Tim Brunt

Pro illustrator.
Bit of a music, outdoors, art & film geek.
Lifelong @Seahawks fan💙💚
Sometimes ranty and sweary and political.
We only have 1 planet.

[Andrey De La Mancha @AndreyDLaMancha]

🔴⚽️Ante ustedes el gol más hermoso de todo el mundial que se le metió al equipo más corrupto de la historia‼️

El VAR lo eliminó, pero nunca se nos borrará de nuestros corazones.

#EgyptWon

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Seeing some of the embarrassingly hateful reactions to Starmer's resignation today, I thought it was worth resharing this.

The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics.

Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues.

Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence.

This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness.

The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives.

There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting.

None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals.

A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@CorbinSmithNFL Been a loyal fan since '83 and live in the UK💙💚

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@NFL_DovKleiman What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@pitchblacksteed I tend to use 'goose over stumps frogside' quite a lot.

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@atrupar Go fuck your paedophillic, rapist orange ass, you fucking deranged cunt.

[NFL UK & Ireland @NFLUKIRE]

Right, time to let us know who you are supporting.

Hit that RT if you're backing the @Seahawks to win on Sunday!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."

RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@QueenAnticommie I wish these assholes would just fuck off

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@DaveMacLachlan1 Downeaster Alexa

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@Footballtweet Or, just stop the game clock everytime this happens. Every time miss taking occurs or genuine injury rather than adding random time on. Only play 90 minutes. It's not fucking rocket science.

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@NFL_DovKleiman Steve Largent🔵🟢

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

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[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivors just released this incredibly touching Public Service Announcement.

Make it go viral!

Trump is so disgusting for covering us up.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

HMRC will send 17 letters, 4 texts, a carrier pigeon and the Mexican cartel to chase Dave from Manchester for underpaying £3.76 in tax.
But a firm linked to Michelle Mone can owe £39m (on top of the £122m already owed) can swan off to Miami and live their best lives with zero criminal liability.....
One rule for the rich and another for the poor.

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@XposeTrophyHunt @SARA2001NOOR @Angelux1111 @Lin11W @Gail7175 @Protect_Wldlife @PhaedraXTeddy @louisa1000 @CWitvrouwen @LiftForever67 @Cshells33Wells Absolute scum. However, why is there so much photoshopping on the right hand half of the pic? Pretty much everything green on the right has been altered...what is that hiding?

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@NFLUKIRE Baker, and as a hawk fan I'd root for Darnold as well...

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@WSJ Fuck sake, wake up! Why would an assassin that could take someone out at 200m leave behind any trace? This was set up Trump to detract from the epstein files and fire up his lunatic followers against the dems to further divide your country.

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@allenanalysis Trump is behind it. Distract from the epstein files and create more division and spew more hate towards the dems by creating a new false story that the left is behind it.

[Tim Brunt @TimBrunt6]

@LeahVredenbregt @ryanobles It would no surprise me at all if this had trumps fingerprints all over it. The shooter will not be found. Another distraction from releasing the epstein files and another anti-left smear to fire up his psychic maga base.