The view from Malton

@monaco_francs @GBNEWS Yes. Of course. That happens every time. Nurse! He’s found a keyboard!

@GBNEWS He’s a white man. We all know it when he’s race is omitted. Racist news channel. If it was a black man the news will read “black man feeds toddler to crocodile for his amusement” or “all blacks feed their babies to crocodiles”.

BREAKING: Boy, 3, thrown into crocodile enclosure at UK zoo as man arrested gbnews.com/news/cambridge…

@ShahrarAli You’ve been had. This idiotic woman wasn’t the best choice. Except for the laughs.

I'm quite stunned at how poorly Greens did in Makerfield. 308 electors understood that the Green Party had a unique selling point? What's happened to our core environmental message?

@annaturley You really don’t understand a thing, do you? Go and talk to someone trying to run a small business. They’ll tell you exactly how and why you’re completely trashing the economy. Not one of your colleagues have any experience of life in a SME. That’s where the economy sits.

Just to remind some folk that is nothing ‘timid’ about a Labour government lifting half a million kids out of poverty, the biggest uplift of workers rights in a generation, giving millions of people a pay rise, transforming the NHS, nationalising the steel industry & our railways

Where?

Clarkson's Farm is an absolute masterpiece in television. It's strongly anti government, anti regulation, pro individual freedom and property ownership. It's about the everyday man fighting government tyranny. It's insanely funny and equally as smart. And it is perhaps one of the most deeply moving and emotional television series I've ever seen. If it was created five hundred years ago it would be considered an absolute classic of literature, music and comedy right alongside of Shakespeares greatest works. If it was made eighty years ago Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper would have caused Abbott and Costello to be forgotten. Send your prayers to Jeremy Clarkson, may God heal him of cancer and bring him to saving faith. Prayer's for the entire production team and for Kaleb Cooper and Charlie as well. May the world be blessed with many, many more season's of this masterpiece.

@BxtnLovesEurope Now that what I call bollocks!

Brexit has been a complete failure! Brexit was a complete con! The sooner the UK rejoins the EU with all of its multiple benefits the better. Especially at this time of severe international tension. The EU was created to ensure peace in Europe. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Islam on mainstream Arab TV: Muslim scholar says parents have an obligation to cover 2-year-old girls with Islamic veils to stop the little girls from tempting Muslim men to rape them.

@GuzKhanOfficial It proves that lots of people want to see the back of Kier Starmer, doesn’t it?

You know what Burnham and Markerfield proves? This is a good country. Full of good people. This app is false. It’s a meeting point for wankers who share racist and xenophobic ideas. You lot crack on, best of luck. England is REAL offline. That’s the best England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🩵🫱🏾‍🫲🏻🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

That’s not bad for a total loony.

Oooh, yes.

@AntiWokeMemes The cock. Well, and the bollocks.

Guys, what is ONE reason you won’t date 'trans women'? 🏳️‍⚧️

@ReturnOfDadbo No, dear, that’s the Muslims. Quite a different bunch of loonies.

Still can’t wrap my head around Women voting Reform. Mate, they actively want to remove your fucking rights. It’s a fucking illness, innit?

@MasterMaliq Is this the same Muhammad who urges Jihad? Who wants his followers to “kill the Jew wherever you find him”? To murder apostates? In whose name suicide bombs are triggered? With 72 virgins on offer? Or some other Muhammad, who you’ve kept quiet in a cupboard somewhere?

Moses: "Thou shalt not kill." Jesus: "Love thy neighbour as thyself." Muhammad: "Whoever kills a soul... it is as if he had slain all mankind." Different prophets. Same message. One God.

@TheGriftReport No thanks. We don’t want to be involved in your car crash.

Michel Barnier suggests UK could rejoin EU on special terms a decade after Brexit referendum pullout The EUs former chief Brexit negotiator said the UK could regain opt outs keeping the pound and staying outside the Schengen Zone if it rejoins as not all member states are in them. Barnier said it is perfectly possible to have opt outs in these fields and it would not be fair to say all UK problems are due to Brexit but they are more difficult because of it. The comments come ahead of the 10th anniversary of the June 23 2016 referendum with a UK EU summit planned for July. Would you want to re-join or is it a huge no?

@Sabiha1278 Yes.

