The Bald Recruiter #FBPE

Insurance Recruiter. ⭐⭐⭐LFC⭐⭐⭐ London-based. Part-time writer. Free wine always gratefully received...

[The Bald Recruiter #FBPE @TonyKingThinks]

@DalrympleWill I came here specifically looking for your reaction to this idiot!

[ThatsSuSFishy💙 @JayZEmc2]

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[Brendan May @bmay]

No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.

[The Bald Recruiter #FBPE @TonyKingThinks]

@currys @enticedigital

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns

Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"

➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP

There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths

➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible

➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)

"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Today @bbclaurak did the following:

1) made an outrageous claim that intimidation lost Jonathan Ashworth his seat

2) mocked labour policy in a sarcastic sing song voice

3) got Nigel farage to comment on divisive politics

RT if you agree they need a new presenter.

[Moniza Hossain @moniza_hossain]

He looks like he’s being haunted by the woman he ran over

[Robert Peston @Peston]

I'm about to go submarine. Under the rules, TV journalists aren't permitted to say anything material about politics on election day. So this is my last chance to offer a few reflections as the most maddening and absurd election battle of my life draws to a close.

Here, in no particular order of importance, is a list of just a few of the events I never expected to see in an election period but did.

1) Revelations that Tory candidates and officials bet on the date of the election, rather than concentrate on winning the election, and that a Labour candidate bet he'd lose

2) A PM turning his back on free publicity that campaign money can't buy, through his early departure from a D-Day gathering of world leaders that was held to celebrate our brave war veterans

3) A wannabe Tory leader, Suella Braverman, saying that Rishi Sunak's attacks on racist remarks by Reform leaders and candidates have less force because the Tory party kept millions of pounds from a donor who made racist remarks

4) A Tory leader seemingly conceding defeat weeks before polling day by saying that the vote is all about making sure Labour wins only a normal majority, not what Sunak calls a "super" one

5) A prime minister drowning in the pouring rain when announcing the dissolution of parliament, for want of an umbrella

And here are the big issues that would have been discussed in a healthy functioning democracy but were downplayed or ignored by Labour and Conservatives

1) how to manage the risks and rewards of the most far-reaching industrial revolution of modern times, the generative AI industrial revolution - that will require radical changes to our schools, welfare system, healthcare, employment, media rules and taxation

2) what kind of military and defence capability is necessary to protect ourselves from the military threats of Putin, China and the wider cyber threats of other bad actors

3) how to avoid deep cuts in public services after 2025, that are baked into spending plans underwritten by the Tories and Labour, at a time when prisons are overflowing, waiting lists for NHS treatment are still rising, teachers remain demoralised

4) whether it's sensible to commit to freezing all rates of direct personal and business taxation, when rates for those on average incomes are lower than they've been since 1975 and when public services are crying out for investment

5) how to end the strikes in the health service once and for all

I could go on, and on, and on.

It was in keeping with the systemic displacement activity of the campaigns that the final argument just before polling day has been about whether Keir Starmer should be allowed to have Friday nights with his kids if he becomes prime minister.

In what universe do Rishi Sunak and the Tories believe that voters who are thinking of voting Labour, Reform, LibDem or anything but for him will be swayed by Starmer saying he wants to preserve space to be a dad?

Anyway here is the nutshell of the two parties' arguments, if we can dignify them in that way.

Tories: "Labour will put up your taxes and we'll cut them. Don't ask us how we'll fund public services, or our confidence levels in our plans to cut immigration."

Labour: "We won't put up taxes and we'll encourage investment by promoting economic stability and dismantling planning restrictions. Don't ask us how we'll fund public services, or our confidence levels in our plans to cut immigration."

Does any of what we've witnessed matter? I suspect not.

The die for tomorrow's vote was probably cast long before Sunak announced 4 July would be the day. My thesis, which I will discuss with you after the votes have been counted, is that if history is made in this election - and that looks likely - the big causes go back to 2015, and there have been a series of sub-causes and triggers in the past few years.

I'll explain more in coming days, as a special treat

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

March 1933 The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

[The Spectator @spectator]

'There are serious issues at stake in this general election, and the Tories have just released nonsense figures with fake attribution and given it to newspapers who took it on trust. I’m really not sure that this will help their chances very much.'

✍️ Fraser Nelson

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

It's time to call out these comments. When I started my career, the BBC called a programme I went on, about debt crisis "Hey Big Spender" - I objected. The biggest cause of debt crisis was change of circumstance.

Since we've had a pandemic, cost of living crisis, mental health crisis. People lose jobs, lose partners, lose legs. People get cancer, have mental health breakdowns, get disabilities that stop them working.

The idea that everyone can have enough saved to bring up a child when they have a child (ie £100,000s) is ludicrous. The idea that we should live in a society where there is no underlying support for people who need it, is dystopian.

