Marty Fishwreck

@harrisonC44 @_Nwakibeya1 @mt8qs4njjw @Lu_Class_ @themagic_tophat See this is the thing, I don’t think your fan base is anywhere near as big as Arsenal’s. I agree, it’s extremely weird given where we were 25 years ago. I’m not making a competition out of it. Man U feel quite parochial by comparison. The days of the global brand are dead.

@_Nwakibeya1 @MFishwreck @mt8qs4njjw @Lu_Class_ @themagic_tophat All your arguments are applicable for United/are hypothetical. Compare banter eras, United still had/have a larger fanbase throughout. Let’s say Arsenal dominate, it’s impossible they will reach the level United sustained throughout the 90’s and 2000’s, capping them below.

"Arsenal’s brand is stronger than any rival Premier League club or British sports brand right now. And it’s no accident. I’m a Manchester United fan and marketing expert but Arsenal are cool", said CEO of Pitch Marketing Group cityam.com/im-a-mancheste…

@mt8qs4njjw @Lu_Class_ @themagic_tophat Man U just aren’t as big as Arsenal now. Weird but true.

@Lu_Class_ @themagic_tophat There are big clubs, some very big clubs, and there’s Manchester United. A season of anti-football, even if successful, can’t possibly bridge that gap.

@CER_Grant @LizWebsterSBF @CER_EU That leaving the ECHR is even a debate (near likelihood) shows us the depth of the political (& therefore economic) deterioration of the UK.

This is the best-argued defence of the UK staying in ECHR I have read. I knew it was an essential tool for cooperating with EU partners on many issues, but had not appreciated its value on domestic issues like Hillsborough, John Warboys and opposing the cancel culture.@CER_EU

my mum organised this event you cunt, and everyone had a good time

@ManCity If a tree falls in a wood and no one is there to see it?…

It's been emotional, Bernardo 🩵

@DanisMCFC Salty tears 😭

They are the first side to win a PGMOL title and not have anyone from their team win Golden Boots, Top Assists or Player of the Year The worst fakest champions of all time 😭😭😭

@SimonMagus @GavinBarwell Ok, I’ll ask. Have you recently had a stroke?

@GavinBarwell You could actually ask me Gavin instead of waving it around to your followers.

I always wonder whether people like Simon ever even ask themselves why pretty much every other country in Europe thinks otherwise i.e. is either a member or desperately trying to become one?

@mattyglesias Ossof surely

I don’t think Harris or AOC are good choices per se, but Anyone But Newsom is my guidestar.

@matthayesthfc @keiranpedley Looking forward to the Netflix Special

@markgoldbridge @Carra23 The only thing that affects Guardiola’s record is the 115 charges. Man City spent the equivalent of 10x Saka’s MORE than Arsenal on wages. Clearly it’s a ludicrous advantage and allegedly fraudulent. If proved, he achieved nothing of note.

@Carra23 Walked out to a guard of honour and a title. Pep has lost to Slot and a club that hasn't won it for over 20 years as his last two seasons

No one ever forgets that, that wouldn’t be possible today even for SAF! Dundee Utd got to uefa cup final & European cup semifinal, Forest won two European cups & Gothenburg & Steaua Bucharest won European trophies. It happened alotmorethen that it does now. Still a remarkable feat!

@VAnnKayM @tomhfh @Lawrinho 😂🤦‍♂️ That’s not how it works buddy.

@MFishwreck @tomhfh @Lawrinho Is there any point in telling you that since Brexit our trade with the EU has increased? Because it has.

Believing that rejoining the EU would meaningfully impact living standards is such a high status low information opinion. You have to wilfully ignore the energy crisis that has tanked the German economy as it has our own. You have to studiously ignore the French economy's sclerosis as debt piles up and entitlement reform is continually defeated. You have to obstinately ignore the fact that the key driver of global growth today is avoiding the EU like the plague, as tech firms set up their Europe offices in Brexited London - free from the jurisdiction of the disastrous EU AI Act.

@BenZaranko Productivity is up because wages are so high, those with jobs are now having to do twice the work. The expectation in hospitality is very high right now. It’s not AI if that’s the fantasy.

Unemployment is up. Vacancies are down. The retail and hospitality sectors are shedding jobs. At the same time, there are encouraging signs of a productivity revival. Are these things related – and was this part of a deliberate government strategy all along? 🧵

@montie @Nigel_Farage So your plan is to try to drag the rebranded National Front into the centre of multi-cultural politics? 😂 I wish you luck. Though I suspect Reform vs Restore is going to see a lot of ‘white on white’ action.

