# ![@PippaMusgrave1 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::284966113.png) @PippaMusgrave1 Pippa Musgrave

Pippa Musgrave posts on X about money, inflation, edinburgh, tariffs the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@GavinC86 @Femi_Sorry @DougFuters As the WTO editor of Bloomberg said 'There are no sharks in Lake Geneva but there are plenty at the WTO: and they smell blood in the water'. And going to WTO tariff regime from zero tariffs or EU negotiated lower tariffs is immediate economic sanctions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1287113482484293635)  2020-07-25T19:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GavinC86 @Femi_Sorry @DougFuters and then there are all the non-tariff barriers which are effective sanctions regulatory alignment and equivalence rules of origin phytosanitary standards etc etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1287113880972464129)  2020-07-25T19:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Unnamedinsider @MichaelRosenYes I went on the Carlsberg Brewery tour. The gates of the brewery are supported by two pillars. At the base of each pillar is an elephant with a Swastika on it's side. This is the old Carlsberg logo and Hitler pinched it from his days in the beer halls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1882051833188983256)  2025-01-22T13:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mathtick @TheMaineWonk Sorry what planet do you live on The Swastika taken by Hitler the world's most famous fascist is a symbol of the left. Clearly your brain is a solid lump of bratwurst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1966216255670493617)  2025-09-11T19:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mathtick @TheMaineWonk Hitler pinched the Swastika it was at the time he was in the Beer halls part of the logo of Carlsberg lager. Hitler reversed it and put it on the red background. If you visit the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen you will see two swastika clad elephants either side of the gates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1966221495803457612)  2025-09-11T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@FellTolla @BBCWorld And in [----] the USA signed a treaty with Denmark giving up any claim. They also agreed that Greenland was a Danish protectorate when the US purchased the US Virgin Islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2013261027597488278)  2026-01-19T14:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@221B_ELEMENTARY Brett like David Suchet's Poirot owned the part"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2014077702672650720)  2026-01-21T20:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mhordern1 @GregHadfield @UKLabour The MPs pension scheme is in line with other public service schemes. The retiree gets their pension early (based on their contributions to the scheme). They do not get their full salary. He may have private insurance to cover ill health but that will be paid by the insurer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2015742624590627111)  2026-01-26T11:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RoyRogers_HTMS Yup he uses the two fingers together often on the same string he is picking with his thumb. Claw hammer is the thumb and the two fingers separately to pluck different strings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016210838713966995)  2026-01-27T18:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ali__samson And I suspect this is before Braverman's defection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016460431104081942)  2026-01-28T10:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@shillman1 I read one review that described Melania as "Syphilis for the eyes""  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016463120135286788)  2026-01-28T10:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@gapper__X @DiscussingFilm the boys split into two groups the older bigger boys become the hunters whilst the smaller boys become gatherers. It starts well when the boys set up a democratic system using a conch shell but it breaks down. Tthe younger boys become the hunted. It's about societal breakdown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016606782664171751)  2026-01-28T20:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mindofprospect The first two years of a parliament you do the difficult unpopular stuff. And you try to give yourself a run up of good news to the election. Barring external events (e.g. a financial crash) you should be fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016639845284663551)  2026-01-28T22:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@itvpeston @JakeBerry Starmer has not cancelled elections. As wit the last local government reorganisation Councils which are due to be abolished were given a choice hold the election for a [--] year council or wait for the new authority. Some have chosen to wait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016821938518184243)  2026-01-29T10:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@100Climbs The guy on the left clearly got the end of his handlebars in the plums"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016936733732962484)  2026-01-29T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Hot_Pepper76 Elton John"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2016937294586900864)  2026-01-29T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@B_Disappointed @Steven_Swinford He hasn't given the Chagos islands to China a deal was done with Mauritius (by James Cleverly under the last Tory government). Currently Chinese consulates and their embassy are in nine different London locations. Perhaps George Smiley is happier that their all in one place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2017178194021904409)  2026-01-30T10:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@furetmansard @CarlZha Macron is a head of state. He appoints the French Prime Minister. Hence the ceremonials. Starmer is not a head of state King Charles is thus the lack of ceremony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2017204030842327135)  2026-01-30T11:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BBCBreaking He clearly stated he was not a protestor but there as a journalist. He interviewed protestors the pastor and members of the congregation. No way this prosecution will stick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2017281224725676128)  2026-01-30T16:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@atrupar Dorothy Squires the actress was declared a vexatious litigant. The case that did it was TV presenter Michael Aspel describing Roger Moore's partner as 'his wife' when Moore was still married to Squires when introducing the BAFTAS. A direct parallel is evident"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018220776264990983)  2026-02-02T07:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bambibristol Ahem correction there has been evolution with the breakfast not Anderson. Or shall we say mutation with the infiltration of the American Hash Brown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018221251789996179)  2026-02-02T07:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RichardERoeper Odysseus was fictional"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018226942135124381)  2026-02-02T07:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@emzanotti Alexander the Great of Macedon in Greece was blonde with blue eyes and tinted his hair with saffron"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018227902802727111)  2026-02-02T07:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sleepyamel [--]. You didn't have to be born in Italy to be a Roman citizen. Indeed there were Roman citizens from across the Empire. At least two of their emperors were Spanish. In the later Roman Empire there were two Capitals one if France the other in Turkey (1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018229983290806703)  