Ryan Kavanagh

[Ryan Kavanagh @ryankavanagh10]

3-0 loss but still enjoyed the game, fore sure going to a season game this year #ncfc #ontheballcity #yellowarmy

[Right Turn Clyde @BackIndeed]

Andy Burnham could find a cure for cancer, give it away for free and you’d have some daft cunt saying “well I haven’t got cancer”

[Gary Powndland @powndland]

Do you want to know why the country is fucked and ungovernable?

It’s because of wankers like this who wouldn’t piss on their neighbours if they were on fire.

Tight, measly, self serving, selfish bastards who only care about themselves.

What a fucking skid mark.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Keir Starmer — ever a man of his word til the end.
In June 2023 he explicitly ruled out ever indulging in a resignation honours list (BBC Radio 4 Today).
Today he’s marked his resignation with 21 peerages, overwhelmingly public-sector/legal jobsworths. Barely a single wealth creator among them.
Classic line up of the New Establishment which has run the country under Labour and Tory governments for the past three decades and is now firmly in control. Largely (if not entirely) with the following characteristics:
*Career almost entirely in public sector, often taking salaries from several sinecures at once as they work up the greasy taxpayer-funded pole.
*Associated with various ‘right-on’ causes.
*Largely middle class, London chattering class, Oxbridge well represented (of course).
*Fashionable left but not too left. Good mainstream Labour links.
Thus is the antediluvian House of Lords perpetuated by the Left as well as the Right as a comfortable state-funded retirement home for the well-connected ‘good and great’ past their sell-by date — when it should simply be abolished.

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

I still don’t think many people have clocked how massive this story actually is.

Thames Water is carrying £19.8bn of debt, up 2 billion in a single year, and it will run out of money before Christmas.

£19.8bn against 16 million people who cannot switch, can’t leave, and cannot stop drinking water.

That’s about £1,240 per head. 5 grand for a family of four. In some way, shape, or form, they’re on the hook for it.

That’s the part that I don’t think has landed yet. This isn’t a story about sewage in the Thames, or bonuses, or another regulator caught asleep. The actual event is 30 years of a monopoly being used as collateral by people who knew its customers could never walk away. The bill has now come due… and it’s a big one.

The pipes and the infrastructure were never the real asset. The 16 million captive water drinkers were.

What’s going to really sting is the fact there’s only two ways this gets settled. Your bill goes up, substantially, or your taxes do. Most likely both, and it’ll be on a schedule designed in a way so you don’t notice the hit, in an attempt to suppress the rage you should rightly be feeling.

And before anyone tells me the creditors are taking a 30% haircut, look at what they’ve asked for in return. Fines waived until 2030. Pollution targets “significantly modified.” Bills raised above what the regulator allows. That isn’t exactly them eating the loss now, is it. That’s them buying a regulatory holiday, on debt most of them bought at distressed prices.

Nobody voted for this, nobody borrowed it, and nobody saw the benefit of it. The debt was loaded onto a captive customer base over 30 years and paid out to shareholders who have long since gone.

16 million people are about to find out that they co-signed something they were completely unaware of.

Now, this is what should worry us all. Thames isn’t a rogue outlier, it’s just the first one to fully hit the wall. English water carries north of £60bn of debt. Southern is already junk rated, needed a £1.2bn rescue from its shareholders, and its customers are looking at a 48% bill rise this decade before you count what the CMA added on top. Every one of these companies borrowed heavily when money was free and now have to refinance it all in a world where it isn’t, while being told to spend billions on infrastructure they left rotting for 30 years. Thames is just the first and most visible of what will likely end up being a line of dominoes.

Maybe Burnham nationalises Thames Water. But ask yourself… how many more will need to be nationalised? And who do you think pays for that?

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Green Party Leader Zack Polanski refuses to be bullied by BBC or zionist organisations for calling for IDF war criminals in Britain to be tracked. They should be then tried and imprisoned. The Green Party’s national policy is that the IDF be proscribed as a terrorist organisation

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Hope the ministerial car was worth selling out the Palestinian people.

[The Muslim Mum @TheMumMuslim]

John Kiriakou tells Theo Von how the IDF murdered an American journalist by shooting her in the face in the West Bank.

The IDF then turned up at her funeral which was held at a local hospital to disrupt the service and further terrorise the attendees, and even random patients, who were attacked with batons and stun grenades.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

More actual evidence of the depravity of this Labour Government, how they conduct themselves and the rot that runs throughout the entire party.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're going to have to repeat a lot that many Jewish people don't support Israel's genocide.

Criticism of the Israeli Government and their war crimes has nothing to do with who is or isn't Jewish.

To conflate them like this is both harmful and antisemitic.

[Coll McCail @MccailColl]

As Hasan Picker and Cenk Uygur are denied entry to the UK, it’s worth remembering that Isaac Herzog — accused of “direct and public incitement to commit genocide” by the UN Commission of Inquiry report — was welcomed by Keir Starmer on the steps of No10 in September.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.

Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Note that the UK Government just banned entry of two American citizens -- @cenkuygur and @hasanthehun -- not because they criticized or worked against the interests of the UK.

It was solely because they criticize and oppose the one country deemed sacred and off-limits in the UK and so many other wester countires: Israel.

The UK under Labour is also regularly arresting its own citizens for peacefully protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza (including old British ladies and countless Jewish activists at these protests, though they remain free to protest *in favor* of Israel or against any other country).

This is all driven by the same dynamic that caused the Trump Admin -- as one of its very earliest top priorities last year -- to force US universities to expel American students protesting Israel, to deport others who merely criticized Israel, and to implement aggressive speech codes to protect Israel from common criticisms (even though one is free to say all the same things about any other country, including the US).

Why does this one small country command such special, elevated, supreme status and attention in so many western countries? It's way past time to give that question the attention it deserves and to finally put and end to it.

[Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB]

Cenk Uygur has been banned from Britain.

Not for violence. Not for hate. For criticising israel.

The government calls it "a serious risk to public order."

Since when is speaking the truth a risk to public order?

If criticising a foreign government gets you banned from the UK, ask yourself — who is really running this country?

Free speech is dead the moment it becomes inconvenient for the powerful.

[Ciaran @CiaranBloo]

Namedropping Elmohamady ffs we have about 5 years to overthrow the monarchy before this fellas calling John Carew a Barclaysman in his Christmas speech and getting Assad level approval ratings

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

Our undercover reporter went on the Tommy Robinson rally this weekend, posing as a far-right news channel, and found Tommy Robinson supporters fuming about his criminal record

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"

Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ZackPolanski is spot on here, the Greens aren't splitting the left vote because this Labour party isn't left wing.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Hilarious video that shows none of the Reform voters know any of Reform's policies.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The system is rigged.

An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits.

We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.