Matthew W 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱

Twice weekly Commuter🚇 Home office worker🏬 CPFC, CWFC and Horse Racing 🐎 🦅• 26• SE London

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Anthony Gordon is like a sort of contemporary art installation. You spend a lot of time looking at it because you’ve been told it’s very important and expensive. But no matter how hard you try, you can’t quite work out why.

[Michael Mathes @MichaelMathes]

“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts”
— #WorldCup announcer on Fox
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[Matthew W 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 @MattyRatty55]

@cjsnowdon Greece has always been a friend to the British, I hope they keep (and are able to keep) their exemption for the brits until long after the summer

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

.@AndyBurnhamGM can't "have a credible plan for growth" at the same time as he is considering Ed Miliband for Chancellor.

It's one or the other.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

It's Mary Tudor marching upon London, as Lady Jane Gray's elite support realises the jig is up and the people back Edward's sister.

It's William of Orange marching through England, at the invitation of Parliament, as James II throws the Great Seal into the Thames and runs for France.

[Matthew W 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 @MattyRatty55]

@MartinSLewis We dont have a presidential style elections, no one directly voted for Starmer as PM, so I dont believe we should have a GE. However, once Andy starts moving away from Labours manifesto, then the party starts to lose its mandate and we should have an election

[Matthew W 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 @MattyRatty55]

@MarxdeMorais Considering the number of Dames and Lords as government ministers, this Labour party has a history of not trusting its MPs

[Matthew W 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 @MattyRatty55]

I have no doubt that Kier Starmer believes he has and is doing the best for the country. However, the country doesnt feel the same. But is a coronation of Burnham really the best the labour party have? What does he stand for? What doesnt he stand for? Who knows 🤷‍♂️

[Marx de Morais @MarxdeMorais]

The country voted Labour because it was promised a centrist government.

Keir Starmer had to go, and I wish him well. But Labour is now preparing to hand Downing Street to Andy Burnham, a very left-wing politician who openly champions the big state. For many voters, that is not the government they were promised and not the government they voted for.

It speaks volumes that Labour apparently believes none of its hundreds of MPs in Westminster is prime ministerial material, and therefore needs Burnham parachuted into Parliament via a by-election. The by-election and the resulting mayoral election will cost taxpayers around £5 million. That alone says a great deal about how casually those politicians treat taxpayers' money.

For years the Conservatives held an unassailable lead in the league table of disastrous Prime Ministers with four entries in a row. Tomorrow Labour may move from one to two.

The saddest part is that an entire generation has grown up knowing little else than poor leadership. Nobody should be surprised that young people have lost trust in politics. They are right not to trust them.

Until now, the Conservatives owned much of that failure. Labour is now taking its share of it.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is officially set to resign as Prime Minister

Several media reports say he'll outline a resignation timetable on Monday after consulting with his wife and family today

[Matthew W 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 @MattyRatty55]

@WilliamClouston Well for the better at least...

[Matthew W 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 @MattyRatty55]

@SkyBet Guehi

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

It’s 21 degrees in the stadium. It’s an ad break and has nothing to do with ‘hydration’.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Hate when some football gets in the way of hydration breaks.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

It turns out not doing a stutter run-up, and just smashing it into the net is the best way of scoring a penalty.

[Charlie @ASonNamedBort]

A prestigious club that Labour and the Tories would like us to join

[Labour Digital Rights Network @LabDRN]

This is extremely concerning rhetoric.

VPNs are vital shields for protecting vulnerable people online and preserving the anonymity of journalists, whistleblowers and activists.

Either @leicesterliz does not understand how crucial these privacy tools are, or, more worryingly, she does and is planning on restricting the public's access to them anyway.

We cannot allow the government to destroy online anonymity just to prop up their unworkable social media ban.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Under the pretext of banning under-16s from social media to “protect the children,” Keir Starmer has snuck in some small print that should make Americans really glad that all the tea was dumped into the Boston harbour back in 1773.

Adults will still be “allowed” to use the platforms… once they’ve handed over facial recognition, digital ID, passport, or credit card details to prove they’re not a child.

So it was never really about the kids. It was about making sure every single person who wants to speak online has to first tell the government exactly who they are.

Step 1: Link your real identity to your speech

Step 2: police have a lovely searchable database of every spicy take, meme, or complaint you’ve ever posted

Step 3: bring in the consequences - arrests, travel ban, debunking, for out-of-bounds speech

The UK is in a free fall.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Sir Keir, we've lost Save the Children.

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

This announcement reflects legitimate concerns about children's safety online, but a ban of this scale would change how children access and experience the digital world. The UK Government must ensure that any decisions are informed by children themselves and by independent experts.

We are concerned that a blanket ban may look protective on paper, but instead pushes children into less regulated spaces, where they are less likely to seek help when something goes wrong. Children growing up in poverty are likely to be among those most affected.

If ministers want to make the online world safer, the answer is not simply keeping children off platforms. The focus must be on providing better support for parents by making platforms safer by design, tackling addictive and high-risk features such as stranger contact, live streaming, nudification tools and unsafe AI systems, so that children are not exposed to harm online.