Louie.

Black and Proud Brummie. Former Soldier. Retired Bobby. Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan. Film Buff. ATL Falcons Fan, Pics season ticket holder.🇬🇧🇻🇨

[GGross @GrossSeven]

Payne County District Judge Michael A. (or Michael) Kulling and Special Judge Susan C. Worthington and were the primary judges involved in the decisions that allowed Jesse Mack Butler to avoid prison time.
They both are unfit to serve and need to be removed from the bench.
There's simply no excuse for allowing Jesse to go unpunished.

[joe-lincs @lincslincs]

They keep telling us the UK's debt is "only" £3 trillion.

What they don't tell you is:

• National Debt: £3 trillion
• Unfunded public sector pensions: £1.3 trillion
• Council borrowing: £120 billion
• PFI & long-term contracts: £200 billion
• Nuclear decommissioning: £300 billion
• NHS clinical negligence liabilities: £70 billion
• State Pension promises: £3.5 trillion+

Total long-term obligations: around £8.5 trillion.
Now ask yourself this...

Less than 20 years ago, public sector receipts were around £400 billion. Today they're forecast to be around £1.3 trillion.

Despite the state taking in over three times as much money, Britain has higher debt, massive long-term obligations, struggling public services and continues to borrow.

For nearly two decades, governments of all colours have failed to get the country's finances under control. Too many career politicians have little or no experience of running businesses or managing large commercial budgets before being entrusted with departments spending billions of pounds of taxpayers' money.

Britain cannot keep living beyond its means. You cannot borrow, tax and spend your way to prosperity forever.

Every household understands that. Westminster should too.

[Johnnny Know All @johnnnyknowall]

@UKLabour ANDEH HOLIBOBS‼️

Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said politics wasn't working for people and he would work tirelessly to make things work.

He then went on a two week holiday.
#andyburnham

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Kent is being told to limit water use because supplies are at critically low levels.

Yet Britain hasn't completed a major new reservoir in over 30 years.

In that same period, the UK's population has grown by 11.9 million people (20.7%).

For perspective, Japan has built 100+ reservoirs over a similar timeframe.

How do you grow the population by 11.9 million and not build the infrastructure to support it?

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

Is any MP or person with a platform or voice going to talk about litter ever again?! It has hugely negative social and environmental impacts and yet no one seems to give a flying f*** anymore.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

Council tax in 2000 was £800 a year on average. Today it's over £2,000. That's up 150%. What are you getting for it? Less bins, fewer libraries, & worse roads

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

So many people are saying the same thing. The decay across Britain (especially since the Covid era) is noticeable almost everywhere. Weeds growing on pavements. Filthy streets and signposts. Potholes strewn everywhere. Overflowing rubbish bins. Dirty buildings. Blocked road drains. Boarded up shops. What exactly are we paying our council tax for? We are paying more and getting less. Local councils are failing to deliver on the basics. It’s absolutely disgraceful. Britain is being left to rot.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Prices in the UK just feel completely made up now.

How does a weekend in England cost £700 when you can fly abroad for less?

A return train to London is £160.

The same house that rented for £600 is now £1,200.

A full tank of fuel is over £100.

Car insurance goes up 50% despite the same car, no claims and nothing changing.

£100 in the supermarket somehow gets you two bags of shopping.

And we're all just expected to accept this as normal?

How did we get to the point where being ripped off became part of everyday life?

[Lee Nallalingham @LNallalingham]

🚨 HMRC took £90.4 BILLION more from taxpayers last year.

That comes directly from the National Audit Office.

In just one year, HMRC collected 10.3% more tax - an extra £90.4 billion!

Thanks in part to frozen tax thresholds, 1.1 million more people were dragged into paying Income Tax.

So HMRC clearly has no problem taking more money from you.

What it does have, is a problem passing audit.

For the 24th year in a row, auditors were unable to give HMRC a completely clean audit because they found significant levels of fraud and error.

And now Andy Burnham is reportedly considering another £38 billion of tax rises.

How about before taking another penny from taxpayers…

…they stop the fraud and error and prove they can properly manage the record amounts we’re already paying?

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

NHS staff are complaining that patients are refusing to be treated by non-white doctors and nurses.

It’s not because of “racism.” It’s because frontline care is getting worse after thousands of foreign doctors and nurses who barely speak English, lack compassion, and have fraudulent qualifications have been hired in recent years.

Despite funding increasing every year, now to £225 billion, and 1.5 million staff, the NHS cannot meet demand. Arbitrary caps on medical school and hospital placements mean we reject qualified British doctors and nurses, and recruit inferior counterparts from the Third World instead.

The NHS spends £3 billion in annual malpractice payouts and £40 billion on mandatory DEI training, teaching them to resent their white patients.

The result is poor care, long wait times, missed diagnoses, and preventable complications and deaths. But politicians are too afraid of blaspheming against Britain’s national religion to admit it.

This week, my wife, now twenty-five weeks pregnant with twins, suffered a blood clot and severe swelling in her left leg. She spent seventeen hours waiting for an assessment. She was seen by an African nurse who barely spoke English and made multiple spelling errors in her referral letter, and another who shouted at her for speaking too slowly and in too much detail about her symptoms.

I documented the ordeal in a series of X posts, which attracted millions of views. The comments were filled with people sharing similar horrifying stories. Thank you to everyone who provided their prayers, advice, and concern for my wife and children.

