Richard Kelly

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[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@donaldlabour @ScottishLabour I think you’ll find that, like Plaid here in Wales, the SNP are reluctant to devolve the political narrative…

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@lewis_goodall Lab has form when it comes to ref results it dislike: just 8 years after UK voted to remain, Lab’s 1983 manifesto promised to withdraw from EEC…without a referendum. Also no mention from Burnham of any ref on electoral reform, despite precedent of 2011.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@flash_robamy @1968Tv The Kop was supposed to be for home fans (ie Wales’s) as well. Don’t recall seeing too many Welshmen there that night tho…just drunken Caledonians who left the Kop looking like a bomb site.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@BigWatchLover @1968Tv From a neutral’s angle, Scotland’s flukey success over Wales 8 years later was even worse: a mediocre team advanced to Mexico 86 while a team consisting of Rush, Hughes, Southall and Radcliffe had to sit it out.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@RobertdwBrown @RobBurl Nice try, Rob, but check out my ‘Betrayal of Wrexham’ article for the Spectator 3 years ago!

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@richardmarcj @PaulEmbery Said the man who denounced and destroyed grammar schools (accessed by lots of provincial, working class households) while giving a free pass to public schools (such as his own alma mater).

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@MatthewStadlen The Deputy PM clearly disagrees: yesterday she reposted several of City’s triumphalist tweets during and after their win at Anfield.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@rcolvile @marcusaroberts We may need to redefine what ‘calling an election’ means. AB may have just called an election (with all the attendant rhetoric and promises) but with a campaign lasting several years rather than weeks.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@neilhay3s My point was simply that such a demotion would boost the profile of all those non-league clubs who are important to their communities but financially strapped (eg Wrexham till a few years ago). Would also give City a chance to redeem their reputation.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

If City’s punishment is to be not just punitive but of public benefit, why not send MCFC to National League North? Several community-owned clubs in that league (eg Chester) are struggling to get by & would benefit hugely from games against exiled royalty.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@MichaelLCrick ‘Abu Dhabi North?’ might be the provisional title for such a programme…

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@paulbristow79 @wallaceme His ancestor, Henry, was a pillar of Edwardian liberalism and the last Liberal leader to win a Commons majority. Wonder what the rest of the C-B family make of David’s observation…

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@DanielJHannan Plus ca change…Some of Canada’s earliest settlements were developed by British ‘loyalists’ fleeing from vengeful
Yankees after War of Independence.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@robphillipshere @Cymru @robandblakey Hands off Danny. It was a collective mis-fire.

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@alexpethickPKC The record of former Soviet bloc countries (in 1990s) also suggests that a separation of powers gets blurred in infant political systems, where governing classes feel impelled to pull together so as to sustain a fledgling state

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@HCH_Hill Ditto eloquence and understanding…

[Richard Kelly @Kelly1958R]

@grahampointer72 @ShippersUnbound But most PR elections are list elections…and there’s a reason for that.

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@neilhay3s @ShippersUnbound Ken’s case is especially relevant, given that he was responsible for transport policy and an arguably inadequate response to the 20 mph debacle. I heard the term ‘cheating the hangman’ being used by someone who commutes from Mold to Wrexham…