@LeagueFreak Hmmm. With you on picking the teams, but new ones nah. NRL haven’t got that much to burn. For a truly national league, you’d gave 12 teams inc 2 French and London. Then build from there and seek to attract others including North East, South Wales and Midlands over next 10 years.
@davidyelland Pathetic story which says much whilst saying nothing. There’s a Wigan Athletic chat “We come from Wigan and we live in mud huts”. I think The Mail think we do. Or should.
@DAaronovitch From what he said, it appears everywhere else that isn’t the usual. Appreciate not coming from you but the hysterics being generated about the North being given a look in, is exactly why people there feel left behind. More of everyone rather than always the same might just work.
@davidyelland@GBNEWS Amazed/Not amazed about reporting of the sheer audacity of thought something not being in London was a good thing?! That’s a large part of the problem innit?
@afneil Despite London having 50% per person more infrastructure spend than the rest of the country, Manchester does in fact do trains and one runs all the back to……London.
@christopherhope@GBNEWS Sounds a bit entitled. Already criticised him not wearing a tie. Probably realised you’d report regardless of what he said in response. Quid pro quo.
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@Claire_journo@Eclipse12002@faz42@_teletext@quevega Ha. Not pointing that accusation in your direction, just airing what a lot have said about it. Possibly southern based media that have referenced as a single place. Lancashire aside it did start as a further subdivision called the West Derby Hundred, which Liverpool was part of!
@Eclipse12002@Claire_journo@faz42@_teletext@quevega Think people are getting hung up on the name, it’s just an area with various townships within it brought together as a population. It has to be called something and the reference to Makerfield has historical links going back to the Doomsday book.
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@DPJHodges@alexwickham of “neo-liberalism.” Alex Wickham and others interpreted that as being aimed at Burnham.
So the “delusional” / “dangerous” framing comes from interpretations of Blair’s argument, rather than him directly saying “Andy Burnham is X.”
@DPJHodges@alexwickham Ai -In the clip/post, Tony Blair does not appear to mention Andy Burnham by name. What people are reacting to is a passage where Blair criticises “the alternative” in Labour that wants to move “further left on taxes, spending and welfare” and revive critiques of the last 40 years