Did they notice Plaid got more votes than Labour & Reform combined?

I read the headline and assumed this was The Onion 😅

Yeah the poll is a joke but so is FPTP. Imagine being the official opposition on the back of 12% of the vote...

The Clifton Suspension Bridge

Batting 10, for the first time in nearly two decades of junior & senior cricket, I hit the winning runs in a game

Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant. His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom. But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague. We will miss him terribly.

Literally just been to London at the invitation of the literal fucking King. Fuck Trump. Fuck the USA.

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

Discovered on #ChemSky on Wednesday Discussed with manager on Thursday Purchased Friday In the Library on Tuesday Going to be a very useful resource, thanks @jenheemstra.bsky.social!

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

The Jellyfish has been sacked hahaha finally 😂 Tbf Starmer looking almost as slimy and spineless

In the last 20 days Asa Tribe has scored 677 runs at an average of 338.5! 🇯🇪🏏

Vote Green for bigger boobs? 😂

I know Labour has precendent for governing like this in the 1960s but really who had the way Starmer is governing actually in mind when they voted Labour in 2024. One of the reasons this is so depressing is nobody wanted this, we rejected it in 2024, and got it anyway

Based polling

My annual performance review did not meet my expectations...

The U19 ICC Cricket World Cup picture looks clearer after Scotland's qualification and Americas action underway. Tom Grunshaw's weekly round-up 📝 emergingcricket.com/news/ec-roun...

Furthest I've been: North: Durness, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 South: Invercargill, 🇳🇿 East: Whakaari, 🇳🇿 West: St John's, 🇦🇬

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Bazbollocks... #ENGvIND #Cricket

🏆 Scotland or Netherlands? The race for European qualification to the U19 World Cup is down to two! 👇 That and more in this week's Roundup! emergingcricket.com/news/ec-roun...

Love if cricket seems to be returning so we're back on the @emergingcricket.bsky.social beat. emergingcricket.com/news/ec-roun...

The GOAT. Maybe the last time I see him play

My love-hate relationship with Bazball has been completely epitomised by the last 5 hours... #Cricket 🏏 #EngvInd

No plan is at least better than an obviously dreadful plan

The handball rule makes absolutely no sense. No way that's foul play

The two-party system is dead! Long live the two-party system!

Liberal Democrats have won a majority on Wokingham Council

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Cllr Andrew Varney celebrates the Lib Dem win that is set to bring free schools meals to nearly 36,000 children in Bristol: “Thanks to the efforts of hard-working Lib Dem MPs, children across the country are finally on track to receive the meals they need to succeed in school"

elon musk to donald trump at every meeting in the oval office: “you are in the epstein files. meet my 3 year old son”

What the hell went into this last batch of petrol? Never had numbers like this before!

I don't know what the BBC did with their set up a Big Weekend, but every set I've watched back has sounded dreadful. I've heard richer sounds from pub bands

Tangential point but I think the Royal Family missed a trick in the Harry & Meghan fallout by not relocating them to Canada as distant-but-working royals. I think they considered moving there. The Duke & Duchess of British Columbia? Would have been politically useful I think

King Charles is still Canada's head of state. He has legal and social responsibilities towards the Canadian state and people in geopolitical circumstances that Queen Elizabeth never had to deal with. If Team Starmer can't cope with Charles doing his duty then they can go take a hike.

Minute Cryptic - 28 May 2025 "Buyout arranged by Google ultimately!?" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Serious smug face over this one

Feels kinda cheeky Somerset using one of Devon's premier venues when Devon themselves have a home tie in the 3rd round! Devon are playing less than 5 miles away in Budleigh Salterton!

That's going to be a likely Reform gain if it goes to a by-election...

If we do see fewer social care places available to the NHS and councils then that will make it much harder to meet NHS waiting list targets and reduce A&E waiting times.

I fear that there will not be the extra money to do that and so we will see a combination of smaller providers quitting the market and bigger ones lowering the standard of care. I'd like to see an impact assessment of that change.

A cost benefit ratio of -36 is quite frankly ludicrous and this should absolutely not go ahead

I think this is the wildest result of the night

Star Wars Episode VIII.

Reform UK have now said that regional flags will be allowed. Despite saying *only* 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flags would be. It’s almost like they’re a bunch of populist grifters, making it up as they go along. A scary amount of Putin apologists have come out the woodwork over flying the 🇺🇦 flag.

What kind of snowflake is unwilling to fly their county's flag? Our counties are a big part of our identities, our history and culture. I'm Cumbrian and I'm proud of it. Fly the damn flags! (some of them are really pretty too!)