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As gas prices rise, margin based price setting benefits the supplier and penalises the consumer leading to record profits. That’s kind of okay if companies pay the tax that is due, but so often they don’t.

Talking with some friends yesterday who said, “we never got the Brexit we were promised, we’re still being controlled by the ECHR”. I pointed out that it has nothing to do with the EU and in fact the UK was a founder member. It just demonstrates the effectiveness of right wing propaganda.

How many random people have you spoken to today?

IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you

Why is Trump obsessed with triviality rather than fixing the major issues facing the American people. Why would any serious leader waste time remaining a lake, a gulf and a building.

So far this week we had a not so secret meeting between the US and Russia followed by rumours of the US pulling troops out of Europe. Is Europe about to be attacked by Russia with the US just watching from a safe distance?

Russia builds secret drone bases in striking distance of Nato - The Telegraph claims Not so secret then!

The people of Clayton should ask themselves: what has Nigel Farage ever done for me?

Quite often you hear of people ‘retiring to Spain’. Indeed we even have TV programmes promoting moving to Spain and Portugal. It would be a shame if Spain got a right wing politician like Farage. Indeed they may already have one, as I am sure someone here will be able to clarify.

So let me get this straight: digital ID was a policy that wasn’t funded. Hm, so you announced a policy without knowing how you were going to cover the cost? So why is announcing another policy to replace this one worse than what you announced?

I see Farage has come out of his hole to hurl abuse at Labour. Very Donald of him. Let’s hope the good people of Clacton show him the way out.

Nigel Farage is on the equivalent of in work benefits, something he would get rid of for the rest of the population.

So MEPs get £73000 per annum pension. Nice if you can get it. Guess who can? Got it in one, Nigel Farage.

Chris Mason should just go on and work for GB News now His hero worship for Nigel Farage is now just an open joke

Did Farage not think through what could happen if he resigned and stood to be re-elected? Surely it occurred to him there was a possibility that everyone would just stand by and let him be re-elected unopposed. Luckily there is a challenger! However, with tactical voting Farage might even lose.

Looking back at my teenage years, what did we do to fill our time? There were no mobile phones, no social media. One thing is certain, I didn’t sit there staring at a wall.

If this is true it will be amazing. I hope they will all be running LibreOffice too.

Now that net immigration figures are down, Farage and his mates have to find a new target.

In the UK is it legal to drive round in a car painted to look like a police car whist wearing a uniform looking very similar to a police uniform and calling yourself private security?

This is a really interesting read, all politicians should read it. Sadly few, if any, will and if they do they will probably ignore it or maybe even try to discredit it. But it does put forward some great policies to bring about real change: open.substack.com/pub/henryfud...

This shows exactly what the problem is and it’s not immigration

UK media taking delight in the fact that they are removing yet another PM. We need stability. But I guess they won’t be happy until they have installed Farage into Downing Street, which would be a complete disaster for ordinary people.

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Trump, Netanyahu and Putin have either sanctioned or threatened to sanction acts that constitute war crimes. All 3 need to be removed from office along with their respective ministers, investigated and, if appropriate, prosecuted for war crimes. If found guilty they have to be punished.

“Trickle down” is actually “flooding up”

Yes Donald Trump is an idiot…his mother said so. Please listen to his mother.

Israel should be made to pay for the rebuilding of all the homes and hospitals that they have needlessly destroyed in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.

Trump started the war with Iran with little forethought as to how Iran might respond. He now demands that other countries come to help rectify the mess he has created. Quite rightly all other countries are saying that they have no intention in escalating this war.

If Putin is really supporting Iran and vice versa, will he ditch Trump by making public whatever hold he has over him? Or would he prefer to keep him in play? Where does the other big player, China, sit in all this mess?

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

When is somebody in the US going to stand up to Trump and stop this utter madness?

Just looked at booking a return train journey from Leeds to York, a distance of around 30 miles each way. Each journey offered different costs for out and return. Given that our rail services will be owned by us, when will we have standardised fares based on distance travelled?

I’m not playing this stupid game with Reform or any of their multimillionaire groupies, vilifying immigrants and moaning about the benefits bill from their tax havens and Dubai penthouses. Then lying about what they said and why. Reform is a racist party. Relying on racist votes for power. End of.

The Epstein Files saga is finally demonstrating to ordinary people just how the privileged class operates. It looks like they believe that they are above the law and can do whatever they want to do. Our labour is funding this class and we have to find a way to redress the balance.

When someone breaks the law of your country and is resident in another country you would normally rely on extradition to get them into the country where the crime was committed. Now that seems to have been replaced with extraction.

The USA now aims to steal oil from Venezuela claiming that Venezuela took the oil from American companies. Have you ever heard such utter nonsense?

Time and again the people of the UK have shown that they are absolutely rubbish at picking political leaders. It’s time for a new leader come forward, not Farage, not Badenock, not Starmer, and to ignore all the crap and just sort out the mess that we are in. We need to get real.

Absolutely agree. Unfortunately we seem to relish the coming of chlorinated chicken rather than moving back to where we belong.

This from the man who is blowing Venezuelan boats out of the water and hijacking an oil tanker: “But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they’re good at is going after ships.”

So Trump wants everyone to stop talking about Epstein. That’s the best reason I know for continuing to talk about it. By the way, it’s not a hoax nor were only Democrats involved.

#COP30 witnesses China taking a massive global lead in the production of renewable energy. Whilst here in the UK we are firmly focused on whether or not the BBC is biased and whether our immigration system is fit for purpose. We need to wake up and get in the game.

When billionaires make large donations to Reform, you know in whose interest they will be working and it won’t be the majority.

“Reform MP's comments about adverts 'racist', says Streeting” The MP in question failed to point out Reform is over represented in our media and particularly by the BBC.

Back to the real world tomorrow

“Trump raises tariffs on Canada by 10% in response to Reagan advert” - childish behaviour.

I have nothing but contempt for the glorification of war that we are seeing today.