Simon Barcessat

How bad is our Eurovision song 🎵 🤷🏻‍♂️

@AngelaRayner No thanks

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

Rishi Sunak: voters are furious, here’s how to fix the system thetimes.com/article/854acc…

@lewis_goodall Each of the main parties need a single message - a fight on that. Someone needs to deal with the Europe question - economic union would be appealing, someone needs to tackle youth unemployment and the brain drain.

For all the talk of revival the Conservatives are today more or less where UKIP were 12 years ago. Largely a regional party of the south east.

QPR are so bad at the back!

@akutrs Can I order a copy online as I did not buy one on Saturday?

The things we do for the love of QPR... 4.25am. Pitch dark still. About to set off cross-country to Ipswich, just one of a magnificent 1700+ heading to someone else's party! All being well, I shall be outside the away end (side) with these. Travel safely, fellow Rangers...

@BarrieEditor1 Very sad loved Roy of Rovers

Hi everyone, this is Jen, Barrie’s daughter. I’m very sorry to share the news that Barrie passed away yesterday. He loved interacting on X with you all and making the contacts that he has. He thought of many of you as friends. He asked me to let you know.

@gilescoren Hilarious! Agree on the cricket

Angry bearded illegals having to pretend to be gay to stay in Britain – now THAT makes me proud. thetimes.com/article/b04ced…

@British_Airways we are sitting on the tarmac and delayed again - BA0755 from Geneva. Apparently passengers are late?

How can a president destroy the presidential building with out permission? I have no regrets, says Trump’s White House ballroom architect thetimes.com/article/79ebd6…

⁦@gilescoren⁩ from Cornwall to Val Thorens - the novel comes with us! When will I get my wife back 🤣🤣

@gilescoren I think kids do make us happy in their achievements but it is not their job!!!

It’s not our children’s job to make us happy. thetimes.com/article/a46a39…

@TfL I have just got off - train pulled in and left 200 people on the platform as we’re walking up the stairs. Really disappointed

Hi Simon, if the train you were on changed destination without notification and is now on the way to Moor Park, you will have to get off at the next stop and head back to Harrow on the Hill. Please note details from the train you're on and submit a complaint online - we will investigate what happened this evening. Thanks, TA tfl.gov.uk/help-and-conta…

@TfL my uxbridge train pulled out from harrow on hill and took the wrong line and is now on the way to Moor Park. Please advise what one is to do?

@gilescoren Sam (wife) will def leave a review! She says the first few chapters are very good. Esther can see a signed sticker so can stick in the book! 😁

@SimonBarcessat Esther, who is cooking dinner, says “don’t forget to leave an Amazon review!”

@gilescoren QPR not playing so came away with the wife and she dives into her book

@gilescoren Too cold for surfing!

@SimonBarcessat She chosen my wife’s novel over surfing?

UK funded carbon capture in Xinjiang during Uighur ‘genocide’ - foreign aid to china? thetimes.com/article/d012d4…

@TQPRBermingham What is wrong with the striker?

Spent £5m in January on a defender and striker. The striker hasn’t trained and the defender is 10-0 in last three games. Cooking.

@johnMyaWilliams He has to go now

Project; trust the process, Nourry knows what he’s doing STFU this is appalling