Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

Andy Burnham polls better than Nigel Farage on almost every characteristic a leader should have, new polling has found.

Plot twist: it’s now more attractive to lose in the semi-finals than to win the tournament. #WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup

All Team Edwards aren’t we. Would have got long odds on that 5/6 years ago. #NUFC

The UK political media are the arsonists at a burning building now furiously hiding petrol cans behind their backs.

credit to Sally Nugent who just, in normal circumstances, brought Nigel Farage's political career to an end. If polls don't plummet after this, I will be truly astonished.

News of who actually won the #Makerfield by-election obviously hasn’t reached Dubai yet.

How conventient for political journalists, to all be gathered in Downing Street once more, so they can interview each other, to ask "how did this happen?", without ever acknowledging that, at least in part, they themselves are how this happened.

Known as an ‘error carried forward’ in a maths exam. #Brexit

The current crop of political correspondents absolutely live for the melodrama. They’d be better off as Eastenders scriptwriters.

Oh look. The party that makes up just over 1% of #Parliament has spoken.

#KeirStarmer is a good man with an incredible list of lifetime achievements. Today he has done the right thing but it is worth remembering we only got to this point because the UK media never gave the guy a chance. History will be kinder to him that the present, no doubt.

I like it when the journalist says the same thing I said. Just worded better. #NUFC

The complaint that Burnham is just a better communicator with the same policies misses the point. Politics is communication. If you can persuade voters, you can move public opinion. If you can't, you can't. Changing the public mood requires somebody capable of making people listen. 1/2

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

In politics, the #BBC has lost the plot. See Emily Maitlis’s comments on #Brexit

Humanity 1-0 Hate. Best result of the #WorldCup so far.

The sad reality of someone reading too many Yaxley-Lennon tweets brought to life…. #Edinburgh

Great work Don. Get him another Peace Prize. #StraitofHormuz

Doesn’t say a lot for the ‘project’ if #NUFC can’t convince a player that our ambition and prospects can match Tottenham’s.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Terrible result for Wes Streeting. #Makerfield #Burnham

Farage will never be PM. Nor will Lowe. Doesn't matter how much Musk huffs and puffs. Doesn't matter how many dodgy millions they take from foreign tech bros. The anti-wanker vote is just too big, and is prepared to hold its nose and vote tactically to stop them. We see it over and over again.

Slightly surprised to be in what appears to be a minority #Labour position, in believing: 1. #Starmer has been given a raw deal 2. The process to get to this point stinks. 3. #Burnham is Labour and the country’s best hope longer term.

Beginning of the end for the #Farage and #ReformLtd grift 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 #Burnham #Makerfield

Refreshing and reassuring that with the right offering, #Labour can beat #ReformLtd so resoundingly. #Makerfield

Periodic reminder that the UK is being failed by the media.

We live in a world where we need more Tom Morellos, and less Yaxley-Lennons. #DownloadFestival #TomMorello

The #FarageRiots branching out to #Belfast won’t benefit #Reform Ltd in the long run.

‘Councillor quits Reform Ltd over the things she chose to turn a blind eye to when she joined Reform Ltd in the first place.’

The worst possible leadership at the worst possible time. The UK is still suffering from it now, probably always will.

Big blow for butchers’ shops. #QuestionTime

How we got ‘here’ Laura, is largely because of people like you. I don’t expect to find that level of self awareness in your article though somehow.

It’s like he’s done the #ReformLtd bluster and defect interview training, but skipped bits of it. #QuestionTime

Every news channel in the country should invite #Farage on to talk about #Southampton. Question 1: “Why didn’t you declare the £5m gift you received?”

Today I have mostly been using a tragedy to distract attention from my dodgy financial dealings.

Repost from 4th August 2024.

Sickening, but a very small silver lining is that all this serves to do is educate more people as to what a shameless grifter Farage is. #FarageRiots

Just completed on #Audible Frighteningly insightful. A must read for anyone with a political leaning and a moral compass.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemns Nigel Farage for "whipping up" division against the wishes of Henry Nowak's family

#FarageRiots becoming an annual tradition.

We have reached the point where #KeirStarmer must directly call this out in the strongest possible terms. Absolute opportunistic nonsense at best, plain dangerous at worst. #NigelFarage

Fantastic news. #ReformLtd 👋🏻

Farage stirring up race hatred as usual. His conduct is disgraceful.

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

#Farage can’t be arsed to turn up and do his actual job but he’s happy to go on TV to try and incite more #FarageRiots just like he did after Southport in 2024. All part of the grift.

Today’s political journalists want to chastise MPs for governing by WhatsApp, while relying on WhatsApp to feed their gossip machine. It was better when the news reported on the boring stuff, like government policy.

Couldn’t just take one night off from being a total weirdo could he? Why on earth would you build up to the biggest game of your life watching back old penalty decisions? #ChampionsLeagueFinal

#KeirStarmer is going really hard on watching the football. Why doesn’t he just get a firestick like everyone else? #CLFinal #WorldCup

Really like this framing. A club as a whole moving in the right direction. The manager is a big part of that - get rid of them and you go backwards quite a few steps. #NUFC