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- Nelson60 Jun 14, 21:17
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“AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pe36qe7ro - tomo Jun 14, 21:15
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https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/2066238510445502739 - tomo Jun 14, 21:12
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Dirtbag’s back on the team https://twitter.com/C_3C_3/status/2066241062981558391 - Nelson60 Jun 14, 21:12
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“Who invented the ridiculous far-left mantra that ‘diversity is our strength’?”; said the English man to a Welsh man. - tomo Jun 14, 20:02
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https://twitter.com/Artemisfornow/status/2066229636766253478 Any IQ test for admission to the HoC is exempted - Scroblene Jun 14, 19:14
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You’re absolutely right, Taff! Who invented the ridiculous far-left mantra that ‘diversity is our strength’? The world thrives on different… - taffman Jun 14, 19:04
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Diversity is divisive. Hence all the troubles . Who voted for mass immigration ? “Stop the boats” ! - wwfc Jun 14, 18:17
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The German team has a good dollop of diversity is our strength 5 out of 11 are Africans 😂😂 - vlad Jun 14, 17:49
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Gavin Ashenden on the desperate state of our country. https://youtu.be/ZFWhKWJ70kc - Fedup2 Jun 14, 17:44
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Christian ‘ is regularly putting up well researched bios of lefty disasters – i notice more thoughtful non lefty engagement…
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All quiet at US airbases. Is it because it is a Sunday or because they are all away on their holibobs?
Number of nurses entering UK is back up !
Small boats data
This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.
Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
17 May 2026 0 0 0
18 May 2026 0 0 0
19 May 2026 0 0 0
20 May 2026 0 0 0
21 May 2026 0 0 0
22 May 2026 394 6 0
23 May 2026 287 4 0
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days
MM, if gov.uk is detecting and noting the small boat crossings, why does it not stop them? As MM would say HA AHA HAH HAH!
Not BBC but related to their mindset .
Overhaul of the judicial system and judges .
1] Any judge that has his sentence over ruled by appeal does not get his salary for that period .
Why , if his judgement faulty ,he be paid for that judgement ?
Who else is paid in full for faulty workmanship ?
2] No concurrent sentences , unless we can pay concurrent taxes .
3] Minimum jail sentences , not maximum jail sentences .
4] Prisons and prisoners can have all our rubbish , every bit , sent to them to sort out the recyclable stuff .
Nibor,
Agree with all except 4.
The prisoners can kill with sharpened toothbrushes so imagine what they can do with all sorts of things coming in with the rubbish. The Wardens would be cut up and sliced in the first week.
I’m all for getting them working, maybe all on bikes generating electricity for the Prison.
On reflection for what you say i`m inclined to agree with you EG .
Although it would be nice to look into to combating that . For example 1; They only earn early release by the amount of tonnage they collect 2; They are in groups so one man fails or sabotages , they all forfeit that days remission .3; They are really carefully watched and videoed 4; Only ones that are nearer to release dates can do it 5; They have to be volunteers 6 ; And no lifers or exceptionaly violent ones can do it .
But sadly I agree EG . Especially as their families and friends can put drugs , weapons or letters in bins . It would be nice if it could work though .
BBC news not happy with the afgee taliban – women can’t become news reporters -no mention of why the taliban is in charge – of Joey Biden and his surrender of that s hole to a bunch of Islamic invaders – with thousands already in the UK breeding away on British benefits handouts from you and me …
The BBC is at it again…having denounced UKIP as Nazis and then alarmed us with ‘warnings from history’ that alerted us to the horrifying fact that Brexit was in fact the rebirth of the Third Reich we now learn that the goosesteppers of Reform are bringing back the ’30’s….vote for them at your peril!!!!!!!!…..‘We fear a repeat…..The book sounds a warning for our own times.’’
‘Weimar – On the Edge of Catastrophe’
‘The story of the residents of Weimar during the rise and reign of Hitler.
The Death’s Head Unit the SS arrive in Weimar. And their commander has ideas about how to use the concentration camp – previously used only to hold political dissidents – for racial hygiene. The status of being ‘Jew’ is defined legally for the first time.
For Carl Weirich the shine of Nazism is starting to wear off. …But at school his son is taught that the greatest form of fraternal love is ‘death for the fatherland’.
A young Weimarian woman is held against her will and sterilised because she is deemed to be schizophrenic – despite no prior record of mental disturbance.
The first hall of the People’s Community is built in Weimar, and the park at the centre of Weimar is ripped up to build Nigel Farage’s square.
Weimar explores ‘the question of how and why a nation that prided itself on its culture and civility enabled the catastrophe of Nazism haunts us to this day because we fear a repeat.’
‘The book is about the tension between individual and collective responsibility and sounds a warning for our own times.’
Yes…vote Reform and they’ll ethnically cleanse the Jews, sterilize those deemed mentally ill and send your sons to their deaths in wars of aggression and hate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wjlm
sorry is that an actual BBC graphic ?
AI says “This image shows a technical glitch that occurred on a large screen at Media City in Salford.
The glitch caused a black pixelated square to appear over the mouth of Nigel Farage during a BBC Breakfast appearance
The incident occurred in September 2013 while Farage was discussing immigration policy.
The image was briefly shared by a BBC sports presenter on social media before being deleted.”
oh Olly Foster
So Olly Foster is anti-Farage
Interesting that same BBC Olly Foster in Nov 2025 witnessed the Huntingdon stabber a black guy Anthony Williams
“born in Peterbough” “mental health”
If Libmob had not let his parents into the country, the stabbing and other attacks by Williams wouldn’t have happened.
The trial was set for June 2026
but you know delay is predictable
“A provisional trial date of June 22 has been set.”
I checked ” but the hearing has been rescheduled to 26th October as additional reports are awaited.”
The trial date is contingent upon the availability of a high court judge.
