Bill Nighy standing outside my flat being still to listen to the spring birds on May Day morning is exactly what you’d want Bill Nighy to be doing right?

At #PMQs today, Rishi Sunak said “this week we’re cutting taxes by £900 for everyone in work”.

This isn’t correct, for at least two reasons. (1/5)

I'm living in a country where on eve of election Home Office/Interior Ministry is using public £ to post film of asylum seekers being rounded up for deportation to a country only deemed 'safe' by our govt, not our Supreme Court. Have to remind myself it's UK 2024 not Germany 1934

After 2 years & countless recommendations I finally got around to SLOW HORSES & devoured all 3 seasons. A gripping spy thriller with sharply drawn characters & a heap of dry humor. Gary Oldman priceless. Great work also from Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas & Sophie Okonedo

An excellent visit to 423417_GordonPettitt today. Highlight for me was to see Chief Engineer chris buckland still wearing his SWT smock. Oh, that and the delicious bacon sandwich! I can report back to the man himself that all is well.

PIP currently requires a 24 page form to be filled out, supported by additional pages of medical evidence.

The Tories need to come clean - they are kicking people who need our care to generate tabloid headlines in a bid to keep Sunak in number 10.

The nasty party.

In other news, a study found that BCC News is overwhelmingly run by staff from the BBC. In response, the Department of Badly Written Headlines said “we could have reported that the UK Railway is seeking to broaden the spread of its workforce, but that’s not clickbaity enough.”

Ben Houchen does not like people posting this.

So whatever you do don't repost it in the week Ben Houchen is trying to be elected as Tees Valley Mayor

Some facts about #PIP

1. It is NOT an out-of-work benefit
2. The assessment & application process is hard. It is not 'easy to claim'
3. Only 40-45% of claims are successful
4. Getting the correct reward is difficult. Challenging it can take months.

Coronation Street is back tonight - so catch up on Friday's events in my review:
coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2024/04/corona…

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get about £250.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a WEEK in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

Ben Houchen blocks anyone who RT's this.

Did you miss Friday night's episode of Coronation Street? Catch up with all the fun and laughs, the drama and some other content which now gets aired in this slot:
coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2024/04/corona…

The government’s latest wheeze to fix the teacher recruitment crisis: axe funding to NowTeach which had been beating its targets in finding older people to be teachers. Bone-headed.

It is an ideology - gender ideology.

It has its grounding in the critical social justice movement and queer theory specifically.

It is a pretend post-modernist movement that pioritises the ‘lived-experience’ of tiny populations over empirical evidence, reality and the common

Dear @PremierLeague,

This is not what we fell in love with football for. Please stop this madness. You're turning off fans at the top level.

Yours sincerely,

Everyone.

£500m of taxpayers money has been spent on a Freeport which has received £0 of private funding, but they have taken £120m of profit.

Oh and they own 90% of it, because they bought it from Government for £100.

Parliament ordered an Audit, but we need a criminal investigation.

Last night on t'Street, Roy remanded, Leanne uploaded, Toyah downloaded, Demi delisted, and much more all in my update:
coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2024/04/corona…

What happens if we win the last two games 9-0 in both cases? #SaintsFC

Good morning everyone! We're at Victoria and all ready to go for todays 50th Anniversary tour. Not even the weather can dampen our day!