Ian Simons

@WheresTommyV You need to type faster

TRY! Seven for Saints, who are pulling Bristol apart. Hutchinson finishes it off after a spell on the away line. A big breakdown penalty won by Manny Iyogun set up that territory. Saints 47-14 Bristol. Only 35 minutes gone.

@Charlottemorg Would wait till a Friday I think to announce his resignation plans, so not to disturb markets too much before markets reopen on the Monday.

Starmer ⬇️

@RobertJenrick Not happening in @WestNorthants just potholes everywhere. We get patchwork quits here, that disintegrates within 24 weeks.

It's arrived. As promised the JCB pothole machine is now in Newark. It fills them in ten times faster. And it’s made in Britain 🇬🇧 Only Reform UK County Councils are serious about fixing our roads.

@LennieNewman1 @LeicesterTigers @SaintsRugby @BristolBears Oh look we have another rest week on 23rd May…. Then a rejunivated Gloucester at the gardens. Although I am sure the team will be on it from the off on that one, otherwise serious questions into prep will be asked, IMO.

Credit to @LeicesterTigers but was yesterday another “rest week” curse for @SaintsRugby who just do not fire after a week off. Not concerned but other sides gaining form so we need the physicality and set piece to improve ready for @BristolBears on Friday.

@AngelaRayner Unlock leaseholders stuck in flats, change to common hold, gets people moving, and frees up homes to first time buyers and gets the bottom end of the property market and home aspiration moving. How many flats built in 80’s where leasehold is a millstone round flat owners.

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@saintdiamond1 If tigers win away at Sale next Sunday, final match away at Bath for second will be a proper arm wrestle. Caveat, saints need to beat Bristol on Friday. Not sure a semi at home to tigers would be good for me.

Bath seem to have a European cup hangover, but Chiefs also playing very well. This opens up the Prem top 4 a lot.

@wolf3069 I still find it mad there is a swim race to rottnest. With the predators in the water around there, I think the swimmers are slightly unhinged.

@wolf3069 It is, great views across the city, yet humbling with the crosses in memory of those that sacrificed their lives. Glad you are enjoying WA

Watching saints, This performance has been coming, after we scraped past Bath and Chiefs somewhat fortuitously. Something off since Bath away in 1/4 final. No dog in the team. Just a patch we are going through, happens to all teams in a season. Just standards Saints set are high.

@wolf3069 Also, Rottnest island, meet the quokkas😊

@wolf3069 You been up to kings park and Fremantle yet?

@CheekyVic @reformparty_uk The last two general elections have provided large majority's 4 each party, yet, neither leader can get their policies delivered, due to trying to appease back benchers all the time and watering down. The party leaders, do not lead, they are just puppets to the back bench MP's.

Off to work, I pop. I don't need to vote today as there are no local elections in our area and @reformparty_uk are already in 👀 You may dislike my view. 🤷‍♀️ although I'm sure you'd agree we need a different approach ...what have conservatives or labour government achieved? The country is in a mess.

@rugbyontnt Unlikely, but could happen, Saints v chiefs, Tigers home to Bath 🤷🏻

The semi-final predictions are in… who will be playing who? 🤔🏉

@RugbyBath @KenTrowbridge3 Remember saints rotated heavily for the match at the rec in December… came away with the five points. Squad depth and quality is the key which both Bath and Saints have in abundance. Will be tough for saints at the garden’s still.

@KenTrowbridge3 Yes, expect Bath to heavily rotate the matchday 23 for Northampton. Bordeaux in contrast, heavily rotated their squad for last Saturday's heavy defeat at La Rochelle. It's pretty much a must win match this Saturday, to keep Bordeaux in play-offs: Bordeaux (5) v (3) Montpellier

Bath 2nd in Prem, with 5 Rounds left. Bath's actual & (possible) remaining fixtures: Northampton v Bath Bordeaux v Bath Exeter v Bath Bath v Newcastle (Champions Cup Final) Bristol v Bath Bath v Leicester (Prem semi-finals) (Prem final)

@naiivememe @moving_charlie Wait for the banker’s reaction when they realise their jobs are taken over by AI and the knock on affect of foreclosures on their family homes 😉

Bankers watching you sign a 50-year house mortgage backed by a job that will be replaced by AI next year.

@CheekyVic Yep. I have call minder on it and use it when completing forms rather than providing my mobile.

Who still has a landline that they actively use at home

@matthoade If they lose tomorrow at Sunderland, then yes I think they are.

Spurs are fucked

@PaulRic10078142 😘

@iansimons1 Here we have another premiership armchair referee 🤣, dry your tears sweetheart

Just my opinion, but Andrew Brace always gets big calls wrong in important rugby matches. He is not able to handle the pressure as a ref in knockout rugby and gives benefit of doubt to home teams.

@Jbaker2211 Morning, not at all. He benefited us once against France, where the outcry by the French meant Mr Brace was withdrawn from reffing in France briefly, so no, not just when it does not go in favour of the team I am supporting. Good luck going forward and bring the 🏆 back

@iansimons1 So, only gets the big calls wrong when it doesn’t go in your favour? 🤷

@Saintsman99 🤣🤣 If only Austin Healy was co commentator, he would have pointed out the sealing then the TMO would have spoken to the ref. I was just on the internet reading through the litany of big game errors by Mr Brace over recent years.

@iansimons1 Typical URC ref. Although TMO should’ve piped up from the van. Rumours have it old Mr Vacuum Cleaner locked him in the portaloo when he nipped out for a 💩 with 10 minutes to go