I’m holding off starting a book until I go on holiday on 9th July- but I’m also worried that if I do, I won’t have time to read it.

The Greens saying the Manchester Mayoral election is a two horse race between Greens and Reform is just silly. It’s utter nonsense and makes the Greens look ridiculous

Badenoch referring to the women Andy Burnham works with as ‘Handmaiden’s’, is disgusting. She is clearly rattled by Burnham so is resorting to childish name calling. To do it about other female politicians says more about her than the women she’s referring to.

She thinks I can’t see her if she snuggles under the bed throw!

Can someone please bing Shabana Mahmood £5million to completely disappear

If Shabana Mahmood wants asylum seekers to pay towards their accommodation, why not just allow them to work when they arrive? It’s all performative nonsense She is the one who could really derail Burnham vision of hope. If Labour wants to get back to its roots- he has to ditch her.

Andy Burnham telling the Chief Whip that he’s going to be based in Manchester

We’ve just had a power cut where we live. My OH just said ‘call Andy Burnham’ My son then popped in and said ‘apparently they’re moving Downing Street to Rotherham’. This is all because I like Andy Burnham 🤣🤣🤣

Jeez- some of the people who don’t like Andy Burnham are having proper tantrums about his speech. And if you dare to disagree they get all personal and claim you don’t know anything.

If Farage does face a by-election and he loses- what then. Reform is nothing without him. Jenrick of course would fight with Yousef to take over- but essentially Reform is the Farage Party. I do hope Rupert Lower properly does him over. But then Lowe disappears into the bowels of hell.

I reckon Rupert Lowe is absolutely ruthless. He’s out to destroy Farage.

HA! Rupert Lowe committing to ending Farage’s political career if he faces a by-election in Clacton. Hopefully it’d result in another Labour victory- or to be honest a victory for any Party other than Reform or Restore. They’re like a pair of festering dog turds covered in flies

You can tell which people don’t like Andy Burnham on principle. They’re already claiming he still sounds like the Mayor of Manchester and talking about Manchester is ‘totally unnecessary’ Pathetic 🙄

If Farage does face a By-election, it wouldn’t surprise me if he doesn’t flounce off like a spoiled child. Claiming he’s the victim of a witch hunt and smear campaign, and saying ‘do you know what- I’ve had enough’. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Nigel Farage is an arsehole & to be absolutely unequivocally clear I mean that in the most disrespectful way possible.

The Parliamentary Standards Commission better find something in Farage. Imagine if they don’t. He’ll be on every news station and TV breakfast programme claiming to have been the victim of a smear campaign, and shouting about how he’d been right all along. It would be unbearable.

More of this please.

Farage is such a mendacious twat. Bigging himself up for not claiming any ‘personal, expenses. He forgot to mention MP’s can’t claim personal expenses- only business expenses such as office costs etc and he’s claimed £161,179 business expenses since becoming an MP

Wayne Rooney’s commentary on the football is just noise.

The other thing Burnham needs to do is be optimistic. Big up the country and be more relaxed.

Farage on being asked by the BBC about his £5m bung

Farage claiming that the BBC is placing him in danger by asking him about the £5m is pathetic Playing the victim and all he’s ever had is a milkshake and a cardboard cup lobbed at him. The cup didn’t even hit him. Snivelling, whining cretin.

If, as Starmer claims- the £5m cash is for security- how come he never holds surgeries in Clacton because it’s too dangerous?

People complaining that they don’t know anything about Andy Burnham because he comes from the north 🙄 FFS find out there’s masses of stuff available to read on line. Pathetic

So some MP’s & LPMembers saying ‘there must be a contest What if other potential candidates don’t get enough nominations And we all know Burnham will win Only benefit (if there is a contest) is we’ll get to hear his plans. He could set those out anyway in a series of presentations to members

I suspect Shabana Mahmood will get a job in Burnham Cabinet. She is really awful. I know of stuff she tried to do when she was Sec of State for Justice & they wouldn’t be out of place in Reform. Her time in the Home Office has been a disgrace.

