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@themayor74.bsky.social
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Love a great many things … wife, kids, my dogs, my campervan, hip hop, Everton, LA Lakers, Greek mythology, craft beer & cider, running, vegetarianism. Dislike racists and cauliflower. Indifferent towards Marmite.

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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sent me down a right rabbit hole. There are 4000 Hitlers in Peru. A previous Mayor also named Hitler ran with a message that “I’m the good Hitler” He went on to beat another candidate called Lenin!!!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Them when I get to the front of the queue: “Sorry for your wait” Me: *pats belly* “I am honestly trying to diet, but just can’t seem to resist the chip pan”
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shocking. The “Everton but a bit more” comparisons need to end. This is way beyond financial fair play in a sport.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are the only Premier League club with more Prime Ministers than strikers!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think we can all at least partially sign up to this. So AI slows down until the USA gets a “Smart President”?
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
By the first ad break he will have a funding ask on MoronsGoFundMe to pay for legal costs to clear his name against Channel4. I am sure none of what he then grifts will end up in the hands of South American Narcos.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
On a fair few occasions I have seen a depleted (written off!) Everton squad with their back against the wall come out fighting. It’s just usually February at that point. COYBs!!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The political equivalent of the handful of tatty flags still clinging to lampposts by a single cable tie?
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reform are finished but last night was just another domino toppling. Next comes campaign money moving as donors see unlectability and reputiational risk. Then active people move (policy, activists, candidates). Same assessment as money but slower. Finally voters move. And bot money dries up.
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Labour's Bev Craig to be announced as Greater Manchester mayor in next 15 mins or so.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
They aren’t winning. Not even close. They will have marginally edged the greens to sneak in to run off but second preferences will be close to 70/30 to Labour.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
They won’t don’t worry. They just beat the greens in the race to second place. Sky reporting Labour first preference more than doubled Reform candidate reforms
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s not a tie. According to Sky Labour candidate more than doubled Reform candidate. Second preferences will make it not close.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Complexity of process and probability. Each (10) LAs verifies then waits for all verify. Each then counts 1st preferences then pauses until all 1st preferences are counted. Then there is another declaration of final two. Then 2nd preferences are counted. If one LA is slow all the process is.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I am old enough to remember when everything they didn’t like was “woke”. Now everything they don’t like is the “Establishment”. It’s hard to keep up.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Meanwhile in Clacton … www.facebook.com/share/v/1U1G...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"This is a genuine first in UK politics. Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket." bylinetimes.com/2026/07/08/n....
bylinetimes.com
Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The mob. 50 of them. Going full Partridge.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We have already had the full DARVO cycle. Deny, Avoid, Reverse Victim/Offender. Whatever he does today will need a new letter adding to the acronym. DARVOC?
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Not even close. And they are bad enough. Said a few weeks ago, Arsenal won the Premier League but Everton take the Premiership from them!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Now they have introduced PAR (Presidentially Assisted Refereeing) will Everton be doubly shafted next season? VAR has not served us well and now this!
