Peter Robertson

@montie I don't think it is @montie but I think the party you so passionately supported until recently had a good go at trying to break it and the party you are supporting now - which now happens to include a lot of the people who nearly broke it for 14 years - won't help! ☹️

Britain is broken

Disgusting - I'm pleased that the club are working with the Police to find the perpetrators. These people really are the lowest of the low.

@chrismullinexmp You should know better than to lower yourself with posts like this @chrismullinexmp - the whole antisemitism era under Corbyn was a disgrace. Good on everyone involved in rooting it out and for rescuing the party from the cesspit it had become. Go away and give your head a shake.

Promoting Mandelson was the least of Morgan McSweeney's sins. He, above all, was responsible for injecting all that poison about Labour anti Semitism when Corbyn was in charge. For details see Get In by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund.

UK business growth jumps to 21-month high More good news. It’s working uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-busine…

90% of Reform UK fans online are Bots 🤖 - who'd have thought it? 🤷

Project fear debunked by facts. Reeves’s £1.5bn tax take seems safe as imposing 20% VAT on school fees did not have the devastating effect forecast by, er, private school representatives.

@RapidResponse47 Let the measure of the man be judged by his actions..... @POTrump is a truly awful individual. Shame on anyone who voted for this despicable example of a human. Pathetic. He is an insult to the office of President.

@christopherhope @GBNEWS Good 😀😀

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has not called me at a press conference for the second time in succession after taking questions from Sky, BBC (twice), and ITV (twice) among others. When I asked her to take a question from @GBNEWS moment ago she declined. This is an insult to the huge numbers who now tune in to the UK’s number one news channel.

@mabmab71 @C_Wakes We don't get through to Newcastle as much as we should be I can highly recommend Indian restaurant Dabbawal in High Bridge Street.

@C_Wakes @SunCollPeter Me and Tracey are heading up to Newcastle for a couple of days at the end of this month, 27th, 28th. Any recommendations?

@afneil @TimesRadio Au contraire - admittedly the bar had been set fairly low but @Keir_Starmer has acted with breakneck speed on both Anglela Raynor and Mandelson when compared to the procrastination and mess we saw from Boris Johnson. Both situations have been resolved quite quickly.

My monologue on PETER MANDELSON from today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil @TimesRadio In the end what undermined Peter Mandelson most was how he continued to bow and scrape before Jeffrey Epstein even after he’d been convicted of child sex trafficking.  That left Keir Starmer no choice but to sack him. Though the PM took his time about it.  The wealthy paedophile-about-town ensnared many famous folk in his web but most dropped him like a hot potato when they saw his true evil nature. Not our man in Washington. Even as Epstein was waiting to be sentenced in Florida for procuring a child for prostitution in 2008 Mandelson was sending him cloying emails of sympathy for the plight of a criminal he’d once described as his ‘best pal’.  ‘Your friends stay with you and love you,’ he simpered. He offered advice and encouragement. He even counselled Epstein to ‘fight for early release’. Implicit in Mandelson’s words was the belief that Epstein was wrongfully convicted. There was not a word of sympathy for Epstein’s young victims. Following Epstein’s release from prison in 2009 — of course he was later arrested again on even more serious charges and died in prison — Mandelson renewed his friendship and continued to meet and correspond with him. As Gordon Brown’s business secretary in 2010 he even involved Epstein in brokering a £1 billion deal in which RBS, bailed out by the state after the Great Crash, sold an energy-trading subsidiary to JP Morgan, a US bank. In late 2013 Mandelson was asking Epstein to do a background check on a possible Israeli asset. And he continued to visit him in his New York mansion even while he was under house arrest for child sex offences.  The British government now claims it knew nothing about this when Mandelson was made US ambassador.  So much for the rigorous vetting procedures Starmer was relying on yesterday at PMQs when he claimed to have full confidence in Starmer.  Now the PM has what’s been euphemistically called ‘additional information’ Starmer has decided Mandelson has to go.  Not before time. For this was rapidly turning into a crisis not just for Peter Mandelson but for Keir Starmer. It might still be.  Hard on the heels of losing his deputy prime minister in a scandal, Starmer has now lost his Washington ambassador, a personal appointment, in another scandal.  In both cases Starmer has shown an unsure touch, resorting to cliché and process even as the ground collapsed from under him.  The PM emerges diminished from both scandals. The timing — on the eve of Trump’s state visit to the UK — couldn’t be worse or more embarrassing.  It’s also grist to the mill of the election now underway to pick a new deputy Labour Party leader. Starmer has never enjoyed deep support among Labour activists. It’s even shallower now.  The election for deputy leader has all the hallmarks of a referendum on Starmer himself. Whatever the outcome he’ll survive it — for now. But he heads into a rocky autumn and an unpopular Budget as the walking wounded.  His survival through what’s left of this Parliament can no longer be taken for granted.  While Mandelson, a smart, articulate, affable but deeply flawed and self-destructive individual, retreats into the history books as the politician at the centre of three job-destroying scandals in four decades.

