Shane Waddle

@KemiBadenoch Clear leadership. Well done.

I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect. I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party. The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I. They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in THIS government. I will not repeat those mistakes.

@RupertLowe10 Well said. Thank you.

One message has been reinforced today, in THE most spectacular fashion. Westminster is a vile snake-pit, infested with those who put their own personal interest above that of the country. There are an exceedingly small handful of patriots, but that number is vastly outnumbered by those who have their priorities in the following order. Self. Party. Country. Party politics has failed. It has failed all of us. It’s failed Great Yarmouth, it’s failed England, it’s failed Britain. It is a circus. A pantomime. A show. With no care for what’s really being inflicted on decent taxpaying men and women. They all treat it like a sport. It’s not. It is our country. Our home. Our people. The solution? A Reform dictatorship that is packing its ranks with the very same people who decimated the country over 14 dire years? I think not. Nadine Dorries? Jake Berry? Lee Anderson? Nadhim Zahawi? Really? Are these the people to turn this country around? A Labour defector is on the way too. I mean, really? Even Jenrick, who has to take full responsibility for what happened on his watch as immigration minister. Entire communities transformed into what now resembles the third world. Vast streets of foreigners unable to speak English. Towns, changed beyond recognition. This is what they did to our Britain. All of them. Today, he betrayed his colleagues. That’s his choice. I am of the view that nobody who has had any role in past Governments should be allowed by the British people to serve again. The damage is just too immense, too grave, possibly even too irreversible. All these washed-up former MPs who are weaponising the rightful anger of the British people to slink back into Parliament. It’s sickening to watch. Please remember this. THEY DID THIS TO THE COUNTRY. These are the people who destroyed Britain. They will not fix it. Reform will not fix it. Farage was supposed to destroy the establishment, not join them. That is why I backed him for so long. I was wrong to do so. Sadly, joining that establishment is all he cares about. He wants to be accepted by the people who spurned him for so very long. That is what drives him. Take revenge on a Conservative Party that refused to accept him, and then force them to bend the knee and kiss his ring. Party politics is dead. We need an entirely different way of doing things - hundreds of men and women from outside politics, put forward for election. All of whom must have had NOTHING to do with how our country has been so abhorrently failed. I am going to think long and hard over the weekend about my next step. Britain doesn’t need mere reform from the same arsonists who burnt it to the ground. A real alternative MUST be provided. I will do that.

@drdavidbull Lots of people take responsibility for mistakes they have made by owning them and putting them right. I guess that having those onboard who made the mistakes in past years which created broken Britain will therefore be best placed to fix them.

🚨🔥As Chairman, I am delighted to welcome Robert Jenrick to Reform UK. He strengthens our fight to fix broken Britain.

@RobertJenrick Gosh, you have your reasons, of course, but it does add to the growing number of conservative politicians who, it would appear, have turned their back on the party that had supported them.

It’s time for the truth.

@Maattthheew I thought it was Roxy and this evening I thought her handwriting was similar to what we had seen on that first list of three names so I do suspect it is Roxy…….

TRAITORS EPISODE 3 SPREADSHEET - Wow, wow, wow...what an episode!!! Lots to take away from it, and you can see the full breakdown in my spreadsheet. Final guesses for secret traitor? 😶 #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK #TraitorsUKSpreadsheet

@tomhfh No offence intended, but are you lacking the gift of patience?

What kind of service do you call *this*????

Old Hartley for the night.

@JoeBangles11 If I recall correctly - what cheese do you traditionally find in a Greek salad?

@WaddleShane Haha is that so? What was the question?

My World.

@MarshSongs Wow - that’s simply superb.

You knew it was coming, but probably not the song choice? Here's "Irony" - a short parody on Trump & Musk's feuding, based on "Agony" from the inimitable #Sondheim's fantastic #IntotheWoods. Best version in our humble opinion was the original by Robert Westenberg & Chuck Wagner

@CarolinePo75107 @love_blyth Great picture and it’s before Chester Grove was built - there’s a gap between the rows and Leaholme Crescent which forms the space where Chester Grove was built.

The view from the Bella Heap, looking down at the Isabella Colliery, Blyth, Northumberland. The pit was sunk in 1848 and closed in 1966. Many of the Colliery buildings remained well into the late 80's but the land has since been reclaimed, leaving little or no trace of the pit.

@CarolinePo75107 @gillyjamjar Yes I do - used to walk past that on the way to school.

@gillyjamjar Remember the yella babby? 👍❤️

@TheLastLeg #TheLastTweet to diversity and beyond

@therealsjpf @OSacrumCorIesu @MadsDavies one could say a broad brush approach using one set of data, the Indices of Multiple Deprivation score is also disturbing. Who nationally decides funding must be targeted on those areas falling within a 25% band? Why not the most deprived 15% or 10%. And deeply rural communities?

@OSacrumCorIesu @MadsDavies I’m not convinced by the analysis: up to now we (Lpool) haven’t specified exactly which parishes benefit, so may contribute to this apparent problem. But in reality our poorest parishes already the ones to benefit: we cd easily demonstrate that (& have offered to for the future).

General Synod told that most deprived communities have 40% less ministry per capita than least deprived. Currently only 2/3rds of Lowest Income Communities Funding is going to 25% most deprived parishes.

@TiggyWalker Raising a glass to your amazing legend of a husband and broadcaster.

What does a new widow do on NYE? She listens to @BBCRadio2, opens a bottle and toasts her amazing husband. Courageous, wise, strong, creative and never dull. They didn’t call him the Pirate for nothing. Above all - the most devoted loving husband. Pls raise a 🥂to Johnnie Walker

@GeorgePitcher What a wonderful photo!

Merry Christmas everyone from the Pitchers (plus photographer)

A fun-filled dog-sitting afternoon with much throwing of ‘the stick’.

Although my balding head doesn’t need it, it’s time for a bit of……

@CoastlandCurate Ah, yes, Nathanael Tried and trusted and it does include soured cream and a large saucepan.

Village coffee morning and the Fall means it’s time for an autumn themed chocolate Guinness cake

@KyrinnW From a mould :-)

@WaddleShane Stunning! Did you make the chocolate leaves too?