Dave Borrie ⭐⭐

Dad of two,
ex Royal Dragoon guards.
I like what i tweet and I'll tweet what I bloody well like.
We see things they'll never see! 💙

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

PotterBall 🤣🤣🤣

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@HonestFrank £12.49 looks similar to what I had at Stoke railway station recently 🤣

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@gusmears1905 🤣🤣🤣 proper tickled me this!

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@RealKingRegal @realclintonb Woken up today and chosen violence? 🤣👊🏻

[The Obi One Podcast @obionepodcast]

😭 ‘THEY CAN BE UPSET WITH ME’

@mikel_john_obi doesn’t care if he’s becoming a thorn in the side of the Chelsea hierarchy.

It’s much, MUCH bigger than that.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Walk across an arable field of British wheat in summer. Count the species.

You will find: wheat. Possibly a few resistant weeds the herbicide didn't catch. A handful of crows. Some pigeons surveying for damage. Roughly nothing else.

Walk across a properly managed permanent pasture in the same county.

You will find: 30 to 60 plant species in a good sward. Wildflowers. Clover. Vetches. Plantain. Ryegrass and timothy. Foraging bumblebees. Skylarks nesting in the longer patches. Hares in the margins. Beetles, dung beetles in particular, doing the work of two ecosystems at once. Field voles, kestrels overhead waiting for them. Swallows hoovering up insects above the cattle.

The cattle are the reason the second field is biodiverse. Their grazing maintains the open structure. Their dung feeds the invertebrate web. Their hooves create the disturbance ground-nesting birds require.

Remove the cattle, the pasture turns to scrub, and the species count crashes.

The farm with the cows is the wildlife refuge.

The farm with the wheat is the empty room.

This is the inversion that nobody who writes for a Sunday supplement has worked out yet.

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@CFCJacob90 See what you did there! 🤣🙃💙

[NotAProjectCFC @NotAProjectCFC]

The message is clear!

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@ChelseaFC Everyone from the top downwards needs to reflect on where we are and where we are heading.

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@RupertLowe10 Driving standards are shocking these days.
A form of refresher training for all license holders would save lives imo.
Something similar to a driver's CPC course but only a few hours required.

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

Get him fucking told @TrevohChalobah

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@djlange Brilliant as always pal. 🙌🏻❤️
Hope you survived Mama's 👀🤣

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@RobertJenrick @metroline Why would he want to go back and work for a company with morals like that? 🤔 #Disgrace

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@Louis_Beneventi Nicholas Jackson is a better player and that is saying something!

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@CFCDaily @kierangill_DM We did this at work 3 years ago. 🤣 Keep up Liam. 🙈

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@Artemisfornow Just like his father, hates Britain and the British. No other explanation.

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@djlange Happy and healthy New Year to you and your family pal. See you in Leeds 31st January 🙌🏻😎❤️

[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.""

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@djlange Would be funny if it wasn't so true. ☹️

[Dave Borrie ⭐⭐ @daveborrie79]

@NizaarKinsella With us wearing that retro shirt I'm getting Tinkerman vibes. 🙈
Need to keep the same defensive line up for consistency imo.
Win or lose up the blues. 💙