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We really need a parody video featuring a lettuce interviewing others -oh for spitting image..

Trouble is, we’re saddled with Nick Ferrari so LBC is off limits until 10am. You have much better presenters.. time you used them.

Yes, I wrote it rather hastily.. sorry! I'm irrational - so many other things (eg beef.) have gone up too, but butter always rankles.

I know full well that things affect the milk cost (not least the reduction in dairy herds in the UK, and adverse weather affecting grass and silage (main food) and length of grazing season, but it doesn't stop me using butter prices as my inflation index

The butter index for me. I understand why things like coffee and veg vary in price (harvest, geopolitics etc), but get very cross at butter at £2.50.

Nigel tweeted this morning to say that is not his plan- rather it is to wipe out the Tories.

Ha Ha Nigel!
We’re gradually taking over your party from within:
Danny Kruger
Jonathan Gullis
Nadine Dorries.
By the time of the next election WE will be in charge of your party old boy.
And you’ll be stuck in Clacton unable to stop us.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha (evil, sniggering laugh.)😝

Which means they started attacking her for (allegedly) falsifying her chess tournament history (in the Times). Feels like another "lets get Labour women" pile on.

Sadly, i don't think this is at all likely, as it would crash our economies as well as theirs

How is she a credible politician? Words fail me....

Mum: Why did you smear spaghetti sauce all across the walls?

Karoline: This relates to a question Dad asked about the Teletubbies show I was watching, and what's interesting is that show has been taped on VHS so it's freely available for anyone to rewatch it. I'll now take a question from the dog

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Great thread- now this is what is need to be said (eg to Nick Robinson on R4 this morning!) - maybe something like this would be a good counter to the budget crap discussions which have been dogging the media today.

I love this idea and hope its being vigorously pursued all over the UK.

Looking at the forward episode summaries (up to 2 jan) - its possible that something big is going to happen after Christmas..... I guess it wouldn't be the Archers if it was all sweetness and light

Would be far more significant in a proportional system

Hahhaaa!! I've just got back from my dog walk listening to @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcast on the new left..... here is demonstration in action.

This is now at 93,000. At 100k it'll get a debate in Parliament. I suspect most ppl in here want to see them out of politics and out of the UK.
That includes Farage and Reform Ltd.
An enquiry just for their finances.
Please sign and share if you agree.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Indeed.. well, said. Most of the general public would think day 1 unfair dismissal was a step too far.

Yes.. it does eat into the capital. I have one: better for me to have resources now than to hand more to my beneficiaries and suffer trying to make ends meet. If you have a £2m house and need to raise a small amount to pay the mansion tax & to live a little more comfortably) then its a no-brainer.

the other option, of course, is equity release. Quite an attractive proposition when you are in your 80s.

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Congratulations and good luck to everyone on the Ramses team!
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"Hurrah for the blackshirts"- is this deliberate?

TBH I am pretty centre left and unlikely to change- but do find the performative anger from the more left than me very wearing. If we are to avoid a right/far right government, I believe we need a more constructive, pragmatic and compromising approach

To be honest, day one protection did seem batshit crazy.

Totally agree. The righteous indignation from some on here drives me from my left-leaning tendencies towards the right.

Beth is truly the worst at the continual questions in the hope of a gotcha

Is it solely her? I lay most of the blame on Starmer- to be bold she would need his support and encouragement; and a clear and bold vision.. but of course that's sadly lacking.

I'm immensely grateful for your sacrifice. She is so awful I can't bear to listen to her. I would have no idea if she said anything sensible, as her tone and delivery is so off-putting.