🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️

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[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

Just renewed my insurance. Got to say, great firm.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

This made me smile 😊

[Benonwine @benonwine]

If there were ever a prime example of ‘the show must go on,’ this would be it!

“Bride and Groom Make a Splash After Getting Caught in a Wedding Downpour”

I get the sense this couple will be together forever ❤️🙏👏 love this.

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

“Bitter or Better”?

Truly inspirational message that hit me at the right moment. I hope it hits you too. Follow @MarkOrmrod if you’re not already, he’s an amazing example to all of us.

“Whatever you're carrying right now - loss, failure, injury, heartbreak - it doesn't have to be the end of your story. Let it be the fuel 🔥”

[Mark Ormrod MBE @MarkOrmrod]

Christmas Eve 2007. I was on a routine patrol in Helmand Province when everything changed in a fraction of a second. I lost both legs and my right arm. I was told I'd never walk again. I was 24 years old.

That kind of pain - physical, mental, the grief of the life you thought you were going to have - it doesn't just disappear. It doesn't get filed away neatly. It follows you into the dark at 3am when the house is quiet and your mind isn't.

In those moments you face a choice that nobody can make for you.

Bitter or better.

Bitter is understandable. Nobody would blame you. But bitter keeps you stuck in the moment the pain happened. It chains you to the worst day of your life and won't let you move forward.

Better is harder. Better means picking up what's left and deciding it's enough to build something with. Better means the pain has a purpose.

I chose better. Not once. Every single day I choose it again.

Whatever you're carrying right now - loss, failure, injury, heartbreak - it doesn't have to be the end of your story. Let it be the fuel 🔥

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

East Sussex Veterans Hub to receive £500K government grant to build 14 flats from an office block in Hastings Town Centre to get homeless veterans off the street in Sussex.

Visit the ‘Stand Easy’ Coffee Shop at 42 Robertson Street if you’re in town and support their work

[Neil Woldrew @TheRealWoldrew]

After 20 years in the British Army, I asked the @PoppyLegion for some assistance.

Last year they made £56.6 million from the poppy appeal and the best they could do was to reply with 'Ask Citizens Advice'

And to think I've helped raise money for this lot!!!

@UponTyneNews

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary published this Race Action Plan covering 2024 to 2026. It is the operational document of the force that handcuffed Henry Nowak as he died.

Read it carefully because every element of what happened on that Southampton street in December 2025 is visible in its priorities, its language and its omissions.

The plan states the force will pursue offenders and deal with offences that cause the most harm to ethnic minority communities. Not all communities. Ethnic minority communities specifically. The document that is supposed to govern equal policing contains within it an explicit hierarchy of whose harm the force prioritises.

The plan commits to training officers on the history of policing minority ethnic communities to understand the trauma and failings of the past. Officers are to be trained in the grievances of specific communities. They are not trained to treat every member of the public as an equal before the law regardless of which community makes an accusation against them. The consequence of that training is documented on body cam footage that the Prime Minister described as making him feel sick.

The plan establishes a Black and Ethnic Minority network called BEAM with scrutiny powers over the Chief Constable's Legitimacy Board. A community network defined by ethnicity has institutional oversight of the force's legitimacy decisions. The force that handcuffed Henry Nowak built that oversight structure into its own governance framework.

The plan commits to making the force anti-discriminatory and to explaining or reforming any disproportionality. Disproportionality in policing is the term used when members of one community are stopped, searched or arrested at higher rates than their population share. The entire framework of anti-racism training in British policing is built around reducing that disproportionality. The officers who arrested Henry Nowak and did not arrest his killer were acting within a framework designed to avoid exactly the kind of disproportionality that arresting a Sikh man on the word of a white victim might have produced.

Shabana Mahmood said there must be no two tier policing. This is the document that built it. It is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary's own Race Action Plan. It is publicly available. It was in force on December 4th 2025. Nobody is investigating it.
https://t.co/cV7UOuRkXn

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Keir Starmer’s government now faces a potential contempt of parliament vote over the Mandelson files.

Let that land.

Not a motion of no confidence.
Not an opposition day debate.

Contempt of parliament.

The kind of constitutional crisis that parliament reserves for governments that actively defy its explicit will.

The humble address passed in February was unambiguous: release ALL papers relating to Mandelson’s appointment.

The only permitted exception was referral to the ISC for national security and international relations redactions — and that power was explicitly given to the ISC, not to ministers.

The ISC has stated plainly that ministers do not have the authority to withhold documents.

A cabinet minister stood at the despatch box and defended the government’s right to do it anyway.

Now the critical nine-page UKSV vetting summary — the document the ISC says should be published — has been pulled from next week’s release, with Scotland Yard cited as cover.

The Conservatives will table a contempt motion if the government doesn’t comply.

Multiple Labour MPs have said they’d vote for it.

Keir Starmer built his entire political identity on the rule of law.

He is now being warned he personally could be held in contempt of parliament for defying a parliamentary order he promised to honour.

The irony would be spectacular, if the national security stakes weren’t so serious.

