Political Football
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Still a 24 minute party person. Once ate two spaghetti meals in one day.
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Yep, absolutely. The Tories and Thatcher in particular absolutely hated football fans.
Lol, and also we've still got the alcohol at football ban because of the ugly sisters cup final in 1980.
Scotland still has an alcohol ban at football matches because of fighting in the Old Firm cup final of 1980.

I mean Jenrick probably wasn't even an age to remember any personal memeory of what happened to football in the 70s/80s.
I wonder whether players like Cyril Regis, John Barnes, Mark Walters regarded the racist abuse they endured was 'at times less than well mannered'
Ken Bates wanted to put in an electric fence at Chelsea FFS
Jenrick saying that football in 80s was good natured fun. Fucking hell.

Fans were caged like animals behind fences and generally viewed by politicians and press as scum. His own party wanted to introduce ID cards to go to a game. They also wanted to ban fans from going abroad.
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How many UK politicians now demanding that fans of an Isreali football club with far-right, violent Ultras must have their right to attend a match defended at any cost had anything to say about the complete destruction of Palestinian sporting infrastructure and the killing of 300+ football players?
Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed more than 300 footballers. Its deliberate obliteration of civil infrastructure and cultural identity has destroyed every stadium and training pitch. A yet Fifa and Uefa take no action.
youtu.be/cfjDXFif8Yw

A powerful film from @thepitchinspection.bsky.social
Gaza's Vanishing Stadiums. The Football Story That Is Being Ignored.
YouTube video by The Pitch Inspection
youtu.be
I'm always saying this.
Trump: "You build what's called a reverse bathtub. And it's not that uncommon, but it is actually a reverse - you, you seal it. The problem is, nature always wins. I know a lot about reverse bathtubs. I've done it, and it's something you only do in emergency."

Invoke the 25th.
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Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.
The news is depressing all round but at least there are still some feel good stories oit there.
Breaking news: The Bank of England will cut the time senior bankers have to wait before receiving their full bonuses from eight years to four years on.ft.com/48xnmHm
Just one more push further to the right a1nd just watch that approval rocket up.
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Of course he doesn't deserve a Nobel fucking Peace Prize.
Absolutely pathetic display of cowardice. He supported the genocide in Gaza, war crimes in the seas around Venezuela, bombing Iran, sending the military to Democrat cities, armed masked men kidnapping people of the streets, threats to invade Panama and Greenland, going back to Afghanistan and so on.
'Why can't you say yes or no?'

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper swerves @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social's question on whether Donald Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Don't think we're prepared for just how unhinged the tantrum will be from Trump and that whole movement will be if they don't get the Nobel.
That's actually unfair to Ralph as he has a better understanding of how babies are made.
Strange that this never happens to Farage.
The BBC has been accused of “extraordinary” anti-Green bias, after the party says a long-promised conference interview with new leader Zack Polanski was cancelled by the Laura Kuenssberg show just days before going to air

Every major political party leader, aside from him, was interviewed recently.
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
Two days ago Starmer called Reform's immigration policies racist and immoral.
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering