Mark

50, happily partnered part time train guard, part time undertaker, UK based. Views are my own. RT/likes not endorsements, just for discussion.

[Politics Polls @PoliticsPollss]

If there was a general election in the UK tomorrow, who would you vote for?

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[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Labour have been in power for 2 years, 2 months and 24 days.

Since then they’ve attempted to stop local elections, scrap jury trials, change algorithms to favour “approved” news, and now take people's property against their will.

If someone listed those events without context, my mind would go straight to the Soviet Union of the 1930s.

This should not be Britain in 2026.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Andrew Neil’s Brexit reality check on BBC Question Time.

In a nutshell:

Rejoiners are ignoring the huge political wind of change sweeping Europe and the UK v Germany/ France/ Italy growth rates make a nonsense of their Mickey Mouse economic arguments too.
#bbcqt

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

We told you years ago that rapists, murderers and paedophiles were crossing the channel…
You labelled us as racists.

We told you that terrorists were crossing. You called US extremists.

ALL HAVE BEEN HAPPENING, YET IT STILL ISN’T A NATIONAL EMERGENCY ?!! ‼️

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

The enemy is within.

Our allies’ bases appear to be under attack from within the United Kingdom.

Our border is wide open. The govt has seemingly offered safe haven, asylum and citizenship to terrorists plotting attacks from our country.

Far-left thugs are attacking private businesses because weak rhetoric from the govt has appeased their ideology.

We cannot ignore the reality that British people are no longer safe in their own country. Successive govt’s have appeased Islamism, turned a blind eye to far-left extremism and flooded our country with dangerous criminals.

When will British people wake up. Is it too late?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Letter of the week in The Courier newspaper. Kudos to Andy Lang for pointing out a lot of inconvenient truths on North Sea oil and gas, net zero, CO2 and the climate debate.

[Mark @mark29uk]

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[Lee @LeePheonix360]

Do you refuse to accept that Andy Burnham is the Prime Minister and do you think that there should be a general election NOW 🗳️🗳️

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Going plant-based means nothing has to die for my dinner."

Farmer: "Ever walked behind a combine?"

Activist: "No."

Farmer: "Follow one across a wheat field in August. Mice, voles, leverets, ground-nesting birds that sat tight instead of running. The buzzards learn the timetable and sit on the poles waiting. Then there's the rat poison round the grain store, the slug pellets on the oilseed, the pigeons shot off the brassicas, and whatever dies against the rabbit fence."

Activist: "That's incidental. It isn't deliberate."

Farmer: "It's annual, and it's on the invoice. The vole hasn't got an opinion about your intentions. You've drawn a line between the death you paid for and the death you paid for and didn't have to watch."

Activist: "It's still fewer deaths than eating meat."

Farmer: "Depends on the field. One bullock off a hill that's never seen a plough feeds a family for months and cost the wildlife the grass and nothing else. A hundred acres of arable gets combined, sprayed and baited every year to make your bread."

Activist: "You can't seriously claim veganism kills more."

Farmer: "I'm claiming nobody eats without something dying. You've chosen the version where it dies out of sight and called that innocence."

[Normal Gay Psychiatrist @NormalGayPsych]

As a gay man, I love men. Biological men — adult human males with the biology I��m wired to be attracted to. Trans men are biological women. I’m not attracted to that. That’s not bigotry. That’s called being gay.
Sexuality isn’t a hate crime. Preferences aren’t phobias. If you need to rewrite basic biology and shame gay people into pretending otherwise, maybe the problem isn’t us.
Same-sex attraction exists for a reason. Let’s stop erasing it.
Who else is tired of this gaslighting? 👇

[Bruce Hamill - Daily Update @BruceHamill_DU]

For 14 years, the Conservatives ran this country into the ground.

They mishandled Covid, failed to deal properly with the consequences of the Ukraine war, wasted extraordinary amounts of money and left Britain buried under debt.

Millions of people then convinced themselves that Labour was the answer.

Some of us had already watched Labour govern for 13 years and knew better. A different-coloured rosette does not mean a different establishment. We have more than a century of evidence showing that Labour and the Conservatives will blame one another while continuing the same cycle of borrowing, spending and decline.

