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[SGems90✌🏻 @SGems90]

@OptaJoe Retire.

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@Keir_Starmer Fud

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@piersmorgan No it wasn’t.

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@TheAthleticFC

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@Footballtweet

[Adam Dunn @AdamDunn1872]

" 70 grand a year Ma Maaannnn "

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Patient tested for suspected Ebola virus at Glasgow hospital https://t.co/0G8wXGJoFQ

[SGems90✌🏻 @SGems90]

@Atalanta_Report Bite yer hand off for that fee

[SGems90✌🏻 @SGems90]

The refereeing at the World Cup has been hopeless.

[Mike Graham 🇬🇧 @Iromg]

He’s like a parody northerner. Absolute BellEnd…

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

I agree with the @DailyMirror

#GeneralElectionNow

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🚨 I've listened to Andy Burnham's 10 year speech, where he looks Britain's new saviour in Zelenski uniform, bragging about what a success Greater Manchester is with my mouth open.

You would be forgiven for thinking Greater Manchester was close to perfect, an example to everyone of how his fantastic policies have worked.

Does he seriously think most of Greater Manchester is a success? or that he contributed to a shiny business sector, 2 world class football teams and the largest Uni in the country? because outside that...

▪️Nearly 1 in 4 GM neighbourhoods are in the most deprived 10% nationally.

▪️Half of GM’s local authority areas are among England’s 30 most deprived.

▪️Manchester city is ranked 4th most deprived English local authorities.

▪️In 2024, 16.2% of jobs in Greater Manchester workplaces paid below the real Living Wage = 193,000 low-paid jobs.

▪️Temporary accommodation is around 5,915 households, with 8,600 children in temporary accommodation.

▪️Around 12,700 long-term empty homes were identified across the city-region.

▪️4 of the 10 highest recorded crime local authorities in England are in Greater Manchester

▪️Educational achievements are below national average

▪️Manchester city area above national unemployment levels

▪️1 in 8 working age people get PIP, above the national average

▪️The GM area has a lower household disposable income than the national average

▪️34% increase in rough sleeping

▪️Violent crime and sexual offences are above the national average.

▪️grooming gangs? or is we still ignoring these?

▪️Drug-related death rates in Greater Manchester are significantly above the national average

Oh and now lets talk about debt. Bravo Andy... to achieve some of the highest deprivation in the country under his leadership, GMCA now has about £1.4 BILLION of gross debt and an underlying borrowing need of roughly £2.5 BILLION.

So his speech on "Hopes and dreams" is actually more like 'No hope and nightmares', his leafy suburbs and shiny city buildings can't really hide the truth.

You're welcome.

[SGems90✌🏻 @SGems90]

@andyburnham General election required.

[Bairdric @Bairdric1]

@EwenDCameron saw this and thought of you pal.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Andy Burnham - who is set to become PM next month without a leadership contest, after 9 years away from Westminster, and less than a month after becoming an MP again - is making his first big policy speech this morning and refusing to take questions from journalists after it.

Not good at all.

[SGems90✌🏻 @SGems90]

@RangersFC An interesting signing. Reeks of signings that we’ve made in the past that have failed. Only time will tell.

[Blair McLaughlan @mr_omnibus]

Spoken like a guy who has no interest in developing football culture in the country and purely there to enjoy the gravy train vibes of tournament finals that should be the bare minimum expectancy level of any manager. Absolute slabber.

[Andy @Bobmcphail1872]

Pattern emerging with Maxwell.

Dismisses worldwide astonishment at Scottish officiating and VAR embarrasments citing "hysterical media backdrop" and "the forensic examination of every decision depending on which shirt the player's wearing"

Now dismissing the anger of Scotland fans after a massive missed opportunity for Scotland at the World Cup (a failure any way you look at it) as "hysterical commentary back home"

He's not listening, he's entrenched in his views, and he's probably defensive because he knows he's in a highly paid role that he should never have been in.

That's not leadership, that's self-interest. Not even an ounce of consideration that maybe the buck stops with him on some things that need urgently addressed. Well it does.

[Ewen Cameron @EwenDCameron]

Good evening Ian (SFA Chief Exec),

Here’s a reminder of what you 🫵🏼 said after handing Steve Clarke a FOUR year deal just before the World Cup.

🗣️ “We’re not going to make a decision on the manager based on how the World Cup does or doesn’t go”

Every man, woman and child questioned that decision especially with how bad Clarke’s track record was at previous tournaments.

Yet you have the cheek, and the audacity, to criticise (blame) the ‘hysterical reaction back home’.

🤔 Did you not see Clarke’s behaviour in post match interviews with Connie McLaughlin and Eilidh Barbour?

🤔 Did you not see what Clarke said to the Tartan Army and how the TA should be thanking him for spending thousands of pounds supporting their country?

🤔 Did you not see us defend for 60 minutes v Haiti?

🤔 Did you not see his favourites bring their club form to the World Cup while inform players were left at home?

🤔 Did you not see us not have one shot on target v Morocco?

I could go on but I’ll stop there.

Ian, passing the buck isn’t a good look. It really isn’t. You should be looking closer to home to point the finger and that starts with you and the boy from Alloa.

Talking of the boy from Alloa here’s a wee reminder of the what the SFA President, Mike Mulraney, said on giving Clarke a new FOUR year deal.

🗣️ “I know I am right on the days it goes wrong and I believe I am still right as I sit here today. It might sound arrogant, but I don’t need vindication. The only person I have to convince that I am doing it right is me.”

The arrogance is astounding.

Scotland deserves better. It’s our national game but it’s being run by amateurs.

It’s time for change.

Ewen

#Scotland #WorldCup

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

A UK family where both parents work full-time, pay full council tax, and earn enough to be 'doing alright' on paper, can't afford to take their kids to the Tower of London on a Saturday in 2026.

Two adult tickets and two child tickets at standard price comes to roughly £100. Add £40-£80 in train fares and £50-£70 for lunch — that's around £200 for a single Saturday at one tourist attraction in their own capital city.

A family on full Universal Credit, living in subsidised housing, paying no council tax, can take the same four people to the same Tower for £1 a ticket — £4 total — under the 'inclusive access' schemes most major UK attractions now run.

The working family pays the full £200 day out AND covers — through their taxes — the £196 discount the benefits family gets on the same trip.

Whatever the original intention of those schemes, this is the structure most UK working families are now living inside. Pay the full bill, then watch the people next door enjoy the day out you can't take your own kids to.