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@JuceeRob @theadelites @joshlufc91 They rig it anyway I applied for every game first on the tracker then on the season ticket then on having a membership. I didn't win a ticket until Everton away mon 26th January. The odds of me not getting one until then were crazy just after getting in touch with someone high

@theadelites @joshlufc91 The thing with unknown tracker ballots is the club can technically rig the ballots so that if say the threshold is 8+ that everyone gets no more than 7 tickets in a season and it becomes a de facto 100% ballot without the fan base knowing. 🫣

“9 in 10 #LUFC members who attended 12 or more games last season are against a 100% ballot” - Leeds United Supporter’s Trust survey. That’s 90% of the club’s most loyal members against plans to introduce a 100% ballot for tickets for members. Alienating your most loyal members seems an odd strategy. Surely there has to continue to be an opportunity to buy tickets and then at least a tracker ballot included? Among all members surveyed 67.2% were against it and only 25.1% supported it. One of the biggest fears cited, apart from the most loyal missing out, is the potential for Elland Road to lose some of its famous atmosphere.

🚨NEW: Heartbreaking scenes coming out of Leicester overnight as firefighters battled a huge blaze at the historic St Andrews church 🇬🇧 The cause for the fire remains unknown and thankfully, there was no reported injuries or casualties.

Fairytales from our government 🤬

Somewhat Surprising: How Article 8 Keeps Foreign Criminals In Britain Mohammed Sury Dabo has 19 convictions for 34 offences. He has dealt heroin and cocaine for an organised crime gang, carried knives, committed burglary and robbery. Analysis of his phone suggested more than a thousand drug transactions in a single month. He arrived in Britain in 2007 claiming asylum, his claim failed, and he has lived here unlawfully since 2011. The Court of Appeal has now ruled he cannot be deported. Lady Justice Andrews did not pretend the result was comfortable. She called the tribunal's finding, that Dabo's private life in Britain was so established that removing him would breach his human rights, "on the face of it, somewhat surprising." She then upheld it anyway. That sentence is worth sitting with. A senior judge looked at nineteen convictions and a county lines drugs operation and said the outcome struck her as surprising, before ruling that the law required it regardless. Dabo is not a one-off. The Commons Library records around 61,000 successful ECHR appeals at the first-tier immigration tribunal between 2015 and 2024. Parliament tried to close this gap. Legislation passed in 2014 was designed specifically to raise the bar for Article 8 claims in criminal deportation cases. Nineteen convictions later, the bar did not hold. Other cases fill in what "somewhat surprising" looks like in practice. Klevis Disha, an Albanian who entered Britain illegally under a false name as a fifteen year old in 2001, was jailed in 2017 after being found with roughly £250,000 in proceeds of crime and later stripped of citizenship obtained through deception. He avoided deportation partly because his son struggled with the texture of foreign chicken nuggets. An unnamed Pakistani man, granted anonymity by the immigration court itself, was convicted of attempting to cause children under 16 to engage in sexual activity after grooming decoy victims online. He escaped removal on the grounds it would be "unduly harsh" on his two toddlers, a ruling the Home Office called contrary to the evidence and plainly wrong on appeal. None of these required a sympathetic judge bending the rules. Each followed the same Article 8 balancing exercise that kept Dabo in Britain, applied correctly, producing outcomes that Lady Justice Andrews herself found startling. This is where Lord Sumption's argument stops being abstract. He has described the European Court of Human Rights as a tribunal that abandoned the text its signatories agreed to, replacing it with a doctrine that lets Strasbourg invent rights no drafter intended. Britain's domestic courts then inherit that expanded doctrine, whether or not a single Strasbourg judgment named Dabo, or Disha, or Swansea's county lines drugs. Article 8 was written to protect family life from arbitrary state interference. It has become a mechanism through which a man with thirty four offences persuades three courts that removing him would be disproportionate. The tribunal weighed Dabo's education, periods of employment, social services support and an on-off relationship with a girlfriend he does not live with. Weighed against that: a public drug supply operation feeding addiction across Swansea. The tribunal found the first side heavier. The Court of Appeal, visibly uneasy, agreed it was entitled to. Sumption's proposed remedy, leaving the convention and re-enacting it as domestic statute, interpreted only by British courts, would not abolish family life protections. It would return them to Parliament and British judges, not a Strasbourg doctrine engineered to expand without limit. Nobody voted for a system in which a Court of Appeal judge finds a result surprising and rules for it anyway. The 61,000 cases behind Dabo's are the evidence that this is not one tribunal's error. It is the settled operation of the law as it now stands. Lord Sumption: architect of the case against Article 8's reach.

