Lord Mayor of Imber

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was on a jolly to the British Virgin Islands when he says he learned Peter Mandelson was apparently a flight risk (unlikely).
No surprise he was in the Caribbean. Long been branded ‘long-haul Hoyle’ at our expense, spending more than £320,000 of taxpayers’ cash on foreign jaunts up until last summer since becoming Speaker in 2019.
He spent more than £200,000 on first and business class plane tickets plus tens of thousands more spent on chauffeur-driven cars, stays at luxury five-star resorts and restaurants.
During a previous Caribbean tour in March 2023, he shelled out nearly £5,500 chartering private planes to hop between the islands of St Maarten, Montserrat, Anguilla and Antigua.
In 2024, he spent £22,000 for a five-day trip to meet his counterpart in the Cayman Islands, staying at the Westin Grand, where his room was billed at £679 per night.
His snout. Our trough.
They really do take us for fools.

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@EuromaidanPress Challenger 2 could be the new Ajax. A redundant fleet one way or the other.

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@SO3_Clausewitz @BritishArmy Two things that we all despise, change and the way things are.

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@bfcyprus It’s ‘Beating retreat’. That nuance means everything.

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox Loving your Lambition with this one

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@kelvmackenzie @PhilipIngMBE Everybody has a choice, to choose their job with their eyes wide open to the financial rewards which those respective jobs bring. You may not like it, but at least dry your eyes, Princess.

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@UKDefJournal Delusional.

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@PaulKelly3376 @BritishArmy @RYORKS_REGT @HqItg Great work, Kelvis. Very well done 👏

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@savvy_squaddie Very well done. Any promotion really does mean a lot, and is a good measure of any soldier.

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@savvy_squaddie Good work, thank you.

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@daveatherton Ever heard of Pashtun asylum?

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@LogisticThinker Do they come with drivers?

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@BritishArmy @158RegimentRLC A true hero, with cuffs to prove it. Great work.

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@BWallaceMP @GlasnostGone @SirOrikeze @therealSeanaf5 Just imagine how good they would be if you’d both ‘perfectly formed’ and ‘equipped’ our medium sized Army.

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Decent drop. Weathering out the storm in the local.

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@RYORKS_REGT Congratulations all!

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@DefencePeople @Quirk_Solutions Great photo, and all looks positive, but could somebody please tell me how this benefits serving and former service personnel? A genuine question, not just trolling!

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@americascup Literally a damp squib of a race

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@AinslieBen @EmiratesGBRSGP @SailGP Well done @AinslieBen and team! Awesome weekend of racing, and such a hard fought and well deserved win!

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@Army_Leadership All good when you are able to pick and choose from the best. Perhaps more about creating an environment where people strive to be the best and critically complement the wider team.