Ben Unwin

Director & editor from London. All opinions are ones that nobody else wants.

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

A duck wearing a Mexico kit.

I’m moving to Mexico immediately 😂🇲🇽

[Dave Firth @fuse7777]

Only been in the USA a week

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I loan it out in June.

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

Spot on

[Just me - Thomas @TomSoede]

This morning I asked myself, not for the first time, who is Nigel and I made some notes.

And it does add up.

Here is a man who sells himself as the ordinary bloke with a pint, the man of the people, the great outsider standing up against the establishment.

And yet somehow this ordinary bloke always seems to arrive with a camera crew, a donor network, a friendly broadcaster, and now a parliamentary investigation into a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire.

Very normal.

Very grassroots.

Very “just one of the lads”.

The peoples revolt, apparently, now comes with lighting, branding, fundraising dinners, professional outrage, and a small question about whether millions should have been declared properly.

Everything is a betrayal when Labour does it.

Everything is “nothing to see here” when Nigel does it.

Housing? Blame Labour.
The NHS? Blame Labour.
The economy? Blame Labour.
Boats? Blame Labour.
A £5 million gift? Suddenly everybody must calm down and respect the process.

And then came Tuesday.

A young man died. A family was grieving. A country was trying to understand something horrific.

And Farage stepped forward.

Not with calm.
Not with care.
Not with responsibilty.

But with his announcement of “pure cold rage”.

That phrase matters.

Because anger is human.
Anger can be moral.
Anger can demand answers, justice, accountability and truth.

I understand anger.
A lot of people are angry.
They have every right to ask serious questions.

But rage is different.

Rage does not ask careful questions.
Rage does not wait for investigations.
Rage does not protect grieving families from becoming political props.

Rage looks for a target.

And that is where Farage always seems most comfertable.

Not solving the pain.
Not calming the country.
Not asking how institutions failed and how they can be fixed.

But standing beside the pain with a microphone, turning the temprature up, and calling it leadership.

Warm enough to repost.
Warm enough to donate.
Warm enough to vote.
But never calm enough to ask:

“Hang on, who benefits from keeping us this angry?”

That is the trick.

He does not need Britain to feel hopeful.
He does not even need Britain to feel informed.

He needs Britain permanently one headline away from rage.

Because rage is usefull.

It fills rallies.
It drives clicks.
It turns grief into theatre.
It makes slogans feel like solutions.

And while everyone is shouting, nobody asks the boring questions.

Where is the plan?
Where is the funding?
Where are the costings?
Where is the responsibilty?

Maybe that is who Nigel Farage is.

Not the man of the people.

But the man who knows exactly how to turn peoples pain into his own political stage.

The Reform & Tory Sitcom continues.

Same chaos. Different rosette.

Anger can demand answers.
Rage just sells tickets.

If this speaks to you, please add your comments, repost it, and maybe follow me — not for me, but because politics needs fewer slogans and more people asking proper questions.

#Farage #ReformUK

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

I consider it a privilege to have been insulted by him. RIP

[Michael Livesley @NowtofTown]

Norman Balon, legendary landlord of Soho's Coach & Horses and self-styled rudest landlord in London, has left the stage at 99. A fixture of Soho life for six decades and forever woven into the mythos of Jeff Bernard via Keith Waterhouse and Peter O'Toole. A long life, well lived.

[Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

A girl steals baby formula from a shop and goes to jail.
Michelle Mone steals £200m and nothing happens.
THAT'S two tier justice...

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

@Alexarmstrong Soft twat.

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

I’ve loved this account. Sorry to see it go but it’s understandable. Thank you for your service.

[🚨The Celebration Police🚨 @PLCPolice]

Feels like time to call it a day on this account, so this will be my final post.

I started this piss-taking Celebration Police thing 4 years ago and it’s genuinely been great fun. Unexpectedly so.

Through this account, I’ve met and engaged with some brilliant people, built a 55k following, made a bit of money and, for the most part, enjoyed my time here.

But let’s be honest: the joke wore thin a long time ago. And i’m bored of this platform and the increasingly repetitive, shit banter that fills it.

And Arsenal have won the league, so who gives a fuck about weirdos telling you when you can or can’t be happy about the football team you invest so much of yourself in😂

Policing celebrations is about as lame as it gets. It really is😂👎🏻

So thank you for all the support over the years, each and every one of you, and for engaging with The Celebration Police. You’ve been brilliant❤️

So for one last time…

ALL UNITS TO THE EMIRATES!!! 🚨🚨🚨

Chiefo x
#COYG

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

Met this bloke in #budapest on the way to the stadium. #arsenal #champi̇onsleague

[Echo & the Bunnymen @Bunnymen]

On this day in 1981 we released an album called Heaven Up Here. 🐰

[Martin's Music @XMartinsMusicX]

Jim rocking a Manbag in the 80's 😎

Simple Minds - Love Song
(1981) ▶️

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Eric B. & Rakim set the standard for generations.

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

There’s no point in asking, you’ll get no reply.

[Genius @Genius]

what’s the greatest opening line to a song?

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

Gunnersaurus making his way home on his little scooter is the best content you will see all day 😭

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

London is such a dangerous, hellhole; so full of ‘no go zones’, that millionaire footballers walk around at 5am.

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

I’ve kept my mouth shut whilst all you whiney bitches have moaned endlessly about #arsenal but now Fuck you! Champions! Suck it up losers! My manor, my team!

[𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝗥!𝗖𝗘 @DR41fanpage]

I told you all. It's done 🏆❤️

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Ben Unwin @tenbuckben]

@omgsidewalks My grandmothers name was Marlie Amelia Dorothy. Sounds great until you realise her initials were MAD. 😃

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Raising Hell” by Run-DMC was released 40 years ago today.