RichardH

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@Footballtweet Remember that so well, turns out it was 30 years ago ffs! 😆

[Liz Kershaw @LizKershawDJ]

This government is allowing unrestricted imports of rip-off Chinese cars to take over our roads.
And it’s destroying yet another iconic British brand and major exporter.
The ‘Temu Range Rover’ or Jaecoo 7, has topped the UK new-car sales charts for the second time in 2026.
These are half the price of real Jaguar Land Rover cars. So canny customers can now bag a blatant copy and save a few bob.
But at what price to UK manufacturing, jobs, the wider economy and our security when highly skilled workers are being laid off at JLR and all the way up and down the supply chain.
Plus....The UK has shut over half of its diesel refineries while China has now cut its exports of Diesel.
The JAECOO 7 is only available as a plug-in hybrid or petrol model.
How can our politicians be so short sighted?

https://t.co/xZ1ikqZ4Yf

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Great British Rip Off.

We pay more for everything and what we get back is falling apart.

Food is nearly 40% more expensive than five years ago and on track to be around 50% higher than mid-2021 by the end of this year.

Olive oil has more than doubled. Beef, eggs, pasta and chocolate are all up by half or more.

Diesel has just hit a record £2 a litre. Petrol is around 174p. A typical energy bill is £1,723 under the October price cap - 58% higher than winter 2021/22.

£billions spent on importing oil and gas from Norway and the North Sea, while the government turns off the taps on new UK oil and gas licenses from the same sea.

Gas rates are roughly 140% above mid-2021.

One of the highest electricity rates in the world.

The tax burden is at the highest since records began in the late 1940s and still forecast to climb even further.

Employer National Insurance went up. Business rates land on the local independent shop. Retailers now hand over about 72p in business taxes for every £1 of pre-tax profit.

Walk the high street and you can see where that money did not go. One in seven high street properties is empty. Hollowed out streets where proud local businesses used to stand bringing communities together.

Over 70,000 UK shop closures since 2020. Retail jobs fell by 122,000 in two years.

The UK hospitality sector has suffered a net loss of more than 16,000 licensed venues (including pubs, bars, clubs, and restaurants) since the start of the Covid in March 2020.

A record 6,365 UK agriculture, forestry and fishing businesses closed in 2025 alone.

Familiar names keep shrinking or vanishing - boarded windows, “to let” signs a vape shop where the butcher or the bank used to be. The places that held a town together are being taxed and costed out of existence while you are told the economy is being “supported.”

The roads tell the same story. Councils in England and Wales face a record £18.6 billion backlog of carriageway repairs - twelve years of work. Only about half the local network is in good structural condition. More than 32,500 miles have less than five years of life left. Roads are resurfaced, on average, once every 97 years. 1 million potholes. Road drains left without regular cleaning.

We pay record fuel prices to drive on roads that wreck tyres and suspension.

Water is no better. Pipes leak, rivers take the sewage bills still rise. No major new reservoirs were built in England for over 30 years. Dozens sold off. And we end up getting told that we have a hosepipe ban when there’s a few days sunshine in July.

Schools, hospitals and rail carry the same pattern: maintenance deferred, promises announced, yet more decay.

But meanwhile data centres, solar panels and wind turbines are being plastered across prime farmland reducing our food supply, natural habitats and resources.

And the people in charge? An MP’s basic salary is £98,599 - up 5% this year, more than 20% since the £81,932 they were on in 2021. Ministers take a second salary and huge expenses on top. Their pay is increased while our taxes continue rise - which helps to fund them to manage our decline.

What is overdue is a massive, sustained cost-of-living protest - visible, peaceful, organised, impossible to shrug off by the government - until tax rises, food, fuel and energy prices and sense general decay stop crushing ordinary households and until the country we pay more and more for stops being left to rot by local and national governments.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

City revolts over Burnham’s capital gain tax raid.

If the PM is dumb enough to follow through on this madcap plan he’s more stupid than we realised.

https://t.co/kAtXtx952G

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Britain is facing its greatest threat since World War II. The decline and decay is happening everywhere.

