Graham Maddison

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Raphinha is BANKRUPT and facing financial problems because Raphinha’s father kept 80% of the player’s rights and career earnings throughout his career, while hiding the situation from the player.

Raphinha recently discovered what was happening when he tried to buy a mansion with his wife and realized he did not have the amount of money he believed he had.

— @euleodias

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

John Healey just did something almost no serving defence secretary ever does: he detonated the government’s entire defence narrative on the floor of the Commons, then walked out.

He spelled out that Labour’s Defence Investment Plan offers just a 0.08% rise in spending between next year and 2030, with no date for reaching 3% of GDP and no path to 3.5% – even as more than half of NATO will be at or above 3% by 2030.

Then came the killer line: “Our adversaries don’t follow timetables set by the Treasury.” In one sentence he blew apart Starmer’s claim that you can run defence on Reeves’s fiscal spreadsheet and hope Putin, Iran and Beijing adjust their calendars.

If your own defence secretary has to resign to say your plan is “well short of what is required” in a “perilous moment”, you don’t have a defence strategy – you have a political time bomb with “Prime Minister Starmer” written on it.

[Graham Maddison @spotwatson5]

@Capt_Fishpaste Should be scrapped altogether. Top 3 go up on merit over a full season.

[Graham Maddison @spotwatson5]

@SunderlandAFC Brady

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

It comes after 1 million people signed a petition calling for a general election.

Set to be held on January 12th, 4:30pm.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Jimmy Carr makes fun of Keir Starmer on stage

No one has any respect for him

Worst Prime Minister ever

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

If there was ever a video to sum up the championship it’s this.. 😂😂😂

Stay until the end I promise it’s worth it �

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Merry Christmas from the Munro Bagpiper. ⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@munrobagpiper

[Thomas Skinner ⚒ @iamtomskinner]

As most of you will have seen in the papers, I won’t be at the final of Strictly Come Dancing tonight.

First thing I wanna say is this…. I spoke with my lovely dance partner, Amy Dowden to make sure she was okay with me not attending. She’s a good person and a good friend now, I’d never let her down.

When I got given the opportunity to do Strictly back in April, I was buzzing. Not because I can dance…. I can’t. But because i really wanted to test myself and Learn something completely out of my comfort zone.

On the night I left the show, I received an anonymous email claiming to be from a BBC exec with stats, saying I’d received far more votes than it appeared and it wasn’t right. I’ve since had the email independently verified.

That same email mentioned the BBC was very angry an nervous simply because I had met JD Vance (USA VICE PRESIDENT). Let me be clear, I’m not a political bloke. Never have been. I just love my country and am patriotic. I’ve been made out by the press to be this political figure. If anyone was to get an opportunity like what I did, they would have taken it. I still think it is mad that a man like me who sells mattresses out of a van can call someone that senior in the world’s politics a friend now.

I have asked to see the official voting figures to back up the ones I was sent in the email but was told they couldn’t be shown to me. And have never been shown in the history of the show. I have spoke about the email I had received to senior people and the BBC welfare team, who btw I genuinely respect. And they was the ones who advised me to get legal advice because of how unfair it all was. (This was not my idea)

There were also smaller things that added to the feeling. Everyone received a welcome gift on the show….. skincare bits, face masks, that sort of thing. Mine was the only one that “Got Stolen” apparently. On its own, it’s nothing…. but added to everything else, it felt strange.

I have been made out to be someone I actually am not simply because I took part in this show. The views were formed from media stories over the summer that simply wasn’t true or exaggerated. It ain’t fair what has happened to me and my family.

I also want to say this carefully. After receiving this information and having it verified, a very senior BBC figure has since resigned. I’m not saying that had anything to do with me, but it did feel bizarre. Also the main hosts stepped down the following week. Again, I’m not saying it has anything to do with me. It’s just all very coincidental. I’m just being honest.

I didn’t want any of this in the press either. A lot of what’s been written has been exaggerated or untrue about me and I’ve found it hard to take in over the past few months. This is my life, and it’s not nice what has been said about me if I’m honest. What I do find strange is that after a private Zoom call with BBC executives on Wednesday night about going forward, this was national news by Thursday morning. That tells me there’s been a leak. Because it ain’t come from me to be in the press. (It might be from the same person who sent me the email🤔) …..I didn’t want this to be national news, in fact I didn’t want any of this. But now I’m writing a statement so people know the truth as to why I’m not attending, I don’t want people thinking I am bitter when I ain’t. I don’t want more stories being wrote that ain’t true.

I’m not kicking off for attention. I’m not saying I should’ve won either. I was rubbish at dancing😂 we all know that. But love me or hate me you do have to appreciate the massive following I have, I can’t even walk into the local Tesco without getting stopped for selfies. I just believe in fairness and respect.

I wish every dancer tonight the very best. They’ve worked their socks off and they deserve their moment.

As for me I’ve got fish to sell on my stall and a family I love more than anything.

Thank you for the love as Always.

Bosh❤️

[Graham Maddison @spotwatson5]

@iamtomskinner Get some Craster kippers Tom

[Thomas Skinner ⚒ @iamtomskinner]

Keir and his helmet disciples keep saying Digital ID will “modernise” Great Britain. It’s a load of bollex. Before Starmer starts tagging us lot the British public like cattle & sheep, he should start fixing all the disasters him and his team have
caused. Illegal immigration still pouring in and our borders ignored. Our services crumbling before our own eyes, and our everyday bills are threw the roof. But now they want more control over the good, normal hard working British people. A Digital ID might sound harmless until it’s used against ya. One big database for everything like your bank your travel your doctor your job. Say you accidentally miss a payment or you say the wrong thing online? Or the Government don’t like ya politics? Suddenly you can’t access your own money, you can’t book a flight, you can’t even prove who you are. It’s far from freedom, it more control. This country was built on privacy and the right to live without the state breathing down ya neck. Great Britain has always stood for freedom and people have fought and died for it. Starmer’s plan hands over our freedom on a plate. I love this country and I’ll always speak up when something threatens it. Digital ID is dangerous, unnecessary and un-British. God save the King, and God bless the United Kingdom. Do one Starmer you hit old helmet. Bosh❤️

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

It's a @patcondell video, you know it's going to be good. He refers to the two dead Jews & the "Quran inspired atrocities".

Pat dismantles Islam piece by piece.

This is an absolute gem. Put the kettle, refresh your glass it is 4 minutes, 33 seconds of hard truth.

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

Uber-Kudos to Mike Graham, who speaks out strongly against Islam, Starmer and Shazza Mahmood here. I don't think I have ever heard such strong words from a MSM presenter. @Iromg

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Maori men are now going viral for performing Haka for Charlie Kirk.

This is absolutely insane. Charlie's impact spread across cultures. It was not only America, not even close.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

This hasn’t aged well…

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Congratulations on your new job @DavidLammy

I look forward to Justice Questions.

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

Some tunes are just catchy ...

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Spot on from @DouglasKMurray couldn’t agree more with him. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