FyldeFan

Proud Lancastrian who loves policing, rugby and my family. Not necessarily in that order. Now working for UCLAN as a lecturer in policing

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Zelenskyy: We've got messages that they are ready for meeting only if Ukraine will do what they decided in Anchorage. With all respect to the President of the United States, but you can't cut our country. You can't make decisions without us, about us. It's unacceptable and it will not bring peace.

[Fylde Rugby @fylderugby]

.@lancashirerfu's brave display in the County Championship Final v @Cornwallrugby ultimately fell short but they burst a gut trying. Tries by Ellam, Kassam-Sharples & Freeman brought the scores level in 2nd half but Cornwall pulled off a deserved victory. https://t.co/mog7E9NzkT

[Team GB @TeamGB]

British Record 😍🤯

Keely Hodgkinson soars to a new 800m national record and personal best of 1:54.33 at the Stockholm Diamond League ⚡️

@BritAthletics

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

YES BOYS! 🦁

A winning start to our Test match summer 💪

Victory by 115 runs at Lord's

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

[Wigan Warriors 🍒⚪️ @WiganWarriorsRL]

Victory in Paris! ✅

@procareltd | #WWRL #SLCATWIG

[Wigan Warriors 🍒⚪️ @WiganWarriorsRL]

77' GOALLL! Adam Keighran!

🐉 16-40 🍒 | #WWRL #SLCATWIG

[Wigan Warriors 🍒⚪️ @WiganWarriorsRL]

75' Straight off the scrum, AK weaves over!

🐉 16-38 🍒 | #WWRL #SLCATWIG

[Lancashire RFU @lancashirerfu]

TRY LANCS! (Freeman) Conv (Johnson)
42’ Lancashire 24-24 Cornwall.
Terrific start to the 2nd from Lancashire, #7 Kasam-Sharples electric inside the 22, #12 Forster stopped just short, the fullback Freeman on the spot to finish in the corner!

[Lancashire RFU @lancashirerfu]

FULL TIME RESULT
Lancashire 24-39 Cornwall.

Lancs patience and possession does not result in points. Cornish line speed and defence excellent. Congratulations to @Cornwallrugby 👏🏆

[Lancashire RFU @lancashirerfu]

Half Time. Lancashire 17-24 Cornwall.
Cornish centres causing havoc. Lancashire still in it.

[Lancashire RFU @lancashirerfu]

TRY LANCS (Ashton Kasam-Sharples) Conv ( chris Johnson) - fast break inside the 22.
36’ Lancashire 17-24 Cornwall

[Lancashire RFU @lancashirerfu]

TRY LANCS (Jack Elam) Conv ( chris Johnson) - from a line out on the right inside the 22, acrosss the field , scored in the left corner.
12’ Lancashire 10-7 Cornwall

[Lancashire RFU @lancashirerfu]

We’re underway .. penalty . The captain steps up and slots it home.
5’ Lancashire 3-0 Cornwall

[Sale Sharks 🦈 @SaleSharksRugby]

Job done 🔥

[Sale Sharks 🦈 @SaleSharksRugby]

Bonus point secured in the opening 40 🔥

[Just me - Thomas @TomSoede]

This morning I asked myself, not for the first time, who is Nigel and I made some notes.

And it does add up.

Here is a man who sells himself as the ordinary bloke with a pint, the man of the people, the great outsider standing up against the establishment.

And yet somehow this ordinary bloke always seems to arrive with a camera crew, a donor network, a friendly broadcaster, and now a parliamentary investigation into a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire.

Very normal.

Very grassroots.

Very “just one of the lads”.

The peoples revolt, apparently, now comes with lighting, branding, fundraising dinners, professional outrage, and a small question about whether millions should have been declared properly.

Everything is a betrayal when Labour does it.

Everything is “nothing to see here” when Nigel does it.

Housing? Blame Labour.
The NHS? Blame Labour.
The economy? Blame Labour.
Boats? Blame Labour.
A £5 million gift? Suddenly everybody must calm down and respect the process.

And then came Tuesday.

A young man died. A family was grieving. A country was trying to understand something horrific.

And Farage stepped forward.

Not with calm.
Not with care.
Not with responsibilty.

But with his announcement of “pure cold rage”.

That phrase matters.

Because anger is human.
Anger can be moral.
Anger can demand answers, justice, accountability and truth.

I understand anger.
A lot of people are angry.
They have every right to ask serious questions.

But rage is different.

Rage does not ask careful questions.
Rage does not wait for investigations.
Rage does not protect grieving families from becoming political props.

Rage looks for a target.

And that is where Farage always seems most comfertable.

Not solving the pain.
Not calming the country.
Not asking how institutions failed and how they can be fixed.

But standing beside the pain with a microphone, turning the temprature up, and calling it leadership.

Warm enough to repost.
Warm enough to donate.
Warm enough to vote.
But never calm enough to ask:

“Hang on, who benefits from keeping us this angry?”

That is the trick.

He does not need Britain to feel hopeful.
He does not even need Britain to feel informed.

He needs Britain permanently one headline away from rage.

Because rage is usefull.

It fills rallies.
It drives clicks.
It turns grief into theatre.
It makes slogans feel like solutions.

And while everyone is shouting, nobody asks the boring questions.

Where is the plan?
Where is the funding?
Where are the costings?
Where is the responsibilty?

Maybe that is who Nigel Farage is.

Not the man of the people.

But the man who knows exactly how to turn peoples pain into his own political stage.

The Reform & Tory Sitcom continues.

Same chaos. Different rosette.

Anger can demand answers.
Rage just sells tickets.

If this speaks to you, please add your comments, repost it, and maybe follow me — not for me, but because politics needs fewer slogans and more people asking proper questions.

#Farage #ReformUK

[Royal Marines @RoyalMarines]

1/2 Our thoughts are with the families, friends, and comrades of Lt Cdr Chris Gayson, Lt Lily-Mae Fisher and PO Owen Green, who died when their helicopter crashed in Devon.

Cherished members of the Commando Helicopter Force, all three will never be forgotten.

[Lord Hanson of Flint Labour Peer & Minister @RTHondavehanson]

In a corner of parliament at the far end of the Royal gallery a box lies permantly open containing sand from all five Normandy beaches -a reminder to both houses of the sacrifice & the cause of freedom fought for by brave service people on DDay June 6 th 1944. #DDay