BTW Daniel Hannan article from Nov 2025
The truth about ‘UK-born’ criminals
Oblivion (10/10) Movie CLIP – How Can a Man Die Better? (2013) HD
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods,
”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius
Twitter news “Restore Britain Candidate Struggles in Interview Before Makerfield By-Election”
“Restore Britain’s Rebecca Shepherd admitted she hadn’t read the party’s new 42-page Energy Security Outlook, drawing sharp online criticism from Reform ”
commenter : “To give her her dues though, at least she says she doesn’t know. Unlike Labour females who start talking about something completely different. ”
commenter 2 Good, “I don’t want her to be able to slickly lie off the bat.”
MOTHER OF THE HOUSE….
Diane Abbott
Terrible interviews during GE17 that gave me no confidence, excuse was illness but was previously the Shadow Health Minister. The interview on the Harris report on Sky was shocking – not reading a report on the security of the city where she lives. Also spit hoods comment on twitter.
Another Diane Abbott car crash 3 days before the election (youtube 05Jun2017)
GE#17 // Labour(Hackney) // Diane Abbott // Votes 42,265 // share 75.1% // change+12.2 // The People Love Her
A bit of background before you start watching Diane Abbott in action. The Lord Harris Review (oct2016) on terror attacks said we should put up barriers (recommendation 31) on the Bridges in London to protect pedestrians, Diane had not read or forgotten the report – who if elected would be in charge of our homeland security.
Impartial BBC tweet on Thursday
\\Founder of cafe for adults with additional needs “deeply disappointed” by Reform UK visit//
Headline : Wigan cafe owner ‘deeply disappointed’ by Reform UK visit
Cafe owner ‘deeply disappointed’ by Reform UK visit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74d7z0e818o
Nigel Farage and Robert Kenyon said they were unaware Andy Burnham was also in the cafe when they “popped in for a cup of tea”
The visit had coincided with a non-campaign related event attended by Labour candidate Andy Burnham, who accused Reform of being “out of order”.
The full list of candidates confirmed so far ahead of polling day on Thursday 18 June are:
Jake Austin, the Liberal Democrats
Andy Burnham, the Labour Party
Alan “Howlin” Laud Hope, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Robert Kenyon, Reform UK
Rebecca Shepherd, Restore Britain
Michael Winstanley, Conservative Party
….
How Meloni quietly flooded Italy with migrants
Ageing population and declining birth rate behind policy to allow entry to 500,000 non-EU immigrants
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/02/how-meloni-quietly-flooded-italy-with-migrants/
………….
The “Boriswave” is a political term describing the surge of mass immigration to the UK following Brexit and the introduction of new post-Brexit visa policies under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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Small boats data
This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.
Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
22 May 2026 394 6 0
23 May 2026 287 4 0
394 + 287 new citizens to vote for Labour!
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days
And don’t forget there are ways to boost birth rates, with tax breaks and child benefits etc.
“She was told to marry in a country which bans girls’ education. So she got in a taxi and fled”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pgn48wnqo
Alia – whose name we have changed for her safety – travelled hundreds of miles from her village to Kabul to escape marriage.
……………………. AVOID UK AT ALL COSTS……………….
The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
Tulsi Gabbard to resign as US national intelligence director
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgj2gkv1x1o
She has resigned to look after her husband who has bone cancer. The story should be left at that – but no : the BBC then go on to describe all her disagreements with Trump.
Then I discover right at the end that she used to be a Democrat. And the BBC ‘balance’ all her Trump squabbles with a single sentence:
‘In 2022, she left the Democratic Party and initially registered as an independent – accusing her former party of being an “elitist cabal of warmongers” driven by “cowardly wokeness”.’
Well she got that exactly right – but the fact the BBC included it made me very suspicious. It smacks of ‘yes we covered it’ arse-covering, so I checked what else she said about her ex-party the Democrats:
She has accused Democratic leadership of being controlled by “warmongers” and promoting endless military interventions.
She stated that the party’s foreign policy choices are actively “dragging us ever closer to nuclear war”
She has stated that party leaders “divide us by racializing every issue” and actively “stoke anti-white racism”
‘she believes the party now pushes a “culture of compliance” and total conformity, using Big Tech to censor dissent under the guise of fighting misinformation.’
‘She states the party is “actively undermining our God-given freedoms” enshrined in the Constitution.’
‘She states that the party stands for a “government that is of, by, and for the powerful elite” rather than the actual people.’
‘She has criticized the internal party mechanics, previously denouncing the “undemocratic system of superdelegates” used during the presidential primary process.’
100% correct – she seems like quite a woman.
Clearly the BBC agenda/compliance team realised they had to include something about that. So they carefully crafted it all into 8 words. They have never reported any of the rest of it according to AI.
A little light relief.
Ha ha ha! – and I say this entirely without ‘rancour’…(as Starmer might say in this excellent clip)!
I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me yesterday, and we all could probably use more calm in our lives.
A doctor on morning TV said “the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started”.
So I looked around our house to see things that I had started and hadn’t finished.
So far, I have managed to finish off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, a pockage of Prungles, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valiuminun scriptins, the res of the chesescke an a box a chocletz.
Yu haf no idr how bludy fablus I feel rite now.
Plaese sned dhis orn to dose yu fee ar in ned ov iennr pisss.
An telum, u blody luvum !
LOL
Nothing to do with the bbc .
I was in a petrol station yesterday Putting £5 of juice in my bike . A car came in followed by another . 2 geezers got out of thr first car at the pump behind me – they were very loud . Too loud . 11 am Sunday morning …. The second car pulled up and started filling up .
The 2 geezers went into the petrol station shop and came out – loud – a minute later – one of the geezers made a comment to me – which I blanked …..
I went to pay …. The geezers drove off …. I knew the chap behind the counter – he said look – that car just drove off and stole £100 of juice using containers … i said do you report it ?
He said yeah – just for the crime number …
The 2 distraction geezers were just too loud – too much … but comes around goes around ….
