @UKLabour Can @X please ban these consistent lies from Labour? It’s not free breakfast clubs when record levels of taxes are paying for it!

BREAKING NEWS! The @CPS MUST Insist on a RETRIAL for these👇 Two characters! It MUST>NOT BE at Liverpool Crown Ct >Again! Move it to Old Bailey or North/Midlands away from Community where they live & where there R>Religious Sympathies etc Let’s have a Proper Unbiased>Trial👇🤷‍♂️

@Katie_Lam_MP @UK_EngWalScoNI I hope you can drag him @DavidLammy on to the floor of the @HouseofCommons and demand an explanation from him. This cannot stand !

@MatthewStadlen Not really. Look at the underlying figures about who’s leaving. Net migration isn’t a good measure on its own.

Awkward for Reform that net migration has crashed since Labour have been in power.

Watch as @nationalgriduk chomps through a hedge. In nesting season. Despite its DCO stating “”In accordance with good practice measure B02, vegetation with the potential to support breeding birds will be programmed to be removed outside of breeding bird season (March to August inclusive) where practicable”. So why was it not practicable not to do it in this instance?The ecologist found nothing (what a surprise) but there is no way a hedge like this does not have nesting birds. (This is Bramford to Twinstead, not Norwich to Tilbury) @PylonsEAnglia

Why would the state add something to a diet staple that hikes the risk of cancer in men?

The land under these panels will never be farmed again. Potato growing associations nationwide will not buy potatoes grown on ex-solar sites. Why? The panels leach heavy metals, as well as drop glass shards and microplastics onto the soil below them. In a mass commercial arrangement, vegetation below the panels is soaked in herbicides. The fertile farmland is gone forever.

@Steven_Swinford It’s not simply owning an asset - it’s taking a risk. Landlords have costs and responsibilities, and many lose a fortune when properties are trashed by tenants, or lost rent and legal fees evicting tenants.

Wes Streeting has this morning set out his tax plans - specifically bringing capital gains tax into line with income tax He says that the current system is unfair because it penalises work Higher or additional rate taxpayers will pay 24% on gains in the current financial year. Streeting said that the rates should mirror income tax bands - so 40% for higher rate taxpayers and 45% for additional rate taxpayers He says that the approach could raise £12billion a year Streeting said: “A member of my family is a cleaner in Lancashire. She pays a higher tax rate on her salary than her landlord pays for the growing value of the home she lives in. She slogs her guts out, he puts in far less effort, yet the state rewards him more than her. And we wonder why people are angry. “The system is penalising work. It’s not fair and it’s bad for our economy. We need a wealth tax that works. A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day's work. We can do it in a way that is pro-growth, pro-entrepreneur and pro-work.”

@Jenny_1884 Chemicals sprayed on crops and additives in food

What I don’t understand is why so many of us have food intolerances nowadays like gluten, dairy & so many more. When I was at school back in the 60s/70s apart from the odd peanut allergy you never heard of anyone with these problems. What’s caused it? Is it the medications that we are taking?

@SandyofSuffolk @BootsieCat2 I agree that a lot of the loony lefties seem to be vegan, but it’s a bit of a stretch to imply their delusions are caused by being vegan. A vegan who eats properly is getting every necessary vitamin without supplements.

@BootsieCat2 The trouble is she stopped taking her medically prescribed vitamins.

I read a sad story today about a young woman of 21 who took her own life after, according to the Coroner, developing delusional beliefs stemming from vitamin deficiency as she had a vegan diet. Now, a conspiracy theory: Lots of young lefties are vegans. Lots of lefties are delusional. I'll let you come to your own conclusions.

@TigerDonald2000 @danny__kruger Yet

@thesewingm @danny__kruger Reform is not the government of the day though is it??

Tomorrow the PCS civil servants’ union is debating a motion to ‘counter a hostile Reform government’ with ‘sustained industrial action’: they are planning to go on strike if we win. This is Reform’s response. Any civil servant who seeks to undermine ministerial authority and the impartiality of the Civil Service through unlawful strike action will no longer have a job to return to. The Civil Service exists to implement the will of the government of the day. Its staff must do what duly-elected ministers ask them to do, within the law - or leave. By publicly confirming the reason for future industrial action as opposition to a specific ‘hostile’ government, the PCS have ensured their strikes cannot be considered a ‘trade dispute’ and would be unprotected and unlawful. Under section 12.1.21 of the CSMC, no appeals to the Civil Service Appeal Board will be possible in this situation. As the Shadow Home Secretary already set out, pension entitlements and any entitlement to redundancy pay may also be lost. Those who do choose to strike because, like the PCS, they disagree with the democratic decision of the British people are not only taking part in unlawful industrial action but are also in breach of the Terms & Conditions of their employment, specifically section 4.1.3 (b) of the Civil Service Management Code (CSMC): “civil servants must not take part in any political or public activity which compromises, or might be seen to compromise, their impartial service to the Government of the day or any future Government”. The fact is under a Reform UK government the Civil Service will be a much better workplace than it is today. Our plans will deliver a smaller and more highly skilled Civil Service where good work is rewarded and officials are able to make a real difference to people’s lives. A union that prioritised its own members would recognise that our agenda will be the most pro-worker in recent political history. We’re happy to work with any fair-minded trade union to develop policies to support workers. But, if the PCS don’t wish to engage reasonably they should know that we will turn their anti-democratic motion into a resounding win for a Reform UK government, the taxpayer, and the British people.

@TigerDonald2000 @danny__kruger The civil service is there to serve the government of the day. Threatening to strike because they don’t agree with that government would breach their own contracts, hence they would, quite rightly, be sacked. That’s not intimidation, it’s reminding them what they signed up for.

@danny__kruger I don't think anyone wants your threats, either here or elsewhere. The civil service is not an organisation you can intimidate with your threats, so if I were you I would keep quiet and behave yourself and stop acting like the fascists that you really are.