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

Playing AC/DC’s music in retirement facilities is the way!

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

Jim is one of the best researchers and reporters here on X. If you’re not following him yet, please consider fixing that! He is respectful, articulate and incredibly well researched.

Great work Jim

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

£700,000 for Migrants. 18,000 Homeless in Manchester. That's the Burnham Method.

Andy Burnham is asking the voters of Makerfield to send him to Westminster. Before they do, they should know what he has been doing with their money in Manchester.

This week it emerged that Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority is spending £722,685 on schemes to help migrants navigate the British welfare system. The Safe Transitions programme will provide guidance in multiple languages helping refugees understand their rights, entitlements and access to housing, benefits and public services. A Refugee Lodging Scheme will match refugees with resident landlords who will support them to access housing, benefits, employment, education and community networks. Greater Manchester already hosts more than 8,500 people in asylum support accommodation. More than 18,000 people across the region have no permanent address. One in every 61 people in Manchester alone is homeless. The £700,000 is not going to them.

This is not a one-off decision. It is the visible expression of a consistent set of political instincts that Burnham has spent years developing and is now quietly concealing ahead of June 18.

Since 2019 he has repeatedly called for the abolition of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy, the rule that prevents migrants from immediately accessing Britain's welfare state and social housing. He called for it on his mayoral website in 2019. He signed a joint letter demanding it in 2023. He launched a pilot programme in Manchester called the Living Income Campaign, designed to top up the incomes of those living under NRPF conditions and build the case for scrapping the rule nationally. He has now quietly dropped that position. Not because he has changed his mind. Because he is campaigning in Makerfield.

His allies have confirmed that as Prime Minister he would tear up the multi-billion pound Home Office contracts with private asylum accommodation providers and hand responsibility to local councils. Dispersal housing rather than hotels. The saving is real. Hotel rooms cost £145 per person per night against £23.25 for dispersal housing. But dispersal housing means more migrants placed directly into communities like Makerfield, Wigan and the surrounding boroughs, without the visibility of a hotel that can be identified and closed. The cost saving comes with a community cost that nobody is discussing.

Meanwhile Makerfield itself tells a different story to the one Burnham is presenting on the doorstep. The constituency sits within a region where Reform won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Around two thirds of the constituency voted Leave in 2016. The voters who went to Reform did so because they feel their communities have been transformed without consent, their housing lists lengthened, their public services stretched and their concerns dismissed. Burnham's answer to those concerns is to spend £700,000 helping more migrants access the same overstretched system.

The repositioning on NRPF is the tell. A politician who held a position for six years, built a pilot programme around it and signed letters demanding it nationally does not abandon it because he has been persuaded by the evidence. He abandons it because the polling in Makerfield made it electorally inconvenient. The same thing happened with his position on EU rejoining, held on Saturday and walked back by Sunday when his team realised around two thirds of the constituency voted Leave.

The voters of Makerfield are not being asked to elect a mayor. They are being asked to send a potential Prime Minister to Westminster. The £700,000 tells them more about what that Prime Minister would do than any doorstep conversation. It tells them what he does when nobody in Makerfield is watching.

"One in every 61 people in Manchester alone is homeless. The £700,000 is not going to them."

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

Refused entry from pub for wearing England flag in Birmingham https://t.co/BbarYWHwry via @YouTube

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

@MatthewHitchmo3 @NickZikoff @KieraDiss 😂

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

@NickZikoff @KieraDiss Just one example of my humour, rather apt I’d say considering this thread.

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

Just renewed my insurance. Got to say, great firm.

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

@NickZikoff @KieraDiss A big believer in reason and common sense? This was not funny, nor reasonable. I have a great sense of humour. My sense of injustice is clearly far greater than yours also.

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

@NickZikoff @KieraDiss You’re a lawyer and this is your reply? You are part of the problem you sick fuck

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

@dshensmith @GBNEWS 100%

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

@KD19591 @NormanBrennan @cps 100%

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

BREAKING NEWS; There will be NO RETRIAL In the case of the two brothers accused of causing ABH to a GMP Armed police officer at Manchester Airport;

@CPS have thrown in the towel; the Ramifications will be huge to the future of policing & making arrests!

Dreadful decision🤷‍♂️👇🙄🤦‍♂️

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

“Not in the public interest to seek a further trial”

So if the public stay silent, I’ll agree. However, I think not only in the public interests, but also for serving police officers throughout the country.

What has happened to our justice system? (Don’t answer that, its rhetorical)

[Crown Prosecution Service @CPSUK]

Here is our statement following convictions in relation to an incident at Manchester Airport in July 2024.

[🎙️Absolutely Average 🎙️ @AbsolutelyRuss]

@upacreek13 @Sargon_of_Akkad @europa Prefer HP but this is all I got

[British Bastard 🇬🇧 @BritishBastardX]

Never forget who was responsible for the HUGE influx of Afghan migrants in to the UK.

24,000 secretly granted asylum costing the taxpayers £7bn.

Reform would love you to forget the facts, but we wont let them do that will we.