We are asking why was an Al Jazeera @AJEnglish cameraman, Ahmed Shah, firing multiple rounds in Gaza last month? It’s a fair question, isn’t it? Shah was a sniper in one of the elite military wings of Hamas. He was ALSO a “journalist” for the Qatari News Channel. An Israeli airstrike eliminated the terrorist, but his death is added ONLY to the list of dead “journalists” in Gaza. You see how corrupt and dishonest the entire system is. Shah “operated” with his brother Muhammad in the Hamas rocket production unit. His brother Muhammad was killed last April. They are NOT babies or children. They are NOT civilians. They are NOT journalists. They WERE praised by Hamas as “martyrs.”

The DEVIL is gone. Israel never forgets. Mossad never forgives. The IDF has eliminated Hamas terrorist Zahir Ibrahim Khalil Abu Salem. who abducted, raped and murdered two Israeli girls on October 7th, In an intelligence based operation. He had changed his identity and lived in Gaza, working as a street vendor.

@JohnCleese Fancy running for Prime Minister in the next election John "Common Sense" Cleese ?

How much are the Muslims contributing ? Their slavery lasted much longer than the British colonies' slavery, and it was the British who finally got slavery outlawed for the first time in history

@russcausier @brfootball He looks pregnant

@brfootball FFS does this mean he's getting a new contract 😭😭

Leeds' new home shirt is here with a horizontal pinstripe look ⚪️

@Dd252240 LUFC

Keep seeing people posting the private jet tomorrow.All the players that went to the world cup have got 3 weeks holiday due to the rules so wouldn't expect this to be Trafford unless he stayed to sort out a move #lufc

@Dd252240 He'd be quicker getting on the m62 from manc than flying maybe he's on holiday 🤞🏼

🚨POLICE DESTROY BODY CAM FOOTAGE This incident from last year saw two Police Officers investigate a CHILD for social media posts WELL GUESS WHAT! THEY'VE "LOST" EVERYTHING Pocket Notebooks - DISAPPEARED Bodycam Footage - LOST PROBABLY DELETED They've even REFUSED to give the officers names for 'data protection' They even said to the child's mother "Can you turn your camera off, you can have my bodycam footage afterwards" hoping there would be no record of this incident UK Police are corrupt to their core The full breakdown is in the comments below⬇️

@JamesAmos97 You're a comedian. Try a different career now

Musk is flat out wrong. every bit of data we have shows that the vast majority of people who migrate here assimilate to the culture. the idea that large groups of people are coming here and changing the culture, rather than the culture changing them, is a lie

It’s going to happen😂

@SwearingSport Bully

That two punch combo was slick😮‍💨👊

@NodderJulian @LovelyGeezer65 Changed it now god knows how that ended up there

@whenitmattered @LovelyGeezer65 It says Donny, Warrington & San Jose on your profile.

Rhino’s testimonial. To be fair it wasn’t even a competition. Spurs know the truth.

Douglas Murray asks why Mahmood and Starmer lauded the arrest of twelve individuals, linking them to an anti-Muslim 9/11- style plot in Suffolk, but demanded silence about the reasons why Ann Widdecombe was murdered, and by whom. They clearly wished to bury disturbing and inconvenient news while running away with an invented story about 12 drone enthusiasts who were soon released without charge. 'I have to ask two things. First, it seemed to me when the Suffolk story broke that it was a little too convenient. A prominent anti-open-borders Reform spokeswoman had been beaten to death in her home. Strong sentiments were flowing. And then, as if to remind us that all sides and anyone can do something bad, along comes a ‘far-right extremism, anti-Muslim terror plot’ story, displayed on the BBC’s website alongside updates on the Widdecombe case. Why? And how did the police and the top of government get this so terribly wrong? The second thing I have to ask...is: what is the difference in prejudicing a fair trial when it comes to the Widdecombe case and when it comes to the Suffolk ‘far-right, Islamophobic, mass-casualty terror event’ that wasn’t? Someone explain it, please?' #comments-container" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spectator.com/article/the-pr…

@NodderJulian @LovelyGeezer65 San Jose ?

@whenitmattered @LovelyGeezer65 San Jose? You moved again mate?

@benonwine WMC entertainment manager booking for Friday,Sat and BH Sun nights.Bingo caller on Weds & Sunday nights along with bottling up when needed.Refuses to organise the club trip to Blackpool after some on the trip refused to move on from the Tower Lounge to the Labour club

If Andy Burnham had never gone into politics, what job do you think he’d be doing today? 👇

Gary Lineker: Make us pay more tax Andy Burnham! Also Gary Lineker: