Eddie Howson

Husband, dad, musician. Enjoying retired life in W Dorset and valuing what is honest, just, pure, beautiful and good.

[Roy Andrew @AndrewRoy70]

#gmb this morning . Four incredibly wealthy women casually chatting away at how best to cut benefits for people who have next to nothing.
What a country eh

[Eddie Howson @HowsonEddie]

What has the Reform party done for Clacton? Nothing!Clacton could be up for grabs after investigation into Fa... https://t.co/TvpO4rDj7Q

[Martín Dandach @MartinDandach]

El capitán de la Selección de Irán, Mehdi Taremi, explotó contra la FIFA y la organización de Estados Unidos.

“Esta es una Copa del Mundo desastrosa. Como jugadores profesionales no podemos jugar una competición en estas condiciones, no está bien ni es justo. Si la FIFA piensa que esto es justo, tema de ellos, pero no lo es. ¿Quién debería solucionar este problema por nosotros? ¿La FIFA? ¿EE.UU.? ¡No sé! Díganme un nombre. El presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, vino a nuestro vestuario después del primer partido contra Nueva Zelanda y dijo que iba a resolver todos los problemas, pero en realidad, la FIFA no hizo nada. Respondiendo la pregunta de: "¿Sienten que los organizadores de la Copa del Mundo, incluidos la FIFA y los funcionarios estadounidenses, prefieren que Irán sea eliminado de la competencia?", digo: Tenemos que luchar contra absolutamente todo. No podemos quedarnos en el país, viajamos y nos sometemos a controles migratorios cada vez que queremos jugar, ahora no podemos quedarnos en Seattle y tenemos que volver a Tijuana. Han hecho todo lo posible para eliminarnos, entonces desde nuestra perspectiva, sí, creo que lo quieren así, nos quieren afuera”.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​China confronts Trump:

​Trump: "We need $2 billion daily to reopen the Strait of Hormuz."

​Chinese FM: "The Strait was open before the war. The root cause is your illegal operations against Iran; you created a global crisis from nothing."

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

So #BBCQT ran a special episode questioning why there isn’t a general election after Starmer resigned.

Meanwhile, there wasn’t one when May resigned, Johnson resigned, or when Truss resigned either.

But of course, there’s no bias at all - especially when the programme again invited Zia Yusuf, an unelected bureaucrat in Farage's Reform UK Party Limited

[Eddie Howson @HowsonEddie]

Ghana’s tactics better than England’s. Wake up call for our new manager.

[Eddie Howson @HowsonEddie]

@almanack63 @archer_rs Totally agree and must apply legally to all and any foreign influence. Starmer had every opportunity for this and bailed it.

[Gordon Brown @GordonBrown]

Keir Starmer’s place in history is assured. We owe Keir a debt of gratitude for taking Labour from its worst electoral defeat in 2019, bringing Labour back into government with a huge majority in 2024 and then guiding Britain through difficult times nationally and globally.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.

I have now received an apology from the editor.

My interview is below: 👇🏻

[Eddie Howson @HowsonEddie]

Has @Keir_Starmer got stage fright? No defence spending plan to keep us safe; Defence Secretary Healey resigns; Al Carns resigns. Both engendered confidence when in post.
I could defend Starmer before, but not now.
Silence on defence speaks weakness.

[Kernow Q @KernowQ]

A good moment to remind everyone that the tories increased national debt from 1tn to 3tn.
The interest on this alone costs nearly twice the defence budget.
They also slashed the defence budget.
The tories are responsible for the dire state of the uk.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Murder rates
Ohio: ~50 murders per million people
United States: ~59 murders per million
England & Wales: ~8.6 murders per million
Physician heal thyself.
Motes and planks.

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

Lawyer Peter Stefanovic - whose political films have been watched over a billion times - breaks down Reform's Great Repeal Act line by line: strip day one sick pay, legalise fire and rehire, lift zero-hours protections, repeal the Renters' Rights Act, abolish the Equality Act, and leave the ECHR.

He also notes that almost half of Britons believe net migration has increased when it's fallen 48% to 171,000.

His conclusion: if the media explained Reform's policies, nobody would support them.

Full story at the link below 👇

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Farage's Reform UK Ltd is now the best funded political party in the UK. Not from grass routes support or local branches but almost entirely by a couple of tax dodging, uncountable, unknown, shady crypto speculators.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute humiliation for the White House. 60 Minutes confirms Iran is brilliantly bypassing the US blockade, exporting 100,000 MORE barrels of oil daily than before the war.

While Trump crashes the Western economy, Tehran freely sells to China. Total strategic collapse!

[𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡 𝙈𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙨 @PhilMyers53]

There’s no problem with the way we are being governed

There IS a problem with the way our government are being portrayed by the media

Once we have established this simple fact @Keir_Starmer will get the support and recognition that he deserves

#TenYearKeir

[Eddie Howson @HowsonEddie]

AI - it’s already in the wrong hands
https://t.co/hg365ihIP4

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke