Tottenham Hotspur will submit a formal complaint to Pro Ref following the decision not to send off Leeds defender Jayden Bogle for his challenge on forward Mathys Tel.
John Brooks' last 14 games reffing Spurs ..
Spurs cards 33yellow, 4 red.
Oppo cards 9 yellow, 0 red.
And he sent off Xabi for this and not Bogle for that.
He shouldn't be reffing Spurs (or perhaps anyone)
They should have been down to 10 men, but in all fairness we didnt deserve to win that one.
Sooner we get a striker the better.
Quite a few poor performances today, but I think the energy of Leeds caused that
@z0xaH Krishnan guru Murphy has always been a complete arsehole when it comes to this stuff. No respect for boundaries. Diana, Jackson etc... just wants to get the juicy private topic to push his career forward
I want to address an allegation directly, because Reform politicians seem determined to spread the idea that I am somehow working in coordination with the Conservative Party and Kemi Badenoch.
Yes, I was a member of the Conservative Party. In 1993. My children have since been born and grown up. It was more than thirty years ago. Literally, a lifetime ago. Many of the Reform leadership certainly can’t say the same.
Yes, I've met Kemi Badenoch. I speak to her occasionally. I like her personally. We have worked together in Parliament. She spoke positively about our rape gang inquiry, and I thanked her for it.
Numerous Conservative MPs have supported my parliamentary work, including our inquiry.
Esther McVey. Nick Timothy. Jack Rankin. Peter Bedford. I could go on.
I am not going to apologise for that.
I will work with anyone in Parliament who is prepared to help deliver meaningful change. We have achieved results by doing precisely that.
Does that mean I forgive the Conservatives for what they did to Britain between 2010 and 2024?
Absolutely not. It was a betrayal.
I have literally established a national political party to fight them at the ballot box. I am delighted when we beat them, which is a growing amount. All that should be a fairly substantial clue…
But opposing a political party does not require you to behave like a petulant child towards every single person associated with it.
Conservative MPs believed I would do a good job on the Public Accounts Committee. I accepted the opportunity to scrutinise government spending and fight for British taxpayers.
Again, absolutely no apologies. I think we have delivered results.
Now let's compare that with Reform.
Reform tried to have me imprisoned over false allegations. I would be in prison today if they had their way.
Despite everything, I have repeatedly attempted to work with Reform MPs in Parliament. I have invited them to support initiatives, collaborate on important issues and help deliver results.
Time and again, those invitations have been ignored. My emails don’t even get a reply. I happily sign their motions and support their efforts, I did earlier this week. The feeling is not mutual.
They complain. They moan. They attack. They endlessly manufacture personal grievances.
But ask them to put their animosities aside and actually achieve something together?
Suddenly, it's total silence.
I've received more constructive support in Parliament from Labour MPs than from Reform.
Think about that.
It is grievance politics at its most pathetic. Negative, unproductive and deeply unprofessional.
My position is incredibly straightforward.
At elections, we are opponents. In Parliament, we have a responsibility to get things done. I believe that is what our constituents want us to do. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think not.
Reform claim we stand in more local council Reform seats than anyone else. Yes, because so many more Reform councillors resign in disgrace than any other party. We are moving towards standing in 100% of local council by-elections. We’ve stood in Reform seats, Labour seats, Tory seats.
Everywhere and anywhere.
I intend to fight both Reform and the Conservatives for every vote. I want Restore Britain to win over millions of people who previously voted for those parties.
But that does not mean I have to insult everyone I disagree with, refuse to speak to political opponents or sabotage decent initiatives because somebody else might receive a little credit.
I was elected to represent my constituents, not to participate in an endless Westminster playground feud.
Do I like Kemi Badenoch and some other Conservative MPs personally? Yes.
Will I work with them when it benefits the British people? Yes.
Do I fundamentally oppose the Conservative Party's record and want Restore Britain to defeat them electorally? Yes. Their 14 years of power was an utter betrayal, and is largely responsible for the social, economic and demographic vandalism we have endured.
All three things can be true. Any serious adult should be capable of understanding that. It is not difficult to comprehend.
I will work with Conservatives. I will work with Labour. I will work with Reform, if they ever decide to behave constructively.
Reform's increasingly nasty, brash and personally unpleasant approach to politics says far more about them than it does about me. It’s just downright rude.
They seem to believe that refusing to work with anyone is a demonstration of strength. In my view, it’s a weakness that erodes our politics and fails our constituents.
I have said it again and again.
I will work with anyone in parliament to deliver for the British people.
And I make no apologies for doing so.
I was accused of 'whipping up division' across Britain by a Labour Minister in Parliament today.
'Moral bankruptcy', he called it, as their MPs all cheered like performing seals desperate for yet another fish.
The calibre of politicians running our country, compared with the quality, intelligence and decency of the British people they are supposed to represent, is frankly obscene. You cannot believe it.
The lunatics aren't just running the asylum, they've broken out and somehow stormed parliament in sufficient numbers to 'run' the country.
Our people deserve so much better than this shower of arrogant, self-congratulatory, unimpressive mediocrities who have the sheer cheek to lecture the rest of us about morality.
The tragedy of modern Britain is that the people being governed are infinitely more capable than those governing them.
Iran has cost the Republicans far more than anyone expected. It was a catastrophic mistake. And if Reform or the Tories were in charge, we would have gone to war right behind them. On day one, Restore Britain said no. It was not right for the British people, and we were absolutely right to draw that line in the sand.
The consequences of ANOTHER pointless Middle Eastern war have reached far into the homes of ordinary British families.
The price of petrol. The cost of heating. The weekly food shop. The mortgage. The small business struggling to pay its electricity bill. YOUR life has been made so much more expensive by THEIR war.
Every pointless escalation has made life more expensive for people who are already being squeezed from every direction.
For what? To what end? What has this war achieved? Absolutely nothing of worth.
Restore Britain said no.
Not because we support the Iranian regime. Obviously that is not the case.
But because the first duty of a British government is to protect Britain and its people.
And that very much includes protecting British families from the economic consequences of wars that are evidently and clearly not in our national interest.
When oil prices rise, families pay more to fill their cars. Those moving goods face higher diesel costs. Farmers pay more to operate their machinery. Businesses face rising transport and production bills.
Those costs do not stay at the petrol pump. That gets passed on. EVERYTHING gets more expensive.
It is always the same people who end up paying. It’s not the politicians making grand speeches about international leadership. It’s not the commentators demanding military action from the comfort of television studios.
It is British mums and dads trying to stretch the wage for a few extra days. It’s the pensioner frightened to put the heating on. The young couple wondering whether they can afford a home.
The small business owner calculating whether another increase in costs will finally force them to close.
They have been handed another bill for someone else’s war - a war backed by everyone on the right apart from Restore Britain.
Farage said this is the ‘right one’, and 'the gloves need to come off’. That is VERY easy to say from a GB News studio.
A Restore Britain government will put the interests of its own citizens before the approval of foreign leaders.
Britain does not need another foreign war. We tried that. It failed, over and over.
The abuse I received from Reform politicians for saying so was extreme.
They were wrong. The Tories were wrong. Restore Britain was right.
We need cheaper energy, affordable food, secure borders. We need to control inflation. We need to make our economy deliver for working men and women. THAT is our aim. Not getting dragged into another pointless foreign war.
Our loyalty is to the British people. Our responsibility is to British families. Our aim is to make life affordable again for our people.
And our answer to yet another unnecessary war was no, and remains no.
No more pointless foreign wars.