2026-02-02T07:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sleepyamel [--]. Alexander the Great according the Greek writing about him was blonde with blue eyes and tinted his hair with Saffron to make it golden(2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018230310052274360)  2026-02-02T07:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HenriettaSnacks And Helen of Troy (actually from Sparta) was a mythical character. Her father was Zeus who impregnated her mother Leda whilst disguised as a swan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018232062893822237)  2026-02-02T07:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JoshPhillipsPhD [--]. We have no idea who Homer actually was [--]. He weaved the Trojan War into the Iliad and the Odyssey but both are works of fiction. Think an ancient Greek version of Where Eagles Dare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018232943043322342)  2026-02-02T08:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Mr_Andrew_Fox Humour or parody is a defence. Reminds me of Dorothy Squires who was declared a vexatious litigant. She sued the TV presenter Michael Aspel (hosting the BAFTAS) for describing Roger Moore's partner as his wife when he was married to Squires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018253115372224653)  2026-02-02T09:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PaulWillia25481 @Bricktop_NAFO Vexatious litigant. Like Dorothy Squires he sues at the drop of a hat. (she sued left right and centre over her marriage to Roger Moore (making Moore's life hell)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018265728810414082)  2026-02-02T10:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CliveMyrieBBC He said more than that. He talked of a rebuild and a new 'entertainment complex' which suggests the current building is to be demolished"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018274424542151149)  2026-02-02T10:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ErikUnchained Angus Young plays through SIX count them SIX linked [---] watt Marshalls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018298789526708247)  2026-02-02T12:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Skye_Gunn @RichardERoeper Schlieman's discovery was disputed for decades. Only in the 50s was it confirmed as the likely location of Troy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018386577123102843)  2026-02-02T18:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RossMcCaff Perhaps journalists need to fluff his ego. Remember the Frost/Nixon interviews David Frost spent two hours fluffing Nixon's ego and then destroyed him with virtually the last question he asked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018591286396420390)  2026-02-03T07:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@MrJamesMay @Civixplorer And it the UK we use Fahrenheit when it's hot and Celsius when it's cold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018591813553254765)  2026-02-03T07:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BobFromAccounts And the money to repair/replace it was diverted to Boris Johnson's abandoned Garden Bridge. It was spent without a brick being laid or a turf lifted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018592931523817944)  2026-02-03T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Steven_Swinford The legislation is not complex. It's a single sentence bill which can be fully debated in both houses in an afternoon. While he is at it he can add Michelle Mone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018689290784387569)  2026-02-03T14:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@lewis_goodall Profumo resigned but there was never any proof he passed secrets to or even met the Russian officer who new his girlfriend. He then spent the rest of his life helping the homeless in London. Not only did Mandelson pass confidential information to Epstein he lied about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2018758917371670644)  2026-02-03T18:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@anon_opin As written the amendment makes sense. What doesn't make sense is the modern interpretation placed on it. It was a measure to allow states to create a militia (i.e. the national guard) not to allow a numbnuts to own a machine gun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019082308188328283)  2026-02-04T16:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheRealThelmaJ1 Columbus never set foot in the Continental United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019173342931009612)  2026-02-04T22:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TheRealThelmaJ1 Columbus landed in the Bahamas. He explored the Caribbean and the coast of Central America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019173892393476332)  2026-02-04T22:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ConfessionsPete Philby his treason was absolute. He likely caused the deaths of hundreds of people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019456160701575410)  2026-02-05T17:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ConfessionsPete Stewart Copeland the drummer with the police remembers going to the Philby's for parties when Philby was operating in Lebanon and Copeland's father was thr CIA head at the US embassy in Beruit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019456844318527864)  2026-02-05T17:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HCH_Hill In what way is 'his government collapsing around him' Which ministers have resigned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019461162090324128)  2026-02-05T17:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@neilfissler Nope. It's only Thursday because of yhe Winter Olympics. It's a weekend tournament"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019516869280223384)  2026-02-05T21:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Geoff_McGivern Any challenger needs 20% of the parliamentary Labour Party simply to challenge. The sitting Prime Minister needs nothing. Profumo and Philby didn't do for MacMillan Stonehouse didn't do for Wilson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019519827740622873)  2026-02-05T21:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@jonallenpt @opusdeath @OliDugmore It was two adverts. Make the half time ad break longer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2019744533584478381)  2026-02-06T12:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BoffsGunners @mark_toshner Bit young still at school and only [--]. Give him time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020096327053717752)  2026-02-07T11:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@hampson_d @ROB_Robireland @Scotlandteam And they did it at Edinburgh too gave a two year extension to a coach when the team was sitting 11th in the table (now 13th)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020175143817953410)  2026-02-07T16:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GeorgeLouden @BBCSportScot Rubbish form at Edinburgh. Kinghorn playing wing or stand off for Toulouse and he had a horrible Autimn series"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020235117881380901)  2026-02-07T20:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@fionasins_ Carlisle smells of biscuits. Half of Chester city centre is lovely the other half is the dregs of Liverpool. And they really need to do something about the empty Debenhams on Chester High Street that has been unoccupied for a decade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020394133966197198)  2026-02-08T07:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@MichaelRosenYes Not true. Horizon was a project of Post Office Counters Ltd a private company and not part of Royal Mail. There was no government sign off. Does the government have to sign off the EPOS system at Tesco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020396478326542386)  2026-02-08T07:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@timecaptales