Andrew Edwards

@avfcbreaking You're the one who needs to delete, but you've already tanked your little Twitter account.

For when he deletes to save the brand

As many like to boycott products based on principles. Definitely worth considering boycotting @FoundersDesign Rob is the designer behind the @danbardell @villaontour_ brand Founders. Going as far to brand them "scuffs" As a representative of the brand the comments below stand to support the ridiculous position taken by West Midlands police. 👇 #AVFC

@avfcbreaking @MaccabiTLVFC Don't act like you speak for Villa fans. You're on the wrong side of truth and history.

Shame your fans won't be able to attend the match and support the club on the road in Europe. Your safety should have been assured by the police here in the UK however their decision making made this more toxic and hate fueled than it needed to be. All stirred up by left wing nuts! Good luck in the rest of the competition after we get 3 points 🙂

@mishtal @Keir_Starmer You obviously would absolutely not have ever had any chance to attend this game as a Maccabi fan as you wouldn’t qualify with booking history. If you want to attend as a villa fan or a neutral then you can still buy tickets. Who is paying you to write this crap?

Dear @WMPolice @Keir_Starmer I would have gone to the Villa game as a Maccabi supporter - as would many British Jews. I understand we have be banned because you cannot guarantee our safety. So I have a question. I take this ban as an indication that the threat is not down to a 'lone wolf' or single individual - but rather a major uncontrollable threat from a substantial group of people. So I want to know if the people you know will be hunting Jews in Birmingham are from the 'far-right' you always warn us about. Or is it actually another group that poses the threat to Jews in the UK? It would be helpful to Jews in the UK if you could tell us EXACTLY what our hunters look like and can you give our group of hunters a name? And finally, is it just Birmingham - that is now a no-go area for Jews like me? Asking for a friend.

@KemiBadenoch At least you haven’t falsely cried antisemitism again

I was honoured to unveil a statue of Ronald Reagan, the man who did more than any other in the fight against communism. The lesson of Reagan and Thatcher is that peace and progress are born from strength, while weakness invites danger. Labour have forgotten that truth.

@BillyWhiz @AVL8ton You are calling other people hate filled? Fuck me.

@AVL8ton The area around Villa Park is a shithole, Rubbish piled up, old sofas, beds, rat infested bags of Pampers and food everywhere. this is what happens when you let the scum of the planet come live here ..Arse scratching bunch of hate filled mongrels,

There is nothing diverse or multicultural about the streets around Villa Park. It’s completely dominated by a group of people who will not accept anything outside of their medieval beliefs. A community who contribute nothing and expect the world.

@Josephjose44255 @hawkins_carole @dpatrikarakos Prefer critical thinking over incorrect AI answers that’s for sure

Keir Starmer must understand that this is no longer about football. The question facing him is simple: who runs Britain’s second city — the government, or sectarian Islamists? His answer will shape our future.

@DeOxyHull Why? He's overacheiving if anything.

That’s ok cos little hobbit Chris Davies will be fucking off the job centre by the end of next week #bcfc #hcafc

@PeterElson1983 I think he's brilliant

If Jack Robinson was right footed, he’d be a plumber. 4 appearances, 2 red cards, 1 OG. Shit #bcfc

@Mike_Fabricant Thank fuck you’ve stopped tweeting politics. At this point you’re actually one of the better ones. Imagine that!

On the way back from the West Country, I caught up with Peter and Ben near Chepstow and Peter’s vintage Roller‼️

@RobertJenrick I would bet my life earnings that you’ve never been to a football match let alone villa park, and that’s just where the lies start. You’re a cretin, a paid off sleazeball, and the worst part is you know it and you’re proud of it.

Something has fundamentally changed in Birmingham. And Britain, too, has changed with it. Consider football: the rough and tumble of our national game is nothing new for the West Midlands. Growing up in the eighties, my Dad took me to more than a few matches at Villa Park in the away end. The language, chants, and antics were – at times – less than well-mannered. But it was largely good-natured fun. Where there was violence, the police put a quick but firm end to it. Such was the rhythm of British life. The same men and women worked together all week, turning up and supporting different teams on a Saturday. No longer. The decision from West Midlands Police to ban Jewish football fans from Villa Park marks a new low for our nation. What has changed? Well, last week, there were howls of outrage over my answer to that question. A leaked tape recorded me saying that, in parts of Birmingham, integration had totally failed. I’d been to Handsworth and seen a community that did not represent the full breadth of British society. It, like too much of Birmingham, resembled a segregated community. That’s not the kind of country I want. I want a country where fellow Brits live side by side, with a strong sense of national togetherness and unity. The Mayor of the West Midlands, the Bishop of Birmingham, the BBC, and others all lined up to say I was wrong. The local MP, Ayoub Khan, described my views as “a far-Right cliché” while simultaneously organising a petition to prevent Israeli fans from attending the forthcoming game between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Many, including the BBC and ITV, misquoted me. I faced the inevitable accusations of racism. There was the drivel about diversity being our strength. That’s what’s happened time and again to anyone voicing the mildest critique of immigration. Others continue to attack me. Handsworth is a model community, they say. Villa Park is a few streets from Handsworth: a week after my remarks were reported, West Midlands Police have now in effect declared those streets a “no-go zone” for Jews. My comments weren’t based on a few hours in Birmingham; I’ve known the city my whole life. They were based on a deep concern for the lack of action by successive governments to tackle the abject failure of integration. There have been at least six serious reports in the last 20 years, saying much the same thing as I did. They have all ended on a dusty shelf. Why? Partly, because of the fear of our gutless political class to stand up and speak out. They are shameless cowards, more concerned about retaining respectability amongst the liberal elite. Take the Prime Minister himself. Last night, he tweeted his outrage over West Midlands Police’s decision. But last week he denounced me for crossing “a red line” in discussing integration in Birmingham. He’s happy to criticise the police, but runs scared of even acknowledging the big problems we face. Keir Starmer isn’t a bystander. He’s the Prime Minister. What is he actually going to do? Bury his head in the sand when it gets uncomfortable. So I won’t be silenced. During my speech at the Conservative Party Conference last week, I said that “a Britain where our Jewish friends are afraid is just not Britain”. I meant it. The same goes for football. A football in which Jewish fans aren’t welcome just isn’t football. What should we do? Send in as many police officers as required. Sack the Chief Constable if he won’t change his mind. Deal with the extremist Imams in Birmingham who have spent the past few days fomenting hate. We must tackle the vile sectarian MPs who have polluted our politics. But the longer term strategy is harder. Thirty years of mass migration have changed our country in ways that we’re only beginning to feel. Unintegrated communities will continue to be hotbeds of extremism and division. Our country cannot have no-go zones. It cannot have sectarian MPs. The time has come for muscular action to make integration a reality.

