Stuart Bell

Sobriety Date: 28/02/2018 ⭐️

[Rado dos Ovie Mendes 🎈 @thee_ovie]

Ref tells Saka to hurry up and take the corner with stoppage time up. Saka does his usual slow-walk to run down the clock. The ref calmly waits, and the absolute second Saka gets into position? He blows for half-time.

Absolute cinema. Masterclass game management for a final.

Arsenal got so used to getting away with murder from Premier League refs that when someone actually enforces the rules, they think they’re being robbed.

Credit where it’s due tho, they played some demonic football to get here. But if PL refs weren't so intimidated by Arteta’s touchline tantrums and fooled by their theatrics, Arsenal wouldn’t be parading a PGMOL trophy today.

Justice served in Europe! 🫶🏼

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

😂😂😂

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨 | As Britain's first heatwave of 2026 begins, the TUC is calling for a maximum working temperature to protect workers.

Workers should be able to stop work above 30°C, or 27°C for those doing strenuous jobs.

With heatwaves becoming more common, we need new laws on maximum working temperatures, cooler workplaces, and climate action to reduce global heating.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

I really hope Gary Neville stands as Labour’s candidate to be Mayor of Greater Manchester. Then gets absolutely smashed at the ballot box.

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

This wally gonna have to be dragged out kicking and screaming

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

We must respond to the message that voters have sent us and break with the status quo once and for all.

We must confront the big challenges the public face with real answers.

That is how we will deliver the change that people are desperate for and build a stronger and fairer country.

https://t.co/axeYWn2834

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

Thank god that’s over

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea part company with head coach Liam Rosenior. #CFC wanted to give 41yo much longer but results dictated otherwise. FA Cup + CL push key factors. Calum McFarlane to take interim charge before permanent appointment in summer @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/ASk6XrxJdo

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

😂😂

[Flav @Flav_Bateman]

All them Arsenal players letting their country down just to lose to Southampton. Peak times.

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

We had too much for an injury-plagued Arsenal �We had too much for an injury-plagued Arsenal 😉

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

Madness

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare.

In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do.

And the cost?

Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

"Services to broadcast." 😅

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

Cmon CHELSEA

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

😂😂😂 you nailed it !

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

✅ "Everything I said about that Declan Rice transfer happened... I called it!"

Eni Aluko insists her theory that Arteta asked Guardiola to bid for Declan Rice to push through his #AFC move was proved correct! 👀

[Jake Tyson @jtyson1993]

Fucking embarrassing, Sosa, Uche get gone.

[Alex Deane @ajcdeane]

Well yes because by this stage we’d have given Venezuela £570m and the Isle of Wight

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so.

The Electoral Commission has been explicit: Labour's justification for delaying local elections is not legitimate. Not unwise. Not clumsy. Illegitimate. Extending mandates damages public confidence, undermines local legitimacy, and creates a clear conflict of interest by letting councils decide how long they can avoid voters. In any functioning democracy, that would end the matter. Here, the government presses on regardless.

That's the scandal. This is no longer a party political dispute or a row between Reform and Labour. The referee has intervened and said the game is being rigged, and the players have decided to ignore the whistle. When a government continues with election delays after being told by the independent authority charged with protecting electoral integrity that its reasoning does not hold, the issue stops being reform and becomes power protecting itself.

The language Labour uses is revealing. Elections are framed as an inconvenience. Voters are framed as an administrative burden. Democracy is reduced to a cost-saving exercise, something to be postponed if the spreadsheets look untidy or the reorganisation plans are mid-flow. Ministers speak of "capacity constraints" as if the right to vote is a luxury item that must wait until the filing cabinets are rearranged. In a democracy, administration exists to serve elections. Elections do not exist to suit administration.

The conflict of interest identified by the Electoral Commission should alarm anyone who still believes in democratic norms. Councils are being asked whether they would like to delay the moment they must answer to voters. That's not consultation. It's self-dealing. No serious system allows those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. Yet this is now presented as a "locally led approach," as though outsourcing democratic suspension makes it virtuous.

Worse still is the uncertainty. Candidates have been selected. Campaigns have begun. Money has been spent. And with months to go before polling day, the government is still dangling the possibility of cancellation. The watchdog describes this uncertainty as unprecedented. That word matters. Democracies rely on predictability. Once elections become provisional, subject to last-minute ministerial approval, the entire process is degraded.

When challenged, ministers retreat into condescension. Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft." This is a familiar trick: speak for the public while denying them a voice. Redefine democratic rights as common-sense nuisances that sensible adults should stop fussing over. It's the rhetoric of managed democracy, where participation is tolerated only when it produces the correct outcome.

None of this is happening in isolation. Mayoral elections have already been postponed. Now council elections are being pushed back again. The pattern is clear. When the polls turn hostile, the timetable moves. When voters become unpredictable, the vote is delayed. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to buy time. They face the electorate and take their chances. Labour is not doing that because it knows what the numbers say.

The danger is not just that millions of people may be denied a vote next year. It's the precedent now being set. Once a government learns it can delay elections after the watchdog objects, after campaigns have begun and candidates are in place, the principle is broken. Elections become conditional. Democracy becomes something you are granted when those in power feel safe enough to allow it.

"Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft.""

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

Consultant Engineer in Wales, forced to stand and speak out against all the Net Zero crap planned for the area. He says none of it adds up or makes sense, somebody is clearly going to make a lot of money if this goes ahead

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

Glad she is ok

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

You need to watch this

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

Disgrace

[Free Lions @WeAreFreeLions]

We have been concerned about pricing for participating nations for months now and have been raising these concerns with Football Supporters Europe and our FA. The early trends were worrying and it is devastating to see those concerns turn reality with the release of England’s prices for the World Cup.

ESTC members have followed England loyally throughout this campaign, from Barcelona to Belgrade, Riga to Tirana, multiple midweek trips to Wembley, as well as the caps built from the Euro 2024 campaign, all to back the team to make the World Cup.

These prices are a slap in the face to supporters who support their team outside of the flagship tournament that appears every four years.

To call the Category 3 tickets, the cheapest available to ESTC members, “Supporter Value Category 3” that comes at a cost of $7020 if you want to follow England from start to finish, is laughable.

A game for supporters, loyalty has been thrown out of the window and supporters of the participating nations have been completely let down.

[Stuart Bell @stuartbell_]

Imagine winning the F1 only yesterday and then this wally turns up at your office on a Monday morning

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Starmer, boring McLaren staff to death first thing on a Monday: "I hope you've all got a smile on your faces..."

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