He's only copying Roger Moore in For Your Eyes Only"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020582217714651223)  2026-02-08T19:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@markscheram @amyy_claire When you record you often double track play things twice. You may also play harmony and melody. Each track is recorded separately. You can't do that live. Lots of bands use additional musicians e.g. Iron Maiden's keyboard parts are played by Steve Harris's bass tech off stage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020826365604540859)  2026-02-09T11:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@markscheram @amyy_claire And David Gilmour started out playing Syd Barrett's guitar parts off stage (Syd was high)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020826702784688354)  2026-02-09T11:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@markscheram @amyy_claire Prince and Stevie Wonder played virtually everything on their recordings alone. How many musicians did they play with on stage Nirvana always had Pat Smear with them and at least two Foo Fighters albums are just Dave Grohl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020829520375480591)  2026-02-09T11:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@marknelsoncomic Except one of NFL Europe's most successful teams was based at Murrayfield and before that my brother played tight end for Edinburgh in the British league. it's still a pretty popular sport in the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020856814443622532)  2026-02-09T13:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@goldegundogan At least the 'world series' has the Toronto Blue Jays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020862335833747669)  2026-02-09T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@alexmassie It's utterly mad. Thatcher made mistakes galore and had ministerial resignations galore and was PM for [--] years. MacMillan had Philby and the Cambridge Spies Wilson had Stonehouse Blair had no end of controversy they weren't hounded out of office"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020882257011986569)  2026-02-09T15:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@alexmassie Is this the government of the UK in [----] or Italy in 1978"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020882381893251181)  2026-02-09T15:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@KevinASchofield Cabinet ministers publicly backing Starmer: Douglas Alexander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020886189608460399)  2026-02-09T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@FXMC1957 and brother of Taggart star Mark McManus a fact McManus only learned after Connoly had died. The were both adopted and separated as toddlers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020889175344455856)  2026-02-09T15:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@gilescoren @3violetMistyblu James May went to the Italian Riviera for a two day test drive of the new Ferrari supercar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2020939415544266899)  2026-02-09T19:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Osint613 The Cabinet Secretary IS NOT Labour Party staff like Allen and McSweeney. He is head of the Civil Service and supposedly politically neutral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021152146645799044)  2026-02-10T09:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@esjesjesj No individual organization or nation can claim ownership of the Moon due to international law specifically the Outer Space Treaty of [----] which designates the Moon as the "province of all mankind." Space Convention of 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021162083492954235)  2026-02-10T09:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BrianCa26943682 @esjesjesj No individual organization or nation can claim ownership of the Moon due to international law specifically the Outer Space Treaty of [----] which designates the Moon as the "province of all mankind." Outer Space treaty 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021162285062861002)  2026-02-10T10:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ArtyMartyGiles @AstroJoeB The capsule inside the foil is pretty sturdy. the foil protected electronics on the exterior of the lander from solar radiation. And in space in [----] there was little debris that could damage the craft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021164243899351121)  2026-02-10T10:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dennisbhooper Malcolm is the Prime Minister's fixer and press secretary. It was his job to manage the government's image. He was partly based on Alistair Campbell. There is a character later on brought in as a 'trouble shooter' who was based on Peter Mandleson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021167035904880757)  2026-02-10T10:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@anon_opin The RNLI Coastguard Lighthouses and Mountain Rescue have ALWAYS been charities. The RNLI still covers all of the UK the Isle of Man the Channel Islands AND the Republic of Ireland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021174306974118091)  2026-02-10T10:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@lewis_goodall The Cabinet Secretary is a civil servant. He works at the cabinet office not Number [--]. I suggest you watch the Yes Prime Minister episode The Key"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021195052752466380)  2026-02-10T12:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@shashj I would argue it isn't the prime minister's job to be popular. Thatcher was rarely as a person popular. The Prime Minister's job is to do the things that put the country in a place to succeed and often that means doing things that are very unpopular"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021205171318227107)  2026-02-10T12:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Marcus70672192 Vietnam is still a communist dictatorship difficult if you're not a communist. There are a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses from Georgia who seek asylum for religious persecution. If you're in much of Africa you can't be gay. Many refugees seek asylum from 'stable' countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021225352740135421)  2026-02-10T14:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Marcus70672192 If you're a Kurd Iraq might not be the best place to be Or an Iranian Arab or Christian. If your from Tibet you might not want to be under the Chinese rule. If your from Nepal and have a relative who is a Ghurka the local communist rebels might be an issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021226344718164432)  2026-02-10T14:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@vurnt22 Rick Parfitt of Status Quo used incredibly heavy strings but then he was hissing the guitar incredibly hard and 9s or 10s would have lasted minutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021257109686329720)  2026-02-10T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@navic_ular An incredibly troubled and troubling man. Paedo Alcoholic Drug addict"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021258270942359609)  2026-02-10T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@navic_ular Griff Rhys Jones owes him his career after Langham was sacked from Not the Nine O'Clock News"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021258482159124810)  2026-02-10T16:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@jurgen_nauditt Switzerland doesn't have a prime minister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021578924145119738)  2026-02-11T13:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@lifeinchaos_ Rubbish. It's the BCG vaccination mark. I live in the UK and like all my family I have it. You get it in secondary school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021673174241620117)  2026-02-11T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DahlgrenFella @MAstronomers It's on Voyager [--] now beyond the solar system and heading into interstellar space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021708010255528023)  2026-02-11T22:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Dplanet @dom_lucre @grok He's not an innovator. An innovator finds applications for scientific and technical research. Musk is the money man. Tesla is an example a company started by to engineers. Musk provided the funding became a director and then removed the two original founders from the board"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021853680316596313)  2026-02-12T07:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@thepaulwilliams Yes. League results show it as to club European results. The issue is the coach. Townsend's team is like Townsend the player at times brilliant but at other times woeful. (Ashman should have been nowhere near the team and Jordan is not proven even at club level at fullback)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021872167734894680)  2026-02-12T09:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GallagherPreach @SenJohnKennedy @POTUS It's the same as Trump's dead voters. In some states the widow is named in their husband's name e.g. Mrs Joe Bloggs'. So these are likely checks to military widows and others receiving widows pensions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021874578734076110)  2026-02-12T09:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Darana878 @SenJohnKennedy @POTUS It's the same nonsense as Trump's 'dead voters'. In some states widows are listed in their husband's name e.g. Mrs Joe Bloggs what you are likely looking at is the payment of military and federal widow's pensions. Some of these go back a long way. (1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2021875642644803918)  2026-02-12T09:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheRickyDavila Stopped by a federal judge. The Historic Preservation Society sued and won. Trump has laid a nonsense appeal. Trump illegally demolished the east wing and now argues the demolition endangers him and makes security more difficult so he has to build to make the White House safe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022217023619784771)  2026-02-13T07:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Merrydawg The original Celsius scale has [--] for boiling water and [---] for the triple point (thereabouts actually 0.01). Centigrade switched it to [---] for boiling water"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022228665875276025)  2026-02-13T08:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@55SweetThing Invented track by track recording and tape echo amongst other things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022348656020697379)  2026-02-13T16:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rugby_ap This time last year I was doing my MBA at Brown now I'm leading the review. Cricket that's a bit like baseball isn't it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022362896496509022)  2026-02-13T17:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JohnBensalhia Of course it's Sir Richard now given his long work with disabled children and music therapy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022421708226064738)  2026-02-13T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DMAC1971VET There for the adjustment Allen keys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022438979766014291)  2026-02-13T22:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@darrenshore So much of British hero he pissed off to Monaco to evade his taxes. He promised a car plant in the UK but built it in Slovakia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022450339551809711)  2026-02-13T23:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RucksSake Not wgat the referee said. He said one more penalty by that player (Fagerson) and he is off for a yellow. Fagerson was then substituted. The next warningcwas for any player in the scrum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2023171765271200051)  2026-02-15T23:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@fruitdotzip The 5th Beatle long list: Stuart Sutcliffe Pete Best Sir George Martin Billy Preston Eric Clapton Brian Epstein Chas Newby Jimmie Nicol Neil Aspinall Derek Taylor Tony Sheridan Andy White"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022226257493340540)  2026-02-13T08:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Streettough This bloke's 'charity is backed by the likes of Philip Morris the tobacco firm. It's just another right wing sock puppet organisation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022983766193705101)  2026-02-15T10:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Bricktop_NAFO He had to go back to Spain to avoid a massive tax bill. He now needs to spend [--] days in Spain. His next march is set for - [--] days time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2023013850782835145)  2026-02-15T12:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@richardpbacon Question: Is it Donald Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2023303848958271810)  2026-02-16T07:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BslMartyn @Photomusicrock Roger Glover Ian Paice and Ian Gillan. Keyboards is Don Airey who was in Rainbow and Black Sabbath and Whitesnake. Simon Mcbride is the relative newcomer after Steve Morse left to care for his wife who has terminal cancer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022668304679383046)  2026-02-14T13:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@GyllKing If you see who funds his charity it's people like Philip Morris and big tobacco. Just another right wing sock puppet organisation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022740713398796298)  2026-02-14T18:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@WilliamDevllin Which he didn't last week. A 5:3 bench in a monsoon Ashman and many wwre sayng Brown ahead of Gilchrist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2022760430213411253)  2026-02-14T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mralistairgreen Net migration to the UK in [----] was around [------]. So the population wasn't stable it was growing. the big jump in numbers took place in [----] when Theresa May decided to add foreign students to the immigration figures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/2023437979931566157)  2026-02-16T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Annaisaac @Independent @SamuelMarcLowe Also worth mentioning it isn't just one UK mark it's two. Northern Irish manufacturers and importers sending goods to Great Britain will need to mark UKCA NI. It is a truly demented situation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1429930110027804681)  2021-08-23T22:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BorisJohnson Hello Boris. Weights and Measures Inspector here. Sorry to dispel your latest bit of kite flying. [--]. The UK transferring to metric measures had bugger all to do with our EU membership. (1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1438559713604608003)  2021-09-16T17:45Z [----] followers, 25.9K engagements


