Glenn Gibbins who made this hideous racist comment has still not been suspended from #Reform. Darren Grimes said he'd been suspended but ReformUK contradicted that and said he's still under investigation. What is there to investigate? They hope we'll forget. share.google/9nQy95CfzEX6...

Don’t the Beeb hate all Labour politicians 🤔 We need someone to take the whole media on; the media & social media are way too powerful & mostly owned by billionaires. Nothing ever happened after ‘it’s the Sun wot won it’ or this abuse ffs so it’s just continued since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

The economic meltdown we're facing will develop in seven stages - by Christmas, by which time things are going to be ugly. youtu.be/UunBWAzzr9c?...

If you only looked at the national headlines, you would assume Huntingdonshire turned Reform blue overnight. The actual result was messier than that – and probably more politically important. Why? Malcolm Lynn explains 👇

Living longer isn't good news for everyone. New data finds people in the UK spending more of their later years in poor health, with gaps between rich and poor widening. Stephen McNair reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/health/...

42% turnout. Starmer may see that as a reason not to change course. I would say that is a reason to change course. Labour has a 181 majority. Use that. Be brave.

Genuinely incredible to have such a robotic response to this situation. Haemorrhaging votes. Empowering Farage. Pissing off all voters. And utterly incapable of shaking off their terror of the Daily Mail and their blinkered commitment to an outdated manifesto. Such a terrible waste of power.

They have zero ideas. There's just nothing there.

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Is it time for chaos?

Elated that there will be 300 of these guys in Parliament in the next year or so. Thank you, Sir Keir, you've played a blinder ❤️

For once...could the soft left learn the correct lessons from their repeated failures?! Be. Left. Wing. -Like actually represent working class and humanist values. -Stop pandering to the right. They will not vote for you. -It's not 'mad' or 'radical' to speak out against genocide. I'm so tired!

Quote. ‘All over England today, hundreds of new councillors with remits that cover potholes, bins and adult social care are going to be meeting to figure out how to stop the boats.’ 😞

I don't think it's helpful to describe Reform voters as thick. But it's a hell of a lot more efficient than waiting for them to realise it for themselves.

In the World Service UK election summary Reform is a "right wing populist party", but it framed Thursday as Reform winning and Labour losing, took minutes to mention other parties, warned Labour might move "even further to the left", and described the UK as "an unhappy and angry country". #R4Today

“Brexit has been a political & economic failure with lasting negative consequences for people in the UK & across Europe..... the UK’s future lies in the EU. We stand ready to welcome the UK back alongside other countries when it chooses this path.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Here's the UK's foremost election expert telling us that Labour are shedding seats because they've lost support to the Greens, not Reform. Will this be heeded? LOL, fuck no—all hands to the boiler room and full steam to the right!

It doesn't feel great today admittedly, but nothing is inevitable. Reform is beatable. inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...

Sadiq Khan says the local election results in London are "bitterly disappointing" "Too many of the government’s achievements have been overshadowed by basic mistakes and a failure to boldly assert our progressive values." Says Labour must change course "before it is too late"

I do wonder whether Christopher Harborne (aka Chakrit Sakunkrit) is the only person to have secretly gifted an eye-wateringly enormous sum of money to Nigel Farage shortly before he changed his mind about running for office…

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The one thing that would reset the whole political debate would be if Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he wanted to rejoin the EU. Reform would have a field day, but he would unite the left and make politics a binary choice between the two.

All is not lost: An estimated 74% of voters who bothered to turn out in the local elections yesterday did NOT vote for Reform. Let that sink in.

To the hysterical members of the press. Put this on your bloody lead story. And calm the f**k down. You’ll give yourselves a nosebleed!

Pffft.

Yeah – no more Tories! Other than Danny Kruger, Suella Braverman, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Nadine Dories, Sarah Pochin, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Jake Berry, Andrew Rosindell, Peter Bone…

Maybe…just maybe…hear me out…these Reform wins will be a good thing. Their candidates are unserious people, elected for their prejudice, not their competence. When services are slashed, taxes rise & corruption scandals break, maybe then people will see them for what they are and turn away. Hope so.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again…’

Groundhog Day. How utterly depressing that these dismal people get to fail us all over again. Big hand to the media for their starring role in this hellcycle of corruption, dishonesty and betrayal.

These results already show FPTP in General Elections isn’t fit for purpose anymore.

The Labour government will not achieve decency over division by trying to be Reform Lite

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

There will be results in Scotland, Wales and England later today and tomorrow that will be hailed by Rejoin supporters. The reality is that you have nearly 60% of the UK population that is pro-EU, yet a 30% hard core fanbase for Farage that will make the EU very reluctant to bring the UK back in

Huge turnouts in Wales, queues outside some polling stations. My station told me to ‘fold your slip up a few times, the box is pretty stuffed’. My political chums have it on good authority that it’s likely a huge reaction against Reform. They’re normally right on stuff like this, fingers crossed.

You'd have to be mad to predict much in today's local elections. But you'd be mad to rule out the law of unintended consequences. This could be the moment Labour stops seeing any advantage in First Past The Post, and — the scales have fallen from my eyes! — suddenly PR is more democratic.

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Tennessee Republicans did it. The final vote is in. They just gutted the only Black-majority district to lock in more Republican power. Black voters shut out, representation erased. Call it what it is, a white supremacy power grab. And a shameful day for Tennessee, the birth place of the KKK.

The Trump family crypto project quietly cashed in while regular investors got stuck holding the bag. Any crypto legislation that doesn’t shut down this presidential corruption and protect investors isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

GP practices across England are being urged by the BMA to take part in collective action. This follows insufficient assurances from the Govt in response to widespread concern over the national 2026/27 contract that was imposed, despite it was rejected by 99% of GPs lowdownnhs.info/comment/gps-...

This, Spread this everywhere dear ones: "A new ABC/Ipsos poll finds that 59% of Americans believe Trump is mentally unfit to serve as commander-in-chief. More and more people are acknowledging what is painfully obvious: Donald Trump has completely lost his mind." Robert Reich

250 years after his birth, an exhibition in Ipswich tells a very different Constable story Not just the paintings, but the life behind them And one moment that reshapes how you see his career eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/cu...

It was clear a year ago that Labour was neglecting its progressive flank and it shouldn’t have taken No 10 this long to recognise that reality.

If I recall correctly, Peter Oborne, a strong Brexiteer, used to pen right-wing articles for the Telegraph & the Mail. He has had his Damascus moment it seems (he suggests that Brexit should be rethought or even scrapped). Bravo to him I say. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-us-not...

Brum Green campaigners working hard to get the vote out up until the last second that the polls are open! #VoteGreenInBrum today!

It’s election day - make sure to vote for positive change with Plaid Cymru. A vote for Plaid Cymru is a vote to cut NHS waiting times, to boost the economy and to help families with the cost of living. It’s also the only way to stop Reform. Dros Gymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