Paul Lord

Proudest dad, Youth Sport Trust tutor, LTA Coach and Tutor, food, drink, Wolves, sport lover. Not necessarily in that order apart from first😉

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Rishi Sunak fuming about the fact that his tax avoiding wife can't now go back to her non-dom tax status (Mrs Sunak saved £20 million in taxes by claiming non-dom tax status) thanks to Rachel Reeves cancelling that tax loophole

What a joy 👍🏼

#Budget2024

[Natural England @NaturalEngland]

Evidence shows that spending time in #nature can reduce feelings of anxiety and loneliness. 💚

Green Social Prescribing supports people to engage in nature-based activities for their #MentalHealth.

Read more from @NASPTweets: https://t.co/kGF67INcgi

#WorldMentalHealthDay

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

A poll on Boris Johnson.

Like - He's a lying scumbag.
RT - He should be in jail.

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

Some clothes for Starmer’s wife added late, but voluntarily, to the Register of Member's Interests.
Scandal.
Tory government policy manipulated for the financial benefit of Sunak’s super-rich wife.
Silence.
@Conservatives
Tory hypocrites.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Like so many, I’m pretty much at my limit with this app, and country, actually. Not like I can go anywhere else, Brexit scuppered that. And no, not because I’m unpatriotic it’s because Britain isn’t really Britain anymore and not in a racist “too many foreigners” way but because, thanks to the con artists, we’re riddled with Russian interference and starting to resemble Trump’s America.

We’ve always benefitted from immigration, economically and culturally, they knew that so had to make people hate or fear immigrants to pull it off. It’s working unfortunately. It’s (deliberately) all you see and hear, that takes root.

It is depressing watching what the new govt is facing. Despite it being early days, it doesn’t look like they’re gonna get a fair crack. The sheer weight and volume of bullshit being spun is immense. It always comes back to the media, the tactics of the hard right, shadily funded lobby groups, unabated conspiracy and traitors cosplaying as patriots destroying our country to benefit foreign powers or the super rich.

Conspiracies are deliberately becoming mainstream, thanks to the media uncritically platforming Farage or Tice at any opportunity, causing objective fact to be up for debate instead of absolute, the British right is morphing in to The US Republican Party. The participants (Jenrick, etc) likely don’t believe what they’re saying but want the donations, profit and power that comes from conning millions into believing bullshit.

If you draw attention to this you sound conspiratorial but it is reported. We can all see how it operates if we look, the problem is that so many don’t.

Millionaires and billionaires can engage in cyber warfare, flood social media with waves of bots. If a big company doing something that harms us wants to continue profiting they’ll just toddle down to Tufton St and enlist a lobby group they’re funding to get their message in a headline on the front pages or on the news, because this is how it works.

Just like Brexit. Just look at where Odey is putting his money and you’ll find the next group of people happy to destroy our country for profit. Almost every political investment he’s made has resulted in us getting poorer as a country so he can profit. Hardly surprising he turned up at a Reform fundraiser is it? Considering he helped fund those wanting to leave the EU, then made millions as the pound tanked when they succeeded.

Odey donated over £350k to the Tory Party and over £870k to pro Brexit groups. He also, as a man who profits from the fossil fuel industry, donated thousands to Rees Mogg who then suddenly (and entirely coincidentally) became pro fracking.

He’s just donated £10k to Reform. All this despite allegations of sexual misconduct as reported by Tortoise. It’s not just Reform accepting donations from a disgraced financier, he’s an omen of doom. He puts a little into a party or scheme, his return is millions, he profits from our decline and backs those that cause it.

He’s the fat canary in the coal mine that we’re forced to toil in to pay it all back, via austerity.

Then there’s the hedgefunders surrounding Truss and Kwarteng before and after the mini budget. Any party with huge hedgefunder support is going to ruin us so the wealthy can profit. Look at the millions made by Farage post Brexit. They have ways to ruin those that that successfully draw attention to it. Just look at Carole Cadwalladr.

So many are brainwashed, the riots made that clear. The counter protests were affirming but the zone is flooded daily and we’re all glued to our phones. I have no idea how Starmer can counter it. Millions are radicalised. He’d be a fucking idiot not to implement press reform.

I’m wondering if there’s any point having my life destroyed if nobody will listen. We’re in trouble. The threat is increasing and I, like many, have no idea if my dip in the ocean is worth it anymore. Considering the personal ruin that can be inflicted just for telling the truth or pisstaking.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Why do people expect 14 years of shit to be sorted out in 51 days….

[Karl Cunliffe @KDCunliffe]

If “Freddie” Flintoff doesn’t get a BAFTA for this series there’s no justice.

What he’s done for these young men is immeasurable.

What he’s delivered for the viewers is absolute joy.

#freddieflintoffsfieldofdreams #FieldOfDreams #freddieflintoff #andrewflintoff #flintoff

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Nail on head here.

American "culture" has destroyed British culture to the point you could get one thousand 18- 40 year old Britons together who couldn't name 10 British traditions or cultural norms but could parrot any number of American words, pop culture and habits.

That's who destroyed British culture.

If you don't believe it, go anywhere in Europe today and see what local cultural events, unique to that culture are taking place through summer.

[Paul Lord @PaulLord63]

@LKTranslator Outstanding 👏👏👏👏👏

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on the likes of Tommy Robinson, leading from behind off a sunlounger in Ayia Napa

https://t.co/sJSstMLmcX

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

A riot is not a protest.

A racist is not an activist.

A thug is not a patriot.

Far right extremism is precisely that.

Words matter.

Why are some in the media refusing to use them accurately?

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

Have fun if you're out "protesting" today!
Don't worry you can't actually explain what your point is or why this helps.
Ignore there's a high chance you're a puppet doing another country's bidding in sowing division.
Hydrate!
https://t.co/s0DbAWMhe8

[Paul Lord @PaulLord63]

Simply brilliant as usual 👏👏👏

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on the general election result

https://t.co/X6YLklbTlS

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

Sad that @jessphillips has to stand up to such intimidation & bile. But no one does it better. Very proud of her today.

[Neil Dudgeon @dudgeon_neil]

Yay! A boring PM! Not a priapic, dishonest, disgraced children’s entertainer or disaster capitalist wide-boy or click bait, talent-free newspaper columnist. Just an honest, serious, talented, caring, grownup. At last.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Now I ask you seriously.

Victoria Derbyshire to replace Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC?

RT if you agree.

[joe heenan @joeheenan]

When you watched Johnson lie every fucking day, you had no power.
When you found out the Tories gave billions to their mates, you had no power.
When your mortgage increased because of that useless twat Truss, you had no power.
Tomorrow you have power.
Use it
#GeneralElection

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

I can categorically say I’ve never loathed a political party like I loathe this Tory party. I’ve never felt this angry about what a govt has done to our country. And never thought that a bunch of politicians deserved the total crushing defeat these Tories do.
How many agree?

[Gary Neville @GNev2]

They partied , they bet on elections , they crashed the economy, they broke every public service, they destroyed integrity and honesty in public office , they paid their mates billions , they put their friends in the House of Lords, they gave their cronies knighthoods, they went into the jungle , they lied again and again, they were convicted by police, they went on holiday when they shouldn’t and they have the cheek to question Keir Starmer’s work ethic. I would never take anything for granted but I hope they are annihilated on Thursday. The worst people and government we have ever had!

P.S good afternoon all 😊❤️

[Paul Lord @PaulLord63]

Fantastic #LTASERVES tennis activators training session with @SmethwickAthl at Devonshire Junior Academy. Brilliantly enthusiastic group who were a joy to work with @the_LTA