""To deviate from the metric system would introduce significant bureaucracy to trade adversely affect the free movement of goods and undermine the UK's position as a signatory of the METRE convention." (2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1438888389244248071)  2021-09-17T15:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The report continues: "The trade in goods sold by reference to mass is worth 622bn annually. Divergence from existing legal arrangements would be isolationist. It would represent higher costs and less choice for both consumers and industry". (3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1438889672831291393)  2021-09-17T15:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mrjamesob @IanDunt A dead cat is duly cremated: Scotland-Northern Ireland bridge scrapped over 335bn cost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1464229191285719044)  2021-11-26T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@disco_socialist @kinjaldave7 Most of them didn't have a choice. Often it was taking the King's Shilling in the army prison or transportation to Australia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1549059149857792011)  2022-07-18T15:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Marcus_Aure1ius @BestForBritain @D_Blanchflower Money bill So effectively a confidence vote. If bill vote is lost - election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1574793379396845569)  2022-09-27T16:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OJStreets @AntonSpisak @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Also most EU regulations work on a type approval basis. So you test once and have a certificate of approval. You then have quality assurance in place to ensure standardised production"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1612114510093103108)  2023-01-08T15:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OJStreets @AntonSpisak @Jacob_Rees_Mogg It may be appropriate to take samples or batch test as part of your QA procedures based on approved risk assessment protocols. But you wouldn't test every single item. Oh and I have never seen electrical conductivity testing at a cost of 25000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1612115020573474817)  2023-01-08T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@fralundh @general_ben @MarkHertling They'll take one look at the cost of a beer in Oslo and forget it (roughly $20)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1661669950598131713)  2023-05-25T09:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BrianSpanner1 off to do some merchant banking in his croft. Ian Blackford to stand down as SNP MP at next election - Superb 👍🏼 https://t.co/x5LITYxYql Ian Blackford to stand down as SNP MP at next election - Superb 👍🏼 https://t.co/x5LITYxYql"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1666173449293688833)  2023-06-06T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AgentP22 Off to do some merchant banking in his croft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1666219598394404864)  2023-06-06T23:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@51TJK @BBC UK inflation isn't driven by domestic demand. It's driven by external shock and supply side issues (e.g. lack of migrant labour). You can't treat supply side inflation with interest rates. They are a tool to dampen excess demand in your economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1672647475927175171)  2023-06-24T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@EuropeanPowell Stagflation is a low productivity growth economy with high inflation. It is an economy with supply side issues (e.g. lack of labour and high labour costs expensive imports). Interest rates are an effort to calm domestic demand not address supply side issues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1673023338829021186)  2023-06-25T17:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mickrab @The_ChrisShaw @RaymondSnoddy @MrRobertBob1 @martindvz @skiduffer I can see where it comes from. Thatcher in the 80s and Major in the 90s. Both raised interest rates. But they did it to shore up Sterling after currency crises and both times it resulted in a big recession"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1673094379081195520)  2023-06-25T22:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mrjamesob The UK has a supply side inflation problem. It isn't driven by excess domestic demand. So Interest rates are the wrong tool. So you create a recession to dampen demand (possibly deliberately) without sorting the sources of the inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1673262964617404416)  2023-06-26T09:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Also you cannot grow the economy whilst using interest rates to dampen domestic demand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1673263127511592960)  2023-06-26T09:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@EricIdle Nineteen for him and one for me. The issue in the UK isn't the tax rate (45% above the highest threshold). it's that income tax allowances haven't kept up with inflation so the lowest earners see a higher proportion of income going to the taxman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1673350986838994945)  2023-06-26T15:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ItsJohnRain @JohnGlenUK @RachelReevesMP This from a government using a demand side tool (interest rates) to try and reduce supply side inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1673587663490674688)  2023-06-27T07:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LBC @NickFerrariLBC @MelJStride You can't treat supply side inflation with demand side medicine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1674116675094863875)  2023-06-28T18:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Geoff_McGivern @mrchrisaddison I'm allowed for being positive but when the started the short stuff the answer was simple plunder ones and twos. England were still scoring at five an over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1674551920256491521)  2023-06-29T22:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Haggis_UK And a significant factor in the size of the tax burden is the failure to increase income tax allowances with inflation meaning that those on lower pay proportionally have more of their income taxed also means a lot of middle earners have shifted into the 40p band"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1677974288584916992)  2023-07-09T10:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ToddCoxeter @quantick A very senior Labour source told me Keir Starmer interrupted Ed Miliband to say in his opinion England should play Foukes as wicket keeper in the next test"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1678063438247915520)  2023-07-09T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@mrjamesob Nelson took pickled cabbage and coleslaw on his ships and although they hated it the crews were under orders to eat it. Cabbage has a high vitamin C level and being pickled it lasted longer than lemons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1678700821633007617)  2023-07-11T09:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mrjamesob I'm old enough to remember getting free school milk. I also remember being given a weekly vitamin C pill at school. PE took place outdoors. the free milk has gone and PE now takes place indoors as the playing field is now flats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1678705389586505729)  2023-07-11T10:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@paullewismoney Lobbying by the credit card firms Removal of joint liability is a drastic blow to consumer rights. Wasn't EU legislation it was part of the UK law long before the consumer credit directive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1678772012318363648)  2023-07-11T14:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@5goalthriller Avacado hand as she says people were trying to hit the stone with the blade of the knife missing and severely cutting their hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1678787748608475139)  2023-07-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Justine_F1 @LBC @TomSwarbrick1 No Johnson was using his personal phone for government business. The security services stepped in when they became aware his personal mobile number was in the public domain. He was told to stop using the phone and switch it off.