The persecution of Nigel Farage re a £5 million personal donation is outrageous. Had the British state provided adequate PROTECTION he'd not need to personally fund highly complex security. It speaks volumes - even after 2 MPs assassinated - Farage had to go it alone.
Local elections: I had a choice between, Greens, Reform, Labour, Lib Dem’s & Conservatives - as much as Kemi Badenoch has shined of late & as much as I don’t fully trust Farage… I voted Reform! I have to put the country first!
Today we announce a new policy:
In order to deport all illegal migrants in Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of thousands at a time.
Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centres, and each will be held there a couple of weeks before being deported.
So here’s our promise:
A Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP.
Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council.
And of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green controlled parliamentary constituencies and Green controlled councils to locate the detention centres.
Put simply, if you vote in a Reform council or Reform MP, we guarantee you won’t have a detention centre near you.
If you vote Green, there’s a good chance you will.
This is an important exercise in democratic consent, not just for our mass deportation policy, but for where the detention centres are placed.
Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates for open borders, I look forward to their warm embrace of this policy.
https://t.co/toKFVERafD
“People should be able to… enjoy a pint of beer, take their kids to the football, but they can’t”
Businessman and TV personality Tom Skinner says people have “no money” despite working “every hour”, and Labour are “smacking” businesses when they need “more support”
#bbcqt
Meanwhile I have 2 x vouchers purchased especially for this film which now told are now no good...
"Its a Big Screen event"...it's a cinema they all are!!!
@vuecinemas - Just trying to book two seats for the Elvis movie only to be told my "Vue Voucher" not valid for this film...but that was only pointed out after one takes a deep dive into your "Legal" then "Terms and Conditions" found at the very bottom of your home page...1/2
A case study in how @British_Airways, by setting impossibly high tier point hurdles, is going to lose a lot of money/big paying customers.
Planning my next trip to NYC in Spring. Normally I’d do business Nice-London on BA, return first class London-NYC-London and business London-Nice, fitting in a few working days in London there and back. All up the fares would come to around £5,000 for flights in second half of April. A lot of money — especially since it comes out of my pocket. Nobody picks up my expenses. But at my age I like to travel in comfort.
And I like the BA crews.
However now that the tier point hurdle is too high for renewing guest list status for all but perpetual travellers, why bother planning a schedule round BA flights?
I’ve booked Nice-NYC-Nice first class return on Delta for just over €3,000. No brainer, really. Direct flight, almost half the price. And @British_Airways will lose £5,000. Plus much more if this now becomes my regular NYC schedule.
I can’t tell you the number of people I know now doing similar flight schedule planning which simply removes BA from the planning, when it used to be at the centre.
And, yes, I know it’s most definitely a first-world problem! But BA makes most of its money from passengers flying first/business. With fewer of us the fares of premium/economy passengers will rise.
Well done @British_Airways. How to stuff loyal, high-paying customers of longstanding for no good reason whatsoever.
Hi @Delta. Thanks for reserving me seat 1A both ways! Can’t wait.
According to the @Telegraph in 2024, China’s 1.4 billion people bought £32bn of British goods and services, amounting to just 3.6 per cent of total UK exports.
Ireland, with only 5.3 million people, bought £52bn of UK exports, or 5.8 per cent of the total.
Meanwhile America alone purchased over £200bn of UK goods and services, representing almost a quarter of everything that Britain sold overseas.
Pretty obvious where our interests are and our Manchurian leader is heading East, no doubt passing the Chagos Islands on the way.