Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

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Oh just piss off Duolingo! Nobody wants this novelty bollocks. 😒

Absolutely correct from Starmer here. Sharp contrast to the equivocal response to the last Robinson/Musk rally - a very welcome change.

Umm… 😂🤣 www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Oh this is delicious!! Bingo card for Reform Councillors who quit and the reasons for the departure. 👀

100 years of David Attenborough From the new Private Eye, out now.

Not just is Burnham particularly popular among Labour voters, but in the North West as a whole his favourability ratings are 51% to 29%. Not just net positive, but clearly so. Very rare.

In totally unsurprising news… 😒

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

Think "louts getting cuffed" should be an open goal for KS to restore some credibility.

You would think that everyone would have got the memo after Brexit that voting for some hugely damaging thing in order to kick politicians out of complacency does not end well. But no.

A remarkable speech from Naz Shah opening the King's Speech debate: "Someone like me who spent her formative years fighting a campaign to release her mother from prison, who did not have a formal education beyond 12... forced into a marriage at 15... attempting suicide... Yet, here I stand."

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

Day five of our new Reform majority county councillors undergoing ‘training’ and an argument over flags has erupted on the town Facebook page and some dude has created an alternative ‘Free Speech’ page but initially spelled the town’s name wrong. Absolute scenes.

NEW: Rhun ap Iorwerth is officially the new First Minister of Wales, for Plaid. Huge moment for them, for Welsh Labour and for Wales. First non-Labour FM since devolution in 1999.

This deserves reupping, it cannot be overstated. Labour seems fully on track to cock it up completely. I cannot believe that Streeting is even being spoken of a serious contender.

This whole thread.

“Decency is vital, calm curiosity is also needed, but so too are fight and drive required. Have a row, push back, make arguments, bring people along. Standing up and being counted can't always be workshopped. Politics is as much about feelings as policy, especially at the moment.” - Jess Phillips

The entire second world war, the Troubles and Covid have entered the chat

Can we start compiling a list of every policy you'd like to see a new Labour leader make? Big or small, what would actually start to make the country feel better for people?

Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.

Civil society is gonna have to start punching back at the far-right bullies in politics and the media, and a big part of that is having a government that gives people confidence that it will side with them as they stand up for social liberalism rather than try to appease its political enemies

Thought this was a model response from @celiarichardson.bsky.social to a pretty harsh article in the Spectator about the National Trust

"Nigel Farage is not winning because the British public has suddenly become obsessed with visa policy. He is winning because he offers emotional certainty in an age of institutional exhaustion." This is so good from @bearlypolitics.co.uk. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/i-dont-thi...

Turned on the Today programme for perhaps the first time this year. Instantly presented with three minutes of Chris Mason: glib, inane, uninformative, utterly banal. Turned it off again.

If you want to vote for the next Prime Minister now would be a good moment to join the Labour Party or affiliated organisation. In the end, members are the ones who decide

Warning for the 16th May if you’re in London. 😱 I worry for my lovely neighbours when these scumbags start goose stepping in our communities.

Reform are just a social media outrage machine and fluffers for Farage. 🤮 They are only interested in distupting the Senedd. I hope they get a very rude awakening because it sickens me they get £80k to act like petulant toddlers!

Bloody magpie has attacked and injured a blackbird in my garden. I don’t know what to do. 😢

This is like my parents giving me a country dialling code to FaceTime them. 🫣 Why is our Government still on bloody Twitter too. Jesus F Christ.

Harriet Harman apparently mixing up DMs with tweets this morning (now deleted).

Things are looking bright for Deform! Also one candidate, Joshua Kim, is a South Korean national, doesn't hold a British passport and allegedly, his visa to remain in the UK is due to run out and he's applied to stay permanently. Carry on like this and they’ll have no Councillors left 😹

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Call me a saddo but just been looking up some of the Reform MSs elected. Mostly (at least half of them) ex-Tories but some real nasties in there too. I’m sure these names will hit the headlines again before too long. 👀 John Clark Llŷr Powell Francesca O’Brien Laura Anne Jones

I remember a time when "crypto-fascist" used to mean a fascist hiding their bigotry. Now it means a fascist, open about their bigotry, and funded by crypto.

Note to journalists: thank you for treating me as though I have just become Prime Minister, but if you dare to ask me about the £5 million I got from a crypto billionaire I will shut you down like the petulant little shit I am.

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

"You don't change the pilot halfway though a flight" - David Lammy. I suppose it depends if you think the pilot is about to fly you into a mountain.

“UKIP's here.” New Reform councillor has to be corrected on which party he now represents

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough, a man who has inspired me and millions of others not just to see the beauty in the countless lifeforms that make up our precious natural world, but to acknowledge my own responsibility to preserve and protect it. Thank you, Sir David.

100 not out. Happy birthday to Sir Dave. What a guy. And here's a sketch of him I did in 2024.

Just been to vote and put my cross in the box for Plaid Cymru. 💚 Cos, fuck Reform.

For everything Trump does or says, you have to stop and ask, “how would this benefit a criminal or group of criminals” to get the real meaning or intent.

Breaking: A physical library containing all 3.5 million pages of the publicly-released Epstein files—bound and printed in 3,437 volumes opens tomorrow in New York. You can get all the details here: trumpsonian.us Brilliant.

Fuck these cunts. Buy Blue-Rays.

Bear Grylls. Bear f*cking Grylls as a candidate for British Ambassador to Washington. And not a single professional diplomat on the list.

His closest aide sentenced to 10.5 years for spying for the Russians. Failing to disclose £5m donation and how he bought a house in Clacton. A decade of school antisemitism and racism. Cavorting with Neo Nazis and planning mass deportations. What is the media love about Farage?

Thursday's Senedd election is a tale of two futures for Wales.

this should be a major news story when we're a day before an election. go have a look at what is the major UK politics news right now. that should tell you everything you need to know about how the british establishment media works.