Reform county councils have started introducing Christian prayer at the start of meetings. Other parties should walk out at this point. Faith should have nothing to do with political meetings. Reform aren't doing this because they're Christians. They aren't. They're doing it to keep Muslims out.

Have to get rid of the unflushable turd first.

Parties like Labour aren't risk takers, but they need to be, particularly over the EU. This "ever closer ties" nonsense isnt fooling anyone. What they're doing now is just bumbling along in a slow decline & taking the country with them. Tories and Reform are a lost cause, heads in the sand.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall. "I'll come up myself, Andy, and help. Give you a bit of a boost".. "Errr, no, really, PM, thanks but its fine, no need for you to bother" "No, really Andy, its my pleasure" "No, Really Keir, please, don't put yourself out, I mean it!"

Yet guess who Labour panders to. 🤔

My head is spinning with all the different versions of Andy Burnham that keep appearing.

Many of these people we elect aren't fit to govern us. I wish more people realised this. We should find out who the pro boozing at work hecklers were and bin em off at the next election.

Few things in this life are more useless than Microsoft's Windows (TM) search tool used on a large HDD

Hundreds of thousands of British troops died in WW2 fighting exactly this kind of racism, now here it is again on our streets courtesy of "Tommeh" and his pals.

These brave people, taking food and medical aid to Gaza, have been kidnapped by Israeli forces in international waters. This is just one of many yachts within the Global Flotilla who have also been intercepted.

Really, one group of people saw how to short circuit the system. The writing was on the wall in 2020. Biden was ineffective in response to the threat.

Well I've not watched this yet. The only thing I've seen so far was an ITV interview. I found it refreshingly different from the run of the mill Labour stuff - powerful, honest, forward looking. Obviously he's a politician and parts of it showed that, but all in all, a great personal manifesto.

One of the reasons I vote #Green #GPEW is that a Green government, once elected, would do something effective about wildlife crime, eg raptor persecution & killing. There are ways to tackle this, like closing the shooting on the estate while its investigated. Labour isn't doing anything meaningful.

Britain is absolutely chock full of worried back bench Labour MPs using a lotta lotta words to be entirely noncommittal with their constituents!

Yesterday Far Right leader Tommy Robinson and his followers openly called for Islam to be removed from the UK and us Muslims to be remigrated. If he had said this about Jews, quite rightly, there would be a national response. But it has been eerily quiet today.

So Starmer's apparently about to permit Burnham to stand in Makerfield, having disbarred him in Gorton and Denton three months ago. What the hell was that all about? The absolute rank stupidity of Starmer is perfectly epitomised here.

Here's what I think is going on, folks. We have to run a candidate. If we don't, if we publicly hand everything over to Burnham, the Daily Mail and the hyperfactional Labour right would have a merry time of it, and Burnham wouldn't thank us. If we run a candidate, we also have to make the right...

Word docs' spell check isn't the finest - it passes with a dozen absolute howlers in it, like "annanged". What kind of word is that?

Couldn't agree more. There are times for one-off working together with other parties, to help them choose their best leader, this is one. I'm generally in favour of Greens going it alone, but this is the wrong moment to do this. It could mean a Reform victory in 2029. Disappointed with my party.

I think this is very disappointing if true, I won't be travelling to Makerfield to help as I did G&D. Decisions like this could cause me to seriously reconsider my Green membership. Our party has to learn to work with others to defeat Reform.

There are many reasons to switch to Burnham, here's one big one.

There are 5 sitting Reform MPs who are former Conservative MPs. They all think Labour should call a General Election now that Andy Burnham may be coming back, yet none of them considered stepping down and triggering a bye-election when they defected to Reform. Hypocrites all!

If you're non-white, just don't go there! Don't go to the US - not for any reason, business, leisure, whatever.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

The left tie themselves in knots sometimes trying to drive for the perfect solution. Hydrogen, nuclear, objections galore, they're "not quite right" Maybe the phrase "the best is the enemy of the good" ought to be trotted out more frequently at left meetings, it might give purists pause for thought

BT wireless home phones are ruddy useless. You pick it up and the handset has lost contact with the base station so you can't answer. Batteries are new. I'm probably one of relatively few with a landline now, maybe they all bought BT phones and gave up on the idea in disgust!

