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Yeah, just wtf were Nick and David doing?

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Magical Winter Fest for Swindon's town centre The town centre will come alive on Saturday 22 November with Swindon Winter Fest.

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The only thing I've seen today that actually made me laugh out loud.
Well played!

Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms’ past failures to invest

Ofwat letting England water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear

Companies billed people for sewage disposal, used cash to pay dividends and exec bonuses, dumped sewage in rivers.

Now charging again to fund promised investment, not raising capital from shareholders. Customers fleeced

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Victims robbed of £4bn in ‘insulting’ car loan redress scheme, say claims firms Financial Conduct Authority defends interest rate of 2.09% as critics describe proposals as ‘hypocritical’

Victims robbed of £4bn in ‘insulting’ car loan redress scheme.

No one forced banks to sell dud products, they don't want to pay. Govt/Regulators line-up with banks.

Execs got bonuses, won't bear any cost, bank customers will.

Hurting victims is the norm - Post Office, Grenfell, mortgage prisoners

Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.

Yes. 😐

Hannan can get in the sea.

Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation

Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.

Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.

No govt targets to cut poverty.

1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

Last two words of that skeet are superfluous.

Bouncy track.

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

Farage: epic grifter

Yup. The Bears still suck.
#dabears #gopackgo

My fault. I bet on the Falcons this week.

Pretty much the same here!

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Rich LehmannSwale Political Forum 1h · A video was leaked over the weekend showing some acrimony in the Reform ranks. The articles accompanying this have mainly focussed on the swearing and arguing, but one section which stood out for me was KCC leader Linden was talking about council tax... "if we can avoid putting up council tax by the full 5%, that is going to be the best thing that we can do to show that Reform can actually run something as big as Kent County Council" ... "Because, let's not forget, we are the shop window in KCC. Nigel knows that. He is super aware that we are the flagship council." This is important as section 2a of KCC's constitution states that "The role of the Council is to improve the quality of life of the people of Kent." To me, Linden's comments sound a lot like she's suggesting the primary reason not to put council tax up by 5% is not because it would be the best thing for the people of Kent, but because it would be good for Reform, and it would make Nigel happy. NO PARTY, Tories included, wanted to put up council tax by the maximum amount for any of the past four years, but it was widely accepted that it was what needed to happen to minimise the harm of the cuts. Reform have recently admitted that there's almost nothing left to cut, so by trying to put council tax up by less than 5%, they are just forcing themselves to add millions of pounds worth of additional cuts if they are unable to meet the deficit (which is tens of millions of pounds) through improving efficiency. In practical terms (and these are ballpark figures), if Reform put council tax up by 4.7% instead of 5%, they'd need to find another £2.4 million of cuts for the sake of saving people living in Band C houses (the most commonband in Swale) 37p a month. This is not how politics should be done.

Interesting post from a Kent cllr on *that* expletive-laden Reform meltdown

KCC leader: "We are the shop window in KCC. Nigel knows that. He is super aware that we are the flagship council"

Kent's constitution says: "The role of the Council is to improve the quality of life of the people of Kent."

Earning his money, and rightly so!

Tel Aviv football derby cancelled as 'violent riots' see nine arrested Police said dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 13 civilians and three police officers.

Oh.
news.sky.com/story/tel-av...

Welcome to Packers football!

Skeet of the day (so far)

Thanks. Largely agree! Government also not listening to industry concerns.

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What's your thinking on this? bills.parliament.uk/bills/3921

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