Steven Downes

@VancityReynolds @Wrexham_AFC @WrexhamFX @RMcElhenney As a lifetime #CFC supporter whose mum’s from Llangollen, missing promotion is probably the best thing for @Wrexham_AFC . Build and go again (yes, the money would be nice, but…). You, that other geezer, Phil P and many others have done a marvellous job. Thank you.

I am completely gutted by today’s result but incredibly proud of our season. We’ve come a long way in five years and this was the best result in our 150+ year history. More to do. But for now, we have so much to be proud of, Reds.

@VancityReynolds @Wrexham_AFC @WrexhamFX @RMcElhenney As a lifetime #CFC supporter whose mum’s from Llangollen, missing promotion is probably the best thing for @Wrexham_AFC . Build and go again (yes, the money would be nice, but…). You, that other geezer, Phil P and many others have done a marvellous job. Thank you. #Wrexham

Latest data on small boat arrivals from Home Office as of 1 May, 2026 1 January 2026 to 30 April 2026 = 6,416 people That’s 42% down on same period in 2025 gov.uk/government/pub…

Today, Kemi Badenoch claimed that Tommy Robinson marches don’t create an atmosphere of violence and intimidation. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. You don’t see this at the pro-Palestine peace marches.

Trevor Phillips about Mandelson last Sept: "I was his friend & remain his friends & will continue to be his friend & I'm, if I may put it this way, mildly disgusted by the people who have spent the last few yrs saying what a fantastic person he is.. who are now running for cover"

Phillips' interview with @ZackPolanski is problematic on its own terms but absolutely 🤯 if you know the full, ugly story of @TrevorPTweets and the Labour Party. Buckle up, this is a long and depressing story. Phillips was suspended and put under investigation for alleged Islamophobia by the Labour Party. His suspension was lifted out of the blue - a week before he got his Sunday Politics gig where he would be interviewing Labour pols. Later disclosures show that @ABarrosCurtis played a central role in revisiting the investigation under pressure from unnamed "stakeholders." The story of his suspension being lifted soon leaks to the Guardian. The Labour Party goes mad trying to find the leaker. They end up blaming and suspending two BAME members of staff, neither of whom the Party, in the end, can prove leaked the story. One of the people suspended is the only Muslim person in the Labour Party's disciplinary unit. It is effectively the end of their Labour Party careers. Now the kicker: the Guardian had been leaked the story during the Batley & Spen by-election, which, if Starmer loses, is predicted to led to a leadership challenge. Starmer is under threat in Batley because large numbers of Muslim voters are abandoning the Labour Party. Labour ends up winning by tiny margin, saving Starmer's leadership. But the Guardian holds the story for three weeks. The Guardian only publishes the story two days AFTER the by-election. Would the result have been different if this story was published during a by-election where Islamophobia was a key concern? I don't know. I am absolutely certain that voters in Batley & Spen should have known about this at the time. Now five years later: Alex Barros-Curtis is an MP after a ham-fisted "selection" during 2024 General Election. Trevor Phillips is batting away Polanski talking about his own perspective as a Jewish person. And Starmer and his Party respond to a horrific antisemitic attack by claiming its catalysed by marches against Israeli war crimes, decaying language even as they continue to supply weapons and F-35 parts to Israel even as its killed 800 Gazans since the "ceasefire" and annexing large parts of Lebanon. This whole political and media class needs to get in the bin.

@peskycommie @DrOsitaMba @LondonLabour @ZackPolanski There is no "attack". There is no "bias", apart from in the fetid imaginings of your own mind. The facts are there. We reported them. It's not our fault that they don't confirm your own bias

Horrible hook-nose caricature of Polanski in The Times today on the same day they feature @SteveReedMP accusing Polanski of being indifferent to antisemitism. Solid work lads, good stuff all round. Really showing your full arse.

Petr Cech spent 15 years at Chelsea. During his time at the club, he won the Premier League (four times) and the Champions League, and even spoke to fans protesting against the European Super League in 2021. Given his association with the club as both a player and a technical and performance advisor, few understand Chelsea better than him. But even he doesn’t recognise this new iteration of Chelsea - he views the current club as “completely different”. @nnamdionye speaks to Cech ⤵️ 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/72461…

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@doctoriaindarcy Oh very good. But shouldn't that be "My grandfather was a toolmaker. He made Uncle Keir"?

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Shabana Mahmood was one of the eight "brave" MPs behind the work of Labour Together... the organisation that broke electoral law for two years because Morgan McSweeney "forgot" to report donations he was told he had to make... and now this? Is this another violation of elec law?

😡 As Starmer faces a leadership crisis and expected local election wipeout, his niece Ellie Sandover has been parachuted into a safe Labour seat in Croydon. Sitting councillors reportedly removed to make way for her. Nepotism and central control, while he lectures everyone else about “due process.” The @LibDems did similar with @DavidCampanale in Sutton and are now staring at a big payout. Party machine control freakery looking after their own while preaching democracy. Voters notice.

Keir Starmer thinks a retweet should disqualify someone from leading a political party, but that appointing the best ‘pal’ of the world’s most notorious paedophile, as Ambassador to Washington, shouldn’t. Be serious!

Very grateful to @thenerve_news for letting me write about investigating Labour Together, Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer (link 👇)... how that led to me, my family and colleagues like @andrewfeinstein and @kennardmatt being targeted and smeared by a filthy private investigation... and how the UK's institutions and regulators utterly failed to hold these actors to account - giving us this feckless and reckless Labour government.

BREAKING: Anger in Croydon Labour as two longstanding popular black Councillors with impeccable records are deselected and Keir Starmer’s niece is imposed by London Party HQ on their safe Labour seat (via @TheTimes) thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

I wonder if Keir's Starmer's niece has included a picture of her uncle on her campaign leaflets? Indeed have any Labour candidates anywhere included a picture of Starmer on their election literature?

@joerichlaw @Pushk1n9 @MichaelLCrick Interesting. Of the seven Croydon councillors in that featured pic from 2023, comradely surrounding Bodger Bodmer, only one is standing for election on May 7. Three blocked. Two retiring. One deselected by members #Croydon @LabourLeft