The NHS is forcing patients to either risk being called "racist" or not receive proper treatment. I would rather offend someone than let my loved ones die.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We could scrap public sector DEI, stop replacing qualified domestic talent with incompetent and fraudulent foreigners, and stop running the NHS as an international health service that spends billions on translation services.

That would require a government willing not only to abandon antiracist ideology and reject the mantra that “Diversity is our strength”, but also to challenge the sacralised status of the NHS.

The longer they don’t, the more lives are ruined and lost to incompetence.

[Innominate Elements @InnominateElem1]

@ABridgen The BBC is yet another puppet theatre to spread propaganda and lie 👇 ...........

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK is around 3 trillion in debt yet they have the cheek to say I can't have a £100 overdraft.

[Roberto Lainez @RobertoLai74153]

El ETNA se ha cargado en pocos días, los planes de reducir el CO2 de Europa de 10 años. Pero tu coche sigue contaminado.

[Rushall Olympic FC @ROFCOfficial]

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[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

When female artists used their voices and not their bodies to make music and become famous. No Botox, no bare butt, but she sings simply divinely and is indecently beautiful!!! Kim truly is the star!!!!

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Dear HM Government, (UK)

Firstly, congratulations. You’ve managed to discover a brand-new definition of transparency.

Apparently, the people who write the laws can have their criminal records kept secret from the very people expected to obey those laws. That’s an impressive piece of political gymnastics.

The rest of us apply for jobs, volunteer roles, taxi licences, security passes, and all manner of positions where background checks are considered perfectly reasonable. Yet when it comes to those entrusted with running the country… suddenly privacy becomes the highest constitutional principle.

Forgive us if we’re a little confused.

If a criminal record is irrelevant to holding public office, then explain why. If it is relevant, then surely voters deserve to know before they hand over power at the ballot box.

Democracy relies on informed consent. It’s difficult to make an informed choice if important information about elected representatives is deliberately withheld.

This isn’t about conducting witch hunts or judging people for minor mistakes made decades ago. It’s about accountability. Those who expect the public’s trust should be prepared to earn it through openness, not secrecy.
Unlike the government’s pursuit of Veterans 🤔

So, a simple question:

Why should MPs and ministers be held to a lower standard of transparency than many ordinary citizens applying for everyday jobs?

After all, “nothing to hide” seems to apply enthusiastically to taxpayers, but rather less enthusiastically to taxpayers’ employees.

Is transparency now something that’s only expected of the governed, while the governors are exempt?
Abit like the COVID vaccine 🤔 there is a pattern,

Perhaps we’ve misunderstood how equality works. We foolishly assumed the same standards applied to everyone. It would appear they do… right up until someone becomes an MP.

The British public doesn’t expect perfection.

We do, however, expect honesty, accountability, and the same standards from those who make our laws as they expect from those who obey them.

Yours, slightly bewildered,

A Taxpayer 🇬🇧

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Jack Jones is a social media content creator. @jackjonestv I’ve seen a lot of his stuff some of it funny but this one particularly hit me.

It was so heartfelt.

Whether he was doing it for clicks or views, I don’t really care. I found it very emotional. He made so many elderly people’s day just by giving them some flowers and a little bit of attention.

The old boy at the end of the video the Chelsea Pensioner, that was the one that got me the most.

He genuinely looked so overwhelmed to receive those flowers. 🙏❤️🥰

Lesson for everyone:

Kindness to strangers matters and especially to the elderly it only takes a minute, but it can change someone’s entire day for the better.

Especially when you’re elderly and might not see another person for two or three days.

That small moment of attention can lift a heavy heart more than you’ll ever know.

Be like Jack.
Go out and spread a little kindness today. 👌❤️👏

[Dave @DaveKent101]

People sometimes ask me why I detest Labour?

Much of that goes back to their destruction of Private Sector Final Salary Pension schemes in 1997.
In 2008, 10 years after Gordon Brown carried out his disastrous ACT Pensions grand larceny by removing tax relief paid to pension funds.
This was found by the Taxpayers Alliance to had cost an average of £17K on every person's pension pot.

In just 10 years, this had cost Private Sector Final Salary schemes £175 BILLION. Hence their closures ever since.

Had this grotesque theft of peoples' pensions not taken place, then the pension system in the UK would be much healthier, without people having to work into their late 60s.🤨

As a final insult, this tax does not raise any money these days anyway because many UK pension funds stopped investing in UK companies, so as to avoid this tax.

All the while Public Sector worked continue to enjoy Final Salary Pensions, paid for by Private Sector workers on smaller DC pensions.
Absolutely obscene.

[Rushall Olympic FC @ROFCOfficial]

Thank you to our hosts at @MalvernTown1946 today for a warm welcome, top hospitality and a cracking away PSF day.

All the best for your season opener next Saturday.

💛🖤 #ROFC

[Wins @WinsLFC]

🚨🗣 Andoni Iraola on the Curtis Jones, Dominik Szoboszlai and Kostas Tsimikas captain’s armband incident:

“I couldn’t believe what I was watching.”

“We have Virgil van Dijk as captain, yet three grown men were fighting over an armband in a pre season friendly. Curtis Jones felt he deserved it, Szoboszlai had his reasons and Tsimikas ended up throwing it on the floor.”

“I told them one thing after the game… if you want to wear the armband, earn it with your football first. The badge is bigger than everyone’s ego.”
#LFC