Simon Edwards

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Dear Reform UK.

Please could you provide us [the political public], a copy of your acceptable free speech guidance? It may help in any future mix-ups.

For example:

Reform councillor said they'd melt down Nigerian people to fill potholes — fine.

Reform councillor shares a post calling for Natalie Fleet to be shot — fine.

Reform councillor says he can't wait for Starmer to be hanging from a lamppost — fine.

A man wearing a gallows humour T-shirt — not fine.

You see where we find ourselves? You allow vile and rancid comments under the guise of Reform Free Speech™, but when you see a T-shirt with the word Nigel on it, you lose your shit.

How do you even know it meant Farage? It could have been Havers or Mansell.

If you could email me your guide forthwith, I'd be much obliged.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I can’t wrap my head around an economy where nursing homes cost enough to bankrupt families, yet the aides caring for our grandparents still rely on food banks. Or where daycare can consume an entire parent’s paycheck, while the people providing that care still can’t earn a living wage and need a second job. Something about that math just doesn’t add up.

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

Next time you hear the Tories ask where the money is coming from for things like bus fare subsidies and VAT cut on electricity bills, remember the £10 billion they pissed up the wall on useless PPE.
Including £122 million to keep one of their own in unimaginable luxury.

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

RIP Kevin Keegan - some of the football played when he was our manager was on a par for excitement as the Centurions season under Pep. He was certainly an icon of the game as a player and manager, a sad loss 😢

[Andrew Slater @SlatsAndy]

An awesome manager back in the day. What a shame. R.I.P 🩵

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

RIP Kevin Keegan - some of the football played when he was our manager was on a par for excitement as the Centurions season under Pep. He was certainly an icon of the game as a player and manager, a sad loss 😢

[Spiby @SpibySalford]

ONCE A BLUE
ALWAYS A BLUE

[Niall James @NiallJames8787]

Kier Starmer had two houses and a car linked to him set on fire but I don’t remember any outrage from the opposition parties regarding the safety of MPs. Instead some of them spread malicious rumours that the men responsible were rent boys linked to the PM!

[Albie @albieamankona]

Reform UK cannot have it both ways.

You cannot platform Lucy Connolly, jailed for inciting violence online, then less than a year later, demand people watch what they say about Reform online.

If you want the moral high ground, wash your hands of Lucy.

[John Kirby @csljohnkirby]

Robert, you joined the Conservative Party in 1997 and remained there until January 2026, approximately 29 years. You were a Conservative MP for more than 11½ years and spent nearly five years as a minister, including at the Treasury.

During the Conservatives’ 14 years in government, the IFS records 15 new taxes or levies, alongside frozen personal tax thresholds, VAT rising from 17.5% to 20%, corporation tax rising from 19% to 25%, National Insurance increases, a frozen inheritance tax threshold and insurance premium tax more than doubling.

The Parliament beginning in 2019 was the biggest tax-raising Parliament in modern British history.

There were tax cuts too, and every proposal should be judged on its merits. However, accusing others of “reaching for other people’s money” while presenting yourself as detached from that record requires a remarkable degree of political amnesia.

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

Johnson hollowed out almost anyone with integrity and intelligence from the Tories in 2019, Badenoch is just following the trend. Their talent pool is very shallow to attract voters back.

[Marx de Morais @MarxdeMorais]

Astonishing how the Conservative Party’s broad church has been buried, in the belief that silencing it and turning the party into a fan club will somehow save it.

Thatcher and Churchill would be turning in their graves.

For everyone to understand: following the party line when necessary is one thing; depriving MPs of the right to express and stand up for what they believe is something else entirely.

As a side note, while these particular issues are official Reform UK policy and it is therefore rightly expected that MPs support them when required, I am not aware of Reform UK depriving its MPs of independent thought or judgement. With the Conservatives having buried their broad church, Reform is a broad church in the making. More than anything, Britain needs a party willing and able to be one for the whole nation.

https://t.co/7FiYkU0mDf

[West Ham Images @HamImages]

Someone had to put the Benny Hill theme to Nigel Farage walking... so why not me? #Farage 😀😃

[Black Dog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @hotwings100]

If a large company is making billions in profits, whilst its workers are claiming Universal Credit, then the government needs to legislate to force the company to cover the cost of UC.
We should NOT be subsidising the company's profits!

[Paul Watson 💙 @PhilWat10127274]

@phughes76340646

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Been saying this all day

Share - it needs to happen

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

What you call a ‘tea break’

[Spiby @SpibySalford]

Bloke in work has just pulled out a full Sunday dinner at 10:15 on his morning brew gravy in a jug the full hit!

He Said she’s gone mental coz he’s been on the piss all day and night so he better eat it 😂😂

ITS COMING HOME 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

UP THE ROAST POTATOES 🤜🏼

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

@_AsiwajuLerry & that’s a very low bar

[slbsn @slbsn]

Every World Cup team (or if not as many as possible) should legally jointly challenge the Balogun decision unless the US agree to unilaterally ban him for the game. Such an egregious decision should be challenged and the evidence tested.

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

Probably the most underrated in the EPL

[Rupesh @virg1nmojito]

Probably the most underrated player at the club.Never got the praise for what he did at the club... putting out 7/10 performances without getting noticed..One of the most imp player in the treble szn.
Thank you , Nathan!!!

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

Uruguay ?

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

If Paraguay are the Arsenal of international football, who’s Everton’s equivalent?🤔

[Simon Edwards @citizenshed]

@City_Xtra @NathanAke All the best to you both and thank you for being part of an incredible team