Yay! Got there in the end...

She's looking even more cadaverous than usual. Are we *sure* she's not decomposing?

NEW: Solar plus batteries cheaper than gas. “A new report finds that 24/7 ‘firm’ clean energy is cheaper than coal & gas in many parts of the world. The Iran War may catalyze faster adoption.” It’s just really dumb not to lean in on renewables. Unless your personal profit requires oil dependency…

On the Olympic Park. I'm guessing the other side of Greenway opposite the school where the warmup track was during the Games. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/str...

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Are Reform stupid enough to put Matt Goodwin up against Burnham? Ghod, I hope so.

Choices we actually have: . Burnham . Starmer . Streeting . Carns . Whatever loser Labour MP they pick instead of them Choices we do not have: . A Green Party member . A LibDem member . An SNP member . Any other non-Labour person So why not pick the best of the real choices and hope for that?

Racists, misogynists, transphobes... in fact pretty much any weak and feeble, pathetic and sexually-insecure loser.

As a Green Party member myself, from Manchester too, I could not agree more with you. Burnham is by far the best of the available choices for the future of our so-called democracy. Sometimes you have to put country before party. This is one such case.

BREAKING: I'm told that Labour's national executive committee has - as expected - voted for Andy Burnham to be allowed to stand for selection as the party's candidate in the Makerfield by-election

Oh, so it's okay to choose how you identify after all.

I'm not sure it's a resigning matter, but I'm 100% sure that his voters think it is. Bloody Vichy gays do my effing head in.

I still can't make up my mind which is the more shocking: Farage accepting a blatant £5m bribe from a foreigner, or That somewhere in Clacton is a building worth £1.4m

It could be possible.

Right-wing media: "Disgusting how Burnham gets parachuted into a safe seat. It's a fix!" Residents of Makerfield: "He's lived here for 25 years you dim knob!"

‼️BREAKING | Greens have taken leadership of Worcestershire Council from Reform in a shock vote Conservatives (12 seats), Greens (8), LDs (7) and independents (3) have formed a rainbow coalition and ousted Reform at the annual meeting. Greens' Matt Jenkins will be leader. 🗳️ x.com/LeftieStats/...

I cannot think of a single scenario where Streeting wins here. Good. Deep Blue Labour c*nt can fuck off and take his boss with him. Time for some well-deserved obscurity, Wes.

Yup. Streeting knows it too, which is why he's mysteriously quiet today. Perhaps that's why he flounced out of No. 10 yesterday - he got fed up with Starmer laughing at him.

After a morning of lovely sunshine, it's hailing in Manchester now!

In anticipation of the release of the next book in the series, I'm about to re-read the first four books of the excellent @russincheshire.bsky.social Erin Callahan novels. It won't take very long because they're gripping page-turners - very much recommended.

By the start of day two I expect news that Xi has pummelled Trump to death because he wouldn't shut up about his fucking ballroom. Please don't disappoint me.

Putting your feet up on the seats on a train is fucking obnoxious. Straight to jail no parole. People have got to sit there you filthy rotten garbage.

Go get 'em team...

The State Opening of Parliament really is a ridiculous, cringeworthy spectacle, isn't it? Serjeant-at-Arms, wearing his best go-faster knickers; Charles and Mrs. Parker-Bowles sitting there like some half-arsed wedding cake; our "beloved" head of state reading words dictated by someone else...

Mayor Mamdani announced that New York City’s budget is FULLY balanced while still funding parks, libraries, safer streets, and historic investments in public housing. WOW! How utterly validating. Democratic socialism finally got a chance. And it worked. As we always knew it would 🙌

I share the worry of trans people at the prospect of PM Wes Streeting. At Health he ignored the voices of young trans people and restricted gender-affirming care, causing harm to a generation. It is up to Labour to choose its leader, but members must also choose a better direction on trans rights

Schroedinger's minister

Please retweet.

Streeting is wasting his time. He's a triumph of ambition over ability.

BREAKING - Parliamentary Standards Commissioner will launch an investigation into Farage's £5m donation.

People, we deserve better than this shite. Even if you are not supportive of Zack Polanski and his party, this has revealed two things. The poor quality of journalism in this country, that is in urgent need of reform and how the establishment want the status quo to remain unchanged

BREAKING: The Muslim prayer room of Cafe Raha in Blackburn was fire bombed today, but thankfully, there was no synagogue nearby, so we're not bothering with a Cobra meeting x

Streeting stormed out of Number 10 looking like a little boy who's just been given a sound bollocking by the headmaster.

😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.

Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

Streeting thinks the moment is now, because Burnham is not an MP and Rayner is under a cloud. The truth that Streeting cannot acknowledge is that the moment is never because he's a little turd. He's in the pocket of some seriously unpleasant corporate interests, and transphobic as fuck.

The reasons the LGB Alliance courted Streeting through the Policy Exchange and ADF are that he is gay. That was their way to divide the LGB/TQ as they attempt to do through social media demonisation/sexualisation of idenity. Streeting wants to be a good gay on his knees to Christian Concern.

Labour went tits-up in 2010 when we elected the wrong Miliband. Everything since then has been just plain *wrong*. Ed only got through on the block union votes. The membership chose David, which was the right choice for all sorts of reasons. The idea that Ed might have a second go now is risible.

Always a lovely celebration and I'm glad it's survived the Manchester Pride upheaval this year. Looking forward to it.

This is almost up there with Geoffrey Howe's resignation. A hard spotlight on ineffective leadership from a colleague who is desperate to protect the vulnerable but being stifled by a coward who is himself afraid to stand up to bullies.

To be brutally honest I'm incredibly bored with the whole mindless fuss. The media running around like headless chickens are making just as much noise and barely any more sense than the equally over-caffeinated online chattering classes. The whole thing is just making me want to hide under a duvet.

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the first book - "Left Out" - a dispassionate dissection of the calamitous Corbyn leadership, it's time to start the second book - "Get In" - by the same authors, dealing this time with how Starmer and McSweeney organised the takeover and purging of Labour.

Oh dear. Sky's Beth Rigby yelling on a live microphone like some cheap trollop market trader is just plain embarrassing. She's contributing absolutely nothing to the news story, dripping first-person pronouns all over the place like she's an important part of it all. Utterly delusional.

I didn't even know Jeremy Corbyn had an account on here. That's today's blocking out of the way nice & early...