Let’s talk about the #NUFCtakeover. It’s looking more & more likely that #NUFC, whom I’ve supported since I was 7, will have a new owner in Mohammed bin Salman. Now, I’ve lamented Mike Ashley’s ownership, but a #NewcastleTakeover by this guy would be far, far worse. 1/6
Mike Ashley, who also owns @SportsDirectUK, is an arch capitalist – a villain on a grand scale. He has a terrible record on workers' rights and flagrantly flouts employment law. He’s also run the club I love into the ground. But I’d take him over Mohammed bin Salman any day. 2/6
Mohammed bin Salman is the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia & whilst he is often considered a moderniser, particularly with regards to women's rights, under his watch, human rights in Saudi Arabia have actually got worse, not better. 3/6
Executions, including mass executions by beheading, & disappearances, for such crimes as feminist activism and criticism of the regime, have increased dramatically & the ongoing war in Yemen has killed scores of innocent people. 4/6
It's certainly true that, as a libertarian-socialist, I recognise that the issues facing the world are far greater than one despotic regime and its ownership of a football club, but that's why a line has to be drawn, and for me, that line is here. 5/6
So let me say now, that if this deal to buy the football club I love goes ahead, in an effort to actively avoid spending any money that may find its way into the coffers of the Saudi royal family or state, I will no longer consider myself a supporter of @NUFC. #EnoughIsEnough 6/6
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