Need to take the grandkids to an event in Bournemouth in June from the North West . Bit of a schlepp in the car so decided to give the train a whirl.
A weekend return for two adults and two kids - £928.
Nine hundred and twenty eight of your English pounds..
A breathtaking "Boris" today from Truss. She tweets "For the first time in over 20 years, millions of people in the USA will be able to enjoy high quality British lamb." Lamb has ALWAYS been available to the US market as long as current import regulations are followed. She lies.
@TallyCat8
As a comparison, got a quote for a chauffeur driven limo for two round trips - £325 per trip. Along with water and electricty/gas, the railways need to be back in public ownership.
Had the grandkids, 7 and 10, for a few days. They've now gone. I am massively fearful for their futures. It shouldn't be that way. I have anger verging on fury. Nowhere and no way to vent it. Tory Britain.
Zadawi, under the cosh over his personal finances, has declared he will reveal his tax affairs AFTER he is elected. Surely they need revealing BEFORE ?
"Lord" Tory Moylan on LBC just now " These Albanian criminals..." Matt Frei " What evidence do you have for that" Moylan " Well.. none. " They have given up trying to hide their gaslighting. The Tory racist base lap up every lie.
I've got underpants older than the new Labour MP for Selby but I'm sure the lad has more morality and passion for public service in his little finger than that odious Tory R.Sole, Johnny Mercer MP, has in his entitled body.
There are 16,000 people in Tiverton and 8,000 people in Wakefield who think that being a Tory sexual deviant is OK and that Johnson is a great prime minister. Amidst all the joy, that is a worry?
Diane Abbott tweeting a furious attack on Starmer for writing an article in The Sun. Would that be the same Sun in which she wrote an article in 2010 ? Bugger me but... it is !
Our local supermarket has a " special" on all cuts of pork.
U.S. produced pork
Most US produced pork fails to meet EU welfare and additive standards
A Brexit benefit.
Let's have this right. They are not " poor families" stuck in the Dover queue, trying to reach their destinations in St Tropez, Biarritz and Lloret. Poor families are at home, wondering where the money for their next gas bill is coming from.
Those of us looking forward to a general election in 2024 please note. In March this year, Royal Assent was given to the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011. It is now ENTIRELY up to Johnson as to when and IF he goes to the country. Worries me.....you ?
New Public Order Bill: Am I naive in believeing that our police or army would refuse to move against a mass public demonstration if ordered to do so by this Tory government ?
@jv_uk2011
@Andrew_Adonis
Most voters don't have the level of understanding to have this responsibility. How else to do you explain Brexit and then a Tory government, headed by Johnson, with an 80 seat majority ?
Starmer fails to fire Labour Rochdale candidate - Tory client meejah outraged
Starmer fires Labour Rochdale candidate - Tory client meejah outraged.
This Tory Britain.
Just had a Corbynista lecturing me that Labour has only ever been a socialist party whilst Saint Jeremy was in power.
4 years out of 123 ? All those past Labour greats must be spinning in their graves over such crass ignorance.
To any Corbyn lover: What did he ever change for the better? Actual change, not protest about, highlight, bring into public debate or demonstrate over. Anything in any way tangible ?
@CharlieDBown
My 4 year old daughter came home and announced she was in the school nativity play as Mary, playing opposite a character called " Joe Fish"
@cindyannieis
Wrong - you paid the pensions of your parents during your working life. Your kids will have to pay your pension. That is how the model works. Don't rant at me for giving you the facts- not my system.
@RichardJMurphy
Sunak's wife CHOOSES to pay her tax in India. Sunak's wife CHOOSES to live in the UK. Sunak's wife CHOOSES to remain an Indian citizen. How convenient for the Sunak family.
Home Office figures for new asylum claims 2023 - 40,000 people
Current backlog of claims 166,000 people
Projected capacity of the Rwanda detention facility 2,000
Capacity of the Bibby Stockholm barge - 500
Who the fuck does Sunak, the numbers man, think he's fooling ?
@mrjamesob
Liz Truss will soon have over 100 lucrative ministerial posts within her gift. A two year tenure with all the perks, then a jolly pension. No wonder they are forming a not-so orderly queue for the prime jobs. " I support Liz because....." add your own sycophancy.
