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This would be a dumb thing to say at any time, but given the events of the last 72 hours, to do it on camera would not be the move of anyone with a functioning brain.
"Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer."
I think this might be incitement to violence rather than Free Speech.
Wasn't there a similar fuss with the proposed conversion of the Rose & Crown at the top of Bramford Road into a mosque, which then came to nothing when the building just basically crumbled into dust?
Isn't this exactly what just happened? Have people got mass fkn memory loss? Five years ago an ethics investigation took SEVEN MONTHS, resulted in a finding of several serious breaches, which was then ignored by the PM and resulted in the ethics advisor AND the bullied employee having to resign. 1/
If you're found to break the ethics code, then off you go, simple as that. It's a great shame as I think it is a genuine mistake on Rayner's part, but them's the rules.
Better to have a government that acts upon the ethics code than what's gone before. Owen Patterson, Priti Patel (remember "form a square around the Prittster"?), Boris Johnson himself, God knows how many others, were all found to have broken the code, and the recommendations ignored.
That's probably a spot on assessment. He wants to be seen as the brave resistance against the system. The thought of actually having any responsibility terrifies him.
We've seen this before elsewhere - look back to the morning after the Brexit vote. Gove and Johnson hold a news conference minutes after Cameron announces his resignation.
The expression on Johnson's face can be summed up as "Crikey, what have I done? This was supposed to get a jolly jape that ended in heroic defeat casting me as the plucky underdog in an act of brave defiance against the seat of power!"
One clever thing Theresa May did was to put Johnson and other leading Brexiters in charge of sorting it out -" You made this mess, you deal with it" and we know how that turned out.
Farage, Johnson, Trump - cowardly inadequate insecure men, too spineless to take responsibility for anything.
And yes, Haw Haw Farage is a treacherous snake and no patriot.
What you said about SBR is a very good point. By my reckoning he built four teams here:
69-72 To become a stabilised top division team 72-75 To build on that, to become established, and to progress in all competitions 75-78 To start pressing for honours, culminating with the FA Cup win 78-82 To make a concerted effort for honours, establishing us one of the top teams in the country.
Each one about 3 to 4 years in length, so changes happening now is probably about right on that sort of timetable.
It'll be like the scenes you see of spy exchanges in Cold War thrillers.
Thrown out of Manning's car at the northern roundabout of the Scole bypass. Then has to walk the length of the bypass to the southern roundabout were McKenna picks him up.
Be damned if anyone should take lectures about keeping women and children safe from someone who hangs out with Donald Trump and says Andrew Tate is "an important voice".
In a simar vein, second tier football didn't exist before the Championship apparently. Or at least that was the impression that was given earlier during Cov hitting seven, with lots of shouts of "eight is the record."
No it isn't. For a start off I can remember Man City sticking ten past Huddersfield, and a search in the record books show the record at this level is Newcastle beating Newport 13-0 in 1946.
Imagine being a Newport fan at that. Other end of the country, no motorways. Ouch.
About 15 years ago, the EDL showed up in the city and were outnumbered heavily by the counter demo. Went on the counter demo myself, with late grandfather's WW2 medals in pocket - reasoned that if he was willing to put his life on the line to punch Nazis, me standing behind a police cordon with 1500 other people to let Poundland fascists know we weren't going to stand for their crap in our patch was really a minor effort.
Coming up to the 30th anniversary of me living in Nodge, and I can say with a fair degree of certainty that the vast majority of the mouth breathers who will be protesting in Nodge won’t even be from here themselves.
It’s always seemed to me to be a pretty harmonious welcoming place (I mean, they’ve tolerated me all this time, football allegiances and all), and is a pretty progressive place overall – no Reform or even Tory city councillors, strong support for the arts, one of the biggest Pride Days outside of London – plus there are hundreds of youngsters from overseas who go to the UEA and the City College. You can walk down St Stephens Street and hear about 17 different languages sometimes, nobody bats an eyelid in general.
The very first night after the Brexit vote, some scrote went to a shop in Magdalen Street run by a Romanian family, and stuck a bunch of rags that they’d set alight through the letterbox – the family lived in the flat above the shop, and included small children. They escaped unhurt, but there was a lot of damage to their shop. Friends of the family set up a local appeal just to raise £500 to help them get by for a couple of weeks, and within twelve hours or so, it had raised about £30k. Hardly the actions of a community that is anti-immigrant.
I don’t deny that once you get outside the city, some places, particularly towards North Walsham are a mixture of Westeros and Hazzard County, but by and large it’s OK here.
But of course, it’s a question of people coming in to wind things up – these people, along with parts of the media are absolutely desperate to see things kick off like they did last year – you’ve only got to look at what that despicable individual Jenrick is saying on the front of the Daily Blackshirts this very morning to see that. And yet, you know that if, God forbid, something did happen, and one of these hotels were burnt to the ground with people inside, not one, not a single one of these inadequate, cowardly, pathetic creatures who are the ring leaders will take a shred of responsibility. They never do.
You have the case of Rupert Lowe getting worked up that a small boat was heading for the Great Yarmouth beach, but he either lacked the intelligence to think that given the treacherous conditions that an overloaded dinghy faces on just travelling 25 miles or so across the Strait of Dover, it would be unlikely that it went north from Calais to travel about 150 miles instead to head for the Britannia Pier, or he knew damned well that was the case, and raised the alarm to wind people up.
Lowe is nothing more than a treacherous little runt (and I’m sure if you had a chat with some Southampton fans next week, they’d be less then complimentary), but is indulged by the media, so the chances of him shutting the hell up is pretty remote.
Immigration needs to be controlled, I don’t deny that – but people need to wake up, and realise that the vast majority of problems in this country, not to mention the world are caused by billionaires wanting to become even richer, and not by some poor soul willing to risk life and limb on a sea journey – but obviously they’re here to take all the jobs AND all the benefits apparently.
Last thing, a shout out to the moron filmed at a protest yesterday, waving the flags, “concerned” about women and children, and saying that the only hope for the country was the US to take over and make us the 51st state.
So, let me get this straight, oh great patriot, you want us to be ruled by another state, currently led by someone who’s attitude to women isn’t exactly great, and is alleged to have been involved in, or at the very least was aware of, the trafficking of minors.
Every EFL team is guaranteed to be on at least TWENTY times this season. And when you think we're considered to be one of the bigger teams, it could easily be more. There is the realistic prospect of being able to see more than half our games on television.
Then of course there's every single EFL Cup and Trophy game.
Meanwhile, in the Prem, unless the game is at 3pm on a Saturday, you'll be able to see it on Sky or TNT.
Speaking as someone who remember the excitement around when the FA Cup match against Man Utd in 1988 was on (Us? On the TV? LIVE?!) it really is a change.
Meanwhile, on the game I am watching, Wrexham have scored, so we're not top anymore. Sack the board and let Marcus Evans buy us back for £2.47 and a pickled egg.
This is one of my favourite routines of this, telling the tale of Brum going up to Old Trafford in the seventies when United fans had a bit of a reputation.
His one word description of the Brum fans reaction when they equalised gets me every time.
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