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@Katielou86x @RupertLowe10 Katie, and the post is about Reform plans to distribute illegal migrants to non-reform areas. It was Tory immigration minister Jenrick who championed sending them to hotels and HMOs as widely as possible. Apples dont fall far from the tree.

Nadine Dorries was the architect of the Online Safety act. Nadine Dorries is now in Reform. I can not take this party seriously whatsoever.

I rarely post these days but I do read everything from the tireless @nicolelampert She'll give you a better handle on the awful pressures facing the Jewish community I read Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt a long time ago, a tough read, as is what is happening today

@J_Tanswell @CWeatherspoon_ @TheAthleticFC The FER is a serious constraint for #avfc, and a breach over EUR 20m means a European ban, plus is is the root of the restricted transfer policy Chris avoids the question, I suspect for good reason and then next what would an SCR breach mean, that seems likely more than FER?

New: #AVFC incurred an estimated pre-tax loss of £82million (€97m) in their submissions to UEFA for the 2024-25 season. Story and explainer of the details w/@CWeatherspoon_ on @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/70705…

@all_thyme_high @RupertLowe10 Very simple, the Restore policy says you are welcome today and tommorrow. You are integrated, contributing, English speaking. Restore is a broad church, some will say the white and Christian parts are criteria, they aren't.

@RupertLowe10 I’m a little confused (genuine post). I have lived in the UK for 20+ yrs, paid top tier taxes all the way, I am white, I am Christian, I am however Australian with dual citizenship, my family heralds from the UK all be it 4 generations ago (circa 1850’s). Am I to stay or go?

Britain when I was in my 30s was THE best country to live in the world. London was THE best city. I cannot tell you what a special place it was. Everyone, all over the world, wanted to live in Britain. I look now at the cards our country has dealt young British men and women? It’s a proper miserable deal, isn’t it? Student loans, for example. It is a suffocating graduate debt. NINE percent, over a very low threshold. That’s just brutal. Any real chance of saving, gone. NINE grand a year to even go to university. We break their backs before they even start working. Restore Britain would scrap interest on student loans altogether - funded by removing eligibility to foreign nationals who in the many, many thousands abscond and fail to pay a penny back. Wider tax, even more pain. Just remember, workers, when you’re walking to the office in the pissing rain that your efforts are funding some Somalian family to sit on benefits doing sod all. You work, so others don’t have to. We would ban foreigners from benefits altogether, and we could get the healthy British shirking class off their backsides and out picking litter and cleaning graffiti. Painful, yes. Necessary, absolutely. We need to brutally cut tax, and brutally slash down the size of the state. Do those two things in tandem, and just watch how the clouds lift for men and women who are putting in the hours and getting nowhere. Let’s say a young couple manage to scratch together 20k for a deposit after paying 2k a month in rent. What do they get? A pokey little flat in Lewisham? They don’t even own it, due to ludicrous leasehold rules? Spending an hour commuting each way, on filthy, packed trains? Not exactly the American dream is it? The system STINKS. Possibly one positive development thanks to technology - working from home. Farage wants it to end, and attacks the idea of ‘work-life’ balance. Restore Britain’s position is clear on private sector employees working from home - WE DO NOT CARE. And actually, a positive work-life balance is a good thing. People care, people are happy, they work better. Anyone who has actually run a proper business would understand that. People my age say oh well the youngsters don’t work hard enough, they don’t save, they spend too much. Possibly for some. False for an overwhelming majority. It is an objective fact that buying a home when I was younger was SO much easier than now. Cutting down on flat whites will not solve the entire problem, CLEARLY. Look at childcare. Maybe they want to start a family. Good for them. Oh wait, they examine the costs of childcare. Thousands a month. When the damn thing is only open six hours a day. Vast waiting list to even get in? It just doesn't work. Nothing works. Restore Britain would give vast tax breaks to working parents to ensure that a parent can stay with the child if they choose, or make childcare more affordable. Reward families with meaningful relief. Raise thresholds, widen VAT exemptions for essential child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs. We would front-load child benefit - pay more of the money in the earlier years, when the help is really required. Only British nationals would be eligible to receive that. Stamp duty, gone for British nationals. An insidious tax that further punishes ambition and success. We will support young men and women who want to get on, build a family and find their way in the world. I want these people to have the same opportunity that my generation had. That's all. The vast majority want a Government that will enable them to succeed, and then leave them the hell alone. They now have a political party that will do exactly that. Restore Britain.

