David Moore

@Davo_Mack @afneil It's football ,not war, people attach far too much importance to it, also they should remember that lots of people ,both English & Scots, don't like football

@afneil Paisley born Andrew will be cheering on England at the World Cup from his French home, there’s a name for this kind of person 🤔

A narrator writes: The SNP won 58 out of 129 Holyrood seats. Which, unless you’re a product of Scotland’s increasingly underperforming school system, is obviously not more ‘than everyone else put together’. It was six fewer seats than the SNP won in 2021. And the SNP’s vote share was roughly 10 percentage points below its share in 2021. So by no acceptable definition did the SNP ‘win by a landslide’.

@AndyBurnhamGM @afneil I'm reminded by this comment of Enoch Powell's comment "That politicians complaining about the Press is like sailors complaining about the sea

@afneil They were camped outside my house all day yesterday, Andrew, and doorstepped me! I can assure you I wouldn’t arrange for this to be filmed. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Just like Andy Burnham, when I go for a jog I invariably find there’s a TV crew in the vicinity. It is SO annoying. 🤣😂

@owenjonesjourno Most will have no idea who you are,Owen Jones a household name only in his own household

Thing is, the 'United the Kingdom' march literally turns central London into a 'no go zone'. I'd be literally risking my safety if I went into central London. Now think about, say, Muslim families. It's a march defined by unapologetic hatred of Muslims.

@slyowusu @ClarkeMicah The West? Most western countries use PR

@ClarkeMicah But .... but FPTP has brought the West here .. disgrace. Why not try something else?

Many conservatives have foolishly begun to yearn for proportional representation, as it would get them more seats. It would also exclude them from office forever, and weaken parliament. I defend first-past-the post here on the Hitchens-Vine blog open.spotify.com/episode/0A0nGV… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ala…

@ICMRX5 @PaulEmbery @fillypepper He's from Liverpool

@PaulEmbery @fillypepper At least Burnham is a local man who knows the constituency and not being shipped in like the one there now from Cambridge who has NO LOCAL connection and is NOT LIKED. Let’s see if Reform put a local candidate up.

I have a lot of time for Andy Burnham, but what is going on is completely cynical - trading constituencies as if they were political commodities rather than places made up of real people with real concerns, and expecting the entire political process to be put on ice until he is safely moored. This is not what politics should be about.

@PaulEmbery The voters are being used ,they should show some backbone & in the forthcoming bye election vote for anyone but Burnham he doesn't deserve a single vote

@Clint_Davey1 Because we have to pretend that they were not really Germans ,it's a though the Nazis came from outer space

You see WW2 pop history and it's like "the Nazis attacked Poland", a "Nazi tank", etc. It would be funny if they did it to the other belligerents. Naming them after their dominant political party. "The Democrats landed on Omaha Beach". "A Tory offensive in North Africa." "Bolshevik T-34's moved into Poland".

@labourlewis I don't wether Farage will be PM or not but no Labour leader can win voters from Reform ,no Labour govt can or will do what Farage promises do

It’s pretty clear this chaos only stops when Andy Burnham is allowed back into Parliament. It’s what most Labour members, MPs and voters want and the NEC/powers that be should just get on and make it happen asap. The alternative is Farage in No 10.

@juliandarius16 @RockNRoLL_85 Working Class Hero on the flip is better

@RockNRoLL_85 How could any fan of music not be moved by Imagine? It's not subject for debate. It's a stunning composition.

Is “Maybe I’m Amazed” by Paul McCartney a better song than “Imagine” by John Lennon

@owenjonesjourno Stand by for Ed Miliband as PM,think I'm joking ? just wait & see

Poor Wes Streeting. He is the latest victim of Centrist Hack Syndrome. He gets his ego inflated by swooning political reporters. The problem: He doesn’t actually have support from the people who count.

