Lee Robson

@JB_Norfolk Agreed. A fantastic city to live, work and visit. One of the best in Europe let alone Uk. You want a city break. Go Norwich.

Norwich is the best city in this country without a fail, what a place

The more I reflect on @FAWales at Euro ‘16 the more I think that’s as good as football (in its widest sense) gets for me. It made (and makes) it all worthwhile. I have @aaronramsey &co to thank for that. Diolch Aaron. And Pob lwc ✊🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@marionmain3 @SaulStaniforth @Normanjam67 That would have funny if not so pathetic… oh my days.

@SaulStaniforth @Normanjam67 Airhead Charlotte " What about the idea of their soft power"

Kevin Maguire on Trumps statements about Iran: "Can you imagine if Putin was saying this about Ukraine?" Maguire goes on to say the Kings visit must be scrapped Kwasi Kwarteng: "What purpose would that serve?" Maguire: "You would show you are against these mass war crimes"

@JennyAThatcher Utter nonsense. It’s garlic!

Genuinely confused as why hummus became a signifier for middle classness.

@TheWelshDragon9 You know that episode of the twilight zone with the bloke on the wing of the plane. That.

You only get three questions each, and Geraint uses one to ask about Mo Salah ?

@NonLeaguePaper @NonLeagueCrowd Sorry, must have missed the explanation.

Hashtag United explain why they’ve requested voluntary relegation from the Isthmian Premier at the end of the current season ⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️

@DuffersSport @FansAgainstVAR_ @IsthmianLeague They’ll be dancing in the streets of Ampersand tonight!

@IsthmianLeague It's those born and bred in Hashtag I feel sorry for, seeing their town's club suffer like this.

Statement: Hashtag United ℹ️ 📰: shorturl.at/ygTxZ

@CamUtdMen Absolute diamond. Outstanding service and achievements. Enjoyed my time visiting while at @MonmouthTownFC and sharing time with Phil picking his considerable brain. Da iawn Phil! And congratulations Cambrian.

💙 MR CAMBRIAN – PHIL WILLIAMS 💙 40 YEARS. ONE CLUB. 👏 Yesterday, we celebrated a true legend of our football club. From 1976 and still going… this story is still being written. ✍️ From building the foundations to seeing his son Liam lead the team what a legacy. Finished in style with a 2-0 win vs @AberystwythTown 🔥 One Cambrian 💙 #CambrianUnited #OneCambrian

Any ideas why EngvFra are wearing the same kits. #shitshow

@The_Yachtsmen Josh back! Hurrah!

LIVE COMMENTARY: Wroxham v Concord Rangers - Isthmian North - 1st Half x.com/i/spaces/1dGYl…

@owenjonesjourno @LBC @GoodwinMJ Owen, is your 2nd para about the election or the afters? either way I suppose.

@LBC @GoodwinMJ Looks like Matt needs a proper sleep! Clearly lying awake after being thrashed by a working-class white woman, in a party led by a Jewish man, which Mancunians of all backgrounds voted for.

'My big concern is that our democracy will start to look like some corrupt political system closer to Lebanon or Sierra Leone.' Reform's @GoodwinMJ alleges voter fraud in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Huge congratulations to @BarryTownUnited on the cup win tonight. Great to see. Best wishes to everyone at the club and MB the chairman. Go well! ✊🏼

@JuliaHB1 They almost certainly didn’t which is why this so called independent observation is nonsense. I’ve worked on perhaps 40 elections in various capacities since the 80s and this is an absolute red line.

Question: why are the officials manning the polling stations in Gorton and Denton allowing TWO people to enter the same polling booth when doing that is a criminal offence?

@garyyounge @alex_callinicos Watched the story get legs in real time. From dubious un verified source to BBC in four hours. Complete nonsense. If they mean whole families turning up that happens everywhere all the time and it’s a lovely thing to see. More than one person in the booth? Just didn’t happen.

The emergence of ‘family voting” as an issue and “democracy volunteers” as a force over the last two hours does not just smack of desperation. It’s a dangerous slur on an entire community and a disgrace on those peddling it.

@PaulChr30748044 @owenjonesjourno @SamCoatesSky No need to apologise. Just don’t do it again.

@owenjonesjourno @SamCoatesSky Sorry but family voting has no place in a democratic country like ours

