USA is such a dangerous place - so many white people carrying arms and ready to use them. US citizens try coming to London under Sadiq Khan (w/o your guns), so safe, such a diverse community, such good public transport, good free health care.

Wow. This focus group on the MAGA cult. Spoiler: not MAGA anymore. Tori Hurst: "They made me watch a documentary on January 6th, and I didn't even know what happened on January 6th prior... And I looked at him, and I said, 'Scott, did that really happen?' And he was like, 'Where have you been?’”

When a PM is forced to resign by his MPs looking after their own interests and there is no agreed plan in place and no reshaped Government the the ambitious MPs will try to advance their careers by freelancing policies. Starmer said there would be chaos Labour a shambles Starmer the statesman

A party that forces the resignation of its PM for a replacement without knowing what is the plan is not a serious party working for national interest but only the self interest of its MPs Not a banana republic but UK. To be expected from a country that voted for Brexit and is overtly racist??

The UK Statistics Authority has written to Kemi Badenoch today, following our fact check of her inaccurate claim that the total welfare bill is now higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”. We hope she will correct the record soon.

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

🚨 Keir Starmer: "Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time. "And I remember not so long ago, the party opposite leading in the COP summit, something that we were able to support. It is a shame that in order to chase Reform votes, they've changed their mind."

Badenoch being needlessly graceless, personally abusive and unpleasant. The Speaker rightly calling it out.

Commentators, columnists and opposition politicians were apocalyptic with claims that ending private schools' tax breaks would overwhelm the state sector. The data shows those predictions were wrong. www.lbc.co.uk/article/priv...

The contempt which Burnham, Simons and the PLP are treating the membership and the electorate is impossible for me to get over. A sitting Labour MP standing down to facilitate a sitting Labour Mayor because they've decided he should be PM, Machiavelli would be proud.

Kemi Badenoch responding to the Prime Minister's resignation with exactly the level of good grace and humility as we have come to expect

The Badenoch mean girl act cheers up some Tories but puts everybody else off. #PMQs

PMQs: Starmer courteous to the end showing his decency BadEnoch has an effective line that Labour MPs stabbed Starmer in the back, and his ministers did not support him Starmer able to list his successes turning around UK. Davies rightly recognises Starmer’s good character and sets right tone

This is not what real change looks like. www.opendemocracy.net/blair-tribut...

Last winter, Russians mocked Ukrainians for living without electricity and heating. Today, they are facing their own hardships and aren’t laughing anymore. Thank you, Ukrainian drones. Thank you to all who support Ukraine.

Dependence on imported fossil fuels leaves our economies exposed. And citizens are paying the price. Electrification turns dependence into resilience. We will soon table our proposal to boost electrification across Europe. And today's Leaders' Statement sets the course towards COP31.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 European Commissioner for Defense and Space stated that it was the innovativeness of Ukraine's defense industry that made its army the best in Europe. He said that the EU must urgently integrate Ukraine into the common defense market in order to adopt the experience of rapid production.

Ukraine is now at the centre of the EU Project, not only because it is a wall against Putin encroachment but because of the technical brilliance and experience of warfare. It is important that the war is brought to an end with Ukraine occupying both Crimea and the rest of Ukraine.

In order to deliver policies more radical than Starmer’s and at pace, the new Labour PM will need people to accept stark realities. But Brits can’t handle the truth. They want quick fixes w/o anyone suffering economically A smile from Burnham ain’t going to cut it.

The Special Operations Forces reported that the railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal no longer exists.

Burnham’s cohort now saying things are so urgent that there is no time for a leadership contest …. BUT they do have a plan … honestly

@lbc.co.uk @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social ‘They’re not my naughty questions, Nigel, I’m asking for a friend’ - Nick Ferrari’s “difficult” couple of questions to Farage. He’s pocketed £5m - based on his political profile - from a “foreigner”. Crypto - we have no idea of the origin of that money. Dodgy!

When an immigrant stabbed a man in Belfast a few weeks ago, the image of that attack was on the front page of most of the UK papers. Jeffrey Donaldson is not on the front page of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mirror, Star, Metro, Morning Star, i paper, Guardian, Herald, Journal, or National

I remember the days when Tory MPs came on the airwaves defending Johnson's lies. Only interested in their career not a higher standard. Now some career Labour MPs are showing the same self interest, career before Party before Country.

