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Mikey🚚 @vanandcamera.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Labour’s housing masterplan: make it easier to borrow more for overpriced homes, push prices higher, then call it “help”. Brilliant way to make housing even less affordable while pretending you’ve fixed the problem. #UKPolitics

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026

The people of Piddington are quite right. Dumping 1,250 people into a rural area with little to do, in a building without the facilities to support them, isn’t a plan. It’s official negligence: make the decision from a desk, leave locals to deal with the consequences. #Piddington

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026

It’s a lot more nuanced than it looks.But obviously “the villagers are racist” is far easier for the permanently outraged brigade than actually thinking about whether dumping 1,250 people somewhere with bugger-all to do is a sensible idea. #Piddington #RealityCheck www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

7/7 The real danger isn’t simply that the far right wins. It’s that mainstream politicians become so detached from ordinary voters that the far right becomes the only place people think they can vote for change. That’s how political systems lose legitimacy. #Europe #Politics #Democracy

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

6/7 And dismissing millions of voters as racists, fascists or idiots isn’t an electoral strategy. If mainstream parties don’t understand why people are voting this way, they shouldn’t be surprised when those voters keep doing it. #Politics #Democracy

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

5/7 There’s also a massive difference between saying “the far right is winning everywhere” and saying “the far right is becoming electorally powerful.” The first is nonsense. The second is increasingly difficult to deny. #FarRight #Europe

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

4/7 Immigration. Borders. Crime. Integration. National identity. Issues that were once treated as politically toxic are now central to European elections. The far right didn’t necessarily win the argument. But it has forced everyone else to have the argument. #Europe #Politics

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

3/7 And this is the bit the European liberal establishment keeps missing. You don’t need the far right to win outright to change politics. If 20–25% of voters are willing to vote for them, every other party has to start asking why. #Politics #Europe

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

2/7 Germany’s AfD has gone from protest party to a serious electoral force. France’s National Rally remains hugely competitive. Italy has a right-wing government. Austria, Portugal, Sweden and others are seeing the same basic trend. This isn’t a fringe phenomenon anymore. #Europe #FarRight

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

1/7 The far right hasn’t“taken over” Europe.That’s lazy analysis. But pretending it isn’t having major electoral success is just as stupid. Across Europe,far-right parties are winning serious chunks of the vote and forcing mainstream parties to respond. #Europe #Politics #UKpolitics #EUpolitics

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

12/12 The RNLI’s willingness to respond should never become an excuse for government to keep expanding what volunteers are expected to do. Goodwill isn’t an infinite resource. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

11/12 If we’re quietly turning a volunteer charity into another emergency service because the state needs more capacity, let’s have that debate honestly. Don’t hide it behind volunteer goodwill. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

10/12 The trustees have a difficult job: help people in genuine danger while protecting the volunteers who make the service possible. That balance becomes harder as demands keep increasing. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

9/12 Supporting the RNLI means protecting its volunteers too. We shouldn’t wait until people are physically or psychologically broken before admitting we’ve asked too much of them. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

8/12 These volunteers have jobs, families and lives outside the RNLI. They’re not an endless pool of emergency responders who can absorb ever-increasing demands without consequences. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

7/12 Suicide callouts deserve particular attention too. Repeatedly sending volunteers into traumatic incidents, especially around known suicide hotspots, carries a psychological cost. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

6/12 We’re asking volunteers to deal with increasingly complex incidents while facing growing political and public hostility. At some point, you have to ask whether that’s sustainable. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

5/12 Imagine volunteering to save lives, then facing abuse from people who believe you’re providing a taxi service for refugees. Whatever your politics, those volunteers don’t deserve that. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

4/12 And now volunteers face increasing public hostility, with some portraying the RNLI as little more than a “taxi service” for migrants crossing the Channel. That hostility has consequences. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

3/12 Every new demand carries a cost. Physical risk is obvious. Psychological harm is less visible, but repeatedly exposing volunteers to traumatic incidents has consequences too. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

2/12 The Coastguard is a statutory emergency service. The RNLI is a charity powered by volunteers. They work together, but they aren’t interchangeable. That distinction matters. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

1/12 The RNLI is a volunteer lifeboat service, not an unlimited extension of the state. We need to be very careful how much more we expect volunteers to take on. #RNLI

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

8/8 This shouldn’t be a left-versus-right argument. Austerity matters. Social change matters. Crime matters. Police leadership matters. But none answers the fundamental question: is the British policing model still fit for purpose, and if not, what should replace it? #Policing #UKPolitics

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

7/8 And there is an uncomfortable choice. We can keep the existing model and accept that some incidents will stretch forces severely. Or we can redesign it. But redesigning policing means deciding what Britain actually expects its police to do—and paying for the capability to do it. #UK

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

6/8 Do we need stronger national coordination? More standing public-order capability? Different arrangements for major incidents? More specialist national resources that can be deployed rapidly without stripping ordinary policing from another force? These are legitimate questions. #Policing

