A misty May morn ✨
Long Man Morris dancing in the May

sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS #GeneralElectionNow I had no idea about what SEZs, Freeports, and
charter cities were until around 2018, when I started digging into the real reasons behind Brexit.
I wondered what the Tories meant exactly by Singapore-On-Thames, I found out about Shanker Singham's advising the Tories about

Very thoughtful point on the mess the Home Office made of the Rwanda gimmick, by Sophy Ridge:

'It can't be a good thing seeing so many vulnerable people simply disappearing, making it much more likely that they'll be exploited, sell their bodies, become victims of crime.' ~AA

Tories so desperate to get any flight to Rwanda before elections that they just paid one person to volunteer.

An extortionate pre-election gimmick costing UK taxpayers half a billion pounds. Should be putting that money into boosting our border security

ITV News has learned that imports of food and plants from the EU are being waved through customs even if they have incorrect paperwork

Joel Hills reports on the new Post-Brexit border checks which came into force this morning

We've had 5000 days of Tory Rule today 😳 I've done some maths
🔹Since May 2010, the
NATIONAL DEBT HAS INCREASED,
on average,
by a staggering
£380 MILLION A DAY
- EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR #5000DAYS

Which begs the question....
Where has all our money gone?

I wouldn't trust the

NEW: England's quarterly homelessness stats are out - more bleak reading.

There are 145,800 homeless children living in temporary accommodation - the highest ever recorded and up 15% on last year

There are 112,660 homeless households - up 12% in a year and the highest on record

I spoke to a locum GP this weekend who is likely to give up her licence to practice as she has not had enough patient contact this year to prove competence (which is an annual requirement in England).

This is due to a shortage of work, because no one can afford to employ GPs.

One of those moments where you realise the significance of something as simple as where you decide to sit on a bus. Fortunately, nobody was hit by whatever was fired at us. Wigan Police (GMP) you got my call, I expect you to find whoever did this

Two East Anglians discussing their traditional trade - with some very difficult to comprehend English:

Sick and twisted behaviour. And an unacceptable use of the civil service for political purposes. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Ladies and gentlemen, the United Kingdom.

I've just seen a fb post from a detectorist I've known for a long time.

Someone lost an heirloom ring and he found it for them.

But that's not the story. The real story (as I see it) brought tears to my eyes..1/

Please, I want to descend these steps in a hail of Sobrani smoke, holding something pink & lethal in a martini glass, wearing a hostess dress with sleeves big enough to shelter a Shetland pony & make an acidic toast that turns tearful & ends in screaming at my guests to get out

📞'London has fallen. Sadiq Khan has hidden inside an Islamist Trojan Horse and rolled into the city. Only Susan Hall can roll it back!'

Colin from Portsmouth on the London Mayoral Election.

🚗UPDATE🚗
- Britain is STILL sending millions of pounds of luxury cars into states neighbouring Russia, according to new data.
- There is STILL no especially plausible explanation
- Car lobby group the @smmt STILL insists it's got NOTHING to do with Russian sanctions
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 I’ve just coined an acronym for framing a new law: SEA
Systemmatic Executive Amnesia.

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen!🙏
To make it worth sharing, here's 'The Watcher'... a Barn Owl on the Somerset Levels. 😍🦉
Thank you very much! 😊🐦

This is our bookshop, Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria. It’s a large building, on a main road at the edge of town, that has been a bookshop now for 18 years.

But we need your help. Even though the shop has been here for so long, we still get comments like…

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