I'm not surprised from Honest Bob Jenprick

Piss off Jenrick.

While getting criticised by judges for shit posting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Since jenkins had a private chat with vance in the cotswolds, he seems to be going maga with criticising judges personal politics and the recruitment of extra parttime judges, the backlog, criticising gaza support, suggesting putting asylum seekers in camps, ... www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...

The audacity of Jenrick!

Is he incapable of seeing the hypocrisy in criticising public services after he helped someone avoid paying millions in tax. No journalist should ever let him get away with this.

Is there anyone left, in the whole country, who give a toss about what the Tories think? It’s a dead party. It committed suicide. They’re still propping the cadaver up in the basement talking to it.

Jenrick makes my skin crawl.

Jenrick is without question one of the vilest specimens on the Tory benches, against some stiff competition. But after 15 months, Labour has shown zero sense of urgency to deal with the problem, leaving it to reviews and legislation that will not even start to be implemented until next year.

Pretty sure The Secret Barrister wrote a book about that in 2018. But yeah, it’s definitely Labour’s fault.

Also which party's leader claimed that investigating historical sexual abuse cases was spaffing money up the wall? Hard to take this from someone in that party. Or wait, is he a Reform defector now? It's so hard to keep with whether people are failed Tories or hopeful Reformers.

Er... remind me which party spent 14 years systematically destroying the criminal justice system through budget cuts.

So after the rampant publicity for Far Right themes, Starmer's uselessness in dealing with those themes, and Badenoch just being useless, Farage still couldn't form a majority.

You're right. But Europeans see something different in the polls Anand 👇

Why are they doing this? Incompetence? Do they want Reform to win? Is it just getting them viewers? It's abject journalism, which the industry doesn't seem to give a shit about now.

As the old saying goes. "A week is a long time in politics." So 3 to 4 years is most likely going to feel like an eternity. In other words... there's still plenty of time for the Reform bubble to burst.

Sam’s gone full Chris Mason

Ed Conway and the International Sky News team are always worth watching, but lately, its become the Reform/Immigration/PollsRUs TV channel. A complete waste of time. Life and politics - so much more than this.

Read the story on the Sky website this morning and they scrupulously avoid telling you what the underlying polling numbers are. All v dodgy and headline grabbing.

It’s all complete bollox. The next GE is in 2029. They need to stop with this 💩.

That "progressive fightback" in full

There is a certain type of party political tribalist who if Starmer announced a policy of mandatory puppy kicking would still claim this was the most left wing government in decades.

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My only hope is it wakes Labour up that their current narrative is failing miserably.

Came here to say this - Reform are looking to use the Senedd elections as a stepping stone to Westminster. And it’s being largely ignored.

Hopefully, though, it might help the Labour leadership see that winning against Reform by outdoing them is a route to oblivion...

Spoken about as if they're a government in waiting They don't even have a single recognisable policy that they can stick to for more than a week The media is absolutely complicit in this narrative

Our problem is that the journalists have turned politics into entertainment, and they have more time to fill than there are interesting events to report on. So, if they want to keep their lucrative jobs, podcasts and book deals, they have to somehow create some “drama”…

To be on course to form the next government you need a lot of competent elected representatives to be appointed as government ministers . I'm having trouble naming one Reform person (I'd have to l eave out anyone resident in Dubai).

almost as though it's Sky's preferred narrative..

First thought, was I know I'm tired but I didn't realise I'd slept for 3 years. This is an absolutely crazy way to use and report polling. It should not be getting this kind of priority at this stage in an electoral cycle.

The biggest evidence of a Fabian Society plot to destroy Britain is the prime minister opening an article *apparently intended to reach out to voters* by talking about the "nativist populist right".

As so often my expectations of Starmer’s article were so low as to be basically subterranean and he still failed to live up to them. Let’s start with the weaselly and inflammatory conflation of seeking asylum with “illegal immigration“ 1/ [text in article below]

Meta point - for Labour’s polling to recover, one of three things needs to happen: 1. Starmer is replaced 2. His favourables recover in a way that no UK politician ever has from this low a starting point 3. Labour get an unprecedentedly high vote share for a leader with such low favourables

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

Aside from anything else, I do not understand why Labour feel the need to issue mea culpas on their immigration stance when they weren’t in power from 2010-2024.

I think of digital ID cards as akin to the voter ID laws passed by the Tories. It fuels a lie that there are a lot of illegal immigrants unfairly working or claiming benefits, and if only we had the instrument we could find them and stop them. Not true!

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Here's a link to Labour's 2024 manifesto. It doesn't appear to mention rolling out a national ID scheme (which I think we can agree is a MASSIVE project). Yet Starmer's doing it anyway. If that's acceptable, why aren't introducing PR, or rejoining the SM, CU or EU? labour.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Entirely agreed, in 2015 there was no interest in immigration or indeed sovereignty, but for the last decade our entire political capacity has been lost.

I dunno. If, it is a political stance, and it's aimed at pushing Reform from their ground then, Fartrage's announcement on settled migrants this week could be evidence it's working. They're having to be more extreme to stand out.

Does he not see what is happening in the UK happened in the USA not so long ago? And yes, look at how rapidly the USA is going down the tubes. They had a brief respite under Biden, but refused to do what was needed, now they have Trump 2.0… if the UK is not careful, you will have Farage….

No - he is running scared and appeasing the racists who will vote for Reform.

If Starmer and Co had some actual presence on this site they would see the genuine concern there is about them. Instead they choose to use a site manipulated by algorithms and bot activity, where they glean a false perspective.

Can Keir Starmer not see that by endlessly talking about immigration all he is doing is making Nigel Farage stronger? Does he not understand that numbers and actions are completely irrelevant and it is simply about fear, which he is fuelling?

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

Is it true? No. But does it reassure the people who most matter in passing an electorally popular policy, MPs with ideological concerns about the endeavour? Also no.

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