Sean Austin

life’s too long innit

[Sean Austin @Sean_M_Austin]

"There's no point in me buying pele, he wouldn't get in the side ahead of dzeko" @theCEPenguin 2019

[Sean Austin @Sean_M_Austin]

@ccgamesim Is there any news on this? Couldn’t navigate to buy a code on the website.

[Sean Austin @Sean_M_Austin]

@willowtv @CricketAus Please fix your fucking stream

[Sean Austin @Sean_M_Austin]

@willowtv_canada @willowtv any danger of you guys providing a watchable broadcast?

[Sean Austin @Sean_M_Austin]

@JamesAscotky5 @campbellclaret

[Sean Austin @Sean_M_Austin]

@RealNatalieRowe @JoRichardsKent @trusslizz What are you waiting for?

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

There is something perfectly ridiculous about people professing outrage at the idea of other people *pulling rank* to walk past the coffin of an actual Queen. Just think about it for one nanosecond.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I can smell toast. I think it might be me.

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

nothing like changing the gels on your security lights to show you're doing everything you can

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

It’s unbelievable that an international coalition which could find 130BN dollars a year for Afghanistan when fighting there, cannot find 5 per cent of that amount to prevent millions of Afghans from starving. @SkyNews

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Michael Gove, who’s been in Government for 10 out of the last 11 years, says people in northern England have been “overlooked and undervalued for years”.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

We’ve spent five years pointing out, sometimes calmly, sometimes kindly, sometimes neither, that whatever you think you voted for was & is never going to happen. It might be helpful if you started attacking the people who lied to you instead of the people who told you the truth.

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

Yesterday's result gives me hope that the Tories will yet go down in flames. But I'm still not confident. And you can be assured they will continue to undermine democracy across the UK, at all levels, if that's what they deem necessary to hold on to power. ENDS

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

Especially if you can persuade yourself that you’re doing it all in the name of democracy. Your own, special kind of democracy.

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

After all, rather than try to convince people of the merits of the Union in a post-Brexit, authoritarian UK, easier just to remove the institution that gives voice to the counter-arguments.

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

It’s not too great a leap of imagination to envisage these people calling one day for the dissolution of the devolved parliaments.

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

People, you begin to suspect, for whom the preservation of the Union is more important than the preservation of democracy.

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

You can pick up hints in the utterings of some politicians and commentators, with their not-so-subtle messages that the success of the SNP in Scotland means democracy isn’t working.

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

As a further thought, who’s to say that if the devolved governments continue to be formed by parties opposed to the Tories, or to the Union, they won’t also one day be deemed "undemocratic?"

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

Together, of course, with a referendum held half a decade ago, in which the vote of a minority of the population was used as a mandate for a full-scale revolution.

[Richard Haviland @rfhaviland]

So no, we are not about to see general elections come to an end. But there is a danger that the mere fact of their taking place will be seen as evidence that the UK has a healthy democracy.