🔺Worst recession & inflation in G7 🔺126 crimes in Downing Street 🔺A Brexit more costly than Covid (his government's analysis) 🔺Voted to cover up MP bribery 🔺Refused poor kids school meals 🔺200,000 dead 🔺Knowingly promoted Sex pest 🔺£Billions on fraudulent Covid contracts

Just two soon-to-be 96 year olds, sharing a joke about trees. Thanks ITV News & Jay O'Brien for this magical clip ❤️

Remarkable statement from President Macron. Hard to imagine a contemporary British prime minister being as gracious about a great French figure passing.

France is a close friend and Macron is a class act. His statement on the Queen and Anglo-French friendship was beautiful.

The Official Anti-Growth Coalition Membership List 👇 As compiled by Colin from Portsmouth.

Utterly bewildering Govt attack on solar farms. Solar is a win-win for energy & food security - it's *9 times cheaper* than climate-wrecking oil & gas (and much faster to deploy too), and fields with solar panels can still produce food. Who's behind these nonsensical Govt plans?

Good grief, The Economist does not hold back 💥 economist.com/leaders/2022/1…

UK 🇬🇧 is Germany’s third export market, but we are concerned that trade between 🇬🇧🇩🇪 has continuously declined since the Brexit referendum. Britain has traditionally been Germany’s fifth largest trading partner. In 2022 UK 🇬🇧 will drop out of the list of the TOP 10 (blue line)

#Brexit is a self inflicted economic wound. It was built on lies & they’re still lying - refusing to face the facts - Brexit is bad for Britain. At the v least we should be joining the single market & customs union. Best of all - we need to be back in the EU

"British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down” – Boris Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, 26 June 2016. The lies are so shocking as scarcely to be comprehensible. How were so many taken in by this?

Is the ‘left-wing economic establishment’ part of the ‘anti-growth coalition’ or are they rival factions?

If Johnson can trouser £5M from the speech circuit in 6 months, fine. But he can sod off with his MP’s salary, as he’s clearly not working as an MP.And he can absolutely sod off with us paying his legal fees. When legal aid is denied to so many in this country, it’s just obscene.

A cat was saved from under the rubble in Turkey. It now refuses to leave its rescuer's side.

Impressive figure… and very indicative of the country’s mood. Brexit had failed everyone. Time to rejoin ! 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

A pity people only realised in hindsight… what their politicians all knew beforehand ! Brexit was a massive failure of leadership, but in a democracy people can call upon new leadership… to undo the mistakes of the past. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

Before she crashed the economyTruss purged the economic establishment. She fired the senior official in the Treasury and sidelined the Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsiblity. Now she is blaming the very people she fired and sidelined for her own overweening stupidity

👀 Hard to overstate how dramatic the shift in UK immigration has been since the post-Brexit rules came into force. Non-EU immigration is now higher than ever before, running at well over a million a year. EU immigration lower than it’s been for decades. Figs just in from Office for National Statistics (ONS) 👇

We're delighted to have received Superhost status from Airbnb for our 2 gîtes in SW France, at the crossroads of Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne and Gironde.