a younger Victor Meldrew but interesting - I hope - nice sometimes !
Somewhere up North
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Do watch:
It proves a point my wife Bunty has always made about big tough Robert Jenrick.
Whenever he gets found out or gets really addled, his voice suddenly goes much higher!
It literally goes up an octave like a schoolboy.
Here is a prime example. 😂
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In case you missed it
The UK used to grow 2% every year
Since Brexit it's been 0.1% every year
Boris Johnson called Brexit 'the sunlit uplands'
Nigel Farage in 2016 said, 'economicaly, we'd be better off than where we are today'
Time to rejoin the EU
Victoria Derbyshire, "What did we learn about our living standards?"
Ben Chu, "1% growth over 10 years"
"We used to grow 2% every year"
That's one way of illustrating the enormous economic price Britain has paid for Brexit #RejoinEU
The OBR estimates that Brexit will leave the UK economy around 4% smaller in the long run than it would otherwise have been, with both imports and exports taking a substantial hit.
We were promised greater prosperity, more opportunities and a stronger economy outside the EU. Instead, we've added significant trade barriers with our largest trading partner during a period of extraordinary economic stagnation.
Brexit isn't responsible for every economic problem Britain faces, but it has made the challenge of improving living standards considerably harder.
And ordinary households are living with the consequences of that decision.
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Remember when Rishi Sunak generously gave everyone £400 towards their heating bills?
All the millionaires & people with multiple properties were very grateful.
He paid himself 5 times.
We need to cut the welfare bill for the rich.
Dave Brown Toons
How did the @Conservatives keep us safe?
Salisbury was poisoned with nerve gas.
Johnson absconded from his FS duties to party with the son of a KGB officer.
Johnson had his "Boris wave".
He, Hancock & Whately are responsible for the deaths of 1000s.
@GarethDavies_MP
#politicslive
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Exclusive interview with @Nigel_Farage!
The Parliamentary Standards Commission is likely to suspend him.
That will trigger a recall petition.
Will he stand in a second by-election?
I don’t think so.
I’m talking about this tonight at the @stratfest lit festival.
stratfordliteraryfestival.co…
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29 October 2011. Disgraced DJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile died (aged 84). He had hosted Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. After his death, over 500 allegations of sexual abuse were made against him. Police concluded that he was one of Britain's worst serial sex offenders.
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Good to see that Nadhim Zahawi is on Question Time. Who better to answer questions on probity in public office than someone who claimed £6,000 to heat his stables, hid £27m offshore to avoid tax and threatened to sue anyone who asked questions.
#BBCQT
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Happy Birthday to one of the greatest TV shows ever produced. "Minder" is 47 today. The ultimate in British culture and banter. Back when we used to be a proper country. Up there with the very best 🎉🎂♥️
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Classic Rock Band History Trivia🎸
Three musicians had already made their mark in three different bands: the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and the Hollies.
In 1968, two began singing a new song at a Laurel Canyon gathering. A third joined in, and their harmonies clicked.
By the following year, their debut album was out.
Fun detail, the photo here was used for the album cover and was taken before they settled on the group’s name, so they appear seated in reverse order.
They kept it anyway.
Can you name the trio?
A) Emerson, Lake & Palmer
B) Beck, Bogert & Appice
C) Crosby, Stills & Nash
D) Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
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Here is Tommy “appealing for calm”
Oh wait….. no it’s him appealing for riots on after first night of disorder! How can you Tommy lickers defend this shit?
He only appealed for calm when he realised he could be in the shit for inciting the riots.
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This extraordinary photograph shows HMS Foudroyant, launched in 1798 and once Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship in the Mediterranean.
Nearly a century later, the veteran warship was being exhibited around Britain when, on 16 June 1897, a violent storm tore her from her moorings off Blackpool and drove her onto the sands near North Pier.
Her crew were rescued, but Foudroyant could not be saved. The great wooden warship gradually broke apart, becoming an astonishing attraction for Victorian visitors who could walk right up to the wreck at low tide.
A remarkable end for a ship that had served in Nelson’s navy.
#VictorianBritain #Blackpool #RoyalNavy #Nelson
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Happy Birthday #Minder!
Minder first appeared on our screens #OnThisDay 1979.
And the rest as they say is history..
Initially he went for the space to the right of the Tory Party .......but now .
Farage failing to call out blatant racism
Thing is he can't because if he does people run off to Restore and he is desperate for every vote now like never before.
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Classic Rock Trivia 🎸
The Eagles released "Life in the Fast Lane" on their 1976 album Hotel California.
Joe Walsh came up with that unforgettable guitar riff while warming up, but Glenn Frey already had the perfect title in mind.
And the story behind it is something else!
How did Glenn Frey come up with the title "Life in the Fast Lane"?
A) Don Henley got stuck behind a Buick going 12 mph in the passing lane and wrote a three-page complaint.
B) Joe Walsh bought a sports car, discovered it had six gears, and decided he was only paying for the last one.
C) A drug dealer nicknamed "The Count" said it while speeding down the highway with Frey in the passenger seat.
D) Glenn Frey lost a drag race to a grandmother in a station wagon and demanded the incident be turned into a song.
Not a good look - the ageing 70s porn star ? .
Curiosities captured by a good court room artist in Russell Brand
Daily the defendant in a trial for rape sits or stands in a state of
semi-undress
listening to complainants
even when giving evidence
shirt unbuttoned
facing the jury in cross examination.
Via @courtroomartist
Maybe she could be launched ? .
Dave Brown Toons
Liz Truss claims the UK would have had successful missions to Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been scuppered by woke lefties at the Bank of England – 17 generous servings of chinny reckon thepoke.com/2026/10/28/liz-t…
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NEW🚨: Manchester City have announced a record Carabao Cup crowd of over 220,000 and they needed a makeshift temporary stand bolted on just to squeeze everyone in...
The club also say tonight brought in over 300 million pounds in extra revenue, plus more than two million burgers and four million pints of beer sold. 👏
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Fixed it for you! 😂🤣
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This is total madness. Shame on the Daily Mail and the evil prosecutor. Frank Ferguson, head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter-Terrorism Division, claims Tommy Robinson “weaponised social media” against journalists—the same ones who built their careers targeting him.
@TRobinsonNewEra is literally on an ISIS target list, while immoral British media paints a target on his back and the deep state hopes he becomes a political prisoner.
Shame on the UK government, the Daily Mail, and the entire political establishment and deep state destroying Britain from within for diversity’s sake.