This week's MOTD is to be hosted by Penny Mordant, supported by Fiona Bruce and Laura Keunssberg. None of the matches will include teams who have named a left winger in their squad.
Last year, the rail operating companies "made" £47m profit. They dished out £38m to shareholders in dividends The workers have not had a pay rise for 3 years. A strike ? Go figure.
10th anniversary of the death of Thatcher. The South Yorks Retired Miners Assoc. raised over £800 for a commemorative monument. However, the cemetary have refused permission for the erection of a dance floor over her grave.
@TomLondon6
@ScouseSocialis2
£37 billion pays for 173,000 people on £4,000 a week for one whole year. Yes - it does ! It is not corruption, it is theft on a breathtaking scale.
@deelomas
My grandkids went into raptures over seeing me sharpen a pencil......with a knife ! " Do it again, Grandad " Videoed for their friends to marvel at in school.
Priti Patel vigorously defends the actions of the police as "entirely justified" in tear-gassing and baton-charging innocent Liverpool supporters until an aide points out to her that the events took place in Paris.
@HaseltonMarlies
The Tory message to the poor has always been " The reason you are poor is because of poorer people than you taking what should be yours." Simple and effective.
@TheEnglishRebel
Oh, I do hope so. Makes a nice change from lying to the Queen, illegally funding a referendum campaign and stealing millions of pounds from the tax payers in Test and Trace and PPE supplies.
@JeremyPaine2020
@grantshapps
I'm a 40 year travel man and I totally concur. Tories just cannot go public on any adverse consequence of Brexit, of which there are so many.
Thick Lizzie banging on about " cutting EU red tape" Can someone tell her that we have left the EU? Can the same person tell her that the UK has absolutely no authority on regulatons WITHIN the EU any more. More meaningless "red meat" for the silly old buffers who will vote.
What sort of country gives over £40 million a year to one of the world's richest women so she can sit on a golden throne and look down on over one million children living below the poverty line ? Happy St. George's Day.
@fromclifftop
Really ? I've never seen the Tory base so animated and excited. A vote winner. Even UKIPpers are coming back home now racism is overt and championed in this government.
On currently available Home Office figures, a fully functioning Rwanda facility will handle max 5% of annual beach arrivals
A 1:20 chance of deportation
I'd roll that dice
Why the feck are they doing this ?
Schnapps to build 28 new capital ships
Hurrah!
There are only 4 UK yards that can build big ships
Each ship will take 4 years to complete
Do the maths.....
More Tory lies.
The story is NOT Johnson gets a B/J in the HOP. It is that the story was pulled from the " free press" as a result of one phone call. THAT is what should be worrying us.
@Wilma98864083
Did anyone ever envisage that a very few British people being so racist that they are more concerned about 23,000 asylum seekers than 4.5 million children living below the poverty line. No-one is born a racist - they are taught it.
@TFpgbp
Because they adore the Tory mantra " You are poor because people poorer than you are stealing your money. We will stop them" Immigrants, single mothers, students, benefit scroungers, trades unionists etc etc.
@ExToryUK
Would that be the same Reform Party led by ex Tory Tice who hides his money in offshore family trusts to avoid paying his fair share of UK tax ? A great man for a "patriot" to support.
The Tory government pushed for a 90 day annual stay rule for the Brits after Brexit. The EU agreed but the ONLY way this can be monitored is if passports are date stamped in/out. The Tories eagerly agreed. A Brexit bonus. Tory Brexiter twats now blaming the EU
@RedJohnBounds
It is and always has been an overgrown "gentlemens club" paid for by the people who vote them membership. Our entire " democracy" is an illusion and not fit for a modern society. A Victorian theme park.
@ClaraWardd
The Tory message to the workers " You are poor because people poorer than you are stealing your money. We will stop them" Very seductive to some who can't take personal responsibility.
Should I retrain as.. a politician ? Now there's an idea. However, I'm too old for a sex scandal, too honest to fiddle my expenses, too committed to follow a three line whip and too respectful to indulge in bullying, misogyny, homophobia and racism. Not suitable.
Make no mistake - a ticket from UK to Rwanda is a one-way ride. Processed and refused - off you go into the jungle. Processed and accepted - just follow those refused guys over there. There is NO asylum in the UK now.