(1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1679545793705811973)  2023-07-13T18:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@stephenlondoner @DavidHenigUK Difference BMWs are high end prestige vehicles. Mass production in the UK Toyota Vauxhall Nissan and even Mini is the mass family car market. Different scale entirely. Also to paraphrase Father Ted Europe is near the Pacific is far away. It's called economic gravity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1680340940253167616)  2023-07-15T22:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@stephenlondoner @DavidHenigUK BMW has a domestic market of 500m prospective customers. A bit bigger than the 67m in the UK. UK BMW buyers already pay a premium for their vehicle. That premium goes up a bit. Likely they will still buy. (1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1680343066782179328)  2023-07-15T22:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@EmporersNewC That statement is frankly bollocks. Our roads were notoriously bad badly signed and it took ages to get anywhere as most of the motorway network was being built. I remember the run from Linlithgow to Edinburgh when I was a kid. It was like going on the big dipper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1687524177731829760)  2023-08-04T18:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@StevePeers @SangitaMyska @redhistorian Utter nonsense. We had thousands of civil servants but the empire was run on patronage. So we shipped the Indian middle class and Anglo-Indians to Africa and the Caribbean to act as clerks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1689385638670262273)  2023-08-09T21:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mrjamesob @mrjamesob The problem with independence reporting is it often focusses on the fluff not the necessary detail. e.g. Currency: Scotland will need a new currency for EU membership. That currency will need to be liquid i.e. have enough money in circulation to enable transactions. 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1690022200017883136)  2023-08-11T15:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@nikneJRednaxela @mrjamesob The Czech Republic and Slovakia were both already EU members. The shared their existing currency. The UK leaving the EU means Scotland cannot share Sterling as the UK is no longer in the EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1690639453931319296)  2023-08-13T08:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nikneJRednaxela @mrjamesob The didn't. Czech Republic & Slovakia shared the Zloty. Both were in the EU. The UK is no longer an EU member. You cannot apply to be a member of the EU without full fiscal control i.e. not sharing a currency with a non-member state not pegging to that currency or unofficial use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1690722964574982144)  2023-08-13T13:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nikneJRednaxela @mrjamesob So Scotland cannot do what the Czech Republic and Slovakia did. The only way Scotland could apply is a new currency which is stable and not pegged and an independent Scotland wouldn't have sufficient liquidity reserves the ensure stability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1690723936114188288)  2023-08-13T13:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@davesumnersmith @RishiSunak He won't halve inflation this year. And he doesn't control the tools the BoE do. Debt is going up not down. NHS waiting lists are at an all time high. The job market is terrible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1691003413171965952)  2023-08-14T08:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@EddieRobson I presume cost of film which couldn't be reused against video tape which could but the cut the cost of the film by using 16mm not 32mm (the usual TV standard)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1693657542679769259)  2023-08-21T16:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AlexTaylorNews It's not the food quality necessarily it's that the food has moved through the retailer green lane for disposal solely within NI (single health cert for the lorry not each product). Asda have jumped the gun the scheme hasn't started yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1694423279031714031)  2023-08-23T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mrjamesob I tweeted last week that petrol had gone up 5p a litre in under [--] days. It's up another 3p a litre today. Looks like inflation isn't going to fall next month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1694663161335484758)  2023-08-24T10:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PenkeymanR @richardpbacon Yes because electric vehicles do not pay road tax. As we shift from internal combustion to electric then there is a massive drop off in revenue which primarily goes into repairing road infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1696115601171771655)  2023-08-28T11:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrHelenFry Operation Mincemeat which most historians now agree had absolutely zero impact on the invasion of Sicily"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1696446459271352685)  2023-08-29T08:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@carryonkeith The RSPB began when middle class wildfowlers complained there was little to shoot. It was also a reaction against the use or rare bird feathers in the hats of upper class women. You couldn't get a more middle class organisation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1697010584502337804)  2023-08-30T22:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BrianSpanner1 She's going to provide a wardrobe for him to hide in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1697646343022424440)  2023-09-01T16:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Hilary_W If you look on google maps the burning man site is a good [--] mile drive away from the nearest paved road. Yoy have to drive over the desert floor which has turned to Porridge. The site is effectively a dried up lake bed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1698596771377639692)  2023-09-04T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mrjamesob He has no control over the levers to control inflation (interest rates and money supply are in the hands of the independent BoE)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1698602178275954988)  2023-09-04T07:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@edwinhayward The Bank of England control interest rates not the treasury. The decision to bring them down is not his to take"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1698605582859542808)  2023-09-04T07:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Herring1967 He has since admitted that the decision to end the project was his biggest mistake in government. More recently in [----] when the DoE asked for more money for school buildings Sunak as Chancellor said no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1698607686705717734)  2023-09-04T08:03Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements


"@Brexit_Works @mrjamesob Labour had the new buildings for schools programme. Hundreds of schools were rebuilt. Gove cancelled the programme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1698953324869923311)  2023-09-05T06:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mrjamesob Ignorance based on arrogance. e.g. I have an HND in business studies so I can be a business consultant; because I described myself as a business consultant I can be an MP. As I was an MP used to describe themselves as a business consultant I can be Defence Secretary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1698997761096519698)  2023-09-05T09:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GeorgeFreemanMP @RishiSunak We were full members. We ere the country which gained most from EU science funding. We effectively led. Yes this is a step forward but don't pretend its equal to what we had"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1699679240415785002)  2023-09-07T07:01Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@StephenCVGraham You can't really have a shadow where there is no equivalent government role. Similarly the mental health brief in government isn't a cabinet position so a shadow role has to match the government