Simon Patrick

[Simon Patrick @simonpatrick1]

@gjevans70 Could not agree more.

[Viviane: Holding Burnham to account @LaindonFEMINIST]

6 weeks tomorrow since Labour were voted in. We’ve seen NHS strikes end, now train drivers. We’ve seen Starmer take control of the Farage Riots and hundreds of rioters jailed. We’ve seen him cancel his holiday and attend COBRA meetings. What’s not to like?

[Brendan May @bmay]

Starmer has handled this all perfectly.

Imagine the ambiguous messaging we would have had in the previous government. A minister or two would have half-defended the rioters’ ‘legitimate concerns’ and it would take Sunak 3 days to disown them.

Grown ups make all the difference.

[Reform My Arse @PeterTr74604680]

Has @Nigel_Farage fallen below the standards required in public life, that an MP is expected to uphold. If so, he could be excluded from the House of Commons, and consequently face a recall petition & by-election.

Retweet if you think he has.

[Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled @AlisonKriel]

Can’t share this often enough

#Riots

[Accrington Stanley @ASFCofficial]

@jaybaghuelou @Farrendrawson1 @ShaunWhalley7 @AlexHenderson_2 @jimmy_K10 @aarontp01

[Accrington Stanley @ASFCofficial]

🎥 “This season I’ll be looking to try and really cement myself into the 18-man squad, and get as many minutes as I can, and play more games. It was obviously great to get my debut last year, but I just want more now.”

@Olipatrick8 previews @ClitheroeFC.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[ScottishPanda 🇬🇧 @PandaScottish]

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We could not agree with this more.

Please RT if you do too.

[Simon Patrick @simonpatrick1]

@oafcmemories 100% agree. Best player me (or my Dad) have ever seen in a Latics shirt

[John Bishop @JohnBishop100]

This is incredible and should not be lost in all the other news. This person holds
one of the most senior jobs in government and he lied about saying this. He now apologises. 1. Saying it at all is a reflection on what this government think of the rest of this country. 2. Lying about saying it shows a total disregard for parliament and displays the cowardice of all bullies. 3. Then believing you can get away with it by suggesting you called a person not a place a shithole. WTF.
In the past this would end a career in shame - now he will just continue and will probably even run for leadership of the Tories at some point. If that doesn’t illustrate why the Conservatives are never going to fight for ordinary people are deprived areas nothing will.

[Simon Patrick @simonpatrick1]

@ACFC1916 Quality performance from the Colls 👍

[Simon Patrick @simonpatrick1]

@LancsCricketFDN @RamsbottomCC No surprise there! Congrats Amelia

[Sally Shephard @SallyShephard1]

I cannot express how amazing this is. Get your state school children signed up. Memories are made.

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

💨 #oafc

[Atherton Collieries @ACFC1916]

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Your Stripes XI is in for tonight's clash at Nethermoor! 🏁

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[Greenfield Cricket @Greenfield_C_C]

A few tickets still available....

[Simon Patrick @simonpatrick1]

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[Simon Patrick @simonpatrick1]

Another step on the journey. Well done @Olipatrick8

[Accrington Stanley @ASFCofficial]

1️⃣ 𝘼 𝙈𝙖𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚…

Congratulations, @Olipatrick8!