Snr Lecturer in Film/TV/English Lit/Criminology/IR. Jack of all uni trades, master of none. Author, Filmmaker, Smoggie, Geek, Centrist Dad. Views mine🌹
#UTB
Why are people so upset about the St George’s flag design on the New England shirt?
Nobody seemed to mind when the Union Jack was repurposed for the 2012 Olympics 🤷♂️
Labour critics pre July 2024: ‘Labour just hand out benefits irresponsibly, they can’t be trusted with public finances’
Labour critics post July 2024:
‘How dare Labour means test a benefit so that it goes to those who actually need it’
this place is just a right wing bot farm now isn’t it. scrolling my timeline accounts are just calling for
- the nhs to be dismantled
- an end to immigration
-BBC to be torn down
- Tim Martin/boris Johnson to be worshipped
Grim. Anyone else getting this?
Why am I still here?
Before Southgate England’s golden generation failed to beat Costa Rica, Iceland, Algeria, Sweden and Germany in tournaments. Semi finals were unreachable
I dont understand the disrespect. The importance of lifting dressing room morale cannot be underestimated 1/4
According to Universities UK International students contribute £240 million a year to the local economy of Middlesbrough and Darlington. 🎓🌎
So much for leveling up…
Our immigration policy doesn’t exist to prop up our university sector (which ranges from excellent to mediocre).
As
@NeilDotObrien
has shown, the graduate visa route often leads into low paid work, not high-skilled jobs.
A litmus test of seriousness about cutting immigration
Tories on Teesside:
1984 ‘nice industry you got there let’s close it’
2010 ‘nice public sector you got there, let’s decimate it’
2023 ‘nice coastline you got there, let’s pollute it’
2024 ‘here’s a handful of jobs as an apology’
Come on Labour, let’s offer more next time 💪
Am I living in some sort of alternate universe where Teesside represents the last glimmer of hope for the Conservative Party’s General Election prospects
How did this happen?
@KwasiKwarteng
You could do that, or you could simply negotiate with unions that represent the key working heroes you were happy to clap a few months ago?
So let me get this right wing ideology right?
Football fans Booing Black Lives Matter - good?
Football fans booing the royal family - bad?
All the while freedom of speech should always be respected?
Don’t get it mate
Voted.
I’m with Steve Gibson. It’s time for local politicians we can trust who won’t sell off our children’s future.
Every vote counts as both
#TeesValleyMayor
front runners are neck and neck.
So send yours by Tuesday 30th April to
#BinBen
😊👊🏻 🗳️
#UTB
#TeessideResistance
@NadineDorries
Because there was less advertising revenue coming in and there was a lockdown. Basic economics this…
How much are Netflix and Amazon prime investing in any of this stuff?
@TelegraphLife
All graduate careers involve an entry level role before working up the career ladder
Show me:
1. Earnings AFTER 5 years
2. Levels of job satisfaction
3. Where post-92 first generation uni students would be WITHOUT their arts/humanities degree
This narrative harms our economy
@RhonddaBryant
@Pippinshouse
us Stockton residents all believe our own ears. Absolute disgraceful behaviour.
What does he say when microphones aren’t on?
What better way to start 2024 than sending Cov back to Coventry with a loss
Jones to score for his playoff (and recent Huddersfield) miss
Let’s have it!
@Shar_A_
@utb_smith
#UTB
#HappyNewYear
👊🏻
@KwasiKwarteng
Publish the treasury forecasts and show us how your fiscal plan works
Rather than obsessing over the opposition who haven’t been in power for 12 years
*MY BOOK IS NOW IN AFFORDABLE PAPERBACK*
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Congratulations
@luke_myer
for winning Longbeck ward! (In all 4 of the counts that took place 🙄)
🌹Labour now has 23 councillors on
@RedcarCleveland
making +8 gains and making it the largest party. 🎉
Am I living in some sort of alternate universe where Teesside represents the last glimmer of hope for the Conservative Party’s General Election prospects
How did this happen?
@ClaudiaWebbe
So take this opportunity to suggest a legitimate alternative funding model. Rather than playing anxious students off exhausted underpaid and overworked teaching and admin staff 🤷♂️
Other regions get their heritage and landmarks preserved no question
Ours are either demolished or left to rack and ruin
‘Fears one of UK's most famous bridges in danger of collapsing'
SORT IT OUT
#UTB
'We're a broad church - the broader the better.'
Deputy Tory Party Chair, Matt Vickers, tells
@lewis_goodall
he's a 'fan' of Nigel Farage and would welcome him joining the Conservatives.
🚨 BREAKING: Home Secretary James Cleverly appears to call Stockton North a "sh*t hole" after Sunak is asked why child poverty in the area is at 34%
"Because it's a sh*t hole"
@Bren4Bassetlaw
At what point were male middle aged backbench MPs targeting an unprovoked young woman with online abuse on Christmas with this story. I don’t think you quite get it. I hope
@HoCStandards
do
And above all else we can now win penalty shootouts having finally been freed from the shackles of our past and defeatist English psyche. No fan ever thought this would ever be possible. Thank you Southgate, I’ll always be grateful for the memories I have. Come on England 4/4
So much hate for Southgate for drawing a qualifier after 4 straight wins
Easily the best
#England
manager of my lifetime. The first to get to a final since Alf Ramsay and we no longer struggle against the likes of Ecuador Slovenia Algeria USA Costa Rica Iceland - no disrespect
The teaser trailer for Emerald Fennell’s ‘SALTBURN’ starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Archie Madekwe, Alison Oliver and Ewan Mitchell has been released.
In theaters November 24, 2023.
My MP Matt Vickers’ latest 8 page leaflet makes for interesting reading. Not one mention of the Conservatives.
Maybe defecting to Green would win more votes?
This evening my run was in support of
#ReclaimTheseStreets
. I can put my trainers on and run in the dark, without a second thought. Half of the population can’t say that. Violence against women and girls is still far too common. I will do everything I can to end this injustice.
@AyoCaesar
@RCLabour
@paulmasonnews
Sneering at the concerns of northern working communities and the crimes they are unfairly subjected to regularly,
Some working class hero you are…
@SamanthaTaghoy
ITV isn’t a public service broadcaster…it can do what it wants within the realms of legality
Are you deliberately misleading or under researched?
@SimonClarkeMP
Empty rhetoric. You enabled the mortgage rates of your constituents to skyrocket. That’s ok though, so long as she’s thought long and hard about it
HOW ABOUT THAT EXIT POLL!!!!
14 years of hurt over, cheers 🍻
But the work starts now. Let’s all pitch in, get our country back on its feet, and eradicate populism.