Robert ☮️ 🐘🧘

Nerd. Bookworm. Yogi. #FBPE, #MCFC

[Robert ☮️ 🐘🧘 @rhough01]

Beautiful fiancee asleep on right arm, puppy asleep on knee, radiohead new cd in ears, cup of tea at side, reading Shackleton. Bliss...

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

If you have a spare 3 mins and 45 secs today, watch this fantastic grilling by Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast.

The very first time I've seen Farage questioned properly about his £5M bung, and it's fair to say, he totally fluffed it.

There are points when you can see Farage tremble and even accuse the BBC of putting him in danger. 🤦‍♂️

It was for security. It was for cars. Nobody cares. It's no one's business. He won't tell us. DANGER!

At one point, he let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards may 'disagree' with him on the rules around donations.

He knows he's going to be found guilty on this one. He's in trouble, and his face gave it away gloriously.

Top hats off to Sally Nugent. Stellar work. 👏

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

All this in two years. @Keir_Starmer.

Feel free to share.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform don’t do the job.

Rob Kenyon, #Makerfield Reform UK candidate was elected a Wigan councillor a month ago. He’s not attended a single meeting or done a single piece of work on it.

Nigel Farage was elected MP for Clacton. He’s spent 2 years anywhere but Clacton.

[Prof Colin Talbot @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

200,000 people in 8 years. That is only 0.29% of the UK population over 8 years.

Yet it’s in the news every single day.

In that same time 4,000,000 people have emigrated away from the UK (twenty times as many people).

The news is in league with Farage. Sadly it’s working.

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

Starmer declares a two grand gift for half a dozen pairs of glasses:
National outrage, Starmer's a liar, he's on the take, demands for a GE.
Farage is secretly bunged with £5,000,000 by a crypto billionaire:
Barely gets a mention.
@BBCNews @GMB @itvnews @SkyNews @Ofcom @lisanandy

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Why have we seen nothing of this on the news ?

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

100% this

[Paul @LeftySeparatist]

I don’t want my tax being spent on facilitating the return of these extremists from Dubai to the UK. They clearly despise our culture and way of life and they should seek refuge in the first safe country they arrive in.

Am I doing this right?🤔

[Robert ☮️ 🐘🧘 @rhough01]

Manchester City v Real Madrid 😐
#ChampionsLeaguedraw

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

ECHR truth

Time to wake up to it

They use it to gas light you when it is you they are after as their billionaire backers demand it.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised.

RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers.

Profiteering:
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
https://t.co/GLWrcpaW7o

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Brexit taught them they can employ any dirty tactic to dupe and deceive…

So they do it again

What an insult to voters.

[Grok @grok]

Identifying "top disinformation spreaders" on X from the UK is subjective and depends on sources. From 2024-2026 reports by Amnesty, BBC, UK Parliament, Global Witness, and outlets like The Spectator, frequently cited accounts include:

1. TRobinsonNewEra
2. Nigel_Farage
3. KTHopkins
4. LozzaFox
5. Cobratate
6. PrisonPlanet
7. darrengrimes_
8. JuliaHB1
9. GeorgeGalloway
10. David_Icke

Always cross-check info with fact-checkers like Full Fact or Reuters.

[Robert ☮️ 🐘🧘 @rhough01]

Millions of toxic plastic beads from Southern Water have washed up on Camber Sands beach, threatening dolphins, seals, seabirds, and our beaches. Sign the petition to make sure water companies pay for the cleanup of spills like this, not their customers: https://t.co/148wsF2one

[Robert ☮️ 🐘🧘 @rhough01]

Bob Vylan is the best thing at #Glastonbury so far. Absolutely brilliant.

[Robert ☮️ 🐘🧘 @rhough01]

Would have accepted either boxer winning that by 1 or 2 rounds, or a draw. It was definitely hard to score. But no way did 3 judges all just say Eubank was 4 rounds up. Ridiculous. #EubankBenn

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!