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Good to see Mr Burnham not backing down to the gimps on this one.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham responds to backlash over potentially scrapping the football stand drinking ban
"People can carry drinks into football stadiums now. They don't throw them at the pitch or each other. People are commenting who don't normally go to matches"
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Weird that she didn't explain that a counsellor had told her to write these things down as part of her therapy, as all her fans claim.
You wrote a note saying "I am evil, I did this."
"I don't deserve to live."
"I killed them on purpose."
"I am a horrible evil person."
Explain why this is to us.
"No comment."
#innocencefraud
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You haven't seen rent-seeking until you've seen the nearly-bankrupt manufacturer of hyper-low nicotine cigarettes begging the FDA to ban normal cigarettes.
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Insane amount of money. You aren't going to believe how many academics suddenly become gambling "experts". There will be a tidal wave of junk science.
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The nanny state newsletter has just gone out to all Snowdon Substack subscribers.
snowdon.substack.com/p/the-n…
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This is what he told the Treasury Committee before the tax rises were announced. Hundreds of betting shops are now closing and he’s still saying it!
Paddy Power founder Stewart Kenny accuses Betfred founder Fred Done of “scaremongering” after he told @FT that higher taxes on machines will lead to bookie closures and job losses.
Machines make half of bookmaker store profits..
as.ft.com/r/e50ee7b5-f4dc-4a…
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Christopher Snowdon retweeted
To anyone convinced by the Channel 5 Lucy Letby documentary.
This Spiked article does an excellent job of explaining how ridiculous the premise of that documentary is.
spiked-online.com/2026/09/24…
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When is that last time someone actually heard a car backfiring? 1978?
Hove pub shooting sounded 'like a car backfiring' ift.tt/se9rnDu
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If your team scores a big enough goal for everyone to throw their over-priced beer around and you’re complaining about getting beer on you, you should watch athletics or something.
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Massive bootlicker.
Beer throwing seems a national sport at times. Ball, net, beer, air. It would be unwise of clubs to allow their stadia’s stands on match-days to be used for this new national sport. Unless you have a designated drinking/beer-throwing section - hard in packed PL grounds - it is hard to see how drinking alcohol in the stands will be universally welcomed. Issues of faith. Issues of not wanting to be showered in beer. Utter soak nonsense.
Issues of VAR complicating timing of these lager launches. Issues of drinkers bearing trays returning to their seats, distracting everyone in their row from the game. Excuse me, excuse me. Spillage.
Issues of a few minutes later the return run with an empty tray and full bladder. There are enough interruptions in the game anyway. And stewards are often busy enough without dealing with the occasional over-imbiber.
English football has changed and the trouble on the terraces has largely disappeared. The concern over the return of drinking in the stands is less the consumption but the projection. The PM is right to consider ways of helping clubs wanting to maximise revenue - and alcohol sales is one way. But the complications are considerable. It’s a hangover English football doesn’t need.
And ending the ban could impact local pubs - many of which have been under threat. British Beer and Pub Association claims that almost two a day are going out of business (161 in first quarter of 2026 inc 2,600 jobs).
Football has bigger issues than debating repealing the booze ban.
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