There are men on here who actually believe they are better people because they post on Bluesky. Ffs

Is he still in hiding?

There’s a deeply ageist misogynistic culture here on Bluesky.

🧵1/ I've spent more than a decade working on anti-bribery and corruption. I know a red flag when I see one. That's why I’ve reported Nigel Farage to Parliament’s Standards Commissioner. (H/T @rowenamason.bsky.social and @tomburgis.bsky.social).

Today, we're apologising to those affected by the injustice of forced adoption, as this government acknowledges the role of the state in the appalling practice. An apology cannot undo what happened, but it can be the start of real change.

The hard boys of Bluesky couldn’t give two hoots about this. Well done Keir Starmer

Former Sun Editor Kelvin MacKenzie, the foghorn voice of the Hard Right, has just used GB News to urge Farage to give back the £5 million “gift”. They’re all turning on Farage now.

Seeing the anti-Starmer cult on here realising that their small but valiant part in helping topple him isn’t going to create the nirvana they crave is quite the spectacle.

I know how important it is for many of you here that the govt leave Twitter, so you need to know Andy Burnham isn’t leaving Twitter soon, in fact it’ll be one of his most important campaigning platforms.

This to me this is frightening. 31% of white voters prepared to vote far right. You cannot isolate this. People need to be drawn back to decency.

Congratulations to England on another fantastic World Cup performance. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 And a huge well done to our captain, London's own Harry Kane, for his outstanding leadership and performance.

New bus stock - electric, clean, air conditioned, and with a charging point for every seat. You can keep your new fangled Andy. Sadiq will do for us humble London folk. @london.gov.uk

Lovely and friendly at the end 🥰

Kane again

Yes!

Jfc

Shambles

Oh no!

Don’t think I could listen, I might die of cringe 😬

I think Farage has had it and I don’t fancy his chances in a by election. (Fingers crossed)

Absolutely right Jess. Maybe you or another woman could stand against Burnham and have a proper contest around the issue rather than pleading for his attention?

This is the kind of othering and projection we get from the Burnham cult. I’ll do it now: “They are mainly, It seems” all men who inhabit the social media echo chamber Bluesky.

The dummy spitting and temper tantrums I saw on here yesterday over ongoing defence commitments ruining Burnham’s immaculate accession made me realise his boys’ brigade is in danger of descending into a full blown cult. It’s not even that much money.

The newly announced Defence Investment Plan is delivering the biggest boost to our city's armed forces and dockyards in a generation. From securing skilled local jobs to safeguarding our national security, this plan puts Plymouth at the forefront of modern, future-facing defence.

Tell them if Andy doesn’t like it he can call a GE. It soon shuts them up.

If Andy Burnham doesn’t like our defence commitments he should call a general election and stop whining.

The naivety and outrage of the Burnham boys who think he should’ve inherited a clean financial slate is quite something.

Surely the right framing is ‘will Andy Burnham do any better?’ From current utterances, I think not and might not do as well as Starmer.

Our village had a ‘Narthern Day’ to prepare us for Andy Burnham’s reign. Jill in the village shop baked barm cakes & sold ‘em covered int lard wit gravy. We all gave up us jobs & went round int trackies & crocs. We ad a reet larf suppin ale & smoking spice. Weer ready Andy luv!

Does Burnham speech mean that London will get more powers to raise its own taxes, keep more of the tax revenue it generates & invest in things Londoners actually want or doesn’t devolution work that way?

Heard Polly Billington expounding on Manchesterism from … East Kent, a quantitatively and qualitatively different region.

Like a lot of successful bullies, Piers Morgan has an instinct for weakness.

Good, but little (northern) Englander Burnham will quickly discover however good your ministers or advisors are, you must lead from the front on foreign affairs, defence, national security and our reset with the EU.

As I note here, keeping Powell sends an important and welcome signal of continuity. However it’s easy for Burnham to say he will do less foreign policy and delegate more. He will find the big issues are handled at leader level. To have influence you have to be there. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Our final set of Cabinet Office parliamentary questions in the House of Commons before a new team is appointed. It’s been a privilege to support the Prime Minister and to work with a brilliant team in the Cabinet Office, and we wish our successors well.

This "This is a man who recently claimed Britain was "defenceless," demanding answers from Number 10. Yet when Parliament held an hours-long debate on exactly that, Farage was nowhere to be seen." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-loves-shout-issues-37343854

Rather frightening that she has influence over British politics

The fact that no one in the Labour Party new ‘leadership’ wants to talk about the successes of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London can only stem from one place - they know Khan would make a far better PM then any of them. Khan for PM

This is remarkable.

Also, Jenrick kindly gives 1,200 high-tar cigarettes to Farage and invites him to come on a team-building climb of Mt Snowdon.

As far as I can tell, this is someone in Labour (Anna Turley) asking the FCA to investigate.... it's not the FCA starting an investigation. That would be much bigger news.

"Nigel Farage has been referred to the Financial Conduct Authority over claims his cryptocurrency advocacy has benefited his billionaire backer, Christopher Harbone." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-financial-regulator-christopher-harborne-reform-donations-b3002255.html

Yesterday I was asked by Sky News to do their PMQs show again. I was also asked about how I felt as I’d backed the Prime Minister- and I say what he said to a grumpy me on Monday…. Here’s a short clip from the show. I mention @holdthelinepac.bsky.social #PMQs #KeirStarmer #SKS #PrimeMinister

Nick Boom, Stanford University professor, on the negative impact of Brexit: “Among economists there is not much debate, but there still is among policy folks. The experts were right. It was, if anything, worse than we thought, but it’s taken longer to get there.”

I think we underrate how much damage the misinformation did for Starmer. Not because the average person believes Keir Starmer was protecting Muslim grooming gangs, but because people who *did* chanted "Keir Starmer's a wanker" at the football and did things that ramped up the ambient level of hate

The group hug. A real loss and real fears. Burnham’s puny populism doesn’t inspire confidence.

As it's 10th anniversary week, I'll bring up this thread again... #Brexit

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger. Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too. It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer. I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.