I had an interesting experience out whilst canvassing. One of the doors I knocked on was a pensioner's, and after a while, she said how her generation was the forgotten generation. Sometimes it really does amaze how someone from that generation sees themselves as part of a forgotten generation.

I suppose I'm a Starmer ultra as I don't think he's history's greatest monster.

It is unfortunate for Britain that the people who should know how to run the Government are cutting hair, driving cabs, and posting on Bluesky.

Calling a lid on the Mamdani discourse. The discourse is now over. Takes are over. Next subject please.

It should be noted that hundreds of academics signed an open letter in support of this anti-Semite.

Ok and how is this non-militarised European security framework going to handle Putin?

The Guardian descending into crankery is a huge problem for the left in this country.

The budget will I suspect expose a lot of people on here as hypocrites when it comes to tax.

1980: NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1% Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5% 2024: NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9% Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2% This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.

Awaab’s Law is now in force! It protects social housing tenants from emergency hazards & damp and mould. It is a lasting legacy to Awaab Ishak, who died after being exposed to mould at his Rochdale home. Labour have also expanded the law to ALL landlords, which comes in to force from Nov 2025.

Populism is good when it fits in with your priors.

Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post. They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Considering how many people on here agree with Stephen. It's amazing that he's mad about six people who erm disagree with him.

Polanski joined the lib dems in 2016 at the end of the coalition era. The point in which they had pissed off their voters by abandoning their tuition pledge. Ive just been reading this expose in Private eye about his time there. Seems he was 2 faced www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1658/h...

Obvious charlatan turns out to be obvious charlatan.

Why did Starmer cut all those police officers?

For clarity: The Tel Aviv derby cancellation has nothing to do with Maccabi supporters. It was a story of how Israeli police under a far-right, Jewish supremacist minister thinks it can do whatever it wants and collectively punish fans, while also applying disproportionate violence against them.

There's an irony that the party who opposes VAT on school fees is seen as more left-wing than the party who imposed VAT on school fees.

Meanwhile… Three Nazi-worshipping extremists convicted of terror offences have been jailed. Christopher Ringrose, 34, Marco Pitzettu, 25, and Brogan Stewart, 25, were found guilty in May of planning terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I see yer da has made a handy infographic

Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end. But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy. (Times)

It's not like people were killed and attacked in an anti-semitic attack at a synagouge last week.

Maybe Sanchez should stop being Vox-lite www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've had somebody in my comments say that I should be ashamed of myself for voting Labour, and that everybody they know will never vote for them again. Two things: 1) I don't like everything this Government does, and will write to my MP accordingly. 2) What do they expect me to do, cry about it?

Reform UK are the party Britons most associate with being patriotic, but also being weird and extreme Extreme: 58% (+50 lead) Offer change: 37% (+26) Setting agenda: 36% (+27) Patriotic: 35% (+27) Likely win next election: 35% (+20) Weird: 35% (+15) Understands problems: 25% (+15) Normal: 17% (+4)

If Robert Jenrick wants to meet a white person from Handsworth i'll introduce him to my aunt.

1/3 I’m from Birmingham, my mom grew up in Handsworth It’s a lie to say there’s not an integration issue - there’s Black areas, Asian areas, & white areas where people live separately I say this as a mixed race Brummie! However, Jenrick saying “he didn’t see any white people” is a dogwhistle…

I feel slightly numb and mostly exhausted at the amount of antisemitism posting about antisemitism has triggered on my BlueSky posts Being Jewish on social media means having to expect it, and I’d almost got desensitised it Almost To all the antisemites, I say: f*ck you

EXCLUSIVE: Starmer significantly more popular than Farage in head-to-head polling labourlist.org/2025/09/excl...

This is very petty to point out but I think The Abundance Agenda is probably doing better numbers than Harry Cole's big, expensive new show.

Harry Cole here, suggesting that because someone in Utah shot Charlie Kirk 3 weeks ago, Keir Starmer shouldn’t be nasty about Nigel Farage in the U.K.

1/2 I may be wrong, but I think this is the first time this has been put plainly by a cabinet minister I’ve had conversations with non Labour people at conference, from right to hard right, & they’ve identified the indefinite leave policy as targeting non-Europeans for deportations i.e not white

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

ID cards are to the left what the smoking ban was to the right. Five years after they're introduced, only crusty comedians in real ale pubs will still be complaining about them.

A protest sculpture depicting Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared briefly on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., bearing the caption “Best Friends Forever.” (This photo was shared with us the piece was installed by an anonymous artist collective.)

Take a breath. Look behind the hostile headlines. What this government is on the verge of doing is to expand this one-in-one-out deal into, essentially, a safe and legal route from France. It is - and has always been - the only solution to dangerous crossings and what has been needed for years.

The line that Corbyn was sabotaged by ‘the Labour right’ can be seen for what it always was now. The reality is that, for five years, he was protected from the sort of cranks he wanted around him.

Getting Americans to understand another country's politics. Challenge impossible.

*Unless it is Cameron being replaced by May, May being replaced by Johnson, Johnson being replaced by Truss, or Truss being replaced by Sunak. It is only if Starmer goes. Absolute. Charlton. Hypocrite. Imbecile.

Shabana Mahmood just now did a commendable job in the Commons on calling out the thuggery & whipping up hatred on Saturday. She even called out Elon Musk although not by name. More of this please. Counter these hateful narratives, don’t feed them. It’s what the public want & expect.

If you advocate hunting down Zionists in the streets. Then you're espousing anti-semitism pure and simple.

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I'm begining to see where Alun was coming from.

Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent

Then we will have a proper Labour government one that doesn't transfer social costs to business.

This interview with Zack Polanski is fascinating - not because he says anything clever, but because he seems to manage to almost effortlessly antagonise an interviewer whom I assume would have started off quite sympathetic towards him. t.co/5Lw14wN13N