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ONS report the closure of 12,500 industrial businesses in the UK last year. That was a rout, with many going under thanks to penal tax rises and sky high energy prices. Why won't the government change its tax and energy policies to save jobs and boost industry?

Happy St Georges Day ❤️🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

23 Apr 1917. Serjt Bellamy Claud Cecil. 4 Bn Bedfordshire Regt. Age not known. Harwich (Born in Stafford). Remembered on Arras Memorial. Bay5.

23 Apr 1918. Serjt Sparkes Bertram Victor. 4 Bn RMLI. Aged 26. 60 West Street, Harwich. Husband to EJ. Buried at Dover (St James) Cemetery. P.W.33A.

@DrHelenFry War Sailor (Krigsseillern) 2022 or The Arctic Convoy. Both about Merchant Marine service World War 2. Easy to forget them, but those were the folks who kept things going.

Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated. RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

Do you agree with this sign? 🙋‍♂️

There is plenty of oil left in the North Sea with more to be discovered. Why not step UK production up to 1 m b/ day? Average cost £20 a barrel. Current price £70 a barrel. Most of that profit of £18 bn a year would be paid to Treasury as tax. Get on with it.

23 Apr 1917. Pte Gooch Bertie (Allen). 1 Bn Middlesex Regt. Aged 20. Barn House, Great Oakley. Son of James and Elizabeth. Buried at Heninel-Croisillies Road Cemetery. II.C.23.

23 Apr 1917. Pte Hamil William (Weatherburn). (As Hamill on Great Oakley Memorial) 1 Bn Essex Regt. Age not known. Great Oakley. Son of John and Jeanie. Buried at Duisans British Cemetery. IV.A.21. Also remembered on St Mary's church, Corringham Memorial.

Why am I donating potatoes? 🥔 Last week I was happy to finally receive the second trade order this season from my merchant. To put it into context, we normally start selling our potatoes around Christmas, and fulfil a weekly order from this point on, moving around 13 tonnes a week. So to have waited 5 months to be able to sell any of my potatoes was a huge relief because although we have had so much support from our local customers and now further a field, we’re still limited to what I can deliver in my truck and through the post, and this has been putting a huge financial strain on our business. Collection day came and the buyer cancelled. So I’m left with 12.5 tonnes of potatoes bagged and ready to go, with no way of selling that volume through my local and postal channels. Because they have been bagged and out of the store, they now have a limited time (around 2-3 weeks) before they will start to soften or sprout (if left in the bags). The alternative is having to open every bag (500 of them), re-box them to go back into the store and hope for the best, or I will have to dump them. This year has been devastating for me and so many farmers. We plan our crops more than a year in advance and couldn’t have predicted how badly the potato market would fail. I am trying my best to stay positive and adapt, but the pressure is crushing. So this brings me to my post earlier. Out of my disappointment, I want to do something good and donate these potatoes to genuine charities and organisations who I hope can distribute them to people in need. Lots of people have commented on my previous post, but in order to get these to the right people I need you to email me at farmerlukeshop@gmail.com so we can manage the requests without them getting lost in the comments. Thank you to those who have already reached out. These potatoes are not being given away to be re-sold or planted (due to seed regulations) I just want to put some kindness out in the world. Thank you to everyone for your support, You can order your posted potatoes now at: farmerluke.co.uk 🥔📮 #FarmerLuke #DownOnDaintreeFarm #Mrsfarmerluke #spudwife

21 Apr 1917. Pte Blake Reginald. 11 Bn Essex Regt. Aged 20. 71 Church Street, Harwich. Remember on the Loos Memorial. Panel 85 to 87. As from tomorrow Reg will be buried at Loos British Cemetery Extension, XXIII.C.11. 109 years and 1 day after his death.

22 Apr 1915. Pte Dunlop Raymond. 16 Bn Canadian Inf. Aged 34. Harwich. Son of Jonathan. Remembered on Menin Gate Memorial. Panel 26.

21 Apr 1916. Shipwright Ryan Louis Albert. HMS Pembroke. Aged 29. 'Steane' Fronks Road, Dovercourt. Husband to Mabel Letitia. Son of Jeremiah. Buried at Chatham (Maidstone Road) Cemetery.

🚨Labour MP Tom Hayes is a serial disgrace. The same clown caught stealing election leaflets from voters’ letterboxes is the one gaslighting Camilla Tominey on GB News to defend Keir Starmer. Lying hypocrite exposed. Labour’s rotten to the core.

Keir Starmer perfectly summing up Keir Starmer

Pte Reginald Blake.

Vegans: "Drinking cow's milk is unnatural!" Great point. So instead of pulling on some teats for thirty seconds, we've developed a twelve-step industrial alternative. Step one: grow almonds in California, a drought-afflicted state currently depleting an aquifer that took twenty thousand years to fill. Step two: ship them to a processing facility. Step three: soak them in water. California water, specifically, because almonds need 15 gallons per ounce and California is already rationing. Step four: pulverise them into a slurry. Step five: filter the slurry through fine mesh, discarding most of the actual almond in the process. That was the bit with the nutrition in it. Gone now. Step six: add more water, because the resulting liquid isn't watery enough. Step seven: add sweeteners, because it tastes of nothing. Step eight: add emulsifiers, because it separates in six minutes otherwise. Step nine: add synthetic vitamins, because all the natural ones left in step five. Step ten: add seed oils, because we apparently learned nothing. Step eleven: homogenise, degas, pasteurise, and sterilise the mixture until it resembles no food that has ever existed in nature. Step twelve: put it in a carton with a picture of a field on it. The cow: stands in a field. Makes milk. Has done this for ten thousand years. No factory. No steps. No aquifer. Unnatural, though. Very unnatural.

Well & truly nailed it!