ROB THE PERV Reform UK’s candidate for #Makerfield plumbs new depths. #RobbThePerv

Matthew 6:6 is evidently totally unfamiliar to them: “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

Absolute state of the Oxford Union for indulging and encouraging these disgusting people. How is this not a major story?

My favourite were the ones who would say in 2018-9 that PR would mean “extremists would be involved in our politics”. A real “have you read the news lately?” moment.

The new EHRC guidance is a joke. It defines the protected category of sex by biology and then relies on enforcement based on appearance. The GRC has effectively been nullified. It's involuntary disclosure carries criminal penalties but then requires Anyone having a GRC to constantly out themselves.

X is effectively subsidized by Elon's other businesses to serve as a propaganda organ for his far right views. It's being carried by the starlink service which boasts a $4.4 billion in earned income. Every starlink terminal is effectively a subsidy for far right propaganda.

SV would probably be pretty bad for the left bloc. Given that voters rank only two parties, it would consolidate the right bloc since it only has two members while leaving a coordination problem for the left bloc since it has three members. AV wouldn't, but that's probably a non-starter given 2011.

Such a mad fact of history. Calling a general election 18 months after winning one, not because you'd lost your majority, but because you *might* lose your majority in 4 months time and that'd cause problems for the King's holiday (sorry, Commonwealth Tour)

Only two years of this cretin to go, sisters ... 🙄 #auspol

The now acclimated 6m people in the UK that are Irish diaspora should remember that their grandparents were subject to anti- immigration, before supporting Reform. And this includes Tommy Robertson. Or is Reform racist.

I imagine this may reflect the fact that many former Labour members were so appalled at Starmer and Mahmood's stance on immigration that they left the party, leaving behind those who are OK with it. And who mistakenly believe it's going to attract Reform voters and not alienate their base.

A weary truth of modern British politics: politicians, Labour included, rarely ask whether something is pointless or vindictive. They ask whether it helps them ape Reform’s talking points for the next news cycle. Everything else is secondary.

He probably shouldn't remind us about him growing up in the Streets of Luton! He says streets. He's from the posh part and used to spend his weekends going to the Asian part to assault random people and commit hate crimes on the weekend.

Almost as though the culture warriors are getting bored of transphobia and need a new group to target.

The foul Rupert Lowe’s thirst to get revenge on the vile Nigel Farage could be the lifeline Andy Burnham needs in #Makerfield Restore could take a couple of crucial thousand votes off Reform.

Ugh uk.news.yahoo.com/former-drago...

Well, that explains the God-like genius of the Russia sanction-softening policy

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Ofcom has to get a grip of the dangerous and growing threat that online hate speech is posing to our democracy and our communities. The longer X is allowed to break our laws with impunity, the more damage will be done.

Nobody is going to listen, but these sorts of hypothetical questions are not reliable guides to how voting intentions would actually shift if there was a leader change.

Why I think Burnham will win in Makerfield.

🇬🇧 A perfect example of how this failed british union acts against the best interests of what they call ‘the celtic fringe’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☘️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Are you YES yet ?

This is the most embarrassing thing to happen to Southampton since they had Rupert Lowe as chairman.

This is amazing! Over 400 signatures in the first hour, covering every region and nation. --- Petition: Establish a single, powerful, independent statutory regulator for all news media petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Reform UK have appointed Jack Benyon has been appointed to St Helen's cabinet. A racist, a homophobe, anti-semite and anti-Muslim hate poster. Lee Anderson, you're chair of Reform UK, this is your watch.

There absolutely should be a Green candidate but I think the party would be silly to throw too many resources at it. Makerfield's demographics don't exactly make it a great prospect.

John Swinney (SNP) has just been confirmed as Parliament's nominee for First Minister, with 56 votes (someone flubbed it!) vs 17 apiece for Malcolm Offord (RUK) and Anas Sarwar (LAB), and 15 for Gillian Mackay (GRN), CON and LD MSPs abstained.

Genuinely, how long are we going to let Twitter play this game with regulators? Being taken for rubes, with no real action in prospect. It was *literally* generating CSAM for days without action and it gets... a voluntary agreement

Elon Musk funded a far right rally in London and this government still uses his social media network lol. Beyond laughable

Playbook: "Westminster is hotly anticipating some real data from the seat to show how a Burnham vs. Reform race is looking." PolSci people and Pollsters: "There is no, nor can there ever be, any 'real data' worth the name - both constituency polls and canvass returns are notoriously unreliable.

I genuinely don't think the right has noticed the degree to which it has radicalised.

Very fatigued today Watching Michael Portillo in the Pyrenees. I’ve driven through them - so beautiful I hadn’t realised his father, a lawyer in the Republic, fled Spain on foot to escape Franco. A reminder that anyone can be a refugee at any time

Yesterday Far Right leader Tommy Robinson and his followers openly called for Islam to be removed from the UK and us Muslims to be remigrated. If he had said this about Jews, quite rightly, there would be a national response. But it has been eerily quiet today.

"We’re a cultural movement. I’m going to tell you that you have to join a political party. I don’t care if it’s Reform, if it’s Advance, or it’s Restore, or it’s the Conservative party. We have to locally get involved in politics." Has Badenoch denounced this yet? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sobering stuff from David Blunkett in the @financialtimes.com

An Israeli win on another massive public vote would probably have destroyed #Eurovision as we know it.

Proud ‘Terf Island’ flags at the Unite The Right March.

So #Eurovision lets people vote before they’ve seen a single song? This system’s even more dodgier than First Past The Post.

Even quite recently, if you'd told me that working people would be joining in "a chant of support for technology billionaire Elon Musk, the world's richest person", I'd have assumed you were mad. Now I can only assume that *they* are... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform are very good at moving the goalposts. They said they’d win Gorton and Denton (lost by 12pts), win Wales (lost by 6pts), destroy the Tories in 2026 (PNS rose vs 2025) and win six London boroughs (won one). Each time journalists concluded those outcomes were clear from the outset

'Rule Britannia' 'Unite the Kingdom' 'Account based in Thailand'... 🤔

Just a reminder, you should be on your third consecutive boycott this summer. Thanks.

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is it buildable? Emphatically yes. Would it be transformative? Again, very much so. Will it be built? See: Leeds Metro and Northern Powerhouse for the answer to that one

I would honestly even say "an odd one" is underselling it. An unpopular governing party is, in a seat you'd normally expect it to lose right now, effectively running a guy they hope to replace the PM with and they may well succeed.

How older people become radicalised

So, three by-elections coming up. Thinking: * Aberdeen South - SNP vs. Tories, advantage SNP * Arbroath & Broughty Ferry - routine SNP hold surely * Makerfield - Labour vs. Reform, tossup assuming Burnham is the candidate (popular + high-profile but VERY Reform-friendly demographics)