Russ Brookes

Entitled Malcontent.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

By accident #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek is the week of my ultra.

I've tried to capture in a blog what losing someone to suicide does to a child and if it moves you please donate to my fundraising for @winstonswish who do so much:

https://t.co/xeoCvwzpID

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

This is class. Chapeau @gloucesterrugby and thanks for all your gave our club Matias.

[Gloucester Rugby 🍒 @gloucesterrugby]

Who's cutting onions? 🥹

📺 https://t.co/RWqZ6QBWkH

#GLOvNRB | 🍒🐂

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

The next 5 minutes however

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

Best 15 minutes of rugby away from home, I've seen from us in a long time.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

Best 15 minutes of rugby away from home, I've seen from us in a long time.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

Janse van Rensburg's call up at the expense of Ollie Lawrence and Max Ojomoh makes my head hurt. I don't have a problem with the residency rules but this one just doesn't make sense to me.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

Gloucester rugby, play half about for a few weeks, to get my hopes up, only to kick me in the bollocks with a performance like that, just as I've got invested again, having told myself to not self-harm my mental health this way:

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

If that's a passive tackle, then the Somme was a little bit of argy bargie.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

Still, I'm sure whoever we have next would be as clinical in attack *goes to check fixture list*

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

This is how I'd sum up today's performance.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

Literally every good thing from the last few games has gone out the window this half. No attacking beyond hoping Max can bust through, the less said about the scrum the better and it's terrifying when Sarries put a high ball in.

[Martin Knight @MartinKnight_]

All this “giving up my seat” bollocks annoys me. It’s not their seat - MPs occupy them by invitation. They’re our seats not to be traded or gifted by the occupants.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

I cannot express in words how angry I am by all of this. They had and still have a huge majority. The average person is desperate for change, for action, instead they are busy setting fire to their own curtains.

Get on and Govern.

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Labour were out of power for 14 years. They won a 174 seat majority under Starmer. Now, less than two years in, MPs are panicking and self-destructing. Just amateur.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Everyone punch drunk about Burnham.

I hope they’re confident that his experience stacks up sufficiently to deal with Putin, negotiate with EU, China, the Trump administration, Iran, manage energy shocks, etc.

Does anyone know what his plan is? Does he? This is all a bit daft.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Keir Starmer has told MPs that he will not resign or have a long drawn out leadership contest, describing it as the most irresponsible thing he could do"

David Yelland, "The media has become an anger factory and I suspect that has been created by people who are not friendly to this country" @davidyelland 👏

"We're all angry, and the media feeds the anger"

"Something fundamental has changed in the system and we need a national conversation on that"

Theo Bertram, "Populism, like content creators on social media thrives on polarisation, that's how you get clicks, get attention"

[Brendan May @bmay]

So as I understand it the Labour Party, having won a whopping majority before realising it had no coherent vision or plan on how to use it is now, less than 2 years in, thinking about changing the UK's PM during a time of war & geopolitical crises on several fronts. Get a grip.

[Russ Brookes @RussBrookes1981]

@Mikes_Brother @TightFive_Rugby Someone had already mentioned him, throw in Olly Morgan too

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If Labour MPs detonate this government, the calls for an early general election will be immediate.

Reform will claim that whoever succeeds Starmer will be illegitimate, because they didn’t win the election.

The media will hound them, as relentlessly as they have Starmer, and the cycle continues.

This all plays into Reform’s hands. It’s exactly what they want.

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

If I were Starmer, I'd just ignore it all. Announce some great stuff tomorrow. Crack on.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Just do the bins FFS

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

What we crave is an old-school government so boring no-one knows their names. Competent, professional.
But we're led by a story-hungry media desperate for new drama for sponsored podcasts.
If they had their way we'd have a new PM every month, each worse than the last.