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@MarechalAr35394 @Mr_Regional @philatrail Cheers. I look forward to your input to my BTP colleagues in the future then.

@TheRichB @Mr_Regional @philatrail And this attitude is how you end up with the whole mainline of a country brought to a standstill. Get a grip of yourself

There are certainly questions to be asked about how a trespasser can cause delays of the sort seen last night, typified by this RTT screenshot of LNER’s 1833 from King’s Cross.

@YossiBenYakar Ahhh… that well known part of London called Scotland. But, like the fact she was causing harassment (an offence) outside an Abortion Clinic, you don’t do truthful facts.

In London, a phone is stolen every 6 minutes. The police rarely bother to respond. But they had no problem arresting a peaceful 75-year-old woman named Rose. Her crime? Standing quietly near a hospital holding a sign that read: “Here to talk, only if you want.” She was charged under the new “buffer zone” law for “influencing.” Let that sink in. If silently offering a conversation is now a criminal offense in Britain, do British citizens still have free speech?

This from BTP and LNER provides a good overview of last night’s ECML delays.

@crepycidon @philatrail @RailUKForums The disruption it causes at all, and from the sounds of it communication could have been far better, but I would rather preserve life and limb in a delicate situation and have them be bought down safely. And what if it was one of your loved ones. Wouldn’t you want the same?

@crepycidon @philatrail @RailUKForums And this is the point a lot of people sadly don’t seem to understand. If they are high up a gantry, what do you do? Risk yourself and the lives of others? Take a measured and safe approach and talk them down? Having worked in those situations, yes, they are not ideal with…

@MarechalAr35394 @Mr_Regional @philatrail Because its that easy isn’t it. Next time BTP deal with a suicidal person, we should just call the services of an anonymous Twitter account. Or, I suggest until you’ve worked in those situations where they can truly mean life or death, I’d keep your opinions to yourself.

@Mr_Regional @philatrail They could’ve been physically removed. Shut up with this namby pamby bollocks.

Heartbroken is an understatement. I started speaking to Jon in May 2025, and we stayed in regular contact ever since. He reached out because he was facing the uncertainty of leaving the police after securing another job - the fear of stepping into the unknown. And then there was the misconduct hearing. Jon expressed concerns how he was being purposely discredited and misquoted. This was clear when he shared some of the disclosure prior to the misconduct hearing. Clearly, taking a person’s career isn’t enough. In my view, the Violence Against Women and Girls agenda, alongside the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics, is being weaponised against officers. Policing is not only hitting the self-destruct button time and time again, but continues to play ‘God’ with current and former officers’ lives and their families. They continue to erode public trust in policing and are contributing to officers feeling so trapped that they are taking their own lives. They also wonder why they struggle to retain officers in what used to be a ‘Job for life’. How do we get those in positions of power to actually listen and change this? How can they return home to their own families in good conscience, knowing their actions (or lack of them) may have contributed to another death within the police family? This has got to stop. My thoughts are with Jon’s family and friends. Paul. #Echobox=1775821815" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

@CrudeNtenionz @Microinteracti1 @AndurandPierre @KurtSchlichter You. Really. Are. A. Stupid. Bunch.

🇺🇸 …. The reason you aren’t speaking German. Since 2008, nominal US GDP has grown ~87% vs ~13% for the EU. Why should we continue handouts to Europe via NATO? The EU no longer protects or stands for western values, why should we stand for you? “If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project [NATO] will have failed.” - Eisenhower circa 1951 Find a new Eisenhower quickly or you will be speaking Arabic soon.

The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America. The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation. The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.” Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@ClaireCoutinho I wonder which party also failed to invest in UK Gas reserves whilst they were in power for the last 14 years leading to them shutting down? Just to give you a helping hand Claire, it’s yours.

Last year Britain lost a THIRD of its refineries. Why? A Carbon Tax on industry that Ed Miliband doubled. We won’t need any less petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ceramics or chemicals - we'll just rely more on foreign imports. We must axe the Carbon Tax and save British industry.

@J1603Kevin @PolitlcsUK Totally agree, both Bustimes & Realtime Trains have been a quiet revolutionary in the public transport business for a while.

@PolitlcsUK We've had it for some years on bustimes.org

🚨 NEW: The Government says bus passengers in all of England will be able to start tracking their bus in real time through Google Maps from tomorrow

@eberomardelao @BBCNewsnight Ah, “FAKE NEWS” : News we don’t like or agree with because it doesn’t feed the stupidity.

@BBCNewsnight I see you have your useless scumbags in the media over there too. Over here in the US we call them FAKE NEWS and we call out their bullshit because they're full of it.

“We’re dealing with a President who is a narcissist and a bully… a rebuke of some kind is necessary” Broadcaster and journalist David Dimbleby says a US State Visit by King Charles “is a misuse of the King” and the UK is “giving Trump more than he deserves”. #Newsnight

@kingk1921 @MWill2025 @GBX_Press Lay off the drugs mate.

@MWill2025 @GBX_Press USA! Is king of the world! They need no one every country can be taken out by the USA if and when they decide! The USA is untouchable. Every other counties need the USA. The greatest power on planet earth. This is how trump and American view themselves and the world.

