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Ian James

@grobelaar

👨🏻‍🍳| Sous Chef @pophamsbakery 🎲| Former games designer 📍| East London 📸| Cycling, food, photography, vinyl.

 London & Portsmouth
Joined March 2009
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13% increase in my energy bills. Tell me @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer how you have a grip on this? 35% increase in water. Pretty much guarantee I won’t be getting any increase in my wages. It’s a massive fail. Red Tories still in thrall to privatisation.
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I love how Bake off have job ploughed in the Hobnob challenge like it's some old long lost Victorian recipe dug up in a lost family recipe book, you'd never think it was something that rolled off the conveyor belts of a giant global biscuit company.
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Hey @TfL. If you’re gonna do DLR test runs on a strike day you need to not have them appear on the station boards as functioning trains. Just waited 10 minutes for a Beckton DLR only for it to turn out to be a test train. Useless!
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Housing destroyed, NHS brought to its knees, water polluted, large-scale civil unrest. I thought I was watching Threads, but it turned out it was just the latest news.
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Make water metres compulsory…. Lols, just after we’ve had surge charging introduced. It’s not just the water companies that aren’t fit for purpose. British govt of all flavours is utterly moribund, sold out and destitute.
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Nice to watch the TdF on my day off, but it disappearing entirely behind a paywall, I can’t see how this can be anything other than bad for the sport. £31 a month to watch a niche sport it’s for the birds.
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Water company surge prices for smart meters. Just another part of @Keir_Starmer’s New Dystopian Britain. Good luck fitting those smart meters to the rest of us, or you gonna pass a law letting your boot boys forcibly fit them. Worst Labour Party ever. Even worse than Teflon Tony.
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Maybe the Labour Party could spend the day reflecting on the fact that today’s Labour Party would never invent the NHS, not in a million years.
The Labour Party (@UKLabour) profile pictureThe Labour Party
@UKLabour5 Jul 2025
On this day 77 years ago, Labour created the NHS.  For the first time in UK history, healthcare was free of charge to all who needed it. We will always protect it, so that it can protect you.
Image of x-ray, stethoscope, Aneurin Bevan, ambulance, doctors and nurses and other medical equipment. Blue background, white text: 77 years of our NHS

ALT Image of x-ray, stethoscope, Aneurin Bevan, ambulance, doctors and nurses and other medical equipment. Blue background, white text: 77 years of our NHS

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Hey shall we riff off the Trainspotting movie poster for our utterly shameless boast post? Yeah let’s do that, great idea Tarquin. Hey @UKLabour you do know the film (and book) Trainspotting is about a group of heroin addicts surviving in the ruins of Thatcher’s Britain?
The Labour Party (@UKLabour) profile pictureThe Labour Party
@UKLabour4 Jul 2025
And we're only just getting started...
Text: So what has Labour done in the last year? A lot can happen in a year with a Labour government. Four million extra NHS appointments delivered. A Border Security Command launched. GB Energy set up. Breakfast clubs rolling out. Wages for millions of workers boosted. Undeserved bonuses for water bosses banned. Ninja swords outlawed. More potholes filled. Trade deals with the EU, US and India secured. A sustained increase in defence spending confirmed. A National Wealth Fund set up. Our planning system reformed. The Rwanda scheme scrapped. The pensions Triple Lock guaranteed. The biggest uplift to workers' rights in a generation. School-based nurseries rolling out. Record returns of people with no right to be here. Bus services improving. Rail back under public control. A 10-year plan for the NHS published. British steel protected. Together, we've done a lot, but there's much more to do.

ALT Text: So what has Labour done in the last year? A lot can happen in a year with a Labour government. Four million extra NHS appointments delivered. A Border Security Command launched. GB Energy set up. Breakfast clubs rolling out. Wages for millions of workers boosted. Undeserved bonuses for water bosses banned. Ninja swords outlawed. More potholes filled. Trade deals with the EU, US and India secured. A sustained increase in defence spending confirmed. A National Wealth Fund set up. Our planning system reformed. The Rwanda scheme scrapped. The pensions Triple Lock guaranteed. The biggest uplift to workers' rights in a generation. School-based nurseries rolling out. Record returns of people with no right to be here. Bus services improving. Rail back under public control. A 10-year plan for the NHS published. British steel protected. Together, we've done a lot, but there's much more to do.

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ITV News has only just discovered climate change.
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David Tennant literally dialling it in!!
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We’re still crowing about a fucking theme park. Talk about Mickey Mouse government. 🤡
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Thames Water is an utter scam. Renationalise now. Seriously, if @UKLabour don’t do something about this what are you even here for? 37% rise in my bill? You promised no rises in bills. Everything has gone up, people are hurting here. You’ve failed before you even started.
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Tell me how my monthly water bill has gone by 37% raw sewage in my rivers, execs getting big pay cheques. @thameswater £200 is fixed charges. This is a fucking scam, you bunch of criminals. Nothing to say @Keir_Starmer you promised no rises in bills. You’re useless. 🤡
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£2.2B for a runway that's already built. You couldn't make it up.
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Labour are bungling it aren’t they? Their policies are changing nothing, nothing promised, nothing being achieved. Hated by the Faragists for not being Reform, distrusted by the left for being too Tory. It’s like Cameron never resigned after Brexit and we retconned Boris et al.
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Does anyone know of any other sport where the biggest trophy in the game is presented to the owners, rather than the players? #superbowl
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Sales at the wreckastow - that time when some labels can quietly come to the realisation that charging the best part of £50 for a single LP, with about 30-40 mins of music on it is fucking insane.
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How much taxpayers money will be given to private companies for this big AI push? Because all we do is give away public stuff to private hands. How will the public benefit from this, we don’t even own or build our energy sector? Who is calling EDF (French) for the power upgrade?
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It’s becoming painfully obvious that Only Connect quizzers don’t watch the television, not even BBC2.
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