Paul Somers

Spurs, Orient, Buckhurst Hill

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@xGPhilosophy Olise must have had 2 xG on his own…. Not sure I trust this one

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer Comments are telling. You are pretty much universally loathed, a pair of incompetents who have betrayed the hard-working, honest people of this country. Sadly we’ll have to wait to be saved as our political system is a joke. #generalelectionnow

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@investseekers Denmark stock market is closed today

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@danielgothits Italian population collapsing, along with others. You’ll be picking up housing and land there for a fraction of the price within 10-15 years.

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

I'll tell you what I don't like, Darren. I can't speak for everyone, but these are my thoughts…

I don't like a tax burden at its highest level since 1948, under your government and the last, producing the weakest growth in a generation. And worsening public services to boot.

I don't like a 46% hike in the minimum wage for under-21s in three years that's helped push UK youth unemployment to 16.1%, above the eurozone average. I want young people paid more, earned through growth, not handed down by decree that squashes the rungs above them and tells a skilled forty-year-old their two decades of graft are worth precisely the same as someone walking through the door on Monday morning.

I don't like industrial electricity prices that are the highest of any IEA country reporting. Full stop. UK steelmakers pay 40% more than their French competitors. You don't build a future of advanced manufacturing on those numbers.

I don't like a planning system that takes longer to consent a pylon than to build one, business rates that punish high-street enterprise, and employment costs that turn every hire into a risk.

I don't like watching world-class British research get commercialised in Boston and Palo Alto because the capital, the talent and the regulatory patience aren't here. They're fleeing.

I don't like long-term borrowing costs at their highest level in over 25 years, eating into every budget for schools, hospitals and defence before a penny is spent.

I don't like the OECD saying that we're going to be the hardest hit economy as a result of a conflict in the Middle East that's got nothing to do with us. All because we've made ourselves weak and vulnerable.

I don't like a government that confuses 'raising money' with 'creating wealth'. Or 'standing against unearned wealth' with taxing to death the people who actually make things happen in this country.

You don't lift children out of poverty by strangling the economy that pays for their schools. You do it by letting Britain grow again. Letting it play to its abundance of strengths.

In this case, I feel the best way is for government to get the hell out of the way.

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@jonburkeUK Have to ask why you hate Wrexham Jon? Games gone though!

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

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[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@RichardBurgon Dry your eyes Richard. Do you think Trump is going to care what a few leftie plonkers like you think. Anyway, wrap up warm and have fun 😉

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

Richard Burgon MP for Leeds East has posted 4 times today regarding Venezuela 🇻🇪 He’s promoting a protest against Trump tomorrow @6pm yet on New Years Eve 2 little girls in his constituency were sexually assaulted by 3 illegal migrant men and total silence!!! Another Labour MP with absolutely no interest in their country, their constituents and with zero moral compass… no wonder they are the most hated government in history! @RichardBurgon @Keir_Starmer @pinkladies_uk @YorksRose_84

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so.

The Electoral Commission has been explicit: Labour's justification for delaying local elections is not legitimate. Not unwise. Not clumsy. Illegitimate. Extending mandates damages public confidence, undermines local legitimacy, and creates a clear conflict of interest by letting councils decide how long they can avoid voters. In any functioning democracy, that would end the matter. Here, the government presses on regardless.

That's the scandal. This is no longer a party political dispute or a row between Reform and Labour. The referee has intervened and said the game is being rigged, and the players have decided to ignore the whistle. When a government continues with election delays after being told by the independent authority charged with protecting electoral integrity that its reasoning does not hold, the issue stops being reform and becomes power protecting itself.

The language Labour uses is revealing. Elections are framed as an inconvenience. Voters are framed as an administrative burden. Democracy is reduced to a cost-saving exercise, something to be postponed if the spreadsheets look untidy or the reorganisation plans are mid-flow. Ministers speak of "capacity constraints" as if the right to vote is a luxury item that must wait until the filing cabinets are rearranged. In a democracy, administration exists to serve elections. Elections do not exist to suit administration.

The conflict of interest identified by the Electoral Commission should alarm anyone who still believes in democratic norms. Councils are being asked whether they would like to delay the moment they must answer to voters. That's not consultation. It's self-dealing. No serious system allows those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. Yet this is now presented as a "locally led approach," as though outsourcing democratic suspension makes it virtuous.

Worse still is the uncertainty. Candidates have been selected. Campaigns have begun. Money has been spent. And with months to go before polling day, the government is still dangling the possibility of cancellation. The watchdog describes this uncertainty as unprecedented. That word matters. Democracies rely on predictability. Once elections become provisional, subject to last-minute ministerial approval, the entire process is degraded.

