He needs riots, he incites them.
He needs boat crossings, Brexit caused them.
He needs high immigration, Brexit caused that.
He needs money, he takes bribes.
When Russia hosted the World Cup in 2018, it had to suspend normal visa rules for the tournament. Foreigners with tickets could enter visa-free, using a scheme called ‘Fan ID.’
Russia also had to do weird stuff to keep FIFA’s sponsors happy. For example, small shops near Fan Zones and stadiums could only sell Budweiser beer on match days.
So yes, FIFA absolutely does dictate conditions to host governments when it suits FIFA. Infantino pretending otherwise is nonsense.
Yaxley Lennon, Farage, Lowe and others, hang your heads in shame.
An immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home after saved her uniform so she could still work.
Do you feel proud?
Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"
Count up everything you gave up this year.
The holiday you did not book. The boiler you nursed along instead of replacing.
The school trip you found a reason to say no to.
The nights out that quietly stopped. The savings that never started.
You told yourself it was just a tight year.
It was not. It was every year now.
You earn a decent wage.
You work hard.
And somehow there is never anything left, and you cannot work out where it goes.
Here is where it goes.
Every year they create more money out of nothing, and every year the pound you earned buys less of your own life. You are not falling behind because you are failing.
You are falling behind because they are quietly draining the thing you are paid in.
And nobody ever asked you.
The real two-tier scandal in the UK is the relentless double standard approach of a media which lets one party leader get away with financial dodgery that would drive them into a frenzy if it involved someone their billionaire owners didn’t want in power because they believed in things like fairness and equality
This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that accolade.
It's hard to know where to even start.
I'll go from the top and try wade through it, to arrive at where the focus should already be. /1
😭 Absolute classic sketch from Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse’s BAFTA-winning BBC series.
Harry and Paul do a brilliant parody of BBC Question Time: the clichéd audience questions, the sweaty nervous bloke in the jumper, the host’s withering put-downs, panelists waffling absolute nonsense… and all the timeless British political b*llocks in one perfect sketch. 😂
Still painfully accurate years later.
Farage has achieved his goal — to return from his hiding place with such outrageous statements that he hopes the questions about his £5m donation are now forgotten.
The media are duly obliging by focusing on his racist dog whistles instead of his corruption.
Trumpian.
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"
Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"
#PMQs
When the fuck will people wake up and realise that Farage wants your anger. The attention outrage and violence of poor people makes him very rich. That’s why he incites and manipulates.
Much like MAGA, people need to realise that this is a class war and Reform are the elites.