one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1699684536311857329)  2023-09-07T07:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@docum3nt @EUflagmafia Gross our EU membership was about 13bn after the rebate. Net after grant funding was taken into account it was 8.5bn. A significant part of the grant funding received into the UK was for scientific resesarch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1699722241808707765)  2023-09-07T09:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@_ThomasHarvey_ They road past my Mum and Dad's a couple of years ago. (The map put the racing line through the lounge). The ended up with a loop around Kelso which would have been unnecessary if they would have raced through North Berwick and come back through the East Lothian back roads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1699739015572762989)  2023-09-07T10:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JCaramac Done when the characters he did best Healy Wilson Heath etc disappeared from the scene and the offers dried up. These days he'd have been offered a game show or even straight acting roles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1700444348381344023)  2023-09-09T09:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JolyonMaugham List of Shropshire Council (Tory) failed financial gambits: [--]. Set up an outsourcing company which failed costing 30m [--]. Sold off Council properties and land in a 'fire sale' at below market valuations [--]. Sold land to a house developer which had a protective covenant (1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1702006853771690377)  2023-09-13T17:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@JolyonMaugham Closed another in an abortive attempt to turn it into a new council HQ. Is now paying a management firm to run all three centres despite two being closed. Total cost to the council 250m"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1702007834530005425)  2023-09-13T17:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@brianmoore666 When watching ITV's rugby commentary why am I always reminded of the Big Train staring championships animations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1702767059451486442)  2023-09-15T19:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SP_Duckworth What did Sark and Alderney do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1703084416946303367)  2023-09-16T16:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@EricIdle @ProfBrianCox Electrons isn't it. When an electron shifts layer it's twin which may be on the other side of the Universe will also shift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1703682959239172403)  2023-09-18T08:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ianssmart Ireland went straight into civil war. They defaulted on their share of UK debt. Forced the tie between the punt and Sterling. Poor man of Europe for [--] years and they had to join the EEC alongside the UK (which were happy to do)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1704144790256820247)  2023-09-19T14:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DmitryOpines And I don't get the 'channelling Thatcher' bit. Didn't work for Truss who basically cosplayed Thatcher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1705507951736176730)  2023-09-23T09:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@euanmccolm My brother was in the bar of a certain North Berwick one July. He was introduced to Craig 'The Walrus' Stadler the US Ryder Cup player. My brother asked him if he was over for the golf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1705567134955233392)  2023-09-23T12:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@profanityswan [--]. It's in the National Park [--]. It likely had a tree preservation order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1707351095616405678)  2023-09-28T11:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DrMatthewSweet He was famous for tall tales. He hated newspaper interviews so would just make stuff up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1707389083201245218)  2023-09-28T13:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@mrjamesob Watching Race Across the World. Travelling from Morocco to northern Norway. European public transport. Its train networks and even its buses put the UK to shame"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1707505667131548149)  2023-09-28T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@UKDefJournal NATO is a nuclear defence organisation. members have to agree to the use and location of nuclear weapons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1707675964795453666)  2023-09-29T08:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mandrea2996 Bear in mind Romania are only in the tournament because Spain fielded an ineligible player in qualifying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1708224034305916966)  2023-09-30T20:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BethRigby How HS2 doesn't go to New Street. There is no rail link for the HS2 train to get to the 'normal' rails. Is there a change of grade. I know the Spanish have bogeys which can move the wheels but has this been budgeted for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1709271882506108930)  2023-10-03T18:19Z [----] followers, 28.1K engagements


"In past times these lies the embellishment of resumes etc would have barred any of these individuals from high office. (5)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1709504344825933893)  2023-10-04T09:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I forgot we have a leader of the Commons who as a Naval reservist got a temporary leadership role and who then went and rented the uniform of the rank which she had not been awarded and had some photos taken"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1709516202173739251)  2023-10-04T10:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GeneralBoles As has been pointed out this picture isn't photoshopped but as one kid is wearing a Kentucky University sweatshirt and another is wearing a Purdue University shirt it was taken in the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1709880320458117144)  2023-10-05T10:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RhonddaBryant And what happens to the land already compulsory purchased. Handed to developers at a fraction of the original purchase price A massively corrupt land grab"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1709948055716261943)  2023-10-05T15:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TobyonTV So we're leaving the Council of Europe along with those bastions of justice Russia and Belarus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1710059345784827958)  2023-10-05T22:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@IanDunt Economically illiterate. The measure of tax cuts is the state of public services and the level of government debt not the rate of inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1716206539663356212)  2023-10-22T21:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DavidHenigUK The issue with local government n England is budgets have been cut to such an extent there isn't the resources to carry out services. Social care is taking an ever larger proportion of council funds. (1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1717810445975740512)  2023-10-27T07:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mrjamesob Listening to the Covid Enquiry. Number [--] was very sweary. Clearly The Thick of It was a documentary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1719322203726963168)  2023-10-31T11:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BethRigby Boris Johnson is now just a newspaper columnist. Scott Morrison is a back bench opposition MP in Australia they are not national leaders and Johnson is no statesman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1721097603415253171)  2023-11-05T09:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Geoff_McGivern This is a