Surprised that ’I am the Resurrection’ isn’t on Burnham‘s playlist.

Low growth → more borrowing. Higher inflation → more borrowing. Directly reducing energy bills helps to solve both. More spending and lower inflation -> less borrowing.

Your regular reminder that public debt is sitting at £2.91 trillion or approximately 93.8% of GDP with annual debt interest repayments of £111.2 billion.

An at times absurd aspect of Brexit debate in the UK is how from early on even many pro-Europeans convinced themselves that there would be (usually French) dastardly plots to keep Brits out. If the UK chooses to fully align with the whole EU system it will be let back in.

Facebook has a policy which involves refusing to cooperate with the police when they wish to investigate racist posts In their platform citing free speech. To call Facebook / Meta a sewer is probably an understatement

Labour MPs need to take a moment & ask whether they’re willing to betray the mandate the country gave them in 2024 in order to enable Burnham‘s quest for power. Because if they do then don’t expect the voters to forgive them.

No there will not be an early election. A man with 400 seats will not risk half of them three years early to satisfy columnists’ belief in mandate fairies.

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Burnham reminds me of those politicians who think that they have a natural right to power.

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Duke of Norfolk to host Reform UK donors as Farage seeks to widen appeal www.ft.com/content/ebb7...

How can a politician whose never had to worry about paying his mortgage, feeding his family, making ends meet understand the day to day pressures millions of people across this country face day to day? He can’t.

It’s worth remembering that Andy ’man of the people’ Burnham has never had a job outside politics, public policy, and political administration. He has not held a traditional "private sector" or non-political commercial job.

Solar power is generating 46.3% of the UK's electricity right now. Only 7.2% is from fossil fuels. And so many rooftops don't yet have solar panels on them - this is only going to get better. Balcony solar panels will also soon be available in the UK: no middle man between you & the sun. 🎉☀️😎

@support.bsky.team How do I block the moderation list?

At what point do things like this become libel?

A Reform UK councillor who vowed to try and address anti-social behaviour and "people feeling unsafe" during her campaign was convicted of assault four months before the local elections.

How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how political journalism and power really works in Westminster, reports Peter Oborne

New Reform councillor admits she doesn’t know what she’s doing metro.co.uk/2026/05/21/n...

Britain in 2026 basically consists of people reacting to & using newspaper headlines to articles they haven‘t read as a basis of to their voting intentions & their political views.

All elected officials need to have passed a Higher DBA check. It’s not to much to ask.

Reform St Helens councillor assaulted woman while working pub doors

I swear it’s social media reactions to badly written newspaper headlines being taken as evidence of the whole article (without reading the whole article) making this country ungovernable

And how’s ’independence’ working out for you guys?

The UK government pitched the creation of a single market for goods with the EU as the cornerstone of an ambitious attempt to reintegrate British trade back into Europe, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Made me chuckle

If Burnham is offering the same policies & strategy as Starmer then why would Labour seek a new leader?

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Let those among us who have not accidentally followed a fascist leader on Facebook in full on fascist gear... who's like the most obvious fascist... doing really fascist stuff... cast the first stone. #Reform

1/7 THREAD 🧵: How 2004 changed my industry — and why it was economics, not prejudice. When free movement opened in 2004/05, courier work changed almost overnight. Rates started collapsing fast. #RealWorldEconomics

What a lot of people seem to miss is that racists don’t tend to limit their racism to one ethnic minority - if you’re an anti semite then there’s a very good chance that your also bigoted against the Asian community, the black community & quite probably the lgbt community.

It’s a sad thing to say that I’m not at all surprised by the latest anti semitism within the Green party nor am I surprised by the resultant cover up. I wonder what attracts anti semites to the Green Party?

CEO of Hope not Hate rightly says that @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party complicit in cover up of reasons their antisemitic candidate Chris Kennedy was forced to stand down #R4today

This image is one of the ones The Times says the Green Party candidate for Makerfield shared on social media. It shows Sadiq Khan visiting a (different) Hatzola ambulance station in the aftermath of the attack. If you don't get how this is antisemitic, you might just be a good fit for the Greens.

It is *incredibly* shabby that the Green Party cited "family and personal reasons" for their Makerfield candidate dropping out, given it was actually in relation to sharing antisemitic posts. Had a right-wing party done the same, they'd be getting called out loudly here for it. And rightly so.

Aaaaand there we go. If you’re wondering why the Greens announced their candidate this morning and he was dropped by this afternoon, here’s the reason. The Green Party is full of this stuff now, and no, Polanski being Jewish isn’t some magic antisemitism imperviousness spell for the Greens.

Nigel Farage would be the first person to complain about hecklers. He’s literally the biggest hypocrite in this country

For all the other disgraceful things about Reform’s leadership I still find this shocking. A man hurls abuse at a politician. Rather than defending her right to speak, Farage offered to buy him a pint and Yusuf to make him a peer. The descent is accelerating. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

There’s a real difference in tone between Bluesky & Threads. Bluesky is definitely the more ’bitter’ of the two platforms.

Now is not the time for politicians to put ambition & ego before the stability this country so badly needs.

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As we wrongly leave the M6 Northbound at Wolverhampton on our way to the Lake District the last thing we need is a debate about changing the route. Sorry, Andy, a closer relationship with our friends and neighbours in Europe is the FIRST thing the country needs.

Under our Labour government Homes England is stepping up its work building much needed new homes. + 40,2000 home completions - highest for 6yrs, 9% up on the year before and 97% of the governments target + construction started on 42,400 homes, up 11% on the year before and 114% of the target 1/2

What this country so badly needs is stability not the ego & ambition of politicians such as Burnham. But then again, the last fifteen years have shown us that the national interest always comes secondary to these types of politicians. www.politico.eu/article/andy...

🔴 NEW: Justice secretary David Lammy has told Parliament the government will "bring forward legislation" to tackle Slapps - abusive lawsuits used by oligarchs and the super-rich. Comments come in response to Democracy for Sale's recent investigation: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-investi...

In which i worry about the constitutional literacy of our politicians. Two recent examples of mistaken, or deliberate misreading, of core principles about the role of PM and the issue of confidence. @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/labo...

🚨🚨 Great and important reality-check for UK #rejoin bid to the EU underscoring that Britain first needs to get its house in order for it to be eligible to reapply for EU Membership. "No tailor-made deal for the UK". 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...