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

5/8 So perhaps the debate shouldn’t simply be “more police” versus “less police”. What should the police actually be responsible for? What should be national? What should remain local? And which demands should be removed from policing altogether? #Police #Reform

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

4/8 At the same time, policing remains geographically fragmented. Forces have finite resources and enormous areas to cover. A major operation in one place doesn’t remove the need to police everywhere else. That creates a fundamental capacity problem. #Policing #Resources

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

3/8 But Britain has changed enormously. More people, greater diversity, more complex identities, organised crime, online radicalisation, protests, terrorism and increasingly complicated safeguarding demands have all expanded what we expect the police to deal with. #UK #Police

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

2/8 Britain’s model was built around policing by consent: relatively unarmed officers, public cooperation, local legitimacy and the assumption that most people accept the authority of the police. That’s a very different model from policing through constant coercion. #PolicingByConsent

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

1/8 The left points to austerity. The right points to social change. Both can point to real problems. But there’s a bigger question neither side seems particularly keen to ask: does Britain’s policing model still fit the society it is now expected to police? #Policing #UK

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

7/7 That’s why today’s policing debates can’t be understood simply by counting officers or arrests. The operating environment has changed dramatically since the early 2000s. The question is whether Britain’s policing model has kept pace with it. #UK #Policing

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

6/7 Meanwhile, the police didn’t suddenly receive unlimited resources. Forces still had the same basic problem: finite officers covering enormous geographical areas while facing an increasingly complicated range of demands. #Police #Resources

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

5/7 Policing had to adapt. More community engagement, more specialist expertise, more sensitivity around identity and more resources devoted to preventing tensions from becoming disorder. None of that comes for free. #Policing #PublicOrder

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

4/7 And this wasn’t just about ethnicity or immigration. Britain was changing economically, culturally and socially at the same time. Traditional institutions were losing authority while social identities were becoming more fragmented. #UKPolitics #Society

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

3/7 That created a new policing challenge: maintaining legitimacy across increasingly diverse communities with different experiences, expectations and relationships with authority. The old assumption of one broadly shared social environment became harder to sustain. #Police

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

2/7 Britain’s police model had evolved around a society where local communities, institutions and police generally had deep familiarity with each other. Rapid demographic change inevitably disrupted some of those established relationships. #Policing #UK

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

1/7 The early 2000s were a turning point. Britain became substantially more diverse in a relatively short period. That wasn’t simply a demographic change. It changed the social environment in which British institutions, including policing, had to operate. #UK #Policing

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

6/6 The real danger isn’t multiculturalism simply meaning different people living here.It’s the destruction of the shared assumptions that make British policing possible in the first place. You cannot dismantle social cohesion & expect policing by consent to magically survive intact. #UKPolitics

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

5/6 The contradiction nobody wants to confront. A society can be diverse,but it still needs a shared civic framework.If every group is encouraged to see itself primarily as a separate community with separate interests,the British model of policing by consent becomes progressively harder to sustain.

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

4/6 And when voluntary cooperation disappears, the state has only one remaining substitute: enforcement. More officers. More surveillance. More public-order resources. More arrests. More coercion. The supposedly tolerant model becomes increasingly dependent on force. #Police #PublicOrder

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

3/6 You cannot endlessly weaken the idea of a shared civic culture and then act surprised when policing becomes harder. Consent depends on legitimacy. Legitimacy depends on trust. Trust requires some common ground. Remove the common ground and the whole equation starts to fail. #PolicingByConsent

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

2/6 Multiculturalism becomes a problem when it stops meaning diversity and starts meaning separation. Different communities living by different social norms, distrusting institutions and retreating into their own identities is toxic to a policing model built on shared legitimacy. #SocialCohesion

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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

1/6 Britain’s policing model is built on consent. It assumes people broadly trust the state, accept the law, cooperate with police and share enough civic norms to live together without constant coercion. That isn’t a minor detail. It is the foundation. #Policing #UK

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Mikey🚚 @vanandcamera.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

“Strategic defence planning and foresight” in the bio, yet apparently no grasp of the most basic principle: context. Comparing arrests at peaceful civil disobedience with reported intimidation and far-right mobilisation is intellectually pathetic. That isn’t security analysis. It’s lazy nonsense.

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Mikey🚚 @vanandcamera.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Glad to be back in Paris again..🇫🇷

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Mikey🚚 @vanandcamera.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

Yeah, I’m fine with people like this blocking me..🤣

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Mikey🚚 @vanandcamera.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

When I started out as a 🚚 25 years ago, 80% of my load was to high streets and similar.. Nowadays, it’s less than 5%, with the exception of Christmas, where it might reach 20-25%

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Mikey🚚 @vanandcamera.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Disagreeing with certain climate policies doesn’t mean you disagree that climate change is happening. If you genuinely can’t see the difference between accepting the science and questioning a particular policy response, you’re probably just thick #Subtweet

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Mikey🚚 @vanandcamera.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Anyway, a driver got all his contracts cancelled yesterday after they found 20 cans of empty Stella cans in his van.. Whoops..

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