civil trial it can only go to the New York appeal court none of the criminal cases can go to the Supreme Court. His plan is to delay until he's back in the White House and pardon himself of the federal crimes. )1_"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1721604402081825057)  2023-11-06T19:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Geoff_McGivern However he cannot pardon himself over the Georgia election interference case. It's questionable whether the President can pardon himself he's not a king. Trump may ne bankrupt and thus be barred from office"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1721605305430085755)  2023-11-06T19:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@joncraig Always been my thought. Don't want a winter election or a clash with the US election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1721969475258323034)  2023-11-07T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@martytyke @KevinASchofield But it's nothing to do with him. The Bank of England controls the levers (interest rates and money supply). And inflation is still far higher than comparable countries e.g. Spain 2.5% US 3.7% Germany 3.8% Japan 2.5% France 4%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1723285088950002012)  2023-11-11T10:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@emilysheffield Target is 2%. And the UK is [--] to [--] points higher than comparable economies. Inflation in Sweden is 0.1% Spain 2.5% Germany 3.5%. The UK is an outlier at the upper end of the distribution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1723335644024361059)  2023-11-11T13:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Geoff_McGivern @BBCSport Always was. Watch the Clive James documentary from the early 80s when the Las Vegas Grand Prix was held in the car park of one of the casinos and a number of the drivers refused to compete over the safety of the course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1725130693603156428)  2023-11-16T12:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@staylorish And to create that new currency you need liquidity reserves. To build those reserves it's austerity on stilts and a further increase to debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1725492883623387200)  2023-11-17T12:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ricardoautobahn @carolvorders [--]. The lender receives a fee for the short term credit. [--]. Greensill Capital offered this service to all businesses. This was not a bad thing (2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1725552998154154036)  2023-11-17T16:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ricardoautobahn @carolvorders [--]. However this credit offer is a low profit business. To increase his profits Greenshill started to offer business loans often very high risk (3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1725553465605190085)  2023-11-17T16:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@staylorish @These_Islands [--]. The EU will not permit an application from a country using a currency from outside the bloc [--]. You need to have full control of your economy lender of last resort interest rates money supply. With Sterling those issues remain with the BoE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1725834982210326596)  2023-11-18T11:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DougChapmanSNP @These_Islands The EU will not accept an application from a country sharing a currency with a no-EU state. You need to have full control of your economy currency money supply interest rates lender of last resort to even apply for EU membership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1725849925810880978)  2023-11-18T12:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@edwinhayward I'll take a guess they've opened a warehouse in France"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1726519491742576906)  2023-11-20T08:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BestForBritain And that's CPI inflation. Hunt stated the halving target related to core inflation on Channel [--] News at the time that was 6.8% and is now 5.8% nowhere near halved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1726932803328389455)  2023-11-21T11:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@imprisonedinuk @NilSlogans @PollingReportUK @UKLabour So the SNP lose [--] seats. Labour gain [--]. There is a First past the post GE next year. There isn't a Holyrood election until 2027"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1726962707977683311)  2023-11-21T13:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Geoff_McGivern The Department for trade also put out a tweet today regarding negotiations with South Korea and at the bottom used the Japanese flag (not good given the former status of Korea when it was a Japanese colony)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1726976519749407163)  2023-11-21T14:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@tim_rosser @sturdyAlex Sure but your income tax threshold has been frozen. It used to go up with inflation. It means your paying about [----] a year in income tax more than you should. The 40% threshold hasn't changed so a lot of middle earners are about to be dragged into the higher tax bracket (1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1727624568393580741)  2023-11-23T09:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@WhatHuwKnew @sturdyAlex What you gain from the NI reduction pales into insignificance because the income tax thresholds haven't bee increased with inflation. Many middle earners will now move into the 40% tax bracket"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1727762329243165096)  2023-11-23T18:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@WhatHuwKnew @sturdyAlex Yes but income tax thresholds haven't increased so you pay more of your salary in tax than you should have to (inflation rises over the last few years would have the threshold at around [-----] not 12000). Also middle earners being drawn into the 40% bracket"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1727762931478126752)  2023-11-23T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SethJacob The BBC is not owned by the British Government. It is not a state broadcaster. It is a public service broadcaster independent of government. If it is owned by anyone it is owned by the people of Britain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1728881772677767527)  2023-11-26T21:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bald1locks @sturdyAlex @MarkJLittlewood Hasn't got the Navy or the Air Force to invade the Falklands. The UK have [----] troops [--] fighter bombers and a frigate on the islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1728916662508978497)  2023-11-26T23:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PickardJE I am reminded of the Yes prime Minister episode where Hacker travels to the middle east and they fill an airliner. They aren't going on their own each will have a gaggle on Civil Servants and security. With the three of them going we could be sending [---] people plus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1730159496918429966)  2023-11-30T09:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JohnWest_JAWS But KIng Charles is centre stage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1730711011571748892)  2023-12-01T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Unnamedinsider Boris Johnson comes early seems to be a first"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1732350991834489300)  2023-12-06T10:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Blogsbloke @IanDunt Nights drawing in heating coming on. Elderly electorate comes out in better weather. And they need the election before more of the Brexit consequences come in e.g. mandatory port inspections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1732463936597877049)  2023-12-06T18:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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