Spanish police beat up Gaza protesters, aka terrorists, who were blocking an airport exit.
Horrifying? No, hilarious. Could we borrow them?
I enjoyed that.
A few days ago GBNews on the top of the hour was reporting that the Israeli ambassador in various countries was being called in because an Israeli minister had been taunting (I think they were referred to as‘prisoners’). I had no idea what was being reported, it didn’t seem to even make sense. There was no mention of flotillas. I had to google. The flotilla people had been handcuffed and made to kneel down in rows whilst being dealt with. Perhaps it wasn’t kind, but the flotilla people’s intentions towards Israel were not kind either. The minister had gone to see the idiots and made some passing joke. However the reporting made no sense except for the message that Israel was being nasty again. Perhaps UK news reporters and flotilla people should think what 30 years of sending ‘home made rockets’ interspersed with full on attacks does for a people.
I should have asked in my post above whether the MSM will report the Spanish police dealing with the flotilla people with the same zeal as they reported the Israeli minister? And he didn’t hit them.
Brilliant. You can’t reason with scum like that. Drop them into migrant hotels or Gaza and see if they can survive.
Several western media outlets, citing European intelligence report[s], as we muddy the waters in this edition
UK braces for hottest May day on record as 30C heat continues (BBC)
‘Braces for’ not… ‘basks in’ the sunshine? How our media has changed in their reporting of a bit of sunny weather, since I were a lad, as they say. ‘Cor wot a scorcher!’ is now ‘Watch out, on yer ‘ed, sun!’
For those not interested in football – or indeed your Mr AsI complaining about its modern evolution – look away now – just for a short paragraph or two.
The Americanisation of soccer moves on apace with the four-quarters game format and the ‘time out’ presaged by ‘drinks breaks’. No 45 minute test of endurance for our best 11 lads.
Teams will be able to make five substitutions in each game of the World Cup, with an additional one made available in extra time… Up until 2022, teams competing at the World Cup have had to select 23 players for their final squads for the tournament. But that changed in Qatar, as FIFA increased the number to 26. (Talk Sport) – extra time is now not simply a minute or two add-on but an integral tactically assumed part of the game with matches regularly lasting 100-plus minutes.
I like to notice an exception that proves the rule (there’s me falling into a tired old idiom). Given the almost universal moaning and whingeing, oh woe is me, nature of female millionaire celebrity interviews, it’s a rare moment of nostalgic pleasure to read: I never think about mental health… mine’s perfect… Joan Collins at 93 – sounds as though the Telegraph interviewer must have brought up the subject of her mental health.
What a pretty pass we’ve come to where, channelling Senator Joseph McCarthy, we’ve the celeb interview gambit: “Are you now, or have you ever been… a member of the banging on about your mental health… community?”
The mildly conservative Telegraph can still go a bit old school: The best niche museums for half term
My vote goes to the Derwent Pencil Museum – Located in Keswick, the home of the first pencil, visitors enter this museum through a replica graphite mine… – thank you Wiki. And no doubt exit via gift shop.
For segueways sake, we’ll next alight on the teacher’s friend, the Guardian, where cynical righty Mr AsI has nothing but praise for their feature interview teaser with another old timer: Barry Manilow ‘The knickers that get thrown at me are bigger now’ – come on, I know it’s the ghastly Gruan, but praise where praise is due.
It’s a gilt-edged given that any outcome of the Iran conflict will be framed by our media as a defeat for Donald Trump. This in consequence of the near pathological nature of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Guardian has it bad and is all geared up for their post-match negative nelly punditry: US close to peace deal with Iran as Trump faces fury from own party… Republicans criticise ‘disastrous’ handling of conflict
Don’t run away with the idea that the Graun is fully paid-up card carrying peacenik in nature – when it comes to the regime-sponsored Ukraine conflict they’re like the World War One donkey generals – it’s one more push (another year or two of warfare) and we’ll (probably) get to change a really nasty foreign regime: ‘Disillusioned’ The mood in Russia truns against Putin… several western media outlets, citing European intelligence report… feared assassination or coup – have we not been hearing that same old line since day one of this conflict?
Speaking of assassination attempts: Suspect killed after opening fire on Secret Service near White House (BBC); Shooting suspect charged with attempted assassination of Trump at Washington dinner (BBC) – media TDS goes viral in the general population of nutcases and reaches widespread epidemic proportions?
The infantilism of an ‘ungovernable’ Britain – frets Martin Wolf in the FT
Yep, sounds about right…
Justice Secretary David Lammy is currently weighing up youth justice reforms that would treat young adults aged under 25 in the criminal court system more like children, potentially allowing offenders up to 24 to receive more lenient community sentences instead of prison (Telegraph) – just think of the benefits of this idea – for a start the legal anonymity aforded to under-18-year-olds, if it could be granted to under-25s, would handily brush a lot of our immigrant crime wave under the carpet. No names, no pack drill, as they used to say in the army.
Much wry humour is to be gained from watching the present discomfort of the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror attempting to find a headline story not involving: ‘Embarrasing’ texts to expose ministers’ cosy relationships with Mandelson (i paper) or; As thug who left battered officer for dead is freed after less than 3 months, rank and file leader blasts Labour’s early release ‘reforms’ (Mail) or; Criminlas are taking over our high streets (Express). Sadly gone are the campaigning salad days for the Mirror with their poor NHS nurses driven to snacking out of hospital kitchen waste bins. The little angels apparently hardly had a TikTok dance routine left in them – what with nasty Tory cutbacks.
Prize Aunt Sally of the left, our Nigel Farage, is a reliable pantomime villain for a convenient distracting side show space. The only aspect worth remark in this de rigueur Daily Mirror diss jockey hit piece is the sudden about turn carping disbelief in those formerly favoured Russian conspiracy theories: Farage’s astonishing leak claim… Russian spies for real, Nige? …claimed Russian spies hacked his phone… accused of muddying the waters
Border wars
RAF jet carrying defence secretary has signal jammed near Russian border – frets our BBC. Let me tell you, unlike Britain, some nations take security at their border rather seriously.
