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Andy Williams retweeted
Reform isn't just a party - it's a business empire with unprecedented financial links to crypto and media.
To many, this is fine: a new party with a new power base.
To others, it's illiberal democracy in the making.
At very least, we need the debate:-
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
Andy Williams retweeted
Anthony Gordon blazing a penalty over the bar in a shoot-out to knock us out of the World Cup at 3.30am feels about right
England’s group games are at 9pm, 9pm and 10pm
If we win the group, the potential schedule is:
L32 at 5pm
L16 at 1am
QF at 10pm
If we finish 2nd in the group, it’s:
L32 at midnight
L16 at 8pm
QF at 8pm
If we’re one of the 8 best 3rd place teams, it’s:
L32 at 2.30am
L16 at 9pm
QF at 2am
The SFs and final all kick off at 8pm
Andy Williams retweeted
Called it.
Kim Jong Un re-elected leader of North Korea's ruling party in rare meeting bbc.in/4aKUNW2
Andy Williams retweeted
Jenrick has either plagiarised Geoffrey Howe’s famous resignation speech of 1990 or - more likely - he thinks of *his* resignation as an equally significant moment in Conservative lore.
Jenrick has either plagiarised Geoffrey Howe’s famous resignation speech of 1990 or - more likely - he thinks of *his* resignation as an equally significant moment in Conservative lore.
Andy Williams retweeted
Pathetic performative cowardice. I mean, it's not even a workable lie. A better one would be to pretend it's only the suburbs which are inhabitable, while the centre is lawless. Which obviously wouldn't be true, either, but at least has some remote connection to the actual areas where crime has been going up and down.
Instead they peddle this mad fiction that you can't walk the streets of London after 6pm, like it was 1980s Johannesburg or whatever, when they must KNOW that literally millions of people do this every day and our violent crime statistics have almost never been lower.
Honestly, the new willingness of politicians and pundits on the British right to peddle these mad and blatant lies about their own city, which they see outside their own bloody windows, entirely to curry favour with their American counterparts - who at least have the defence of ignorance - is probably the most contemptible political development of my lifetime.
I actually wouldn't be surprised if they WERE scared to leave the house, but only for fear of people laughing in their faces. What a joke these people are.
London used to be the best city in the world. I loved living and working there. Genuinely loved it. The whole world wanted to be in London. Now? It is a dump.
Outside a few select posh areas right in the middle of the city, it increasingly resembles the third world.
It depresses me so much now, I can’t even tell you. It was our city, our great capital city. The best city. Slowly, but now more and more quickly, it has had its heart torn out.
Gangs of men, very often foreign, roaming around stealing phones with no consequences. Police don’t care, nobody cares. Why would they? We’re told it’s just part and parcel of living in a big city. NO IT’S NOT.
Filthy underground carriages. It stinks. Graffiti everywhere. Fare-dodgers jump the barriers, nobody from TfL does anything. Security guards just stand there gormless. Most don’t even speak proper English. What’s the point in them being there? Honestly?
Decency is becoming less and less common on public transport. If you want to listen to your music, or have a phone call, put your headphones in. PLEASE. We don’t want to hear it your conversation. Obviously. So shut up.
Dreadful ‘candy’ shops EVERYWHERE. Always empty. I’ll say it if nobody else will. It’s MONEY LAUNDERING.
These awful ‘rickshaw’ bikes flying around, blaring out awful noises. Why is nothing done? It’s just insulting to the rest of us. I don’t want to listen to your shitty music. Nobody does.
These e bikes. Just strewn across the streets. Piles of them. It's so damn rude.
Homeless people, everywhere. Genuinely mentally ill people seem to be more and more common, just roaming the streets. We’ve all seen it. There has to be a better way.
And just everywhere is filthy. Rubbish all over. It stinks of weed. The whole place has just got a more menacing feel about it. It’s concerning even holding a phone out in your hand. How on earth has this been allowed to happen? And it gets worse and worse and worse.
This is all in those posh areas I spoke about.
Head a bit further out. Good luck.
Lewisham? Tower Hamlets? Whitechapel? Plenty of others. It’s a dump. It’s filthy, and it does not feel like Britain. It’s certainly not safe for women.
It’s like being teleported to a different country, one borough to the next. None of them Britain.
I honestly used to love London so much.
It’s now a dying city, and it breaks my heart to watch it happen.
But. How can we fix it? You know what's coming.
It’s estimated that up to one in 13 people in London is an illegal migrant. As many as 585,000 illegal migrants are in the city…
Deport them, and we can start the necessary restoration process.
I want my capital city back.
Andy Williams retweeted
What happens if the Government decides to compensate the WASPI women, but they all miss the announcement? Is there a plan in place for that?
Andy Williams retweeted
If it turns out the hero of the LNER attack was of muslim heritage and not the attacker will @elonmusk and the rabble-rousers and racists in our media be lost for words?
Andy Williams retweeted
If most Brits seriously think that inadvertently failing to obtain an obscure housing rental licence makes someone unfit to serve as Chancellor, then quite frankly we richly deserve to be governed by uninspiring technocrats.
Andy Williams retweeted
In my latest piece, I explain what Zarah Sultana gets wrong about Ukraine’s working class — and why her call to stop pumping money into arms manufacturers would leave Ukrainians defenceless. @zarahsultana
spectator.co.uk/article/zara…
Andy Williams retweeted
My column in the @FTWeekend: Keir Starmer is in trouble because he has not been serious about governing, and the best way for him to turn things around is for him to become serious: ft.com/content/94e0bde1-61dd…
Andy Williams retweeted
This is the politics of the far right. It is the politics that made Enoch Powell and Nick Griffin pariahs in earlier eras. It should be completely unacceptable in today’s more diverse and tolerant Britain.
Here @Katie_Lam_MP tells @joshglancy of Sunday Times she wants to remove many legal migrants who came under the rules (including many pre-2019 arrivals already granted permanent status) so she can aim to retain "a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
