Darren Masters 💙

Covenant Consultant, Husband, Father and sometime golfer, cricketer, sailor, fisherman and DIYer. All views my own etc

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

Morning after my 54th blood donation and feeling ready for a gentle start to the weekend.
Spoke to a colleague yesterday about restarting his blood donations.
If you can #GiveBlood please do.
#GiveBloodSaveLives

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@Tesco who do I contact about a refund for some moldy mushrooms that I bought this evening? Opened the pack to put in the fridge and they are alive! Don’t want to have to go back to the store

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

"You boy - are the media still pretending it's OK that someone who wants to be Prime Minister covered up a £5 million gift?"

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@henryhtapper Always valuable and member centric input, but the fact is many employers struggle to find MNTs and that challenge of filling vacancies often leads to the move to a Corporate Sole Trustee. Even then you can keep the members voice through liaison with former trustees

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@Tesco Thank you for the link - that is the website that I started from and it currently says there are bra banks at both Tesco in Fakenham and Kings Lynn.

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@Tesco how can I find out if my local store has a breast cancer bra bank?

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@Tesco I’m between Hunstanton, Fakenham and King’s Lynn - thank you!

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@EvilRastaCJ @cpscott16 NATO is there for mutual support of defence not to support unwarranted offence. There has only ever been one invoking of article 5 and that was when the US was attacked on September 11. History clearly shows that NATO countries gave enormous support then.

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@adam_louis52328 @MichaelRosenYes Oh of course - a globally successful Jewish author who objects to killing of innocent civilians is racist and of low intelligence. Of only you could see the irony in your comment.

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

As Apps go, @VodafoneUK is probably one of the worst I have come across. The chat bot function can’t even understand what to do to respond to one of its own pre selected responses.
Connect to an agent instead- tumbleweeds

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@StuDMiller They have had to fudge a raft of measures to avoid an overt rise in tax rates which was seen as politically damaging. I’m not sure she thought that through! People will notice.
Another fudge before having to come back cap in hand next year

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@StuDMiller It’s just a further example of the lack of consistency in Government policy (assuming of course it does form part of the budget).
On one hand DWP pushes pensions to invest in UK productive finance to grow pension pots and on the other it disincentivizes pension saving. Madness

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion. From the very first minutes of February 24, Putin has been waging this war with complete disregard for how many of his own people he loses and how many of ours he kills.

Russian commanders are not merely inclined to act brutally – they receive explicit orders allowing them to kill however they please. That is why Russia’s war is so bloody, taking lives both on the front lines and in peaceful Ukrainian cities. That is why Russia not only kills adults but also abducts children and tries to re-educate them so that they will take part in the war once they grow up.

Russian commanders are now sending into assaults against Ukrainian positions those who were still in elementary school in 2014, when Crimea was occupied and Russia’s hybrid aggression against Ukraine began. This is a long war, and the main thing Russia is trying to do is to preserve its ability to wage it even longer, and not only against Ukraine. That is why we appreciate so deeply that so many forces and leaders are working for peace right now.

Ukraine is grateful to the United States, to every American heart, and personally to President Trump for the assistance that – starting with the Javelins – has been saving Ukrainian lives. We thank everyone in Europe, in the G7, and in the G20 who is helping us defend life. It is important to preserve the support.

It is important not to forget the main goal – to stop Russia’s war and prevent it from ever igniting again. And to achieve that, peace must be dignified. In just this one year alone, Putin has already sent hundreds of thousands of his own people to their deaths in order to occupy one percent or several percent of Ukrainian territory. And this is what Russia is doing – a country that already has more internationally recognized territory than any other state in the world. This nature of the war, and Russia’s attempts to prolong it, show that for them this is not about territory or about how one neighbor or another behaves toward Russia, but about Russia’s “right to wage war,” its “right to subjugate” others, and a fundamental absence of security.

That is why we work so carefully on every point, on every step toward peace. Everything must work out the right way – so that this war is truly ended and so that it does not happen again. Thank you to everyone who is helping! Thank you, America! Thank you, Europe! I am proud of our people. Glory to Ukraine!

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@piersmorgan This tweet isn’t aging well 😬

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

The daily movement of the Pink Footed Geese from their overnight roosts on The Wash to find a freshly harvested field of sugar beet is a wonder to behold. The noise is amazing!

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@FHawksworth The mob thinks it has the right (driven by the far right) - Huntingdon will just be the latest rallying ground for the knuckle draggers (and let’s just ignore the fact that the attacker boarded somewhere between Doncaster and Peterborough)

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@factpostnews You can’t reason with stupidity- these two fools haven’t a brain cell between them

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@davidw_books @bbc5live Better than nothing but still not good enough

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

Shame on you @bbc5live for choosing to highlight a pointless football game ahead of the Women’s Rugby World Cup.
Need to focus on inclusive sport and not chase the money #redroses

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@Tess_invests Stunning!

[Darren Masters 💙 @pensionsdaz]

@Tess_invests Scarbados rocking tonight!