Gurro is a tiny village in the Piedmont region of the Italian Alps (near the Swiss border) famously known for its deep Scottish roots. Local legend claims it was founded in 1525 by a troop of stranded Scottish mercenaries who settled in the town after the Battle of Pavia.
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Perhaps Labour are wrecking the economy on purpose, with the IMF then requiring the UK to rejoin the EU in some form as part of the bailout conditions.
Watch the lefties head explode here…
My position is that they must stay ours. But I’d rather our greatest ally pay us billions to buy them, than our left wing nut job Government give them away and make us pay billions.
While in bed with the Greens to ensure power, you decided to destroy the oil & gas industry resulting in the collapse of the local economy & jobs in the NE.
It amazes me how anyone in the NE can vote for you charlatans & liars.
@JohnSwinney you have some brass neck…
AMAZING. @russellquirk hasn’t even started yet and he’s crashed us through the 25 MILLION VIEWS barrier. See you next week everyone on The Mike Graham Show…
Now the killer blow: Drax has pulled the plug on BECCS, writing off £47.6m. They cite the
“current political environment and absence of an appropriate regulatory framework”. In other
words, the generous subsidies on offer are not enough to make the project viable (9/12)
So Colin Beattie offered £20,000 to an SNP branch to get his seat.
A modern studies teacher dad paid £50,000 to get his daughter a seat.
While inconclusive there does appear to be a pattern.
When Cleopatra visited the Great Pyramid, it was already older to her than she is to us.
Most people picture history as a single line. But Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landings than to the construction of Giza.
The pyramid was already 2,500 years old when she saw it.
To Cleopatra, the builders belonged to a distant past.
Greek historians visited Giza and called it a wonder because, to them, it already was one.
The ancient world had an ancient world.
Writing is only about 5,000 years old. Anatomically modern humans have existed for at least 300,000 years.
That means almost all of our story happened before history began.
If 2,500 years of distance was enough to make the Great Pyramid mysterious to Cleopatra, what does 10,000 years of distance do?
What does 100,000?
Just watched Zia Yusuf’s masterclass with Laura Kuenssberg this morning.
She’s outraged at Nigel Farage’s “cold rage” response, while normal folk are outraged by two-tier policing.
The BBC are completely out of touch with the public.
@ZiaYusufUK
🚨 Astonishingly, the heads of the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service’s (GMFRS) ‘race and faith’ network have sent an email to firefighters, targeting staff members standing as candidates for Reform UK.
The email stated these individuals were "spoken to" and that management is seeking "legal guidance" to protect their "inclusive culture."
Sending an anti-Reform UK political broadcast on public systems during a regulated election period is a shocking breach of electoral neutrality and is unlawful.
Firefighters have every legal right to stand for election.
Hounding staff for lawful political views is unacceptable and is proof of the exact perception that anyone questioning an aggressive DEI agenda will be chased out of their job.
I have written to Chief Fire Officer Dave Russel demanding answers.
Petch and Ahmed - the network heads responsible - appear to have committed gross misconduct and should be dismissed.
GMFRS must apologize to Reform UK and the affected staff.
We have given GMFRS until Wednesday to answer 8 specific demands, including providing transcripts of what was said to our candidates and explaining why these network heads are permitted to weaponize IT systems.
I am also calling on HMICFRS (@HMICFRS) and the Electoral Commission (@ElectoralCommUK) to urgently investigate this unlawful breach.
Full letter below. 👇
Try getting a licence to grow hemp in the U.K…
Hemp has so many uses and would make so many more toxic industries, obsolete.
It can also help heal soil and captures carbon.
So, of course, we can’t have nice and helpful, harmless things.
And, it’s cheap to produce.
Very chilling authoritarian move by Andy Burnham.
He commanded Senior figures at Manchester's Fire & Rescue Service to have words with Firefighters who support Reform UK, saying it was a cause for 'concern'.
Make no mistake about it, Andy as PM will be a threat to free speech.