The Recreational Punter

@HawkWing2002 He was right about Gstaad. Suggests the horse has some future.

Really don’t get the weird obsession with knocking Ken Pitterson on here for what are brief opinion segments. People go on like they’ve never ever backed a loser in a sport that essentially EVERYONE loses more than they win. Paddock watching is a specialised talent; it’s hard.

@AlastairMorgan yes

Can you ever imagine Boris Johnson or Nigel Farage being subjected to the vicious media savaging that the PM has just been subjected to?

@Steffanaquarone @LibDems Err you seem more concerned over who is not there than the point you are making? Odd?

Shameful 😡 Reform MPs couldn’t be bothered to speak up for their communities during my heating oil debate today. While families across are hammered by soaring costs, I was there with @LibDems fighting to bring bills down. Reform? Empty seats. Empty excuses. Missing in action.

@DAaronovitch Obama - you will be at the back of the queue?

I'm struggling to recall any such kind of intervention by a US president or vice president in another country's democratic elections in the last half century.

@landlawlahore It's actually better when it is even battle between bat and ball. Batsmen just clubbing sixes is boring.

Maybe the biggest myth in cricket is that T20 cricket is more entertaining than other formats. It's really not. It takes batting elegance & pounds it out of shape. Turns the art of bowling into a humiliation ritual. Rewards brawn over brain. Makes stars out of nobodies. I hate it

@kelvmackenzie I think Kemi and Nigel are both good. It's a shame they cannot get together.

My bet is that come May 6 Reform does better than the 21% Lord Ashcroft’s poll predicts ( a new low for Farage) and that the Tories do worse than 21%. Nevertheless, Nigel should show he’s the bigger man and open talks with Kemi after next month’s election. Unite the Right.

@g_gosden I was thinking of voting Reform but by calling me thick you have changed my mind. Good tactic. Keep it up.

Well that’s pretty clear cut

@RacingTV @AintreeRaces Churchtown Boy had won the Topham 2 days before. I wonder if the result would have been different if he'd not run in that?

📅 1977 - "You've never heard one like it at Liverpool." Watch the Randox Grand National from @aintreeraces live on Racing TV next weekend! 📺

@Rebecca_Brady_ @LBC @LBCNews @LBCNewsScot Thanks for circulating. Would not have seen it otherwise.

Reform UK Scotland has unveiled new election van adverts featuring an image of a small boat with asylum seekers on board. Worth noting Scotland has had no known small boat landings. @LBC | @LBCNews | @LBCNewsScot

@MatthewStadlen @NJ_Timothy Err because they are not trying to dominate maybe? Oh and women are not banned as well.

Astonished that we haven’t heard from @NJ_Timothy on the subject of the Palm Sunday procession across Trafalgar Square today. Why is he not complaining about domination?

@JimGray96309675 @PaulEmbery Jim Callaghan was behind the defeat of In Place of Strife - I think probably for reasons of personal ambition. It was a big mistake

@PaulEmbery And the one who didn’t stand and would have been the natural successor to Wilson - Barbara Castle, wounded by the defeat of ‘In Place of Strife’, a policy which potentially would have pre empted The Winter of Discontent and Thatcherism.

The 1976 Labour leadership election was contested by Callaghan, Foot, Jenkins, Healey, Benn and Crosland - every one of them a political titan. Compare this line-up with what we have today, not just within Labour but across the entire political spectrum. How we have fallen.

@PaulEmbery I agree but Jim Callaghan's opposition to "In Place of Strife" was a big, and rather cynical, mistake. It led to to the election of Mrs Thatcher.

@StanCollymore Only thing missing was a decent spinner - but I suppose they didn't really need one.

The West Indies, 1984 England Tour. Batsmen Clive Lloyd(C) - Guyana Larry Gomes -Trinidad & Tobago Gordon Greenidge -Barbados Desmond Haynes-Barbados Gus Logie-Trinidad & Tobago Viv Richards-Leeward Islands Richie Richardson -Leeward Islands Wicket Keepers Jeff Dujon-Jamaica Thelston Payne-Barbados All Rounders Eldine Baptiste -Leeward Islands Roger Harper -Guyana Bowlers Joel Garner -Barbados Michael Holding-Jamaica Malcolm Marshall -Barbados Milton Small -Barbados Courtney Walsh-Jamaica "Nuff said"

@tommytuck39 @amittalwalkar And Blowers (just about)

@amittalwalkar Only Peter Baxter and Tony Lewis still with us.

BBC Radio Special Commentary Team ✅ Do you recognise these famous gentlemen 🤔

@RolandsDelectus "As far as I know" - yes indeed

Kemi Badenoch complains to Keir Starmer that farmers are hit by the increasse in fuel tax. As far as I know farming enterprises use red diesel on which there is no tax. And this woman wants to be prime minister!!! #pmqs

@EdwardJDavey Use North Sea Gas seems quite a good idea to me - especially when it's not windy or sunny.

As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡

@Femi_FPolitics Filming a lone woman on a train is a bit creepy

Lucy Connolly wants to SUE ME for telling the truth about her. What a Free Speech icon she is!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 youtu.be/W1IK5ikdEoM

@y_alibhai It's pretty obvious you mean "Jew". I almost feel sorry for you.

Uber Zionist Margaret Hodge will, we hear, become Ofcom chair after uber Zionist Michael Grade steps down. A two step solution to ensure the Palestine & Palestinian suffering are denied proper coverage. And the Israeli state gets away with atrocities.

@Norfolkforever @DPJHodges Bookies don't get it right or wrong. Their odds reflect the money bet with them. If the Green's odds are shortening its because there is money for them. That money may of course be wrong.

@DPJHodges The bookies aren’t *always* right. They got it utterly wrong on Brexit and they also got it wrong in 2020. When I finally went to sleep at 4.00am Trump was 4-1 ON to win….

Sources in several parties starting to point to some strange betting patterns around Gorton and Denton. Greens odds have been shortening all week. But that's not reflecting what anyone is picking up on the ground.

@henrywinter I hope you never said "use the technology ". Because if you did this was the result.

Football belongs to players and fans, not to soulless, joyless pedants with no feel for the game. Senseless decision, an affront to football. Ruling out that third goal is one of the most ridiculous moments of the season, totally against the spirit of the game. The law’s an ass, if it’s a foul, play advantage, and/or how can it be DOGSO if there’s a goal scored? Can’t blame the ref tbh, blame the law and the law-makers and the fact that refs denied the opportunity to apply common sense, living in fear of those who mark their homework. #LIVMCI