I was in my local pub tonight watching the World Cup Final. When Ferran Torres scored the winning goal for Spain there was an almighty cheer, so much so I doubt you would have heard bigger one in Madrid. If Argentina had somehow won tonight it would have been an outrage. WELL PLAYED SPAIN!

Not content with turning Football into a game of 4 quarters those Yanks have chosen to extend the half time interval to 27mins, and just accomodate some cheesy half time form of "entertainment". Listen up #FIFA, don't take the World's premier sporting event to the US ever again.

The 2026 #WorldCup is almost at an end. Overall I've thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait for 2030. But I want to say this, when ANYBODY hitches their wagon to the Trump donkey, you can be certain that before too long they'll be splattered with shit, the stinky stuff that sticks and lingers. 1 of 2

Here's one I heard the morning after Trumps rant about Chinese interference in the 2020 election. "What's the difference between Donald Trump and Air Force One?" "Air Force One's engines stop whinning when it lands". Well, it tickled me at the time. After the footie I needed a giggle.

The Headline on the front page of today's @dailymail.co.uk screams "BURNHAM TO TAKE US BACK TO THE 1970s". He's not even PM yet and already The Mail are looking to trash him. The Mail, Telegraph, GB "News" etc will never accept any elected, centre left Government. This should not be tolerated. 1/2

@englandfootball.bsky.social I've only seen one team that had mastered the art of going in front and then having the ability to close the game down, that was The Italians. England couldn't do it and with hindsight they shouldn't have tried. But they did give it everything and we can't ask for more.

"This isn't just football it's war. The fate of not just the World Cup but perhaps the Falkland Islands and British sovereignty is up for grabs". The words of Far right @gbnewsonline.bsky.social presenter #MartinDaubney. It's a football match you knob, not war. What a prize imbecile.

A thought for fans of #Wimbledon. Where I come from Tennis isn't regarded as a sport. It's seen as a summer pastime to be enjoyed by the well off in their private clubs during the few week of good weather we get in July. Definitely not worth turning over two tv channels to it for a whole fortnight.

Just been scanning the news channels on tv. I wonder why it is @gbnewsonline.bsky.social never use their presenter Nana Akua's real name, her full name, which is Nana Akua Amoatemaa-Appiah. Could it just be possible that that would be too much for the gammon's who make up GBeebies audience?

Just as I suspected. Laila Cunningham from @reformuk.bsky.social is on #bbcanyquestions and doing her uttmost to monopolise the discussion by shouting over the other panelists. Just like she did on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and #bbcpoliticslive earlier in the week. Why is she on #bbc again?

Fascist MP #RupertLowe sank even lower than the gutter when he appeared on #TheJoeRoganPodcast. Referring to the UK ban on handguns following the #DunblaneMasacre Lowe claimed there had been "just one murder". The ignorant bastard forgot that 16 infants and their Teacher were murdered on that day.

#FIFA President Gianni Infantino is up for re-election next year but I don't believe he'll last that long. His behaviour in this World Cup has been shocking. Cosying up to Trump from day one and essentially being his lacky. No, I think Infantino will be gone within three months and deservedly so.

For the 3rd time in 24hrs @reformuk.bsky.social Laila Cunningham is on tv. This time @channel4news.bsky.social. But unlike her appearences on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and BBC #PoliticsLive, @krishgm.bsky.social didn't let Cunningham take control of the interview and held her and reform to account.

I may sound like a broken record but I've always believed that non Reform UK Ltd MP's should never appear on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social. So imagine my surprise and disgust to see @libdems.org.uk leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk being interviewed by GBeebies Christopher Hope. I thought better of him.

Oh FFS! LAST NIGHT ON @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social REFORMS LAILA CUNNINGHAM WAS ON, MONOPOLISING THE CONVERSATION AS PER USUAL. THIS MORNING, JUST 12 HRS LATER, SHE POPS UP ON #POLITICSLIVE. WHY NOT JUST MAKE HER A PRESENTER ON THIS INCREASINGLY FARSICAL PROGRAMME. TIME TO SACK THE EDITOR ME THINKS!

@reformuk.bsky.social Mayoral Candidate for London, Laila Cunningham on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social yet again. And again she is doing her uttmost to monopolise the conversation. Come on @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for gods sake shut her up, please. It's 10.45pm and I'm switching off.