To round off where we came in, as a final note getting back to the weather, a forgivable quaint perennial obsession with us British, now sadly afforded a peculiar political slant verging on quasi-millenarian religion status, and where we chase records like we’re Ross or Norris McWhirter… let’s settle on the Daily Star which recycles yesterday’s Express and Telegraph front page feature pin-up of the renaissance festival maiden with the 99 flake and parasol – but gifted that concise no nonsence tabloid style: UK gets VERY hot (Star)
Something I’ve noticed about our beloved Fuhrer…
Herr Starmer was very quick to “Take the knee” for American gangster, drug addict, career criminal and all round thug, George Floyd. Christ, he and Fag ash Lil couldn’t get down quickly enough. The photographs made my flesh crawl and dispelled any lingering respect I might still have had for him.
He was rapturous in his support of the TV series Adolescence (as were all the lefty luvvies) which depicted a WHITE teenager who murdered his class mate. I mean, it happens all the time. Starmer wanted this propaganda piece played in every school in the country and even referred to it as “a documentary”.
However, I’ve not heard a whisper from the PM regarding the appalling Henry Nowak case. This is the young lad who was brutally butchered by a Sikh. When they arrived the Sikh told the police he had been racially abused (of course) and the useless, woke coppers then arrested the dying boy, who eventually drowned in his own blood. The poor lad was bleeding to death in front of them and Dumb and Dumber were arresting him.
If it wasn’t so desperately tragic it would be funny.
And you can’t have failed to notice, our media don’t want to touch it.
Now, there’s a surprise…
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It is evident that some summary or other has teetered at the edge of his desk, or enough such that a minion felt the need to pop out a T&P tweet. He is, of course, near tears.
But yes, the full might of the OB video production team is still editing him peeking out of a 40s bunker slot somewhere as part our civil defence prep work against climate emboldened snakes. Apparently.
Meanwhile Herm the Germ is bunging the judge a six month holiday on expenses with Carla.
weekend wreckage
So as Trump delivers the Iran peace deal how will the bBC dress up success (a few assumptions there) as failure? Will Trump call out the useless BO for the failed nuclear deal of his Presidency (and for the start of the Ukraine war)? It is about time our Marxist media understand that narrative can never be sustained in the long run when it contradicts facts. The biggest threat to democracy in the UK was the bBC.
Something’s changed in the Trump administration
Some strange language in the Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/bbc-brings-in-debt-collectors-to-police-licence-fee/
Scrap the BBC – Scrap the Telly Tax and scrap the current Lefty Government that does not care for the people of Great Britain .
Our only salvation is ‘Reform UK’.
How is it that you can be immediately locked up and tried for a tweet, shouting at a police horse or knocking a bin over yet it takes years if you’ve been raping little girls or beating up policewomen.
Are the Courts fully booked or not.
Yet another two tier example this government excels at.
SNP Murrell larceny admitted
nuffink, absolutely nuffink to do with the SNP or Sturgeon / Mrs Murrell
– GOT THAT?
Yes Nicola, that brand new motor home on the drive, er it was, umm, er, a present.
OK, Peter, no-one will ever notice. There’s press outside the house every day.
£400k ? – multiply by the number of SNP candidates for a more accurate figure?
The same couple who conived with the police to stitch up Salmond. The SNP were never held to account for that marxist characteristic. Another stain on this shop soiled kingdom.
One does rather savour those inherent ironies which sometimes pop up in the modern mainstream agenda-based narrative.
Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion (Guardian)
I hope the trans lobby cancelled creator of the Father Ted series, Graham Linehan, got a nice extra royalty payment.
AISI these contradictions are going to gather pace. The implosion of narrative with fact.
Tomo – the problem is Rupert Lowe splitting the Right vote – I prefer Lowe to Farage but people must vote Reform – unless they want a really really Far Left government and double council tax …
Unfortunately… you are correct and the fick Ange constituency malarkey by Leftists shows us that splitting the vote tactic is effective – other non policy based arithmetic tactics might apply – is there a law against having identically named candidates?
and … more fickAnge
“I posted this during the week but I’m doing it again because it’s absolutely staggering.
@AngelaRayner
can claim £40,000 in direct office expenses and a further £240,000 for “staff costs” etc.
She’s also been gifted another quarter of a million quid from “supporters” to cover even more “office expenses”.
In total it comes to over £500,000 per year.
Or £10,000 PER WEEK.
FOR OFFICE EXPENSES.
A UK pensioner is expected to survive on just £12,500 PER YEAR.
That’s just 9 days worth of Angela Rayners “office expenses”.
”
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https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25429&chamber=house-of-commons
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The counter argument is that Restore is appealing to many people who had given up on voting altogether as there was no party that represented them, or else were voting Reform as a least worst case placeholder until something like Restore came along. We already have a really Far Left government and as Starmer, Streeting and Burnham are all authoritarian, pro-EU, Fabian socialists and globalists, it doesn’t matter which of them occupies No.10 for the next few years.
Ian – it’s a shame that the likes of the dead blues cannot / will not stand down … they’ll still get a residual vote from the stupid and confused who can’t remember what Farage / Lowe are …
If I remember from analysis of the 2024 election in many places the Marxists got in because of the reform / dead blue split – surely not again …?
That Telegraph report on BBC cozying up to the “debt collectors”
The presumption (which , if you’re here, you likely know well!) – is simply staggering.
https://archive.is/sMxXQ
The Guardian and BBC amongst the leading press support for poor Muslims suffering from Islamophobia.
Example….
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/25/danger-islamophobia-antisemitism-hatred-anti-muslim-abuse
This smacks of a devised plan to negate the hatred and violence aimed at the Jewish community, fully endorsed by the usual left-wing press titles.
