https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6p284ng14yt

They haven't wanted to rock the boat so far in case it Jeopardised Labour's win. But Starmer is going to have a big problem keeping control of the far left activists and anti-semitists in his party. Not to mention the unions.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/labour-mp-protests-against-monarchy-as-he-is-sworn-in/ar-BB1pL4O5?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=01d39165ed3c438b9191a5b55eea6679&ei=17

Water bills in England and Wales are set to rise by an average £94 over the next five years, the water regulator Ofwat has said.

The figure varies by region with Thames customers seeing an increase of £99 or 23%, Anglian £66 or 13% and Southern Water £183, an increase of 44%.

The typical £19 a year increase is intended to fund investment for improvements such as replacing leaking pipes and reducing sewage discharges into rivers and seas.

It comes as suppliers have come under increasing scrutiny over their environmental and financial performance over a number of years.

On Thursday, Labour will outline a crackdown on the industry, promising consumers higher compensation for sewage failures and the power to hold water executives to account.

Your thoughts...

https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/south-east/m25-junction-10/

My dad lives a few hundred metres outside the ULEZ zone.
He needs to know where the boundary of the zone is so that he can avoid accidentally driving into it - He's 91 and can't afford to pay fines for accidentally entering the zone.
He has a Samsung tablet but doesn't know how to access online maps of the ULEZ zone. I've tried showing him but he doesn't really get it.
He'd like an old fashioned printed map which shows the boundaries of the ULEZ zone but I can't find one in any of the book shops or online.
Do any of you know where I can get such a map?
if all else fails I can buy a map of London and draw a line to mark the edge of the ULEZ zone but that would be quite time consuming.

Retirees to lose their full pension ! A good start to the next 5 years of Labour dictatorship.

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1920670/Labour-plot-means-test-state-pension-Starmer-tax-raid-Rachel-Reeves

A summer Covid wave is “building” scientists have said following a rise in hospital admissions amid the rise of the new “Flirt” variants.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/summer-covid-wave-building-after-rise-in-hospital-admissions/ar-BB1p9GnO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=35716ceac56742bc9feae2e2dafaa69c&ei=29

Let's not become complacent.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=tv+4+skint&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:151fe991,vid:wEQQEAaBMXw,st:0

Looking forward to hear your views

LBC is forecasting the ennoblement of the manager of the England Football Team.

Your thoughts...

Hello shipmates, have you missed me?😉

There are far too many empty homes in the UK although councils were given the rights to deal with the issue long ago.

Most do not seem to have done much, even the ones that have employed staff, or opened departments and are entitled to compulsory purchase properties and having use of a service to trace ownership.

Will this be another thing that the government will be expected to deal with. Personally I feel it’s seems a little bit like these diversity staff, a waste of money if they are not achieving a benefit to the councils and more importantly to those waiting for accommodation.

https://www.findersinternational.co.uk/our-services/empty-homes-services/

Do you know of a council that can boast of how well they have done?

Has your council got one of these departments or officers?

Here’s the page on Havering’s website which is under building control

https://www.havering.gov.uk/building-control/building-control-advice/5

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/08/reform-uk-under-pressure-to-prove-all-its-candidates-were-real-people

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ng03jg4jyo

I would expect this from the type of people who stood for Reform.

He should be concentrating on his role as an MP which is not bullying school leaders

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/09/reform-uk-mp-accused-of-mounting-witch-hunt-against-local-teachers

This was 1979 Satire from the Visionaries.

His second wife done the same as the first and posted where he was

https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/09/brazillian-drug-lord-arrested-wife-reveals-location-instagram-21191163/?dicbo=v2-e5czfge&ico=outbrain_mid

have predicted England will win their match against the Netherlands.

Unfortunately, they weren't able to tell us what the score would be 😂

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2024-07-09/mystic-meerkats-predict-england-victory-against-netherlands-in-euros

It's a trambus.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/ie-tram-bus-route-358-tfl-orpington-crystal-palace-electric-london-b1169418.html

For the first time I was unable to vote as mentioned, I feel guilty but also knew that in my very Conservative area, the only possibility would have been a Liberal Democrat voted in and they were by a huge majority. I admit the liberal candidate was the person I might have voted for as I have spoken to her and she came across well.
This morning I received a text asking me to sign a petition for P.R.
I do feel in that way my vote would count and I could vote Green or Labour in my constituency which would mean more with P.R. As I am a floating voter it feels fairer. According to my texting friend, the only countries in Europe to use First Past the Post are the U.K and Belarus.
Any sensible reasons as to whether I should sign the petition or not ?

