@TrotterChatPod Not an immediate purchase like the home and probably away, but will definitely be copping it at some point. Big fan of the throwback kits for this year (and the away from last season, making me pine for UEFA Cup nights again)
@GraceOnFootball In an era where he could get kicked into the sky without much protection, on those horrible 80s pitches too. Messi is clear but Maradona being THAT good in that era is insane.
Apologists for Starmer are notably avoiding the fact he ran for Labour leadership on a relatively left-wing platform he clearly had no intention of implementing. A very cynical move which has damaged already low levels of public faith in politics even further.
Keir Starmer's premiership was a catastrophe engineered by the Labour right.
They got everything they wanted - a candidate without politics of his own, control of selections and internal processes, a monopoly on his advisers - and they fucked it into the sun.
They'll call him a "decent man." He is not.
He oversaw one of the most aggressive assaults on British civil liberties in generations, all to protect Israel's genocide and Britain's participation in the crime of all crimes.
He shouldn't be resigning. He should be in The Hague
Starmer will be remembered as one of worst, most regressive prime ministers of last century—and it was all entirely predictable
But Andy Burnham is cut from same cloth
The problem is not these empty suits. The problem is the Labour Party: it is set-up to sustain UK oligarchy
To be clear, @Keir_Starmer is NOT a “decent man”
He has supported and enabled GENOCIDE every single day of being prime minister. He is not “decent”. He is a war criminal
Attlee’s Labour, elected with a 146 seat majority, created the NHS and built the welfare state.
Starmer’s Labour, elected with a 173 seat majority, have been complicit in the Palestinian genocide, have implemented anti-trans policies, and cut welfare for the most vulnerable.
starmer co-signed war crimes, gave military assistance to a genocidal state, rolled back trans rights, let palantir into nhs, kept hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty, slashed welfare, rolled back rights, courted tech barons etc but you can’t understand the hatred of him?
As prime minister, Keir Starmer:
- Relentlessly attacked trans rights.
- Relentlessly suppressed anti-Zionist speech and protest.
- Relentlessly attacked immigrant rights.
- Continued austerity.
Good riddance.
History will judge Keir Starmer as a man who lied his way to the top of the Labour Party and then used that power to evoke Enoch Powell with “island of strangers”, keep children in poverty, attack disabled people, scapegoat refugees, strip back civil liberties, and hand our public services to Palantir.
A man who gave the top diplomatic job to the “best pal” of a convicted paedophile, said Israel has the right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza, rolled out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals, and kept the weapons flowing to the Israeli military as it committed genocide.
Good riddance.
Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally bankrupt in his resignation speech — from a man who defended collective punishment in Gaza, fed intelligence to Israeli génocidaires, and had activists trying to stop it arrested as terrorists. Not a decent man. An indecent sociopath.
@rebekkarnold Mostly just to avoid being flattened at the next GE. Policy wise he's probably not vastly different from Starmer, but he's popular enough within the party that he'll get stuff through Parliament, look more competent and probably do better with the general public.
Portugal are embarrassing and Roberto Martinez is a coward. Resorting their entire game plan around crossing the ball for a 41 year old not up to the level anymore. Until they realise it’s Bruno Fernandes’ team; they’ll continue to stink the gaff out
@jumbo_sausage70@OfficialBWITC Football's also full of people and organisations with public profiles and it's important that those with huge reach take a stance against society's worst ills, like racism. Politics and social justice are ingrained in things like football, it's mad to think you can separate them
@jumbo_sausage70@OfficialBWITC And if it (probably) turns out that it's an anti-Muslim hate crime? Good on the club for taking a stand against that if they choose to specifically state it. Support for one community doesn't negate support for any other, it's normal and good to condemn racism.
@jumbo_sausage70@OfficialBWITC Shut the fuck up Dougie. The club is offering support to a member of the community whose house was firebombed. It's no deeper than that, they'd do the same for a white family, stop trying to stir the fucking pot.