@newmandavecf @IsabelOakeshott They don't give a shit about Israel. It's enemy of my enemy stuff.

@IsabelOakeshott The British 'right' is a complete joke with its love fest for Israel. For sure there's a very thuggish part of the Pakistani population in Birmingham, but Macabbi Tel Aviv fans are known to be dickheads and troublemakers as they showed in Amsterdam.

CLEARLY the ban on Israeli fans attending the Maccabi match in Birmingham will be reversed, likely within hours. The real question is what the initial decision says about the sorry state of our country. The police seem to have all the wrong instincts.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox The supporters group you claim to be honorary president of doesn't act in any official capacity, a Google search for it yields just 56 results, and the only evidence of the group even existing before this week was 1 tweet. google.com/search?q=%22Je…

For clarity: I did mention today that I’m not Jewish. I’m proud to represent Jewish Villans as honorary president. I wouldn’t dare presume to speak for the Jewish community, but I can repeat what my Jewish friends tell me and I’m lucky enough to have a platform to share it. I stand with them 100%.

@SwearinEveryday @MeniXsh @EmilyDamari1 If there is a safety threat due to their presence then yes, of course. Fans of English clubs, and even the clubs themselves, were banned for several years during the 80s and rightly so.

@fightoffyour @MeniXsh @EmilyDamari1 Guess it will be alright to ban English fans from matches held outside of England, same principle.

I was released from Hamas captivity in January and I am a die hard fan of Maccabi Tel Aviv. I am shocked to my core with this outrageous decision to ban me, my family and my friends from attending an Aston Villa game in the UK. Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite. Shame on you. I hope you come to your senses and reconsider. I do wonder what exactly has become of British society, this is like putting a big sign on the outside of a stadium saying “No Jews allowed” What has become of the UK where blatant antisemitism has become the norm? What a sad world we are living in.

@Swanson4Liberty @YorkshiremanDan @seangbuckley @Iromg Take it up with the UN, not me. And nice way to lose a debate.

@Swanson4Liberty @YorkshiremanDan @seangbuckley @Iromg Why are you even arguing with me s out it being called a genocide anyway? It’s the UN IICI that have declared that status according to international law. I haven’t just made it up, unlike things in this thread.

If AVFC had any bollocks @Iromg they'd either play in an empty stadium or refuse to play & hand the tie to Maccabi Tel Aviv share.google/CEeZD6RS3Hb77X…

@JohnRentoul @ArtJones365 @Independent You know exactly why it's drivel and that's because Jewish fans aren't banned at all. There will be plenty of Jewish Villa fans going. This false rhetoric is disingenuous and dangerous. It was bad enough when unemployed @henrywinter spouted it, and worse now that you have.

@ArtJones365 @Independent I expect what you mean is that you disagree but can't be bothered to explain why

A football ban for Jewish fans is a disgrace that shames Britain. Me for @Independent independent.co.uk/voices/maccabi…

@davidebrady @amk0047 @koshercockney @heath6789 The only people being antisemitic here are the ones making false cries of antisemitism.

@amk0047 @fightoffyour @koshercockney @heath6789 They don't employ enough staff to deal with mass antisemitism.

What are your thoughts on Ayoub Khan’s petition to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending and your thoughts on him welcoming the decision? I’m livid. Fuming. But also horrified at what precedent this may set. Bear in mind there are also Brits that are Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, just like there are Brits of Spanish heritage that might be Barcelona or Madrid fans. I’d like to hear what you guys think. My thoughts below 👇🏽

@Swanson4Liberty @YorkshiremanDan @seangbuckley @Iromg Great news, better keep on murdering then.

@fightoffyour @YorkshiremanDan @seangbuckley @Iromg It was a war against a terrorist, genocidal entity with the least overall deaths of any modern war, and the best ratio of militant to civilian deaths of any modern war. Calling it “genocide” is a joke.

@MeniXsh @EmilyDamari1 But you’re not banned for being Jewish; there are Jewish Aston Villa fans who will be attending. That you are Jewish first is irrelevant to being banned for being a Maccabi fan. Did you complain about GNK fans being banned from their match against you by the way?

@fightoffyour @EmilyDamari1 I’m Jewish before anything else.