Scrum-half.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇹🇴🇲🇺🇦 By Strength and Guile

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The point is that these sums are far more than they could ever earn outside politics, so they have to cash in before the voters throw them out

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

No! No! No!

I worked bloody hard to kick the unaccountable, unelected anti-democratic Brussels bastards out of our politics

And its not for unelected Burnham to chuck it all away

Viva Brexit!

https://t.co/jV8wRPp3na

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every kitchen used to have the one board.

Wood. Thick as a paving slab and about as heavy, dished in the middle from forty years of use, and it did everything, the raw chicken included. It was also, though nobody knew it and nobody needed to, the safest surface in the house.

Scarred all over in a fine grey web where a knife had landed ten thousand times. A burn on one corner from a pan set down in a hurry sometime around 1962. It had come from her mother, and it smelled faintly of onion no matter what had last been on it.

It never sat in water longer than a minute. Scrubbed with salt and a stiff brush, rinsed, stood on its edge against the tiles to dry. Once a year it went out to the shed to be sanded flat and rubbed over with oil, and came back looking twenty years younger.

Chicken went on it. Beef went on it. Then the bread went on it. Nobody in that house was ever ill, and nobody in that house gave it a second's thought.

Then the advice arrived, the same on both sides of the Atlantic. Wood is porous. Wood harbours bacteria. Buy plastic, because plastic can be properly cleaned.

The old board went out to the shed for good, and a whole generation of them followed it, in the space of a few years.

A microbiologist at the University of California, Dean Cliver, asked the Department of Agriculture what that advice was based on. They told him they had no evidence for it.

So he tested it himself, and got the opposite of everything he expected.

Bacteria smeared onto wood vanished from the surface within minutes. The grain had drawn them down, away from the food, into a dry dark where they could not multiply and simply died. Days later you had to split the board open to find them at all.

On plastic they sat on the surface, alive, waiting. And once a plastic board carried a few hundred cuts, no amount of scrubbing got them back out, least of all with fat worked into the grooves.

The board that looks filthy kills bacteria. The board that looks clean stores them.

What replaced the old one was a set of six, colour-coded, red for raw meat and blue for fish and green for the veg. A professional kitchen system, sold to a woman feeding four people out of one pan.

And the new one sheds into you. A study in 2023 put it at tens of millions of plastic particles a year off a single board, somewhere between seven and fifty grams of polyethylene, cut loose by your own knife and served up in your own dinner.

Her board is still there, standing on its edge against the tiles in her daughter's kitchen, dished in the middle, older than everyone in the room.

Sand it. Oil it. Put a chop on it.

It will outlast every plastic board you will ever buy, and it was never the thing that needed fixing.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Labour MP Bridget Phillipson says that “Reform are a risk women cannot afford to take.”

The brass neck from a woman who voted against a national inquiry into Pakistani rape gangs and believes a leaflet will stop unvetted men from raping girls.

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

Britain needs to be bolder in dumping all the EU laws that hold us back and taking on our own bureaucracy.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

The UK Met Office has again been caught publishing temperatures from weather stations that don't exist.

An FOI revealed Lowestoft closed in 2010, yet the Met Office kept issuing official temperatures for it.

The office said they were using "well-correlated" neighboring stations, but the FOI revealed that this was a lie.

The numbers were actually coming from a model that was inventing data from 'phantom' neighboring stations.

When exposed, they quietly deleted years of readings for Lowestoft, as well as a number of other stations, and added a disclaimer saying their data is "for general interest only."

FOIs also show over one third of Met Office stations never existed, and that real high-quality sites like Colwood are ignored.

Also, more than 80% of the network is low-grade class 4 or 5, by WMO standards giving 2-5C uncertainty.

This is the foundation of the UK's climate record – closed stations, imaginary stations and synthetic temperatures. The Met Office isn't credible.

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

I literally did not say this.

Here's what I really said.

In 1940s post war Britain a Labour Government made sure that council houses were allocated on suitability.

I then went on to say that tenants would be visited by council officers to ensure their houses were being looked after and maintained properly.

I also said that it was not fair on working British people who live on new estates after buying their first home have to live next door to someone in social housing, gets their rent paid, doesn't look after the property, has weeds 4 foot tall in the garden and the whole property stinks of weed.

For clarity, these people who have no intention of working or contributing towards society should not expect to live in free social housing at the expense of hardworking taxpayers!

