Not your normal London Taxi Driver.

Joined December 2013
I know the meme refers to the whole continent. But we used to be a serious country. I don’t believe the UK doesn’t have the talent, it’s the crushing influence of the state and its bureaucracy that makes something like this impossible here.
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A full 47% of the cost of a litre of petrol is imposed by the Government. Current average for regular unleaded is 174.81p, meaning 82p of that goes straight into the taxman's bottomless pocket.
I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to.   The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact.   But I won't accept that there's nothing I can do to help.   That's why from today, you'll be able to see petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, compare nearby stations and find the cheapest option before you fill up.   It's a small change, but if there's a practical way to help people keep more money in their pocket, I'll do it.
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I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to.   The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact.   But I won't accept that there's nothing I can do to help.   That's why from today, you'll be able to see petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, compare nearby stations and find the cheapest option before you fill up.   It's a small change, but if there's a practical way to help people keep more money in their pocket, I'll do it.
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We see you @HBrubanter
Bought a Casio F-91W watch from Amazon as I hate big flashy watches. To make up the postage I also bought some wire and connectors for an electronics project. It was only after I made the order I learned that the F-91W is the most popular bomb timer for terrorists. Hello MI5!
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Lisa Nandy has said that the social media ban for under-16s is just the starting point. She praised Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall for beginning the process of increasing online censorship, and welcomed Andy Burnham’s decision to accelerate it. At Labour Party conference, Nandy said the ban was “a staging post to what must be a very interventionist state, policing and regulating the online space so that people are safe”. We should recognise that this is no longer just about protecting children online. It is about giving the state greater control over what we can and cannot say online. We are living in Orwell’s 1984.
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OH levels of tweet theft. Call. The. Police. 😀
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This story has broken me. It has unleashed a rage so strong I can barely express it, but allow me to try. Above all, I am angry with the decades-long malevolent incompetence of the British state: politicians of all parties, the judiciary, the civil service. Their collective uselessness has shattered the social contract and made us all poorer and less safe. In just 25 years, they have led us from an affluent, high-trust society to a broken, low-trust one. I am sickened by the growth in sectarian politics. I am appalled by the foreign ghettos in our cities and imported, bent voting practices and resultant corruption in some of our councils. I hate seeing the clothing of female oppression on our streets. I am sickened by the fact our Jewish community lives under siege. I no longer wish to pay tax to support those who have come here illegally and should be removed immediately. It is to our shame that we have accepted mass immigration without insisting on integration. I am tired of being told that a British passport makes a foreigner as British as me. I assure you that the “British citizen” in this story is not. I am saddened that for so many people, the concept of “British” is essentially meaningless. I am sick of the obsession with a minor war 2,500 miles away that barely affects us. I despise that £88m of our tax money is going to Hamas (because it will), when the tax burden is a record high, everything is expensive, welfare spending is out of control and we can’t even pay for our own defences when the global risk of conflict is the highest it has been since the end of the Cold War. And in spite of how much of our money the government steals from our pockets, nothing, at all, in this country works. Healthcare, transport, education - all broken. It is a stain on our national politics that we have five Gaza MPs. It is our national shame that our government is intent on sucking up to the Palestinian entity which contains some of the worst monsters on the face of planet. It is a disgrace that our Foreign Secretary shook the hand of the representative of the Iranian regime that has slaughtered tens of thousands of its own people, and that he doesn’t seem to understand why that photograph will damn him forever. It is embarrassing that we had a Foreign Office minister dancing with and hugging the representative of the Palestinian Authority. The lack of serious statesmanship is mind-boggling and indicative of how far we have fallen. They say the past is a foreign country, but my goodness, do I miss the country I grew up in. I feel so sorry for the generation that grew up after 2000 and will never know how good it was. It’s not coming back. I have no time for the demagogues and grifters who exploit this anger. I know other people feel the same as I do, and my goodness, do I understand why people are angry. For decades, those we have elected to govern in our interests have instead run our country into the ground. And to cap it all, now we are led by fatuous, asinine, deeply unserious airheads who think serious governance is a TikTok video about pork scratchings, as the last vestiges of a coherent society die under the weight of their malignant frivolity. The worst part of it is that there is absolutely nothing any of us can do about it. I just want to live in a happy, stable, prosperous country like we used to be, instead of one that is run by a state apparatus that does nothing but beat us down, obsess over irrelevances, take our money, and leave us poorer and less safe.
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Life comes at you fast
Any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed right now.
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No. This is capitalism, they are are free to sell what they like. Wrong target to combat a legitimate concern.
Time for Brits to boycott Decathlon?
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This is likely a hacked account and a scam. Beware.
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If you shit yourself you should stop whatever it is you are doing, Hyrox or not, and go home.
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Just back from Welsh Wales. Utterly pointless, impact lessening, confusion creating bi-lingual road signs everywhere. I imagine next to no-one who speaks Welsh, wouldn’t understand the English. Preserve your language through other means. Bin the signs immediately.
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The destruction of a proud nation that once punched above its weight like no other on the globe. Now locked into relentless decline by decisions and political culture of its own making. I fear there is no coming back.
Unfortunate truths about Scottish education: The number of high-achieving kids has collapsed by 40% in the past 20 years. PE is now the third most popular subject at Higher. Just 40% percent of kids pass English and Maths at National 5 (ie, GCSE). Scottish 15 year olds are more than a year behind English 15 year olds in Maths and Science. "Knowledge" is a contested idea in Scottish education. And the SNP government's response? The situation is "essentially stable". Column on a great national disgrace. 👇 thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…
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“Miriam Margolyes meets Harvey Price”
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Only "tough" if you are working and trying to provide for your own family - it will be fine if you are on benefits.
🚨NEW: Chancellor John Healey warns of a "tough budget" next month
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Last year’s increase in Capital Gains Tax resulted in a decrease in CGT revenue. Treasury took £13.6 billion in 2024-25 compared with £14.9 billion the year before. When you tax wealth it goes elsewhere….
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🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham plays a Smiths song on the guitar with a soldier in Ukraine
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Gwyneth Paltrow says she once hooked up in an airplane bathroom with a random guy on an overnight flight to Paris "I think one time back in the day, I did it in the in a airplane bathroom on an overnight flight to Paris." "It wasn't anyone famous." "You know I missed the whole dating app thing and all of that like I totally missed that."
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