Jan-K

Disillusioned ex Tory, now SDP. I was a woman before it was fashionable. I still think Brexit was a good idea. West Ham and my dogs are the loves of my life.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@MattyAustwick @Footballfights I jumped on the thread to say exactly that but you beat me to it - 21 hours ago!

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Yes, lots of people used to say things like paedophile criminals could be housed in the female prison estate.
Nightmare.

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

Can you imagine Nicola Sturgeon doing the conveyor belt round on The Generation Game? She wouldn’t recognise a single item.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@RuthMBettie @CConcern This will end up above the million pound mark. An outrageous waste of taxpayers money.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@MikeOGallagher Blimey Mike, he's grown! I remember when you first got him, he was tiny and I assumed he'd stay on the small side. He's a beaut.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@TB1Kinobe @RadioGenoa You're* or you are. *You're* welcome.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@LeftwaffenWatch Status Quo even more so than Queen yet they went on to sell millions too.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@hammer311273 @TheRealJamieKay Totally agree Paul. Peep Show just edges it for number one spot but The Office runs a very close second.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@RuthMBettie Toby was 13 a few days ago. Yes, I've had him from a puppy. This photo shows him looking more like Hugo, same body size, colouring etc (although we'd just been on a walk on Dartmoor so he was very dirty!) What a lovely coincidence!

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@RuthMBettie Om my gosh Ruth, I can't find the photo I was looking for but it shows Toby (also a schnoodle!) to be so like Hugo. Hugo seems to have the more poodle type fur whereas Toby's is less curly but otherwise, peas in a pod!

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@RuthMBettie The coat arrived this morning. Toby isn’t so sure about it but I’m sure he’ll appreciate it eventually!!

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@RuthMBettie @AnnaFarrar21 Sorted, thanks Ruth.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@RuthMBettie What make is it Ruth? Looking to buy one for my boy, he's 13 now and can't cope with the heat these days.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud.

Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block.

Hundreds of jobs are at risk.

And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around.

It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”.

That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive.

This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist.

You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”.
You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”.

You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”.

You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes.

But eventually the spreadsheet wins.

And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close.

Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast.

Real ones.
Local ones.
The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials.
The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”.

This is the part Labour never wants to own.

Their policies are always sold as compassion.

But the consequences are brutally practical.

A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making.

A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”.

A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters.

And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”.

NO.

Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices.

That phrase matters.

Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

[Paul Cox @PaulCoxComedy]

Had Southampton punched a female police officer in the face in front of airport CCTV cameras, instead of spying, they’d still be in the play-off final.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@CDP1882 @christiancalgie The most obviously unsuitable leadership contender based on vibes alone surely has to be Rory Stewart in 2019? It was excruciating.

[Alex Dale @typofoto]

It’s nice isn’t it. The screaming turmoil.

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@Lottiedoes @GriftReport Great minds and all that Lottie, look at those sausages 🤮🤣

[Jan-K @JanKay_]

@MikeOGallagher @Jenny_1884 Ditto. Hope you’re well Mike.