Tim Moose 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Orwell 1984 “If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed then the lie passed into history and became truth”. “The Party would announce that 2 +2 made 5, & you would have to believe it” #Starmer & #Labour turned 2025 into 1984

@JGerrings @KemiBadenoch Nearest leader I have seen to Thatcher and Kemi must be the next PM

@KemiBadenoch You are not Thatcher.

Andy Burnham believes that prosperity can be achieved by re-organising local government, and then taking money from “the rich”. This is the politics of zero sum; it has a long history, all of it disastrous. He has the wrong diagnosis, the wrong priorities and the wrong solutions. My job now is to expose and challenge this at every turn. Mrs Thatcher’s genius was that she understood that national prosperity was in the hands of the people, not the State. She had a vision for the country that went beyond tax and spend; she rebuilt Britain’s self-confidence and oversaw the fastest rise in working people’s income by unlocking enterprise, ownership and personal responsibility, using less regulation and lower taxes. The choice is now clear. Andy Burnham's Labour Party offering state control and redistribution or my new Conservative Party offering enterprise, responsibility and growth just like Thatcher did.   Our offer is a vision in which prosperity comes from the people, not the State and where everyone, whether rich or poor has a brighter future.

This will stick. Andy Burnham is the David Brent of politics.

@Malachians Has the look of a budget controlled window, bargain driven. Utd still only have one striker, once we had 4. Goals win matches, its crazy. We lack a second centre forward who scores goals. How much would a real one cost & what bargain corner will the club look in?

City just spent 115m + on Elliot Anderson and they’re about to drop another 100m + on a teenage Moroccan. Arsenal spent 100m plus on Declan Rice, Liverpool spent more than a 100m on Wirtz and another 100m + on Isak, Chelsea spent more than a 100m on Fernandez and Caicedo and now they’re about to drop another 100m on Rodgers. Utd’s record signing was a decade ago when they signed Paul Pogba.

Burnham didn't fight a general election. He didn't fight a leadership election in Labour. He will lead a govt elected on a manifesto on which he didn't stand as an MP. He will not face parliament all summer. This is not the same as other mid-term PMs. Labour is eroding democracy

@MufcAristocracy Watch the difference between the French singing their national anthem in the Spain game and compare to tonight

This England and France game feels like a charity match

@SuzanneEvans1 @andyburnham Red Robbo, Scargill, IMF. People couldnt keep jobs for any length of time. Why would anyone in their right mind want to go back to that. Has anyone checked Burnham is all there?

Anyone who thinks going back to the 70s will be a good thing didn’t live through them. They were bloody awful. Except, perhaps for one thing - we didn’t let illegals and criminals from other countries in willy-nilly. Somehow though, I doubt @andyburnham will embrace that.

@Glazertwalker Not all of Manchester! Maggie was the great slayer of Labour, stopped the decline from horrendous socialism. Burnham is just tapping in to the traditional decades old pain in his party, Thatcher hatred, to portray himself as the great leader. Comrade Kim Jun Burnham

Politically, Manchester is 45 years behind the rest of the UK - they're still obsessing about Thatcher.

It is genuinely outrageous that Britain is about to get a new Prime Minister who wasn’t even an MP four weeks ago. A man still fighting Margaret Thatcher, determined to drag us back to the 1970s with radical Left-wing policies. The country never voted for this. It’s a stitch-up.

NOT MY PRIME MINISTER!!!!

