Benjani ✡️🇬🇧

[H A Y L E Y @Gruodis80]

“I’m proud to leave this country in a better shape than I found it”

- Keir Starmer

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Four images that are commonplace across Britain:

▪️Rubbish everywhere.
▪️Weeds growing on pavements
▪️1 million potholes
▪️Blocked road drains

We are paying increased council tax and are not getting even the basics of infrastructure maintenance. The decay is everywhere.

[Manchester City @ManCity]

A tribute to Kevin Keegan OBE, 1951-2026 🩵

[Alan Shearer @alanshearer]

My Hero. My manager. My friend. Sleep easy Boss 🥲

[Benjani ✡️🇬🇧 @warbs0915]

RIP Kevin the King 💙😔 fantastic times with this man in charge. Horrible news

[Manchester City @ManCity]

Everyone at Manchester City is devastated to learn our former manager Kevin Keegan has passed away, aged 75.

Kevin was a transformative manager who brought optimism and vibrancy to City during his four-year spell in charge.

The promotion campaign in 2001/02 will never be forgotten, and Kevin then established us once again as a top Premier League side in the years that followed.

Our thoughts are with Kevin’s family and friends at this very difficult time.

[Benjani ✡️🇬🇧 @warbs0915]

@footballontnt Why do you talk like everyone on this page is a 16 year old boy?! 🤣

[P2PBSH @P2PBushman]

Oh god, they’ve invented being Norwegian

[England @England]

John Stones 🕺😂

The energy in the changing room last night 🔥

[Benjani ✡️🇬🇧 @warbs0915]

@ManCity This is a sad one, what a great player, and top human being more importantly 💙

[Joey B Toonz @joeybtoonz]

Remember when buying something meant it was yours?

Now, imagine a game company breaking into your house in 1999 and taking back every DVD you bought from them because of a licensing dispute, then leaving a note on your door that says, "Thank you."

That's the digital equivalent of today's consumer experience. Isn't it wonderful?

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Proof that nobody with money is actually trying to solve the real problems.

[Migration Watch @MigrationWatch]

A Moroccan man who arrives in Britain via small boat and claims asylum will be given taxpayer funded accommodation, taxpayer funded food, and taxpayer funded spending money. Under this plan, he will be asked to repay a very small fraction of that taxpayer funded largesse, capped at £10k, if he finds work.

A British student who works hard and wins a place at a top-tier university will leave with £47,900 in debt, appreciating at a 6.2% interest rate. Once he starts work, he will pay this loan plus taxes to fund the welfare given to the Moroccan asylum seeker.

This is a grossly unfair system.

[Royal Mail @RoyalMail]

Moving home?

Remember to redirect your mail ✉️ https://t.co/DgDFRfZ1Hk

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On a stretch of the River Roding in Barking strewn with waste and detritus, a barrister named Paul Powlesland did something the British state has spent decades failing to do: he cleaned it and made it look like a river again. He now faces legal action.

Yep. He and a group of volunteers hired a digger for £1,000 of their own money and hauled more than 200 bags of filth out of the water - packaging, broken appliances, used needles, even weapons. By any sane reckoning it was a small act of public good, civic spirit at its most potent and wholesome.

For his trouble, he received a letter from the Environment Agency informing him that he is under investigation for working without a permit, an offence that carries up to two years in prison.

The same Environment Agency that found the will to come after a volunteer for cleaning a river without the right paperwork has not, on that same river, prosecuted a single one of the illegal sewage spills that have fouled it for years. Not one. It's too fat, scrofulous, and indolent to fight the sort of people who'd do this. But it has energy to spare for the man with the digger and the bin bags because they expect he's likely to be a reasonable sort of Englishman who pays his taxes and honours procedure, however unreasonable it may be, when levied upon him.

Protecting rivers? They have no interest in that.

This is the thing about our institutions that the public grasps in its bones and the people who run them never will. Our institutions fail, and the manner of their failing is the worst part of it - the bloodless, box-ticking, permission-withholding callousness of bodies that have forgotten they exist to achieve anything at all.

They should all be cleared out; every decision-making body in the building responsible for the dereliction of duty, and for daring to persecute a member of the public, must be hollowed out. The whole thing started from scratch.

Better yet, I'll tell you what an outfit like Progress will do once it gains power; we'll put people like @paulpowlesland in charge of the very body now threatening to jail him. The institutions meant to look after this country - the Environment Agency and a dozen like it - are dying of exactly the defensive, do-nothing culture that sent that letter. They need to be run by people like him who actually give a toss. People with the brains to understand the problem and the plain human instinct to go and fix it themselves, while the rest stand on the bank writing their little sociopathic missives to the ones who already did.

I don't know the first thing about Paul. I've never met him. I don't know what his political preferences are, the shape of his beliefs, what else we would agree or disagree on. None of that means a thing to me. He's a good man, and the right kind of man to make things work; and Progress is an attempt to make the country work, not a club made to serve a certain type or belief profile. A country is made to work by the people who, whatever their politics, cannot walk past a problem without trying to solve it. There are such people everywhere in Britain - on the rivers, in the schools, the wards, the workshops - and almost none of them are running anything, because the institutions have been built to keep that exact kind of person out.

Drop the case against him. Then go further: find the hundred other Paul Powleslands the country is currently ignoring or threatening, and give them the keys. Put the responsibility and the authority, together, in their hands. Britain will be cleaned up - its rivers, and a great deal besides - in no time. It will be done by the people willing to get in the water, not by the ones writing letters about permits from the bank.

[Thegingerwig @thegingerwig]

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[Manchester City @ManCity]

Three years ago today 🩵

Istanbul. Manchester City. Champions of Europe. Treble.

🏆🏆🏆

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Perhaps it's just one of those everyday beheadings
that the Welsh Methodists are usually involved in

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.

With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.

A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.

Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.

The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.

Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.

How many more before the thoughts become action?