Sick & tired of people being unable comprehend that you can totally decry Farage for inciting violence and rage AND ALSO believe that the murder of Henry Nowak was utterly horrendous and that the police got it very wrong. These things are NOT mutually exclusive!

We're stuck in "a situation in which, to put it in very broad terms, we have a country which ‘knows’ it has made a mistake and regrets it, and yet has a politics which can barely acknowledge that and certainly can’t address it." Spot-on by @chrisgrey.bsky.social

We're facing the second lost decade of the century. The far-right will blame migrants. Liberals will tell us the economy is working just fine. Meanwhile, bosses will keep making record profits - unless workers figure out how to take them back.

A new national conversation, or just the same old one? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the different strands of the now intensifying revival of discussion about Brexit, including the latest developments in the 'reset': chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne...

Very nice I'm sure. But we voted for CHANGE not small change. Starmer is far too timid for his own propaganda

I wonder if at some point we simply have to accept that many members of this Labour government are simply not very decent people. There’s only so much that “political expediency” can excuse their deeply ugly pronouncements.

🚨🚨This is a MAJOR political and strategic mistake by the UK and a policy which I think has very limited popular support. Loosening sanctions on #Russia is very much playing directly in the hands of #Putin. 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

New piece by me on the Labour leadership, the Makerfield by-election, and Brexit

Can we all just stop pretending the requirement to increase fuel duty actually exists? Its only purpose is to be cancelled to pantomime concern about prices for voters.

Why doesn’t he just say “I’m Starmer, but with a Northern accent and a different pair of specs…and I’ll change those too if it will get me elected”

What exactly is the point of Andy Burnham if he is running as continuity Starmer? This Labour leadership shambles gets more ridiculous by the day

Profoundly depressing but essential reading - lightened by use of the wonderful word "fissiparous". Excellent analysis (not that I completely agree with it 😇) from Chris Grey. Can we call him Mr Brexit yet?

Was it a gift? Was it for security? Was it for Brexit? Was it for a house? FFS. Farage must think we’re all really thick. It was a £5million bribe from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire who wants his man in power so he’ll remove consumer protections and rocket-boost crypto trading. Inquiry done.

The Lexiter version of 'Brexit wasn't done properly', with no contrition for the fact that there was never any chance of Lexit being enacted and no recognition that the situation now isn't one in which Labour can just say "ok, let's rejoin instead": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Kings Speech shows why Starmer must go. What a wasted opportunity! Where’s the urgent transformative programme to redistribute wealth, tackle the nature & climate crisis, bring water into public hands, & introduce rent controls & wealth taxes? No hope, no story, no vision

I would vote for starmer over streeting and i fucking hate starmer

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I am not disappointed by Starmer's speech. Mainly because I didn't expect any real proposals from a guy like Starmer and he obliged. Surely Labour MPs see that he has to go.

OMG. The cabinet simply don’t know what they or the PM are going to do differently. They don’t even have a line.

Starmer. The political failure who wants to be Prime Minister for 10 years but has no idea why. Except to be nasty and authoritarian maybe. If Labour doesn't get rid of him now they are out of government in 2029 and probably will not return. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

This is now becoming faintly ridiculous. How many times can someone 'take responsibility' for appalling outcomes while facing no consequences for them? 'Neither left nor right' might make sense if we knew direction we're headed in. Which we don't. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I said to a Labour doorknocker last night, "Your home secretary LITERALLY told people like me to fuck off a fortnight ago, and now you're here asking me to vote for you?"

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

Tell us you're changing track, sacking Shabana Mahmood, never listening to Maurice Glasman again, and that you're reversing policies on disability, and that you're open to freedom of movement, and then maybe we'll listen. Maybe.

Maybe, just maybe, if Keir Starmer had governed as a proper Labour PM, doing Labour things, he wouldn't be in this pickle.

Politicians and their media friends are panicking. They know we're coming to take back the power and wealth they've bled from us over decades. All my life they've sucked the life out of our schools, our NHS, our utilities, everything, just to get richer. Let's build something better. Vote Green

A lot of good people replying to me along these lines: ‘most people in Labour hate the anti-immigrant line, but can’t do anything about it.’ Yes you can. You can leave Labour, if they don’t change. Staying in the party makes the leadership think you support their policies’.

If the government wants to tackle the "online breeding ground of antisemitism" why on earth are Keir Starmer, the government and @heidialexander.bsky.social still posting on X? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

A pregnant pause. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog arguing that the combined effect of the May election results, the next UK-EU summit & the 10th anniversary of the referendum will be to initiate a renewed debate about Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-pr...

The fact that the Green surge is possible only due to Labour actively choosing to open up an huge gap between itself and its core voters should be self-evident, and yet its apparently too sophisticated a concept for some to grasp...

Oh, look what I saw on the beach!

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New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog, reviewing @sarahobolt.bsky.social & James Tilley's new book "Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain": chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/book... (this is an additional post to the normal fortnightly posts, which continue as usual next week)

So good, by @snellarthur.bsky.social

A bit of a racist vibe from Mahmood as she attacks "white" Liberals. Imagine if anyone responded calling her a brown conservative authoritarian. Will Number 10 take any action?

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.

The decision of a Prime Minister Only one person decided to appoint Lord Mandelson The Empty City blog emptycity.substack.com/p/the-decisi...

Peter Mandelson failed his Government security vetting. Starmer appointed him as ambassador to the US anyway. No more buck passing, no more mysteriously vanishing mobile phones, we need the truth. Starmer must go.

New times, same old arguments. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism blog discussing the latest developments in the rapidly changing international order and how post-Brexit Britain is stuck in delusions of greatness and cries of Brexit betrayal: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-...

Wow! This is amazing. Even down to the drilling technology able to travel so far and extend two metres once it gets there.

Starmer has to go - but (BOGOF) can we please keep him long enough to take the blame for Labour's massive losses in May?

It's never been a question of whether he needs to pretend, but whether he wants to pretend. And he still does. He's still petrified of upsetting the racists.

This is right, but I'd go further: winning the domestic argument on the free movement of people is what's needed to unlock anything further than the reset. That means Starmer has to repudiate many of his own arguments on migration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we all work together, we can make sure the World Cup is an absolutely embarrassing failure for the rich people who care about it.

Just read out loud the news that Trump, said the US Navy would immediately start blockading the strait of Hormuz. A whole room full of British adults spontaneously burst out laughing. It is not remotely funny but it is hilarious. USA 🇺🇸 is becoming a laughing stock

Labour are in (and deserve to be in) serious trouble as Labour's move to the Reform-lite right means their voters look for - and find - an attractive alternative in the Green Party.

Golly! Paddington is on the Robertson's Golden Shred label but not the word "Marmalade". How un-British.