@mabmab71 @EFL And yet Mark, both of our teams ended up in the playoffs and one of them went on to be promoted. I think the EFL is a great League, in what other league in the world would you have a situation where almost every team has something to play for on the last day of the season!

Today sees the return to the most corrupt league in the world. The @EFL Championship is back. Where the ex Premier League teams receiving parachute payments are basically in receipt of a financial advantage over the other teams. Which means, they are at a sporting advantage.

@RokerReport Tremendous! 👍

For those who watched on as we lost the most popular manager of a generation to the England job, only for him to get sacked after just one game. For those who watched us replace him with a manager who never wanted to be here, never respected the football club, and told us we were in a relegation battle after just two games. For those who had to watch Jack Rodwell (or, not watch Jack Rodwell as he sat on the sidelines earning seventy grand a week), Papy Djilobodji, Joleon Lescott, Donald Love, Didier Ndong, Darron Gibson, Adnan Januzaj, and co. plunge us to relegation. That Victor Anichebe tweet. All the shite with Ricky Alvarez. For those who watched us turn down £24m for Lamine Koné from Everton, only to lose him for nowt a few years later. For those who paid good money to travel and watch us destroyed by Everton, Arsenal, Stoke, Swansea, Burnley, and Southampton. For those who, after a genuinely horrific season, then stood in the stands at Stamford Bridge and watched our club take part in a celebration of John Terry’s career, going on to lose 5-1, which just capped off an embarrassing and soul-destroying relegation. That was for us. For those who watched the most embarrassing season of our lives documented in living colour on Netflix as we dropped into the third tier of English football. The Celtic pre-season game. “Why am I looking at Ibrahimović at the bottom of this list?” For those who had to stand by and watch as the people trusted to look after our football club just gave up. For those who suffered Martin Bain - “At the moment, the whole outside world thinks Sunderland has nothing to offer”, the end of the Ellis Short reign, and Margaret Byrne. Simon Grayson’s flipchart… and then him getting sacked in the tunnel after a midweek draw with Bolton. For those who suffered the embarrassment of Darron Gibson making national news, not only for gatecrashing a wedding pissed and slagging off the club whilst someone recorded him, but for getting the sack after smashing his and several other cars to pieces as he drove drunk through Fulwell. Brendan Galloway. Lee Camp, Jason Steele. Jason Steele getting sent off for punching the ball ten yards outside his box. That Millwall game where Robbin Ruiter hoyed two into his own net. Marc Wilson. Being so shite that Lewis Grabban was desperate to cut his loan short in January. Jake Clarke-Salter getting sent off practically every time he was on the pitch. James Vaughan cupping his ears to the Sunderland fans after scoring his first goal in about thirty games away at Burton Albion, having done the square root of fuck all in every game prior. Signing Ashley Fletcher out of pure desperation. That fucking shite pinstripe kit. “PAY THE REF!” “Bristanbul” being the highlight of the Coleman era. Getting relegated by Darren Bent and Burton Albion. Finishing bottom of the table and then beating the champions 3-0 in our final match of the season. Chris Coleman getting offered out by a fan outside the ground after the game. Pink seats. The stadium and academy dropping to bits, and nobody in a position of power giving a fuck about it. That was for us. For those who stood by as an AFC Wimbledon striker turned us down to go to Charlton instead because Richard Hill wouldn’t agree to pay for him to stay in a hotel, and saw every decent academy prospect sold to help pay the bills. Employing Paul Reid to manage the academy. Paying the likes of Oviedo and Cattermole Premier League wages while we were in League One. Donald and Methven. Changing the music that was synonymous with the club to some EDM shite. Jerome Sinclair and Kazaiah Sterling. Mags turning up at every away game. Drawing our way out of the automatic promotion race in 2018/19, losing to Burton Albion, Walsall, Fleetwood, and Southend. Selling our top scorer to pay off our mortgage debt and then floundering to replace him with Will Grigg, who never actually wanted to be here and used to commute every day from the North West. Tom Flanagan having his trolley tipped up in Tesco by a Sunderland fan. Rochdale creating commemorative mugs when they played us. Scoring four goals against Coventry and still losing. 26,000 turning up for a playoff semi-final. That ugly Pompey fan trying to punch Luke O’Nien. Losing on penalties at Wembley. Losing in the last minute of the playoff final, again at Wembley, after being gifted a 1-0 lead. Having to sign our sixth-choice left-back target, Laurens De Bock, because we couldn’t get anyone else in. Jake Vokins, Declan John, Callum McFadzean. Tommy Smith. Joel Lynch. Glenn Loovens. Jack Baldwin. Re-signing Danny Graham. Jim Rodwell. For those who still bought the new kits despite the club having to stick a charity sponsor logo over the BETDAQ one, and it looking a complete fucking mess. Scraping a draw against a skint Bolton side that was full of players from their Under-18s side. Charlie Methven calling our fans uneducated. William Storey, Mark Campbell, MSD Holdings. Phil Parkinson. Maguire and McGeady’s “McDonaldsGate”. Parkinson banishing the only decent player we had to the Under-23s because he was too opinionated. Shite away days like Accrington, where we got absolutely pissed on. Darius Charles, “This is our house.” Every Mag-supporting clogger in the league managing to score against us and celebrating like Alan Shearer. Embarrassing shite like the club’s Twitter account tweeting about Kyle Lafferty playing the flute when we signed him. Losing away at Lincoln, Shrewsbury, Burton (again), and Gillingham. Getting beat by Leicester’s Under-21s in the EFL Trophy. Having to play Newcastle’s Under-21s in the same competition. Sitting in 15th place in the League One table on Boxing Day. One of our former academy players scoring twice against us for Gillingham, then losing to Bristol Rovers, which cost us promotion when the season was ended during the pandemic. Having to rely on the EFL cameraman. Playing a full season of third-tier football behind closed doors and not being able to properly support our team, watching from home as we lost to Mansfield Town, Fleetwood Town, and MK Dons. Losing twice to Mansfield in the first round of the FA Cup. Being robbed of watching our team finally win a game at Wembley. Going out in the playoffs against Lincoln City, consigning us to a fourth season of League One football. Max Power’s 40-yard shot over the bar. Going again the next season, but losing once more to Burton Albion. Some kid pissing himself in his seat in the Roker End with his pants down and the post going viral. Getting absolutely battered at Fratton Park (4-0) when it hammered it down with rain. Similar beatings away at Rotherham (5-1), Sheffield Wednesday (3-0), and Bolton (6-0). Chris Maguire scoring a hat-trick against us for Lincoln and laughing in our manager’s face. Forced rivalries. Every single team coming to the Stadium of Light and putting eleven men behind the ball and treating it like they’re in the final of the FA Cup. Losing against Doncaster in front of 40,000 fans for Jermain Defoe’s big return, and then losing to relegation-threatened Cheltenham. Four years in League One. QPR’s goalkeeper scoring a header in the last minute against us. Alex Neil fucking us off to watch Stoke play whilst he was still employed by the club, then coming back with his side and beating us 5-1 at the Stadium of Light. Michael Beale and his burner account. Plastering black and white shite all over the Black Cats Bar, rolling out the red carpet for the mags and having to live with the embarrassment. That was for us. For those who kept on buying their season tickets and travelling up and down the country to watch us play at some proper shitholes, sometimes getting beat and having to trudge all the way back. For those who had to suffer relentless piss-taking from fans of other clubs because we had no comeback - as we all knew they were right, and we were fucking shite. For those who, despite Sunderland being a League One club, filled the Stadium of Light for a game against Bradford on Boxing Day and turned London red and white on four separate occasions. For those who still bought their season tickets during the Covid season out of pure loyalty to the football club. For those who hounded shite owners out and backed the good ones. For those who have supported Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, Kristjaan Speakman, and their staff because they believe in the project. For those who didn’t lose sight of the bigger picture when we were trying to completely revamp the image and culture of the football club. For those who lined the streets of Sunderland and truly got behind ’Til the End. For those who have spent thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of pounds to devote themselves to this football club. For those who kept the faith. For those who couldn’t be there with us in person but were definitely there in spirit. For those who are young enough to have had a choice but, for whatever reason, fell in love with Sunderland AFC. The future generation of this football club, carrying our message along with them over the coming decades. For those who care. For those who cried happy tears as Sunderland finally put to bed the misery of the last eight years. For those who will be there next season in the Premier League and won’t falter at the first sign of struggle. That was for you. That was for all of us. Fucking enjoy it. You deserve it. We deserve it.

