Nick Ruskin

Brave people don’t live forever, but cautious people don’t live at all.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I have an announcement.

[Nick Ruskin @NickRuskin]

@tractorboyy88 @WorldofHotspur Don’t disagree with anything other than the Anderton part - he is the kind of signing I would wish for nowadays

[Nick Ruskin @NickRuskin]

@uttdkola Mario Mandzukic

[Danis @DanisMCFC]

Gabriel is the only player who can get away with these disgusting fouls without even a card. PGMOL are totally nonexistent when it comes to him.

[Playmaker @Playmaker8u]

🎙️Wayne Rooney on Arsenal:

“How Arsenal keep getting away with these silly tackles honestly baffles me. What Gabriel did to Martinez today was completely unnecessary. No VAR check, no card nothing. There’s no way Gabriel should have still been on that pitch. For me, that’s a clear red card.

Arsenal have developed this habit of bullying players on the pitch. This isn’t the first time, they know exactly what they’re doing, and it’s becoming part of their identity. They constantly push the limits, leave something on opponents and somehow escape punishment.

If VAR is there and still refuses to intervene in situations like this, then what exactly is the point of having it?

The Premier League needs to start taking this seriously. You cannot keep allowing the same team to get away with these incidents week after week.

Arsenal might call it ‘passion’ or ‘intensity’, but sometimes it’s simply dirty football and they’ve been getting away with it for far too long.” #ARSCHE

[The Geordie Ape 🦍 🌍🌌 @GeordieApe]

This is who Reform are:

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Oh dear😂😂😂😂👇👇👇👇👇👇I haven’t stopped laughing

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Nigel Farage:
Andrew Tate is an "important voice" for young men - 2024

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Nigel Farage on Javier Milei(President Argentina):

He(Milei) is amazing... & I've really, really got my fingers crossed for him & Argentina... & i'm beginning to think about buying Argentinian bonds...."

[LaVozGalactica @Lavozgalactica]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Acaban de filtrar un vídeo de 5 minutos sobre todos los robos de Argentina a Inglaterra.

Esto es un escándalo Mundial.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

In a normal world, a sitting US president who paid the woman he raped $5.6M would be historic news.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The Daily Mail said England should leave Jude Bellingham at home.

A take that aged like milk left out in the Miami sun.

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪��� 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

They call it GB News to make it sound patriotic.

It’s owned by Australians.

It’s based in the Dubai tax haven

It’s managed by New Zealanders.

The only British bit are the fools watching.

[Adam Pearson @Adam_Pearson]

Currently the Clacton By-election appears to be a choice between

A) a novelty act with no real policies
B) Count Binface.

[Covie @covie_93]

BREAKING: FIFA Peace Prize recipient bombs Iran during the FIFA World Cup.

[𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕧𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣 @SteveACooper]

A multimillion £ "gift" is nobody's business, yet a pair of spectacles are "on the take" and are of national interest.
The king of hypocrisy "do as I say, not as I do"

[Nick Ruskin @NickRuskin]

@danny__kruger Boo hoo, poor Farage. The man is a crook and always has been. Should be in prison for taking that ��5m bribe

[Aaron Newbury @AJNewbury94]

I have to admit, Burnham's speech comes off as a bit naïve. To be blunt, it smacks of a man who's grown extremely used to not having much scrutiny and to being the centre of local power and attention for nearly a decade.

Him not taking questions at the end is just as telling. Burnham will effectively become Prime Minister by default: no contest inside his own party, no general election mandate for the changes he wants, and of course no scrutiny from the press.

His entire speech was, in effect, "why can't everyone be more like me" and yet it announced almost nothing. Nothing on cost, nothing on how any of it actually gets done. Just a collection of soundbites, and painfully political ones at that, with no substance behind them.

"A circuit-breaker." "Good growth in every postcode." All of it sounds lovely (let's do the good things and not the bad ones). Nobody's ever thought of that before!! But… how?

Being a Mayor is a fundamentally different job to being Prime Minister. A Mayor spends money, much of it handed to him by central government, and never has to weigh one department's misery against another's. The job he's warming himself up for is the one that has to make those trade-offs, and nothing today suggested he's reckoned with that.

He reaches, as these people always do, towards the idea of a country "lifted back up", homes built, places regenerated, industry revived, pride in place, etc etc. There are models for this. You can run massive public housing programmes, but historically they're delivered through expensive, highly centralised, government-run schemes. Singapore being the obvious example. What they are not delivered by is building a second centre of government.

What Burnham is really offering is top-down socialism with a smile. Devolution on steroids doesn't shrink the state, it bloats it. A "No.10 North" doesn't move power closer to people, it just builds more state, in a second place, at additional cost. It's more process, dressed up as a radical idea nobody's ever had before.

More and more, political speeches are just a hodge-podge of pleasant noise. We will do things, lots of things, good things. We'll make sure things you like have "social value", we'll make you proud of [insert thing to be proud of], we'll deliver [insert policy that sounds really nice].

But the problems this country faces are enormous. Law and order is eroding, and rebuilding it means serious money for police, courts and prisons. The state grows more expensive by the year while the workforce paying for it keeps shrinking. We have an energy crisis and a poverty crisis, conflicts multiplying abroad and armed forces begging for cash, and more than a million young people out of work - on top of housing nobody can afford, child poverty, and a generation that feels detached from the society around it.

You don't fix any of that with a slogan and a second postcode for the guy in charge.

Every Mayor thinks his city is the best, and Mayors, almost uniquely in British politics, are rarely questioned. Today we all saw what nearly a decade of that does to a man. And thanks to his refusal to so much as take a question, we've had no chance to hold a single one of his plans up to the light.

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

Sickening to me that someone charged with what Thomas Partey has been charged with is still playing football on the world’s biggest stage. Good for Djed Spence for refusing to shake his hand. Declan Rice going over to give him a massive hug, on the other hand….