When challenged, ministers retreat into condescension. Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft." This is a familiar trick: speak for the public while denying them a voice. Redefine democratic rights as common-sense nuisances that sensible adults should stop fussing over. It's the rhetoric of managed democracy, where participation is tolerated only when it produces the correct outcome.

None of this is happening in isolation. Mayoral elections have already been postponed. Now council elections are being pushed back again. The pattern is clear. When the polls turn hostile, the timetable moves. When voters become unpredictable, the vote is delayed. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to buy time. They face the electorate and take their chances. Labour is not doing that because it knows what the numbers say.

The danger is not just that millions of people may be denied a vote next year. It's the precedent now being set. Once a government learns it can delay elections after the watchdog objects, after campaigns have begun and candidates are in place, the principle is broken. Elections become conditional. Democracy becomes something you are granted when those in power feel safe enough to allow it.

"Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft.""

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@ShabanaMahmood We’re finished ….

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@CollinRugg Get @elonmusk on this. Throw resource and serious consequences at it. A lot of sick people
Out there, and lifelong consequences. So sad

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

When I was a few weeks postpartum with my second child, I bundled us both up and waddled into the Fairfax County Circuit Court to testify against a man who had accosted my then-toddler daughter and I in a public bathroom while I was heavily pregnant.

When I arrived I was brought into a room with his other victims and found out he had assaulted a woman in the same bathroom. I suddenly felt I had been lucky.

The arresting officer who had also interviewed me weeks prior was clearly eager to do everything right to keep this guy off the street—he found additional witnesses, pulled surveillance footage, followed every step to the letter.

It was physically painful and difficult for me to even be there—trying to discreetly feed and soothe my two week-old for 6 hours on hard benches when we should both be home in bed. It was also terrifying discreetly breastfeeding in the same room as this monster.

When I finally took the stand, the attorney for the Commonwealth asked me if the man who was in the bathroom that day was in the room.

I paused, confused—because I knew what was going to happen next.

The courtroom had been packed all day but as case after case was handled, ours was the last one—now it was just the judge, court reporter, bailiff, the defendant, his lawyer, the Commonwealth attorney, and I.

The arresting officer wasn't in the room. The other victim and her husband had been given a new court date and sent home.

I adjusted my baby against my chest and looked at her as she repeated the question: Do you see the man you reported to police in this room today?

Why was she doing this? What was she doing?

I was sweating in my oversized cashmere nursing sweater and I felt prickles down my back. Everyone was staring at me. I'm not a lawyer. She asked me a question... and she was “on my side” so I should answer it, right?

I adjusted my baby again to give myself a free hand—and I pointed to him.

And just as I expected, his lawyer immediately pointed out there was nobody else present in the courtroom who it could be and therefore we had violated his constitutional right to due process.

The judge agreed. Hell, *I* agreed—but then I asked WHY hadn't the Commonwealth given me a photo array to choose from? Why did she ASK that?

Too late. It didn't matter that he was on surveillance footage entering the bathroom before us and pushing past us as we fled.

He was set free.

As I walked out of the court room the arresting officer spotted me from down the hall and ran over to me “Is it back in this courtroom? Is it starting?”

No, I told him, it's already over. He had been sent to another courtroom “by mistake.” He didn't even get a chance to testify. He looked horrified.

The Commonwealth attorney and “victims advocate” that morning assured us they were going to fight for us. They were SO SORRY this had happened to us. They were SO GRATEFUL that I had come to testify in my condition.

Instead they seemingly intentionally let the monster walk free.

It's been two years.

Yesterday he was released on bail for yet another crime—one of at least THIRTEEN he's committed since that day in court—including sexual abuse of a child under 15.

His arrest record from just the last 5 years spans four pages on the Virginia court website.

Look at how many women—and CHILDREN—he's victimized since that day.

Look how many times his victims have gone to court just as I did only to see him set free again and again and again.

This is NOT happening by accident.

This is deliberate.

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@iqbalmohamedMP Time to vote reform and slow this tide of hatred. Anyone not ‘awake’ yet, needs to stop hitting snooze…

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

To elevate America’s health, restore public trust, and reclaim our reputation for integrity and gold-standard science, @POTUS’s HHS will challenge even the most sacred public health dogmas through open debate and disciplined scientific scrutiny.

Watch as I shred @SenatorCantwell's chart from my recent hearing—a chart she used to argue that vaccines saved hundreds of millions of American lives by pointing to the 20th-century decline in infectious diseases.

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@paulmasonnews Paul. Nearly every post shows you to be a hypocritical plonker. You must be paid for clicks.

[Paul Somers @Somers101]

@UKLabour As the conspiracy theorists predicted. For free…. You mean taxpayers pay? This is Blair’s end game, and we must resist

[Josh or whatever. @SerioJoshehe]

@UKLabour If you’d like to sign the petition against this: https://t.co/OnatvHop6Y