Anyone else use #Fitbit, now wrecked by #Google? There’s an old-fashioned saying: “Leave well enough alone.” Not everything needs to be constantly upgraded by the beanbagerati.

Essay time. Compare and contrast the following former #Labour PMs on how they make suggestions for their party’s future: #TonyBlair #GordonBrown Hint: ego.

2% of LE26 Labour voters consider voting for Reform at the next election. Less than 1% of Reform voters consider Labour. Yet, Labour continues to target exactly those voters. Literally, politics for the 1%. Meanwhile, 42% of Lab voters consider the Greens. After already having lost tons to them.

#r4today Bad move. Andy #Burnham persuades an MP representing #Brexit Central to stand down. Just as the 10th anniversary approaches. And then thinks #Brexit should not be an issue. Not clever.

⬇️ Economy down £240bn. ⬇️ Investment down 18%. ⬇️ 4000 fewer doctors in the NHS. ⬇️ £90bn less in tax revenue. 💰 All so he could pocket a few quid. He doesn't care about the working class, he is taking the country for a mug.

#r4today Can we stop referring to the #Farage £5m bung as a ‘gift’? As Farage himself said it was a ‘thank you for Brexit’. A political payment.

#r4today Top story: No-one standing against #Starmer as leader. Starmer not going anywhere. No Cabinet resignations. I am not a #Labour voter but this is doing the country absolutely no favours. Message to media: FFS MOVE ON!!

#r4today @zackpolanski.bsky.social Dear Zack Polanski Find yourself a crypto donor, tax-dodger or the like to donate £millions. Get them to pay your tax and council tax “to keep you safe”. The media will leave you alone…until they start on your junior school records, dental records etc.

Can you seriously imagine Rayner or Streeting as PM?! I’m trying to. Trying hard….but no. Gravitas minus.

If Andy #Burnham offered the same as #Starmer would he still be a better choice? #LabourParty #InstagramPolitics #PersonalityPolitics

Say what you like about the British press, but I find it reassuring that they spend months ripping apart a Labour PM for properly declaring some glasses and football tickets, then all but ignore someone who wants to be PM when he tries to cover up a £5 million gift.

#wato news values NEWS: A new Scottish MSP will have to renew a student visa. 🤷🏼‍♀️ NOT NEWS: Reform councillors found to have dodgy, racist content in their social media. 👀

#r4today The two-party system has gone. Time for Proportional Representation. I seem to recall that even #Farage was a huge fan not so long ago. #PR #LocalElections #Labour

"You can't let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon." Donald J. Trump, May 5, 2026.

Hi everyone the #NRMIV is taking place on 20/06/26 the nearest Saturday to the 10th anniversary of #Brexit, we want this to be the biggest march yet, please can you share and donate if you can. Hope to see you all on the march All info and how to donate in the link 👇 marchforrejoin.co.uk/nrmiv

"The EU is an economic giant. Its 27 member states combine into the world’s second-biggest economy behind America and its third-most-populous internal market, behind India and China." Since Brexit, we have been out in the cold. Outside the EU and buffeted between a volatile US and calculated China.

Ternopil is under a massive Russian drone attack. Russian drones fly very low over residential buildings. Explosions were heard in the city.

I was wondering what #Beltane is. Aaah. #Bealtaine. The Irish name for May, from the old Celtic festival. Pronounced ‘Byowl-tin-eh’. Bet you’re glad you know that. 😆

Many things can be linked back to the shit show that is Brexit, including the rise of small boats crossing the channel. Imagine making a career out of Brexit, then a career out of immigrants, it's almost like it happened on purpose... #ukpolitics

#r4today Can we please move on from the #Mandelson psychodrama? In case you haven’t noticed, there are FAR more important things happening in the world right now.

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

#Trump #Hormouz #Iran Oh….

Are there, perhaps, any recent examples of dubious characters with obvious security risks being appointed to the House of Lords?

#Mandelson #Starmer #R4Today Anyone else think journalists are more interested in the Mandelson vetting problem than the rest of us? Parliamentary soap opera. It merits some coverage but there are FAR more important issues deserving this level of attention.

