Labour need to be hammering Farage’s connections to Trump. I suspect his insult about UK troops will be the thing that finally flips Reform voters to not liking him

Andy Burnham is the only candidate who could possibly win the seat for Labour. It would still be far from a sure thing with Labour doing so badly in the polls, but Burnham is still very popular here in Manchester and *could* do it. No one else has a prayer

Rewatching Years and Years and realising it could, in fact, be worse. Trump hasn’t actually nuked China yet

God I miss President Bartlett

Not of course a problem limited to Martin or to series with a plethora of POV characters. It’s been 13 years since the last Gentleman Bastards book, and that has - at most - 4 POV characters and is mostly confined to just 1 Not entirely sure what’s taking Lynch so long on that one

“You didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize so I’m invading a NATO ally” is just the sort of shit-for-brains thinking some of us always knew Trump was capable of

“Brexit will be fine, we can rely on the US” How’s that working out?

How long until Kemi Badenoch has fewer than 100 MPs left?

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

Honestly one of the things I find most offensive about Trump is that he plainly has no idea how to use a comma

If Trump is going to slap 10% tariffs on us even when Starmer has done everything short of cut his toenails for him I say we take 500% tariffs and have Starmer just kick him in the nuts

Me: Not really into football but it’s always good to know what everyone at work is talking about so let’s see how much City won by and - JESUS I wasn’t expecting that!

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Reform are just the Tory loft extension at this point

That didn’t take long did it Robert

Presumably Jenrick will now actually join Reform And in doing so make it just that little bit harder for Farage to act like his party is “a break from the establishment”

By and large, a u-turn is not that big of a deal for any government IF: 1. It’s done early - indicates listening rather than being pressured 2. It’s a rare occurrence - the government has to still appear like it knows what it wants to do Labour has done nearly 20 u-turns, all of them far too late

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Not until Jensen Huang can promise me personally that AI won’t take anyone’s job off them

Nadhim Zahawi: I would be frightened to live in Reform’s Britain Also Nadhim Zahawi: Nigel Farage should be Prime Minister

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"

Speaking as someone who very much emphasises the “centre” in centre-left I think Akehurst is dead wrong here. Ref voters will not be drawn back to Lab, but there is still a chance that those currently saying they’ll vote Grn might be. There are also more ‘24 Lab voters moving to Grn than to Ref

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Here’s my list of things the public doesn’t seem to know, but historians broadly agree upon 👇

Keir Starmer is getting ready to monitor the situation so hard if Trump does annex Greenland

What to do about the Palace of Westminster? The place is *literally* falling down, and it’s only a matter of time - if nothing changes - until there’s a real disaster

Trump’s US is a rogue state

“What disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it” If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It must be incredibly frustrating for Keir Starmer that the public gave the Tories chance after chance after chance while he literally didn’t get one

The left: Labour should seek to emulate the Scandinavian countries Labour: Norway and Sweden don’t use jury trials except in the most serious cases, and instead most criminal cases are tried by a panel of judges who- The left: NOT LIKE THAT!

Keir Starmer’s New Year’s Resolution should be to start acting like he’s got an enormous majority, not a Cameron 2015 sized one

I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so. This is very long overdue.

The UK right: ‘Why are we supporting so many foreigners, we should be supporting our own in this country’ Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’

Your Party in the summer: The name is just a placeholder until we decide on a better one Your Party today: We’re keeping the name Should have just named the party that then shouldn’t you? Amateurish at every single level

“Splitter!”

To quote Peter Mannion in The Thick of It: “You idiot, that’s fucking mental!”

I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes… And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say …funny that.

Maybe a pollster can tell me - @luketryl.bsky.social this is your Bat Signal - would it help Labour to focus public messaging on Farage’s history of pro-Putin statements and ambivalence on Ukraine, or does that not matter to those saying they’ll vote Reform?

The number of times I heard “Boris is doing his best, you can’t really criticise” in 2020 … Turns out, we *could* criticise, and if anything I didn’t criticise enough

The government: The Danish Social Democrats show we can be tough on immigration and win again Danish Social Democrats: *Suffer a humiliating defeat, including losing Copenhagen for the first time in a century* The government: How. To. Win. Again.

Can Labour please remember that there are people other than Red-Wall Reform voters out there, that we’re significantly more likely to actually vote for them, and that we find this race to the right on immigration foul and abhorrent Thanks

Yet another instance of the government being unable to pick a side

Tommy Robinson is openly celebrating Labour Party policy Can they not see just how far they’ve gone?

Is it not *exhausting* for these people being outraged at absolutely everything? 🙄

One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.

Why are Labour?

Yet another bout of infighting from the People’s Front of Judaea / Judaean People’s Front / Popular People’s Front. Surprise surprise Splitters!

We need a Prime Minister with clarity of vision and the willingness to take on Reform rather than try to ape them Keir Starmer is not that person