Gaz Booth

@president_mode I had a big enough majority to repeal the 22nd amendment and create unlimited presidential terms. This was passed, but the game still shut down after two terms thwarting my planned reign for life. Any chance this could be included in a future update?

@updemblades24 Loved them both, but I'd take Jairo in a heartbeat. Man's a Rolls Royce of a centre mid. Calm, assured, always has time...

Jairo or Souza? For me Jairo, ok he’s not as big/powerful but everything is simple with him. Such a smart and affective player which allows others the freedom to play their game, especially Peck. Incredible at reading the game. Scenes if we can get him to agree to a 2 yr deal⚔️

@peteo855 @SheffUnitedWay And it’s BYE BYE SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY! - imagine the scenes.

@SheffUnitedWay Hi ho silver lining

So, if we relegate Wednesday tomorrow... What would be the best song to be played immediately at full-time? 🎶 #sufc #twitterblades

The nastiness at Angela Rayner buying a second home underlines the problem of classism in this country. We do not celebrate people climbing the ladder - we tell them to know their place. Meanwhile we write off total delinquency from the poshest. It holds us back as a country.

@levie We had to do ours in German and then in English. Word on the street was that the Porsche/VW deal holds the record for longest required reading - I think they said 13 days of constant reading done in shifts. And you have to have a representative present for it all. Madness.

Somehow this is real

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@JamesMadeley @Peston It wont be headline tax rates that change - but you can raise significant sums simply by freezing tax band thresholds. When a tax rise is not a tax rise….

@Peston Can you raise tax significantly without VAT, Income Tax and National Insurance? Tough to square with growth agenda piling into CGT for example.

This is how Rachel Reeves may have found up to £25bn behind the back of the sofa I’ve had a chance to examine the implications for her fiscal rules of the Chancellor’s statements in her conference speech, that she would secure growth through increased investment and compel the Treasury to give more weight to the benefits of growth, rather than focusing excessively on the short-term implications for public sector debt. In simple terms it suggests she will announce a plan in the 30 October budget to take investment vehicles like the new National Wealth Fund off the public sector balance sheet. It means public-money put into demonstratively productive investment, such as wind farms, transport, grants to businesses and so on, won’t be included in the fiscal rules’ five-year debt target. I know this sounds tediously technical, but it has a significant economic effect. It could create £20bn to £25bn of “headroom” for the kind of investment that will remain on the public sector balance sheet, such as in new hospitals, schools and assorted public-service AI and tech projects. So the freed-up billions would help modernize and reform public services. But, the fiscal-rules reform won’t and can’t end the significant pressure on day-to-day spending on public-sector wages, welfare and the like, because one of Reeves’s fiscal rules is more constraining than the Tories’ version: she is committed over five years (again) to cover all day-today spending with tax revenues. Bottom line? Given what she describes as the black hole she inherited from the Conservative government in day-to-day government spending, she is still going to raise taxes significantly in her looming budget.

@mhdksafa Bring biscuits, I’ll stick the kettle on.

@edwinhayward Have a million f’ing likes! Every word.

