Cllr Matt Shakespeare 🔶

The owner of this website and his associates in the incoming US Government have threatened the independence & territorial integrity of the UK, Canada, Denmark and Panama.I’m leaving and will continue to prattle on @mattshakey.Bluesky.social . I recommend you leave too.

Got to love some fabulous merch that arrived just in time for our Boxing Day walk this morning 🧀 Thanks @WisconsinCheese for the parcel 👍🏻 #Cheese

Crowd control set up outside Reading station due to SEVERELY reduced services ift.tt/FA0Coip

Xmas visitors waved off home? Turkey curry cooking away? You’ll want to know when bin day is #pangbourne #westberks westberks.gov.uk/binday?formExp…

Exciting news that Santa is expected to visit Pangbourne tonight with the help of the rotary club. This will be his route between approx 1800 and 1930.

Right now at the Parliament of Georgia. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 @MaiaDuishvili

Young people in the UK are being denied opportunities because this government refuses to sit down with our European allies to agree on a Youth Mobility Scheme. @JamesMacCleary challenges the Government on its refusal to act.

Ed Davey says Donald Trump's son joked that President Zelensky was about to lose his "allowance", and asks if UK will step up to support Ukraine if US aid cut Keir Starmer says we’ve been "strong in our support for Ukraine” #PMQs bbc.in/3CzZftj

We are hosting a live Flood Insurance presentation and Q&A by @floodre on the 26th November in Pangbourne, West Berks plus display of flood resilience products from @FerncoLtd @FloodgateLtd

Our utility companies are not working for us

If you’re involved in local government and not following @BearwoodCouncil you’re missing so much joy

That's an easy one, he's just not very good at politics and covers it up with the kind of confidence only private education can provide

@ThreshedThought In 1939, with an aggressor nation on the march and no US military assistance (the US had a smaller army than Belgium at the time), UK defence spending increased from 3.75% of GDP to 9%. Do we have the will to do that again?

The UK immediately needs to: - Increase defence spending rapidly (rather than shrinking its army) - Focus its military strategy on deterring Russian aggression in Europe (rather than confronting ‘global threats’) - Work with European allies to defend Europe under a NATO that doesn’t have US support (rather than assuming that America guarantees European security). Anything less would be a government dereliction of duty.

Lib Dems Ed Davey has taken a stronger line than the PM:

@timfarron Yeah well, what about the Muslims he tried for ban coming into US last time round, the women pregnant through rape, the Ukrainian soldier stood in a trench defending Europe from Russian aggression. This is the real world, not some god who allows the horrors we see around us

Lots of people anxious about the US election. Christians do not need to be. Presidents, empires, all come and go. God is still on His throne. All is well. And it ends well. Revelation 21:4 ‘there will no longer be…any mourning crying or pain.. the old order has passed away’

@CasaReal Unos reyes que acompañan a su pueblo cuando sufre.. Unos reyes que no se marchan a pesar de recibir insultos y barro… Unos reyes que lloran con su pueblo.. Son unos reyes que se ganan a su pueblo. Un ejemplo para muchos políticos…

Los Reyes, durante su visita a Paiporta (Valencia) esta mañana.

In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia "in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded".

Great night working behind the bar at @PPSFriends fireworks last night raising thousands for Pangbourne Primary School