@Eyeswideopen69
@JulieCuninghame
Lived and worked in France for over 20 years. Returned last year to a shitshow, the proportions of which I could not begin to imagine. The French would have burned down The National Assembly. The English(yes) grumble a little and tut a lot. Bovine apathy.
Who is running the fekkin country whilst Sunak and his band of intellectual pigmies are obsessing over sending a few refugees to an African dictatorship ?
@DavidPa80122564
The Speaker has no authority over attendance. None. Try blaming the person who fekked off, showing total contempt for Parliament. That would be ....Braverman
@danielgoyal
Note to tweeter: You conveniently overlook that BOTH countries have small populations and are bursting with natural energy resources which gives a massive soveign fund surplus annually. So.. NOT as offered.
The people of France take personal responsibilty for their country and how it is run. If they strongly disapprove of ANY government policy, they don't sheepishly await the next election. They burn the place down.
Existing Law. You can ONLY claim asylum once you are on British soil. You cannot arrive by any conventional means - you are denied boarding. SOLUTION: Allow claims to be made and processed at ANY UK embassy worldwide. The boats will stop overnight. Too simple?
Why does Johnson have any "supporters" at all ?
What is it about a proven lying, philandering, racist, homophobic, adulterous narcissist that attracts them ?
The choice is now between a billionaire with politics as his hobby and the changeling. To think I have criticised the quality of US leadership options in the past.......
@IslayEmma
A couple stayed in our adjacent gite in central France whilst househunting. "Are you having any success ?" "Not really. We were hoping for a cottage in a Spanish fishing village" Collapse of bemused party.....
Jeremy "Whattock" Hunt has given every top earner in the UK a massive tax break and tried to hide it as a way of retaining senior doctors in the NHS. We see what you did, you devious Tory R.Sole.
@13sarahmurphy
They are never "interviews". They are clumsily prepared and ill judged soundbites with no interrogation by the interviewer. The few incisive and intelligent interviewers will never get a cabinet minister in front of them.
Burns is serial offender. He had to resign from Johnson's government in 2020 for making veiled threats to use his Parliamentary position to influence a legal matter involving his father. Here he goes again. That's a Tory for you.
@Stuzipants
Where is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson) and his rent-a-mob when we need him ? Hang on.... wrong coloured faces. That's OK. Keep paedophilia British, eh ?
@BladeoftheS
The staff who will lose their jobs will. The suppliers he takes down with him will. He won't . His money is already safely deposited in an offshore bank, well away from HMRC and creditors.
@LBC
@TomSwarbrick1
Tom Swarbrick on LBC this morning is an outrageous Tory enabler. He let some Tory mouthpiece tell bare faced Borises about " 74 trade deals including with the USA". A new low for LBC.
@JuliaMo04592616
@Kevin_Maguire
The "right thing" is to do what everyone else has to do in a criminal investigation. Co-operate with the investigation and give a truthful account of any action involved. He has done neither. You find that acceptable ? I don't.
@Taishin02821948
@PeterGrayArts
@trussliz
@RishiSunak
The "French" don't " overcharge us" - bollux. A British company owned in part by the French government charges us the market rate. The same government chooses to cap charges to its own citizens. Look to the Tories to do the same - but they won't and blame... the French.
@Nigel_Farage
It will be the biggest story in British racist politics this year. It always is. 30,000 refugees is MUCH more important than 180,000 covid deaths or a 1% pay rise the NHS.
Reskilling the over 50s, eh ? I already have skills in catering, joinery, property management and logistics. I am already over 50 and can't be arsed. What's next...
@A12TCT
Nothing, absolutely nothing that is broadcast in that programme is factually incorrect. The BBC lawyers are all over it like a cheap suit. Why should a proven, admitted liar, cheat, criminal, philanderer and misleader of the monarch be " repected" by anyone but a Tory tw*t ?
@bolddigger52
Total immigration via Kent beaches this year will amount to 0.04% of the UK population. Over 75% have their application for asylum accepted so where is the "illegality" ? If this insignificant number is keeping you awake nights - seek medical help.
@LeroySkeete
A classic scene from "The Heat of the Night" Stieger (to Poitier) " You ain't so black" holding a black pen. Poitier, holding his coffee mug " And you ain't so white"