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I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

I think it’s pretty clear pockets across the country have gone into bubbles. It’s totally not a surprise that Hackney went Green and it’s equally not a surprise that Essex has gone Reform. This is the online world gone offline in real time. This is politics by algorithms and who gains from that?

I don’t want to be a doom monger but this, I fear, is not happening. Reform now have a greater way to say “we can’t do these things because of the govt hampering our efforts to create real change” - the people who voted for the self own of Brexit did not learn and voted for those same people again

This is just crazy. The people who sold them the Brexit that destroyed their areas even further truly believe that they’ve not suffered enough pain and would like some more. Political education in this country is essential and should be on the curriculum.

A reminder that opposition which helped defeat the Nazis was a coalition of social democrats & communists. The communists spent years being purists about who they’d work with which helped the Nazi party to gain power in the first place. What worked? The Popular Front - which we now need.

We will know much more about inter- and inter-bloc switching over the course of the day. But ultimately if you are losing in both directions it’s because people think you are crap. Pivoting one way or another won’t help you if the total consensus is you’ve stuffed it.

A wake up call on what FPTP can deliver

So far results looking bleak for Labour in the North East but overall not quite as bad nationally as some forecasts predicted. Reform gains largely in line with national poll share. Tories doing least badly in London. Greens making significant gains but not yet the big breakthrough some predicted

Reform surging across England. Greens popular in cosmopolitan areas. In a surprise to absolutely nobody. Reform will win a GE and the left and centre are going to part of the reason it happens. It’s Biden all over again. Parties opposed to Reform need to work together

Polling shows the earth is round www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And a very good morning to the train driver who, seemingly unaware that he had activated the intercom, has begun our journey with some concerning huffing and wheezing, followed by a drawn-out ”Ohhhh shit” and a panicked “Jesus Christ”.

Vote for who is going to make change happen in your local area. This should be about who’s best for your local area, not who’s going to run the country. Although clearly people think it’s a GE. If your local councillors are good, keep them. If they’re rubbish, vote for change. It’s not a GE

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I think most people are totally unaware of the hybrid warfare going on - most of it through crypto. Farage is most certainly taking Russian money via crypto and who knows what else he’s funding through it. All the furore about elections I imagine is also connected podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

And that’s the danger. The situation we’re now in means getting rid of the latest elected & unpopular leader would most likely have the public demanding a GE - like we all did after multiple Tory leaders. A GE now would bring Reform into power. What a total mess and it all could have been avoided.

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What’s really crazy about the local elections is the only leaflet I’ve seen actually talking about what they will do in the local area has come from Labour - a party I don’t support. The campaigning has been absolutely dreadful because everyone is thinking nationally and not locally.

I’m not Polanski’s biggest believer and yet I can call this what it is - disgusting antisemitism. If there’s no place for it I our society then none of these rags should be able to do this without widespread political condemnation. Absolutely disgusting.

Just looking over some data ahead of our elections webinar later and Zack Polanski’s net approval rating has fallen by a fairly chunky 14 points over the last week. Still far ahead of Starmer but also puts him now well below the top three of Badenoch, Davey and Farage.

It’s crazy to me that change meant learning absolutely nothing from what Corbyn got wrong. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...

Funny how a wildly provocative, nearly cartoonishly cruel policy lands just as questions about £5m donations and tax affairs start getting uncomfortable. Pure coincidence, I’m sure.

Utterly depressing that no matter what, the Greens aren’t going to win an election (and neither will Labour) and the most likely outcome is a terrifying coalition between the Tories and Reform www.pollcheck.co.uk/demographic-...

It’s almost like this is how you do it without adding a “but” at the end

I'm going on Master Chef, looking Gordon Ramsay dead in the eye while I pop this in the microwave, then staring at him unblinking for two minutes until it's ready.

Sheesh, that’s tough but so important www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Man of the people, mysteriously backed by billionaire tech shocker www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Eye out for another UK drop…

It’s entirely possible to be left wing and hold a coherent stance on antisemitism. This is shamefully the only decent take I’ve seen from a sea of terrible and defensive takes the last few days. The left needs to get a handle on this and fast or they’re going to fail.

It’s open season on actively weakening Europe’s defence then. Why is anyone still talking to the US? Where are the boycotts? If they want to be on their own, let them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It should never be the case that women have to fight for their own bodily autonomy. Sadly, the misogynistic systems in place exist to ensure women fulfil their 'role' as a mother. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I see Nigel Farage is out pretending to care about antisemitism again

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The ingredients that drove Trump into the White House for a second time are thriving in the UK - the left’s inability to understand antisemitism, the right continuously weaponising it & laying traps that the left walk right into. If you don’t want Reform, best get a grip of how you’re being played.

Yesterday, I was horrified by the stabbing of Jews in Golders Green. Today, I am horrified to see Nigel Farage in Golders Green exploiting the attack for political gain. He is a phony ally of Jews. We must not be pawns for his incendiary identity politics that will only make Jews more vulnerable.

It’s really gross to me that Nigel Farage has turned up in golders green to act like he’s a friend to the Jewish community while actual progressive politicians haven’t shown up and haven’t said a word. When you leave the door open for Farage, you’re really clueless about what’s going on here.

Oh dear. Seems the high court didn’t agree with the Orwellian nonsense that is the Office for Students www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A rise in homophobia, people filming trans people in toilets, disabled people being harassed and assumed to be grifters… This is where all this anti-woke rubbish has got us. It was all leading to this massive rollback. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Nothing says parliamentary pantomime quite like the demand for an inquiry when there are 2 wars going on, one of which threatens the cost of living. I absolutely think the Mandelson thing is a disgrace but I also think Badenoch is running on political opportunity fumes because she’s got nothing else

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Considering the state of the nation, and the despair felt by many, is it really that much of a shock that our health is in massive decline? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Are people seriously suggesting Spencer is wrong? You sign up for long MP hours, it’s not the 1970s and this isn’t Mad Men, you can work without an alcoholic drink? Why are we normalising alcoholism in order to pass the time? No other job facilitates this except for…

This is absolutely spot on from Spencer. There should not be a bar in the House of Commons. Certainly it shouldn’t be open during working hours. Which job has an onsite pub open for people to just booze it up while working?! It’s about time this stuff got binned.

Every leaflet I’ve had has been trash. The Greens acting like it’s a general election and that you’re voting for Polanski, independents making a total muddle of international issues when they’re being elected on local issues, dodgy looking graphs. Rubbish www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How long do we give it before employers are rolling this out everywhere? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Dirty money www.theguardian.com/politics/202...