I say if you want to be regarded as an upright and tolerant movement, stop murdering people!
What, and deprive them of a hobby / central tenet?
Is the BBC institutionally anti-Semitic given its extraordinarily one-sided coverage of anything to do with Israel.
The BBC made a huge song and dance about an Israeli politician giving the Gaza protestors some verbal abuse and allegations of abuse whilst detained…
‘Gaza flotilla activists allege abuse by Israeli forces while detained’
but oddly there’s nothing at all about Spanish police beating same protestors on their entry to Spain…
In some strange way it could be a good thing if Restore splits the vote and allows Burnham to be elected.
The polls suggest that Reform would win if they had the Restore vote added to their vote and if the election results show this to be the case it should get Farage and Lowe to do something about it or Labour may well win the next GE.
If Reform win (by a small margin) this will probably give them both the go ahead thinking they were both doing ok. They will think they can do better and will ignore any calls for some sensible arrangement such as letting Lowe have a go at say 15 – 20 seats in the GE.
I would expect Restore to vote with a Reform Government as they have many similarities (and they both disagree with all the others apart from a few Tories)
Labour winning the by election would hopefully be the wake up call they both need.
I hadn’t thought about the by election in that way; you make an interesting point…
I’ve had several “discussions” with Restore supporters, with me warning them of the dire consequences of “splitting our vote”.
However, most of them seem to view Reform as “sell outs”, despise Nigel and believe, against all commonsense and logic, that Rupert Lowe is going to storm into Downing Street in 2029. It’s never going to happen. For some reason, a lot of them seem more keen for Reform to fail than they are to see Restore succeed.
Of course, some sort of amalgamated political agreement, if not coalition would be ideal.
The one fly in the ointment would be the enmity between Nigel and Rupert and their respective egos.
Alas, they just don’t like each other…
What does that make me? I don’t like either of them.
Moggie – who ‘likes ‘ politicians …. Can I imagine any politician really making my life better ? Really cutting taxes ? Really making britainistan Britain again ? No . It’s all branding … and Reform is the leading brand at the moment …
Actually, that is the real issue Fed…
Whatever your ‘politics’, whetever your beliefs, whatever your creed is, the arch-lefties in Labour, the Lib dems, the Tories, and the rest of the rabble, are just not capable of running the UK.
I paid sums of my money into National Insurance, income taxes etc for the whole of my working life. I was never out of a job, (except three months redundancy – paid for in full, tax-free, and wasn’t sniffed at, but it was my due, and anyway, within three hours of the chucking-out, I’d got a new job at better money, but that’s another story), and that money I paid at vast expense to my family, was designed to make life in the UK a better place to live in for everyone, and ultimately, for me to have a state pension for my wife and girls when I eventually hung up my boots.
Successive governments, starting with the disgraceful, even evil Blair, then the worse Brown, then the bloody Tories and – yucch – the Limps, were using the investment I made for my future for a better life for me and everyone else, but they wasted it on their stupid vanity projects like The Dome and HS2 etc, so now, like thousands of similar citizens, I’m feeling the pinch.
Distrust in all politicians is rife these days, and the egos of some are just disgusting, but one issue is absolutely paramount – the socialist/communist, all sorts of far-leftist crap ‘experiment’with the UK has to stop NOW! The left just must not win this election.
Makerfield will design the outcome for the whole country, with the far-left Bagman, TTK, Nige and Rupe all farting around each other – at 78 years of age, I’m less sanguine as the days progress…
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Scroblene – optimism is an increasingly rare commodity . My default is pessimism and realism … I am pleased to be close to the state pension – I – too – have a full NI record – and I have paid far more tax than I have taken out of the system …
We are repeatedly told by the likes of Liam halligan that the country is on a financial precipice on top if the social troubles we are in …
Can anyone see a remedy ? I can’t – for either issue . ..the theme of managed ( actually unmanaged ) decline will continue until we hit the buffers .
As for politicians – even if Reform got a working majority – unless they have a truly talented cabinet -they ll be crushed by all the ‘pressure groups ‘ led by the media …
EG blimey I thought my reasoning is sometimes too complicated but you beat me hands down – I’d never play you at chess …
The other ‘added value ‘ would be a continuing civil war within the Labour Party and the unlikely chance of a general election earlier than 2029 – unless one if forced by the economy of course …
Stop the boats or stop the French fishing !
Better still, get rid of our useless government.
If you want a laugh, #ccbgb
https://x.com/michaellcrick/status/2058887938394476979?s=61
In almost any other household, if a man suddenly parked a brand new £125,000 motorhome in the driveway – and acquired other new vehicles – his wife would ask where on earth he got the money from.
@MelindiScott
And so would the media
Clearly an emotional time where the media need to go easy on the hens.
https://x.com/ginadavidsonlbc/status/2058918611394118109?s=61
Gets better.
https://x.com/russellfindlay1/status/2058861612119826653?s=61
Sturgeon: “Money hasn’t gone missing”.
SNP finances as solid as their financial case for independence 🤣
And worse.
https://x.com/wingsscotland/status/2058941005471105234?s=61
Remember: after Wings revealed the SNP’s missing money in January 2020, I personally DMed all the Scottish media’s chief politics hacks to suggest they follow up on the story. Not one of them did. None even acknowledged the message.
Client media, ‘holding power to account’.
Sky has switched off comments.
https://x.com/skynews/status/2058898305921278364?s=61
‘Do you think Nicola Sturgeon has been misled and is a victim?’
Scotland’s FM: ‘Nicola Sturgeon has made clear that she was unaware of any of these issues. I do believe this.’
John Swinney answers questions, following former SNP chief Peter Murrell’s guilty plea
https://x.com/treesey/status/2058909144766116335?s=61
And it’s Simon Johnston (@simon_telegraph) from the Telegraph who asks the obvious question…
Swinney’s answer tl;dr
‘I must protect Nicola at all costs’
#Lalique #Elephant #Room
It didn’t cross her desk, but at 4 ft 5, it probs went over her head anyway…
They fixed them ferries yet …. ?
