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No clue what sport I’m watching here but “THE FAMINE IS OVER.. CURSE BE DAMNED… HIT THE NUCLEAR BUTTON” is the greatest call I’ve ever heard #ComeOnMayo
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MidWest Radio meltdown during the last minutes of the Mayo match. Volume DOWN 🤣
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Brexit enthusiasts: I hope you’re all enjoying the queues at your holiday airports this year.
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If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.
Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.
Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.
Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:
• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.
• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.
• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.
• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.
• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.
• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.
• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.
• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.
• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.
• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.
• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.
• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.
• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.
• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.
• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.
• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.
• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.
• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.
• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.
• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.
• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.
• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.
• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.
• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.
People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.
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I find it mind-boggling that Keir Starmer is seen as just as unpopular as Liz Truss. I'm no fan of him particularly, but being a bit boring is nowhere near as being as absolutely batshit as Truss was.
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Marcelo Bielsa back in England. El Loco, cult hero, dream-maker, player-whisperer, inspirational manager. Bielsa teams always worth watching. Flying visit, his Uruguay side playing England at Wembley on Friday. Wish Bielsa was back for good.
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This SCAMMER is at Alicante airport luggage carousel 9. He's not fleeing ISIS. He's been living in Spain for years, flying into Alicante to go to Benidorm, under his Irish passport.
He is CONNING you all into believing he's on the run from ISIS so you will send him money, despite flying to the exact same place he lives.
You can see in the stock image on the left the distinct grills at Alicante airport. This grifter is getting hard-working people to fund his drug ridden lifestyle. He is not a saviour of Britain, he's a scam-artist who lives in Spain.
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The UK media were played yesterday.
Starmer laid them out to dry and made them look ridiculous.
From Sam Coates to Lewis Goodall, Laura K and Robert Peston, they were fished-in by the Labour comms team and left on the hook, wriggling in the sunshine.
It has to be said, this was one of the smartest moves I've seen from the Labour PR team since they came to power.
If you didn't hear/see — around lunchtime yesterday, Anas Sarwar, Labour's leader in Scotland 'let slip' to a journo at the Times — Geri Scott, that he was planning to hold a presser that would call for Keir Starmer to step down.
This spread like political wildfire throughout the rank and file of establishment broadcasters and political editors, to the point that they were unable to contain their palpable excitement — they all took to the air waves to explain to us why Starmer was now a dead man walking.
See some posts below for examples, but I'm going to pick on Lewis Goodall for a second. I was listening to LBC after the 'news' broke about Sarwar and Shelagh Fogarty brought in Lewis to discuss the bombshell breaking story.
There was such a sense of excitement between the two presenters with Goodall speaking, at length, about how this would be the 'fatal blow' to the Prime Minister and could spark an avalanche of cabinet level resignations.
Even at that point I felt slightly embarrassed at the desperation in their voices.
Anyway, the press conference came and went — Sarwar was asked afterwards if he'd told the Prime Minister about his speech, to which he told us, “yes, we spoke this morning, and we strongly disagreed”. Oops!
Have you spotted the fatal flaw in his plan yet?
About an hour or so after the speech, tweets began to appear from the cabinet, Lammy first then Rayner, Darren Jones etc. etc. Even serial plotter [allegedly] Wes Streeting put forward his full throated support for Keir Starmer.
It then became clear to me what had happened. Starmer and his team had realised that Anas Sarwar was about to throw him under the bus, but they manoeuvred it into a political master stroke.
By holding his MPs back until after the presser, one by one they made Sarwar's treachery starker and starker.
Each tweet that dropped reinforced Starmer's position and pushed the Scottish Labour leader further and further into the wilderness until he was left stranded on an ice floe that was floating away from shore, desperately pleading for help.
By employing some patience and some serious political nous — the likes of which we have not seen to date — Starmer allowed the media to bay for his blood and then have to climb down. He made his adversary in Scotland look like a prized turnip. And … he shored up his own position at a meeting of the PLP last night.
Now, I've been as critical of Starmer as plenty of people, but this … this was his shrewdest move, so far.
As my old dad used to say: he's not as stupid as he's glaikit looking.
A quick special mention has to go out to ITV's political editor, Robert Peston, who took to Twitter after the dust had settled to explain to us all why it was a bad thing that Starmer's team had rallied around him. 🤦♂️
Patience is key.
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I worked with Farage from 1999-2003 when he was first elected as an MEP, sharing an office with him in Strasbourg. I stayed at his home, travelled with him, dined and entertained when we were in Europe, and worked with him in the UK.
Outwardly charming, he is in fact a vindictive, aggressive bully, with a huge chip on his shoulder. He is intolerant of criticism, has no loyalty to anyone, and will shaft anyone who disagrees with him, gets in his way or poses a threat (usually by underhand means, via third parties).
I am not surprised, therefore, that you have come to your view. Most people who have been close to Farage feel the same way and would not trust him in the slightest. Many more will come to the same conclusion, and eventually the Farage bubble will burst. I hope it does so before he does even more damage.
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There is a very small percentage of Reform UK supporters who are ideologies and are no better than the woke, commies or cult members.
They cannot accept ANY criticism of the party and their holy one - he who must be obeyed.
Let me state again for this group, they are only a tiny percentage of Reform UK supporters. People like this can be found in all political parties.
I have met thousands of Reform supports and they are wonderful patriotic individuals with their own reasons why they support this party. Good for them.
I understand Reform UK better than the vast majority of supporters. I stood for them twice. I was part of the party within weeks of creation when I stood for Gtr Manchester Mayor for them.
I’ve met Nigel and been on his tv show several times, I have met and had conversations with Tice and Bull. My friend worked for the party for years in a senior role.
I joined the party again in 2025 and resigned after 4 months for I saw what they really were - exactly the same as they were in 2022: a centre right party.
You may like Reform UK - that’s perfectly fine. You can vote for who you wish - it’s called democracy. But part of democracy is to allow others to disagree with you for whatever reason they wish.
Reform are a fraud built on a foundation of lies - that’s my position. I will be proven right in time or I will not.
In a nutshell, stop moaning at me for having an opinion you don’t like.
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This England drinking inquest is getting a bit out of hand. Even the Duckett clip comes with the context of someone trying to wind him up.
Of course there should be limits, but these people are human, on a tour gone horribly wrong, with their careers on the line.
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You're out in the freezing winter rain hanging flags on lamp posts.
Tommy Robinson and Ant Middleton are living it large in a Muslim country.
You are not the same - you aren't even fighting the same 'enemy.'
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A friend of Nigel Farage took out a £2.7million director's loan before his company went bust owing £1,199,773 in tax to HMRC and is now banned as a company director.
He is living in Dubai and wants to run for Mayor of London but will have to pay HMRC £1,199,773 in tax first.
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J Hunt forgot he owned 7 flats,
G Cox failed to declare £400K, IDS forgot a company paid him £25k, T Villiers forgot she owned £70k of Shell shares, Zahawi forgot to pay £4.8 million in taxes while Johnson & Sunak forgot just about everything.
Tory hypocrisy ay 🙄
#Rayner
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When the NHS sadly goes private, it'll still be the same mess that it's in now just you're going get into debt over it.
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Airport security is nothing more than theatre. Performative nonsense. The only ones who benefit from making everyone buy tiny shampoo and toothpaste is the manufacturers. Lobbying money well spent for them.