According to this site, there are over 261,000 empty in Britain. It would be good to see those renovated and used, they could be sold at an actually "affordable" price to recoup some of the costs.

https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/facts-and-figures

Is this even a thing?
This all stems from an article in a magazine about one of the couples in the Netflix series, Bridgerton. I don't watch Bridgerton but he is the tall dark handsome slime one, she is short and fat. The journalist is making a big issue of should people be in mixed weight relationships.
I'd love to know how much differential she would allow between two peoples weights for her not to have an issue.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/08/human-rights-groups-give-starmer-blueprint-for-asylum-overhaul

The Nursing and Midwifery Counci who are the regulator for safe nursing and responsible for disciplinary hearings has been accused of having a toxic culture. Also that cases take for too long to be resolved either way.
Two examples given by Former DPP Nazir Afzal on BBC Breakfast were...
A rape case that took 7 years before the male nurse was found guilty and sacked.
A case where a male nurse was caught viewing child porn images on his smartphone. Category one images which are the worst kind. The NMC decided there was no case to answer as it was his private life, not work related. He is still working in a hospital somewhere.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7287gxn7m3o

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7203p9jgy9o.amp

I'm puzzled by this, isn't the whole point to get people to drive zero emission cars?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/04/did-that-really-happen-14-years-of-chaotic-tory-government

This is especially for those who are already saying Labour will blame the Tories - like they never did that when they got in - for the first 5-10 years 😂😂😂

Roll on the summer break

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g6e653wrlo.amp

https://www.libraryofthings.co.uk

...a policeman.
Man buys police blue light and siren on Amazon, then pretends he is driving a police car.
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/lanarkshire-man-fined-after-pretending-29477648

It's amazing the rubbish I get addicted to watching on YouTube. The latest is a channel called Outdoor Boys. It's this guy, sometimes with his 3 sons, who does camping and survival camping programmes. The thought of taking a 3 Yr old survival camping makes me want to drink a huge brandy, especially in minus 30 weather!! For some reason it is highly addictive and also makes me believe that if I had a fold up shovel and saw I, too, could build a survival shelter 😁

Just heard that even if your passport, bus pass or photo driving licence has a photo on it that still looks like you it is valid at the polling station

Who knew? Apparently not me 😂

The same as Cameron had

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/amir-khan-leaves-daughter-in-car-valet-dubai-b1168635.html?dicbo=v2-11G8LP8

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cyj4n9d9yjno

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2024

Starmer accepted £76k worth of gifts including tickets to 20 football matches.

The five-figure sum is among the highest claimed by any MP in the past five years.

This one made me laugh. He declared tickets for his staff for the British Kebab awards. 😂

Oh how the other half live. Power to the people.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/starmer-accepted-76k-worth-of-gifts-including-tickets-to-20-football-matches/ar-BB1pg7ht?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=9dd63380e5e043e983597d7046712713&ei=16

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/radley-balko

An American doctor has just revealed on GB News that President Biden has had dementia for some time but it is being kept secret from the public by people high up in the Democrat party.
It is being kept off any medical reports.

An all time low of hypocrisy

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-speech-general-election-sunak-b2573032.html

Made me want to run outside and scream
“Rollox” at the top of my voice . Who wrote that speech Trump 😳

I very much doubt it.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/is-starmer-right-to-stop-work-for-his-family-at-6pm-on-fridays-join-the-independent-debate/ar-BB1pg5IT?ocid=BingNewsSerp

A filthy pervert sent to prison, for defiling the dead

https://news.sky.com/story/a-dad-of-three-who-broke-into-a-hospital-mortuary-and-violated-and-defiled-bodies-has-been-jailed-for-six-years-13160445?dicbo=v2-hkLTPSD

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-232m-paid-in-compensation-for-hs2-line-that-will-never-be-built-13156007

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/timing-boris-johnsons-holiday-under-083718486.html

Yes folk are making much of Starmer wanting to see his family for a few hours on a Friday night but memories are remarkably short . Boris was always there for us 😂

https://news.sky.com/story/three-officers-investigation-over-their-inquiries-into-nottingham-triple-killer-valdo-calocane-13162389

There is no reimbursement for a duff note.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/urgent-warning-issued-over-new-king-charles-banknotes/ar-BB1pcD7c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=30b2819892e7450fa0b46ce0ac7dd4af&ei=40

Just had my second lot of British strawberries. First one was o.k. but second buy tasted if they injected water. Could it be a new trend to water more so the fruit absorbs water? I know they can control the size of eggs.

Often NO

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/what-if-your-physician-wasn-t-actually-a-doctor-at-all-beware-this-new-reckless-experiment/ar-BB1ozHx8?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7b11edd50ee842aea5c65d58d363bd96&ei=21

Ninety polls in four weeks - were you asked? It’s getting silly

https://news.sky.com/story/adam-boulton-the-polling-industry-should-be-shut-down-for-being-useless-if-the-tories-win-general-election-13156491

Just got my voting paper and see that you have to provide photographic evidence or you cannot vote.
This must rule out millions of voters, including me.