The Henry Nowak case is getting a lot of comment on X – which is interesting / concerning because it’s an active trial …. Will the judge do or say anything when the trial resumes tomorrow ?
Many people want the CCTV body camera footage released .. wonder if that will ever happen …. ?
Another observation is that something has gone seriously wrong with the courts and the judges ….
Makerfield. Andrew says it all.
Is our government deliberately allowing illegals to enter our shores ?
What on earth are we paying the French for ?
In the long term this is going to cost the British taxpayer a lot of money now and in the future!
We need a new government .
taffman ,
On Youtube there is Danny Tommo ( Raise the Colours )Video of the French taking a boat load of illegals to a Border Farce Cutter ……..they then towed the dingy with lifejackets back to France for more Doctors and Engineers . What was telling there no engine on the dingy ! .Obviously the real people smugglers are UK and French Governments …..were not surprised are we !
YES
Is the timing of the SNP corruption trial – 2 weeks after the election – a fix … ?
The guilty plea means a lot of stuff doesn’t come out into the open either
Too right !
Then there’s all the stuff about locking up Craig Murray……..
Forgive my lack of understanding of the true depravity of the U.K. legal system, but why? Is not justice meant to be seen to be done?
There was a near identical instance in Wiltshire about 2 years ago.
No Dixon of Dock Green or The Sweeny
Community cohesion….
Hottest May day on record in UK as temperatures pass 34C
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xwwpkrgj1o
Silly BBC : they’ve accidentally used a picture from Africa !.
Unless of course it was sheer luck that they picked 2 black women – each of which represents about 1.25% of the UK population. A probability of about 1 in 4,500.
The only other option I can think of is racist and sexist discrimination when choosing the picture – but the BBC aren’t allowed to do that are they ?.
And of course, there is the agenda being pushed by the BBC that if it’s so hot that even black people are being affected, then there *must* be serious global warming. Not just a lovely sunny day mind you, it must be climate change.
Sky part of the same outfit?
https://x.com/skynews/status/2059291069884313874?s=61
BREAKING: Today is now officially the hottest ever May day, with the record being broken for the second day in a row.
Heatwave latest ⬇️
With added tragedy: some kids have died in water.
Sadly, #ccbgb
The BBC of course is noted for the thought and care devoted to bringing in just the right gob to comment on a story to frame things appropriately.
BBC Moaning Emole:
Iain McDowell
Good morning. Gisèle Pelicot says she’s “deeply shocked” that three teenage boys who raped two girls in the UK were spared jail.
And good morning to you, too, Iain.
“So what you are saying is… let’s block comments in case hanging off the @rse of the BBC on the studio dag circuit makes us look pathetic?”
https://x.com/skynews/status/2059191940336288038?s=61
Angela Rayner – gets off for tax evasion.
SNP, says hold my beer and let me cover up this story until it goes away…. HAH AHA HAH AHA HAHA AH!
And both those serious financial issues were made public long after they were first investigated – something to do with the timing of elections, possibly?
Who decided to do this? Who told the bBC and the rest of the MSM to keep quiet about it all until further instructions?
Night and day, you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun
A nice little snippet of easy listening there with a standard from the Cole Porter songbook
Record for hottest May night broken in UK, while daytime temperature could hit 35C – our BBC now double-dipping for weather records, both day and night.
One could write a book on how campaigning vested interest climate alarmists have taken a quaint British obsession with talking about the weather – and turned it against us.
The irony of course being that while we stale pale males knot our hankies to cover our bald pates (metaphorically these days) thousands flock to the beaches and scoff ice creams making the most of it, so to speak, because we’ll complain about the inevitable end of the hot spell when its over.
Our NHS playing up to the role of blowsy over-fussy school nurse has to get in on the act – perhaps just to show that despite the departure of the lad Streeting – she’s still there: The NHS warned people to keep hydrated, with babies, children and older adults at the highest risk of dehydration (BBC)
Next thing you know she’ll be reminding us to wear our warm vest in the chilly weather. More from matron later.
Our BBC does that red-top tabloid thing of comparing our weather to far-off exotic-sounding place names plucked from the adventurer’s atlas: BBC Weather said highs expected in parts of the UK on Monday and Tuesday could exceed top temperatures in Lagos, Cairo and Ho Chi Minh City. (BBC News reporting stuff passed across the office from BBC Weather)
The ever-resourceful Getty Images (I’m guessing) provided the Guardian with a front page masthead adjacent illustration for their header line: UK records its highest ever May temperature – you guessed it, the woman in red fanning herself with a makeshift fan, she’s… more reminiscent of a native denizen of Lagos, than Cairo or Ho Chi Minh City.
The junior cheapskate Gruan that is the i paper goes with: … as Britain breaks spring heatwave record
The FT remains somewhat vague about what record this is that’s been broken precisely – although obviously its alarming: Heat alert… temperatures break records
I’m no expert (as people tend to say) but to my mind weather records are a case of how long is a piece of string? One imagines tens of thousands of years humans have walked upon the earth (and on this particular island of our’s) and yet only in the last… less than a hundred or so (?) have we had a decent thermometer – and then there’s the issue of where to stick it…?
Cue comic saucy postcard Carry On movie gag… the scene with the late lamented Frankie Howerd: “Yes, Mr Bigger, of course I’ve seen a patient having his temperature taken in that manner – just not with the stem of a tulip!” – I think that was more or less the line.
The leftist inspired diss against Nigel Farage goes something like this: “Foreign billionaire corporate off-shore tycoon bungs crypto currency blah-de-blah”
A line that sits more comfortably with Starmer (despite Lord Alli) and on the front page of the Mirror rather than the FT – or so you’d think.