It is absolutely ridiculous to throw out the slur that Labour want to keep children in poverty simply because they didn't lift the 2-child benefit cap within their first 18 days in office after 5,174 days in opposition. One does not imply the other - that's a lazy, lazy argument. Look at the full context: 1. This was a vote on the Kings Speech, the first and most high profile vote since Labour took office (and for a long time to come). A rebellion was obviously therefore going to be deeply embarrassing - and the rebels were absolutely aware of that. 2. Labour ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. This was clear as daylight to every Labour candidate. It's not some wild swerve foisted on them after the election was won. 3. Labour are working at speed to produce a full picture of the economic situation the Tories left us in. That should be published before the summer recess. Things may look different within days. (For better or worse? We'll have to await the report.) 4. Labour have said they are reviewing concrete action to alleviate child poverty. Are the rebels claiming they're lying? 5. Senior Labour figures have indicated the 2-child benefit cap is potentially part of the wider review. 6. This was an SNP amendment. Supporting it was pure performative politics. It was never going to pass in a trillion years. 7. To come back to where we started, not voting for the amendment is not the same as seeking to keep children in poverty, wanting to keep children in poverty, planning to keep children in poverty, delighting in keeping children in poverty, or whatever other emotional framing lazy people choose to resort to instead of making a logical analytical argument. A painful related truth: the hard Left of the party has a problem. They need to stay visible to stay relevant. It's like sharks have to keep swimming or they die. (That's a metaphor. It doesn't mean I think they're sharks. Sigh.) They therefore thrive on outrage farming just as much as those on the other extreme of politics, even though their actual political views are poles apart. One way to increase that visibility very quickly is to pick opportunities to have highly visible fights with the core party and the leadership. That's what happened last night. Nothing more. Nothing less. No nefarious plot to keep children in poverty (or "starving" as the even more emotionally manipulative put it). Starmer had two choices: 1) Let the rebellion go 2) Take strict action 1) would have given every group and faction within Labour the green light to start creating their own version of the ERG, Common Sense Group, or whatever they wanted to call themselves. Soon, the party would be as riven as the Tories were. Imagine herding those cats for the next 5 years! Instead, by doing 2), Starmer called the bluff of people who knew exactly what they were doing. Did Starmer's action indicate Labour won't lift the cap? No. It told us nothing of the sort. Did Starmer's action indicate Labour are fine with child poverty? No. It told us nothing of the sort. If in a few months - around the Autumn statement or shortly thereafter - Labour are still grinding their gears on child poverty without any progress, then you have the right to be aggrieved. But 18 days into their term of office, and after all the clear signals they're trying to do the right thing as swiftly as prudence allows? Get over yourself.

@ralvin @AstonMartinF1 @astonmartin Mmm

Why is @AstonMartinF1 so important to @astonmartin’s marketing? Well 70% of Aston Martin's sales are now due to Formula 1 and there's a 30% increase in configurator traffic during the 23 race weekends and the F1 safety car relationship has directly sold 3-400 more of the V8 Vantage than it would have otherwise

@archer_rs Jvnvnvnvncnfjnf

@archer_rs He’d hi chuck

@HendoRelish total and utter rubbish - Hendo's has no rival!

"Battle of the sauces" - here's a piece on Henderson's, if you fancy a read:  readersdigest.co.uk/food-drink/foo…

@MrNishKumar You were literally sat there for ‘Rosalind is a f*cking nightmare’

Hard to remember but Sam Campbell asking Horne if he was a child of divorce killed me

@AstonUniversity @AstonBusiness I hear he's a stand up fella!

On World Entrepreneurs Day, we’re celebrating our own graduates who have gone on to become successful entrepreneurs. Gareth Booth, @AstonBusiness graduate, is Co-Founder & Managing Director of Holy Moly Dips. tinyurl.com/5atvchb7

@anon_opin His lute love ballad to Amanda Baby wasn’t half bad. @AthleticoMince #massivehouse #massivedrive #massivegates

Every single song that Sting has written since leaving The Police has been utter gash.

I hate Andrew Tate as much as anyone but the way the Romanian authorities are going after him is a very concerning attack on freedom and will have a chilling effect on anyone trying to set up a sex trafficking ring in Romania

@MarinaPurkiss @LozzaFox Felt that burn from here. lovely stuff.

@LozzaFox Not in your wildest dreams, bellend…

It’s like having a final drink with a passive aggressive, soon to be ex girlfriend.

Best loan player Sheffield United have ever had? ...and you can't say Morgan Gibbs-White or Dean Henderson 😉

@Nigel_Farage We’ve entered the fucking twilight zone.

Gary Lineker has been spreading hate and should apologise. ➡️ youtu.be/gIdg3mnAcTc