Andrew Shimmin

Rejoicing in Titus 3:4-5. In exile from the Wirral; YNWA. Books, planes, trains, ships, old cars, primates (the animal kind), toucans and parrots. An idiot.

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@jessicaelgot Presumably this letter is mainly aimed at the, erm, 400 who haven't been suspended?

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@maxrushden Was there any advantage in Liverpool topping the Champions League table? Still have to play PSG, maybe Villa, you'd think Real Madrid and I guess Barcelona (or whoever beats these). The knockouts look likely to shake out any insurgents and keep the usual suspects 🤷🏻‍♂️.

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@BacklistedPod @c_crampton @Foyles Thank you!

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@BacklistedPod @c_crampton @Foyles When will this episode be available? I've just read the book!

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@JonBergdahl @AdamMerrivale As it's the first day of the summer holidays, one of our twins woke us at 5:45am to tell us she had woken up and couldn't get back to sleep.

I hate *that* woke.

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@liambeadle Recently when planning a service I was told I couldn't include songs they hadn't sung in the last eighteen months or so as they'd be unfamiliar, or songs they'd sung in the last few weeks as that would be just boring and repetitive. 🤷‍♂️

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@Samfr Seriously! People who think how easily things can go wrong for people want more of a social safety net and interventionist government. People who believe they'll be fine prefer to have less regulation. Etc.

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@Samfr I think you may have the causality of this correlation the wrong way round...!

[Stephen Bush @stephenkb]

The Conservative party’s biggest self-made problem in this election is that both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak took voter disgust at Boris Johnson’s character and failure to deliver on his promises as instead an invitation to pursue their own preoccupations.

[Robert Saunders @redhistorian]

The 4 million votes won by Reform yesterday are only slightly higher than the 3.9 million won by UKIP in 2015.

The Tories were able to cannibalise those votes when the question was "Brexit Yes or No".

Ironically, "getting Brexit done" has reopened the political space for Farage

[Paula Surridge @p_surridge]

Your (larger) majority is fragile, ours was a realignment to keep us in power for a decade....

[Tom Calver @TomHCalver]

Looks like there were three big transfers of seats on the night

🔵🔴 179 Con -> Lab
🟡🔴 35 SNP -> Lab
🔵🟠 57 Con -> Lib

(kudos to @narottammedhora for this brilliant sankey chart) @thetimes #ge24 https://t.co/omePQYkvAu

[Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb]

You play the voting system in front of you. It generates incredible volatility and perverse outcomes when seen a certain way. But by punishing a government that had let it down, and rewarding a party it is comfortable with, the electorate basically got its way.

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

RT @StevePeers: The Greens now have as many seats as Reform. Will they get anywhere near as much press coverage?

[James Murray @James_BG]

Very serious people: 'People should vote tactically if they want Labour to win'

* Millions of people vote tactically *

Very serious people: 'How can Labour claim a mandate if it got less than 40% of the vote? There's no enthusiasm here.'

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@JamesDAustin

[Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti]

lol

when Americans laugh at Britain for having a monarchy, you have the constitutional right to punch them in the face

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

We can (and in my view should) raise additional tax from the wealthiest. But those who want to see significantly expanded public services need to accept that also means most ordinary people paying more tax. And advocate for that.

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@PetrosMalik Always easier to see other people's blind spots than ones own of course!

[Andrew Shimmin @ADShimmin]

@PetrosMalik Yeah. It's horrible to watch. And non-Christians see it. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard it used as a reason not to hear the gospel.