do we have any sense if we are talking weeks or months for the Rayner tax thing to be sorted

decent free kick that

as long as he starts exhibiting qualities and demonstrates a skillset and level of analysis so far completely absent from the evidence of his career so far, i reckon Starmer can survive this

if Starmer now stays, he does not have the “sack mcsweeney” lever to pull if the by-election or the may elections go as badly as expected (whether he’d ever have used it or not)

can mcsweeney allies decide if he’s the Real Prime Minister or whether he was just advising

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

does pat mcfadden still think this? can someone give him a call?

while we are all making our jokes we should all also remember this is a deeply personal career tragedy for mr mcsweeney because that makes the jokes more funny

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

starmer now confronted with difficult questions such as: “what do I think?”, “what do I do?” and “wait so how DOES the dlr work?”

Byeeeeee

England are going to lose this

pleased to read in the Sunday papers that Mr Starmer and Mr McSweeney are miserable. perhaps next they can stop moping and take some responsibility though

I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)

@drrosena.bsky.social : "There are people in cabinet who need to question their own positions, they were very close to Peter Mandelson, they may have known what was going on.. they know who they are" We do too.

mr mcsweeney, these terms are weird terms to call your own

prime minister’s allies: “hi we are mental”

all been there brother (from @morganj0nes.bsky.social’s “No Second Chances”)

they’re questioning your integrity because of that thing you did prime minister

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starmer’s supposed obsession with the fact mandelson lied is absolutely mental. it’s basically irrelevant as a defence! sends me spinning every time

big recommendation: don’t get shingles

Labour needs to clear house tbh. There shouldn’t be one of these scandals but two is insane!

an aaron bastani article in unherd is probably not typically going to be a hit on bluesky but i think he’s basically right that on the evidence of atleast the last ten years we need primaries or we need voting system reform unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

i am quite frustrated by people who last week were upset about Reform or Zack Polanski but this week are being soft on Starmer. ultimately, voters have been repeatedly insulted by the standard this government and previous governments have held themselves to.

From this week’s Beano.

these people are gangsters

have to accept the narrative pull of us getting relegated to league one exactly ten years on from winning the league feels strong rn

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this does not feel like it’ll end well for those involved

in exciting news, the pharmacist says i have shingles. quite annoyed by the one anti-viral every 5 hours and 5 a day instruction and the pharmacist did not agree with me that it was relevant that this added up to 25 hours

a qu i wish someone had asked him is whether he would have called on boris to resign over it if he'd been the one to make it. because he absolutely would

you watch starmer in a q&a and think “oh i didn’t realise anyone could be a successful lawyer”

i find the “starmer is actually a decent guy“ stuff the most infuriating i think. decent people don’t ignore this. i don’t care if you know him personally and he remembered your grandma’s birthday if he’s going around appointing paedo pals

hope this isn’t too bluesky a take but this imo is the case for ed miliband as the least worst option

weird to imagine that this time next week barry gardiner will be prime minister

Given we already had a 'Tom Holland' and a 'Tom Hollander', I think we need a 'Tom Hollandest' rather than just churning out additional Tom Hollands

we can’t have a third Tom Holland

Think it’ll be the central point made in any “Stop Wes” campaign tbqh, the photos he has tried to delete will be everywhere on social media etc etc

Steve Reed should resign as well. Completely disgraceful to so brazenly attempt a cover up by deflecting from the central detail of this whole thing: it was in the public domain that Mandelson had maintained a relationship with Epstein post-conviction when Mandelson was appointed

when people start talking about lucy powell as leader, you’ve got to start thinking the labour party might really be cooked this time

a reminder what was in the public domain

the sympathetic interpretation of the govt line is they’re so thick that if a famous liar lies to them (even about something in public domain) they can slip through national security vetting procedures. feels quite “resignation matter”-y still to me

I’m not sure ‘our national security developed vetting technique can be beaten if a candidate is prepared to lie’ is an especially helpful line to push.

this is the same line as earlier. it isn’t good enough. the only acceptable line is: the prime minister and his chief of staff are profoundly sorry for an unforgivable error of judgement and they have offered their resignations

this dr scott arthur character is so tedious

on some level i do just think if you appoint a traitor to a major role like us ambassador you give a grovelling apology to the country, resign in disgrace and spend your retirement doing charitable works to try to repent