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

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Jimmy Kimmel is to be reinstated, with his show airing again from tomorrow (Tuesday) Disney say they have been having “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel over the past few days I think it’s because they lost $5 billion in a weekend

Reform is racist. Let’s just say it. Loudly and often. They’re racist. Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense. They don’t care. They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out. They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy. They’re racist. They’re failure.

Labour have branded Nigel Farage’s migration attacks "unfunded, unworkable and falling apart in real time." And the classic: "Unserious". They seem very reluctant to say "immoral" or "wrong".

“If they come over here they should learn the language” Say Keith and Marjorie who split their time between the UK and the Algarve and between them speak five words of Portuguese

Labour is so petrified at the prospect of looking “out of touch” and “elitist” that it’s not willing to call out blatant racism as racism. Instead they couch their criticism in economic terms If standing up to racism is “out of touch” and “elitist” then so fucking be it

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Labour’s rebuttal to Reform’s mass deportation bollocks is “the maths doesn’t add up” Not “They mean your neighbours”. Not “They mean your colleagues”. Not “They mean your friends”. Not “They mean your loved ones”. Nope. They’ve gone for “Not sure that would balance the books” Glowing leadership

Mark my words; a Reform government will eventually move against foreign-born citizens

Waiting for @luketryl.bsky.social to post a very depressing focus group write-up in which Reform’s plan to deport millions of people who came here completely legally goes down extremely well with the good folk of Leftbehind-on-Twaddle

Reform plans to end IDL - including for people who already have it Let’s be clear - these are *legal* immigrants. These people have done what they were supposed to do. They’ve followed the rules. But that’s not enough for these jingoists They have to be stopped. And they have to be stopped now

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

It really does just get sillier and sillier

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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Your Party is rapidly shaping into a left-economically, social-conservative party of the sort that George Galloway would be happy to join Not at all, I think, what Zarah Sultana wanted, envisioned, or expected

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana seemingly at odds over the direction of Your Party (it’s so stupid that they haven’t even picked a bloody name yet), with Sultana hitting at what she calls a “sexist boys’ club”, after she - without co-agreement from Corbyn - launched a membership signup site early

I’m becoming more and more convinced that the only thing keeping Keir Starmer in post is the lack of a clear alternative. The heir-apparent was always meant to be Streeting, but hell never get past the membership. It would have to be a 2007 scenario, where no one else even gets the nominations

“Everyone’s allowed their opinion” should not, in fact, extend to racism, misogyny, homophobia, and bigotry Those views *should* be suppressed

It was always unbelievably naive to expect social progressives and social conservatives to get along nicely just because they agree about Gaza

Two-time divorcee Nigel Farage says that male-female relationships are inherently more stable than same-sex ones

The government needs to completely vacate X. And then it needs to sanction Elon Musk I don’t care how rich he is, how much influence he has, what platforms he owns. He’s a racist and a eugenicist, and he’s inciting people to violence

Out and out condemnation of incitements to racial violence *is* a measured response

Where was this when people started painting flags and shagging roundabouts?

Resignation form submitted, membership card torn up and in the bin, direct debit of membership fee cancelled. So long Labour 🥀

I’m resigning my membership of the Labour Party I joined in 2020 after Starmer became leader because I thought he’d bring competence to Opposition and to government But it’s been a shit-show ever since the election, and now we’re onto the “pandering to the racists” bit. And I want no part of it

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

If Starmer told Trump to his face to just fuck off how high a tariff do you think he’d slap on British goods Whatever it was it would be worth it

Just looked again on X. While Keir is posting about business, Shabana as home secretary called out violence against police yesterday but nothing about the racism or Musk. Silence from other bigwigs like Lammy, Cooper, Reeves..

That feeling of desperately wanting your elected government to loudly call out racism & far right violent extremists... And nothing. Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility. As America gets ever darker, too little light here.

Can the government please stop trying to appease fucking racists and start appeasing the people who actually fucking voted for them

Predictably, the far-right attacked police officers in London today So patriotic

Even Nick Fuentes says that Tyler Robinson was one of his Groypers It’s time for MAGA to drop the BS that the killing of Charlie Kirk was in any way connected to or the fault of the Democrats or the left in general Robinson killed Kirk, to put it simply, because he thought he wasn’t racist enough

“The battle is between left and right” “The battle is between workers and bosses” No, the battle is between people who would send women and girls back to the Taliban and people who wouldn’t

Mandelson is going to resign. There’s no alternative. The story isnt going away, and Starmer needs “His ambassador was friends with a nonce” like he needs a hole in the head So why are they dragging it out? Once again this government proves just how much it totally lacks political instinct

It really is not that long ago that “We’ll do a deal with the Taliban to send them women who’ve tried to escape them” would have been a death note for any British political movement Not something that propelled it to 35% in the polls Was Britain always this hateful?

The prospect of Reform in government terrifies me. Properly makes my blood run cold. I will vote for *whoever* is best placed to beat them in my constituency at the next election. Labour, Lib Dem, Green, Corbyn, even Tory. ANYONE is better than they are And you should do the same thing

The truly terrifying thing about Reform voters is their utter disregard for the sanctity of human life "Send them back even though they'll be executed - not our problem" "Burn down the hotels with people inside them" "Shoot the boats as they cross the channel"

I bloody love transfer day

Big perception among the public that Angela Rayner has committed a crime and is going to avoid being prosecuted because “politicians look out for each other” She hasn’t committed a crime. Everything she’s done is legal But it really shows what an uphill battle restoring trust in politics is

I’ve always been very proud of the fact that British patriotism didn’t go in for the “flag on every surface” American style that frankly I find grating and obnoxious Apparently I was in a minority

Polanski has ruled out a coalition with Labour after the next election But if the alternative to a Labour-led coalition is a Reform-led one would his voters, and more saliently his members, ever forgive him for letting Nigel Farage become Prime Minister?

The big winner from the Green leadership election is Ed Davey. There is now nobody else pitching to Remainy NIMBY ex-Tory voters who quite liked David Cameron but were totally put off by everything that followed. And the shires are *FULL* of those people

At the election the Greens were able to win over enough Remainer Conservative types to make progress in the leafy shires Zack Polanski will thoroughly alienate those voters. If I were Ellie Chowns or Adrian Ramsay I’d be feeling worried about my seat right now

The word “made” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here isn’t it? Unless they’re asserting that Rachel Reeves broke into the property in the dead of night, put a loaded pistol to their head of their firstborn, and shouted “RAFFLE THIS F*CKING HOUSE FOR £2 A TICKET OR I PAINT THE WALLS RED!”

I would quite like Labour to win the next election. The alternative is Reform, which is unconscionable. But I don’t see how Labour wins with Keir Starmer as leader. Too many people have decided they hate him