Neil

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

A UK family where both parents work full-time, pay full council tax, and earn enough to be 'doing alright' on paper, can't afford to take their kids to the Tower of London on a Saturday in 2026.

Two adult tickets and two child tickets at standard price comes to roughly £100. Add £40-£80 in train fares and £50-£70 for lunch — that's around £200 for a single Saturday at one tourist attraction in their own capital city.

A family on full Universal Credit, living in subsidised housing, paying no council tax, can take the same four people to the same Tower for £1 a ticket — £4 total — under the 'inclusive access' schemes most major UK attractions now run.

The working family pays the full £200 day out AND covers — through their taxes — the £196 discount the benefits family gets on the same trip.

Whatever the original intention of those schemes, this is the structure most UK working families are now living inside. Pay the full bill, then watch the people next door enjoy the day out you can't take your own kids to.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

THIS is exactly what @ABC and others should have done to Trump instead of caving and giving in and paying him off with millions of dollars.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

🤣🤣🤣

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@LostTransport @jayr1972 People involved in crash were air lifted to St George’s in 40 minutes.

I didn’t realise keeping it shut for 17 hours was helping them have faster recovery in hospital 🤔🤔

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@Muaythaijoey @InigoAmethyst @LeftwaffenWatch @chalks77777 What moral are you on about ?

Injured people were airlifted in 40 minutes after that there was only freaking empty vehicles and 40 support vehicle of ambulance, fire truck, traffic offers and police

[Leftwaffen-Watch ⬜️ @LeftwaffenWatch]

Sick of this attitude from the police when there is an accident. A man was seriously injured but no one was killed, but the police closed the motorway for 8 hours on the hottest day on record, leaving hundreds of people stuck in their cars, 10 people had to be taken to hospital suffering from dehydration

You don't get this in other countries. The roads are opened again as quickly as possible (I've seen it myself) whereas our police take all the time in the world and to hell with everyone else.

How many people missed flights? How many people missed a job interview that might have changed their life? How many people missed a loved one passing away in hospital?

It's unacceptable

[Lena @windgieindgie]

Nobody is saying the people injured in the M25 accident were not the priority. Of course they were and my thoughts go to all of them. I too have been involved in a head on accident, I understand the psychological and physical aspect and I hope all victims make a good recovery.

It was a horrific accident, and everyone was concerned for the victims. Getting them out safely and getting them medical help came first, it doesn’t matter if people missed their flights /holidays / days at work.

But after that, the way the traffic was handled was appalling. Being concerned about people trapped in their cars for hours in extreme heat is not disrespecting the victims. It is basic common sense.

Some people may have needed medication. Some were elderly. Some had children with them. Some had no air con and little or no water. Nobody sets off to go one junction and expects to be stuck on a motorway for eight hours.

The exit slip road traffic lights were backing local traffic up, which then stopped cars coming off the M25. Each light change barely moved anyone because the road ahead was already gridlocked. If cars got off at all, it was only a handful at a time.

That needed proper police traffic management. But we saw no police managing that road at all. No clear signs, no notices, no officers directing traffic, nothing.

They should have closed or controlled the local roads properly, dealt with the lights, and got people off the motorway in a safe and organised way. Instead, people were left to their own devices, trying to get off a blocked motorway into even more blocked traffic.

The abuse I have had for saying this is ridiculous. Calling out poor traffic management does not mean I do not care about the accident victims.

I have not once moaned about myself being stuck in a car for almost 11 hours. People’s lives matter far more than my day.

But that does not mean the aftermath was handled well. It wasn’t.

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@HighwaysSEAST #M25
Please give this piece of information to stupid person in control room
Sign says exit lane is closed and every other lane is open

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@HighwaysSEAST @IbrahimVar88778 Why couldn’t they do this from beginning as slip road had nothing to do with collision on M25

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@KentLaw1994 @HighwaysSEAST @airambulancekss They have been given book called Health & safety, rules and regulations and they will follow it rigidly and not use any common sense whatsoever.

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@KentLaw1994 @HighwaysSEAST @airambulancekss This is great point

But sadly it’s not in their priority to get everyone else on safety

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@RMH_SameDay @HighwaysSEAST @airambulancekss Praying they are okay with miracle 🙏

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@HighwaysSEAST Any idea on when they plan to open ?

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

Let me be the first to call upon Andy Burnham to resign as Prime Minister.

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@Bourbon4me2 @vonderleyen for the love of god please fuck off from U.K politics you Yankees

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

No British PM has completed a term in office since 2015, despite two of those PMs being elected with landslide majorities. The country is essentially ungovernable - at least under the existing system of governance.

Good luck Burnham.

[D @_Unknown_D_]

The problem with the UK is we have an electorate that wants a Japanese approach to immigration, Nordic welfare, an American tax system and a political class that would rather pander to this delusion as opposed to levelling with public about the necessary trade offs. This approach will continue to produce failed leaders until it fundamentally changes.

[The Procurement Files @procurementfile]

Over 2 years, Birmingham City Council spent £84.3million on ‘Transportation Home to School’

The highest paid transport provider was ‘Green Destinations Ltd’ who received £36.6million. ‘AFJ Ltd’ received £17.7million.

Registered offices below.

[Neil @Neil_7_]

@Shelleyyyy88 @LizRead168 @benonwine Remember those same boomers gave you Brexit that you all wanted it so badly