Joe Markham

Fee fi/fo fum, these are the pronouns of an Englishman.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

So recently a very close friend of mine passed away from bowel cancer. Liam was a creative genius and one of his many talents was writing. Before he died he wrote a book of one hundred 100-word stories, the idea being that people read them on the toilet. The proceeds of the sales go to Bowel Cancer UK. Please check it out. Obviously a good cause but the book is amazing!

https://t.co/4aewUw1EJm

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

@SuellaBraverman Force every mosque in London to fly these flags, then we'll talk.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

No, but for instance some comparisons:

In an average 90 minute football match, the players run on average about 6.5 miles. If it goes to extra time, that's another 30 mins of play and they run an average of almost 9 miles. Not all at full pace obviously, but between fast walking, jogging and sprinting.

To compare to US sports, the average American football player runs about 1.5 miles per game. The average basketball player runs about 2.6 miles per game. Both of those are at a high intensity, but there are also almost constant stoppages in play.

Most footballers play the entire games. There are a few substitutions available but more than half the team play every minute, and there's no hydration breaks normally. That's just an advertising excuse thing for this world cup. A player getting tripped and staying down for a minute is a tactical way to give themselves and their team a tiny bit of breathing space.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

In terms of culture, influence (especially historical) and shaping the world in general, America are to Britain what Machine Gun Kelly is to Eminem.

HOWEVER, America are now the global leaders. They are the most successful, most ambitious, most revolutionary country on the planet. I despair of them at times, but I adore them as well.

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my second favourite country!

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

Right, but Africa got 9 spots instead of 5, and so the groups were more dispersed, i.e more chance of qualifying. Considering they'd never qualified before, it's reasonable to assume they wouldn't have done so in a 32 team competition.

Even if they would though, I don't think any team has really embarrassed either themselves or the competition by being obviously too rubbish to be there.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

Whatever happens from now on in this Argentina game, you can't argue that expanding the competition to so-called 'lesser' teams was a bad idea. This is amazing.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

@DeborahMeaden The BBC, who you willingly took money from, is misinformation. X, like any free speech forum, contains both truth and lies, but it at least gives you the ability to discern it for yourself. BBC have given more coverage to Taylor Swift's wedding than to the rape gang report.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

It really is weird, the obvious bias about Messi over Ronaldo. Messi's goal was good, sure, but it's almost identical to Ronaldo's disallowed goal last night. Ronaldo was, of course, 2 inches offside, but also he was playing former world cup finalists and Messi is playing the lowest ranked team in the competition, who have never even qualified before. I get Messi can influence games more than Ronaldo these days, but I wouldn't call what he did 'genius'. One of, if not the, greatest player ever scoring against Cape Verde shouldn't really be considered exceptional.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

It's quite refreshing to see Amnesty actively campaigning for government censorship without any caveats or disguise. You've long been a joke organisation and just left-wing government shills but this should be the final nail in your coffin.

"Come and voluntarily write letters for prisoners locked up for criticizing their governments. But also give us money so we can campaign for the government to lock up people criticizing them".

Class act guys. Never change...

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

Everybody gangster until Lisa Nandy leaves X.

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

I've decided to leave this platform and my Department will too.

A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate.

It isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

Don't get me wrong, I am glad Rupert is in parliament and agree with him on pretty much every issue. The problem is that it looks like a personal vendetta against Farage is going to split the vote and potentially cost Reform the chance of government.

We don't have 10-15 years to build up a united front, it HAS to be done at the next election. Burnham is already talking about introducing proportional representation, which will lead to permanent left-wing government. He's going to give citizenship to millions of the Boriswave migrants, he's going to finalize the Blairite project and basically make it impossible to reverse the migration and cultural change of the country. We have one last opportunity to stop this and save Britain and we all need to be on the same side.

I want Rupert to continue to do what he's doing, being a strong backbencher and organising things like the invaluable grooming gang inquiry etc, but he absolutely has to stand down his candidates against Reform in target seats. By all means run in other seats and bring his issues to the forefront, particularly in the few dozen muslim majority/potentially winnable for Islamic candidate seats.

I also want him to keep Reform in check if they get into government. If they start going wet, keep them on their toes. Every government needs that.

Please though, I beg you, and every Restore voter/member, to please vote Reform whenever the election is. We can fight afterwards about ways and means, but we HAVE to defeat the left as soon as humanly possible.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

So @andyburnham won't be calling a general election. He's also going to introduce PR. He has NO mandate for this. If he doesn't call an election there must be mass strikes and protests.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

I wonder if @RealCandaceO makes her husband wear a Charlie Kirk mask in order to allow him to have sex with her.

"Now whisper 'it should have been you..."

#justaskingquestions

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

https://t.co/s3ISW4JrnO

So who gets custody of Howard Brown?

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

When Trump promised to drain the swamp, it seems he's managed to not just do it with the federal government but with the Republican Party as well. Imagine supporting this bunch of grifters.

Likes: Islam, Russia, money, attention.
Dislikes: America, Erika Kirk and Jews.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

If all these voices stood under one political party… would you support them? 🇺🇸

Comment below and keep adding the names of patriots you think should be part of this movement.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

He's irrelevant in terms of contributing nothing of value to political discourse (or the world for that matter), but he appeals to just enough idiotic conspiracy nuts to knock a couple of percent off the Republican vote and cost them elections, allowing people like AOC into power.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

You're mistaken if you think Restore have a chance of winning a general election, or that they'd be different to Reform in office. They're a fringe protest party built around 1 man who posts policy updates on facebook seemingly at random. I like Rupert, and agree with most of his beliefs, but he has no serious chance of ever being PM. Nigel does. And it's silly to think that a party can take over government, and be successful in going up against the might of 'the blob' without having a single person who's ever actually been in government on their side. By definition, those people are going to be tories or labour. Even Trump knew he had to surround himself with experienced politicians like Rubio to be able to navigate the system he had no experience of.

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

Frustrating, absolutely. It's also the most rewarding, beautiful, emotional game there is. With franchises, no relegations, no major international club fixtures, no abysmal derelict grounds with someone's kitchen wall backing on to the pitch, no tournaments in which plumbers can take on professionals in billion-pound stadiums etc, the US is missing so much fun!

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

Tomorrow I will be celebrating America's 250th birthday by heading to a pub that's 150 years older than the US itself (and the quizmaster isn't much younger tbh).

[Joe Markham @JoeMarkham5]

I love America to bits, but it's true that almost nobody in the UK cares. Most don't even learn about the American Revolution at school or anything. As far as they know, July 4th is just a day Americans have fireworks and parties. If we got bitter about every country who has an independence day from us, we'd never get anything done.

If anything, those who actually do acknowledge the day are usually supporters of America or, at the very least, just grateful that America is one of the former colonies who actually help us and don't keep demanding trillions of dollars in reparations for the crimes of building all their institutions and infrastructure.