The Right Back

Key worker, apparently. Socialist. Football fan,comedy. I work too hard and dance badly.Proud trade union rep. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

Standards, hope and ambition really matter.
Don’t be scared of #change

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

This is the power of a Labour government.

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

Sincere apologies to @arghkid for stupidly only muting my phone (that went off when it shouldn’t ).
Thanks for signing your, obviously fantastic, Caroline Aherne book. My (Longsight) wife, and daughter, suitably bollocked me afterwards!

#GortonLad #NorwebStockportRoad #Jam

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

@DailyMail's latest policy is to increasingly ensure any form of open debate is conducted behind their paywall. We have serious issues to discuss, but they have little interest in that.
History will judge them.

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

@juneslater17 June, could you clarify that if you are wrong, then you will accordingly retract your accusation and apologise?
I would imagine that facts are important in your profession, or am I wrong?

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

He’s still at it, thankfully! https://t.co/Y2KzQC1CBF

[Stuart Hamnett @StreetwisestuV2]

Can we all agree that this performance is one of the greatest live performance of any song ever?
David Byrne is some front man. I watch this clip every now and then just to cheer me up. Have a great Saturday. ❤️❤️
“Same as it ever was” https://t.co/JJO48YGxP0

[Damian McBride @DPMcBride]

Here's the end-of-season list for the highest average attendances in English league football. For the third year running, The Arsenal are the only club with two teams on the list, with Arsenal Women gaining the most places compared to last year, followed by Coventry and Everton.

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

Same!

[Paul Gaskell @pgaskell13]

a lot gets talked about rivalries and if one team winning something bothers you more than other teams…
I don’t think there’s a non United goal that I’ve celebrated more than Michael Thomas’s on this day in 1989

[ET Heisenberg @UtdHeisenberg_]

Turns out that 96th minute equaliser from Big Ben Sesko ended up costing West Ham two massive points… and it’s proved decisive in the end.
Very glad I didn’t leave the ground early and got to witness an absolute screamer too 😎

Bye Bye London Stadium 👋🏼

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

One of the most effective bits of political communication on the left I’ve seen in a long time. A message and a powerful messenger.

[LBC @LBC]

“They had nothing from the system!”

Caller James, a teacher, lists all the reasons why young people shouldn't be asked to go to war for a country that failed them.

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

#TACO

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

BREAKING NEWS:

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
😂

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Reform: Brexit is making us poorer
Labour: Brexit is making us poorer
Dems: Brexit is making us poorer
Tories: Brexit is making us poorer
Greens: Brexit is making us poorer

As USA's Iran war makes us poorer, REMEMBER:

Any party NOT trying to undo Brexit, isn't doing their best.

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

America, Great America, you have to stand up for what you claim to believe in. Otherwise, all is lost.
#Trump #USA

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller died last night.

He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.

He had integrity.

And tonight the President of the United States said good!

I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.

I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.

Good.

This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

That is what is happening. That is what has happened.

The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.

America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

And the church said nothing.

Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.

Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.

JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.

These men are something more painful than monsters.

They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.

Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.

Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.

That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.

When Trump is gone, they will still be here.

Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.

That morning is coming.

Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.

He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.

He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.

That is all it needed to be.

A man died. His family is broken open with grief.

That is all it needed to be.

Instead the President said good.

And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

Jeremy Clarkson here, trying desperately to be relevant. He isn't, and @ITV and other media outlets need to starve him of the attention he so desperately seeks.

[Duncan -🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶️ European #FBPE - Veteran @dunc_saboteur]

In case you missed it. @SkyNews interview with Former NATO Dep Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe didn't go the way they expected. #IranWar

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

@mjfree @richardosefton #Trump is dumb enough to think it’ll guarantee him The Nobel Peace Prize.

#FIFA #TrumpEpsteinFiles

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

I'm no particular fan of David Lammy, but he has just diced and sliced the Tory at Prime Minister's Questions. #pmq
Embarassing stuff by Andrew Griffiths.

[The Right Back @TheRightBack]

#Trump will never understand this level of bravery.
He dances on the graves of ALL military.
#USA if you still support him then take a long hard look at yourself and your life. #VeteransLivesMatter

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Did Trump’s kids ever sign up to fight? Why has no reporter ever asked this to make a public record? The British royal family has a long history of military service, while Don Jr. and Eric are cowards who avoid the fight and lie about brave Ukrainians.