While there will be a few who desire to be on benefits. I suspect its very much the minority. A huge chunk of those getting Universal Credit are IN WORK. A majority of those getting child benefit are IN WORK.

This was about a late payment for money many rely on. Show some bloody compassion!

[Helen💫 @_helenmartin_]

I’ve just been told that when my brother passed away on the M50 on Friday that several cars stopped and people sat around him until the ambulance came so he wasn’t alone, i really want to find them if people can please share 🤍

[Doug Aoki @Nantanreikan]

Man who kept his boat besides his house was ordered from the city to put up a fence to hide the boat from view. So he built the fence and hired someone to paint it.

[Fellowship of Fans 🐎 @FellowshipFans]

The 4 Hobbits pay their respects to Bernard Hill at Liverpool Comic Con

"He was intrepid, he gruff, he was irascible." - Sean Astin

Echoing Sean's words, Billy Boyd, said: “We were watching the movies and I said to Dom, I don’t think anyone spoke Tolkien’s words as great as Bernard did.”

[The Bald Recruiter #FBPE @TonyKingThinks]

@SteveL_1968 @updownmain @GPedliham So you are using the increase in a single year to make your point, without considering the relative rates before that? Sounds like you don't understand statistics very well, Steve.

[The Bald Recruiter #FBPE @TonyKingThinks]

@LFCVik2 If you can’t enjoy Klopp’s tenure as LFC manager, you shouldn’t be watching football, let alone ‘supporting’ Liverpool!

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

The Football Association Challenge Cup. A long read.

The World's Oldest Association Football Competition. Let that sink in.Something to be proud of as a part of English football and cultural life.

Changes to it? Yes, with one caveat. That every club who takes part in it has an equal vote as to what those changes are. Too simple eh?

But no, several high profile managers ( who'll be fucking long gone and won't give a fuck when our beloved competition has finally been finished off) and several owners will be gleeful today, another victory for maybe 6 of 100+ pro clubs, another concession to the greed, while relegating a national instution to an annoyance.

I've played for Stafford Rangers in a Cup 1st round against Burnley, hoping desperately to get a replay at Turf Moor.

I've played in an FA Cup Final between England's 2 biggest clubs.

At Hillsborough, I ran out wearing the yellow of Southend United, with 6000 travelling Shrimpers and what seemed like a million yellow balloons. The game where I felt I belonged in that esteemed company.

Playing in the back garden, bewildered as Alan Sunderland scored the winner when Arsenal beat United in a game that epitomised the beguiling spectacle of this famous old trophy.

Yeovil, Altrincham, Hereford, Sutton, Blyth Spartans, Chasetown. Names that maybe only ever pop up once in a football lifetime for the nation but to the fans of those clubs, ask them about their Cup memories and see their faces.

We're being diddled, had over, fucked about, taken the piss out of. By who? Managers who " desperately need fewer games", by owners bemoaning having to gamble their precious boys against Rochdale instead of resting up for Real Madrid, something understandable if it weren't for the luxury of 30 pros costing a billion pounds plus an academy of cherry picked youth from around the world. How many fucking players do these clubs need to play one replay every 5 years?

If the Football Association had any arsehole it would have put any decision that fundementally changes a 153 year old tournament to a vote of all participating clubs. It won't though , because it's scared to say a word to the all conquering Premier League. If you didn't believe before today that the FA wasn't fit for purpose, now you know because the organisation that administers the most professional clubs in the land, the EFL have effectively called them liars. That alone should ensure investigation by an independent regulator, along with any number of other decisions, changes and ideas the all conquering Premier League want implemented.

Fuck you to every manager who's come to these shores wanting U-21 teams and B teams playing in the EFL. This isn't Spain where they can't populate more than 2 divisions with quality teams from across the nation, this is England where we have over 100 pro clubs over 5 divisions, where a town of 40,000 like Burnley can proudly compete in the top 2 divisions regularly for over 100 years.

Fuck you to the big name managers crying about too many games. Use your fucking 30 man squads better and play the 15 you hardly use but cost more money on wages in a year than clubs competing in the Champions League from other nations operate a whole club on! And that's without the star boys who you steal from clubs for a pittance from clubs in the pyramid and overseas that you love the idea of playing but won't because " they're not ready quite yet". Bullshit!

Unless you, reading this, do something, anything by way of protesting this obscene and constant tidal wave of changes to the English game that is ruining the fabric of a delicate pyramid ecosystem, the your children simply will never get to afford to watch what we have.

A sport for everyone, not for an elite few.

It's time to fight back. Enough changes, enough greed, English football worked well for 150 years, trust it, trust those in it and those who support it.

[Esheru @Eshprojet1]

I don’t think I have heard a more accurate description, in recent times

[England Hockey @EnglandHockey]

Winners:

Boys’ U18 T1 Cup – Repton
Boys’ U18 T2 Plate – Eastbourne
Boys’ U18 T2 Cup – Bromley and Beckenham
Boys’ U18 T1 Plate – London Wayfarers

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