A.V. Deggar

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[No Score Draws ✍️ (Alex & Sian - BOOK OUT NOW!) @CheapPanini]

Group stage over✅

Here's the story so far...

[A.V. Deggar @ADeggar]

@joecguinan Post-Brexit tenures of PMs in years, there's the story.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK economy basically works like this:

Get paid £2,000.

Give £900 to a landlord. Give £200 to the council. Give £150 to energy companies. Give £300 to supermarkets. Give £300 to car insurance and fuel.

Spend the rest surviving until next payday.

Then get lectured by someone who bought their house for £37,000 in 1988 about how you need to stop buying coffees and cancel subscriptions.

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

🤣 LMAO

The time Rob Jenrick was teeing up for a big philosophical rhetoric in the oldest Parliament in the world.

But the universe had other plans for him 👇

[Joe Haslam ☘ 🇪🇺 @joehas]

Borges Irish accent never fails to make me smile. His teacher was Irish.

[Oliver @OWS1892]

"Can I count on your racism while I get on with removing your grandchildren's employment protections?"

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

Odd date to pick but OK
https://t.co/96aDrVBdoA

[Old England in Colour @englandincolour]

Esso Hibernia tanker under construction in Wallsend, 1970.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

“For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life… for me, it was Tuesday.”

M. Bison’s speech in Street Fighter (1994) is absurdly iconic, it somehow becomes the most memorable thing in the whole film.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Keir Starmer announced Mandelsons appointment on the 20th December 2024

Olly Robbins took up his job at the foreign office on the 8th January 2025

But Starmer wants us all to believe it was Robbins fault

[Saints On This Day @SaintsOTD]

1950 | Jackson Pollock makes his debut for St Johnstone at left-half in a 4-2 defeat of Cowdenbeath.

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

I'm not saying education has no effect on VI, but people will look at data like this without realising that we more than tripled the percentage of the population that went or university in the Blair era, so this just shows that Reform voters age older

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Joanna is politer than I am going to be.

For the Justice Secretary - a former barrister - to suggest that being wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned for three years is just like “scraping your knee”, should be a resignation matter.

@DavidLammy owes the public an apology.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

[A.V. Deggar @ADeggar]

@PhilipProudfoot

[Kevin May @Yam_Nivek]

BBC Radio 4 just mentioned that 12% of Americans believe that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

The most likely scenario here is incredibly funny:

They literally couldn’t spell “France”.

A semi-literate intern Googled “Franks Map”, got frustrated and just went with the most plausible looking image result.

No one above them was smart enough to realize anything was wrong.

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

What's so notable about this clip is that this is primetime kids tv and it's a 5 minute scene of talk free, effects free, distraction free construction of a piece of art to a classical music soundtrack. This is what kids TV was. It's like viewing a lost world.

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

every labour MP is like "I was born labour. bred labour. I shit and cum labour. my dad was a coal mine and my mum a council estate single mum who knew the value of hard work. I love labour. that's why we have to euthanize the unemployed."

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

Keir starmer is a liar.