@toadmeister @guardian

Earlier today a @Guardian journalist sent me this query: Dear Toby Young, I'm Aisha Down, a journalist at the Guardian. I'm getting in touch because we're planning to report that the US state department is considering a grant of $5m to Free Speech Union, your organisation, as part of a new grant-making scheme, and wanted to give you the chance to comment. We would appreciate receiving your comment by 14:30. We are considering reporting the following: - The grant to the FSU is part of a package to Maga aligned groups that former US officials have condemned as a misuse of public money to seek influence over foreign politics and interfere with democracy. - It is rare for the US government to fund partisan political organisations in western countries. - These grants are likely to pose a challenge to Andy Burnham, who has said he will be "very upfront" with Trump about any disagreements. - These grants - including to your organisation - are "sole source" grants, meaning they are to be awarded without any competitive process. This is unusual for a highly regulated process which usually requires grantees to show they have a track record for handling funds and clear plans for the money. - This lack of process has been criticised as "outrageous and absurd" by former US officials, and as "gross incompetence" and "horrible stewardship" of US taxpayer money. - Your organisation does not appear to have a track record of handling grants of this amount. - We describe your organisation as "a rallying point for “anti-woke” grievance" which "frequently allies itself with rightwing causes" and say that you, Toby Young, appeared on Rees-Mogg's GB news show earlier this month to warn about 'Soviet-style' censorship in the UK. - The state department says that its grant to FSU will “support campaigns promoting free speech and countering digital overregulation across the UK, Europe and Australia”. The sole-source award is justified “due to FSU’s global network of free speech activists”. We would like to fully and fairly reflect your point of view and look forward to your statement. Thank you, -- Aisha Kehoe Down Senior Tarbell Fellow, Guardian News and Media I replied as follows: It sounds like a pretty garbled story. Free Speech Union International, which is the umbrella group that FSU UK, FSU Australia, FSU New Zealand, FSU Canada, FSU South Africa and FSU Brazil sit within, has expressed interest in applying for grant funding from the US State Department. This would be to promote the right to freedom of expression in those countries, which, far from being a partisan cause, is a universal human right. But it hasn't submitted a formal application and, consequently, has been awarded no grant from the State Department or any other branch of the US Government. You've mischaracterised the FSUs, all of which are non-partisan organisations that defend people who get into trouble for exercising their right to feee speech regardless of their political views. The FSU UK, for instance, is currently paying for the legal defence of a protestor who's being prosecuted for holding up a sign saying "I support Palestine Action", as well as a protestor for wearing a t-shirt at a Unite the Kingdom rally for saying "Fuck Islam Christ is King". Yes, we helped Lucy Connolly appeal her sentence -- we thought a prison sentence of over two-and-a-half years for a single tweet was excessive -- but we also tweeted yesterday, condemning the arrest of Heather Herbert and offering our support. Yes, we came to the defence of Nigel Farage when he was debanked, but we've also offered to help the Canary in its recent debanking case. So to describe the FSU UK as a "rallying point for anti-woke grievance" is misleading. We are a rallying point for those who want to defend the right to freedom of expression. Best, Toby The @Guardian then ran this story: theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j… You be the judge of whether you think this is good journalism.

Saying used to be crash and burn, now maybe from Monday it will be Burnham and crash. May I wish the economy luck before the return to the 70’s destroys it.

ANDREW NEIL: Never has a PM come to power with such lack of legitimacy mol.im/a/15985947

The fact that Andy Burnham would apparently blame Margaret Thatcher, a Prime Minister who left office 36 years ago, for Britain’s problems shows how utterly bereft of ideas he is. The failures came after Thatcher, during decades in which Burnham himself helped wreck the country.

He keeps getting worse somehow. He's a walking cliche. He's still thinks Thatcher is the root of all evil and we need more council houses, more union power, more nationalisation and bigger Government. He's fighting imagined 40 year old battles. He has no clue.

@bestcanton7 @ManUtd Sell not sack. Martinez has disrespected this country, the country he works in and put United in a difficult position. I supported Beckham in 98 but cannot support what Martinez has done

Ok, @ManUtd fans, I’ve seen a tweet about Lisandro Martinez claiming he is a rat and United should sack him. Personally I disagree and think it’s OTT. But what do you think?

@RodneyMcCain @ManUtd @ManUtdMEN Clearly doesn’t have the fiercest support from all Utd fans, & this is one who chanted Argentina in support of Beckham at the ground. However. This is very different, he can have an opinion but that banner was totally wrong & against FIFA laws.

@tim_moose @ManUtd @ManUtdMEN You’re a feckin arsehole. Why would ANYONE who is Argentinian think anything other than what they are RAISED to believe, that the Falklands belong to Argentina…?!! 🙄🫪🤷🏼‍♂️ Lisandro will have the fiercest SUPPORT from United fans, just as Beckham had in 1998… you’re a clown. 🙄

Man Utd player Martinez was seen holding a banner reading "The Falkland Islands are Argentinian". @ManUtd @ManUtdMEN Must be sold asap this summer. Do not want to see him in a Utd shirt again. He disrespected the Country he works in.

@mark_robinson_ This “wet wipe snowflake” was treading tough home and away grounds with United before you were born.

😂😂😂 Can’t believe the overreaction to this. He’s Argentinian, do you expect him to think differently?! 🤷🏻‍♂️ Some absolute wet wipe snowflakes about!! 🙄 #MUFC #ManUtd

@john01932 Nope

And you obviously support City!

@utdreport Get him sold asap. He has disrespected the club and our country.

Lisandro Martinez is into the World Cup final 🇦🇷