Ken jobes

[Simon Nixon @Simon_Nixon]

Thatcher controlled inflation?! When she left office, inflation was 11% and it took a deep recession that blighted many lives to beat it. Her reputation was rescued by the boom that followed the creation of the EU single market - the one bit of her legacy that she repudiated…

[Simon Nixon @Simon_Nixon]

Reminder that when Margaret Thatcher left office, Britain was in a deep recession that caused misery for millions. No other major economy suffered anything as severe - almost entirely self-inflicted…

[Ken jobes @Kenjob08]

@Baddiel @KuperSimon @FT All correct but it wasn't the Burn substitution that was the key one - it was Konsa for Gordon - that showed how we were going to play after the goal

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

What Tuchel said about a poor performance but strong mentality to get through was spot on! What does our own media do? Stir up issues between players and the coach...they don't want us to win. They want Southgate shite and gallant losers

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

VAR was introduced by governing football bodies so they could make sure the right sort of teams stayed above the wrong sort of result.
This world cup is seeing its flowering.

[Ken jobes @Kenjob08]

@henrywinter Not the right decision - it was minimal contact - in those circumstances it should be left to the referee & he didn't give a foul

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Ken jobes @Kenjob08]

@FabrizioRomano BS - doubles his money & him & his missus can live in London - terrible behaviour after we looked after him when he joined us but "forgot" about his gambling issues. Good riddance

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

What is shocking to me is that he is so passive, because if I was being confronted by a braying racist goon, I would not react this way.

What is not shocking to me is that barely anyone is speaking out against this on the left. It’s indisputably endemic & it’s disgusting.

[Ken jobes @Kenjob08]

@MrLeeCain Shut up & go crawl under a rock. You lot should be ashamed of what you caused. You lied and lied and lied again to damage the country you claim to love. The fact that you can't celebrate it shows what a disaster it was and you have to pretend it was betrayed - pathetic

[Ken jobes @Kenjob08]

@DamianLow3 I agree with your analysis but the next election is existential & realise that this level of negativity to a Labour government will only lead to a far right victory & god knows what after that

[Tom Baldwin @TomBaldwin66]

We seem to be in a strange place where Keir Starmer is being told he must quit to prevent more uncertainty and chaos (by those who have caused much of it) but then stay on for a couple of months because the guy who has been desperate to take his job is not yet ready to do so…

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Identity politics on the left made way for Identity politics on the right - not sure why anyone is surprised that the middle class left smashed up class politics in favour of Identity & grievance politics so they could lead a vanguard movement- also not sure why anyone is surprised that the right took full advantage of that with their own Identity politics of race. Some of us did warn you all that the left has to be class politics & local or its nothing.

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

There is only one “change” that will work for Burnham. A genuine, relentless focus on growth.

Two decades without earnings growth. That’s why electorate is fed up.

Only growth will repair contract between generations and allow social ills to be tackled

https://t.co/2H68i2d0JG

[Sam @SamCKx]

The replies to this post have put absolutely beyond doubt that the hatred for Keir Starmer is 99% based on misinformation. Just read through them, people spouting the same misinformation they have been repeatedly fed over the last year or so, disproven countless times, but still believed and amplified by so many. This is how easy it is to brainwash millions of people if you have the resources. This is how societies are destroyed.

[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...

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@miroirdufou A woman is an adult human female. A female is a member of the sex whose bodies are organised to produce large gametes (eggs). Women's rights are predicated upon that accurate definition. Any false definition that includes men, including men in dresses, eliminates women's rights.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[The Last Blairite #TrueLabour @LastBlairite]

The media and sinister funding forces from US & Russia have hounded Starmer & the Labour govt from day 1, eventually using Burnham as their useful idiot to bring down a PM. They now have a legitimate case to demand a GE. The pressure to call one will become impossible.

[Brendan May @bmay]

7 Prime Ministers in a decade?

What Brexit unleashed - the social division, the mammoth hit to GDP, the glorification of ignorance, has rendered the UK ungovernable.

Chuck in a political media of toddler gossips and Facebook misinformation, and it’s cooked.

We’ve f****d it.