A few weeks ago I tried to investigate London’s bike theft epidemic. Then my own bike was stolen. This is what I found 🧵
Full article here: https://t.co/kj0Wz5EHt7
The Met police, short on resources, won’t attend even if you know which block of flats contains your stolen bike.
Re the UK's current immigration issues, the utterly toxic failure is primarily because the Tories throughout tried to do John Howard's evil-but-clever con-trick (as also successfully followed by Rudd, Gillard, Rudd, Abbott, Turnbull), but failed because of physical reality. (1/7)
Just insane that planning applications can be scuppered after a consent by these vandals. How many hundreds of thousands of pounds of value and hours of private and public sector time have been destroyed to save a glorified bus stop?
The word Labour, Lib Dem, and Conservative voters are most likely to use to describe the rioters is “thugs” (67-81%)
The term Reform UK voters are most likely to use to describe the rioters is “people with legitimate concerns” (49%)
https://t.co/5UAbLteddN
Harris: We must make the economy work for everyone.
Trump: Spaghetti? Have you heard of this pasta? Terrible pasta shape, Chef Boyardee was not a beautiful man.
RFK Jr.: When I was a young man I kept a dead chimp in my garage for 67 days.
For years, asylum seekers cost the UK around £450 million to £600 million a year.
And then the Tories deliberately stopped processing most asylum applications.
What happened next?
The backlog of people waiting for a ruling increased. A lot. And costs soared to the Moon.
it is really important to keep in mind the people involved in these riots, if they were all brought together, would not fill a League Two stadium. this is not class war, it is the same coked up thugs doing their stupid business all at the same time rather than one by one
It wasn't just that they failed it was that they *deliberately chose* not to process claims on the absurd basis that 100k people could be sent to Rwanda.
A decision cheered on by many of those now complaining about the number of asylum seekers in hotels.
Remember pastygate? Mad. Weeks and weeks of coverage. Basically an entire chapter in Cameron's memoir. The VAT rise of 2.5% a few years before? Barely a peep. The politics of tax is weird. https://t.co/1SGUSADTWs