SimmsNick12🌍

Biologist who also loves sport, music, comedy, drama. If you don’t kick off, they’ll normalise it. We’re in trouble here.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

He was still a better prime minister than any of this lot.

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

The BBC may have forgotten Farage's £5m grift, but if you remember it, please repost! Thanks.

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

A game that’s as dull as dishwater played with a ball that looks like a dishwater tablet #NEDJPN

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It’s really something how billionaires have rigged the rules to let them vacuum up all of society’s wealth & then fund think tanks and buy media properties that blame poverty and homelessness and despair on literally everything other than billionaires vacuuming up all the wealth

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

35 missed tackles in one match! How? #ENGvAUS

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Never has this been truer. Labour needs to step up, wake up, show up, and get us back on the path to EU membership, in whatever form can be agreed. Blair was right then and is right now. Come on, sort yourselves out. Your economic growth doesn’t exist.

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

@BiologyNULS Hope all goes well. Weather looking good. ☀️

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

It is hard to overstate how concerning this is.

@AlderHey appears to be using physician associates - not doctors - to see children independently in surgical outpatient clinics.

No medical degree.

No post-grad paediatric qualifications.

Just PAs, “flying solo” on your kids.

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

Where’s Riverdance when we need it? #ClosingCeremony

[Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social @RichardBentall]

We need to have some clarity about the causes of the rioting over the past few days.

A 🧵about the rioters, the instigators (two fairly distinct groups of people), and the processes leading to the current unrest. 1/21

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

Dear @hmtreasury @darrenpjones

Please can you launch an investigation and possible prosecution of the Conservative Ministers who misappropriated hundreds of millions of our taxes to film videos for their social media channels.

Misappropriation of public funds is a financial crime, under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 which defines financial crime as including any 'offence involving fraud or dishonesty.'

Gina Miller - a UK taxpayer

Repost if you agree!

@BestForBritain
@BBCNewsnight
@BBCr4today
@Haggis_UK

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

@JoePS123 Because you never saw your dad play.

[Live Snooker @Livesnooker]

Such a lovely moment. 😢

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

So sad to hear about the passing of Ray Reardon.

A titan of snooker. A marvellous man. And this story about his days in the mines is still one of the most astonishing I’ve ever heard…

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

Great. Can we have Klopp as manager of England now? #ENGSPA

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

Sorry, 2017 Labour 40% with 262 seats. (Labour 203 seats with 32% of vote in 2019) Still odd.

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

Yes! Well done Labour! Strange system though:
Labour 2024 under Starmer gets 35% of the votes and 410 seats.
Labour 2019 under Corbyn got 40% of the votes and 203 seats.
#generalection2024

[SimmsNick12🌍 @simms_nick75]

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[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Have voted. Voted for the party I've been a member of ( not any more), and have pretty much voted for my entire life.

The Labour Party.

I'm doing it solely on the notion that there has to be enough democratic socialists in the grassroots of the party to come to the fore in years to come and be bold enough to implement policies and values that most Britons can support and God forbid, someday be proud of.

There are several at the top table of the party who aren't democratic socialists or have democratic socialist values. Instead they're terrified of the "angry right" and have held their noses on jettisoning policies that have hurt every Briton over a decade and half. Something Labour members and long time voters may well forgive but won't forget should a Labour government stay in a status quo autopilot.

The hope is that with a large enough majority, Labour will be bold enough to produce policies down the line that make everyone, regardless of political persuasion, see that there are progressive differences between parties and that voting is worthwhile. With an apathetic public though, we can all but hope, because I think we're all worn out with the lies and empty promises.

It's time we had a grown up conversation about the top 5 issues that are on the public's mind too. Immigration, Brexit, Cost of Living, NHS and a population getting older are all things that unite every Briton in our need to discuss them like adults, get round a national table and find solutions. Solutions based on informed facts, national need, national unity, respect and care for those who've paid a lifetime into the system and to give our worryingly detached children real opportunities and real hope, none which are ever found in short term populism, left or right.

Good luck to everyone who voted, for those who genuinely vote for what is best for the 70 million who live on our island. Any success we have only ever comes through the collective work of others, that's the truth. To those who only vote for self interest, that's fine, take a look at the roads, the schools, the health service. Robbed, divvied up by a small club who now get to walk off into the sunset. Literally. So maybe think bigger than you and your immediate family, you share a house with 70 million, you know.

We're a great country when you strip everything back. Genuine, hard working , self deprecating, generous, humorous, quirky and loving. But we've all been turned into spiteful, selfish, greedy, blaming and petty. It's what corrupt public servants and service do to decent people. Pollute them.

If you've voted Reform or Workers Party, Tory, Labour, Green, SNP, Plaid, DUP, Sinn Fein, Lib Dem or any other, and you hate your oppo in the morning, then you lost anyway. Try talking, try finding common ground, it's there.

To the political class, someone, anyone, step up and unite a nation behind something more than bile, bigotry or the status quo. Because we all desperately need to live again.

With each other.
For each other.

A Voter from the Midlands.