The speed that Burnham is surrendering to the right, with absolutely no pressure on him, is genuinely a bit shocking. He might be even more lost than Starmer.

Remember this shocking national security assessment, only released thanks to an FoI, warning of ecosystem collapse? That was only the summary. The government still won't release the full report, not even on a confidential basis to MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee.

Say hello to Chris Kennedy - Safeguarding Nurse, battle-tested Green Campaigner, Passionate Grassroots Visionary and your Green Party candidate for Makerfield 💚

Faith No More Soundgarden The Damned Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan Metallica James Taylor Quartet Motorhead Guns 'n' Roses The Crash Test Dummies Angine De Poitrine bsky.app/profile/caoi...

“You have to vote for Burnham”they cry “He’s the only hope for change”they cry “You’ll be splitting the ‘Left’ vote”they cry Burnham, once again proving he won’t do the things people say he will and he is none of the things people think he is www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Labour Party really is a cesspit of corruption & lies

True this. Vote Labour get Tories.

You could just ignore her, lads. Nobody is forcing you to repeatedly make a big red spanked arse of yourselves, where the public can see.

"This is about the weakest form of price control you can imagine.. the real crazy reaction you're getting from some quarters about this really tells you something about the ideological content of this.." @meadwaj.bsky.social on @novaramedia.com

Europe is swapping one gas dependency for another. Russian pipeline gas: out by 2028. US LNG: 5 bcm in 2019 → ~115 bcm by 2030, ~80% of EU imports. The vulnerability just moved onto tankers. But what if the crisis worsens? Long-read with our latest research on this Sunday: janrosenow.substack.com

They are so unpopular they make me want to hate things I like. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation She asks him about it He jumps into his car and drives off

Given that the 31 Labour councillors and the 31 Tory councillors on Barnet council teamed up against the 1 Green councillor while awarding themselves top jobs last night I think it's clear where Labour stands on "progressive alliances": against progressives.

Absolutely right @owenjones.bsky.social Control is not the same as ownership 🚌On buses we need public control of networks (like the successful BeeNetwork we campaigned for) AND publicly owned bus companies 💧💡On water and energy we need public ownership www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If central banks failed to control inflation, what comes next? youtu.be/dkT7wyVSjs0?... Should their days be over?

A question for @andyburnham.bsky.social: What do you mean by "stronger public control"? Does that mean a) direct public ownership or b) just better regulation?

LOL and they’re off

Quid pro quo with one of the worst that the Labour right has to offer. Burnham really is more of the same shite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=spAH...

Burnham flogging the dead horse of neoliberalism & continued misuse of terminology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pBg...

This is a timely reminder. Both Starmer and Burnham know this. Neither actually has to wait to the next GE for electoral reform. Labour members and Conference already indicated they want it. Unions backed it. They won't do it because their faction is only interested in party political power.

🚨BREAKING | Andy Burnham confirms he will NOT scrap first-past-the-post before #GE2029 Burnham said electoral reform must be "in a manifesto", and revealed he does NOT back proportional representation, instead praising the non-proportional Supplementary Vote (SV). Via @itvnews

Windsock Wes. Whichever way the wind blows is his direction.

This looks like such a half-arsed compromise. Much worse than the AV system that we failed to agree on in 2011. What happened to the Andy Burnham of five years ago who said he supported actual PR? makevotesmatter.org.uk/news/2021/8/...

Reeves’s reckless gamble with financial stability www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05... Just as we face another financial crisis, Rachel Reeves is seeking to loosen banking regulation, massively increasing the risk to deposits and the state, which will pick up the cost.

List of things Andy Burnham has already confirmed he will not do. No Water Renationalisation or any other renationalisation. No Rejoin EU. No PR.

Who are reform?

"Tell us one specific thing [Burnham] will do" Simons: ".. one of the things he's really committed to.. energy, water, social housing.. have gotten so expensive.. & one of the reasons why.. is that we've privatised a lot of them" "So with Burnham, nationalise water?" "No" lol

I personally would prefer it if Burnham could be swapped in quickly and easily, and it’d probably be better for the nation. But I see no reason why the Greens should now help people who just spent two weeks calling them hateful racist cranks trying to give heroin to children.

Fiction of trickle-down 1975: UK workers’ share of gross value added, 71.9%. 2025, 59.7%. Data includes pay of fat-cat execs. Workers plight is worse. Huge transfer of wealth from labour to capital. 25.3m live below minimum income standard. Can't build economy without reversing the squeeze.

Gee whizz Wes, in what way was it dishonest

Is Burnham better than Starmer? Absolutely. Will he save Britain? Absolutely not. Let me explain… open.substack.com/pub/harryecc...

I sometimes feel insane that we don't constantly talk about the time Labour gave a black guy who was poised to unseat Nigel Farage the sack because he was a better poster than Keir Starmer

A reminder that this is what we kept getting told before Gorton & Denton's by-election.

Labour wouldn't, for a second, consider stepping aside for The Greens under any circumstances. Start from there.

Attention, extremist , race-hate scum: assuming we can pull you away from feeding heroin to toddlers for five minutes, would you mind awfully not standing a candidate in this seat, so that we can rescue ourselves from electoral oblivion? Thank you, and fuck you

Um, if Andy Burnham needs the Greens to step aside to win a seat that Labour currently holds, that Labour has held since it was created, what exactly is supposed to be the point of him?

The ISC is an extraordinarily restrained and usually quite apolitical committee – Number 10 dragged it into the Mandelson disclosures, it didn't ask to be involved. So for them to complain about over-redaction deserves to be taken very seriously.

I understand what Caroline is saying, but I disagree Labour and Reform are using the people of Makerfield as pawns in their political games The people of Makerfield deserve far better than that They deserve a @greenparty.org.uk MP who will stand up for them, regardless of political convenience

I do believe people can legitimately and honestly shift their politics over time. However, in any such instance: 🚩 their past positions must always contextualise their current advisors, backers and intentions 🔍 there must be real evidence that their views have changed

For the frothing headline-only readers: www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Welfare spending (which includes pensions) was, in fact, higher than income tax receipts throughout the entirety of Kemi Badenoch's ministerial career.

The King’s Speech wasn’t the transformative plan for the country we need. It will take time for any govt to undo the effects of 50 yrs of neoliberalism. King’s Speech shows that on too many fronts the govt’s ambition is not matched by actions. Improving household resilience must be a top priority

"However, 3 German states—North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Bavaria—use Palantir’s Gotham which contains personal data incl. addresses, fines, criminal records + social media. The tech provides police officers with a comprehensive profile of any person in seconds." cybernews.com/tech/germany...

The fact that Keir Starmer has drafted Morgan McSweeney back in to save him has to be funniest part of all of this. Truly committed to never learning a single lesson you have to give it to him

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

My suggestion is that if you’re talking about advocates or supporters of Israeli government policy, then use those words, rather than “Zionists”. Then there can be no confusion about what you mean, and no blurring of the line between legitimate criticism and possible antisemitism.

Quite a statement from Nigel Farage saying out loud that the uncovered £5m 'donation' was a reward for "campaigning for Brexit for 27 years":

So Streeting’s choice is either to trigger a leadership contest he cannot win, or to effectively stand down as a diminished political figure Brandishing a banana would, at this point, probably have been the more dignified option