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Whilst Reform are talking about Sharia Law again let’s look back when Nigel Farage claimed that there are ‘ghettos in the UK that are under Sharia Law.’
When questioned about it he lied saying he was talking about France & was unable to provide any evidence to back up his claim.
- Initiated a coup to bring big Nige who has done very little to advance RL in the country
- Gladly accepted Bradford in through choice and not the metrics he now sets.
- Openly disparaged rival clubs on social media.
- Will probably now require me to fight his lad for £50k
Giving a deadline on something you want that the other side cannot commit to is a gun to the head approach akin to a ransom. I will make clear here the position of me and therefore @LeighLeopardsRL something I have also previously told PVL. It is not right to just put London in SL. The rules at the start of the year were that IMG grading determines SL. Therefore if clubs were to agree to expand then it would need to be Barrow or there is risk of legal consequences. If the expansion is not at full funding and barrow didn’t want to enter then it’s not simply next team down it would need to be an application process as per the precedent set the previous year to increase to 14 teams. Therefore I will not vote to add London to SL without due process and most certainly not because someone insists upon it without substance and hadn’t previously done so. When PVL met with clubs via teams he inferred that SL would like 15 teams. I asked him where had he obtained that information. He stated only from London. Well off course they would like 15 teams so would salford and Widnes and Doncaster to name but a few if they were the 15th team. There was no insistence in that meeting that London were a part of it however having wet the appetite in the pitch it then became a condition and furthermore that the guaranteed funding to clubs would have to be reduced to include them. Let’s pause here and remember that this person as chairman of who would control SL under the deal has in a short space of time significantly changed the goal posts from what he said to what then became the offer. If I am to vote to give control of our game it must be with unequivocal trust and unfortunately that is not possible. Then there is the reasoning for London well he quoted in the meeting 750k Australians are in London. In our post meeting we all felt it was a mistake and the number closer to 75k yet he is still making that claim in the press. Again I need to be sure we are working with accuracy and I am not. London is not in London it is in Wimbledon and despite being in SL for long periods it has never achieved a fan base nor has it captured whatever the number actually is in the UK that despite a blow away season winning all bar one game. Furthermore I would argue that not all Australians support rugby league. Then there is the fact that the NRL through DAZN I am told has an app that these people can subscribe to watch the NRL yet only 12k subscribe. How it is perceived having London in SL will drastically change that is explained only because they know the Brisbane broncos. I am sorry but that doesn’t make commercial sense to me. Then the bigger issue. Including London means they don’t play in Magic and are granted a 2 point by. It also means that not all teams play each other and therefore an unfair skewed league all be it different it is akin to loops. The calendar proposed I will not support even if London was correctly entered by a fair and robust process. Now the important part. I have wasted a lot of your time reading this far because that’s just opinion on a sticking point to an offer that does not deserve such a description. It is unbalanced and is a purchase through broadcast with any risk underpinned with equity that terminates after five years when PVL will walk away with an app that has acquired all UK eyes on what I must confess is a better product of the game as it stands that people will have become accustomed to and won’t cancel and we will be left with no IP and starting again. Lastly the craziest part is we are being asked to support this with no business plan or presentation being told that these crucial elements will be decided within the first 6-12 months of the deal when they will have already been handed control. Unfortunately many will vote in favour because they see the sugar shot of a short term increase in funding that in reality is the most expensive loan with the worst conditions attached that the sport could ever obtain!
Fuck me, stopped watch and all that.
Never agree with this bellend but hard not to say he’s spot on here
It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in prices that obviously began with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to the price of fuel.
If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.
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A lot to unpack.
Jenrick, as a Tory watched as the PPE scandal and routine theft of British assets sold to mates happened. Billions of pounds.
Shop theft is a problem and never justifiable. But the kind of defunding, austerity, destruction of communities via managed decline, over decades leads to the woman we see on the video.
