⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶

Husband, Father, Drummer, Old Mod, Vespa owner, Season Ticket Holder.
COYI ⚒️ Juve, Barca, Rangers too!

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@lee0969 @jillwebb2005 @nikidoog @Carolyn_on_X @FatOldAnarchist @brunstead Could've been Swing, too, but great album all round!
Have a good day yourself, Lee! 🤝🏻

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@UKLabour Prove it!

[Lee Nallalingham @LNallalingham]

💰 Worcestershire County Council has signed off £111,000 for WEATHER FORECASTING.

For context, this is a council that…

❌ Has over £600m in debt
❌ Increased council tax by almost 9% this year

Residents are constantly told budgets are stretched and there isn’t enough money.

Yet somehow they’ve got £111,000 lying around to spend on weather forecasts.

Seriously, they put your Council tax up by almost 9%, telling you they are broke, and then spent it on a weather forecast?

Yet another council with its spending priorities completely backwards…

…and as always, it’s local residents who end up paying the price.

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@DrMahad_R_Barre

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@thevalerieleon Happy Birthday, Valerie, have a great day!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Imagine running a business where you spend £80m in seven days:

▪️£56m paying wind turbines to sit idle because the wind blew too hard.
▪️£24m burning emergency gas because the wind stopped blowing.

If any private company wasted money like this, the directors would be fired. But the Labour government call it "leading the world" and stick the cost on our tax bills.

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@mgshanks Drivel!

[Donna Louise @DonnaLouise1212]

Palestinian “asylum seeker” arrives illegally in March, gets free Home Office housing and £30 a week for booze, weed and tobacco.

Sixteen days after getting a slap-on-the-wrist community order for assaulting police, he breaks into a Cardiff family home at 2am, masturbates in front of terrified young girls, asks them for sex, tries to climb their bunk bed, and steals their AirPods.

Judge says he intended to rape at least one of them and poses a “real and imminent” threat to women and girls.

But sure, open borders are just vibrant enrichment and anyone who notices is a bigot.

The girls’ mother just wanted them to feel safe in their own beds.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

WARNING - Remember when I told you about Client side scanning? (Original post below)

On 9 November, the government confirmed it is preparing legislation to put this technology into smartphone operating systems, switched ON by default.

existing phones will receive it through software updates. Adults would have to prove they’re over 18 to switch it OFF.

The EU has been pushing similar proposals under “Chat Control”.

It means software will inspect images and content on your device, before you send them or even view them.

In June, the government was asked whether this technology could also be used to detect and block ‘hate’ speech and other text content. It confirmed it would consider wider uses.

Which means, with Ofcom’s new rules on responding to ‘crisis’ situations, the technology could be expanded to prevent you from sharing content the authorities decide is unacceptable.

Instead of censoring you after you post it, they could stop you posting it in the first place.

But you still have free speech obvs 🙄

[Great British Business Council @GBBC_UK]

𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐔-𝐔𝐊 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭?

Here are 8 things you should know:

𝟭. 𝗜𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆?
The UK already has zero-tariff trade with the EU under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which both the EU and UK said is working effectively. This undermines the claims that Brexit has hurt UK trade with the EU, and the subsequent need for a Reset.

𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗣𝗦 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
The SPS agreement says it will remove the need for border checks and health certificates on agrifood products, but this will only invite EU plant and animal diseases into the UK. Food and live animals are also just 1.3% of UK exports, so why are we so eager to join the EU's SPS Area?

𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁
The Government wants to join the EU’s Internal Electricity Market to save a bit of money on electricity imports. But the UK only imports 10% of its electricity from the EU, so we’ll be saving a sliver on just 10% of our electricity costs, yet having to pay a fee each year for joining the market.

𝟰. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗖𝗼𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱
For whatever reason, the EU has said that if we want to join its IEM, then we must pay into its Cohesion Fund to support its poorer member states. First of all, that money should probably go to poorer areas of the UK, and second, the amount of money we will be paying into this fund is expected to dwarf the amount we save on electricity costs, so why should we join the IEM at all?

𝟱. 𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗕𝗔𝗠
Joining the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is going to raise the cost of UK manufacturing and force what remains of British industry into closure. Either that or British companies will send their production to other countries with lower costs of manufacturing. In both cases, British jobs will be lost.

𝟲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲
The Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) will apparently allow "unlimited" EU students to attend British universities at the same fee paid by UK students (where they previously paid higher international tuition fees). The EU has also demanded that anyone living here under the YMS will get free access to the NHS and will also get to bring their families with them.

𝟳. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽
The Security and Defence Partnership essentially says the UK and EU will coordinate on everything up to and including "space security". There’s also no plan to tackle illegal immigration, just a promise to work together.

𝟴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘁
There’s been no official cost attached to this Reset, possibly because the Government knows this will affect people’s opinions. And it wasn’t mentioned in the Budget either, which begs the questions, where are they going to get the money to pay for it all?

Knowing this, do you support the Reset?

[CheshireFourEyes @DGinCheshire]

@GBBC_UK The numbers don't matter as this isn't a logical or rational decision, it's ideological. Labour wants to be back in the EU at all costs above all else. This is as near to treason as we'll ever see.

[FollowTheScience @FollowTheScien4]

@Artemisfornow But yeah, it'll be 5% per year by 2030. Or was it it 100% clean power? 🤦
Where's our £93bn? 🤷

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Over the past week, Gas generated 59.3% of Britain’s electricity. Wind 13.5% and solar 1.9%.

… and that’s just electricity. In total 75.2% of energy demand was from fossil fuel.

Yet the government wants you to believe we will be energy secure and independent AND prices will come down, you just have to belieeeeeve 🤡

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@PeterStefanovi2 Failed chancellor says what?
Who cares what she thinks!

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@ThatTimWalker We can!

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@JohnSwinney Wind yer neck in, fool!

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@JoeBloke617442 @JohnSwinney But we'll be 'leaders' 🤣🤣

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@ericacurryot 🤡

[⚒ Vincent ⚒️ 🛵 🎨 🥁 🎶 @TheModHammer]

@NadiaWhittomeMP Drivel!