Arundel Castle lunch gives Farage access to top table… Reform donors… seeks inroads into the wealthy… the anti-immigrant party (FT)
The cultural, culinary argument goes: OK, we like curry… but we’ve got the recipe now, thanks.
Ecomonically: OK, we corporates love the cheap foreign labour (with all the external costs of healthcare, education, housing, etc mopped up by the State) but do we really still need all the cheap labour?
Next boss warns of ‘dramatic’ fall in entry-level jobs (BBC);
‘I live in survival mode’: The rise of the multi-job workforce… More than a million people in the UK now have second jobs as rising costs, insecure work and industry changes push workers into a growing gig economy. (BBC);
Stop blaming young people for being unemployed, says Amazon’s UK boss… Young people out of work is ‘a system problem’, Amazon boss John Boumphrey told the BBC… A record number of young people are out of work – but it is not their fault, Amazon’s UK boss has said. (BBC) – amusingly the BBC employing not one but multiple journalist bylines on most stories there.
Yep, sounds as though we can cool it with the immigration a notch or two for now.
Sturgeon’s estranged husband admits embezzling £400k from SNP – the Times going with a fine pair of old-timey terms there – estranged and embezzling – you don’t hear those every day. But as the old curmudgeon that is History Debunked (You Tube) speculated la Sturgeon’s supposed husband was always somewhat estranged (shades of the Starmers perhaps) – one does admire the use of the old term ‘Beard’
For a literary allusion to the Sturgeon’s domestic arrangements think E.F. Benson’s characters Emmeline “Lucia” Lucas and George “Georgie” Pillson – except our Nicola was more of a Quaint Irene
Doctor’s orders
Social media is the new smoking… Pressure grows on PM to back ban for under-16s… report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (Times) – Keir, just think of the advantages – every social media user in Britain will have to register their Digial ID to prove their age. “Cushty” as David Jason as Delboy Trotter would have said “You know it makes sense”
“Done, you have been” – that was Ronnie Barker in the role of prison old lag Norman Stanley Fletcher, as I recall.
Climate changed removed Dinosaurs to help mankind?
“Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct approximately 66 million years ago during the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event. This cataclysm, triggered by a massive asteroid striking Earth, wiped out about 75% of all plant and animal species on the planet. “
“Arundel Castle lunch gives Farage access to top table… Reform donors… seeks inroads into the wealthy… the anti-immigrant party (FT)”
the anti-immigrant party – the modern world is built on cheap labour – see China and Saudi and Dubai – anti-illegal-immigration pro legal immigration?
Here is one possible explanation for the marxists wanting to give free bus travel to ‘children’ in the UK this summer:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/05/culture-enriching-brawl-on-a-flemish-tram/
It avoids transport staff being sent to A&E. There is a video of the excitement on the Belgium tram.
FREE – so the petrol they use from Russia is FREE?
Hang about… if social media is now regarded as just as toxic for our under-16s as smoking… how comes adults should still be allowed to use it?
Riddle me that.
And what’s the age cut-off where social media ceases to be dangerous… 16… 18… 21… 25…? (the latter re David Lammy’s proposed redefinition of the age of legal responsibility)
Ban social media for under 16.
Lower voting age to 16.
Free Motor Homes for all under 16!
Careful kids, best avoid that one parked up outside the old BBC Television Centre.
As we should never ever tire of reminding ourselves.
Asiseeit – That thinking is exactly what the Marxist regime wants us to think – maybe to further restrict access to opinion /information using ‘health ‘ as a weapon .
Sooner or later they ll be taxing by amount of time or data …
I remember the evil Lucy Powell saying she wants every site licenced …
The level of criminality in the political breed seems … strange …. Mandelson …. The SNP ….. various tax avoiders ( ok Zack ) rapists …these law makers are not exactly role models are they ?
They are, but not for anything we’d consider wholesome or useful.
So Peter Murrell pleads guilty to fraud. A very unusual outcome for a fraud trial as fraud is a very difficult crime to prove in Court, defendants tend to try their luck. Murrell must be a Kleptomaniac to have undertaken his spending spree. Mental health you see, I imagine the trauma of marriage to Nicola being hard to bear.
Nicola denies knowing anything, strange as this claim might appear I do think it possible. Nicola was, after all, far too busy destroying Scotland and Britain to notice condiment pots on the dinner table worth thousands of pounds.
It’s pretty obvious that Murrell has pleaded guilty to avoid further revelations regarding the SNP and also avoid Nicola having to to testify as a witness under oath. Murrell gets let off a few more things.
Coincidentally, our local Parish Council Chairman (ex) just been charged with defrauding over £160,000 from our small village Council funds.
I’ve always maintained the Scottish Parliament is nothing more than a Parish Council.
Tax the rich! HA HA HAH AHA !
** people on expenses are struggling (c) BBC Verified fact.
Flotsam – yes – the guilty plea stinks – to protect his ex for her inevitable come back – the separatist nationalist fanatic SNP will get the usual free pass from the MSM – and since bbc Scotland is part of the SNP there will be no inquiry there ….
Forgotten by tomorrow and replaced by ‘ scorching Britain burns ‘ with TTK calling a cobra to stop the hot ( summer ) weather …
Move along – rain at the weekend ..
Today`s the anniversary of the start of Dunkirk Evacuation .
While the little ships were doing the right thing , our modern Border Farce would go further up the French/Belgium coast to bring the Germans in .
Nibor – and the 22nd was the anniversary of the loss of HMS Hood … from the days when the RN had ships …in a way I am glad there is no RN – they would find stopping the invasion ‘distasteful ‘…
HMS Dragon (D35) is docked in the Eastern Mediterranean at Souda Bay, Crete. The Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer was deployed to the region to help defend UK bases and allied nations but has been undergoing technical repairs and maintenance.
