Andrew Ward

A work in progress….. Opinions are not facts; I might accidentally ‘like’ or ‘retweet’ stuff; I reserve the right to be wrong and/or change my mind.

[Andrew Ward @ndrwWrd]

@Ceefax303 I’m pretty sure I went to the Leyton Orient 0 Hull City 0. Was a hot sunny day iirc. Early 90s

[DR SIMON LEE @ENGLISHFUTURES]

Where the UK is 'on the slide', it is because of corporate welfare dependency, profound #inequality, wealth extraction by #rentier asset owners, and sustained lack of private and public investment. It wasn't migrants who privatised our national assets.
https://t.co/7TW6WMDJRY

[DR SIMON LEE @ENGLISHFUTURES]

This is such an important letter. The government of #England must be based on 'real places', not confected 'regions' By the way, #England is also a real place, a nation in need of a democratic voice and a national political, governmentaland policy identity.https://t.co/kjpDalxKBR

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Professor Marandi (Tehran):

- Piers, allow me to offer some advice. I'm not going to debate who is right or wrong – Russia or Ukraine – right now. That's not the point. I simply want to say that your media outlets have been misleading the public for two years, constantly claiming that Ukraine is winning. And then suddenly, it turns out that it is on the verge of collapse. Imposing false narratives ultimately becomes a disaster for yourselves – for the people of England, Europe, and America. Your endless wars, which are based on these false narratives and disinformation, create massive waves of refugees that are overwhelming your own countries. And all of this is happening because of your own actions.

[Birger Høst @CommonSenseASAP]

🇷🇺Russia: The Soviet Union no longer exists, can you let us into NATO like everyone else?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Okay, but can you please not threaten us by expanding NATO to the East?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Alright, we saw you're developing new missile systems, will you let us work on them with you?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Fine, hypersonic missiles it is, but can you at least not put military bases right in front of our borders?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Well, you just carried out a military coup to overthrow a democratic election in Ukraine, can we still have a friendly relationship with them?

🇺🇸USA: No

Russia: Gotcha, but the people of Crimea are really pissed off about that coup, can you please let them have independence?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Roger, but surely you can at the very least stop bombing the civilians living in Donbass, right?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Huh, we've been trying to find a diplomatic solution for a 8 years but you refuse to even talk to us... I guess that if you want to use military force to solve issues so much we have no choice but to do the same.

🇺🇸USA: OH MY GOD PUTIN IS A MADMAN, AN IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL DICTATOR, LITERALLY THE SECOND COMING OF HITLER, WE MUST STOP HIM AT ANY COST BEFORE HE TRIES TO CONQUER ALL OF EUROPE

#SigerDetBare

[Andrew Ward @ndrwWrd]

@LakeHouse3142 @JessicaRosvy They had 50s cars in the 60s

[Andrew Ward @ndrwWrd]

@Bypasser09876 @reliable_chemst Are you suggesting this isn’t an actual study?

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

Dear Americans, this is how much of Europe it took to beat you in the world cup in your own home. Try being a little bit more humble next time.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

We need to spend more on defense. Look. Think about it. If Russia invaded Britain, they’ll turn us into a sham democracy run by oligarchs, drag us into illegal wars, use state power to suppress activists, and steadily erode free expression.

And we can’t have that.

[Andrew Ward @ndrwWrd]

@Jvm_Manoj Tom Graveney

[Andrew Ward @ndrwWrd]

@Mykuhl I agree to a large extent. They got the field spread and they could have been positive without being reckless.

For those saying Mitchell showed how it should be done, I agree to an extent, but we need to recognise that his knock was one of the best 2nd innings 100s you’ll see

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

BREAKING: Keir Starmer Resigns

Media sold Starmer as 'forensic, decent & capable' PM. He was NEVER that as we made clear yrs ago:

"Starmer is a LIAR in charge of a brutal, authoritarian, inhuman political machine but you wouldn't know about that if you read or watched UK media"

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

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[Sydney Sweeney’s Tortoise 💎🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 @BBCbreakingNewt]

@Peston Sure…but he’s right. Those are the two hills Starmer died on.

The 3rd was TWO TIER JUSTICE

The 4th was PLANS TO INVADE OUR PRIVACY

HE IS / WAS THE WORST PM IN LIVING MEMORY…BAR NONE

His support for Miliband & Hermer was fatal

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Getting rid of Keir Starmer is not enough. We need to get rid of the politics he represents: corporate greed, anti-migrant rhetoric and endless war.

[Dave @ItsOurDave]

"Getting rid of Keir Starmer is not enough. We need to get rid of the politics he represents: corporate greed, anti-migrant rhetoric and endless war."
Jeremy Corbyn.

[TheDictator!! @jydoMorak]

@SamCKx Have you noticed that none of the leaders who’ve paid more attention to the Ukraine war than to their own people are popular? And how he betrayed and treated Jeremy Corbyn will never be forgotten or forgiven by many.

[Carole Hawkins @hawkins_carole]

Starmer only won in 2024 because of the years of corruption from the other half of the duopoly and what do we get with @Keir_Starmer his loyalty is to Israel, condones, finances, supplies weapons to his genocidal party leader @netanyahu, bankrupting the country with the £Billions he's given to his co branch office manager of the Likud Party @ZelenskyyUa , wants a war with Russia in order to maintain his leadership position, introducing bills such as State Murder disguised as Assisted Suicide, Digital ID cards neither in the manifesto he was elected on, his contempt for the people he alleges to lead is blatantly clear to everyone.

[Andrew Ward @ndrwWrd]

@razorblade300 “You do not have the right to say anything “

I thought he was reading him his rights, not telling him all the things he doesn’t have the right to do.