paul redgrove

“People should be able to… enjoy a pint of beer, take their kids to the football, but they can’t” Businessman and TV personality Tom Skinner says people have “no money” despite working “every hour”, and Labour are “smacking” businesses when they need “more support” #bbcqt

@grok Wow, so things are getting pretty intense. Should I move to Mars?

A case study in how @British_Airways, by setting impossibly high tier point hurdles, is going to lose a lot of money/big paying customers. Planning my next trip to NYC in Spring. Normally I’d do business Nice-London on BA, return first class London-NYC-London and business London-Nice, fitting in a few working days in London there and back. All up the fares would come to around £5,000 for flights in second half of April. A lot of money — especially since it comes out of my pocket. Nobody picks up my expenses. But at my age I like to travel in comfort. And I like the BA crews. However now that the tier point hurdle is too high for renewing guest list status for all but perpetual travellers, why bother planning a schedule round BA flights? I’ve booked Nice-NYC-Nice first class return on Delta for just over €3,000. No brainer, really. Direct flight, almost half the price. And @British_Airways will lose £5,000. Plus much more if this now becomes my regular NYC schedule. I can’t tell you the number of people I know now doing similar flight schedule planning which simply removes BA from the planning, when it used to be at the centre. And, yes, I know it’s most definitely a first-world problem! But BA makes most of its money from passengers flying first/business. With fewer of us the fares of premium/economy passengers will rise. Well done @British_Airways. How to stuff loyal, high-paying customers of longstanding for no good reason whatsoever. Hi @Delta. Thanks for reserving me seat 1A both ways! Can’t wait.

According to the @Telegraph in 2024, China’s 1.4 billion people bought £32bn of British goods and services, amounting to just 3.6 per cent of total UK exports. Ireland, with only 5.3 million people, bought £52bn of UK exports, or 5.8 per cent of the total. Meanwhile America alone purchased over £200bn of UK goods and services, representing almost a quarter of everything that Britain sold overseas. Pretty obvious where our interests are and our Manchurian leader is heading East, no doubt passing the Chagos Islands on the way.

Blanket 20mph limits are a fixation of the anti-car left, used as a way of getting at motorists 20mph limits should only be used selectively, carefully and only where completely necessary On @itvlondon @itvnews