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Unusual:
Three of the Royal Navy's Vanguard-class submarines are currently at sea.
One boat is due back from patrol soon (198 days on patrol so far), one boat is the relief and the other is likely conducting trials / work up.
We were aware of this, but now been reported by @thetimes
This contact seems to make sense. They are all Vikings ! (The Rus tribe was Viking too) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6vgโฆ
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๐จ BREAKING NEWS
Thr major UK retailer poundland is close to going into administration.
You know the country's fucked when even the pound shops are shutting down!
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Replying to @RobertJenrick
"Fully re-legalise Imperial units" ๐
The right thing to do.
Imperial units are part of who we are. Our feet and inches, acres, yards and miles, pounds and ounces, pints and gallons are part of our cultural inheritance. They fit into our language, liturgy, song, poetry and so much more.
Metrication broke a link with our history and heritage and ensured that we speak a different language to our ancestors.
We should fix that broken link.
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Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again.
Thatโs why Reformโs Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures Iโd take if I were Chancellor:
๐จ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฎ
1. Approve Rosebank
2. Restart oil and gas licensing
3. Legalise onshore exploration
4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy
5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป
6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full
10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs
๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐
11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites
12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing
13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain
14. Exit the Aarhus Convention
15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality
16. End the boiler ban
17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules
18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements
19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard
20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act
๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ
21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick
22. Auction airport landing slots
23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation
24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications
25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects
26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop
27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions
28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules
29. Scrap the social value test in procurement
30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport
31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail
๐๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption
33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8%
35. Introduce a migrant worker levy
36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act
37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses
38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications
๐จ๐ป๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐
39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending
40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits
41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules
๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด
42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies'
43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates
44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips
45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
46. Back the M4 Relief Road
47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years
48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
๐จ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ๐
49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act
50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units
51. Review all unchanged EU law
52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary
54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors
55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56
56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent
57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays
58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules
59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate
60. Abolish the packaging tax
61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms
62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs
64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations
And there are more to come!
Britainโs full potential is waiting to be unleashed ๐
At least he didnโt call Robert a pleb. theguardian.com/politics/201โฆ
๐จ NEW: Tory MP calls Robert Jenrick a "Neanderthal" for backing cuts to ยฃ6 Billion spent on foreign aid.
โข Tory MP Andrew Mitchell has described Jenrick as a โNeanderthalโ in the House of Commons over his support for reducing the UKโs foreign aid budget.
โข The response came following a question from Jenrick to Labour's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband. "How would he justify to working people and pensioners spending ยฃ6 billion on foreign aid whilst freezing the tax-free person allowance and cutting the state pension?"
โข Miliband backed up the Tory, by replying with "I would say to him, I think the answer came from the person who used to be in his party, the party he used to be in, which is that the money we spend on foreign aid is absolutely about preventing the problems from elsewhere in the world coming here."
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๐จNEW: An inquest has heard Lib Dem-run Cambridgeshire council received 127 complaints about a pothole in a 60mph zone before it killed two teenagers
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Thousands of Non-Europeans Still Settling in Britain Through EU Loophole order-order.com/2026/10/27/tโฆ
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In an interview with Paul Thorpe broadcast on 11 May 2026, I alleged that Mr Harborne had fixed the 2019 General Election result by conspiring with the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the then leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, to ensure a majority for Mr Johnson's party by agreeing to pay each of them ยฃ1 million, which he duly did in November 2022, in return for the Brexit Party standing down all 317 of its candidates for Conservative-held seats. I made that allegation in reliance on information I had been given. I now accept that the information did not provide a sufficient basis for so serious an allegation, and I should not have made it. I withdraw that allegation and apologise to Mr. Harborne for the distress caused.
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"Andy Burnham has 'no mandate' to negotiate with the EU next month to rejoin the EU without an election"
He is right isnt he?
This wasn't in Labours manifesto.
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I know delayed and cancelled travel is frustrating, but rail companies not acting accordingly due to weather like this lead to the deaths of 3 people in 2020
Hello, any reason why trains to Manchester are cancelled? The weather is not a good excuse
@northernassist
The desire for new railway station and railway lines is phenomenal. Every single one reopened has seen numbers using them being far in excess of forecasts. Incidentally passenger railways now carry 1.83 billion journeys a year - thatโs the highest since 1920! Under British Rail it was a 1/3 of that. Was driven by passenger franchising needing to chase growth.
Build it and they will come! More than double the predicted number of passengers used Beaulieu Park station in its first year
modernrailways.com/article/bโฆ .
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This is, I think, the third time that a new railway stationโs patronage has been double the predicted volume. Transport analysts: does this mean the current predictive model is broken? And wouldnโt that shift up the business case for other dismissed reopenings / new stationsโฆ?
Build it and they will come! More than double the predicted number of passengers used Beaulieu Park station in its first year
modernrailways.com/article/bโฆ .
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โฆ๏ธWHITE PRIVILEGEโฆ๏ธ
This is how our cotton mills and wool mills made their profits, which afforded them their fine stone-built mansions on the outskirts of mill towns.
It was dangerous work, fingers were often lost, eye injuries common, no comfort breaks, no health insurance and no factory nurse.
This work was done on empty bellies after a walk to work. Malnutrition was common place and discipline hard. A water barrel with a wooden ladle for dry dusty days as cotton dander filled the choking air.
There were no holidays to look forward to, no sick pay, and kids as young as 7 sent to work in the miserable conditions their parents stomached for a lifetime.
They didn't play much, they were too knackered for that. A cold hard bed was all they could hope for. Arthritis and joint pains kicked in early as crippled fingers in their middle years struggled with looms.
And our MPs talk about reparations for slavery, when every God damned nation was using slaves.
White privilege... you disgust me. There should be a plaque of remembrance dedicated to the entire working class!
#DawnButlerMP
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It was a Westminster press briefing called at 72 hours' notice ahead of the Budget, not an arena rally booked six months in advance.
The room was packed out with political journalists, broadcast cameras, and economic correspondents. Instead of interrogating a detailed 64-point plan to slash ยฃ40bn of Whitehall waste and restore British growth, Skyโs top takeaway is schoolyard seating-plan gossip.
This is why trust in legacy broadcast media is in freefall. Britain is facing ยฃ3 trillion in national debt, public services are buckling, and the lobby pack behaves like a clutch of lifestyle bloggers.
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May this year.
"I am not proposing that the UK considers rejoining the EU.
I respect the decision that was made at the referendum, and it would undermine everything Iโve said about strengthening democracy if we donโt respect that vote."
The German ownership of the @Telegraph is seeking to make it more pro EU and less conservative (small c). Disastrous. Will kill a great paper.
Telegraphโs Cost Cuts Set to Target Brexiteer Columnists order-order.com/2026/10/27/tโฆ
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Tory MP Calls Jenrick 'Neanderthal' for Supporting Foreign Aid Cuts order-order.com/2026/10/27/tโฆ






























