@Norm4

Loves dogs, rugby and pottering. Very grumpy re the world today

England, United Kingdom
Joined May 2009
Less than half of Welsh farms have chosen to go into the Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme in 2026. The scheme has flaws, some major ones. However, at least every Welsh farm has had time to weigh up whether they want to enter it and we’ve all had the option to enter it if we so wished. Going forward we can still make that choice. Englands process is just cruel. Pitting farm against farm in a ‘who can click faster’ contest that’s over as fast as it begun. For clarity - Both England and Wales’ schemes aren’t subsidies for farming. They are essentially financial contributions towards environmental schemes that improve soil health and nature. (Welsh scheme has a bit on animal welfare and benchmarking). Public money for public good and the Labour Govt in England has basically just encouraged English farmers to plough all their public good up and get back to intensive farming. We are run by idiots.
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Concerned Miami resident shared heartbreaking video of a malnourished dog trapped on a high-rise balcony, surrounded by its own feces. The video quickly went viral, prompting people to report the suspected animal cruelty and bring the situation to the attention of authorities. In a follow-up video, Miami police are seen rescuing the dog while the owner is led out of the building in handcuffs. This is what happens when people refuse to look the other way. One person spoke up. Thousands of people amplified it. Authorities were alerted. And an innocent animal was finally given a chance to be rescued. Thank you to the Miami police for responding promptly and rescuing this poor pup. ❤️🐾
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Rebranding? The club of cranks in the ascendant at so many of our museums and institutions must not be able to interfere with, or break up collections. Things should go into storage until wiser heads and historians return. I fear for the future of much of our past.
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I don’t want to stockpile anything. I want to live in a first world country that actually functions.
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A record number of illegals have entered the country, but don't worry, the government has a plan...
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Interesting detail it appears the would be attackers at Fairford impersonated a small fuel delivery service in order to pass without raising concern as they got close to the base journalists have confirmed this via contacting the company who mentioned their vans haven not moved.
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It is called the Human Rights Act 1998 & the Asylum & Immigration Act 1999. Every Tory manifesto from 2005 to 2019 promised to repeal the Human Rights Act. After After 4 election victories & 14 years in government it never was. Due to incompetence & civil service obstruction.
This is a proper WTAF story. This country has a death wish. Stop letting in Islamists and people likely to support them. It’s really not terribly complicated. In this case a judge gave a Hamas man 100 years of anonymity before it was challenged by the Sunday Times. Utterly retarded. The courts are a conspiracy against the nation. Indefinite leave to remain granted under Theresa May as Home Secretary. Ye Gods. Read it and weep
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A new low. Shameful, moronic, negligent, inept, naive, cynical self destructive, legalistically lethal & ideological capture suicidal sanctimony. Brilliant reporting @Gabriel_Pogrund @thetimes as with other cases recently by brilliant legacy media which unlike tainted tv-news is doing admirable service. Hamas terrorist given visa & anonymity then gathers arms to plan attacks on Jews. Who made these decisions? This isnot just this inept cynical Labour govt (see recent comments on ‘underdogs’ & ‘doing good’) but also recent Tory govts & civilservice all captured by a pious legalistic ideology that doesnt reflect reality and uses our law & kindness against our national security and the safety of civilians and our own poeple. UK gave citizenship to Hamas chief’s guard, then he ‘plotted terror’ thetimes.com/article/47beb37…
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I referred to these houses just outside Peterborough, a few months ago. As of yesterday, they remain unfinished, unsold and unoccupied. People cannot afford to get on with their lives. That isn’t the fault of “the far right”, GB News, Trump or Farage, but instead, a Labour government and a tin-pot, plastic Prime Minister wrecking the economy and taxing us relentlessly to pay for the crap they are obsessed with, instead of growing the economy and creating wealth.
The Government promised to build 1.5 million new homes over the course of this Parliament. Then, they put up tax, introduced a load of new regulations, and made life impossible for builders with their mad energy policies. So, unsurprisingly, nobody can afford to build anything!
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#LabourConference26 The NHS budget is now the same size as Portugal's GDP. The NHS might be many things, but 'underfunded' is not one of them.
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This would be true had she left her daughter in the school.👇 She did not. She removed her. She did what middle class people often do- they ruin other people’s children and save their own.
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It's increasingly difficult to live in a country where the laws are being applied so inconsistently and in such a politically biased manner.
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1/ Gain a few moderate A-Levels 2/ Go to a 3rd rate ex-Poly like @SussexUni 3/ Pick a pointless course 4/ Accumulate vast debt 5/ Graduate with a useless degree and no discernible skills 6/ Become a professional victim 7/ Blame Brexit/the Climate/the 'System' 8/ Vote Green
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Surely the developments at Fairford and Lakenheath deserve a COBRA meeting asap?? After all, we had one back in the summer when the weather got a bit warm…
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Worth bearing in mind what Britain's temporary accommodation (homeless) population looks like when considering who this has been designed to cater to. Labour want to forcibly take your homes and turning them into HMOs for a disproportionately migrant / recent arrival population.
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Home office “Maybe he can be rehabilitated, let’s give him a chance, he’s obviously confused, he’s raped a man, done a woman in every hole she had and then raped two women in one night, he’s definitely confused!” Sex monster raped three women and a man by preying on drunken people leaving Plymouth night clubs, a jury has decided. Illegal immigrant John Chalachew, aged 32, has today been found guilty of attacking four people in seven months. The father-of-three even raped two sleeping women in one night as they slept in different rooms at his home. Chalachew then raped an intoxicated teenage man after pulling him into an alleyway late at night, Plymouth Crown Court heard. But he was released on bail to attack another drunken woman on a night out after getting her back to his city home. Chalachew went on trial charged with six counts of rape against four complainants between March and October 2018. He had sex with one woman without her consent in three different ways – making up three counts. His victims vary from the teenage man to a woman in her 40s. PlymouthLive has been unable to report the third trial against the Djibouti-born asylum seeker because of a reporting restriction.
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I wonder if the Americans are looking at these images and wondering what the hell has happened to Britain, and whether we’re still a reliable ally to base military assets with under this government.
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A brief summary of life in the UK: 27 million private sector workers support: - 9 million economically inactive people aged 16-65 - 6.5 million public sector workers - 13 million pensioners If you dare suggest any part of this is unsustainable, people compare you to Hitler.
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Five men were arrested this morning next to RAF Fairford after three vans turned up in Whelford and a resident called it in. Bomb disposal is still on the vehicles. Counter-terror has the case. The base is the one America has been flying from against Iranian missile sites, and the IRGC already said any such base was a legitimate target. If those vans were meant to be driven in loaded, then it isn’t some new British invention. That’s exactly how Iran works. Beirut, 1983, the Marine barracks and the CIA building. Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. The Israeli embassy and AMIA in Buenos Aires. A truck, a lot of explosive, and a building full of people they’ve decided count as the enemy. They’ve been running that play for forty years. Fairford wasn’t chosen because it is pretty countryside. It was chosen because American bombers are there. A resident had to spot the vans. British intelligence were completely blind, or intentionally looking the other way. If this was indeed a terror plot, it got stopped by luck.
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Replying to @DonnaLouise1212
This happens a lot in Birmingham. Muslims driving round high as kites on Nitrous Oxide and crashing their cars
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