👀The Electoral Commission give Democracy Volunteers access to polling stations at election time. Only they and the police can go inside. They’ve just issued this report about “family voting” in Gorton and Denton: Democracy Volunteers deployed four accredited election observers across the Gorton and Denton Westminster Parliamentary By-election today. The team attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending between 30 and 45 minutes in each. The observers worked in pairs using the international standard for election observation - the four eyes principle. Each team assessed several aspects of the polling process, from accessibility to issues around the integrity of the vote. Staff were welcoming to the team and we would like to thank them for their time in accommodating our work. The team assessed two significant aspects of electoral integrity - family voting (where two voters either confer, collude or direct each other on voting) which breaches the secret ballot. The team also assessed the impact of the requirement for voters to show ID before they are issued with a ballot paper. 2023 saw the enactment of the Ballot Secrecy Act, which made the practice of family voting more clearly a breach of the secret ballot, making it more enforceable by staff in polling stations. Signage is now available to discourage the practice. Signage was only seen in 45% of the polling stations observed. The observer team saw family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed, some 32 cases in total, nine cases in one polling station alone. The team observed a sample of 545 voters casting their votes - meaning 12% of those voters observed either caused or were affected by family voting. Commenting John Ault, Director of Democracy Volunteers said; ‘Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton. Based on our assessment of today’s observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10 year history of observing elections in the UK.’ ‘We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high.’ ‘In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby we saw family voting in 12% of polling stations, affecting 1% of voters. In Gorton and Denton, we observed family voting in 68% of polling stations, affecting 12% of those voters observed.’ The team also observed cases of voters being turned away, however, in each case this was due to them not being a registered voter for Westminster elections, such as having EU citizenship, and only being allowed to vote in local elections. The team also saw a number of voters taking photographs of their ballot papers and one voter being authorised to vote despite them already having been marked as voted earlier in the day. Democracy Volunteers has informed elections staff at Manchester City Council about our findings today. This Statement is now available on the Democracy Volunteers website HERE. --

@SuzieWo20886208 Could never understand why we took road safety advice from squirrels. I mean they’re quite shit at it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It was the third automatic action, "look right again" that saved my life.

🚨 Muslims Taking Over the UK? An important message from Shah Lalon Amin, group director of award-winning Delhi 6 street food group, who in 2023 won the Curry King title at the inaugural Nation's Curry Awards. “I never thought I’d have to write this. But I keep seeing people say Muslims are trying to take over the UK, bring in Sharia law, or push the country toward civil war. And I know some of that fear feels real. So I’m speaking plainly, not to argue, not to attack, just to bring this back to reality. This is not a Muslim-majority country. It is a parliamentary democracy and a country with Christian heritage. Laws are made by elected representatives. Muslims make up around 6–7% of the population in a country of roughly 70 million people. There is no legal, political, or demographic pathway for replacing British law with any religious law. That isn’t secretly unfolding. It isn’t slowly building. It isn’t a hidden long-term plan. The average Muslim in Britain does not spend their time plotting political change. There are no secret strategy meetings. No takeover conversations. No coordinated agenda. And no, we don’t have some secret WhatsApp group discussing who’s arriving by boat next week. The only WhatsApp groups we have are about exam results, family gossip, and who’s bringing dessert for Ramadan. When Muslims get together, the conversations are painfully ordinary. Football results. Who’s top of the league. Ronaldo vs Messi debates. The cost of living. Mortgage rates. Trump being unpredictable. Children’s school reports. Business worries. Holiday plans. During Ramadan, it’s fasting and food. That’s the reality. That’s because we are British, our daily lives look very similar to the average person in this country. What people call “Sharia courts” in the UK are religious councils that mostly deal with marriage and divorce paperwork or mediation. They cannot override British courts. They cannot enforce criminal punishments. They cannot replace Parliament. If anything conflicts with UK law, UK law wins every single time. It’s no different in principle from Jewish Beth Din courts that handle religious matters within British law. Religious arbitration exists under the legal system. It does not replace it. Yes, many asylum arrivals are young men. Dangerous journeys are often made by the strongest family member first so they can seek safety and claim asylum and if approved, reunite with their families legally. This pattern has been seen throughout migration history. Wanting secure borders is reasonable. Wanting efficient processing is reasonable. Criminal behaviour should be punished. But that’s immigration policy, not proof of a coordinated religious invasion. Sometimes I hear people say, “We want our country back,” or “We just want to protect our country.” I understand that feeling. Wanting safety, stability, and a sense of identity isn’t wrong. But Britain hasn’t been taken. It hasn’t been stolen. It’s still here. Its laws, institutions, culture, and democracy are intact. Protecting a country doesn’t mean hating your neighbours, it means upholding fairness, rule of law, and shared values. There is no secret Muslim lobby running Westminster. British Muslims are not politically unified, do not vote as one bloc, and do not answer to a central authority. Most British Muslims are doing what everyone else is doing: working, paying taxes, raising children, worrying about bills, hoping their kids succeed, wanting safe streets and a stable country. We don’t want to change Britain into something else. We are part of Britain. You can want law and order. You can want borders controlled. You can want your country protected. That’s fair. But if anti-Muslim panic exists on your screen and nowhere in your real life, that’s not society—that’s an algorithm selling you fear.” 🇬🇧

@StanCollymore ‘Is’ may be correct but it’s not right.

There are few absolutes in language as it always changes so are and us are both correct. In the UK we use are because we're thinking of fans, players, staff and community over 150 years ( in football context) so plural is entirely appropriate. But as many have stated, both are correct.

@sidlowe Amazed Kiverpool fans haven’t adopted ABBA’s Chiquitita for Ekitke - woah oh oh oh oh ah Ekitike

I do hope City fans use the Lion King theme to serenade their new signing. Ah, Semenya!

@prodnose Var is for a gamers’ future. Fans at the game less and less relevant. Just look at el Classico on weekend. Stadium full of gamers. Saudis invest billions in gaming. Gamers support players not teams. That’s the future.

VAR will never be scrapped. NEVER. The gulf between those who loftily rule over football and those who pay to watch it has never been bigger. They simply do not acknowledge us. It's almost Victorian in its contempt for the masses. How did this happen?