She is obviously malnourished, she literally looks like a thousand people we all see on towns across the country. Desperate, feral, uncaring and looking very poorly indeed. Living in communities who've been left behind.
Again, theft is wrong. But this clout chasing bastard "outing" people who are symptom of 40 years of Tory policy, is as we say in Cannock, "a cunt's trick".
When a country invests in its people, doesn't create managed decline creating feral, outside of the law micro communities, doesn't invest in schools, civics, inclusion, and allows the cancer of exploiting benefits to flourish, this is what we get.
A woman being hounded for clout when he should be hounding Michelle Mone in Monaco.
Fucking bastard.
Matt Scarr retweeted
This is Schrodinger's Performance: you want to love it but you can't because you also want to laugh at it. But you can't laugh at it because it's genuinely good. A real conundrum
Matt Scarr retweeted
Hey so this is our country. If you don’t like it, please go back to America where you have a rapist for a president and racists running your country
Matt Scarr retweeted
The term “witch hunt” is overused in politics. Perhaps not this time. Quite a bit of the British media should ask themselves some serious questions as to whether the tenor and volume of the coverage they gave to this man was remotely proportionate. Likewise there are questions for Cambridge- and whether they discharged their duty of care.
JASON ARDAY has been found dead.
Arday was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea on Friday afternoon. He was later pronounced dead.
A spokesman for the Met said officers were called by the London Ambulance Service at 3.12 p.m.
“Sadly, a 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next-of-kin have been informed and are being supported by officers.
At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious. The case is being investigated by officers from the Met’s Central South Command Unit. A file will be prepared for the coroner.”
Love this!
Took my wife to the match today - as
many of you will know she has Alzheimer’s - music and sport stir such powerful emotions 😍 thank you @HullCity UTT
Matt Scarr retweeted
The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero
Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker.
Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year.
Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead.
Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency.
Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle.
Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free.
Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to.
Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds.
Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires.
Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle.
Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all.
Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons.
Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting.
Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again.
Pint, mate?
EXCL: Nigel Farage was given an undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in general election @Annaisaac reveals theguardian.com/politics/202…
Matt Scarr retweeted
The govt's Student Loan Plan 2 repayment freeze in April 2027 must be reversed. It isn't moral.
I'm concerned that my debate with Kemi Badenoch this morning distracts from the most immediate problem. In April 2027 Rachel Reeves will freeze the Plan 2 student loan threshold until 2030 which by then will increase graduate repayments by £300/yr more.
This is effectively a unilateral negative breach of the student loan contract. Students were told the threshold would rise with average earnings. No commercial lender would be allowed to do this. The govt shouldn't do it either.
Changing the terms of future students loans is a political decision - people may not like it but it is transparent. Negatively changing the terms of contracts already signed, and long in place, is a breach of natural justice.
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So Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is a man of fighting age trying to relocate his entire family to a foreign country and is also looking for financial handouts?
I thought that was literally everything he was against 🤷♂️
Matt Scarr retweeted
Save 5p on your pint to fund keeping children in poverty.
That’s Reform UK.
Poverty pints.
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says he would cut pint prices by 5p through slashing beer duty by 10%
Reform claims it would be funded by reintroducing the two-child benefit cap
[@Telegraph]
Matt Scarr retweeted
children will starve so that you can save less than 1% of the price of your pint
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says he would cut pint prices by 5p through slashing beer duty by 10%
Reform claims it would be funded by reintroducing the two-child benefit cap
[@Telegraph]
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👀🚨Meanwhile, while Mandelson scandal is galloping along, I hear that Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman ended up WITH LABOUR MPs in the AYE lobby on lifting two child benefit cap.
A source tells me they “got on their phones trying to get instructions from Farage as to whether they should be there or not”
“They tried to leave at one point but got trapped as the doors were locked”
Reform source confirms this happened & says it was a ‘genuine mistake’ & neither MP registered a vote. All other Reform MPs voted against….
Might be easier to blame Farage for being a lying grifting bellend?
