"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius

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Joined April 2009
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Baroness Benefits, Kemi Badenoch has got some front banging on about the benefits bill. ยฃ2,700 a month to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with 6 BEDROOMS ยฃ3000 in ELECTRICITY EXPENSES. ยฃ4000 for COUNCIL TAX ยฃ39,400 per year all courtesy of taxpayers. #Budget2026 #PoliticsLive
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An endless succession of MPs on the news, from all the main parties and Reform, saying the welfare bill must be brought down and "people on sick benefits must be got into work." They are NEVER challenged on the fact there are already 1.7m people chasing under 700k vacancies.
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
My paperwork props are more decorative than yours
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
โ€œWhat was it all for, the regicide of Starmer, for very little, what is the motivation of this new governmentโ€ @SophyRidgeSky @SkyNews for once asking what we all would like to know. @LBC @BBCNews
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Trump is planning to roll back methane emissions regulations for the oil and gas industry, particularly for low-producing wells that emit high levels of the powerful greenhouse gas. More pollution, fewer safeguards, all to benefit the fossil fuel industry. thehill.com/policy/energy-enโ€ฆ
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Rising sea level due to fossil fuels made these worse.
Record-breaking high tides are causing coastal flooding on both sides of the country. ๐ŸŒŠ On Tuesday, several Southern California cities, along with Lake Worth Pier, Florida, recorded record-high tides, with some records dating back more than a century.
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#Farage getting roasted by @bbcnickrobinson #Today Itโ€™s taken far too long but finally Farage is being held to account
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
This geezer is a parasite who feeds off ignorant poor people, he wants them to believe their lives are a crock of shit because of immigrants, when in truth they are a crock of shit because of corrupt politicians just like him and the rest,classic tactics, of divide and rule..
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
โ€ผ๏ธ This FT chart tells the energy story. Britain has transformed its electricity mix. Coal has virtually disappeared. Wind and solar have surged. Yet gas still plays an outsized role and because gas often sets the marginal electricity price, a geopolitical shock in the gas market can still push up bills across the whole system. ๐Ÿ”ฅ This is the trap. We have partly decarbonised generation without fully decarbonising price formation. @JohnHealey_MP now appears to understand that. Removing standing charges may help at the margin, but the bigger prize is breaking Britainโ€™s exposure to volatile global gas prices, investing in grids, storage, renewables and secure domestic generation, and ending the absurd situation where cheap renewable power can still be priced off expensive gas ๐Ÿ‘‰ and reconnecting to the EUโ€™s Internal Energy Market. Energy reform is cost-of-living policy, industrial policy and national security policy - and climate policy.
๐Ÿšจ Scrapping green levies may shave bills now. But the real problem is still Britainโ€™s exposure to volatile gas prices. The fix is cheaper renewables, storage, grid reform and reconnecting to the EUโ€™s Internal Energy Market. Energy security is the route to permanently lower bills.
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Calling the woman who gave Harry Kane three kids โ€œmidโ€ from that profile picture is pure comedy. Youโ€™ve got the hairline of a man whoโ€™s never scored and the confidence of someone who peaked in a Wetherspoons. Delete the account.
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Remember that โ€œLady Cโ€ is not a lady or a peer in her own right. Lady Colin Campbell is a courtesy title bestowed following a brief marriage to a Scottish aristocrat in 1974. And as a courtesy title, we are under no obligation to use it. Plain old Mrs Campbell will do nicely.
