Conor Ratcliffe

Mainly politics, rugby, Manchester, and the occasional charming photograph.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

@vriyait I mean good on her if she accepts it. It won't be easy but I think she's big enough to accept as CX there's only one job up and a bucket load further down.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

@MayorofGM When the 8 train lines are bought onto the Bee Network are there any plans to reduce the fares, if not to the £2 bus fee, but at least something more affordable? The cost of a ticket from Woodsmoor to Piccadilly is in excess of £6 off peak. Bad for leisure & business Currently.

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Boddingtons
Cream of Manchester
“By’eck, it’s gorgeous”!!!

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

When the pub dies, more goes with it than just a pint.

Pubs are part of British culture.

They’re where people meet. Where ideas are shared. Where strangers debate politics, sport, life. Where worldviews get challenged, rightly so, all over a pint.

But now? £7 pints at a push. Hundreds of closures. Fewer places to gather. Less cross-generational conversation. More isolation. More echo chambers.

If people aren’t meeting, they’re not talking. If they’re not talking, they’re not listening. And that, long term, leads to narrower thinking and a more divided society.

Reviving the pub isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about rebuilding our social fabric.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

@MrJoeWH Bloody hell, congratulations to you and Ellie!
Hope you're all doing very well.
Good luck with it!

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

@BBCNews The BBC isn't a celebrity rag mag.
This isn't newsworthy

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Prisons might be full, but there is no reason we can’t give more severe non-custodial punishments to dangerous criminals.

I’d take away most of these people’s right to drive for the rest of their lives.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

. @GMPStockport

Can anything be done about the dirt bike brigade currently terrorising the A6 in Great Moor?

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

I see wonderful things.

©️ Howard Carter

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🤝 The King received in Audience The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP today and requested him to form a new Administration.

Sir Keir accepted His Majesty's offer and was appointed Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

@joshi I'm afraid I don't know any, but your accountants can probably suggest an alternative, if you have one?
In the meantime - good luck to us both!

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

I will work with our Labour mayors to rebuild Britain and make working people better off.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

@Aquinaspolitics A great demonstration of why a GE is actually 650 individual by-elections and not just headline national vote share.

Don't get that with that new fangled PR guff!

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

Open offer to rejoin ofc

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

Not to mention poor Victoria Derbyshire having to walk about like she's hosting a Jools Holland show

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

New Newsnight is pretty... meh. It should be appointment to view, especially during an election. But the new format has removed in-depth analysis and made it a more interviewy version of Newscast (which I like btw).
It's going to slip into obscurity, I fear.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

@RugbyInsideLine £30 for a standing ticket at Sale... doesn't exactly entice the youth

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Change.

[Conor Ratcliffe @ConorRatcliffe]

Why is this charade necessary when the PM only has to have a brief chin wag with the monarch?
Surely Mr. Swinney already took the oath on election to the Scottish Parliament?

[Guardian politics @GdnPolitics]

John Swinney sworn in as Scotland's first minister – video https://t.co/4IELDqk4kj