#efcfamily for 51yrs @Everton #COYB💙 Husband, Father & now Grandfather to the little one in my profile pic #UTT Labour Party🌹 Member. RTs are not endorsement!
I will have a bet with anybody that immigration rates into the UK will not meet any targets set at any point in the future. Not only does the workforce require immigration but it isnt the reason for the issues we face in the NHS, Education, Social Care and Crime. #ToryAusterity
Minimum wage in the UK should be £19.65 an hour and here's the proof.
In 2005 minimum wage was £5.05 and a Freddo cost 10p. That meant one hour of work got you 50 Freddos.
Fast forward to 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 39p. Now one hour of work gets you about 32 of them.
That's roughly a 152% rise in pay... but a 290% rise in frog-shaped chocolate bars.
If wages had actually kept up with the price of Freddos, minimum wage would be closer to £19.65 an hour.
The economy's in bits and yes, I'm measuring it in chocolate frogs. But it says something. Because this isn't really about Freddo's, it's about the fact that you can work full time and still feel like you're going backwards, because everything around you is rising faster than your pay.
We're honestly done at this point and something needs to change.
Quick note for people who avoid British supermarket beef because it's "not grass-fed."
Britain is an island in the North Atlantic with approximately 65% of its agricultural land classified as permanent pasture or rough grazing.
The cattle are outside. On grass. Because where else would they be.
The "grass-fed" label you're paying a premium for in the boutique online butcher is describing the default condition of all British beef cattle.
You are already buying grass-fed beef.
You've been buying it for years.
From Tesco.
We are gathered here today to remember all the joysticks that left this mortal world in service of Decathlon, the one true Joystick Reaper.
They came into our lives shiny and new, full of promise.
They never asked for this. They didn't sign up to be jackhammered left-right-left-right at inhuman speeds for the 100m dash.
And oh, the 1500m... that final brutal endurance test often ending in plastic fatigue, spring failure, and the sickening sound of internal breaking.
You weren't just broken. You were legendarily broken.
Rest in pieces, dear fallen friends...
@SuellaBraverman Councils have 0 input re banking hubs. Cash Access UK a private venture set up UK banking hubs, consulting with High Street Banks where to locate before securing suitable premises. Banking Hubs are positive for communities .However, dont be taking credit where not due though!
@ScouserWthDrone I believe it was earmarked as a local nature/park area early noughties but contractor poss. bust. Later news suggests one of the local non-league Liverpool sides were looking as a potential stadium. Probably right it's been overgrown about double the time since Aldi arrived.
🗣️Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall on his goal being the catalyst to Everton getting 3 points against Fulham: “It was a great little cutback from Myko. It's funny because I literally had that exact same chance last week against Brighton and the keeper saved it. And I said to the lads, ‘If I get another one, it's going in.’
“Thankfully, Myko put it on a plate for me, and I've managed to put it in. It gave us a good platform to go on and get the winner.”
On this day in 1973: The Wombles made their television debut on BBC1 narrated by the wonderful Bernard Cribbins. If you only remember one thing today, Remember you're a Womble.
There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.
This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.