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”I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people & secondly demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”
- Tony Benn
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My dear Stephen,
How lovely to see you marking the sixtieth. One of the darkest days in our history, etched in the memory of the nation, a community of such strength. All true. And all of it happening to somebody else.
Here is the part your tribute left in the drawer. The tribunal found the Coal Board wholly to blame and said the disaster "could and should have been prevented". The Coal Board then demanded £250,000 from the disaster fund to clear the tip that killed them. The fund, raised by public donation for the families, handed over £150,000.
Your party's government applied the pressure, in secret. George Thomas objected, then folded, and leaned on the trustees until they folded too. The Charity Commission sat on its hands. Nobody was prosecuted.
It took thirty years to give it back. In July 1997 Ron Davies, your party's first Welsh Secretary of that spell, returned the £150,000 without interest and without inflation, and conceded the demand should never have been made.
So yes. Remembering is lovely. Your lot billed the bereaved for clearing the mine's own tip.
Twenty three likes. Five retweets. And looking more like your father every year.
Do carry on, pet.
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🔥 A FURIOUS Piers Morgan goes SCORCHED EARTH on Manchester City and the Premier League!
@piersmorgan spoke for football fans across the country who are watching their sport be turned into a FARCE.
On tonight’s @SportsUncensrd he was boiling with RAGE. And he was absolutely right!
“This is state sponsored cheating on a scale we’ve never seen before AND they’ve been found GUILTY!”
“Yesterday was a joke. We’re all watching this game thinking is this even gonna count? It is an absolute farce! It makes the Premier League look ridiculous.”
Simon Jordan spent the show bizarrely defending them. It felt like pure contrarianism — there is simply no defence left. An independent commission has already found them guilty of the serious breaches. The appeal changes nothing about the fact that English football is currently being hollowed out in plain sight.
Oliver Holt was equally scathing after watching City strut around Anfield:
“The City players are running around at Anfield as if they’re at the start of some redemption story, as if they’re the victims in all this.”
“Yesterday felt like watching Lance Armstrong riding through at the head of the peloton AFTER he’d been found guilty of multiple doping offences. It was a weird, unpleasant, unpalatable sight.”
Exactly. It was grotesque.
@OllieHolt22 finished by warning that the football brand is now deeply damaged and tainted, and that this is becoming a serious problem for the television companies, especially Sky.
Piers and Ollie are bang on the money. The longer this drags on, the more toxic it gets. Every single game City play while this hangs over them further stains the English game and wrecks its credibility.
This will snowball. Something has to be done or the entire Premier League ends up looking like a joke.
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The @PremierLeague has to act asap and announce City’s punishment. This cannot go on.
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Manchester City's players behaved with the smug arrogance of men who appeared to believe they were embarking on the first stage of a redemption tour at Anfield on Sunday. It was part of the 'we do what we want' culture that dominates the modern club dailymail.com/sport/football…
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Do your jobs @premierleague - you’ve found @ManCity guilty of all 115 charges, making them the biggest cheats in football history. So now announce their punishment immediately, act on it, and save this season from being an irrelevant farce.
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Roy Keane has his say on the independent Premier League Commission's findings against Manchester City.
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The best thing Merson has ever said.
🔥 WATCH THIS: Paul Merson RAGING at Manchester City over their industrial-scale cheating, and the moments they’ve denied other teams, players and fans.
Merse is saying what a lot of fans have been feeling since the guilty verdicts. The cheating didn’t just help City. It won them the Premier League. He says there’s “absolutely no chance” they would have done it without it.
Without the ability to ignore PSR the way everyone else had to, they would have been miles off the top teams. They simply wouldn’t have been able to compete with the legitimate revenue streams the others were generating.
The players didn’t win those leagues, “them upstairs” did, by buying all the best players and building a squad no one else was allowed to match.
When Clinton Morrison tried to defend them (“they still have to go out and play, Merse”), Merson nearly exploded:
“OH COME ON! They had all the best players! They had two best players in every position and they dominated!”
Then he went further. Medals and trophies are almost irrelevant next to what actually matters. Life is about moments, and City’s ownership have taken those moments away from other people.
He pointed to Manchester United at Sunderland in 2012 — the day Aguero scored in the last seconds against QPR to clinch City’s first title, while United were left standing on the pitch at the Stadium of Light. That was at the height of the cheating.
“Life is all about moments and you’ve taken it away from other people. Them upstairs at Man City have nicked other people’s moments in life.”
Well put, @PaulMerse 👏
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Finally someone with a fucking brain that’s willing to call it out for what it is
The soft touch approach from cunts on prominent football podcasts has been utterly embarrassing
They were a nothing club and they deserve to have the book thrown at them
The Uprising review — a 14th century tale, inspired by Brexit
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#TheUprising- I thoroughly enjoyed it.👏🏻
Rewatching #WolfHall,it really is the most excellent television you will ever watch .