Tina Hamilton

Professional living in London, Love News and Technology and Food 😀 Retweets are not an endorsement

[Tina Hamilton @innov_uk]

from @FoxandSons ! They are the worst Estate Agents I have ever dealt with! They are trying to charge me £3000 + VAT for a sale I arranged! The manager is trying to bully me into paying a fee for a job he failed to do!
#badcustomerservice #badestateagents #ThePropertyOmbudsman

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The best Malaysian iced dessert at Med Salleh Kopitiam 😋

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Laura Kuenssberg, "Listening to Peter Kyle, there's a high chance that Keir Starmer is on his way out"

Lord John Hutton, "The sad sorry truth is Keir Starmer has lost support from a lot of members of the parliamentary Labour party after a series of missteps and mistakes over the last two years"

"None of us want to find ourselves in this position but here we are"

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Laura Kuenssberg, "Is Prime Minister Keir Starmer about to quit his job? We could be on the verge of another change in No 10. And what does that say about us as a country?"

Easy, Brexit has consumed yet another Prime Minister

The Prime Minister who lasts will be the one who calls out the populist far right, addresses misinformation online, on TV, in the papers, and brings in the economic rewards from increased trade with the EU which means fewer if any cuts to public services, the poor or the disabled

It's as simple as that

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

For those who like doughnuts and fashion ☺️

https://t.co/G5QCohA0Ue

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The only President who needs cognitive tests. Trump,

Can't open a box

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https://t.co/5ebhQw4Meo

[Reima Kolppanen @Repe_Kolppanen]

https://t.co/puPxuEuoka

[Ms vb_joshi @joshi_vb]

This has to be AI. OH COME ON

[Ed Stripay @edstripay]

It is not a cognitive thing!
It is an IQ thing!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Good morning, matcha doughnuts from Bombolone London 😋

Followed by a super catwalk with the Jimmy Choo Academy in London 🎉

Food and fashion, two of my favourite things - have a good Saturday ☺️

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Good morning, purple poppies to brighten your timeline ☺️

Have a good Thursday 🙏

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Zack Polanski, "Elon Musk called me a traitor and a scumbag"

Nish Kumar, "It's probably a badge of honour to be called that by Musk"

They then discuss how social media is replacing traditional publishers, but there's less scrutiny and fewer standards on social media as there would be on traditional publishers

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President Trump walks into G7 late

Says, "I'm the boss"

They all laugh

He then blanks Starmer and shakes hands with Macron

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Finally, Ed Davey calls for the UK to join the EU Single Market 👏

"We meet at an extraordinary moment. Vladimir Putin is still waging war on our continent. Donald Trump's chaos in the Middle East goes on. And our government, our own government is paralysed by infighting, waiting for Makerfield to release them from their agony."

"And yet, despite all that, standing with you here today, I feel hope. And not just about England's chances against Croatia tonight, but hope about our country's future."

"Not hope because the path ahead is easy. It isn't. Not hope because everything will magically get better. It won't."

"But hope because finally, after ten long, difficult years, I believe we can move on. We can finally fix the Brexit damage, end the Brexit chaos and get our country back on track."

"Because the story the media won't tell you, as they fawn over the rise of Farage, as they hang on his every empty press conference, is that the country is with us. We hear it on the doorsteps, we see it in the polls, we feel it in our communities."

"People are fed up. They've had enough. Enough of the chaos in government, the queues at ports, the queues at airports, the bills that just keep on going up."

"They know the hard truth that most politicians won't admit. The Brexit experiment has failed. And it's failed all of us."

"£90 billion a year. That's how much it's costing us all as taxpayers"

"£90 billion every year, gone"

"That's £250 million every single day. Taken away from our schools, our hospitals, our armed forces. Taken out of everyone's pockets in the form of unfair tax rises."

"Not because of a pandemic, not because of a war, not because of some force of nature out of our control, but because of their Brexit experiment. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the rest. An experiment that has now consumed a decade of British politics. That has tangled British businesses up in pointless red tape, that has pushed up prices for British families and that has left us all poorer."

"Well, not all of us, apparently. Farage says that the five million he got from a crypto billionaire was his reward for Brexit. So when he said 'We'll be better off after Brexit,' it turns out he was using the royal we."

"But friends, it's not only the economic and financial impact, as disastrous as those have been. It's the way they have poisoned our relationship with our nearest neighbours and friends, making it harder to work together on all the things we need to. Energy security and climate change, migration and refugees, AI, and above all, defence."

"Britain has always been at its best when we stand tall with our European allies, not when we shut ourselves off. Now they promised us global Britain, but they have left us isolated at the worst possible time. Poorer, weaker and more insecure."

"Their experiment has failed. We all know it. So it's time to move on."

"But what do they say? The ones who caused all this. The people responsible. Farage and the Conservative Party. They say 'Tough.' They say you can't move on. They say you can't question Britain's relationship with Europe now. You can't dare to suggest there might be a better way. Doesn't matter how bad it gets, doesn't matter how much you're struggling. You just have to live with it, they say."

"We say 'No.' We say Britain shouldn't have to live with a bad deal they've lumped us with. We say our country deserves far better than that."

"Theirs is old thinking. It's 2016 thinking. The world has changed dramatically since then. It's time for us to change too. It's time for us to move on, move forward."

"Just look around. Vladimir Putin is bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, murdering innocent civilians. He's testing NATO's resolve and setting his sights on the rest of Eastern Europe. He has shown that territorial conquest is not some relic of the distant past. It is happening now on European soil to our friends and our allies who share our values and our way of life."

"And Donald Trump, he's torching the world economy for fun with his tariffs and his trade wars and now his actual war with Iran. He's ripping up the rules-based international order that generations of British leaders, American leaders, European leaders, painstakingly built after the Second World War. Trump threatening NATO, emboldening Putin and actively meddling in our democracies."

"And then there's China, increasingly using trade supply chains and strategic dependencies as instruments of geopolitical competition."

"And to add to all those political changes, there's the billionaire tech barons taking more and more control of our lives and our jobs with their empires of AI and social media, that no one nation can govern on its own."

"The assumptions we have lived by for decades, that global trade would keep expanding, that international rules would broadly be respected, that our security would be underwritten by stable alliances. Those assumptions no longer hold. The world has changed more rapidly than at any time since the end of the Cold War. And our politics must change too."

"Now we obviously can't turn to those who wrecked it. Farage and the Conservatives. They only want to make things worse. Even now, pushing for Brexit 2.0 with their plans to rip up the European Convention on Human Rights. They would just rerun all the old arguments, forcing Britain to replay the last ten years over and over in a never ending Brexit doom loop."

"But nor, I'm afraid, can we look to Labour. Labour who failed to act with anything like the urgency this moment demands. Who don't seem to grasp the scale of the change we need in our relationship with Europe. Labour, who still kept us hemmed in the red lines they set more than five years ago. No single market, no customs union. Red lines they set before Putin invaded Ukraine, before Trump returned to the White House. Red lines that were wrong then and are even more wrong now."

"The world has changed and it's time to move on. We cannot be trapped by that old thinking anymore. We have to look to the future. Not back to 2016 but to 2036 and beyond."

"And that's why we're all here today, isn't it? Not because we are bitter about the past, but because we believe in a better future. Because we love our country and we know its brightest days still lie ahead."

"We're here for our children and our grandchildren because we want them to inherit a country that is growing, that is confident, that is leading, not one that is shrinking, stagnating and standing alone."

"That's what drives us. We're here because the world has changed, because the challenges we face to our economy, to our society and to our national defence are real and urgent. And because we believe Britain deserves ambition that matches the scale of this moment."

