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Life isn't a dress rehearsal........this is it!

[Miss Chief 🤨 @Midge1415]

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[Ripper @OnlyoneRipper]

@AliJaneMoore Why not lead on the lying about security threats at the count??

[The Inevitable Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 THIS CUNTRY!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

FUMIN!!! absolutely irridesent with rage.

Spent ALL weekend working for Reform UK between Clacton and Thetford and iv spent nearly all me UC on diesel for the Union Jack campervan. £186.40 gone already plus £14 on pork scratchings and £7.99 on a new St Georges flag after the old one fell in a puddle.

Still am sure Tice and Nigel will reimburse me.

Iv sent Nigel 38 messages.

Blue ticks on most of em so he must be sorting the bank transfer.

Thetford was strange.

Got told to put on a Norfolk accent and join a mob of other patriots. Never done a Norfolk accent before so I just talked like a pirate and added "boy" to the end of every sentence.

Apparently that isnt Norfolk.

Reform only paid me £48 as well, then I discovered some of the other demonstraters were getting nearly double through some casting agency.

I confronted one bloke and sed "How come your getting £90 to be a patriot and am only getting £48?"

He sed "Because I'm an extra."

I sed "So am I mate, extra patriotic."

He just walked off.

Organiser was a bloke called Yevgeny. Lovely chap. Very generous. Gave everybody some free sniff for turning up although he spent most of the afternoon whispering into two different mobile phones in some funny language.

Probably Welsh.

Thetford itself was lovely.

Nice buildings.

Nice people.

Lovely bins.

Which made it slightly awkward when some idiots started setting fire to them and I somehow decided joining in was patriotic.

As I watched a wheelie bin melt I did briefly wonder exactly how this was helping Britain.

But somebody shouted "TAKE ARE COUNTRY BACK" so I stopped thinking.

Back to Clacton afterwards.

Gods country.

Absolutely starving so I went for a kebab.

Got to the counter and immediately noticed the proprietor was an aslan hawking limahl kebab meat.

I says,

"Just you wait til 2029 mate when Nigel is king, you'll be going 'ome."

He looks at me and says,

"I wish mate. I grew up in Twickenham. Can't afford a house there now."

This absolutely scrambled me brain.

A British Muslim.

Born here.

English accent.

Knew more about England than me.

I stared at him like I'd just discovered electricity.

Suddenly I realised this bloke was as British as a saveloy.

Or Kylie Minogue.

Or spaghetti bolognese.

Proper traditional English things.

"Fair dos mate," I says.

Unfortunately he'd understood the original racist bit perfectly well and refused to give me me kebab until I apologised.

Now as a proud WASP Briton I couldn't possibly submit to Aslan

So naturally I climbed onto a chair and started singing Rock the Boat by The Hues Corporation.

Within seconds the entire kebab shop queue was sitting on the floor in a line doing that rowing thing people do at weddings.

Beautiful scenes.

Black.

White.

Muslim.

Christian.

One bloke from Basildon who didn't seem sure what he was.

All rowing together.

I briefly realised that perhaps people getting along despite there differences was actually quite nice.

Fortunately the thought passed.

"Listen Abdul," I says, "just gimme me kebab."

He sighs.

"My names Leon."

"Fair enough Abdul."

"Leon."

"Thats what I sed."

Eventually we hugged it out and I walked outside clutching me kebab feeling like Nelson Mandela.

Then the police arrived.

Turns out they'd been looking for me since Thetford.

Next thing I know am being arrested on suspicion of arson, affray, indecent exposure and possession of drugs.

I protested that the indecent exposure was completely unrelated to the arson and therefore shouldn't count.

Copper sed thats not how laws work.

So it was back to chokey for me.

Lost me kebab in the police van as well.

Absolutely fumin.

Still...

£186 diesel.

£48 wages.

One burnt bin.

One racial reconciliation.

One lost kebab.

Four alleged offences.

And Nigel still hasn't replied.