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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals. It was great to team up with the Insight gang for this one! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
thetimes.com
Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I would see that the other way around in many cases. Modern dance came out of hip hop. Not just the DJ mixing, it seemed mandatory in the late 80s that all club bangers had to sample Chuck D! Sampling drew together most other genres into something distinctive. Jazz, metal, soul, funk, rock all fused
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
From the block parties, graffiti art, movies, breakdancing, the DJ as a creator, fashion. Hip Hop has influenced culture from the late 70s. The later Gangsta variants were a commercial shift but the cultural impact was already massive. Run DMC, Public Enemy, Beasties, LL, Ice T, all predate NWA/Dre
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Social Media ban for children doesn’t go far enough. It should be extended to those who behave like children online too. X would become a ghost town in no time.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Rob Kenyon announced that Reform will ban ALL knives. This is the apocalyptic future Alanis Morissette was warning us about.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Is tonight the first time most people actually want the Reform candidate to turn up for Question Time? Having seen the Chris Mason interview, the self-proclaimed sexist is out of his depth in a puddle.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Wicklow (Nan), Sligo (Grandad) could be the only family deportation locations for me. If they go with me nan, we might be neighbours.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So I am half Irish and half English and an atheist. Do I get deported back to Sligo or can I live in some Eire/Nord border town? Only about 1 in 10 Brits would fit the going church, white, all grandparents Brits. So the same volume of the population who believe they have seen a Ghost.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Nine of the more repellent things that Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon has posted on social media in recent years.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
9 Of The Most Shocking Unearthed Comments From Reform's Makerfield Candidate
Robert Kenyon has faced accusations of misogyny and homophobia as a result of his past social media posts.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Ndiaye bothered me the most in that one. Where was what we know he can do? Checked out and if I was a West Ham fan I would blame us.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Well that was going out with a whimper. Onwards and upwards Blues!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I may not hold many politicians in high regard but the phrase “they’re all as bad as each other” really annoys me. Nope. Some are wrong ‘uns and objectively worse People are actually going to vote for this guy over Andy Burnham - or splurge their vote on principle rather than stop this horror show
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My fear is that is where they end up next. After trying first to say the figures are wrong.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If UK net immigration has dropped by 82% where do the jackboot populists go next? The angry roundabout painters will be requiring fresh meat or more likely a further nudge of their opinions beyond the reach of evidence.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Reform’s Makerfield candidate said King should open up Buckingham Palace for asylum seekers
metro.co.uk
Reform's Makerfield candidate said King should open palaces for asylum seekers
Robert F Kenyon wrote about Asian men 'assaulting white people en masse'
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
For the “Unite” the Kingdom thing - did the Government ban Foreign agitators or the general public? Could have fit them all in a single Spoons! Have we now moved on from shouting at hotels and painting roundabouts as acceptable? Hope so.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Great article as always. 2 comments. 1. Burnham able to be the anti-Starmer, anti-Reform, choose the PM & GM in power - candidate. Has got to make the 2026 Locals less relevant as a benchmark right? 2. Do you think a deal is already done with Raynor/Streeting? Leadership contest stage managed?
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Valuable online resource. refukked.lovable.app
refukked.lovable.app
Lovable App
Interactive online bingo card keeping track of the local election Reform UK exits
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I think he wins Makerfield attracting enough anti-Starmer Labour voters back, people wanting the PM as their MP and anti-Reform. He wins PLP - Streeting and Raynor know this and I believe are actively colluding. They galvanise their wings and then fold behind Burnham as unity candidate. All a plot.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’m not crying … it’s allergies!!!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What an absolute legend. All good things and all that. Hope he sticks around as he has been the heart of the club for 17 years … or in other words 7 UK Prime Ministers. 60 Grand ….
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Convinced of this deal from the moment I read his resignation letter. Streeting isn’t dumb enough to think PLP or members would vote for him right now. DPM or Chancellor Streeting? Also helps calm markets, party unity so works for Burnham too.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Said the same thing. Was going to post it but you already have. The mythology of beating Reform in an area that voted Reform will play well to a wider audience. The reality though is he *should* walk it playing the rare role of change candidate on the Governing party ticket.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
And we are off. Although already seen Reform Councillor runs over Pedestrian when leaving the count. UK’s Florida Man!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
On the bright side after yesterday. At least we now have the UK’s answer to those “Florida Man” headlines and memes. Expect a constant stream of baffling and troubling headlines starting with … “Reform Councillor …”
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Destroying cultural and scientific legacies of those Persian and Arabic societies is the new phase of their war.
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A new level of Post Truth Politics. We have reached the point of maths-denial!
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
OpenAI training only gets their models so far. Sometimes you have to take their training of LLMs into your own hands…
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The Mayor @themayor74.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
These people have too much money. I hold it in when the station wants 50p!
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