Rural speed limit should be cut to 20mph, Government says as it tells councils to narrow roads and install bollards to protect cyclists. What an idiotic proposal. This will shut down rural areas. https://t.co/Yyozp2aRXl via https://t.co/yKLuHcxeAT
Before anyone starts screaming that everything wasn’t perfect back then, congratulations on defeating an argument nobody made 😂 Of course it wasn’t perfect.
But somehow we’ve reached a point where saying Britain has declined is treated as more offensive than Britain actually declining.
We had thriving high streets, communities where people knew their neighbours, homes ordinary working families could afford, public services that weren’t permanently gasping for oxygen, and a country that didn’t seem embarrassed by its own flag, history or identity.
Now you need the GDP of a small Caribbean island to buy a three bedroom house, a telescope to spot a police officer, the patience of a Buddhist monk to get a GP appointment, and apparently a degree in advanced diplomacy just to say you quite like Britain without somebody diagnosing you with dangerous levels of patriotism 😂
We were promised progress
Instead, we got higher taxes, ridiculous energy bills, crumbling services, unaffordable housing, endless political lectures and governments that can find billions for almost anything except making life noticeably better for the people actually paying the bloody bills.
But remember, everything is apparently wonderful.
Your eyes are lying, your bank account is spreading misinformation, the NHS waiting list is probably far-right propaganda, and that boardedup high street is simply experiencing vibrant cultural enrichment through the medium of vape shops, phone repair stores and suspiciously immortal American sweet shops 😅
No, Britain 50 years ago wasn’t perfect
Neither was Britain 20 years ago
But when ordinary people look around and say the country feels poorer, less safe, less united, less recognisable and considerably more expensive, perhaps the answer isn’t to sneer at them and call them nostalgic.
Perhaps they’ve simply got functioning eyes. 🇬🇧
The UK Government’s proposed social media reforms are an attack on free speech, warns senior Congressman and Trump ally Jim Jordan.
The Chair of the US House Judiciary Committee has written to Lisa Nandy warning that her department’s plans to prioritise the BBC and other government-approved news sources threaten free speech.
Under proposals set out in the Watch this Space green paper, published in June, the Government is considering requiring platforms such as Meta, Google and YouTube to give greater prominence to content from public service broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
In his letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Mr Jordan warned that the proposals “would serve as a major threat” to online speech and “infringe on the rights of American companies”. He also argued that they would undermine the free and competitive marketplace of ideas by prioritising state-sanctioned media outlets.
Mr Jordan fears the plans will harm US businesses and infringe the free speech rights of American citizens.
This is the latest flare-up in the transatlantic free speech dispute between the UK and the US.
Read more below in @Telegraph 👇
🚨 A man in his 70s has died after being seriously injured in an incident involving cattle at the National Trust’s Felbrigg Hall estate in Norfolk
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In five days time, Britain will have forced upon it the least scrutinised Prime Minister in history. A man who was not even an MP until 6 weeks ago. A man who twice before lost bids to become Labour's leader.
This man will never be my Prime Minister.
So our health is going to be endangered by the food industry purely to make their operation simpler and more profitable.Sign the petition https://t.co/jDtykXB1im
"Let me be clear: the whistleblowers who have put the national interest over their own careers should be celebrated for their courage and their integrity not denigrated. So, will the government finally get a grip on this?" Shadow Energy Sec @ClaireCoutinho asks an Emergency Question on the National Energy System Operator and summer blackout risks.
The crime they see: 15,415 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Every campaign, every documentary, every leaflet through the door since about 2012.
The crime they do: not reading the paper.
The figure is real. It comes from Mekonnen and Hoekstra at the University of Twente, and it is careful, peer-reviewed work. What the campaigns strip out is that the same authors split that number into three parts, because the three parts are not the same thing at all.
Green water is rain. It falls on the grass. The cow eats the grass. For beef, green water is about 94 per cent of that headline.
Blue water is the stuff that matters. Rivers, lakes, aquifers. The stuff that gets pumped, metered, fought over in court, and does not come back.
So here is the blue water, in litres per kilogram, from the same authors, same method, same units.
- Pistachios: 7,602
- Almonds: 3,816
- Walnuts: 2,451
- Dates: 1,250
- Cashews: 921
- Beef: 550
Read that last line again, then go and look at what is in your granola.
The 15,415 counts rain that fell on a Welsh hillside as a cost, against an animal that was standing in it, on land where nothing else grows, in a country where rain is the one thing we have never once been short of.
The pistachio is drinking fourteen times more of the water that actually runs out.
She is outside in the rain right now, getting blamed for it.
“And so the entire thing, right down to who is suspected of being involved here, does look and feel very suspicious. So in summary, what’s going on? Well, what’s certainly going on is that this was not some accidental death. It was not some burglary gone wrong. Anne Widdecombe appears to have been targeted. Now, of course, the authorities are acknowledging that. Anne Widdecombe’s last two interviews, one published before her death, one published posthumously, were both in defence of Nigel Farage and the Reform Party and both stated her belief that there is a Westminster uniparty establishment that is coming after Nigel Farage and Reform, in an attempt to stitch up Nigel Farage and make sure he cannot become Prime Minister of this country. Then Anne Widdecombe was killed. You draw your own conclusions as to exactly what’s going on here.”
Maajid Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED
This is Government who has no regard for our national interests and certainly no regards for agriculture, food production, food security or the countryside.
They are clearly not fit to Govern.
Call a General Election now.