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Grassroots football. OAFC. @uklabour member. Sola Scriptura. Refuse to let difference become division. All my own views.
Leeds, England
Joined September 2021
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Simon Pickering retweeted
If they’re going to remove 11 sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look on iPlayer because ‘the comedy doesn’t work in 2026,’ can they please remove Mrs. Brown’s Boys too because ‘the comedy doesn’t work unless you’ve had a full frontal lobotomy.’
Simon Pickering retweeted
Can anyone explain how £72 million is going to turn the other 75% of the population into frothing racist Reformorons?
@Nigel_Farage has a core supporter base. Everyone else despises him - this money won’t change that.
Simon Pickering retweeted
Imagine if the two billionaires combined their £72 million to invest it in skills, education, communities, empowering kids from poor backgrounds or helping those penalised by race become tomorrow’s 🇬🇧 tech innovators & entrepreneurs. Instead, they’re wasting it on Dad’s Army. 🤯
Former child refugee selected as Labour candidate in byelection for Starmer’s old seat. Best of luck 👏 theguardian.com/politics/202…
Why does the hard right have such a high tolerance for domestic abusers in their midst? theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Simon Pickering retweeted
I went to the Reform Conference posing as a reporter for a fake hard right news channel, and found Farage supporters who thought he'd been "entrapped by facts"
Simon Pickering retweeted
Reform members: “We must return to polite Christian English values and free speech”.
Reform members when someone peacefully exercises free speech:
Simon Pickering retweeted
I eagerly await all those people who’ve spent years demanding bans on face coverings condemning this.
What a depressing piece on bbc news re the Taliban repression of women and girls. Lives wasted and potential lost. All for what?
Simon Pickering retweeted
'why do they put so many X shops there? why dont they put more Y shops'
Tired of always hearing some version of this
Too many people dont seem to understand that shops, restaurants and businesses are opened by people or companies who've chosen to take a risk.
There is not some central planner, deciding how many pubs, how many butchers and how many candle stick makers a town needs
Andy Burnham vows to give locals bigger say over shops in 'hollowed-out' high streets mirror.co.uk/news/politics/a…
Simon Pickering retweeted
If Andy Burnham has to spend August traipsing round the Country asking folk their views, why the fuck do we need 650 MPs and all the associated baggage of SpAds, staff, offices and expenses of Parliament? What’s the point of his elected MPs, isn’t he supposed to listen to them?
Simon Pickering retweeted
If Andy & Angela want to clean up our high streets I have two ideas 1. Take litter seriously, really seriously 2. Stop shops paying their Business Rates in cash, no legal business has that much cash these days. If you don’t have a business account you aren’t a business.
Simon Pickering retweeted
That brilliant Burnham Cost of Living plan in full:
1. Take 56p off electricity bills for a bit
2. Screw over a few vape shops
3. Tax the hell out of anyone with a house or a good job
4. Make a bunch of TikTok videos
5. Er….thats it.
Simon Pickering retweeted
I think if I see that dreadful BBC promotional film “what has the @bbc ever done for me” again I may be forced to heave a brick through my TV screen! It is dreadful and is probably doing the exact opposite of what it is supposed to be doing. 😩