1 Off 2 Looking like #Farage has had his bluff called after 'resigning' as the MP for Clacton. During his resignation he had the gall to say that in two years as an MP he never claimed any expenses. Hardly surprising as he's never bothered to do any work for his constituents.

Kitty Donaldson, @theipaper.com Political Editor, speaking on @news.sky.com made a good point. She said that hitherto there has been a truce between #Farage and the media. But now he's attacked Sky News & @thetimes.com it's likely that the gloves are now off. Nigel's dropped a major bollock here.

Might the leaders of the 'respectable political parties' get together and come up with a strategy to fight #NigelFarage in the forthcoming #ClactonBy-Election. Let's make a concerted effort to remove this shyster from our public life once and for all.

#Farage resigning as an MP. Good. But the bad news is that he's going to stand in the resulting by-election. So what's the point? Hundreds of thousands of pounds to be spent needlessly just to satisfy the vanity of this grifter. Let's hope the people of #Clacton show Farage the road out of town.

Listened to the Vox-Pop segment on today's #Radio4Today programme where people in Runcorn were asked about #NigelFarage and @reformuk.bsky.social. I can't decide if that piece was meant as a promotional story for Reform or was it designed to show the wider UK that up North we're just thick dunces?

Government Ministers are presently answering an urgent question about the deportation of Rochdale grooming gang member Shabir Ahmed. An important subject. So why is there only ONE @reformuk.bsky.social member (Sarah Pochin) in the chamber? Seems to me it isn't just Farage that's bone idle.

Can we assume that HRH King Charles III will be telephoning #FIFA President Gianni Infantino today in order to offer him a Honorary Knighthood in return for overturning the red card given to England's Jarrel Quansah. It's worth a shot as FIFA's corruption knows no bounds.

#FIFA President Gianni Infantino is up for re election next year. After his performance let's hope that he is voted out of office and never see's the inside of a football stadium ever again. FIFA have long been a corrupt organisation but under Infantino that corruption has gone stratospheric.

One of the most corrupt world leaders leaned on the worlds most corrupt sporting body to influence a decision to suspend US player Folarin Balogun who was sent off against Bosnia. Donald Trump wasn't pleased so he rang FIFA to 'persuade' them to suspend punishment. Bribery and corruption at work.

'Honest' Bob Jenrick on the Sunday political programmes today. Watching him on @skynewsrss.bsky.social and on #BBCLauraK twisting himself in knotts trying to defend his money grabbing boss made for a good start to my Sunday. People now beginning to see @reformuk.bsky.social for what they are.

1 Off 2 The present occupier of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Donald Trump, has again been sticking his nose into British politics. This time he is offering his advice to our next PM, @andyburnham.bsky.social to not appoint @edmilliband.bsky.social as his Chancellor of The Exchequer.

1 / 3. Reports that #FIFA are looking to reschedule the #England match against #Mexico on Sunday from a 6pm evening kick off to 12 pm lunchtime. The reason, allegedly, is to avoid severe weather forecast for the original kick off time. But stories contradicting this line are surfacing.

Congratulations to @lisanandymp.bsky.social and @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social on their decision to leave Elon Musk's open sewer, namely 'X'. I think DCMS are joining the Justice Dept. in leaving so shouldn't the rest of HMG join these two departments and migrate off 'X' entirely.

Farage protegee and leading fan boy #martindaubney of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social is pushing his racist disinformation again. This time running a story about immigrants being housed in new build homes despite the #homeoffice denying it. How @ofcom.bsky.social allow this clot to be on tv is beyond me.

As somebody who spent 6 months on a contract in The Treasury, I can say that the biggest hurdle to UK PLC modernising and becoming wealthier is HM Treasury itself. Anybody who believes that the Mandarins in those corridors will give up even one mote of power is greatly deluded, because they won't.

1/3 IF I was daft enough to go to America and spent my time there attending a "conference" that rubbished the US legal system and Americas commitment to free speech, I would expect to be lifted off the street and sent to a prison in El Salvador with a shaved head and ill fitting boxer shorts.

For the last 40 mins. I've been watching #bbcqt. As per usual the @reformuk.bsky.social representative has shown that he thinks he's on his own programme. When this proramme is over I'm going to need a long shower to stop my skin from crawling. Zia Yusef always has that effect on me. He is vile.

What a mean spirited buffoon @gbnewsonline.bsky.social #FarageFanboy and #AltRight propagandist, #MartinDaubney really is. This afternoon he was whining on about #KeirStarmer being in Berlin representing The UK.