One additional thought though on the splintering problem that Reform may now face on its Right flank. Because the BBCetc almost never credits @Nigel_Farage for policing the populist Right more carefully than any other populist leader in Europe and much more thoroughly than Jeremy Corbyn ever policed the British Left or Zack Polanski vets the Greens, Nigel needs to find ways of dramatising his biggest personnel calls. There are nearly as many uncompromising purists on the Right as the Left. The types who see betrayal around every corner and prefer the comfort of opposition to the compromises required in government. They are beyond Nigel's reach but there are many more mainstream voters - especially women - who will vote Reform if they see us fighting the good fight against the likes of Tommy Robinson, the increasingly troubled Elon Musk and the many anti-Semites that are spreading poisonously across the American Right and will surely surface more and more here. Millions love Reform's policies but need reassurance about Reform's "people". Proving that Reform live by Martin Luther King's desire that every person should be judged by the content of their character rather than the colour of skin must be a top priority as candidate selections gathers pace.

I don't often agree with Dan but this is a warning that Reform's campaign should heed. Restore may be big in its Twitter backyard but it is desperate for mainstream attention and to use that attention to begin eating into Reform's vote. If I was one of Labour's many Machiavellians I'd ensure Restore always had enough money and enough mentions so that it begins to split Britain's populist vote. Such a split is this government's last best hope of clinging on in power. C'mon @RupertLowe10. You're better than that. Aren't you?!

@Telegraph Oh no! Trying to build houses! The horror! The horror!

Andy Burnham is trying to build around 12,500 homes on Bury’s green belt. But residents are largely opposed to the plans and have been fighting them for around a decade 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@RobertMSterling @MediaKing You’ve got a lying putative dictator as President, who steals billions of dollars and shoots his own citizens in the head…and you’re mad at Colbert for pointing it out? 😂 Americans. What a bunch of clowns.

The tragedy of Stephen Colbert is that he really is a brilliant comedic talent and—according to those who know him in real life—a kind and thoroughly decent man. He could have maintained his liberal political beliefs while ring-fencing them from the Late Show and no one would have cared. Instead, though, he sold out, electing to become little more than a regime-media court jester, a funny man’s Rachel Maddow. He chose pandering to an actuarially decaying audience of geriatric shitlibs over remaining funny to a broad and politically inclusive audience, and he ultimately paid the price through declining relevance, reduced ratings. and decimated advertising revenue. It would be tragic, if it weren’t so completely well deserved.

@DavidHollidge 😂 Grifter probably gave this policy 2 seconds thought over his 7th fag of the day

If someone on £75k/year with a 41 hour week with 1 hour guaranteed overtime restructured the contract to earn minimum wage (age 21+ at £12.21/hour) for the first 40 hours which is £25,396.80 and the remaining £49,603.20 is overtime this would reduce their tax by about £17,000!

@Telegraph Scumbag who pockets a £5 million bung from a crypto creep

Nigel Farage has pledged to axe income tax on overtime as he vows to “make work pay”. If Reform UK wins the next general election, people who earn less than £75,000 and work overtime above a 40-hour week will pay no income tax on the extra hours. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@montie Doesn’t make him wrong Tim. If you lie down with dogs…

Ben makes Ted Heath look like a good loser. It's been sad to witness his descent into ever greater bitterness. Politics has poisoned him and he's poisoning politics. It's time for him to get out of politics - for his own sake and for the sake of stopping a second Labour term.

@Warren_Britain @GBPolitcs @Survation Can we deport you first?

@GBPolitcs @Survation The 43% voting for Labour are spastics As for restore they should’ve stepped aside and allowed reform to win this one Don’t split the vote and allow burnham to win he’s Starmer 2.0 and can’t be PM The future of Britain needs deportations

🚨BREAKING: The first Makerfield by-election poll has been released 🌹 LAB: 43% ➡️ REF: 40% 🇬🇧 RST: 7% 🔸 LDM: 4% 🌍 GRN: 3% 🌳 CON: 2% [@Survation]

@Telegraph @DanielJHannan Hannan is a clown.

"The debate about going back into the EU is not so much purposeless as utterly fantastical. The people arguing for some future re-entry know that there is no realistic chance of it. But, for emotional reasons, they cannot let the idea drop," writes @DanielJHannan. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…