@Handre Shaw was an advocate for eugenics ,enough said

George Bernard Shaw stood in Stalin's USSR in 1931, watching millions starve to death, and declared there was no famine at all. The Nobel Prize-winning playwright didn't just stay silent about the horror unfolding around him. He actively promoted the lie that would help Stalin cover up one of history's greatest atrocities. Shaw toured Ukraine during the height of the Holodomor, when Soviet grain requisitions had stripped peasants of every scrap of food. Conservative estimates put the death toll at 3.5 million Ukrainians. Shaw saw the empty villages, the skeletal survivors, the mass graves. Then he signed a public letter praising Stalin's "remarkable progress" and told Western journalists that reports of famine were capitalist propaganda. Why would an intelligent man become Stalin's useful idiot? Shaw believed in central planning with religious fervor. He thought brilliant intellectuals like himself could design society better than millions of individuals making their own choices. When confronted with central planning's inevitable result (mass death), he chose to lie rather than admit his ideology killed people. Shaw preferred beautiful theory to ugly facts. Shaw deliberately used his celebrity status to give Stalin cover while Ukrainian children died of starvation. He returned to Britain and spent years defending Soviet policies, even as refugee testimonies and photographic evidence exposed the genocide. The man who wrote about moral awakening in "Pygmalion" had abandoned his own moral compass entirely. Free market economists warned that socialist calculation was impossible, that without prices and property rights, economies would collapse into chaos and death. Shaw dismissed these warnings as bourgeois nonsense while standing ankle-deep in their vindication.

@GuffyNicola Peter Hitchens is Russian!?

Aperçu I think. Russian conservatives like Peter Hitchens aren’t really threatened by the prospect of a NATO attack on Russia, they worry about cultural threats as they perceive them like gender neutral toilets and gay marriage. Conservatives everywhere worry about these things. Maybe with justification. But Peter Hitchens elides this into provocation for the Ukrainian invasion.

@DuxVul @jeremycorbyn Children are only hungry in this country because of neglect

@jeremycorbyn Labour taxed the middle class to roll out breakfast clubs Why are kids still hungry?

This country might be about to have its 6th Prime Minister in 7 years. Why? Because they’ve all failed to take on a rigged economic system that enriches the few at the expense of us all. People want a society where children don’t go hungry. That is really not too much to ask.

@CraigMurrayOrg It's the best thing about them

Your Reminder that Streeting, Burnham. Rayner and Milliband have all been prominent in Labour Friends of Israel and all received donations from the zionist lobby.

@suwillow @PaulEmbery You can vote in the Republic of Ireland if you live there & you're a British citizen

@PaulEmbery Please make it happen now. We couldn’t vote in other countries

Thousands of non-British citizens will today exercise their right under law to choose local and national governments across these islands. This is an absurd provision which cannot be defended. It needs to be scrapped.

@ivh12e @danramblesand @visegrad24 Go on have a guess,he's an obvious Holocaust denier

@danramblesand @visegrad24 What is that "truth" exactly?

The whole world calls Auschwitz-Birkenau a German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. In Irish school books however, Auschwitz is called a "prisoner of war camp". Why is Ireland misleading its children about the Holocaust? Source: IMPACT-SE

@danramblesand @visegrad24 Ireland is in the EU

@visegrad24 My guess is that Ireland not being part of the EU is able to actually teach the truth.

@0Calamity Nothing would happen

Can you even begin to imagine what would happen if a bunch of Turks turned up at Dover and did this?

@owenjonesjourno @RupteredPhoenix @TheGreenParty Most people won't vote in these elections the turnout will be around 30% like it or not 70% don't give a toss

@RupteredPhoenix @TheGreenParty lol you keep tell yourself that

Just voted for @TheGreenParty. I voted for hope - and against a political and media establishment which has ruined this country. It felt good. I highly recommend it 💚

@owenjonesjourno @TheGreenParty These are local elections & you should vote for the party that you believe will be the best one to deal with local issues,local councillors have no influence over national issues & no influence over the actions of the US & Israel