Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺

Panem et circenses 🇬🇧🇪🇺

[Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺 @jack_jillings]

An individual policy or a group of policies is no reason to leave a union nor is it to stay. The reasons should always be structural, what advantages does being in that union bring, long term?

The actions of individual politicians now as a metric is short termism at its best.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Just a reminder that an individual's national insurance payments do not fund their State pension.

The average person's national insurance payments cover about half the cost of their state pension:

[Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺 @jack_jillings]

@Naeluckmate @LouisUksov @BBCPolitics So if we can find one instance of a woman assaulting another in the female toilets then you'd agree we should also ban women from women's toilets?

[Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺 @jack_jillings]

@PG_Leverage @ohnonotphil @AliArthPainter @Rolo_Tamasi @ElowenHaf @SallyBrabble https://t.co/X9ajiSa1jw

[Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺 @jack_jillings]

@TheKavernacle Been feeling a bit lost with all the lefty commentators moving right lately, as someone keeping up with stuff it could be useful to have a summary video of your thoughts on these people?

What's the deal with David Pakman for instance? Never watched any of his vids

[Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺 @jack_jillings]

@PositivFuturist @LeftieStats Or, you know, the truth?

It's a small, modest house that, due to our insane housing market, is only available to the very rich or to people who bought it long ago before prices went up, like Corbyn did.

Obviously 100k salary is rich, he was leader of the opposition, get a grip

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

British politics in 2024 is a lot more amusing if you recall that 10 years ago, the whole point of having the EU referendum from the perspective of the Tory leadership was to eliminate completely the threat Nigel Farage posed to them.

[Basit Mahmood @BasitMahmood91]

Eton claims that VAT on private school fees means it will have to slash its bursaries budget by more than £1 million.

A reminder that Eton is sitting on a £553 million endowment fund and in 2022 received £3.3 million of rental income from its real estate portfolio as well as...

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We used to own BP until Thatcher sold it, it made £23bn this year.

We used to own Centrica until Thatcher sold it, it made £3.3bn this year.

Every year these now privatised industries rob you of a fortune that should be yours.

[Alex Heard @i_heard_alex]

Ok next time DfT say we're asking for too much, I will remark that Rennes, a bit smaller than Bradford, has a new HSR 10-platform station building integrated with its 2-line automatic metro system running at 2 minute headways.

Someone just rocked up on an ecargo bike too zomg

[Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺 @jack_jillings]

@Buddiebrillian1 @Alison_S_Taylor @electpoliticsuk @RedfieldWilton @ScottishLabour You know labour is mainly competing against the Conservatives on election day, right? They're trying to stop the other forming a govt, that's what the Westminster election is about. Maybe that'll happen for Holyrood but otherwise it makes no sense.

[Jack Jillings 🌹🇪🇺 @jack_jillings]

@RO55_ADA @RedfieldWilton Yes

[Neil Christie @neilchristiex]

Great to see these positive results from the Islington St Mary's LTN trial. Traffic down 41% overall within scheme and down 12% overall on boundary roads. Have your say in the consultation here: https://t.co/Z6IsnPt36X

[Seb Ate @Mrbaiti]

This lady has just spent 2 mins absolutely eviscerating the Conservatives on their record on EVERYTHING 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #BBCQT
“ I’m staggered that you think you’re succeeding…
Watch and listen!

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

I'd take Sunak's crusade against teenage 'loitering' more seriously if his party since 2010 hadn't closed more than 800 libraries, sold off hundreds of playing fields, cut arts funding by a third and local authority grants by 40%.
Young people need cheap, interesting things to do

[Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook @theJeremyVine]

A car driver smashes into a bus, and the local petrosexuals blame the cycle lane

[David Frankal 🟣 @DavidFrankal]

Louise Haigh reiterated - with no ambiguity - that delivering HS2 East in full to Leeds and NPR in full to Leeds via Bradford is Labour Party policy #TfN23

[Xavier Brice @_XavierBrice_]

So in Germany this week staying with family and here’s what road links between a small town and surrounding villages 5-10km apart looks like….

-2.5m shared-use sealed path✔️
-Lighting ✔️
-Priority over side roads✔️
-Clear clean & well-maintained✔️

[Dave Sumner Smith @davesumnersmith]

Why is there such a vast difference in average energy costs?

€650 - France
€650 - Belgium
€620 - Spain
€558 - Germany
€558 - Denmark
€546 - Holland
€545 - Austria
€543 - Norway
€476 - Finland
€174 - Poland
€2,960 - UK

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK Govt defeated in the Lords by 285 to 209 votes on the Public Order Bill.

Lords deny power to police to stop and search without suspicion.

This is a big defeat for the govt, victory for civil rights.

I voted against the govt.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In 1987 the Conservative Government privatised BP for £7.2bn, today it made £23bn profit in one year.

All that money should have been going to you.