Ray Gaston

CofE Urban Priest. Inclusive Orthodoxy. Christian Socialism. Interreligious Dialogue. Leviticus 19:34.Hebrews 13:1-2 #RangersFC #GCAFC

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

Reclaiming Orthodoxy for Affirming Anglicanism https://t.co/0RtkQOk63s

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@BremenBod *Partick of course

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@BremenBod I pity Patrick how many years in a row have the fallen at the play off hurdle. However the system is so weighted in favour of the Premiership side. I'd be up for an automatic top two up bottom two down

[Despotic Inroad @DespoticInroad]

Here’s what actually happened after the 1945 Labour government:
35yrs of unparalleled improvements in living standards on a social-democratic basis, with mass social housebuilding, full employment, energy independence, consistent real wage growth, and national ownership of core industries.

We can only wish for such an inheritance today. But that Britain has been sold by the pound to satisfy the kind of false economies & financial short-termism inherent in Tom’s market liberal ideology.

If trade unions were the culprit for Britain as the “sick man of Europe”, then we need to explain why Franco-German competitors grew FASTER during the trente glorieuses/German economic miracle with HIGHER union militancy + powerful Communist municipalities/regional gov. in France + deeply embedded labour representation on works councils etc. in W. Germany.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@TheSaviour He does here's his visit to Southport 2024

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@James_Tavernier @4ladshadadream Surely he could have led out the team with his family and sat on bench and been brought on as sub especially if he was carrying a knock. I don't see a y contradiction between this and what Rohl wanted. Suggests a breakdown in relationships to me.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@johnwalker_1986 @Follow_Follow_ Why the sudden degeneration from fabs to hopeless in the 2 week gap. Any explanation?

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@RFC_Michael_ @RangersFC It was sold out a couple of weeks ago

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@bryce9a Because I live 250 miles away and my work means getting to Sat games not possible I bought a ticket for the Hibs game hoping it would be a decider. Ah well. On holiday a little closer so I'm still going - love the opportunity to be at Ibrox - only usually get to Euro games.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@bryce9a Absolutely!

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@gr4nt7 I guess he's referring to the unconfirmed (and denied by him) rumours that he holds a German (and therefore EU passport) as well as his British (non EU passport)

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

The long-overdue change from First Past the Post to a Proportional Representation voting system simply has to be top of the agenda now.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

I see Pope Leo has caught onto St. Chad's & St. Mark's trainers and vestments chic!

[Modern Notoriety @ModernNotoriety]

Pope Leo XIV rocking Nikes with his clerical vestments

[Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn]

There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK

[Despotic Inroad @DespoticInroad]

I've said before & will say again:

Just imagine McDonnell as a junior Treasury minister on LBC arguing cogently for:
👉Extra £40BN tax-raising budget, with most of the burden falling on employers, capital gains, dividends, private schools etc. etc.
👉Altered fiscal rules to allow for £100BN extra capital spending across Parliament
👉Renters Rights & Employment Rights Acts
👉Slowly re-nationalised railways
👉GB Energy & NWF tentatively backing publicly-owned energy projects
👉Higher public sector pay settlements
👉Abolition of hereditary peers in the HoL
👉Recognised Palestinian state + embargo on majority of arms exports to Israel (save for part exports bound up in multi-party, international contractual agreements)

This is all Starmer policy. He's governing as a fiscal Soft Leftist while (inconsistently, and terribly, unconvincingly) signalling "I HATE THE LEFT. I AM A PATRIOTIC FISCAL CONSERVATIVE." It's such a bizarre strategy that has ended up alienating both patriotic conservatives AND, funnily enough, the Left.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@grumpypostie @adamlangleben https://t.co/fwLtjUgXfb

[robert shrimsley @robertshrimsley]

This was a real error by Badenoch. Once you argue that marches must be banned for the fear they provoke inminorities, you cannot just exempt the Robinson events from your calculations. Some of the speeches at his Traf Sq rally were horrendously inciteful against muslims.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@JohnWRees

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

If you don't know that early Israeli politics - and Zionist politics before that - were heavily dominated by the left, you're not qualified to weigh in on the conflict at all. In the Mandate era, right-wing Zionism was so much the exception, it was literally called "Revisionist".

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@American_Johnny I'm not in favour of the practice just pointing out the clear reason