"So what does that ambition look like? Well, first the government needs to drop those old red lines that stop us getting rid of the Conservatives' red tape. Those red lines are holding Britain back. They're hurting the British people and they are playing into the hands of Farage and Reform."

"So my message to Andy Burnham, to Wes Streeting, to whoever the next Prime Minister may be, is drop those red lines. Drop them now."

"If we do, we can move on from the torpor and timidity that has marked out Labour's approach to Europe so far. We can put an end to the endless talk of a reset that so far seems to just mean saying no more politely than the Conservatives did. And we can get on with properly fixing our relationship with Europe, for our economy, for our security, for our future."

"Our party has led that debate for years. Last year, days before Trump took office, we set out plans for the UK to join a new customs union with the EU. And today I want to build on that and go further, much further."

"Today we are calling for a new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A bold new deal that will make Britain richer, safer and stronger, including a customs union, but also crucially taking Britain back into the single market."

"Tearing down the barriers to trade. Ending the mountains of paperwork, the cost, the delays, the queues. Giving our young people the chance to study and work, live and love anywhere in the EU. Undoing the damage of the Johnson Farage Brexit deal that has held our economy back for so long."

"Giving British businesses the certainty they need to invest, to hire and to grow. Giving Britain's economy the boost it needs after years of stagnation. Crucially, giving Britain's public finances a growth dividend. Tens of billions of pounds that we would use to cut the cost of living, to fix the NHS and to strengthen our armed forces."

"And this new partnership must go beyond trade and growth. In the age of Putin, Xi and Trump, this must be about defence and security too. No country can be prosperous and free if it is not safe."

"And Britain can help lead on defence in Europe as we have so decisively in the past. Despite the Conservatives' short-sighted cuts to our armed forces and Labour's chaos over investing in them now, Britain is still one of Europe's foremost military powers. We are a leading intelligence nation, a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the third-biggest contributor to NATO."

"We should be using those strengths. We should be at the table, helping to shape Europe's security future, not watching from the sidelines. And Europe wants us at the table. They know they need our leadership on defence."

"So let's seize the initiative from a position of strength to form a new partnership that strengthens both Britain's economy and our collective security. That is why our new partnership would be about defence as much as it is about growth."

"That means financial cooperation through a new European rearmament bank, alongside securing UK access to the one hundred and fifty billion euro safe programme. It means joint defence procurement, creating jobs in Britain while strengthening our collective capabilities. It means deeper cooperation on intelligence, on cyber security and on protecting critical infrastructure."

"It means working together on energy security so that none of us can be held hostage by an authoritarian regime turning off the gas. It means political cooperation through a new European Security Council with a permanent seat for the UK, ensuring that Europe can shoulder greater responsibility for its own security within NATO."

"As Trump's actions remind us every day, that we cannot afford to rely so much on the United States. Friends, this is not a choice we can afford to dodge any longer. In the face of Putin's threats and Trump's unpredictability, a new defence pact with Europe, with allies on whom we can depend, allies who share our interests and our values, is frankly the only way to keep Britain safe and defend our values in a dangerous world."

"A new defence pact with Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity. So let's get on with it."

"That is the ambition we need when it comes to our relationship with Europe. No more tinkering around the edges of a bad deal. No more shackling ourselves to the arguments of the last ten years, but building something new. A partnership fit for the enormous challenges we face today."

"A new growth and defence partnership with a new pact for our collective security. Forming a customs union, joining the single market. A new partnership to make us richer, safer and stronger."

"I think it's the best hope our country has to stop the chaos and end the crisis. And, my friends, it is the biggest step we could take now back towards membership of the EU."

"And there's another big step we need to take too. Defeating Nigel Farage and Reform. We have to stop them from turning our United Kingdom into their version of Trump's America."

"And here's the point. Until we do defeat them, many in Europe will not countenance Britain joining."

"Let's remember why this matters, why it's so crucial for Britain to be there at the heart of Europe, at the table with our nearest neighbours."