I am literally shaking. Some teenager threw a rock off an overpass and did this to my truck. I caught him, and his dad had the nerve to say, "He’s just a kid being a kid, I’ll give you $50 for the 'inconvenience'." $50?? This is a specialized windshield with sensors! He told me I was "ruining a child’s future" by calling the police. I feel like he’s raising a criminal and expects me to pay for it. Do I press full charges?

@jameschappers Oh, really?

Brexiteers constantly try to dismiss polls showing a clear majority of voters want to rejoin the EU by saying they’ll change their minds when it becomes clear the UK would have to join the euro and Schengen. Tonight Michel Barnier makes clear our old opt outs would be reinstated

@ConspiracyD101 @getbitcoin108 @JChimirie66677 Oh for gods sake. I’m not embarrassed. Just bored. Go pester someone else. 👋👋

@MaltonView @getbitcoin108 @JChimirie66677 No. I told you not to embarrass yourself didn’t I? You’ve had all this time to check why there is two dates and you couldn’t be bothered. Would you like to be spoon fed information or do you want to find out yourself?

When You Can't Beat Reform, Change The Rules. Labour Just Did. There is a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything. When those in power begin adjusting the rules of the game to determine its outcome, the game is no longer democracy. It is managed succession. That line was crossed again on Tuesday night. Two days before the Makerfield by-election, Labour rushed a change to the mayoral voting system through the House of Lords. Regional mayors will now be elected using the supplementary vote system rather than first past the post. The change applies immediately. It will govern whoever replaces Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester if he wins on Thursday and stands down. The government's defence is that it is simply restoring the system used before Boris Johnson changed it in 2021. That argument requires the public to believe that a change Labour could have introduced at any point in two years of government became urgent on Tuesday evening, forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect. Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer and experienced pollster, was precise in the Lords. There is no other justification for the haste, he said, other than that it solves the Labour Party's problems and prevents Reform winning a mayoralty. Not clumsy. Not rushed. Designed. The mechanics explain why. Under first past the post, Reform could win the Greater Manchester mayoralty on a plurality of votes in a fragmented field, precisely as it won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Under the supplementary vote system, voters express a first and second preference. Lib Dem and Green voters, given a second preference, will direct those votes to Labour overwhelmingly. The change does not affect Thursday's by-election. It affects the mayoral contest that follows it, constructing an anti-Reform coalition from the second preferences of smaller parties that Reform itself cannot access. Lord Jackson identified the wider implication. This is potentially a strategy for a progressive alliance being rolled out ahead of a general election, he said, with the aim of locking out the Conservatives and Reform from power. Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation. The supplementary vote is the local pilot for a national project. Pool second preferences, lock out the right, govern indefinitely on a minority of first preference votes. This is not the first time. Earlier this year Labour delayed local elections after the Electoral Commission stated explicitly that the justification was not legitimate, that extending mandates damages public confidence and creates a conflict of interest by allowing those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. The Commission's objection was noted and ignored. Reform demolished Labour anyway. Now the same instinct has been applied to a different mechanism. Not cancellation this time. Electoral system change, deployed with surgical precision forty eight hours before the vote that triggers the election it is designed to affect. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to change the rules two days before the ballot. They face the electorate and take their chances. The timing of Tuesday night's Lords motion is not a coincidence. It is a confession. The voters of Makerfield vote on Thursday. The question of who governs Greater Manchester after that, and under what rules, was settled in the Lords on Tuesday. Nobody voted for that. "Burnham's allies have already confirmed he would scrap first past the post nationally in favour of proportional representation."

Well, Zarah, you didn’t go to a local comprehensive. You went to a highly selective grammar school for girls. And we all paid for that, too.

Elon Musk: ”I think there are great things in every culture. We don’t want the German culture to disappear. We don’t want French culture to disappear. We don’t want Korean culture to disappear, or Japan, or America, or anywhere. I think we should be very cautious about having some sort of global mixing pot, because every place will be the same, and there won’t be any unique cultures in the world. Which I think would make the world worse. So I think we need to preserve these country cultures, and that’s the future that I think is better. I think that most people would agree is better. We shouldn’t have cultures disappear. And currently, based on the current birth rates and the sort of so-called multiculturalism and globalism, what we’re actually seeing is the dilution of individual cultures and the destruction and death of individual cultures, which I think is terrible for the future.”

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