Andy Webb

@VoicesInHead66 @ManCityHelp Thanks but I do meet the criteria posted on the website

@andywebb2810 @ManCityHelp Means the system doesn’t think you are qualified to buy yet

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Everybody should repost as many Tweets from Rupert and the rape inquiry as the can. If the media won't cover it and the government ignore it we all need to make some noise.

@JamesMelville (2) other government issued identifiers such as NHS numbers and NI numbers now require digital ID. This is not about immigration. Its is about control.

Every adult in Britain will require a new government-issued digital ID card, under plans to be set out by Keir Starmer. Will you comply with this?

@JamesMelville Absolutely not. Please explain to me why in a so called effort to control illegal immigration (surely that should be at the point of entry) tens of millions of uk citizens who in the vast majority of cases already have passports and/or driving licenses and a multitude of (1)

@RupertLowe10 I am lost for words. Why do tens of millions of law abiding uk citizens need identity cards in order to stop illegal migrants working. What a load of rubbish. This government is clueless.

I will do everything in my power to fight this.

@JuliaHB1 Bravo. The British media have lost their collective minds over a couple of days sunshine.

It's going to be hot today. But don't worry, you'll survive the heat more easily than the nonstop hysterical heat warnings on the telly.

@10DowningStreet Any chance of acknowledging Palm Sunday

Wishing Sikhs in the UK and around the world peace, happiness and prosperity this Vaisakhi.

@sharrond62 Agreed. Complete waste of time. They should be made to revert to the old system when the PM received no advance notice of the questions to be asked and had to both know their brief and at least make some effort to answer.

Why can’t a PM be compelled to actually answer a question in PMQ’s? Otherwise what’s the actual point?

@VirginAtlantic many thanks to all the crew on flight 117 Heathrow to Miami. Amazing staff, fabulous service.

@EE hi. Can I have some help with an order I’ve placed for a PAYG mobile?

@JamesMelville Eloquently put James 👏

As someone who has been a lifelong old school liberal and left of centre, it’s pretty obvious that Keir Starmer and the Labour government are not these things. Instead, they are authoritarian, hypocritical and using sanctimonious fake virtue to try and mask some pretty appalling optics even within their first 3 months of being in government. The winter fuel allowance is a huge symbolism of this. No previous Labour government would have ever have considered punishing pensioners like this. So while Starmer repeatedly wangs on about “fixing the foundations” of the economy and a £22bn black hole (which he knew about before the election - as stated by him even in May 2024), how is it economically fair and indeed morally viable to cut £1.6bn by abolishing the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensions yet spaff £11.6bn on overseas climate change or give over £220m to consultants at KPMG to train civil servants? But it’s not just the winter fuel allowance. This Labour government has already shown itself to be completely devoid of vision and empathy towards the mood of the British people. The country is rotting (largely due to the 14 years of appalling neglect and nefarious policies from the Tory government). The new Labour government had a chance to create a national conversation with the people and really listen and act accordingly to their many valid concerns. Tragically, they didn’t. Instead, they have indulged in the politics of punishment, austerity and misery and communicated by a po-faced Prime Minister who comes across as a modern day equivalent to the pompous, authoritarian Malvolio from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The Labour government is already drowning in backdated hypocrisy of broken promises and bare-faced duplicity combined with an angry divide and rule self-righteousness that only loses friends and alienates voters. And that’s why they are plummeting in the approval polls. Keir Starmer is hammering millions of pensioners with the removal of the winter fuel allowance while he is trousering north of £750,000 in donations and £100,000 in freebies. It’s disgusting and deeply hypocritical. He promised to clean up the mess in politics and be a Prime Minister with integrity, yet he’s claiming grotesque amounts of freebies, and in that dreadful po-faced manner of his, savagely cutting the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners whilst repeatedly sanctimoniously lecturing to the public like we are all naughty schoolchildren. He’s now disliked to the point that he’s become a national laughing stock. But hypocritical pomposity on this scale deserves nothing but ridicule. Labour has tragically abandoned its “for the working people” traditions. “The Labour Party” in name has become an oxymoron. It is no longer committed to its original mission of improving living conditions and the opportunities of working people in Britain, standing against greedy corporations and the military-industrial complex, whilst protecting freedom of speech. Instead, it is the exact opposite - it’s in thrall to greedy corporatism. The over inflated payments to net zero based (largely overseas) corporations is a prime example of this. To bookend where I began this post, as I often say, I haven’t left the left, but sadly this Labour government have left me. They aren’t anywhere near the values of the liberal left that used to serve Labour and their core voters well. John Smith (former Labour Party Leader) once said, “People in Britain today are angry: not just disappointed, not just disillusioned, but angry. They are angry at the state of Britain; angry at the total absence of leadership; angry at the absence of vision; angry at the hypocrisy and double standards; and they are angry at the incessant incompetence of a Government they no longer respect and increasingly despise.” And tragically, his words of wisdom (aimed back then against the Tory government) could equally apply to Keir Starmer’s government of today.

