Ted Blair
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Ted Blair
@tedblair
Yorkshire-bred, Darlo-supporting, beer-drinking, curry-eating, progmetal-listening, cat-loving hairy bloke. @tedblair.bsky.social
Darlington Katılım Kasım 2010
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I have been denied entry to the Chagos Islands by the UK government.
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This is what royal duty looks like: Princess Anne arriving at a crisps factory in Yorkshire in the pouring rain. If the monarchy is to survive — as I hope it will — younger royals need to follows her unflinching example. #monarchy #royalfamily #Andrewmountbattenwindsor
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Hey @Ryanair @RyanairPress, this is totally unacceptable. I don't want to fly with a company that allows its staff to promote ANY political views while at work - and definitely not support for a cause which promotes terrorism against Jews and the West in general. Sort this out. ⬇️
Adrian Yalland@AdrianYalland
Hello @Ryanair your “customer service” assistant at STN is wearing a pro-Hamas / intifada badge on his uniform, (associating RyanAir with his views). I tried to explain he might inadvertently make Jewish customers feel uncomfortable but he was instantly aggressive.
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@wesstreeting Says the man who is behind the likes of Palantir getting their grubby mitts on NHS contracts.
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Another Tory mess we’re cleaning up.
Reducing competition for training posts.
Backing homegrown talent.
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If Starmer seriously attempts to ban @X in the United Kingdom the backlash against him will bring down the government. It will all be over. There is no way any PM can ban this platform, regardless of content / practices. Starmer is proving his critics on free speech totally right
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@DanielJHannan @X I can't believe you're writing it either.
Shows how desperate you are to scrape a living.
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I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I think the government may be moving towards a ban on @X. Not the Chinese or Iranian government; the British government.
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Another MP who is more concerned about a foreign country instead of his own constituency.
Being a Conservative Friend of Israel must be a good gig.
Moral clarity, my arse!
Source: cfoi.co.uk/wp-content/upl… where you'll find more Tory sycophants.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Everyone knows the police invented their “intelligence” to ban Israeli fans from Villa Park. The deadline for the Inspectorate report has passed. The Policing Minister still hasn’t published her correspondence with the police. So will the Home Office be transparent? My letter:
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@LordIanAustin Ah, the usual bunch of idiots that don't understand the obvious reasons for banning violent football hooligans.
They'd prefer that we allow them to run riot in our cities and attack our citizens?
Who do you all work for?
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Over a hundred MPs and Peers have written to the Independent Office of Police Complaints asking them to investigate West Midlands Police's decision to ban Israeli football fans.
The letter has been signed by members of all the major parties, current and former front benchers and Parliamentarians from the West Midlands.
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@SkatesLucie @HACKETTREF I would recommend reading "Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor" by the same author.
Another couple with ideas above their station and who would have made peace with Hitler in exchange for ruling the country.
Bin the lot!
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@HACKETTREF I challenge you to read "Entitled" the book about Andrew and Fergie and come back to us on this topic Keith
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What a disgrace- does she not understand what our Royal Family bring to our country.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
“We need to have a referendum on the monarchy” Your Party MP Zarah Sultana explains her views on “democratising” workplaces and society and says she wants to see the monarchy abolished #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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@DouglasCarswell Americans live in their "freedom" bubble and have no clue that most of them are immigrant stock.
Stick to the New World, the Old World doesn't need your help
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Not sure Brits understand how appalled many Americans are
Harry Cole@MrHarryCole
Trump’s blistering warning to the West… But will the constitutional arsonists back home listen?
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Ok, finally an Elon post I agree with completely. The EU makes Europe more bureaucratic, less strategically agile, poorer, protectionist and less free.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people
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🚨 WATCH: The President of FIFA just awarded President Trump with the very first FIFA Peace Prize.
The whole world once again respects America and our President of peace.
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@David_Cameron @Conservatives I can't believe you still dare to show your face. Most of the mess we're in is due to you and your public school politics. Bugger the ordinary folk, I'm ok Tarquin.
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20 Years!!
Two decades on, I remain incredibly grateful to everyone who helped back in 2005 and to all those who supported me - and the @Conservatives - through the 2010 and 2015 elections, and during our time in office. With your help we changed our party to serve as a modern, compassionate Conservative Party that truly represented our country. Thank you!
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Spot on.
Football at this level can now go and f**k itself.
