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@Marcus___007 @DavidVick5 So he’s only been PM for a few days then.

"Although I had 11 days prior notice of the planned attacks on Iran, I didn't ready any ship or send reinforcements to Cyprus because of the previous Tory government"

@TerraStatman @theterras @NonleagueRank @TauntonTownFC @YateTownFC @HungerfordTown @DorchTownFC I targeted 47 to be sure before this three match winning run. That I think will guarantee safety.

Will @theterras stay up? The latest predictions after 21 Mar games based on @NonleagueRank probabilities… @TauntonTownFC, @YateTownFC, @HungerfordTown & @DorchTownFC all on the slide! Will 44-45 points be enough to stay up?!

@Deadly_Beryl @JChimirie66677 Then it’s up to us to find the courage to not care about being called racist.

And this is what we’re all afraid of. But we’re being told it’s not happening, that we’re racist, when we are literally being threatened with this shit.

@soul4ever @JChimirie66677 @CMY1952 They might be under a flag of convenience with one of our political parties but how many Muslims sit on Liverpool City Council and operate together as a working group?

@JChimirie66677 @CMY1952 Liverpool City Council learned something from Islam, it's called Taqiyya. Making up stories, because the end justifies the means. Not acknowledging the problem is ignoring reality. Liverpool City Council should work for everyone in Liverpool, and not just for Muslims.

Liverpool Council Has a Myth-Busting Problem. The Myths Are Its Own Liverpool City Council has published official guidance informing residents that concern about migrants and violence against women is based on stereotypes, misinformation, and social media rumour. It tells them the strongest predictor of such violence is gender, not culture or nationality. It warns against judging communities. It pledges to ensure that "divisive stories no longer fuel hostility." It has committed a 10-year anti-racism strategy to the project of telling its own residents what they are and are not permitted to think. There is just one problem. The facts don't cooperate. The Ministry of Justice does not publish social media rumour. Its figures show foreign nationals imprisoned for sexual offences have reached a record high. Telegraph FOI analysis puts their arrest rate for sexual offences at 165 per 100,000, more than three times the rate for British citizens. Convictions rose 62 per cent in four years. These numbers did not come from a far-right website. They came from the government Liverpool Council serves under. The council's guidance says there is "no causal link" between asylum seeker populations and increased violence against women and girls, and that suggesting certain backgrounds correlate with higher risk "is not supported by evidence." But culture is not incidental to this question. It is central to it. Many of the men arriving on small boats come from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, countries where the subordination of women is not a fringe attitude but a legal and social reality enforced by the state. In Afghanistan, women cannot leave their homes without a male guardian, cannot work, cannot be educated past primary school, and rape victims can be stoned to death for adultery. In Iran, women have been beaten, jailed and killed for removing the hijab. In Pakistan, hundreds of women are murdered annually in so-called honour killings, child marriage remains legally protected under religious pressure, and the conviction rate for rape stands at roughly 4 per cent. These are not the customs of a distant era. They are the operating conditions of the societies these men grew up in, enforced by law, by religion, and by community expectation. The Alexis Jay inquiry into Rotherham found that perpetrators regarded non-Muslim girls as legitimate targets, an attitude with identifiable cultural roots that officials refused to name. That refusal cost over a thousand girls their childhoods. Liverpool Council is now repeating it as policy. Cultural conditioning of that depth and that duration does not dissolve at Dover. To pretend otherwise is not tolerance. It is the same institutional cowardice that looked away before, repackaged as compassion. The council's guidance ignores the grooming gang inquiries, dismisses the Ministry of Justice figures, and pretends the Centre for Migration Control's analysis does not exist. It asserts that concern is stereotype, offers no evidence for that assertion, and commits public money to a decade-long campaign to correct the residents raising it. That is not myth-busting. That is the Rotherham instinct given a budget. The women and girls of Liverpool deserve better than a council more committed to managing their perceptions than protecting their safety. The first duty of any local authority is to its residents. Liverpool has decided its first duty is to the narrative. "Many of the men arriving on small boats come from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, countries where the subordination of women is not a fringe attitude but a legal and social reality enforced by the state."

@SpursDorset2008 Thomas Frank had a fair bit of Premier League experience. Jettisoned too quickly I think.

Fairly good oedigree but no Premiership experience 🤔

@genesis_news @antpmusic @CherryRedGroup Great album this.

The ANTHONY PHILLIPS album "Sides" was first released on this day in 1979. Read our review with lots of background info here: t.ly/Rmu4m @antpmusic @CherryRedGroup

@RupertLowe10 It’ll largely be due to the gradual erosion of local government funding during the Conservative government years and continuing now. Councils will make these clandestine cuts in levels of services rather than announce their complete cessation. Not condoning it.

Drive down almost any country road and you see the same thing. Litter lining the roads. Plastic caught in hedges. Fast food packaging scattered across the grass. Crisp packets fluttering in the wind. Rusting energy drink cans just laying about. What message are we sending to children as they watch the rubbish pile up? It’s disgusting. Nobody talks about it. We’ve just accepted it as normal. It infuriates me. There was a time in this country when this level of disrespect would have been unthinkable. People took pride in where they lived. There was a clear expectation that public spaces would be kept clean and orderly, and that those who did otherwise would face consequences. This was not that long ago. The decline has rapidly accelerated. Britain is increasingly resembling a third world country, and I do not like it. Immigration from said cultures has evidently played a large part. I’ll get abused for saying it, but it’s true. We all know it. Once we start accepting visible decline in the small things, it rarely stops there. It hasn’t stopped there. It will get worse and worse and worse. The filth will pile up. Britain should not look like this. It is not unreasonable to expect clean streets, clear roadsides, and public spaces that people can take pride in. Is that too much to ask for? I think not. A Restore Britain Government would not tolerate it. Proper enforcement of littering and fly-tipping laws. Visible consequences for those who degrade our countryside. Deportation for foreign fly-tippers. Investment in keeping streets, roads, and public areas clean. Compulsory litter picking for non-violent offenders and healthy benefit claimants who consistently refuse work. Most importantly? A cultural shift. Britain does not have to be a dumping ground. It doesn’t have to be like this. We will not accept it. We will change it. We will set an example to our children and grandchildren. There is now a political party that will clean up our country. Restore Britain.

