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

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

Robbie Gibb needs to go and be replaced NOW

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Rachel Reeves confirms she will scrap the two-child benefit cap

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and take our money. And Nigel Farage is egging him on. All true patriots should tell them both: hands off our BBC.

Starmer should appoint a BBC DG who is every bit as biased as Davie was, just in the other direction

AfD has been kept out of power in Germany because no other party will countenance working with them I want the same commitment from British parties about Reform

I know some people consider it a bit woke, but I believe that if someone is a massive racist and attempts to exploit tragic events to push their extreme ideological agenda they shouldn't be consistently rewarded with a platform by media.

Nigel Farage has gone mighty quiet on PR since it started looking like FPTP might give him a Johnson-sized majority on less than 30% of the vote

Could the British political parties please stop their “Who can deport more people, faster?” competition Thanks

Has Keir Starmer considered appointing a certain someone as the Lord Brown of Dunfermline and making him Chancellor? Not entirely unserious about this

Every European election be like Liberals (centre-right) 23% National Brotherhood (far-right) 22% Amazing! (centre) 15% Social Democrats (centre-left) 13% Greens (left) 12% Separatist Party (left) 7% Separatist Party of Somewhere Else (far-right, possibly illegal) 5% Communists (far-left) 3%

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

Cinema staff used to come and tell people being loud to shut up. Failing that, they’d kick them out. That role appears to have completely vanished, and not for the better

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

On Reform's Danny Kruger's reported complaints about parties being 'LGBT-supporting', a Lib Dem source says it's "disgraceful and completely unacceptable." "Farage's MPs clearly have views that are completely out of step with modern Britain." He "must confirm if he agrees with these comments."

We now have 5-party politics FPTP only works when there are 2 clear dominators We need PR

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.

Apparently all it takes to be a “Tory rising star” now is to be interviewed

The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.

Labour need to get over the white working class. They’re no longer Labour voters, and trying to win them back just alienates the people who are now Labour’s support base. Be a party of graduates and professionals

Starmer apparently thinks that once he has made an argument for something, he shouldn’t have to repeat himself Which is neither how management (in any field, not just politics) nor public communications remotely works

Why are Stephen Yaxley Lennon et al infusing their racism with “Christ is king” all the time? Britain stopped being a Christian country to all intents and purposes years ago. A plurality of the population are atheists

“You get right-wing as you age” I can physically feel myself becoming more left-wing with each passing week

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Truths #Brexit #Reform #UKIP #Tories

The latest YouGov poll gives no party more than 27%, and five are on more than 10%. And this stopped being an exceptional finding some time ago We need Proportional Representation. Otherwise Farage is going to win a Johnson-sized majority on a smaller vote share than Starmer got

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Why are Labour so in thrall to a 20th century romantic ideal of a working class that no longer really exists? Their support base now, and arguably since the 1990s, is middle-class professionals. They should be embracing that, not acting like it’s not happening

Boris Johnson feels like a long time ago doesn’t he? 3 years. That’s all it’s been since he stopped being Prime Minister Half a Cameron

🧵Something odd in the strategic choices Reform has made in past few weeks after by any measure a very successful summer. Take this comment, it's just so out of line with British public opinion. Politically damaging for 2 key reasons 1. Brits trust science 2. They don't like Trump

Some shifts in this week's voting intention as Reform’s lead over Labour narrows again: now down to just 3pts. With both Labour and Tories up ➡️ REF UK 28% (-3) 🌹 LAB 25% (+3) 🌳 CON 20% (+2) 🔶 LIB DEM 13% (-1) 🌍 GREEN 8% (nc) 🟡 SNP 3% (nc) N=2055 |19-22/9|Change w 15/9