Average Joe 🏴‍☠️

@mutualnterest media co-op member 🌐 #platformcoop @members4coops supporter

[Average Joe 🏴‍☠️ @SensiblePaddy]

@michaelsavage The limitations of traditional media where you’re lucky to focus more than 10 minutes on a single interview or subject. So the vast majority is just journalists farming for max drama and gotcha clips to boost ratings and social media engagement.

[Average Joe 🏴‍☠️ @SensiblePaddy]

@AaronBastani Yeah I live in Wigan and this wouldn’t surprise me one bit. Rupert Lowe has started to create a personality cult that reminds me of early Farage. Farage and Reform increasingly being seen has establishment figures compared to the new fire brand of Rupert Lowe

[Average Joe 🏴‍☠️ @SensiblePaddy]

@Alexand_R_B @andy4makerfield Best Pie Shop in the World 🥧 🌍

[The Inbetweeners Fans @InbetweenrsFans]

Every British PM as told by The Inbetweeners

[Average Joe 🏴‍☠️ @SensiblePaddy]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[GameVerse @TheGameVerse]

“Absolute Cinema”

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.

Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.

Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.

However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.

Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.

I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.

Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.

ENDS

[Eyup Lovely @eyuplovely]

TAP THE FUCK IN NOW

[Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies @CeilNoyle]

Still his most memorable speech 💼🌹📈🤓🥹

[Average Joe 🏴‍☠️ @SensiblePaddy]

@DPJHodges

[BLAIM GAME @BLAIMGame]

“We asked 48m voters ‘What would make you vote for Labour again’

You said - Gordon Brown

If it’s up there I’ll give you the money myself”

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

The speed at which Labour have managed to destroy their core voter base is crazy.

[Tides of History @labour_history]

#OTD 2005. Third term for Tony Blair as the BBC unveil their new CGI graphics…

“2005 was the first election since the 1960s where economic related issues weren't among voters' top five concerns”

A thread on the 2005 election 👇🏼

[Average Joe 🏴‍☠️ @SensiblePaddy]

@OS_Architects Beautiful I think the vast majority of the public of show your architecture would say yes please this is what we want in our urban centres. I wish you the best of luck we desperately need this kind of architecture in mansion blocks to be brought back

[Ollier Smurthwaite @OS_Architects]

We are developing some proposals for a modern mansion block with taller ceilings, more windows, better communal areas and a private garden. We’ve been researching Albert Hall Mansions and Richard Norman Shaw who is credited with making flats desirable to the aspiring Victorian middle classes @archi_tradition @Aesthetic_City @createstreets

[me irl @me_when_irl]

POV: going on LinkedIn

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

There’s literally not a single sane person on the planet who welcomes that.

[John & Margaret @ukboomers]

We were planning a cruise around New Zealand this winter. With the price increases and cuts to pensions we are going to have to fly economy to get there. I've got a bad hip. Fourteen hours in economy. Next time millennials rage about not being able to buy a property remember what some of us have to go through.

[Average Joe 🏴‍☠️ @SensiblePaddy]

@LBC