One for Mariana and Verify
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https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15848373/The-Gaza-flotilla-fakers-Israel-shows-miraculous-recovery-protesters-pictured-injuries-supposedly-tortured-fine-posing-cameras-supporters.html
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Israel has accused the Gaza flotilla protestors of faking their injuries after several organisers alleged abuse, sexual assault, and beatings in custody.
The official X account of the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted a tweet mocking the ‘miraculous “recovery” of the flotilla participants’, implying activists staged their injuries in front of the cameras.
It comes after Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50 ships in international waters last Tuesday to halt a flotilla of volunteers trying to bring aid supplies to the Gaza Strip.
Several activists were hospitalised with injuries and at least 15 people alleged they were subjected to sexual assault in Israeli custody.
Israel’s prison service has denied the allegations.
Germany said some of its nationals had been injured and that some accusations were ‘serious’, while a legal source in Italy said prosecutors were investigating possible crimes including kidnapping and sexual assault.
The allegations of abuse will add to pressure on Israeli authorities to explain the treatment of the detainees, after a video of hard-Right Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in a prison mocking some of the activists sparked an international outcry.
‘The allegations raised are false and entirely without factual basis,’ an Israeli prison service spokesperson said in a statement in response to abuse claims.
In one tweet, the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted three photographs of German activist Nesrin Zeaiter, accusing her of staging her injuries to spark media attention.
One photograph shows her ‘standing healthy in Israel’, the other her lying down with a neck brace, and the third shows her ‘healthy again in Germany’.
‘The miracle of the flotilla participants’, the collage is titled.
In another mocking post, the Israeli Foreign Ministry shared the same photograph of Zeaiter in a stretcher, next to a second photograph of her carrying flowers and smiling at Hannover Airport, Langenhagen.
‘It’s a miracle! Thank God, the flotilla anarchist made a full recovery in no time!’ the ministry wrote.
The posts incited a rebuttal from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which said Zeaiter had ‘experienced a concussion and over 40 bruises’ in custody, and that a neck brace is ‘standard precautionary protocol for suspected cervical injury’.
‘All prisoners and detainees are held in accordance with the law, with full regard for their basic rights and under the supervision of professional and trained prison staff,’ an Israeli prison service spokesperson said.
‘Medical care is provided according to professional medical judgment and in accordance with Ministry of Health guidelines.’
Juliet Lamont, an Australian activist and documentary filmmaker, told Reuters on Monday she was dragged, sexually assaulted and beaten when she was detained.
‘That was just the beginning of four days of absolute hell. I’ve looked into the eyes of the most soulless people in the universe, and nothing came back. These people need to be stopped,’ Lamont said.
Another Australian activist, Sam Woripa Watson, said he sustained a fractured rib along with bruises and cuts across his body.
Watson also said he had witnessed activists being tasered and shot with rubber bullets, with stun grenades thrown at them.
Mi Hoa Lee, an activist from Spain, said she was forced into the darkened container on the ship, according to a video interview.
‘Four men started beating me in the face against the wall, and I fell down and then stood up again, again to the floor, stood up again, and they started tasering me for more than one minute,’ she said, pointing to her ribcage, hips and back where she said they applied the taser.
‘Then they kept beating me until I almost lost my conscience,’ she added.
Ilaria Mancosu, an Italian activist, told Reuters the flotilla members were removed from their boats to two so-called prison ships.
Those put on one of the ships suffered more violence than the other, she said, adding that they were locked in a container and beaten by five soldiers, suffering fractures to the ribs and arms.
Some had serious injuries to their eyes and ears caused by tasers, she said.
Mancosu claimed they spent two days on the prison ships with no running water and used cardboard and plastic to keep warm at night, since they had no blankets and were stripped of most of their clothes.
Once on land, she said they were made to kneel for several hours and kicked and shoved if they moved or spoke.
They were then taken to a prison where they were moved from room to room periodically to keep them from sleeping, she added.
Brilliant. Just what was needed… assuming the ball is picked up properly by all with skin in this game on all sides, as the truth is what gets this whole farcical conflict played out in the West on X and the streets and Islamic MP surgeries back on a coherent track.
The activists have pushed and pushed and pushed, the media has amplified and amplified, and the political estate has caved and caved and caved, such that nobody believes anyone.
Is it possible some Israeli squaddies were a bit rude? Yes.
Is likely they anally raped a keffiyeh wearing Western badged harpie using a Chiwawa? No.
Did other countries beat up the whole clown show trying to bring it all back home? Yes.
Do some poor kids get caught in parent/governing body f-wittery in Gaza and lose limb or life? Probably.
Do Israelis like it or want it? Unlikely. It serves no purpose, but f-wittery brings consequences to f-wits.
Did it serve the interests of the JezBo classes? Clearly.
I automatically believe and side with most Israeli accounts on just about anything, as those ranged against them are LUDICROUS, mostly proven or debated to be so, and found relying on credulous or complicit brain donors in politics, media or a small basement in Notting Hill to gain ground.
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Jenrick said on Sunday that a legally resident foreign individual living in social housing would not be deported just for that:
“If they fail to meet our criteria because they’re not in work or they’re not working as many hours, not earning enough money, then they won’t be able to renew their work visa because ILR won’t exist and they’ll be asked to leave.”
Reform’s home affairs spokesman said this was wrong on X this morning:
“Robert’s answer is not Reform policy. As the person responsible for our deportation plan I want ensure people know where we stand: If a foreign national lives in social housing at taxpayer expense, they automatically fail our economic test and will be deported.”
Farage always goes on about having spats behind closed doors.
https://order-order.com/2026/05/26/public-reform-spat-between-jenrick-and-yusuf-over-immigration-policy/
“You cannot escape the fact we appear to be morally and financially bankrupt.”
Vote reform – best of a bad job – unless you want to hear more from the ‘king of the norf’
Here 12mph wind with 24mph gusts
So doesn’t feel boiling hot
Tomorrow’s max feels-like temp is forecast as just 13C