#TrumpNuclearCodes #R4Today Is this story true? I don’t know. Maybe? Probably not. Difficult to tell. And therein lies the problem. #Trump is so unpredictable almost anything could be true. Or not. What a world we live in.

#r4today Cards on table. I’m not a #Labour voter. However, we do NOT need a leadership election given the current international chaos and threat. The Tories started this ‘change PM every five minutes’ game. Don’t play it. It makes the whole UK a laughing stock. #Starmer #Mandelson

#r4today Did #Starmer know that #Mandelson had failed his vetting? No. Did Boris #Johnson know Russian Oligarch Lebedev had failed his? Yes. Did he then appoint him to the House of Lords? Yes. Did he resign? Waddyafink??

Imagine being Catholic for 10 minutes and then telling the Pope to stay in his lane.

#Vance: 1. Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz is economic terrorism. 2. So the US will….block the Strait of Hormuz.

Even the #BBC shows excerpts from the Iran Lego videos on the news. #TacoTuesday #Trump 🌮 🔥

Just imagine for one minute that #Kamala Harris had won the 2024 Presidential election. Breathe in. Breathe out. Calm, isn’t it?

If #Trump does an #AprilFool how will we know?

#r4today Good morning! #Trump’s latest: the Iranians ARE negotiating but the people he is talking to aren’t saying so…because they are afraid of their own people. OK. 🤔 Any flaws in the above? Actually, don’t waste time thinking about it folks. You’d get more sense from your breakfast cereal.

So #Trump reposted a comedy sketch about #Starmer. Just imagine if other international leaders reposted comedy sketches featuring Trump……or anyone. They don’t. It would be undignified and childish.

Migrant Taxpats. Expats means they expect to be rescued by the government of a country they left to avoid paying tax. Arrogance and entitlement wherever they go.

The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#R4Today Nick Robinson is convinced there was a delay in informing the public about the meningitis outbreak. Nothing and no expert can convince him otherwise. There has to be someone to blame and he’s the man to root them out. 🙄

I was feeling a bit sorry for #JoMalone being sued by #EsteeLauder. Then I got to the part about her living in #Dubai My sympathy burned off quicker than a lit scented candle. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

@ottoenglish.bsky.social Current most annoying PR speak. “We don’t recognise…. ” as in “We don’t recognise that description of our company.” Great way round having to lie or acknowledge the truth. #PRBullshit

“Rarely has a British political party unveiled a programme that combines cruelty with impracticality on such an extravagant scale.” Chilling on Reform’s increasingly confident fascism. High on viciousness and greed. Very low on wisdom. A ruinous combination. www.independent.co.uk/voices/zia-y...

I enjoy @therestpolitics.bsky.social and others from the #Goalhanger stable. As a keen reader I might give the new #TheBookClub a go. However, I see one of the hosts is Dominic Sandbrook. One mention of Greeks or Romans, where not appropriate, and I’ll hit the off bottom. Forever.

Caption: He thought it went very well. (Source: Andrew’s reported reaction to the car crash #Newsnight interview.)

@ottoenglish.bsky.social Tomorrow’s Sun front page: “Diana’s brother-in-law arrested"

BBC reporting the economic benefits of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc. Including a rail link. Good news. How long though before the #HS2 #battunnel brigade nimbies are out in force? The whole rail plan will be scuppered because someone *walked his dog in a field earmarked for development. *once

Chris Mason is to Farage what Nicholas Witchell was to the Queen. Sycophancy on stilts.

Productive? Says the man who probably couldn’t find his constituency on a map… …of Clacton.

#TheEpsteinClass MAGA, Tech bros, Big money,Grifters, Russians ….and #Brexit A swamp.

We should fund political parties. Unpalatable I know, but at least it isn’t corrupt. While we’re at it: 1. Why are all MPs paid the same? In what other work is a newbie paid the same as someone with 20 years experience? Link pay to NHS or teaching etc. 2. Lords should sit for 15 years max.

From the very people whinging about Starmer’s #China stance: #Brexit #GlobalBritain and ‘the Special Relationship’. All bollocks. Get real.