"I've been privileged to see it for myself, the power we have when Britain leads in Europe. When Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, we recognised then that the way to defeat him would be to get Europe off its dependence on Russian oil and gas, to take away the money that was funding his aggression, to bankrupt the Russian war machine."

"So I led Britain's efforts to bring Europe together behind that common cause, and we succeeded. We wrote Europe's energy security strategy. Britain did that, sitting at the table, leading in Europe."

"But then, instead of seeing it through, the Conservatives walked away. They gave up Britain's seat at the table. They locked us out of those discussions at the worst possible time."

"Just imagine where we could be now if Britain had continued to lead on energy security. Imagine how much weaker Putin would be now. Imagine how much safer Ukraine and the rest of Europe, including Britain, would be now. What a terrible waste. What an indictment of the Conservatives."

"And that is why I am so determined to get us back at the table, back at the heart of Europe. Britain leading again."

"Now I want to speak for a moment about the bigger picture. Because our ambition is not limited to Europe alone. It's about Britain's place in the world."

"The old assumption that trade, security and prosperity could be treated as separate issues no longer holds. Supply chains can be disrupted. Energy can be weaponised. Economic security and national security are now inseparable."

"At a time when authoritarian powers are doing so much to undermine our security, democratic nations must work more closely together to enhance it. As Mark Carney said in Davos, middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. He is right."

"Fixing our relationship with Europe is the essential foundation, but it's not the ceiling. The UK can be an incredible force for good when it stands tall on the world stage. Our history, our alliances and our relationships across every continent gives us a unique position for us to act as a bridge, not just between Europe and the US but between Europe and the whole wider democratic world."

"We are here because we believe that our country and our people thrive when we are open and outward looking. That is Britain at its best. Not a small inward looking island clinging to the wreckage of a failed experiment, but a leader, a convening power, a country that helps shape the international order rather than being buffeted by it."

"That is the Britain we can be."

"But friends, I want to be honest with you about the task ahead. What we are proposing is bold. It is ambitious. It requires courage, requires leadership. And it will not happen without all of us."

"We know the obstacles we face, the arguments ahead, the opponents who would rather replay the last ten years instead of moving on from them. Who will tell us we can't even talk about a new deal with Europe, let alone make one. The politicians who will claim change isn't possible because the status quo works for them. But it doesn't work for anyone else."

"So our job is to get out there and show people that change is possible, that it doesn't have to be like this, that there is a way forward. A better future for our country. Leading in Europe once again."

"This isn't just because we believe in Europe. It's not just about friendship or shared history, or the fact that a divided Europe has always ended in misery. Fixing it is about us, our country, our future, our hopes and our dreams."

"Britain needs a new plan. A plan for growth, for jobs, for defence. A plan to give our children the better future they deserve. A new deal with Europe. The only way to fix the cost of living crisis. The only way to get our country back on track."

"So let us stand together. Let us end the chaos. Let us show the world what Britain can be. Not a small island clinging to a failed experiment, but a leader, open, outward looking. At the table, not on the menu."

"A Britain that is richer, safer and stronger. That is the future we are fighting for."

" Thank you. Thank you very much."

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: President Trump, "Iran has a primitive culture"

Right: President Trump's birthday UFC player insults the former First Lady Michelle Obama, calling her a man. It really doesn't get more primitive than that

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JCA Graduate Showcase at Haberdashers' Hall 🎉 what a great fashion show!

[Tina Hamilton @innov_uk]

@implausibleblog Yummy 😋

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Malaysian food at its best at Med Salleh Kopitiam 😋

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

"But the EU don't want us back?"

I've just proven that is a LIE. So anyone who says that, from now on, I will treat as a Brexit supporter.

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Stabbing and mutilating someone in the street is barbaric.

But that barbarism came from one man in Belfast.

Mobs of thugs trying to burn innocent people alive, and their cheerleaders in the press & Parliament...

THAT barbarism is a far larger threat to our national security.