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The only way they can try to win arguments is to re-define words

[John Ganges @dunstablian]

When you look closely at many of the Labour MP's elected in 2024, you realise that they are in politics because nobody else would employ them, they are atrocious.....

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

Norway sticks up 2 fingers to the EU on energy policy.

It will carry on new drilling no matter what EU says

Double Bravo to Norway!

https://t.co/oAethnLykM

[REC @rec777777]

The Uniparty ignored what we voted for, for over 30 years and the country has been turned into a shithole

We've had enough of their mass immigration WEF/EU globalists ideology

It has been a massive failure

It's time for @reformparty_uk

Our last chance

[Sensible Simon @simonwatt85]

There are around 13.4 million pensioners in the UK and there are around 10 million working-age benefit claimants.

This gap is closing. Soon we will have more working age benefit's claimants than we do old age pensioners.

Labour Isn't Working Folks.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Butter did not live in the fridge in this country until the mid eighties.

It lived on the table. Under a little lid, or a bell of frosted glass, and it stayed put from breakfast to supper. It got a top-up, never a wash and a fresh pack. When it ran low, more went in. It was there the way the salt was there and the teapot was there, and nobody in that house gave it a second thought.

And it was soft. You pulled it straight across warm toast without tearing a hole in the middle, without the wait, without the cold shrapnel that comes off a fridge-hard block.

It sat out through a July afternoon and nothing happened. It sat out through Christmas week beside the cake and nothing happened. Your grandmother kept butter on the side for fifty years and buried nobody.

Butter is around eighty per cent fat, and the water in it is locked in droplets inside that fat with the salt dissolved in them. Bacteria need free water and there is almost none to be had. The fat is the thing keeping it safe.

The fat. The exact property they spent forty years telling your mother would kill her is the property that lets butter sit on a table all summer and behave itself.

She knew none of that and she was right anyway.

Then the government's committee on nutrition reported in 1984, the country was told to cut the fat out, and inside about three years the dish was in a cupboard and there was a tub in the fridge door with a sunflower on the lid.

Butter out of a fridge cannot be spread. It tears the bread and sits on the knife in a lump. The tub beat butter on exactly one thing, which was that it came out already soft, and it only had that advantage because the competition had just been sent somewhere cold on doctor's orders.

Clover launched in September 1983, made by Dairy Crest, which was the processing arm of the Milk Marketing Board. The dairy industry's own company sold Britain the tub.

Then it sold the fix. Spreadable butter is butter with rapeseed oil blended through it so it comes out of the fridge soft, and the market leader runs at sixty four per cent butter to twenty three per cent oil. It costs more than the block it is diluting.

There is a generation now that flinches at a fat left out at room temperature, and the same people will eat mayonnaise out of a jar that has been sat on a warehouse shelf since March.

Leave a dish of it out tomorrow. Watch it sit there all day doing absolutely nothing, then spread it without a fight.

Your fridge is full of things that would have you on the floor by Thursday. The butter was never one of them.

[Bass player @BrexitBassist]

MSM are completely wrong with what their perception of what far right actually means in reality.
Let's examine the facts.

Far right = Concerned citizen
Far right = Safer Streets
Far right = Deporting illegal migrants
Far right = Prevention of Rape
Far right = Just Right

[Stephen Phillips 💻 @uk_sf_writer]

Under Commons rules, MPs must disclose all relevant financial interests for the previous 12 months before they are elected.

Oh, hang on, that only applies to Reform MPs.
https://t.co/aPn06joStn

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Socialists totally out of touch with economic reality

We must maximise North Sea

Every last barrel

[Arron Banks @Arron_banks]

You let them all in!

[mike erwydd. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇮✝️ @mikeerwydd1968]

The nhs.
Approximately 319 senior managers in NHS trusts have base salary entitlements between £200,000 and £300,000, with a further 292 receiving total remuneration packages above £300,000.
For fucking managers.
Unbefuckingleavable 🤬

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

You literally voted against an inquiry into Grooming Gangs.

You’re releasing rapists, sex offenders and domestic abusers from jail before they’ve served their time.

Your party can’t agree on what a woman is.

You’re rolling out a puberty blockers trial which will cause untold harm to young girls.

The biggest threat to women? This Labour Government!

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Should Andy really be handing these over