Tim Garrett

Trust no other Tim

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@icelandcricket It's the middle order I feel sorry for. When I skipper a t20 it's hard to get everyone into the game, don't understand how it's achievable in 60 balls. However maybe the isklanders are just built different and are better team players than my lads. I assume so anyway

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@WG_RumblePants Not @PacificCricket it doesn't. Go through till the end of October, and frankly it's a bit disappointing how many clubs shut up shop this early - distinct lack of fortitude

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@marksmehta Have...have they tried to paint a st George's cross on a black parking sign? Really,

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

As well as being wrong about Argentina - the problem is the dollar-debt trap, it owes its debts in US$ - this reply is classic. The poster, possibly an anonymous bot account, is telling us that nations with supposedly democratic governments are subjugated by global financial markets, and that's a perfectly normal and acceptable state of affairs.

Elected governments must balance their books by imposing austerity, reducing aggregate demand, jacking up interest rates and risking recession to appear 'credible' to 'markets'. In simple terms, this means that governments must privatise everything possible by selling off assets and withdrawing public investment to leave room for mostly foreign private investors who sit on vast hoards of reserve capital and demand combined profits and revenue growth of around 40%. £billions are siphoned out of our country every year. Any necessary tasks unlikely to produce that level of return struggle for strictly limited government funding - this is the 'fiscal credibility' the investors demand and why whole regions of the UK and US are virtually derelict.

The complete absence of democracy in the crucial field of finance, investment and economic management is system normal. Some on the right go further - they insist that 'markets' are fairer, more efficient and more democratic than elected governments. Ironically, funding the campaigns of corrupt politicians beholden to 'markets' makes that claim more credible.

Look. This simply can't go on. Our subservience to the global creditor-rentier class must end. A single nation can't defeat global money-market power. We need an economically literate left-wing alliance to focus on promoting this message across Western nations and beyond. https://t.co/7aas5jkoPZ

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@jneill Flood them with subject access requests

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@AlfieHouseEcho Downs and Downes going to be confusing on the commentary

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@WG_RumblePants That question will always take me back to this gem...
https://t.co/zRFc2YiZq5

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@arghmed Spot on mate

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@icelandcricket You're going to have to develop a gas mask that'll fit under a helmet grill when the bouncers come on. Or do the ash clouds restrict the light so much umpires will only sanction spin?

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@WG_RumblePants Presumably that's shaken, not stirred. But if it was stirred, could it be a spinning delivery, or is that an entirely different beast?

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@frankturner @warchild Shame I won't be able to get one, particularly as I had to ditch my "I am the real Frank Turner" t shirt last week. Apparently 20 odd years of solid use was just a bit too much for it

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@WG_RumblePants Broken wrist, torn hamstring and one knuckle no longer visible after various injuries. Hard sport, only just 9ver a month till I get to injure myself all over again. Can't wait!

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@I_amMukhtar Nice to see Mark François looking a bit healthier eh?

[Sustainable Energy Forum @Eddystone506]

Dartmoor Prison - which is EMPTY - will pay Charles £37,500,000 to the end of its lease 👇

The royal family charge state primary schools RENT.

You could not find a more corrupt, greedy, dysfunctional and shady family even in the Albanian mafia.

The monarchy stains this nation.

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@PeoplesCricket I do both, but the wife only lets me play every other weekend sadly. Found the playground to be a reasonably rich recruiting ground if @PacificCricket come up short

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@Mendelpol Tacks aren't flat Jack. They're renowned for their pointiness.

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@LiamCromar @WG_RumblePants Not a brilliant one for seeing the ground, there's better angles than this. But that's the best I've got on my phone I'm afraid

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@WG_RumblePants @LiamCromar Springfield Park in London would be up there for my money. Had been meaning to recommend it for your beautiful grounds series

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@WG_RumblePants My first club. Fond memories of being a colt there in the 90s, lovely place

[Tim Garrett @iamtherealtim]

@Durrymusic Got to suffer for your art I guess. Ah well, maybe you'll catch a buzz off it. Stay a little back from the edge of the stage maybe...