I hope Burnham just goes for it. No pussyfooting around- no ming vases. Pick the a solid left of centre Cabinet and work at pace. Keep to net zero too. Give Ed Miliband Chancellor job. Preferably don’t give Shabana M anything- but I suspect a deal has been done so give her a really small department

I really hope Andy Burnham makes Ed Miliband Chancellor. Of all the current cabinet (and Streeting) Ed M is streets ahead. If he has to have Shabana Mahmood I’d give her the smallest most irrelevant job possible. Department of Fish

Is Andy Burnham on X. Because off he is he needs to come off it now and if he does become PM order all Departments to stop using it WIE

I bought my Spanial a paddling pool. Filled it up and she’s had a quick drink out of it and went back inside. I’ll take her out this evening and she will launch herself into the river with gay abandon 🤣

My cat has just brought a really big mouse and taken it upstairs. Now I’m stuck downstairs and won’t beable to go upstairs until my OH gets back - which is about 7pm 😫😫😫😫😫

Has Burnham arrived at Euston yet. I heard there were leaves on the track at Milton Keynes and a shortage of drivers following a failed signal at Rugby

I see Laura Kuensberg is now in a frenzy About whether Ed Miliband will become Chancellor. Nothing about whether he’d be good at it- just tittle tattle about how Rachael Reeves would make his life hell from the back benches. She’s basically a gossip

My prediction (for what it’s worth). Andy Burnham will be Prime Minister by July 15th

Wes Streeting is right of course. It would be utterly pointless to spend the summer going through a pointless but painful leadership contest that everyone knows will be won by Burnham. A waste of everyone’s time IMV

There won’t be. General Election - but if there was, I doubt Reform could drum up a single credible candidate for any constituency. Farage said Makerfield was the most consequential by-elections in recent history. Robert Kenyon was the best candidate they could muster. He was utterly abysmal

Farage calls for a General Election.

Wes Streeting g is not goi g to stand. Good

Steve Bray and his mates in the background making a meaningless racket as Keir Starmer resigns is about as tasteless as it comes.

Good Morning Britain asking Twitter if there should be a General Election if Keir Starmer stands down. Well of course the answer is yes. 🙄

Why is it that people become so cultish about politicians? Corbyn, Johnson, Farage and for some Starmer No politician is perfect- far from it Most are v self centred. Some do good stuff,’others do a lot of bad stuff but all of them are replaceable (although I suspect without Farage Reform would die)

Why are ppl, including some Unions, attacking Ed Miliband. He runs a massively successful department and is an astute political figure. I genuinely hope he gets a one of the big jobs under Burnham.

There are people on here saying ‘if Starmer goes’ I’ll never vote Labour again’ Madness Sounds as cultish as the ppl who worshiped Corbyn Starmer is not the Messiah & he would lose Labour the next GE- he’s massively unpopular with the electorate. At least let someone come in who can offer some hope

Pollsters saying that the Reform candidate was their downfall and that is directly related to his appalling misogyny. Well what a surprise🤷‍♀️ Their real problem will be that pretty much anyone who puts themselves up as a Reform candidate is almost certainly going to be a racist, misogynistic bigot!

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

So Starmer has said if there’s a leadership contest he will stay and fight. Time for the Cabinet to force him out. Give him an ultimatum.

I’m not Scottish but I love Scotland. Seeing the ‘Tartan Army’ basically taking over Boston at the World Cup is joyful. No fights, no brawling -just singing, Bagpipes and partying!

Maybe Robert Kenyon boasting that he’s sexist and the dreadful Pochin woman suggesting the responsibility for domestic violence increasing during the World Cup was down to footballers losing matches had something to do with it. Just a thought

I see Reform are putting up Richard Tice ( or as I recently heard him called Dubai Dicky 🤣) to squirm out of Andy Burnham’s clear win. Farage still in hiding and wanting to escape any possibility of Q’s about his £5m crypto

So Reforms explanation for losing is that their voters, voted Labour to get rid of Starmer. You couldn’t make it up- although they obviously have. 🤣🤣🤣