Lofty

Drugs are bad. NFFC fan.

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

🚨📉THE SLOW DEATH OF BRITAIN:

We have shit water companies so we buy bottled water.

We have rubbish police so we hire private security.

We have terrible healthcare so we pay private hospitals instead.

Airbnbs in Cornwall pay council tax but get no rubbish collection, so they pay Biffa on top.

An awful lot of firemen are now volunteers.

NHS dentists don’t really work anymore, so you go private or you pull it out yourself.

Our roads are littered with potholes nobody fills. Your privately funded tyres and suspension are the collateral.

You are forced under threat of criminal prosecution to fund the BBC, and it’s so bad you pay for streaming to get news or entertainment anyway.

Your bins are collected fortnightly, so you drive to the tip. The tip now requires a booking, a permit and proof you live in the county.

Garden waste is a separate annual subscription. On top of the council tax that used to cover it.

Your GP surgery is an 8am phone lottery, so you pay £40 to an app to speak to a doctor in a different time zone.

CAMHS has a two year waiting list, so parents remortgage for private assessments.

Your child’s SEN provision is a legal entitlement, so you hire a solicitor to sue the council for it. The council spends more fighting you than the support would have cost.

Physio is a forty week wait. Your back does not have forty weeks.

Schools teach in portable cabins bolted to the playground because the actual building is held up by aerated concrete and hope.
Half of them are technically insolvent.

Parents fund the reading books, the glue sticks, the photocopier, the roof and increasingly the teachers wages - all via a PTA raffle and local fundraisers.

The state offers “free” childcare hours that don’t cover the nursery’s costs, so the nursery bills you a “top up fee” for the free thing.

Shoplifting under £200 is functionally legal, so Tesco hires guards - who crucially don’t even try to stop it - and you pay for them in the price of the milk.

999 takes an hour, so you buy the Ring doorbell, gather the evidence, file the report and get a crime number for the insurance you also pay for.

Court backlogs run to years, so anyone with money settles privately and everyone else gets nothing.

Legal aid is gone. Represent yourself.

Passport and DVLA backlogs are chronic, so the state sells you a fast track service to escape the queue the state created.

The trains are late whoever owns them, so you drive on the roads with the potholes.
Public toilets are shut, so you buy a coffee you don’t want.

The library is staffed by pensioners working for free.

Street lights are switched off at midnight to save money in a country with a burglary charge rate near zero.

You pay National Insurance for fifty years and they move the pension age.

You pay the adult social care precept every year and then sell your mother’s house to pay for adult social care.

Leaseholders pay for a “waking watch” because the state signed off the cladding and then billed the residents to fix it.

Social housing sits on the most valuable land in Britain, allocated by need rather than proximity to work, 48% of zone 1 social housing is occupied by foreigners mostly welfare dependent - while the nurses, teachers and other workers who keep zone 1 running commute ninety minutes each way from Kent because we stopped building anything in 1979.

Every one of these is a service you have already bought. The receipt is your payslip.

The tax burden is heading for its highest sustained level since the 1940s. The service level is the worst in living memory.

You are not overtaxed or underserved. You are actually BOTH, simultaneously, and the gap between the two is where your standard of living went.

The state has become a subscription you cannot cancel and cannot use.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Be fascinating to see FIFA's reaction to the serious accusation contained here. All of it piles more pressure on Gianni Infantino... he has to go.

[Lofty @Lofthouse84]

@fesshole Came across! 🤮

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@nomadgeist @grok what movie are these shots from

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@RachelReevesMP Fuck off

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

"Row that fucker home".

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s Thierry Henry talking more sense about England’s World Cup mentality than some of the English media right now.

[Lofty @Lofthouse84]

@anglopjdst Dan Burn celebrating over a striken Viking after heading the ball back to Valhalla

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@Catters61 👍🏻👍🏻

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@JamesDueck

[Environment Agency @EnvAgency]

@paulpowlesland We strongly support communities improving their local environment. It’s our responsibility to work with landowners to make sure activity doesn't cause unintended harm to the environment. We're investigating some unpermitted work on the River Roding but no decision has been made.

[Lofty @Lofthouse84]

@EnvAgency @paulpowlesland Bureaucratic nonsense. Your responsibility is to protect the environment. How could removing 200 bags of rubbish possibly be harmful?

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.

With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.

A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.

Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.

The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.

Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.

How many more before the thoughts become action?

[Lofty @Lofthouse84]

@Reggie8jb @BrummieTricky @RichyRi28081938 You’d have one if you were interested in Forest when we were a struggling Championship team.

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@NFFCServices If you had a season ticket during the Championship days you’d have not missed a Prem game. I struggle to have sympathy.

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@Petagna So tiresome. Enjoy the sun.

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@LetsTalk_FPL You’ve not bottled it, that’s just the template.

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@ash7466 @talkSPORT @maxbscott This ain’t Forest fans. They’re glory supporting newbs I can assure you were not around in the Championship.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Hang it in The Louvre

[Lofty @Lofthouse84]

@vcdxnz001 @ABridgen Heavier EV cars (battery’s) + cheap chip seal surface + faster acceleration of EVs =ing more force into the roads definitely contributes to the shit situation we have now.