Time to get #WesRetreating trending 😏

It’s over. Jess Phillip’s letter has done it for me. It’s done.

If it’s Streeting vs Starmer the membership won’t go for Streeting. The left will put up a mad candidate and they’ll win. It’s going to be Corbyn mark 2 😭🤦🏻‍♀️

The cabinet are omniously quiet so expect resignations this evening. Wes first? We’re going to end up with John McDonnell as PM aren’t we? 🤦🏻‍♀️

FINE….I’ll be Prime Minister then! 🙄

Richard Burgon has turned on Catherine West. It’s all falling apart.

Question: what’s the 1 or 2 things Starmer or a new leader could come out and say that could change things? (I suspect he won’t it’ll be more “further and faster” stuff) Energy bill cap? Fuel duty freeze? I haven’t heard one person say anything they could do that would suddenly be more popular.

Richard Tice had a shocker on Kuensberg. Starting crying about the establishment media bullying Reform 🎻

Oh

So Catherine West backtracks a bit and says she’s waiting now until after the Prime Minister gives his speech before asking for MPs to back her.

Rayner replaces Starmer. Media: ShE’s A GinGEr ThiCKo who DoeSNT pay TAX. Milliband replaces Starmer. Media: WE ALREADY rejecTeD HiM ONcE the BACOn BuffoON. Streeting replaces Starmer. Media: MANDELSON LOVING BLAIRITE!! Starmer being dull seems a bit of a pathetic reason really doesn’t it?!

Catherine West? Literally no one has heard of her. Well either she’s a stalking horse for other leadership challengers or Labour MPs will put her back in her box. Probs the former though so looks like we’ve got months of pointless leadership debates ahead 🙄🙄🙄

One of the GOATs

I’m old enough to remember Tony Blair losing 1200 council seats in 1999 to that guy Hague who went on to win the next election…….oh no wait.

Reform has basically replaced the Tories in Suffolk. Winning 41 seats. Tories down 40, with nine held.

Let’s see how this shit goes then

My area has gone Reform! Yay 😭😬🤦🏻‍♀️

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

Morning. Turquoise seas out there I see. Shit But perhaps not as bad as it could be 🤷🏼‍♀️

Who’s voted? #DogAtPollingStations

I wish my local Labour Cllrs had at least tried to convince me to vote for them. But nothing. Never saw them, don’t hear much from them. Only saw one opposing a development in the area. Depressing. Be better.

Well it’s probs gonna be a shitshow of politics over the next few days. See you on the other side.

Reading a lot of Green Party leaflets over the weekend it struck me how many of the policies being promised are identical to Labour ones. Not just locally, but policies literally made possible by the Labour government’s legislation.

Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.

On the BBC, Kemi Badenoch seems to be arguing that the pro-Palestine march later this month should be banned, but that the Tommy Robinson-organised far right march planned for the same day should be allowed to go ahead.

Kemi Badenoch goes on BBC and defends Tommy Robinson and his marches. She’s picked a side then.

Kuenssberg introducing today’s political guests: “Not, however, Nigel Farage, who as we told you last week was fixed to be here - his team told us, he’s changed his mind” #bbclaurak

Laura Kuenssberg, "Nigel Farage was set to be here, but he he changed his mind" Does that have anything to do with his undeclared £5,000,000 gift?

Whatever you think of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and I’m not a supporter. But this cartoon by The Times is an antisemitic trope. Will this get condemned in the same way as other antisemitism has?

The lies and spin that Labour have “done nothing” and “gone against their manifesto” are exactly that. Lies. Repeated by all, from Farage to Badenoch to Davey to Flynn to Polanski to Corbyn. This is the most pro delivery government in decades. That is a fact.

Zack Polanski’s had a nightmare hasn’t he.

Crikey

Newcastle Green Party candidate Tina Ion says "Israel must be eradicated. Even if it means killing every single Zionist.". Is Ion one of the "99%" of candidates whom party leader Zack Polanski stands behind?

Forgot I did this before I went to sleep. Woke to lots of cranky replies 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

Turns out the King did alright in America. Glorious speech full of very polite but firm rebuttals of Trump. Not that the orange one has enough brain cells to notice.

standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"

This was a brilliant speech. Darren Jones is fast becoming a stand out star. Which probs mean the media will dig out some dodgy story on him next week.

Just the chair of Reform threatening to carpet bomb. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ridiculous interview @lewisgoodall.com there is absolutely no basis that the house was mislead. There’s no evidence of it.

I was going to say urgh, oh no did they miss again? But that would be mean…….because it turns out Spurs won yesterday! 😉

This is why they hate him BTW whether he was good or bad. It’s about this.

The cringiest party political broadcast by the Tories is currently on my TV

Oh come on lads that’s not very in keeping with the media narrative. Everyone wants Nige.

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

Well even when Keir Starmer is on the ropes Badenoch can’t knock him out. If anything this #PMQs makes Starmer look stronger than he has all week!!

“We need a period of keeping a Prime Minister for a period of time to let him do the job he was elected to do” Work & Pensions secretary Pat McFadden tells Sky’s Sophy Ridge

She goes further and says “I don’t think putting this at the feet of Keir Starmer makes any sense to me” firmly blames Morgan McSweeney and the process.

Emily Thornberry says it was right Olly Robbins was sacked after she chaired the committee. I’ll take that - can’t argue with Emily Thornberry.

Just hours after chairing Olly Robbins’ testimony, Emily Thornberry says she believes the former Foreign Office boss was "bullied". “The pressure was coming from Morgan McSweeney. He was a protege of Mandelson, he was trying to deliver him the job”.