Labour are trying yet another relaunch under Starmer. This will be what, the fourth? Each one fails and will continue to fail into 2029 while ever real change doesn't happen. Definition of madness? Tens of thousands of members and 100 or so MPs have their heads in the sand. My MP is one of them.

Israel has illegally seized over 60% of Gaza. A stark reminder that Israel’s occupation and genocide of Palestine has always been about stealing land and then building settlements on top of the corpses. Israel is the terrorist.🤬🤬🤬

I’m no fan of Starmer but the irony of Streeting and Mahmoud demanding he step down is bonkers. They are significant contributors to the party’s unpopularity. The party lacks self-awareness. If they take the lead nothing will improve.

This nasty little shit got in, apparently.

Starmer: What I heard: "Terrible results - I take full responsibility". "Mistakes have been made. We got this wrong. We're going to change. In fact we have changed. come on, keep supporting us" Should have heard: "I've made the following mistakes. These hurt people. This is what I will do about it"

Nope. Labour has an overwhelming majority. They could have tackled the media if they wanted. It is their choice not to do so, so this must be the media they want.

It should be highlighted again and again, antisemitism is absolutely rife in our print media. Labour are doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to address the problem, because it suits them not to. A disgusting, cynical political decision.

Labour have lost the vibe of compassionate socialism, they need someone to bring it back. Starmer can't do it, even if he wanted to, theres no warmth about the guy. He has to go.

"Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he will carry on as prime minister". Here's a man thinking of his own interests rather than those of party or country. "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. In the name of God, go".

Pathetic list of Daily-Mail-headline dogwhistles about pinko quangoes, beastly "equality laws", dirty immigrants and scrounging, skiving, malingering scumbags on "welfare". As if all of that were somehow the real problem, instead of the Brexit these Tory maggots pushed.

Of course, it’s completely possible that the journalist was going out of his way to find the handful of voters moving this way, just because….; the media’s complicity in Reform’s rise is truly disgraceful.

Well they tried it with Corbyn and it worked a charm, despite being largely faked up. So they're trying it again... Hard to imagine a party which recently chose a Jewish leader by a landslide can really be anti-Semitic. But that's the thing with the Mail readership, you can sell them any old BS

I have never, even once, heard Starmer openly consider whether Islamophobia leaves our Muslim communities feeling frightened or threatened. Nor will he. Not ever. He doesn't want to know. He's not concerned about them; they're of lesser importance to him.

Keir Starmer, Shabana Mahmood: repeat after me, twenty times: MARCHES IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE AND GAZA DO NOT EQUAL ANTISEMITISM! Don't be suckered into supporting one race against another...Get that learnt, it's important.

So Sir Keir sees antisemitism as the most critical British problem on which to focus his efforts at the moment. Apparently it's a crisis. I'd say groups of thugs clustered round migrant hotels are a far bigger problem. There certainly is much hatred in our society, I don't see it directed at Jews.

This is all very well, but afaics the series of National Emergency Briefing climate change awareness films, currently happening across the UK, involving thousands of dedicated volunteers have NEVER BEEN MENTIONED in @theguardian.com Not once. I'll be considering my level of support based on this.

There are still plenty of Labour and Tory MPs who are accepting "free holidays in the holy land" - gifted to them by a nation who have recently slaughtered 80,000 of their own inhabitants of a different race to the ruling one. For racist reasons. We should consider that when voting.

The fact that about a hundred thousand "antisemitic" members chose a Jewish man for their leader seems to have escaped the Mail's notice.

As inevitable as night following day that the Mail would go for this tack. Anyone left of Genghis Khan is unacceptable for this rag.

I think this sums it up perfectly.

I don't know who named the NHS patients Comms link "Patients Know Best" but this person is an absolute idiot. Patients DON'T know best. One of the problems with our modern NHS is that patients are continually encouraged to feel they know better than medical staff.

Never a mention of the B word though. Unless we confront that elephant Britain is going nowhere.

The whole parliamentary privileges committee thing is antiquated and ridiculous. The committee should be able to take the action it sees fit, without waiting for a vote in parliament which can be whipped in favour of a person in a powerful position who may have something to hide.

How typical of Starmer to three line whip his MPs to vote to let him off the hook, on what should have been a matter of individual judgement and conscience. As Nick Robinson said yesterday, he'd have won anyway, is he really so insecure?