They really should have called it EmmaNation Street #corriedale

I have delivered my leaflets. Definitely going to reward myself with biscuits.

I am enjoying every second of every minute of every hour of every day. My reflections on my first few months and the two stories that can be told about Labour during that time.

The language of 'Benefits Street' is a rhetoric completely devoid of compassion. Those using it should hang their heads in shame says Samantha Richards.

What does Andrea Egan’s Unison win means for Keir Starmer, Labour’s funding, NEC dynamics, and how far the government will go on the implementation of the Employment Rights Bill and Fair Pay Agreement for the care sector? Analysis by @emmaburnell.bsky.social

It is days like this that remind us why we do it. Yes, I'll get back in the weeds in the new year. Yes, it's not always easy being a Labour member. BUT! YES it's totally totally worth it when we make such an important difference to worker's lives. Merry Christmas.

📣 🌹 BREAKING: The Employment Rights Bill has passed Parliament. It's a landmark win for working people says @labourunionsuk.bsky.social chair Joanne Thomas.

Great, perceptive post from @emmaburnell.bsky.social: labourlist.org/2025/12/labo...

Politics on the Labour 'right' suffers from an incoherence rooted in conflict between New Labour and Blue Labour. Until Starmer chooses he will remain politically adrift. New analysis from @emmaburnell.bsky.social

Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven. And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...

Never has the word inconceivable been more appropriate or more heartbreaking. RIP Rob and Michele Reiner. You gave our lives so much joy.

Happy birthday Dick Van Dyke - 100 today! And by all accounts, a great human being (much better than he was a cockney!)

You know the constant bollocks about how London is a shithole and nothing works blah blah blah? Well, the lift at Walthamstow Central has been fixed about a *month* before it was due! Well done @mayoroflondon.bsky.social - thought I would balance the endless invective with something nice.

What the hell on Earth have Apple done to my phone???

Who do I send the script for Four Weigh In’s and a Funeral to?!

I mean… the Shadow Cabinet still exist. Though tbf you wouldn’t necessarily know it beyond boring Mel Stride, mad Robert Jenrick and also mad Chris Philp. When boring Mel Stride is your star player I don’t think you’re quite dregs free.

Once more for the haters...

The child I didn’t know I had/Smudge has a new phone apparently. Bloody scammers

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How are you? What have you been up to? (This is the best way of giving my age addled & mildly face blind brain the space to work out who I’m talking to and for them to give me clues without either of us feeling insulted)

I am willing to bet the lettuce got better viewing figures.

Today is a good day to be a Labour member.

Labour can be proud of the strategy it has announced today. Now they must get on to deliver it. To realise the potential of all children. @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the government's Child Poverty Strategy

Telling that she couldn’t even get a GB News show.

Labour launch ambitious Child Poverty Strategy, promising around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 and deliver Labour's 'moral mission'.

The chess stories are not just ridiculous. They also devalue any genuine criticism you may have of the chancellor in their ridiculousness. Now it’s just a wall of shrill stupid noise. A package with enough nonsense in it to be easily dismissed.

The problem with Whamageddon is it involves avoiding listening to a great song. Which seems self defeating.

Because of course she is involved.

They really do seem to be determined to give up as much political space to the Greens as possible.

For The Some…

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

I would offer to swap for my 2 bed in Leyton but no fucking way I’m moving to North Kensington from God’s own country.

It’s niece movie night again! Tonight’s double bill…

Labour MPs, unions and think tanks have broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget - but hit out at the OBR’s “unacceptable” leak

If you're the poor sod at the OBR who might find themselves with a bit more time on their hands next week don't worry! You can still be a winner at the LabourList Xmas pub quiz!

I was on the Daily Politics talking all things budget today. Here’s a clip!

In his denial Farage sounded a lot like a traditional politician. It might, sadly, be this that does him more damage than the allegations.

I think this sums up Blue Labour to a tee: someone experiences, or shares a human tragedy, and you feel sad for them, but equally it doesn’t give them license to tear up 600 years of information about what drives prosperity and replace it with saying the word “relational” a lot.

I’ve been in my flat 12 years this week. I moved in in 2013 which at the time felt like the worst year of my life. But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been. That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.

Keir Starmer would lose a head-to-head contest against Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, exclusive polling for LabourList by Survation reveals

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one cannot have both a cat and 1000 jigsaw pieces.

“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin. And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?

Shabana Mahmood is walking a tightrope: can Labour be both compassionate and tough on immigration? Emma Burnell how ‘for the many’ is being tested by hard security politics

WHAT a picture. observer.co.uk/culture/danc...

I found this so interesting. We talk about polling results endlessly but rarely discuss how we ask the questions. This salience vs importance question is fascinating.

As immigration dominates the brief this morning, here’s my two cents on the salience vs. the importance of the issue: labourlist.org/2025/11/immi... (Full report linked below - Many thanks to @emmaburnell.bsky.social!!)

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Our Editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the extraordinary mess of the last 24 hours.