Barely two years into Labour, gross government debt is now above £3.1 trillion, public sector net debt is hovering just below £3 trillion, and Britain is spending roughly £110 billion a year simply servicing it.

Yet somehow, there are still people who spent 14 years attacking Tory failure while defending everything Labour is doing now.

You cannot honestly believe the Conservatives wrecked the country and then pretend Labour are doing a good job simply because your team is wearing red.

It baffles me that anyone can support either of these and keep a straight face.
Reform UK have not ruined this country, these two have for 100 years.

Frankly, considering the state of the country, that level of blind loyalty requires your head testing.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...

The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.

All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."

After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.

The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.

As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.

The average of the second test was 6.

When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.

The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 JOKE OF THE DAY: THE WESTMINSTER CIRCUS HAS OUTDONE ITSELF.

Labour MP Andy Slaughter has just written an essay defending the backroom coronation of Andy Burnham, and his arguments are a complete comedy routine. 🤡

He actually claims that calling a General Election to choose the next Prime Minister is "not a widespread view" and would be completely "self-indulgent" for the country!

Think about the absolute brass neck of these people.

Allowing the British public to actually vote for the person running their country is now considered a luxury we cannot afford.

Slaughter openly admits that your NHS is buckling, economic growth has stalled, and you are paying the highest taxes on record.

But do not worry. He reassures us that "the mood in Parliament is lifted" and everyone in Westminster feels really positive about themselves!

Your bills are soaring, you have zero say in who leads our country, but at least the elite inside the Westminster bubble are happy.

RT if you have had enough of these out-of-touch snobs and demand a General Election NOW! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Bruce Hamill - Daily Update @BruceHamill_DU]

So let me get this straight.
Nigel Farage is being dragged in front of what many people will quite rightly see as an establishment kangaroo court.

Instead of hiding behind lawyers, committees and Westminster procedure, he calls a by the book, legitimate by-election in Clacton and says: fine, let the people decide. And somehow that is a circus. A farce. A vanity project.

But when Labour manufactured a by-election less than a month ago, got one of their own candidates to stand down, parachuted in their preferred man, and effectively cleared the path for their next Prime Minister, that was apparently democracy working exactly as intended.

Funny how that works, isn’t it?
When the establishment does it, it’s strategy.
When Farage does it, it’s chaos.

When Labour moves people around like chess pieces, it’s legitimate, and all above board, the whole bandwagon jumps onboard.

When voters in Clacton are handed the final say, suddenly everyone starts clutching their pearls about the “cost to the taxpayer”, Even though Reform are funding it, but the establishment wants you to pay for one they "think" is coming later down the line.

Honestly, some people need to wake up.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Customer: "Oat milk, please. Trying to lower my footprint."

Barista: "Course. Happy with the rapeseed oil in it?"

Customer: "Rapeseed oil? In milk?"

Barista: "It's not milk. It's oats, water, and a good glug of seed oil for the creaminess."

Customer: "I avoid seed oils."

Barista: "You're about to wear a moustache of one."

Customer: "...Almond, then?"

Barista: "Lovely. How do you feel about draining California?"

Customer: "The soy?"

Barista: "Comes with a complimentary top-up of oestrogen. On the house."

Customer: "...Coconut?"

Barista: "Flown across an ocean, and more saturated fat than lard."

Customer: "What's the little carton at the back?"

Barista: "That one's just milk. Cow, field, grass, done. No factory, no solvent, no asterisk."

Customer: "And the footprint on that?"

Barista: "She made it out of rain. Yours is the taxi you took here to ask."

[StaplehurstBlue ⭐⭐🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @StaplehurstBlue]

Serious question to the Labour MPs who called for a general election when the Tory PMs resigned.
Q. Why won't we be having a general election now that Starmer has resigned? Isn't it the same situation & hypocritical if there isn't a general election.
A. You will lose your seats.

[LyndonX @LyndonNext]

Do you want a General Election in UK?

Please share, let’s find out.