The greatest threat since 1945 is not tanks or bombs. It is the quiet, accelerating decay of a country that has forgotten how to build, how to grow, how to maintain, how to be secure and how to tell the truth about itself.

Streets dirtier. Services slower.
Ambition punished. Borders treated as optional. Energy policy that treats abundance as a sin. A political class that cycles through leaders with no vision while the foundations keep crumbling.

A nation that once stood alone now struggles to stand at all. That is the real emergency.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

And it’s not just Britain. The decline is happening right across the West.

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@manchesterfire Thank you 🙏

[UEFA @UEFA]

Further UEFA statement on FIFA plans: ⬇️

[Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service @manchesterfire]

Dovestone and Swineshaw remain a major incident. Crews and partners are continuing to monitor and deal with hotspots while conditions remain dry and challenging.

The rain so far has not been enough to significantly change the position, so the public ask remains critical: please stay away from affected areas, keep access routes clear for emergency vehicles and partner agencies, follow health advice, and do not use BBQs, campfires, fireworks or any naked flames on or near moorland.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Of all the things I worry about with Gianni Infantino the colour of his shoes is the least of them. OK, white trainers looks like he thinks he’s a player, he’s a 56-year-old suit trying to be cool and it actually cheapens the office of FIFA president. All true. But, really, I’m more concerned about Infantino’s relationship with the White House than love of white trainers.

I’m more concerned about his allowance of external interference in disciplinary matters; his wooing of politicians when a governing body should be above that; his consideration of the idea (not his) of expanding the World Cup to 64, destroying qualifying for a start, let alone the obvious voting appeal an expansion would mean for him; and the accelerating commercialisation of the game through hydration breaks.

I'm more concerned about the scandalous price of World Cup tickets (only partly a FIFA issue); the fact that Infantino makes things about him, and his love of being with rich, famous and powerful people, when really everything at FIFA should revolve around the good of the game. It's almost comical his swooning around wealth and power.

So, no, I wouldn't put white shoes as his worst behaviour. I’m more frustrated for the good people working hard at FIFA, doing incredible work in countries and communities around the world, and seeing the organisation they represent with such pride and industry be associated with a president who’s lost sight of the heart and soul of football.

Infantino may well be a decent guy, far removed from the mockery online. I don't know. But I do know that he needs to re-find the respected young lawyer he once was at UEFA. He's changed. That maybe him or FIFA culture.

Infantino should remember that FIFA is a sporting institution, not a political one. He should remember that FIFA should be all about the game, not about him. It's been a great World Cup overshadowed at times by wretched decisions and own goals of Infantino's making or shaping. Do better.

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@manchesterfire Thank you for all your efforts, it’s really appreciated

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@GrahamSmyth I don’t like the look of those. Difficult to see a period of sustained momentum, some horrible fixtures at crucial times!

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@PhilHay_ Scottish Football is corrupt

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

WOW this explains the whole Southampton spy story.

This seems to me like it was a fully planned operation 😂

I do think Southampton could be in trouble 😳🤯

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@secondtierpod Great to see the ground full. Onwards and upwards

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@GrahamSmyth Why was Farke so angry then? Wanted to make the suns earlier?

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@GrahamSmyth Tanaka has been way off. Negative passing, slipping, lacking focus, unbalanced and stumbling. Needs to come off at half time

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@Gingerbaws_ @GrahamSmyth Literally just about to post the same thing. I get having the ball but where has the urgency gone? Kill em off!

[Chris @Chr15PG]

Let’s be honest

If someone said at start of the season…

• We’d get to 40 points with 4 games to spare
• Get to an FA Cup Semi Final for 1st time since 80’s
• Beat Scum away for 1st time since 80’s
• Longest unbeaten away run since 70’s

You’d never have believed it #LUFC

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@marshyleeds What a joke of a club. What sort of board gives a manager a SIX AND A HALF YEAR DEAL then sacks him 90 days into his 2,372 day contract?! He survived 4% of his tenure!!!

[RichardH @RichSH14]

@GrahamSmyth Graham, the pass from Aaronson was pretty good watching it back! Have you seen it again? Cracking bit of vision!