@afneil So the Met's child exploitation lead says they are looking at this as a consent issue - for 13-15 year old girls - rather than as the rape of a child. @officialsammyuk this doesnt sound like authorities have learned much or given support to tackle this abuse?

A new and disturbing investigation into teenage girls lured into forced sex by gangs in London. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@AngelaRayner Timing!

I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end. 3/3

The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. 1/3

@villaontour_ instagram.com/reel/DSUpNHgiC…

I won’t be at the #AVFC match tomorrow vs Brentford. First game missed in over a year. There will be a vlog on the channel out hopefully tomorrow evening of our antics in Switzerland and my reaction to the score coming in… 🍿

Aston Villa's seventh comeback win of the season, six in the Prem. Resilience. Goal contributions in the comebacks - big players step up in big moments. Character. #avfc

Aston Villa now 30th in UEFA Club ranking, overtaking AC Milan But, if it is redone based off the last three years instead of the usual five year average (so it covers when Villa were in European competitions), we are eleventh! #AVFC

2025 calendar year table, I added net spend and revenue for context. #avfc This is the incredible Unai effect, UTV! Kudos to #NUFC too, also punching above their financial weight.

If Carlsberg did predictions #avfc

Another xG defeat 🥲 #avfc

@astor_charlie However much I respect Oxbridge, I tend to throw out their aluminis' CVs when I'm recruiting, they need to have shown how they've equipped themselves with the skills for the workplace, otherwise, it's in the bin. This is a reflection on the institutions not the students

My education makes me feel like a joke. Most of my friends have the basic GCSEs and then got jobs. Most are at least part of the way to putting down a house deposit. I'm in debt.

I didn't even read Milton whist studying at Cambridge.

Inflation! Aston Villa: Total Games Played 2024/25: 57 Games (PL: 38, FA Cup: 5, Carabao Cup: 2, Europe: 12) 2023/24: 56 Games (PL: 38, FA Cup: 3, Carabao Cup: 1, Europe: 14) 2022/23: 42 Games (PL: 38, FA Cup: 1, Carabao Cup: 3) 2021/22: 41 Games (PL: 38, FA Cup: 1, Carabao Cup: 2) #AVFC

£40m for Ramsey is £50 per seat at Villa Park, for every Prem home game. Perspective. (42,000 times 19 times 50) #AVFC

If Villa score or Everton score => Champion's League UTV #avfc

@early90spants Hi Dan, did you manage to fix the firefox context menu problem?

why the fUCK does my firefox context menu look like this now

@astor_charlie Kudos to be in the footsteps of Porco Rosso!

It took Man City (with far more resources) roughly five years to get to the top in the PL, five to establish in the CL. NSWE said five years to CL and did it, but establishing there is probably 5 more years work. Unai, owners, players and hopefully fans aligned for the best football we've ever seen at VP over the next five years. Unai is 100% key, he knows what is needed, he is why Rash & As choose us, and as an elite mentality beds in, more will follow. I'd say Pool, ManC, Arsenal have it, ManU had it but frittered it away, Chelsea threw it out in the Boehly chaos, Spurs just dont have it. So there is a pathway for us.

@M555MPW I’d convinced myself some of our players were of the required level to make it at a top-top club… This has been a humbling eye opener

The addition of two bonafide UCL level superstars to our squad is exposing the chasm we’re trying to leap and shining light on the true quality/ceiling of some of our players We’ve rarely seen this quality at our club and the teams we’re chasing are stacked full of them #AVFC