It’s a slippery slope from here to the baby libertarian argument of “I don’t have kids, so why should I pay taxes to educate other people’s”, or “I pay for private healthcare, so I shouldn’t have to pay anything towards the NHS”. You’re a Labour chancellor, not some nutty right wing think tank, FFS

What does a Labour government ever do for you? Well here are 14 things they have done TODAY! How many can you say other parties even have the first clue about? 1. Upgrades to more grass roots sports facilities 2. 450,000 disadvantaged students to be supported by new AI tutoring tools 1/8

"Reform not a party for ex-Tories," says leader of party of ex-Tories!

Why is @ofstednews.bsky.social still not posting on here but is posting on the app that allows people to produce CSAM? How is it safeguarding teachers and children to encourage them to be on Twitter? @dan-ofsted.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Can you ask please @schoolsweek.bsky.social?

Britain is still a major economy – so why do so many of us feel poorer? Andrew Curry digs into the long-term reasons. eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BBD Derby 1 Leeds 0 #dcfcfans

In America an unarmed woman is shot dead by an armed, masked gunman and some people are saying it's not murder. Online, a social media website starts spewing out child pornography and some people are saying this is freedom of speech. George Orwell foretold this media manipulation.

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.

Ooohh, they're just the same. Red Tories. No they aren't, not even fucking close. I admit, they haven't been as progressive and frankly competent as I'd hoped but they're still a million times better than any Toryform government I've ever known.

The Truth about Venezuela.

I don't honestly see how the DfE and Ofsted remaining on Twitter meets the teacher standards. Surely it's not safeguarding pupils' wellbeing or showing respect for the rights of others? Sorry to go on about it but really? 😔

Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?

Sky news press preview- Again providing free PR to right wing papers without referencing owners/ political persuasion. what’s on the front pages drives the discussions and news. Funny no stories about inequality or corporate greed .

Exciting New Panini Sticker Book coming in 2026...

🚨Oh. My. God - is that the smoking gun we were waiting for?🚨 From election night: A) There is NO Burke County in Florida B) There is NO Hamilton County in Georgia (only a Hamilton City in Harris County) C) There is NO Oklahoma City in Michigan Fcking Musk stole the election for #Shitler🤬 1 of 2

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

#bbcqt When Donald Trump and his fellow racist MAGA goons talk about 'civilisational erasure' in Europe, they're talking about their hatred of people living in Europe who look like JD Vance's wife and kids. The whole MAGA regime are vicious racists. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/j...

I’ve had this as an earworm all week…

All in one day: Immigration Minister lied about me with a slur. Wes Streeting then tried a different attack. And the Evening Standard write yet another attack piece because I dare to say we need to tax the rich. Want to help create our better future? Join.greenparty.org.uk

That's shown the Nobel Peace Committee! #Trump awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize! Absolutely unbelievable!

I hadn't watched #BBCQT in a while. Fiona Bruce's insane bias to the right wing reminded me why it's so frustrating. Allows the Greens and LD to be constantly shouted over, interrupting them constantly herself, while letting the Reform sociopath insult the audience and lie through his teeth.

"When are we going to have a cost of living special?" Zack Polanski on #BBCQT join.greenparty.org.uk

I think Yusuf is probably the most extreme person round the table tonight on #bbcqt but there are one or two pieces of circumstantial evidence that it might actually be Fiona Bruce! An astonishing performance by the supposedly impartial host!

Just watching #bbcnews and they bring up Reeves 'refusing to rule out' tax rises in a pre-budget interview as evidence of something or other (I'm losing the will to concentrate). I keep going on about this but the habit of reporting things as 'refusing to rule out' is reporting NOTHING!

Disgraceful! A patriotic flag shagger who dedicated his time to illegally putting up 64 flags is being charged £2,300 for the cost of taking them down. If it wasn't so funny I'd be furious.

The rich did not like the budget. So are we going to have months of the right wing media lead by The Mail, Telegraph and #BBCLaurak attacking it?

City with the most blatant 'keeper down so the manager can give a team talk' you'll see all season and not a whisper from the comms. One of the City physios even kept checking to see if Pep had finished. As soon as he had, he helped Donnarumma up 😄

odd though - I'm surprised he wants to draw attention to it starting in 2018 have you noticed how Nigel Farage skips straight from Nathan Gill being in UKIP to Nathan Gill being in Reform UK? not a word about Nathan Gill joining the Brexit Party and being a Brexit Party MEP and GE2019 candidate

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Why isn’t this front page news? Trump raped a 13 year old. House oversight committee released documents. This is one page of the case… oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Who the f%*k is Chris Mason? Just watched his dreadful interview with Starmer. Who the hell does this weaselly third rate journalist think he is, presuming to grotesquely insult and trivialize the British PM? Starmer may have some challenges, but he shd not have to put up with this uninformed crap!

No, Fiona Bruce. The conclusions of the Covid inquiry are not Baroness Hallett’s ‘opinion’ - they’re the conclusions of the inquiry. #bbcqt

And all the people who were lionising Johnson back then are the very people who are undermining Keir Starmer right now. Discuss?

"Those last four weeks of her life when she was in the hospice, I think it's odd to say, but were some of the happiest of her life." Sir Michael Palin reflects on the care his wife received in a hospice, as he calls for more support for hospices in the budget. #Newsnight

Town and city centres are in crisis with empty shops or a suspicious number of barbers. It needs imaginative government policies to counter the commercial power of the internet and revitalise urban centres, as I think they are important for communities. Any ideas?

Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...

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#bbcqt The idea that immigration is making most people in Britain poor is likely to win the day at the next election since it is being pushed by the representatives of big business (Reform, Tories, Daily Mail etc).

"Chancellor, will you be putting up income tax by 8% in the budget?" "Obviously I won't be announcing budget measures until the actual budget." "Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out 8% rise in income tax!" Since when did this sort of nonsense replace actual journalism?

The energy revolution (cheap solar plus batteries) is well underway. @allanpatterson.bsky.social writing here. open.substack.com/pub/allanpat...

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

The British people voted to make themselves poorer in exchange for some vague notions of recovering sovereignty. Of course Brexit damaged the economy. #bbcqt

The interaction between Fiona Bruce and Stephen Kinnock about immigration in Poland on #bbcqt showed her shocking right wing bias. When he demolished her attack by pinning the blame on Brexit and Farage she looked like she'd swallowed a lemon! I remember when Dimbleby hosted it properly.

#bbcqt I think there might be some houses being built near Fiona's house that she's not very happy about.

“I think politicians are ignoring prices and bills and hoping we’ll forget about them and find something else to complain about…” My report on how the flighty Westminster bubble forgot about the cost-of-living crisis, which certainly isn't over:

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. As viewers of King and Conqueror will know, William was able to surprise Harold by crossing the Channel in his hovercraft, and the English king was already exhausted, having recently seen off a Martian invasion.

Local media report that a group of 20 to 30 individuals put up dozens of flags across Norwich, including outside the Islamic community centre on Dereham Road, in what many residents described as an act of intimidation. www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2545503...

14 years of austerity so bankers could keep their yachts while 20k police vanished, armed forces cut by 20%, childcare slashed, councils bled dry but given more to do, schools stripped, infrastructure left to rot, food banks normalized, and the economy reshaped to make reversing it near impossible.

How many Tories have to defect to Reform before Reform just becomes the Conservative party with a new name? They tried this trick several times in government by changing the leader umpteen times in order to look like something new, whilst siphoning money from the poor to the rich for 14 years!