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[Egal @EGTVEgal]

Respect to Gary Neville he was on the right side of history when everyone criticising the World Cup being hosted by Qatar

[Aj @ajordan87]

@thederbydigest Agree the concern is warranted. Eustace undoubtedly on Cov's succession radar and I'd go as far as saying he wants that role at some point. Hopefully Lampard is holding out for Chelsea 3.0

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Behold: the most impressive abuse of an MP’s expense account that I’ve seen.

An average price of just under £2,000 PER ITEM.

Just me, or is this taking the piss out of tax payers?

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud.

Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block.

Hundreds of jobs are at risk.

And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around.

It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”.

That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive.

This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist.

You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”.
You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”.

You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”.

You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes.

But eventually the spreadsheet wins.

And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close.

Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast.

Real ones.
Local ones.
The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials.
The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”.

This is the part Labour never wants to own.

Their policies are always sold as compassion.

But the consequences are brutally practical.

A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making.

A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”.

A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters.

And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”.

NO.

Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices.

That phrase matters.

Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Given the ridiculous volume of Prime Ministers that Britain’s endured in recent years, I think it should now be law that if a PM quits or is forced out during his/her term, it automatically triggers a new general election. That might concentrate their minds to do a better job.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The UK population is 70m.
Robinson got 50k to his march. That’s 0.07142857% of Brits. Not ‘a large majority’.

[Professor Christopher Painter @PrfChrisPainter]

If these growing financial scandals involving Farage do not become resignation issues then this country is completely throwing in the towel on standards in public life.

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

Look at the end here. It’s like he’s genuinely surprised he’s been found out and that everybody knows what he’s been up to.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The party is over @BorisJohnson.

Resign.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The British media is doing everything it can to make this mendacious, corrupt, incompetent, lazy, security risk the PM. Ask yourselves why? Why do they want that so badly, who benefits? It's not going to be the British people.

Follow the money, always follow the money.

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Universal credit claimant numbers up 800,000 in one year.

How can anyone defend this government.

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

It's no easy decision to go against your party leader. It's a career defining decision, it's brave.

Huge respect for these 81 Labour MPs who have now done that. They are showing respect for the electorate. They are respecting the will of the people who have told them, on the doorstep, that Starmer is the problem.

If this challenge succeeds, whoever comes next may or may not be an improvement, but I hope it will be someone who at the very least can show the respect for the people of the country who elected them.

That's the bare minimum standard of a leader that Starmer never lived up to.

[Derby County @dcfcofficial]

𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐔𝐏 𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 🇸🇪✈️

Jacob Widell Zetterström has been selected to represent @svenskfotboll at the upcoming FIFA World Cup. 🏆

Congrats, Jacob. 👏

[Aj @ajordan87]

@SkySports Seth Johnson..?

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

He’s very rattled about this and rightly so. It’s a scandal.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Fiona Bruce, "This £5,000,000 gift from Thailand based crypto billionaire. Is it just coincidence that Nigel Farage wants the Bank of England to have a crypto reserve and halve tax on crypto deals?"

Robert Jenrick ignores the question, and instead says its a scandal that Nigel Farage is not provided with security*

Fiona Bruce, "Sure but that's no reason for him not to declare it"

Robert Jenrick, "He had no need to declare it"

Fiona Bruce, "It depends which bits of the rules you read"

*During the 2024 general election campaign, reports said the Home Office offered Farage additional security after several incidents including objects and a milkshake being thrown at him

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lady rocking zebra with a hint of pink, "Can Keir Starmer survive these election results?" #BBCQT

Piers Morgan, "Of course he should go. This has been an absolute shambles" @piersmorgan

"Who feels better off under Labour?"

*nobody puts their hands up*

"Nobody, not one of you. Yet they came into power under two years ago with a thumping majority"

"All this talk of change and hope"

"They had 14 years to think about what they would do"

"And what did they do? Day one Keir Starmer said things are going to get worse before they get better - well he wasn't kidding"

"We've had a series of broken promises and u-turns"

"On every policy Labour have had they've done a screeching u-turn, and the public are going, what is this nonsense"

"This has been the most shambolic government we have ever seen, and that is why you have Reform UK surging around the country"

"Reform UK are a product of persistently failing governments going back two decades"

"And you see the same with the emergence of the Greens"

"Starmer should do the decent thing now and resign"

"Only last week Reform, who we were told were going to be this breath of fresh air, a change, a new hope for the country, we discover their leader Nigel farage gets a £5,000,000 bung from some bloke in Thailand who has a crpyto interest"

"What is that about and why aren't we talking about that more?"

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

I know the options are limited, but if you voted Labour at the last election, regret it, and think voting Green will make things better, you'll be doubling down on the same mistake you made when you voted Labour, and you'll regret it twice as much, for the same reasons.

[BBC Sport Derby @BBCDerbySport]

"It's been a pleasure." 🐏

After featuring on BBC Radio Derby for the past 40 years, former Derby County goalkeeper and coach Eric Steele has stepped away from his broadcasting duties.

He even received a special message from Sir Alex Ferguson to mark the occasion.

Thank you Eric!

#dcfc

[Derby County @dcfcofficial]

"I’m constantly in awe of your loyalty and devotion to this special football club, and you’ve played your part in driving the team forward." 🖤

A message from David Clowes to you ahead of today's game...