@JChimirie66677 So women need a local council to tell them what they’re really scared of do they?

@cidersuspect @BDH01 @YateTownFC Why should he? They’re not his responsibility.

@BDH01 @YateTownFC What's gobsmacking is that you won't take any responsibility for the behaviour of your moronic supporters.

Yate Town Chairman Mark Thorne has released the following statement following the shocking scenes witnessed at yesterday's match. yatetownfc.co.uk/club-news/club…

@SkyStopper999 @RamblingM32414 @YateTownFC Two and half years ago actually.

@RamblingM32414 @YateTownFC That’s from the Farnborough game 18 months ago?

@TerraStatman @theterras How about holding a lead from 3.01pm to around 5.55pm? 😀

6hrs 15min since we conceded a goal in league & cup. (Longest run for 8 years). 4 clean sheets back to back for first time in 8 years also. 22pts in 13 games now for Jamie Wells - the 3rd best ratio for a @theterras manager this century!

@LFC You mean scored by Mamardashvili and Konate.

14' - Goal for Brighton. Scored by Danny Welbeck. [1-0] #BHALIV

@JChimirie66677 @EdwardJDavey Of course it’s deliberate. Having repositioned itself as an alternative left wing party, as opposed to its traditional credible centre ground one, it has to keep up appearances. It’s also why it failed to mop up the numerous protest votes in Gorton & Denton.

@EdwardJDavey, you have misread the argument so comprehensively that one has to wonder whether it is deliberate. Nobody is objecting to freedom of worship. Nick Timothy did not say Muslims should not be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon. The Adhan, the call to prayer, declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. That is by definition a theological repudiation of every other faith. When projected into Trafalgar Square, a national memorial to British sovereignty and independence, it is not equivalent to a celebration. It is a declaration. The distinction is theological, not political, and it is precise. You invoke freedom of worship as though Timothy had called for mosques to be closed. He did not. You invoke British values as though observing that the domination of public spaces is straight from the Islamist playbook is somehow un-British. It is not. It is documented, sourced and supported by scholars who have spent decades inside Islamist movements. This week, thousands of people gathered on the Embankment chanting death to America and death to Israel. Bobby Vylan led chants of death death death to the IDF, cleared by the CPS last year and back on a London stage doing it again. The Islamic Human Rights Commission, named in a Lords report as part of Iran's soft power network in Britain, addressed the crowd. Thirty six Labour MPs wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding the investigation of a man for pointing out what every serious student of Islamism already knows. The Attorney General deployed his Jewish identity to defend a declaration that, by its own theological logic, repudiates Judaism. And your contribution to all of it is a tweet accusing people who raise these questions of stoking fear, hatred and division. You lead a party that voted consistently to keep Britain in the European Union against the democratic will of the British people. A party that has positioned itself as the political home of progressive appeasement, that has never met an Islamist grievance it would not accommodate, and whose response to every act of cultural intimidation is to accuse those who name it of bigotry. The Liberal Democrats have no record of defending British values under pressure. They have a record of redefining British values to mean whatever is least likely to cause offence to the most vocal pressure group in the room. Freedom of worship is indeed a fundamental British value. So is freedom of speech. So is the freedom to observe, without being accused of racism, that a theological declaration of exclusive truth projected into a national monument is not the same as lighting a menorah or performing a Passion play. Nick Timothy exercised that freedom. The full weight of the parliamentary and political establishment descended on him within twenty four hours. That is the state of British politics today, Ed. And you are part of the problem, not the solution. "Nick Timothy didn't say Muslims shouldn't be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon."

Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.

@BerisfordRon See yoooo next weeeeeeeek! 😀

Do you remember this seventies series?

@primarily_prog I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a live performance of just one song as much as this. Perfection.

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@j_l_marsden @DavidVick5 Yet the government bangs on about safety for women and girls, but only from certain men.

We now live in a country where an hour earlier, I could’ve had this perfect little girl murdered with no legal consequences. I can’t help think of the lives that will be lost. The babies and the women who will have to live with the knowledge of what they’ve done. Starmer’s utopia

@zarahussain999 @Keir_Starmer Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why so-called Islamophobia exists?

@Keir_Starmer The criticism and abuse we received because my Muslim brothers and sisters were at Trafalgar Square, proved Islamophobia continues to be a cancer in Britain Solutions?

I’m proud of our tolerant and diverse country. I’m proud that in Trafalgar Square we celebrate all faiths. That’s British values. The comments from Nick Timothy are shameful. Kemi Badenoch should do the right thing and sack him.

@RupertLowe10 You hope they hate you.

Hope not hate have today labelled me as one of Britain's "most extreme MPs". This is unacceptable. I want top spot.

@PolitlcsUK GB News only exists because of the left wing bias seen with BBC and Sky News.

🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey says GB News is turning into the "Reform channel" just how Fox News became the "Trump channel" Starmer: "He's right to raise an important question of free speech and our media - it is a matter for Ofcom" #PMQs