I think we got are country back??? 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[World Cup Out Of Context @WorldCup__26]

The baldest of frauds.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

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[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

It must be so frustrating to be a Conservative politician and to have all these fantastic ideas for how to make the country better so soon after having 14 years in power when all they did was make the country worse.

[Solly0 #FBPE @Solly01]

At a cinema near you!

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Don't buy these, don't use them. Lives are at stake and do not under any circumstances tell me,

"It's ok, I'll be careful"

[Laura McAllister 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @LauraMcAllister]

More powers for Wales "not credible" @KemiBadenoch, needs evidence to show benefits @SKinnock. Luckily, here's something we prepared earlier, rammed full of specialist evidence, pretty credible I'd say & supported by @LaurenMaeve @shavtaj @AlbertOwen2020: https://t.co/nrOPbLejwP

[Jeremy🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✈ @JeremyBrookman2]

I suspect this doesn't include Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland though and Britain means England in this regard.

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

Is the new Secretary of State for Wales undermining his own Prime Minister’s commitment to empowering communities through devolution, or do these ambitions just stop at the Welsh border?

[YesCymru @YesCymru]

STEPHEN KINNOCK WANTS EVIDENCE. HERE IT IS.

Commenting today on calls for further devolution, the new Secretary of State for Wales, Stephen Kinnock, said:

“I think we have to be evidence-based and it’s really important to look at what are the costs and benefits of making change.”

Fair enough. Here’s the evidence.

Over the past 15 years, independent commissions and constitutional reviews have repeatedly examined Welsh devolution. Their conclusion has been consistent: the settlement is incomplete and Wales should have further powers.

2012–14 – Silk Commission

Set up by David Cameron’s Conservative-led UK Government, it recommended tax and borrowing powers, a reserved-powers model, and the further devolution of policing, youth justice, energy and transport.

The Wales Acts of 2014 and 2017 implemented some of this, including tax and borrowing powers and the reserved-powers model. But major recommendations, including policing and youth justice, were left untouched.

2019 – Commission on Justice in Wales

Chaired by former Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, it concluded that separating devolved Welsh services from a non-devolved justice system was inefficient and unsustainable. It recommended devolving justice and policing.

2022 – Gordon Brown’s Commission on the UK’s Future

Commissioned by Labour, it recommended further powers for Wales, including youth justice and probation.

2024 – Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales

After more than two years of work, including extensive evidence gathering and public consultation, the cross-party commission unanimously concluded that the status quo was not sustainable. It recommended devolving justice and policing, rail services and infrastructure, and the Crown Estate, reforming the energy devolution settlement, strengthening the Sewel Convention, and reforming relations between the Welsh and UK governments.

These are only four examples. Senedd committees and expert reports have also called for further devolution in areas including rail, broadcasting, justice, energy and the Crown Estate.

So yes, let’s be evidence-based.

The evidence has been gathered repeatedly, and it is overwhelming.

Successive UK governments have repeatedly stopped short of implementing the most significant recommendations, and the new Welsh Secretary seems unaware of the weight of evidence supporting further devolution.

Further powers would be welcome and important, but devolution will always leave Wales dependent on powers granted or withheld by Westminster. Only independence would put the full range of powers and economic levers in Wales’s own hands, giving us the freedom to shape our own future.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Stop calling me Nigel Mirage! And don't you dare retweet this using the hashtag #NigelMirage

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

This post on Farage, Cottrell and Nathan Gill us being suppressed by the X algorithm. It's popular, with 335 views, but it has only been allowed 3.5k views. That's strange given that social media algorithms are supposed to favour posts that get high engagement rates.

[David Hendry💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @DavidHe93145948]

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[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

I guess if you lived in Reigate or Harpenden Thatcher was great. If you lived in Barnsley, Wakefield, Sunderland, South Wales or Scotland she was a fucking disaster - overall speaking. No such thing as society, greed is good, run down public services. The world she created