Penny Leather

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

When the Severe Alert system was established in 2024 it was made clear that:

“There will be a very high threshold for its use based on strict criteria centred on an immediate risk to life.”

Tonight’s use at a national level clearly doesn’t hit that threshold and opens the door to future misuse of the system.

Labour needs to publish who signed off the decision to use the alert and the criteria that they were using.

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Argentina no solo perdió la final.

Es la primera vez que vejó a un finalista derrotado arruinándole la celebración a los campeones por pelearse.

Vergüenza

[Penny Leather @ladyterrier]

Nothing will drive you to @ITV like the nauseating drivel the @BBC have just served up. As if that ridiculous half time show wasn’t painful enough.🤮

[Penny Leather @ladyterrier]

@garyhayes2012 So upsetting.

[Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @goodfoodgal]

Good morning!

As promised… posting every day until the whole of Australia has seen it.

Show your friends.
Share it round.
Watch it again.

Oh… and for the rest of the world? Have pity on us. It’s our Finance Minister.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I expected people to keep quiet during the trial. But, now that we have the conviction, why has no minister spoken out? Where are all the celebs who took the knee six years ago? Where is the wall-to-wall BBC coverage? Unlike the Floyd case, this one happened in Britain, ffs.

[Penny Leather @ladyterrier]

@THR Tit!

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times.

They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Transwomen are not a special kind of woman, they are & remain, a specific kind of male. And it does no one any favours to lie. I will not lie about biological sex & the differences that brings in behaviour, performance, reproduction or medicine. It’s in fact dangerous to do so.

[BritMatters 🇬🇧 @britmatters]

The Man Who Paid In & The Man Who Paid Nothing.

Meet Frank, the man who paid in.

Frank turned 80 last winter. He grafted 52 years as a builder in Manchester, his hands and back are broken from laying bricks in pouring rain. Every week he paid his National Insurance. Never claimed benefits. Never broke the law. He raised two kids on a council estate, paid his taxes and did his bit for the country he loves.

Now he shuffles to the post office in the same coat he’s worn since 2018. His old Nokia phone barely holds the charge. His State Pension is £241.30 a week, just over £12,500 a year, but after gaps, Frank gets less.

He counts every penny. Some weeks it’s heating or eating. Last winter around 2,500 people in England died from cold associated causes. Frank keeps the thermostat at 15 degrees and wears jumpers indoors.

"I’m not living," he tells his neighbour. "I’m just existing."

His wife, Margaret, has been in a care home for two years, dementia stealing her away. Frank struggles to keep their old car on the road for weekly visits. One more breakdown and those trips could end.

Every pension day is the same. Frank walks past the bookies where young fighting age men fresh off small boats shout, laugh and slap down stacks of cash twice as thick as his weekly pension.

He keeps his head down, clutching his wallet, praying nobody follows him home. His street no longer feels like his street. Fewer familiar faces. Foreign languages. The corner shop is now a Turkish barbers. He feels all alone in the city he once helped build.

Meet Ahmed, the man who paid nothing.

Ahmed arrived on a dinghy last summer, one of 41,472 Channel crossings in 2025, mostly young men from Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Sudan. He tossed his documents into the sea, then claimed asylum the moment the dinghy touched the beach. No passport. No papers. No contributions.

The Home Office puts him in a hotel. Heating on full. Three meals a day. Security on the door.Ahmed strolls the streets in new clothes and the latest iPhone, using free bus shuttles twice a day, drinking and laughing with friends outside the same bookies Frank avoids.

He broke immigration rules entering the country uninvited. Once granted asylum, the door opens to UK benefits and housing.

Frank paid in all his life and obeyed every rule. He built the Britain that now houses Ahmed.

Ahmed has paid nothing and doesn't obey the rules, he receives shelter, warmth, food, free transport and pocket money while Frank rations food, huddles under blankets to keep warm and constantly worries about money.

Tonight as Ahmed relaxes in a warm hotel room with new Nike trainers by the bed, wondering what’s for dinner. Frank sits in his cold home wondering why a lifetime of hard work brings only deprivation.

This story is repeating in towns and cities across the country.

This isn’t fairness. This is a betrayal.

#UKNews #UKPolitics #StopTheBoats

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Buckingham Palace has reportedly confirmed that the king will not be issuing an Easter message this year.

Apparently, it isn't traditional for the monarch to issue a special message at Easter.

Well, fine. But the king did issue a special message for Ramadan in February. So many Christians will understandably feel slighted.

And many others will see it as yet another example of asymmetric multiculturalism.

[silvasurfer @pghoner]

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[Penny Leather @ladyterrier]

@10DowningStreet What a load of bol**cks!

[Penny Leather @ladyterrier]

@BGatesIsaPyscho It was a ‘stunt’ for This Morning. He’s their cheap deals man.

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

A statement from Siobhan Whyte… Rhiannon’s Mum.
Not a good day for you Jess my love… @jessphillips and not much better for you Matt !!! @MattWestern_ telling lies to the media.. AGAIN!! I call for you both to resign for gross misconduct in public office! @GBNEWS @TalkTV @Keir_Starmer

[Penny Leather @ladyterrier]

@garyhayes2012 @SamaHoole Yuk!

[Penny Leather @ladyterrier]

@LeagueOne25 Ridiculous.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.

One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.

But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.

Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.

The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.

The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.

Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.

Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

[BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 @BROKENBRITAIN0]

🚨 SADIQ KHAN TURNS LONDONS NEW YEARS FIREWORKS INTO A GLOBALIST PROPAGNADA SHOW 🇬🇧

From removing the star of David from the Israel flag to the not so subtle EU flag, even though 17.4 MILLION people voted to leave the EU❗️

EVERYTHING Khan does is AGAISNT the people ⚠️