🚨🇸🇦🇺🇲 BREAKING ​Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Kingdom's de facto ruler, responded to statements by the Acting US President, saying: "We will no longer buy American weapons." ​Until now, the money flowing into the US military-industrial complex was not just trade, but effectively a ritual of loyalty. It wasn't just about buying missile systems; it was about buying the right to belong. As of today, that is over. This is how the Crown Prince responded to the insulting remarks directed at him by Trump.

@Kris149843012 @FurkanGozukara Anyway, since it’s clear that the so called “TDS” has clearly affected you, I’m going to use my time more wisely… bye y’all 👋

@TheRichB @FurkanGozukara Standing ? Until you lay down and pray to some pedo 5 times a day. FOH Gonna just let Germany take you next time. The USA made a big mistake saving you ungrateful bastards the last two times. What a disgrace y’all have become 🤦‍♂️

Absolute humiliation for Washington. Buckingham Palace explicitly states the King was forced by the government to host Trump. The King is furious and completely refuses to break bread with a man who threatened to invade Canada. The alliance is fracturing.

@Kris149843012 @FurkanGozukara Right… “We pray to a Pedo” is rich coming from the leader of Epsteins gang. “Gonna let Germany take you” - well we’d rather side with them now than you are with Russia. And if you think that’s how the war went you need to say, Educate yourself. I know that’s difficult in the US!

@Amozaffar1 @shanaka86 America has saved Europe multiple times? Sorry, what planet are you on! Insulting, Naïve and stupid all in one hit. Ps, we own your debt.

@shanaka86 America has saved Europe multiple times in the last century. And now, they sit back and watch instead of helping. America doesn’t need European countries. It’s Europe who rely on American forces 🇺🇸

BREAKING: Donald Trump just posted the most revealing statement of the war. Not because of what it says about Iran. Because of what it says about the country that started it. “All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.” Read the architecture of that sentence. The United States launched strikes that killed Khamenei and closed a strait that was open on February 27. The closure created a jet fuel crisis across Europe. And now the President is telling the countries suffering from the crisis his war created to either buy American fuel or send their own navies to reopen the waterway his campaign shut down. He started the fire. He is now selling the water. And he is mocking the neighbours for not helping him light the match. “Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!” The hard part is done. But the strait is still closed. The IRGC still operates the toll booth. Nine vessels transit per day versus 138. A Kuwaiti supertanker burned off Dubai this morning. Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, said it best from the other side: “The enemy that claimed it had destroyed our air force, navy and missile forces has now set its operational ambition to opening the Strait of Hormuz, a strait that was open before the Ramadan War began.” Trump and Ghalibaf are describing the same paradox from opposite ends of the same burning strait. And now look at what “buy from the U.S., we have plenty” actually means. In January, the United States overthrew Maduro and seized operational control of Venezuelan oil exports. Nine hundred thousand barrels per day, redirected from China to American and European refiners under General License 52, with proceeds flowing to a US Treasury account. The US created alternative supply BEFORE launching the strikes that destroyed the existing supply route. It is now offering to sell that alternative supply to the allies whose energy it disrupted. The arsonist is the fire department. The toll booth operator is the rescue service. The United Kingdom is in COBRA meetings today because of this. Petrol has risen to 152 pence per litre. Diesel is at 181 pence. Jet fuel prices have doubled. Household energy bills are forecast to rise £300 by July. The OECD has downgraded UK growth to 0.7 percent, the largest cut among G20 economies. Ten-year gilt yields have hit levels not seen since 2008. The Bank of England is frozen at 3.75 percent, unable to cut into an energy-driven inflation rebound. Starmer says he “won’t buckle” and will not send warships. Trump says the UK has “delayed courage.” The special relationship is now a transaction where one side sets the terms and the other absorbs the cost. “The U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us.” This is not a statement about Iran. This is a statement about the post-war order. The United States is explicitly telling its closest ally that the era of guaranteed security is over, that Hormuz is someone else’s problem, and that American fuel is available for purchase at market rates. The country that spent 80 years guaranteeing freedom of navigation through the world’s most important chokepoint is now telling its allies to buy their way out of the crisis or fight their own way through it. The strait was open before the war. It is closed now. And the country that closed it is selling jet fuel to the countries that cannot get any. That is the 2026 world order in one Truth Social post. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@Kris149843012 @FurkanGozukara “England has fallen” is rich coming from a country that is now deemed so much of a security and financial risk. But you keep supporting the senile orange idiot. The United Kingdom is still standing.

@FurkanGozukara Fracturing ? That shit over. England has fallen.

@Brick_Cop @ukhomeoffice This is a huge loss to the Met & another blow to morale. I know this man; an exceptional police officer in every respect who inspires those under his command. The Brick aspect is a massive bonus. The Met could & should have made better use of his numerous skills. Good luck.

@ArnulfoCarden17 @IAPonomarenko God you are stupid. NATO isn’t a backup for your dear leaders illegal wars. Secondly we refused to help because, rightly, we weren’t the ones under attack and nor did we fancy exposing ourselves to it. But you be you.

I mean, NATO did nothing during Epic Fury, thus, we're taking what is needed to restock our munitions inventories. There is nothing you people can do about it either. Y'all didn't think this one-way street would affect you from your refusal to help? You just better be glad that the US is not leaving NATO, yet.

I mean, how the hell is this even legal? Was it part of the contract that the seller is entitled to say “screw you and the money you've paid us, we're talking these weapons for ourselves”?