Bob Funkhouse

Got any salmon?

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

This week, I'm leading a Parliamentary debate on banning MPs' second jobs.

Nigel Farage has already taken over £1 Million from second jobs since becoming an MP.

I've invited him to attend the debate to explain why MPs should be allowed to rake in vast sums from second jobs.

[Fitzy 🇲🇽 @Fitzy__07]

There's a lot of contenders, but South Africa - Canada is up there with one of the worst games in the 2026 World Cup.

Tournament has been mostly shite games (Scotland key contributors to that as well)

Easily one of the worst World Cups I've had the pleasure of watching.

[jbceltic @jbceltic7604]

The way FIFA treated Iran at this world cup is just pure shameful in it's complex, if it was one of the favourites i.e. Argentina, Brazil, the whole tournament would be simply judged pointless in it's entirety. Pure and utter disgrace to the spirit of Football.

[Kuistviet @kuistviet]

Not interested in the World Cup anymore. Dont care who wins. Its tainted by unfairness. Iran were treated shamefully. It wasnt a level playing field.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

I was there for his first away games in Belgium and Russia. We were thumped. Nobody could have imagined we’d go on to make two Euros and a World Cup. Bairns all over our nation are now running around in Scotland tops - that’s a legacy worth having. Thanks for the memories.

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[Jonny McFarlane @jonnyrmcfarlane]

Personally don’t think Scotland were as bad across 3 games as the reaction, some of it toxic, suggests.

You can’t miss that many have, some understandable, gripes with the manager over tactical outlook, team selection and personal demeanour in media interviews.

I sympathise with some of that, but there can be no mistaking this was a brutally tough group.

Brazil are Brazil. Morocco are ranked higher than the Dutch and Germans for a reason. Haiti are no mugs and their off the cuff style is problematic to manage.

If anything, Clarke tried too hard to play out and be positive last night in his selections. Most punters and media were happy with the line-up before kick off. For sure, he tried to play football.

We are simply not capable of doing so and winning against the quality of opposition faced in Miami. If you played that game 100 times, how many are Scotland grabbing a result?

In retrospect, I bet Clarke wishes he stuck to his guns and went 5-4-1, stunk the place out and got the 1-0 defeat that likely puts us through. He would have been crucified, but we might just be closer to the last 32

Whatever Clarke did or didn’t do, there’s not much any manager can do about catastrophic individual errors.

We had three of them and each cost a goal. That’s on the players. Hanley, McKenna and Robertson are all experienced professionals who know the game inside out. The captain is a Champions League winner and needs no instruction in such circumstances.

For the third tournament in a row, many of these guys failed to show their club form, yet seldom few ask if there’s a reason for that.

As Ange Postecoglou said the other night in his ITV analysis of Scotland, our best players all excel in their leagues primarily through physicality. Thats the main reason they’re at top five league teams, not consistent technical mastery.

There’s bigger issues at play here, a much wider picture and only long-term strategic planning to produce more talent will help. A long road.

For me, if we are serious about a national team that consistency makes these tournaments and competes, the pathway needs to start with rules that force Premiership clubs to rear and play their talent. When virtually no Premiership side plays their kids with consistency, what chance have we really got?

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

BREAKING: I've secured a parliamentary debate next week on banning all MPs' second jobs.

Farage has pocketed over £1 MILLION from outside "work" since the General Election

Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.

Let's end this racket!

[Sam @SamCKx]

Nigel Farage claimed on BBC News this morning that "No one cares" that he took a £5 million bung from a crypto billionaire and then, as an acting MP, went on to lobby vigorously for the deregulation of crypto in the UK and the lowering of taxes on crypto gains.

Do you care?

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Loyal fans - the ones who so enhance the atmosphere - being poorly treated. Again. #ENG

[Judy Abel #RejoinEU @JudyAbel2]

Suddenly journalists and commentators on BBC R4 Today start talking about the human, emotional side of Keir Starmer’s situation - ‘ir’s painful’ - the very same media who have sought to bring him down since day one of his premiership. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. @BBCr4today

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Whatever happens next week simpletons' will still be manipulated by billionaire foreign actors’ intent on tearing our country apart. If you think Starmer is the problem then you need to look up the definition of ‘gullible’. While you've got the dictionary look up the word ‘twat’ too.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The first major wave of online misinformation resulted in Brexit, a decision that the majority of economists regard as the most damaging economic choice Britain has made in modern times, making millions of working families poorer.

Now it appears a second wave may succeed in forcing out a democratically elected Prime Minister who in a short timeframe has a track record of delivering policy designed to help millions of working families. Not a perfect man, but certainly one of the better PMs of the last 30 years or so.

A wave of gross & obvious misinformation, spread and amplified by foreign-owned social media platforms, in a deliberate campaign designed to indoctrinate UK citizens, may have toppled a British Prime Minister.

We are going down a very dark path here.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The issue isn't Starmer, per se, it's the fact that we all now know, whoever is PM, unless it's some far right leader with friendly tax policies for the ultra wealthy, they will be met by a barage of misinformation and relentless online attacks: accusations they support p**dophiles & r*pists, that they jail 12,000 innocent people every year for tweeting; and all the usual misleading, manipulative BS designed to exploit people's emotions.

This won't stop until they have installed the party they want. A party that will be focussed purely on optimising the affairs of its wealthy backers, and not on the working people and families of Britain.

[Sam @SamCKx]

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.

A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.

A truly sad day for British democracy.

His full resignation speech:

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

All this in two years. @Keir_Starmer.

Feel free to share.

[Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine]

"How on earth have have we ended up in this position?" asks Laura Kuenssberg, who along with Chris Mason, Henry Zeffman and co, have pushed long and hard for us to wind up in exactly this position

#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

This you Chris?

[Steven B @Stevenwblake1]

There's always a tweet.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Elon Musk is one of the scariest men alive.

He should be deported from the U.S. for lying on immigration docs in the 1990s and never again allowed in this country.

On the same day he whined about being called a Nazi, he reposted what sure sounds like a call for racial genocide.