HCE

Passionate South African, sports fan except football, proud Mom of two, career woman.

[HCE @hilary_ce]

@Bob_cart124 OMG 🙄

[HCE @hilary_ce]

South Africa take note!!!

[Les Mileistes Français 🦁🇫🇷 @Mileistesfr]

Milei choque le monde avec une première mondiale!

Désormais, si l'Etat entre en déficit et que ce déficit n'est pas résolu en quelques semaines, alors ne seront plus payés les salaires:

- du président
- des ministres
- des principaux fonctionnaires du pays
- des députés
- des sénateurs

Et toutes les dépenses non-essentielles de l'Etat seront purement et simplement gelées.

Une mesure forte, brutale mais tellement logique.

Avec ce système, les dirigeants et les bureaucrates n'auront plus le choix que de maintenir un budget à l'équilibre.

Il est temps qu'ils arrêtent de jouer avec notre argent et notre futur en nous endettant sans limites.

[Les Mileistes Français 🦁🇫🇷 @Mileistesfr]

Milei choque le monde avec une première mondiale!

Désormais, si l'Etat entre en déficit et que ce déficit n'est pas résolu en quelques semaines, alors ne seront plus payés les salaires:

- du président
- des ministres
- des principaux fonctionnaires du pays
- des députés
- des sénateurs

Et toutes les dépenses non-essentielles de l'Etat seront purement et simplement gelées.

Une mesure forte, brutale mais tellement logique.

Avec ce système, les dirigeants et les bureaucrates n'auront plus le choix que de maintenir un budget à l'équilibre.

Il est temps qu'ils arrêtent de jouer avec notre argent et notre futur en nous endettant sans limites.

[HCE @hilary_ce]

@NJ_v_N @pookiepolls Why not?

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@DavidLammy @Keir_Starmer Unbelievable arrogance and total inability to read the room

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@lady_valor_07 Bee Gees

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@ThrillaRilla369 Paw paw

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@RomzyUnited @AnneleeM Legend ❤️

[HCE @hilary_ce]

@BasilTheGreat I’m Zim born to British parents and everyone else before them is British. I live in South Africa and I’m South African! Not weird at all!

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Micah Richards on the officiating controversies in Croatia vs Portugal and England vs Norway.

🗣️ “I’ve had enough of this. Football cannot keep changing the rules depending on the match. Either the technology works the same for everyone, or don’t pretend it’s there to protect the game. Right now, the inconsistency is making a mockery of the biggest tournament in football.”

“Against Portugal, Croatia had a crucial goal ruled out because the ball sensor detected a touch. Fine. Then explain to me why, in England vs Norway, we’re told the sensor detected nothing when many people believed the ball had struck the camera cable before Jude Bellingham’s goal. If the ball touched the cable, the game should have been stopped immediately. You can’t have one standard on Tuesday and a completely different one on Wednesday.”

“Then you look at Norway’s disallowed goal. I’ve watched it over and over again. The contact between Haaland and Anderson was minimal. That wasn’t enough to wipe out a goal in a World Cup knockout game. Football is becoming so obsessed with finding reasons to cancel goals that we’re forgetting what real fouls actually look like.”

“How are players supposed to trust the system when nobody seems to know how it’s being applied? One match the technology is treated as absolute truth, the next match it’s apparently ignored. That’s not consistency that’s chaos.”

“Norway have every right to be furious. They didn’t just lose a football match they leave wondering whether the same laws of the game were applied equally. That’s a terrible look for the sport.”

“And don’t tell me people would react the same way if another one of football’s biggest nations had been on the wrong end of these decisions. The outrage would be deafening. FIFA and the officials have serious questions to answer because fans deserve transparency, players deserve consistency and football deserves far better than this.”

[HCE @hilary_ce]

@JomTones12 Kate Middleton ??

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@merYlma51514439 @SinanAkyuz73 Classy

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@merYlma51514439 @SinanAkyuz73 What a ridiculous remark

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@eadair Totally agree- performative nonsense forcing the referees hand. Norway doesn’t do it- hence our respect.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Adam,

I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.

But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.

I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.

I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.

Here’s a list.

She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.

She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.

She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.

She was appointed to the Privy Council.

After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.

Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.

She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.

She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.

She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.

Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.

She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.

That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.

Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.

Do you understand the reduction involved in that?

You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.

That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.

It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.

Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.

I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.

But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.

Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.

She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.

Bernie.

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@linadreaamy 98

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@eNCA Just tragic 💔

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@ginnydmm The movie haunted me as a child and still sticks with me now. So so sad

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@zcahverse Spot on!