Also, can I just say, personally, I think it is fully insane that a lot of soft left MPs have decided that Louise Haigh doing something daft at the start of her career re: a lost mobile phone is electoral Kryptonite but Angela Rayner's May 2025 home purchase is no big deal.

This is something I really don’t get. Like Labour have *400 MPs*! How is it that the only person considered suitable is not one of those 400!

Alan Cumming in a Sunday Times magazine cover interview talking trans rights and JK Rowling.

FINISH HIM!

I love this because Amodei’s answer to preventing AI from doing bad things was to literally steal Asimov’s laws of robotics and rewrite them as core principles AI must follow.

First goblins and now this. Who would have guessed that the fash-funded liebot would act like a fash-funded liebot?

I love her quaint notion that legions of trans people will sue companies the length and breadth of the country for allowing them to use the toilets of their choice.

All this. The Greens have a real problem in that the post-Polanski surge has allowed a lot of unvetted entryists, including some with noxious views, to go from non-membership to candidates in winnable council seats, and Polanski isn't taking that seriously enough. That's not the same as fascism.

Agree with Jennie! Lib Dem Leadership has observed ‘Greens are a wildly broad church with extremists at one end,’ added it to ‘I wish it was the ’90s again, I was comfy in the middle between Labour and Tories,’ and made a terrible moral and political mistake: Greens are messy Reform are fascists

I do think that Polanski has fallen into the same trap as Corbyn by offering a green flag for antisemites in his party to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable. But this is horseshit. It takes us away from discussion about antisemitism and blurring it with Israeli geopolitical interests

Genuinely think @libdems.org.uk high-ups decision to paint Greens and RefUK as morally equivalent is going to massively backfire on us. Greens are mostly nice people we have a few minor policy differences with, and they probably need to sort out their vetting procedures. RefUK are literally nazis.

From the Commentary in the most recent Liberator.

Also I’m old enough to remember when Charlie was called the same by every press bar from the guardian, and we didn’t accidentally just win council seats but whole ass parliamentary seats. All press is good press when talking about clear positions

I do think that Polanski has fallen into the same trap as Corbyn by offering a green flag for antisemites in his party to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable. But this is horseshit. It takes us away from discussion about antisemitism and blurring it with Israeli geopolitical interests

The issue with these elections, which I suspect may build into a big one, is that as well as there being no spending limits for national advertising in locals, there's also no reporting mechanism. Which means we will never find out exactly how much was spent

The thing about “golden calfs” If you have to tell people it’s not one… it’s definitely one

oh uhm. youre on my house

Might have accidentally taken my new favorite photo today. 😉😊 #wildlife #nature #photography #deer #sunrise #morning

A prime minister, two years in, should be making policy arguments about what he has already done, why those policies will bear fruit, not positional ones about what he said in the past and what he plans to say in the future:

My “this is not a golden calf” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

12-foot tall skeletons are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Maoism

BAD BABY!

The person behind parliamentary recall is Douglas Carswell, the former Tory MP for Clacton who defected to UKIP and paved the way for Farage being able to take the seat (after massively falling out with him). So there’s a delicious symmetry to this: observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Taking another look at London vs London va rest of the country. Labours vote drop in London is now almost as great as their drop outside London. But the Tories drop is 8 points lower in the capital than outside and their vote share overall 5 points higher in London

Not to victim blame but this balloon does feel like it's asking for trouble

Oh wow yes that is the thing. That’s the specific thing that the Bible tells you definitely not to do.

[looking at my wardrobe full of identical pairs of black trousers] I need to make a statement, I need to go big, I need to show people something they'll never forget, I need to blow the bloody doors off [I reach behind and pull out one pair of trousers in the exact same style, except grey] fuck yeah

pure, uncut, liquid Sir Keir to write an article about "breaking with the status quo once and for all" on Friday, then announcing new roles for Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on Saturday

Literally “Status Quo: Greatest Hits”.

It’s almost as if TERFs have a problem with intersectionality.

With Labour and the Tories both vying for control of EasyBarnet, I expect this to be a weekly occurrence here for the next four years.

Why has Patreon just given me £75? It’s meant to work the other way around.

I really wish I didn’t have work this weekend so I could just wallow in all this conflicting electoral data instead of spending the next two days saying “no” to the question “have you got any Pokémon?”

I've said it before and I'll almost certainly say it again: Gordon Brown should never have apologised to that bigot for calling her a bigot, and he should've called her a bigot to her face not behind her back.

What the fuck is “a proper movie”?

I’m not sure I understand what his beef is with Status Quo. Aside from anything else, they ditched the definite article in 1969.

So it looks like Hornsey and Friern Barnet will now be a Green target seat. The question is, is Barnet Labour petty enough to divert their resources from Hendon to that constituency to prevent a Green win, like they did in 2015 with Hornsey and Wood Green? (Yes. The answer is yes)

... this explains a great deal

😆😆😆

LOL. LMAO even.

Nice voting system you've got there. Definitely able to cope with electoral landscape. No issues whatsoever

Which eeeeevil populists will the Lib Dems go into coalition with, I wonder?

If you make a big thing about your board game being eco friendly and low packaging, and then produce an endless stream of unnecessary stretch goals, I doubt your green credentials, sorry.

Hardly the first to say it, but this country needs PR like yesterday.

Somehow I missed Trump threatening to nuke Iran again.

Good grief. Manchester Labour rode out the late Blair/ Brown dip in good shape. Not this time.

"It hurts, and it should hurt” - Starmer taking delight in punching down on trans folk and immigrants here. Classy.

Yeah this is nonsense for FPTP