Meghan Markle certainly has singular accomplishments. Aside from the determination she is presently displaying, and has displayed in the past, to twist, turn and exploit everything that happens to her advantage (something she is presently doing as she exploits her father's disgrace to her advantage), she has graduated from being a member of the Royal Family with a platform for doing good for humanity through public service under the umbrella of a respected thousand-year-old institution, to a guest star on an Australian cooking show. This has been by way of several (by her own account) multi-million dollar deals, all of which exploited the status she acquired upon marriage to the detriment of her husband's family, the British people's welcome to her, and race relations within Britain and the Commonwealth, as several diplomats of colour from the Caribbean and Africa had cause to complain to me, a Jamaican born and bred who is, like all Jamaicans irrespective of colour or class, regarded as a fully paid-up member of the Black community. She has also achieved the distinction of working her way downwards from being one half of one of the most popular and desirable couples on earth to one half of the most unpopular couples in the world. Along the way, she has been justly accused of being a bully, a ruthless and Macchiavellian conniver with scant regard for the facts, the rights of others or the injury she causes to those she targets, irrespective of their age, rank, relationship to her, or the justice of the victimisation. Although she and her husband have commended the SS, as their Sussex Squad is popularly known, for their support, neither of them has once called out this latter-day version of its earlier namesake as it seeks, on behalf of the couple, to bully, abuse, intimidate others who are going about their lawful business, as this gaggle of bullies misuse the law with chilling alacrity reminiscent of the earlier (albeit more deadly) squad which also shares the same abbreviated initials. Indeed, there is the suspicion, born of the Sussexes' support of the SS, that they approve of its activities, even when those activities are gross violations of the rights of others. In the latest example of the gross misuse of the power ithe SS seeks to acquire for itself, one of them has had the temerity to send me via my agent, with copies sent to ITV (the latter day version of the Ministry of Propaganda headed up by Dame Carolyn McCall, whose irresponsibility to the shareholders was so great that she shoved out her leading star, Piers Morgan, for daring to say that he did not believe a word out of Meghan Markle's mouth during the Oprah Winfrey interview [quite right too: It emerged Meghan's account of the facts contained no fewer than 17 distortions] and Chris Ship, propagandist in chief on the ground - or maybe it would be more accurate to say over the air?) a letter demanding that I cease and desist from saying anything critical of Meghan Markle. The irony is outstanding that followers of a woman, who complained about being silenced by the family which welcomed her as it had never welcomed anyone before - and who has taken loquacity to such lengths, along with her husband, that we now know what the tip of his and his brother's penis looks like, and what activities they were engaged in when he proposed - remains silent while her enforcers try to silence others who are merely going about their lawful business. She and they can lie as much as they want. They can violate anyone's privacy. But, as far as they're concerned, no one should dare to speak the truth about her or them without them attempting to shut their said victim down. What Meghan Markle's SS doesn't seem to realise is that this country is not yet Nazi Germany. If Meghan has been wronged by any author, journalist, commentator or broadcaster, she has recourse to the law, a right she and Harry have not hesitated to use on many an occasion as they have sought to silence criticism of their conduct. She does not have the right to unleash her legion of SS bullies onto people who are exercising their civil liberties in accordance with the rights of all citizens within a democracy, nor do those followers have the right to seek to pervert the purposes of the law for their cult leader's benefit. If Meghan wants criticism of her to end, she can end it quickly and easily. She can start to behave with the decency and decorum which she should have been employing from the very outset of her advent into a civilised world. She could also try dispensing with her cabal of public relations operatives and stop trying to hog the limelight on what is virtually a daily basis. A ladylike withdrawal from public view for an extended time would be welcomed by all with the possible exception of her, her husband, and their SS followers. She doesn't frigthen me, nor does her SS band of bullies, though this latest foray, following as it does an earlier one to fraudulently fabricate a GodFundMe account with the objective of accusing me of impropriety, suggests to me that I seem to frighten her and her followers. Would it be disingenuous of me to ask why, when I have always scrupulously adhered to the facts and her conduct, she or they would fear anything I could say or do, especially as how there are the laws of libel in place (something she and Harry are all too familiar with), yet never once have they had cause to deploy them against me or indeed to complain to me about anything I have ever said or written. Ah, but I'm forgetting the lessons of history. People who have or support the SS use force to club the innocent into submission when they can't deploy the law against them. And what better time to do so than when she and her equally money-grubbing brother are exploiting the truly ghastly accusations against their father for their own financial and reputational benefit.
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
The fish rots from the head. When Farage goes on TV to excuse racist attacks on Kemi Badenoch, no wonder his councillors think they can get away with what we've seen on ITV. This is Trump's America, we can't let it become Farage's Britain.
'Do you think it's racist' Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was questioned on #BBCBreakfast after his former senior aide Raheem Kassam called Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch as a 'Nigerian scammer' bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cp07jzโ€ฆ
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Even if Labour apologised for smearing Corbyn and the left. Even if they admitted all their errors. I would never trust that bunch of people again in my life. And I donโ€™t think that I am alone.
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Time for the UK to rejoin the EU and be part of our European family again โ˜บ๏ธ
40 years ago Spain joined the EU. Four decades of freedom and progress that have made us better in so many ways. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Did you know that over the past 40 years, more than one million Spaniards have taken part in the Erasmus programme? ๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Odd that right wing nationalist leaders never concede defeat in an election.
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Cancelled my subscription to X. I dare say Iโ€™ll continue posting on here but thereโ€™s no point paying for it when the account is clearly suppressed.
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Cllr Sam Jourent has resigned of leader at Essex County Council and Cllr Martin Murray has resigned of leader at Staffordshire Two Reform council leaders stepping down within 24 hours. Farage cannot control his own party. It's in a steep free fall with no pilot.
BREAKING Reform UK's Martin Murray has resigned as leader of Staffordshire County Council and leader of its Reform UK group. In a statement, he says he's made the "difficult decision" after careful consideration, insisting it is in the best interests of Staffordshire.
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Whatchya gonna do with your cheaper gherkins?
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Black Dog ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ retweeted
Oh Nigelโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€
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We see @UKLabour ..we see
There really was no reason for Healey to resign. But we all know why he did had nothing to do with what he said it was A traitor beyond all Traitors to assist Burnham and his coup
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