#nigelfarage ended his self imposed boycott of doing interviews on #BBC this morning (Radio4 Today & BBC1 Breakfast). Still as crabby as ever. He's happy being interviewed by friendly Journalists e.g. #Harrycole but not keen when #nickrobbinson or #SallyNugent question him. Bloody Charlatan !

I'll give #AndyBurnham 18 months before he becomes as unpopular a #KeirStarmer. What happens then, jettison him as well. Until we force disinformation sources like #TheSun, #Express, #Mail, #Telegraph, #GB "News" to behave like proper sources of news, we'll never have a PM lasting more than 2 years.

Did I hear correctly? @cnn.com @fareedzakaria.bsky.social said that banks are an American invention? The US Federal Reserve was founded in 1913. The Banque de France was founded in 1800 and The Bank of England in 1694. Another case of the US claiming to have invented something that already existed?

It doesn't matter who leads @uklabour.bsky.social. The proprietor's of The Sun, Times, Express, Mail and 'Torygraph' will NEVER accept a Labour Govt, no matter what the people of the country vote for. Murdoch, Rothermere, Marshall etc MUST be told that they don't decide who will and will not govern.

Just scanning through the news channels on tv this afternoon. I confess to being disappointed to see @soniasodha.bsky.social interviewed by Farage protégée and alt right propagandist on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social. No respectable Journalist should ever be appearing on that sh*tsh*w of a channel.

The BBC political team can't seem to help themselves. Today's #PoliticsLive is supposedly reviewing last nights Makefield by-election and who has just showed up on the programme, again, Laila bloody Cunningham, Reforms London Mayoral candidate. Why not just make her a presenter and be done with it.

The polls in Makerfield have only been closed for an hour and already @gbnewsonline.bsky.social Farage fanboy and far right propagandist #PatrickChrisys is running the #ReformUKLimited playbook by doling out their character assasisination of Andy Burnham.

Instead of cutting quality programmes on #Radio4 the #BBC should be looking at closing those services that, frankly, do a piss poor job of copying those provided better by the private sector. So that would be Radio1 & 1Xtra, Radio2, 6Music, BBCThree. At this rate there soon won't be a BBC at all.

Watching #PoliticsLive and a thought came into my head. If @uklabour.bsky.social really do want to improve how the public see them they could do a lot worse than send @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to #TheHouseOfLords and then appoint him as Chief Advisor To HM Government. What about it George?

Just wondering if finances are getting a bit tight over at the UK's Fox News, namely @gbnewsonline.bsky.social just took a look at the headlines on #TRTWORLD and the presenter was one #ArronArmstrong who also reads the headlines on #GBeebies. Must be bad if you need two jobs to make ends meet.

The frog faced grifter #NigelFarage, who has been in hiding for weeks now, as chosen to re-appear for an 'interview' with his own tv channel, #GBeebies. If Farage runs and hides because people are saying things he doesn't like, how can he possibly hope to be a functioning Prime Minister? No chance!

Just turned on @skynewsrss.bsky.social for the Sunday morning programme. As expected, no Sir Trevor Phillips (Good!). Instead #WilfredFrost doing the presentation job. Good choice SkyNews. Perhaps a permanent move is in the offing. 1 / 2

The UK #HonoursSystem has been corrupt for years. Too often PM's using them to reward their cronies for favours rendered. But tonight a well deserved Knighthood to #SirKevinSinfield for his fund raising in aid of Motor Neurone Disease. If he played Rugby Union he would have had this much earlier.

Even after the resignation of #WesStreeting I thought Keir #Starmer could still hold on to the PM's job provided he stopped chasing @reformuk.bsky.social. Now with the resignation of @johnhealey.bsky.social I think the situation for #Starmer & Labour is irretrievable. @michellescrogham.bsky.social

On @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social last night, #MeddiHasan used a pertinent term when talking about #ElonMusk. He said, "You can take the boy out of apartheid era South Africa but you can't take apartheid era South Africa out of the boy". He was right. Musk was and is an out and out racist.

I know it's two years after #Trump is due to leave #TheWhiteHouse but in 2031 the men's & women's #RugbyWorldCup will take place in The USA. I hope that the #IRU are paying attention to the goings on at this World Cup. If necessary they should be prepared to show some integrity and cancel the event.