@tfwrail congratulations tfwrail. On the 9.53 Cardiff to Manchester Piccadilly which has been downgraded to 2 carriages. What a bloody joke.

@transport_wales @tfwrail It’s a pity you couldn’t help the 41000 leave. On the Manchester Piccadilly service (9.53) which was downgraded to 2 coaches from 5. What a joke. Any thoughts on that TFW

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@transport_wales congratulations TFW major event in Cardiff with thousands of people leaving this morning and you provide a 2 coach train on the Manchester Piccadilly route. What a joke

@ManCityHelp Morning. Trying to book some hospitality. Let’s me select the match but upon check out it shows I’ve booked 7 seats although I only selected 2 and if I try to cancel the additional seats it just kicks me out. Can you help? Thanks. Andy.

@JuliaHB1 Thank god some common sense

The wild fires are a part and parcel of summers for Sicily. Yes, 40C temps for 2 weeks due to the Saharan heatwave have made the ground drier. But high winds and high temps - plus poor land management - inevitability lead to sporadic fires. The world is not on fire.

Here in Sicily, the wildfires have been tragic for the 3 who died and a pain for holidaymakers evacuated. But despite the UK media hysteria, Sicilians are taking the fires in their stride - because they're used to them. Our drive past Catania yesterday...

@StevePenk Piccadilly for me. Went live 2nd April 1974, remember dj’s like roger day, Phil wood, Pete reeves, James stannage and many others.

This yr is 50th anniversary of Commercial Radio in UK (October) LBC & Capital were first, followed by Clyde, BRMB & Piccadilly Radio. Big anniversary for an industry that changed my life, forever grateful. What station did you grow up listening to?#CommercialRadioGoldAnniversary

@garethicke Couldn’t agree more. Always voted labour but no more. How I crave a real opposition.

Thatcher was a cow, and the Tories are bastards, They are renowned for the pit closures of the 80s that decimated so much of the midlands. But the more you research for colliery walks, the Labour Party pit closures of the late sixties were even worse. Two cheeks of the same arse. The Labour Party are the Tories with a pride flag. Nothing more. Sadly at this point I have more respect for the Tories, because at least they don't even try and pretend they care about the working classes.

@LostinAylesbury @WhatNowDoc @StarlingBank If they are unable to facilitate daily banking transactions then they shouldn’t have a banking licence. Surely they offer all or nothing.

The probable reason is more prosaic than you think. Starling lack the sophisticated anti-money laundering controls require to facilitate global transactions. Rather than be fined into oblivion or invest in a more robust compliance system, they have chosen to just decline transactions. Which is still bad but more incompetent than evil

This is an actual message from Starling Bank. I have edited it only to protect identities. I’m going to explain the details. I am also going to close my account with @StarlingBank, I suggest you do, too. I opened one a couple of years back merely to get experience of them and to spread risk. This is worse experience than I can tolerate and clearly the risk is 100%. The client is a small, successful, family-owned business. They took on a new customer, a name familiar to millions, and supplied them with goods and services. This first payment from them was transmitted directly by online banking in the usual way. Without consultation, Starling returned the money to the customer’s bank, ostensibly because it came from the UAE. Now the last time I checked, this country was extremely comfortable encouraging and welcoming investments from the Gulf. Without it, Barclays, Harrods, English Football and countless others would be in dire difficulties. Hard on the heels of recent publicity re the closing and freezing of accounts, eg @Nigel_Farage, now this. The potential repercussions for Starling’s client are wide-ranging and profound, starting with loss of funds, ending with loss of customer and, not in this case, potential bankruptcy. It’s disgusting and it has to stop. Bankers are tradespeople, just like the man who’s coming to clean my windows today, as he has for 20 years, reliably - and never once dared question who I do business with or where the money I pay him originated. Banks are not an arm of government or of justice, that’s just a delusion they harbour, like their notion of “customer service”. End them.