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Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
He was never wrong with what he said, he just had the bollocks to speak out and say it.
He knew more than anyone what was going on, he was the only one who elevated us to be competitive.
The GOAT 🐐 who defied the odds and delivered too much for this incompetent leadership…
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
🔥 Meanwhile, this is what’s happening in Ukraine 🇺🇦. But hey, the important thing is that diesel prices in the United States are going down! 😡
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
'Could you imagine Churchill doing a deal like this with Hitler?'
@ayeshahazarika begins #SundayMorning by reflecting on the diesel deal Donald Trump has made with Vladimir Putin this week
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
I don’t enjoy Match of the Day anymore. There, I’ve said it.
I grew up watching Desmond Lynam, and it was brilliant. Then came Gary Lineker, with Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson. More recently, we had Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, but still with Lineker holding it all together.
I used to watch Match of the Day as much for the personalities as for the football. These were familiar faces who turned up week in, week out, and you actually looked forward to hearing what they had to say.
I disagree with Lineker’s politics on a number of issues, but he was a terrific presenter. Warm, funny, personable, and somebody who’d actually been there and done it.
And now? It’s just rubbish.
I barely even listen to the analysis anymore. The BBC has completely misunderstood what made the programme so enjoyable in the first place.
It’s a bit like Top Gear. People didn’t just watch it for the cars. They watched it for Clarkson, May and Hammond. It took the BBC ages to realise that it was the personalities that drove the programme. (Pun intended.)
And yet the penny still hasn’t dropped with Match of the Day.
There’s nothing particularly wrong with the people presenting it now. They’re perfectly competent. But there’s no charisma. No chemistry. No sense that you’re watching a group of people who genuinely enjoy one another’s company.
Nobody sits down on a Saturday evening thinking, “Oh, I can’t wait to hear Mark Chapman’s take on today’s big game.” (And the less said about Wayne Rooney, the better.)
Of the three current presenters, I think Gabby Logan is the only one with any real charisma. But even she can’t recreate what the programme used to have.
And that’s what the BBC seems incapable of understanding. You can replace presenters, refresh the format and modernise the production, but you can’t manufacture chemistry. You can’t simply swap out personalities and expect viewers to feel the same affection for the programme.
Match of the Day used to be an essential part of my Saturday night. Now it’s something I can take or leave.
The football hasn’t changed. Well, apart from the wretched VAR.
But the programme has lost its personality. And with it, much of its appeal.
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
A historic video – November 22, 1994:
The U.S. President thanks Ukraine for giving up its nuclear weapons. In return, the U.S. promises to stand by Ukraine’s side to safeguard its independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity well into the future.
That future has arrived—yet today, Trump and his circle act as if none of this ever happened.
t.me/MirovichMedia/15617
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
A man that colludes with Russian Oligarghs, dissapears to a Russian Oligarghs Itallian villa with NATO papers & weakens the United Kingdom & Europe against Russia...
You opted out Johnson - so f*ck off & stay out!
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
Very interesting to see on SKY news the opinions of EU senior members who welcome us back to the EU if we can rejoin. I do hope our new PM progresses this . The quicker the better for SME's #JOINEU
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
Zelensky’s efforts to save his country from a murderous Putin is getting in the way of Trump’s efforts to further enrich his family.
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
When he inevitably runs for president again, Marco Rubio is going to pretend he had nothing to do with any of this shit.
But we will be here to remind him.
His boss has aligned our country with Putin and he is complicit.
@SecRubio, you are a traitor.
Trust me, we will not forget.
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
Trump has switched sides. If he ever was on the right side that is. He and Musk are certainly on the wrong side of history. Europe really has to step up now
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
It’s time for Ukraine to intensify strikes on Russian oil infrastructure, to decimate its data centres and to further cut off Crimea and starve Russian frontlines by cutting off all supplies.
And it’s time for Europe to finally give Ukraine what it needs to finish the job.
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
London voted to remain in the EU.
Yet Londoners lost Freedom of Movement too.
The freedom to take a job in Paris, study in Madrid or build a life in Berlin disappeared regardless of how we voted.
A city built on international connections lost some of its citizens' freedoms.
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
Marine Le Pen’s attempt to portray her RN party as mainstream, and free from hostile foreign influence, is a sham. It secretly borrowed 9 million Euros from a Russian-owned bank in 2014 and her policy on Ukraine now echoes Putin’s talking points. Who does she think she’s fooling?
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
At 25, you might dream of studying in Rome.
At 45, you might discover a business opportunity in Berlin.
At 65, you might want to retire in Spain.
Freedom of Movement meant you didn't have to know your future in advance.
That's the extraordinary freedom Brexit took away.
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
Considering they are considerably rich already, maybe there should be a tightening reign on the sovereign grant. They should play their part while most of the country is suffering #Inequality, wouldn't that be a #Patriotic thing do with.
Bob Knight 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇬🇧 retweeted
Michel Barnier has reminded Britain that Freedom of Movement is central to the Single Market.
Rather than treating it as an obstacle to closer EU relations, why not recognise it as one of the greatest freedoms we could regain?
lbc.co.uk/article/chief-brex…