Oh dear Labour MPs on BBCR4 praising Starmer for what he has done whilst lauding Burnham as the Northern Messiah No better than the Tories.

Starmer has been badly treated by his Party with many MPs not actively supporting him. They have damaged Labour I hope that Burnham fails to become PM … again. He and his northern cronies should not be rewarded for their actions Already getting on my nerves acting as if they are already in charge.

BBCR4 now it starts … Burnham …. flip flop

So the Burnham plan is ….. A smile, a quip and a reference to t’ North

Darren Jones … another decent man with good experience and manner. Trustworthy too.

I'm not, I've sickened by the shabby behaviour of him and Simons, a big up yours to their electorate, he will not be getting my vote. This is not a day for celebrations, it's a shameful day in Labour's history. I'll be ditching my membership as soon as I've had a vote in leadership election.

UK electorate that has a short memory, wants instant gratification, all for free and a clown in charge so they can laugh now and then. Starmer was a statesman. Wasted on the UK.

Sadiq Khan on the PM's resignation “Keir Starmer has been a friend and colleague for over three decades, ever since our time as young lawyers. He is a man of great integrity who has devoted much of his career to public service. He "has made a huge contribution to the Labour party and our country."

It will be interesting to see market reaction to Reeves no longer being Chancellor. How does Labour change its Chancellor, keep to fiscal rules and run the narrative of change?

Incredibly moving & gracious resignation speech from Keir Starmer. History will be much kinder to him than the current popular narrative. To the last putting the national interest first. 😢

The UK is once again in danger, economically, socially, in national security matters, brought on by Burnhamites and Press who've sought to destabilise, disrupt and destroy solid work Starmer and crew have put in for 24mths. Our enemies are rejoicing, advancing further into our lives on every front.

Starmer putting county before himself, Burnham put himself before country.

We have a media model that has become reliant on the thirst for Westminster drama. A PM lurching from crisis to crisis is more profitable to them than one which is stable, boring and gets things done. So we are in a death spiral where no-one can last longer than 2 years. Doomed.

Europe regarded Starmer highly. Brits of course seem to be rather small minded these days

it's possible that the Labour party will collectively look back at June 2026 and wondered how and why this happened

UK owe Starmer a huge thanks and history will record the huge change that Starmer brought. Billionaire Media of course will continue to do its worst unrestrained Labour frankly are badly damaged.

Sickening to see journalists now pivoting to "the human tragedy" of Starmer’s resignation. The media built the gallows, gave Burnham's arrogant camp a free pass to leak and destroy a decent man, and now they want credit for feeling bad as he breaks down? A total joke.

Starmer showing his decency in his resignation speech and what UK will now miss. Burnham is not big enough to lead UK not after this betrayal.

It starts. Burnham’s receipts. He is deliberately manoeuvring to replace Starmer as PM w/o scrutiny of his plan, hyping up the extent resistance to Starmer continuing as PM. All the hallmarks of a left wing coup. Starmer’s duty to UK is to ensure Burnham has a better plan for UK than Starmer.

There’s a coordinated campaign of hate against Starmer. Much of it I assume from bots and paid trolls, from outside the country, as well as vile individuals in the UK. Social media has a lot to answer for. The Labour left sees this as genuine unpopularity, and dances to their media’s siren song.

Tories and Reform hate Starmer because he’s forensic and capable! It’s not in thier own interests for him to stay leader. And Burnham and Streetings own egos will play right into their hands! Tarnishing them with the same Tory brush!

Want to know why we currently cannot trust what The Observer says about Starmer? The current Observer editor was editor of the Times from 2007 to 2012. Starmer was DPP from 2008 to 2013, where he prosecuted several people in the media over the phone hacking scandal. 1/2

If unstopped, the trillionaires will eventually have no choice but to take everything from you, your children and your grandchildren. Here's how it happens (and how to stop them). youtu.be/Gd0gmxd36FI

Starmer family was working class He made good as human rights lawyer, ran UK legal services, stabilised UK and spearheaded recent international reaction If Labour boot him out Starmer will go on to bigger things. UK’s loss, stuck with Burnham, BadEnock, Polanski and Farage career politicians

So the Labour backstabbers are supported by Trump in trying to get rid of Starmer … the company you keep ….

Yep. That’s the measure of the man. Starmer - Country before self