Thank goodness for @Official_Darlo
Henry Winter@henrywinter
The Adoration of the Maga. A few thoughts. It all felt a step too far by Gianni Infantino. The award of the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize felt more to do with its president’s desire to please powerful politicians as much as Donald Trump’s love of such glitzy, expensive offerings of loyalty last seen in medieval courts. It felt more about politics than sport, a risky game for Fifa to play whenever it wants to bring a national association into line for perceived interference by government in the future. The Trump trophy weakens Fifa statutes. It also distracted from the real trophy, the World Cup, and the group-stage draw, traditionally a celebration about bringing countries together. Infantino took his eye off the balls. A football draw designed to work out who plays who and (eventually) where and when is not the time or place for such politics. Infantino wasn’t speaking for the world in bestowing the Peace Prize, as he claimed. So presumptuous. So out of touch. Many probably agree that Trump has been a force for good in geopolitics, some might disagree. Most would probably feel such decisions should be left to experienced experts like the Nobel Committee and, please, can we get on with a football draw. It’s spectacularly naïve or simply arrogant for Fifa to enter such non-football areas. It feels more and more that this was as much an Infantino initiative as Fifa’s. Infantino was supposed to drain the swamp when he arrived at Fifa in 2016 in the wake of assorted corruption scandals bedevilling the governing body of world football. How fitting that the nadir of Infantino’s propensity for self-aggrandisement as leader of what’s supposed to be a team game came in Washington. It was there that Trump promised to transform politics with his “drain the swamp” rhetoric, also in 2016. The selfie moment was particularly cringe-worthy. Infantino forgets that football is the star of the show, not a 55-year lawyer. A senior football executive, who’s been at the heart of the English and European game for more than 20 years, messaged me during the drawn-out draw with his verdict on Infantino. “I feel revulsion, anger, shame, disgust – how has our sport been taken over by a Swiss ***** and turned into a total travesty???” He also pointed out that ensuring the leaders of USA, Mexico and Canada each somehow pulled out their own country’s name was not a good look for a draw based on chance. Great for the cameras, though. Flash, bang, wallop, what a picture of Infantino's priorities. And who gets the next FIFA Peace Prize? And wouldn't Infantino have gained more respect had he used the money for the Trump trophy to subsidise excessive ticket costs? He's lost sight of what should be the real priorities for the leader of football. The game. It's sad, really. Many sensible people work at Fifa, passionate about the game not their own ego, but it's alarming what happens to the leadership when they take power there. Even the great football manager Arsene Wenger has changed since becoming Chief of Global Football Development at Fifa. He now campaigns for more games, backing the expanded World Cup, which he would have railed against as a widely-admired, free-thinking club manager, fiercely protective of his players' well-being. "I believe that 48 teams is the right number." Arsene, just listen to yourself. Many fans probably won’t lose much sleep that Wenger dances to Fifa's tune or that Infantino cosies up to Trump, Aramco and co. Some probably think Fifa’s a video game. Most just can’t wait for the football. The game’s about Mbappe and Messi, Haaland and Salah, Kane and Dembele, not Infantino and Trump. The game’s about the Tartan Army, the brilliant Mexican following, the ever-hopeful English, the mobile carnival of Brazilians and the millions of other fans flocking to venue cities next summer, only a third with tickets. The USA is prepared for the party. I covered USA 94 and you couldn’t really tell there was a tournament on, certainly where I was in Detroit, Chicago and DC. You will this time, also in Canada. Mexico's total immersion was never in doubt given their passion for the game. Infantino should remember this. He runs a great football organisation, not a political organisation. He needs to re-focus. Fifa is undeniably a force for good in many countries. The Fifa Foundation runs a new community programme that supports 154,924 people in 54 nations. Its new Digital Education Programme works on computer literacy amongst disadvantaged groups, helping them into the workplace. It’s easy to say it’s all about Infantino (Foundation board president), soft power and ensuring he keeps countries onside, voting for him, but the Foundation undeniably changes lives. Infantino needs to look at his Adoration of the Maga and remember what he should be doing for football: serving it, not himself. #FIFAWorldCup.
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@michaelgove Is this your level of argument? Suggesting we be afraid of acronyms? FFS.
No wonder you were so useless in government...
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I think people in this country have had enough of organisations with acronyms that have consistently got things wrong in the past
John Simpson@JohnSimpsonNews
According to a new study from a respected US think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Britain’s decision to leave the EU has meant that its GDP is between 6 per cent and 8 per cent smaller than it would have been.
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44’ | Suspension to the game as a floodlight has gone out…… (4-1).
#WeAreDarlo⚫️⚪️
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