@mabmab71 Thanks @mabmab71 - we certainly rode our luck! A very emotional day yesterday. We kept on going 'til the end'! I hope Cov go up next season. 👍

@SunCollPeter congratulations 😊

@mabmab71 Yes, I wasn't expecting that result. All to play for both teams on Tuesday. 👍

@SunCollPeter fair play, you came with a game plan and it worked. Who knows what could happen in the 2nd game. I don't really rate either team🤷‍♂️

@piersmorgan @GaryLineker Wokeism, it's what most people call, just being a nice human, showing a bit of a compassion to one another. 👍

It *is* a shame Jugs ⁦@GaryLineker⁩ - because it deprived me of the chance to fire you for inappropriate wokeism in the workplace.

@peterjnixon Fantastic! 👏👏👏

Results of my scan yesterday: Cancer has gone 😁 Doc says get out of here and live your life again… check up in 3 months, moving to 6 months eventually. Time to get some fitness back 💪💪 That was a hectic 7 months 😅

@mabmab71 Typical! 🙈🙈🙈

The weather has been lovely recently. I've got 2 weeks off so let's have a look at the weather.

@mabmab71 As I predicted.

@SunCollPeter I'm not looking forward to today. I think you're finally going to beat us

@mabmab71 @Evs_Dubai See you in the play offs @mabmab71 😄

@SunCollPeter @Evs_Dubai