Andrew Downes

[Andrew Downes @DuckDownes]

@suechadwick999 @bphillipsonMP She wrote secondary school and send school. Which the source you copied backs up.

Primary school teacher numbers are falling because pupil numbers continue to decline.

[Andrew Downes @DuckDownes]

@ga24720 @bphillipsonMP Primary school teachers are dropping every year because the number of kids in primary school is also dropping every year.

[Adam Gould @adgould86]

Very poor experience with @OctopusEV.

Order placed 18 Feb. Delayed due to dealership error, then a replacement confirmed on 5 May was later withdrawn. Nearly 3 months on and I am still without a vehicle. (Cont)

[Rob 🅼 @Im_RobM]

Your reward for qualifying for the Champions League and winning a European trophy is selling your best player to avoid financial punishment. Modern football ladies and gentleman.

[Joshua Garfield @JoshuaGarfield]

How it’s started. How it’s going.

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

UK TV sport industry: ‘Why are so many people turning to illegal fire sticks?’

Also UK TV sport industry: ‘The 2026 Champions League final involving a UK team will not be broadcast free-to-air for the first time in 34 years.’

[Northvillan @northvillan]

"you're not seriously going to watch the highlights of villa - forest for hours are you?"

[Fagliacci🏳️‍⚧️ @HP_Rorycraft]

I love that the soundtrack to th death of American empire is a song about having gay sex

[Andrew Downes @DuckDownes]

@SimonMagus Entirely too sensible of an idea to ever work. Great piece though.

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

I really DID die in 2020 from covid and this is hell

[The Ayrshire Separatist @DanielJMath1]

James Watt there. Crowdfunded a business promising people a return on their money then sold most of it to Private Equity fucking them all over. Brewdog hasn’t made a profit in five years and he stopped paying the living wage last year. He’s a Turkey teeth Botox filled baldy cunt.

[Andrew Downes @DuckDownes]

@villareport Hard to be too harsh on this team that has done so much but Digne has been awful again deserved a red and then it should have been a penalty.

Bizot just godawful decision making and once we were down to ten looked lost.

Then the third goal just lacklustre crap.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Farage blaming ‘work from home' for Britain’s troubles is just so lazy, whilst attacking the idea of youngsters seeking a work-life balance. It is predictable and it is boring.

For young men and women in modern Britain, finding their way in life is incredibly difficult. No use people of my age telling them that if they stopped buying cappuccinos, they’d all be able to afford a home within a few years. It’s just not true.

Wages are stagnant. House prices are high. Interest is excruciating, on mortgages and student loans.

Everything costs SO much. Rent bleeds them dry, how on earth are they supposed to save 20k for a deposit, if not far more? What, to buy the leasehold on a dingy flat? They don’t even own it, then get done by service charges and whatever else.

Raising a family in Britain is brutally difficult. Childcare is extortionate, so yes - working from home does make that more possible. Good. If British men and women want to have more children, we should be making that as easy as possible.

A lawful relationship between an employee and a private employer is none of our businesses. If they decide working from home is workable, then good for them. If not, that’s fine too.

From my experience in business, happy workers are good workers. They care. They want the business to succeed. That benefits everyone. A healthy work-life balance is essential. Absolutely essential. Anyone who has run a successful business will tell you that.

Politicians of my age are so far away from what young men and women are dealing with. Of course there are many who take the piss, and we should brutally crack down on them. But the good majority of British men and women want to work hard, contribute to society and build a prosperous life for their family.

If they do that from their desk at home, or one in the office, I really don’t care.

[James @JamesFl]

The amount of white-haired folks in that audience; positively giddy at the prospect of dictating how *I* should work and earn - to pay all my taxes - to fund their ironclad pension hikes and fortnightly dawdle down to the GP.
Least self-aware generation there'll ever be.

[arvo färt @arvofart]

If I ever learn what this tweet means, you have my consent to compassionately euthanize me

[Andrew Downes @DuckDownes]

@sportswaatcher Infact scratch that I'm still mad.

[Andrew Downes @DuckDownes]

@sportswaatcher The first time I saw this scene I was mad for 6 weeks

[Samuel Jenkinson @samueljenkinson]

Modern Britain is basically a bunch of people that think it’s a shithole and that everything is dreadful, but also wet the bed anytime any kind of minor change is proposed that could improve literally anything.

[Classical Liberal Caucus @LP_CLC]

It's now illegal to play football when the government is playing football. Watching the Great Patriotic Government Football is mandatory. All comrades must participate or social credit scores will be reduced. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Glory to the Soviet Union!

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Holy shit. Shut it all down.

How do you release a product like this and get away with it?

How does an entire market lose the plot so entirely that they think throwing trillions of dollars at this dangerous trash is a great idea?