Ways

Father, Fiddler, Follower of the Tics.

[Ways @ways86]

When is @mikedanson going to find the McCarthy money? #wafc

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Latics 💙🤍

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Up the first awayday tics #wafc

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Up the raffle winning birthday tics!

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Howe Bridge Aces boys overall club champion, proud lad ♠️♥️♦️♣️

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Great day out, up the Tics 💙

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@livesey99 Incredible coincidence

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The first sign was them lot away, we've been mostly awful since, masked by a fortunate cup run. Should have gone after them lot at home. Also, a dilligent Director of Football spots this a mile off #wafc

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So here we are, rightly or wrongly he's had the vote of confidence. Give us football we can walk away feeling like we've had a good go and not just following a failing game plan. No more blame game, get the shackles off them and play in the style promised in summer #wafc

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@Kevwafc19701 I agree it's a bit messy. Plenty out of contract in summer though. Time for that recruitment team to find some of those data led gems we can buy low to sell high we were promised.

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If we're not potting him, which should have been done after that shambles against them men, at least back him by bringing in 2 or 3 he wants before the deadline. If it really has to be all in with him, don't let him get away with saying its because he wasnt backed properly #wafc

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Back to back Lancashire county 50m backstroke champion 💙

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Quite simply, he's not for us and we're not for him, it's impossible not to see that #wafc

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Sin Miedo #wafc

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2 marquee loan signings, players we alledgedly chased hard too 🤷‍♂️ #wafc

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Bogs 💙

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Very worrying times. All feels a bit disconnected, not very Latics. Couple of losses of control, no lack of effort but a bit desperate. #wafc

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Merry Christmas one and all, hope you're all having as good a morning as this lad 💙

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

An Observation on Angela Rayner and the Labour Government:

One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose struggles she understood from her own experience.

But the further up the ladder one climbs in politics, the more insistent the temptations become. This is not simply about individual weakness or personal failing. It is structural. Over the past 40 years, Britain has built a society in which consumption, status, and proximity to wealth have become defining features of the political class. The gravitational pull of money is now so great that even those who arrive in Westminster with the clearest sense of purpose find their heads turned.

Angela’s story is not unique. She came from humble beginnings, but the wealth that circles political life today is more concentrated, more brazen, and more intrusive than in the past. The old checks and balances, party rootedness in mass membership, trade union accountability, a press less entangled with oligarchic interests, have all weakened. Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position.

The mechanism is subtle but relentless. It is not corruption in the brown-envelope-under-the-table sense. It is the slow, almost invisible turning of heads. You are introduced to those who walked this path before you, former ministers who now sit comfortably in boardrooms or on the payroll of consultancies with six and seven-figure salaries. You are invited to corporate boxes at sporting events, to private dinners, to concerts and premiers. Lavish clothes or spectacles can be “within the rules,” provided they are declared. But by then the damage has been done.

The message is implicit but unmistakable: play the game, listen to us, and you too can enjoy more of this. The logic creeps into your personal life. You stretch to buy the house that can host the right gatherings. You measure your worth by the standards of a world that equates success with possessions and proximity to privilege. And once you are on that path, it is hard to step off.

This is, of course, a simplification of a complex socio-economic and political process. But as someone who came from a council estate myself, I see it all around me in Westminster. And it is not going to be changed by media witch-hunts, the tutting of ethics advisers, or even the occasional burst of public outrage.

As Gladstone once warned, “Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.” But in our current system, what is morally questionable is too often normalised, excused, and rebranded as “just the way things are.”

Real change will only come from a collective decision to choose a different path: to stop outsourcing our state to private interests, to end the revolving door between government and corporate boardrooms, to challenge the idea that the role of politics is to serve vast concentrations of wealth.

We can choose differently. We can once again put community, solidarity, and public service at the heart of our political life. We can insist that worth is measured not in the size of one’s house or the company one keeps, but in the contribution one makes to society and the integrity with which one serves.

Until we do, until we decide as a polity to hold up those values rather than the glittering prizes of private gain, hese scandals will not just recur. They will define the very character of our politics.

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Up the tics in Austria 🇦🇹 #wafc