Mark Lodge 🏉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😇 👞🏉

Rugby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😇 loving 50 something grumpy old man, devoted dad and husband.

[Tony Ward @TonyWard867811]

Britain is broke.

Not a recession broke. Not a bad year broke. Properly broke.

The shop costs twice as much for half a trolley.

The heating clicks off at nine.

The petrol is creeping up again because of a war you did not vote for, in a strait you cannot find on a map.

The NHS has seven million people waiting.

The streets are not safe.

The kids cannot leave home.

The pensioners cannot pay their bills.

Meanwhile.

£8 million a day on asylum hotels.
£15 billion a year on foreign aid.
£24 billion borrowed in April alone, the worst since Covid.

Ask why and you are a bigot.
Ask again and you are a racist.
Ask a third time and you are a fascist, a far right hate monger, a danger to society.

Millions of decent British people are not angry because they are bad.

They are angry because they have not been put first in their own country, in their own lifetime.

Not once.

Not under Tories.
Not under Labour.
Not under Lib Dems.
Not under coalitions.

Thirty years of being told the queue starts behind everyone else, including the people who only arrived yesterday.

This is not racism.

This is exhaustion.

And it is justified.

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Britain is not “tightening its belt.”
Britain has sold the belt, borrowed another one on Klarna, and is now being lectured about financial responsibility by people billing duck houses to the taxpayer.
The weekly shop now requires a small bank loan.
You walk into Tesco for bread and milk and leave having accidentally financed a Mediterranean yacht.
Heating goes on like a military operation.
“One hour only, Margaret. We’re not made of money.”
Petrol prices rise every time somebody sneezes near a shipping lane most of us couldn’t point to on a globe if David Attenborough himself was helping.
The NHS waiting list is so long your appendix now has a better chance of seeing a doctor than you do.
Young people cannot afford houses.
Parents cannot afford food.
Pensioners cannot afford to die because funerals are apparently platinum-tier experiences now.
Meanwhile the Government — regardless of colour rosette — stares proudly into the middle distance and announces another “bold package of measures” that somehow never includes fixing anything you actually use.
You notice:
£8 million a day on asylum hotels.
£15 billion on foreign aid.
£24 billion borrowed in a single month.
And if you politely ask whether this is sustainable, the national conversation immediately transforms into:
“Ah. So you’re literally Hitler then.”
Ask once: bigot.
Ask twice: racist.
Ask three times: far-right extremist and possible threat to democracy itself.
At this point you half expect Ofcom to cut into Coronation Street with:
“We apologise for Russ from Doncaster asking where his taxes went.”
The reality is millions of ordinary British people are not angry because they are hateful.
They are angry because for thirty years they have been told:
Wait your turn.
Pay more.
Expect less.
Shut up.
And if possible, feel guilty while doing it.
Under Labour.
Under Conservatives.
Under coalitions.
Under whichever assortment of beige management consultants happened to win the election that year.
The British public are essentially the bloke at the pub who keeps buying rounds while being told he’s selfish for wondering why his own pint never arrives.
This is not racism.
It is national exhaustion.
And frankly, after this long, you would struggle to find a country on Earth that would not feel exactly the same.

[Mark Lodge 🏉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😇 👞🏉 @007Mtl]

@networkrail @NetworkRailEUS @LNRailway
Any danger of anyone communicating with the hot sweaty masses currently melting at Euston station in terms of the delays?

[Mark Lodge 🏉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😇 👞🏉 @007Mtl]

@lac_88 That was rugby from the gods! Was a pleasure to be at The Gardens to witness! 💚🖤💛👞👞👞

[Northampton Saints 😇 @SaintsRugby]

”Henry Pollock just needs to concentrate on his rugby.”

😉

[Larry @lryansport]

Northampton Saints have now won more league games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium than Tottenham have in 2026 😇

[Mark Lodge 🏉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😇 👞🏉 @007Mtl]

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[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

Still arguably the greatest mainstream piano song that will stand the test of time. A true classic—thanks, Bruce!

[Love Music @khnh80044]

A timeless classic. The moment the saxophone starts, chills run down my spine. 🎷🎸🔥

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr just dropped a radical rethink of taxes, education, and national wealth:

- No tax for anyone under 30 → let young people keep every penny they earn and actually start their lives.

- University should be free… but only for STEM fields that grow society (not a luxury item for 50% of kids).

- Over 60? No tax either — stop pretending we can pay endless pensions with fewer young workers.

- Sovereign wealth fund from UK oil, gas, wind farms, and mobile masts — assets that should belong to everyone, not just the Crown.

On AI and the future:
We need flexibility of thought. Old ideologies won’t cut it when everything changes.

Why does everything have to come from taxing workers? Why not undercut Ireland on corporation tax, mine Bitcoin with idle power stations, or treat national resources as shared wealth?

Do you think no-tax zones for the young and old + free STEM education could actually work?
Or is this too radical for a country stuck in old thinking?

Your take 👇

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Prince with literally the greatest 'hold my beer' moment of all time.

I'm out of words.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Jimmy Page playing 'Whole Lotta Love' in front of two legends who grew up idolizing him.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Letterman didn't expect a punk rock explosion on his show but he certainly got one from the Beastie Boys.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Can you name a better live guitar solo?

You can't.

3-minutes straight goosebumps in every note.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

One of the most intense moments in music history.

Stevie got all the attention but Christie McVie was so subtle and perfect in this live performance.

Fleetwood Mac took the stage to perform 'Go Your Own Way' live in 1997.

That golden times of music.