Simon James

@NotFarLeftAtAll No

If Nigel Farage resigns, will you vote for Restore?

@Brick_Cop @ukhomeoffice our 9/11. I watched the planes strikes on TV. This was real, getting a b/d pressie for my s/son, in Argos Croydon watching the TV screens, knowing it was no power surge. Dropping everything rushing into work off duty to help out. Saw colleagues later shaken by what they saw

It’s been 21 years since the 7/7/2005 Terror Attacks in London. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones and everyone who was affected including the first responders who did absolutely everything they could to help, in the very worst of circumstances possible. #ThinBlueLine 🚨

@ExInspectorBDS For two years I ran a successful ERT as an Acting Inspector, each time I failed the selection process I returned and was immediately reinstated. Good at what was needed on the streets, didn’t live the ideology. Finally promoted by lying and bowing to the ideology 🤷‍♂️

Sadly, this was true in GMP. I often said that, if Manchester United used the same selection methods as the Police? I would be picked to play for them long before David Beckham in his prime. And I'm shit at football.

@Quietdespairing Be honest and challenge respectfully every time. Show up their bullshit for what it is. If you can, get the facilitator to cry. Could be the most satisfying 7 hour session of your life

Any tips to get through ideological "training" at work? I have several hours of it tomorrow - and that's only the introduction. Three further workshops to follow - all based on trans.

@cookmandy Mentally ill people supported by perverted ideology. It will be viewed by future generations as our darkest days, it will be far worse than the current grooming gangs

We spend our time hovering over seats with handbags swing between our teeth and then trying to get out without touching any handles with bare hands.

@CarolinejGoode @SpencerHakimian Next year the newly introduced world soccer series, USMST v USWST. Bestest most orange World Soccer Cup ever. Held every year best of 7 or 9 or 11 whatever lets USA win

@SpencerHakimian Introduced new rule - host nation automatically plays in final - and wins.

BREAKING: Donald Trump has just called Gianni Infantino and asked FIFA to “just find 4 more goals.”

@Hill_Darran @GBNEWS They need to have a serious look at his real CV not his own version. Speaks as an expert on policing matters that his rank would have had zero input other than to do what was instructed. He never managed or lead any major incident or investigation. He’s a charlatan

@GBNEWS You do know Bleksley is considered an embarrassing joke in policing circles? He’s not respected, and he shouldn’t be used as a policing mouth piece if you had any integrity at all.

Hell may freeze over before British police once again become our true protectors. The rot set in many years ago, writes Peter Bleksley gbnews.com/opinion/britis…

@GBNEWS We need a serious look at the common law self defence, it needs amendments purely around being armed in public committing a serious offence of possession of a weapon. In these cases you must not be allowed to plead self defence. It’s madness that murderers are allowed it

‘Last line of defence!’ Police demand tougher search powers to combat knife crime gbnews.com/news/police-sc…

@FoxNews 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣The sporting gods have spoken. USMST forever will be remembered as cheats. You have tarnished a great sporting event, it will neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

BREAKING: Team USA's World Cup run has come to an end. The United States fell 4-1 to Belgium in the Round of 16 in Seattle, ending the Americans' tournament after advancing out of the group stage and defeating Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Round of 32. Team USA striker Folarin Balogun was cleared to play after FIFA overturned his controversial red card from the Bosnia and Herzegovina match, but the Americans were unable to keep their World Cup run alive as Belgium advanced to the quarterfinals.

@McBrideLawNYC Your country in one action desecrated the World Cup, it will never be forgiven or forgotten. Thank god you’re out. Keep trying to be positive but your team will forever be tarnished as cheats

Team USA lost the game. America won something bigger. Millions of Europeans, Asians, and Africans just discovered American food, American hospitality, and air conditioning. They will never recover.

@EliotShorrParks Even the sporting gods labelled USMST cheats!!! You desecrated the world cup, good bye good riddance

USA straight up choked in that game They were favorites. They have a team worth 300m+ They were at home This wasn’t Davis vs Goliath. Belgium didn’t have way more talent. USA and its best players were just rattled and didn’t show up in a huge game

@usmntonly 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the sporting gods hate cheats too, today every global football fans united against USMNT. You have damaged your reputation beyond redemption

The USMNT lose 4-1 to Belgium in the Round of 16 and are eliminated from the 2026 World Cup. 🇺🇸💔

@nicksortor Today we are all Belgium!!!! Global Football fans unite against cheating. Game over

WE CANNOT LOSE TO A COUNTRY WHOSE ONLY NOTICEABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD IS HOTEL WAFFLES. COME ON USA

@TotalFootball Bye bye cheaters

Hang it in the Louvre

@piersmorgan So you are in support of MSM attending your families homes where you do not live, just to doorstep them and publicise where they live and who they are? He has every right to be angry. His family has been put in danger

Wow… he’s so rattled.

@greg16676935420 Hopefully they will become known for stuffing the cheating yanks.

I can’t think of a single thing Belgium is known for besides their waffles

@CarolinejGoode @PFM192381 I never understood the rationale of passing people onwards or sidewards that were liabilities. I was called a bully but would never allow my problem officer to become someone else’s.

@simonajames28 @PFM192381 100% this. I really got involved to ensure the right people got promoted.

Lots about the Police Leadership review today. I bet nowhere in the document did it say: a) ask PCs/police staff who would make good Sergeants b) ask PCs/police staff and Sergeants who would make good Inspectors. Staff know things. They should be consulted.

@talkSPORT Yes no doubt as was Balogun for USA and Messi for Argentina, refs got none right VAR 2/3 poor quality referees

Do you think this was a red card, YES or NO? 🤔

@NotFarLeftAtAll We all had a beer and bacon butty this morning both of which she hates

Hates everything about our country.. then pretends to love football if we win

@ellencarmichael It’s cheating pure and simple and you have desecrated the greatest sporting event. Nothing achieved by the USA team will count for anything the honourable thing to do is impose your own 1 match ban, but honour and American do not live on the same street. Please Belgium fuck them

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged. Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait. To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations. In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted. The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards. Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure. So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve. Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less. Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal. Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.