#AndyBurnham does NOT support #ProportionalRepresentation #PR. 😡 Burnham supports #SupplementaryVote, also known as #AlternativeVote #AV, which is NOT a proportional system And he will NOT scrap the current #FirstPastThePost #FPTP before the next general […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

New New New! New Blairism is Coming! Exciting new anorak! Thick-rimmed glasses! Manchester accent! All bundled up in a Cambridge graduate in English lit who has never had a job outside politics. What's not to like... if you are a Blairite. #ukpol #burnham #blair

"The reality is that Wes #Streeting, #anassarwar, #AndyBurnham and #joshsimons are all part of the same political project, on the right of British Labour." — Mike Small of @BellaCaledonia https://fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com/p/the-king-in-the-north #burnham #labourparty #blairites #ukpol

BREAKING: Man optimistic he can replace hated prime minister and win over the public by doing the exact same policies, but in a Mancunian accent. #starmer #burnham #normalislandnews #makerfield

UK #LabourParty last week: Greens #GPEW are antisemitic loony extremist mioster Corbynistas! Labour this week: Greens MUST help us out in the by-election we manufactured because the 403 MPs who we haven't driven out are all crap and we need the slightly […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Andy #burnham gets around. #labourparty #ukpol ###ukpolitics #starmer

UK #LabourParty last week: Greens #GPEW are antisemitic loony extremist mioster Corbynistas! Labour this week: Greens MUST help us out in the by-election we manufactured because the 403 MPs who we haven't driven out are all crap and we need the slightly […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Andy #burnham gets around. #labourparty #ukpol ###ukpolitics #starmer

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/116577383331855609 I think I have made up my mind on Andy #burnham. If he is focused on implementing #proportionalrepresenation #pr now, as top priority, then I want him to win. He could enable a new politics, and prevent FPTP from gifting ReformUK an unearned […]

We live in a world in which we face several separate genuinely existential problems, at least one of which, the #climateemergency, is so critical that unless we make radical change this decade there is no future for life on this planet. And our media have spent the week discussing gossip about a […]

Another favourite for the Global Prize for Political Idiocy, if it exists. 🤣 The #UK's so-called #LabourParty currently has 403 sitting MPs. So the #Starmtroopers circulate a public letter supporting Keir #Starmer with only 116 names on it (23.5%). In other […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

More guns, less butter. 😡 #TheTimes reports that #Starmer will add £18 billion to the military budget. https://archive.is/SiKxA Millions of ppl struggle to pay rent, fuel & food. Transport is crap. NHS waiting liats are huge. Labour is deeply unpopular. Starmer […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Why? Because he's arrogant rat, who can't count. He hadn't got the numbers, but he ploughed on regardless. Crash! But there's scope here for a great scathing ballad. "The Rat Who Couldn't Count"

Andy #burnham has won the first stage of his battle to be the loser of the #makerfield by-election. Labour's NEC has allowed him to seek the nomination. If Burnham is selected, he will be squeezed between Greens & Reform. The Greens are sympathetic to Burnham, but won't clear his path without […]

Labour is the bookies' current favourite to win the #Makerfield by-election. https://www.oddschecker.com/insight/politics/20260515-makerfield-by-election-odds-andy-burnham-labour-favourites But I reckon that the bookies' short 4/6 odds refect commercisl caution […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

US President Johnson said 1st rule of politics was learn how to count. Seems that #wesstreeting can't count. 😅 #Streeting plotted for 6 months. But by Weds evening only ~40 of 300 #labourparty backbenchers would commit. See #thetimes https://archive.is/IarpF He might make the 81 from ministers […]

Will #burnham drive #pr? I am v wary of #AndyBurnham. He seems likely to merely slow the decline of the deeply rotten #labourparty, whose death is long overdue. But a Burnham regime could be transforming IF it ensures that #FPTP is abolished at all elections. That would stop ReformUK taking […]

US President Johnson said 1st rule of politics was learn how to count. Seems that #wesstreeting can't count. 😅 #Streeting plotted for 6 months. But by Weds evening only ~40 of 300 #labourparty backbenchers would commit. See #thetimes https://archive.is/IarpF He might make the 81 from ministers […]

A new experiment left 10 #AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. 2 agents fell into a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’. This […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Today, #Starmer made 2 appointments to the UK cabinet. Both ministers are on their 3rd govt job in <2 years. James Murray was Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury for 14 months, then Chief Secretary to the Treasury for 8½ months. Now Health Secretary. Lucy Rigby […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Wes #Streeting "looks like #starmer dipped in candlewax" — #jonathanpie 🤣😅🤣😅🤣👏👏👏 #ukpol https://youtu.be/83IYfRzlYv8

Wes #Streeting "looks like #starmer dipped in candlewax" — #jonathanpie 🤣😅🤣😅🤣👏👏👏 #ukpol https://youtu.be/83IYfRzlYv8

The #Makerfield constituency looks like a perfect gift to #AndyBurnham: 1/ in Greater Manchester 2/ next door to his former Leigh constituency 3/ in a borough where Reform did v badly in this years local elections 4/ a seat where Labour held up well in 2024 […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Jodh Simons MP is a former #labourtogether operator. And he doesn't look like a nice inhabitant of that sewer. So why on earth is Josh handing his seat to #AndyBurnham? He looks like he'd be better suited to doing hit jobs for first Wes #Streeting. What's going on? #ukpol

"Fuckity Bye!" #Streeting #downingstreet #princelingofdarkness Malcolm Tucker #ukpol

First images just in of the shocking scene at site of Wes #Streeting's crashed leadership bid. Emergency services confirm that the only casualty is the ego and credility of the of the #princelingofdarkness. #ukpol

Is #beelzebub's phone broken? Or just empty battery? I can't think of any other reason why #starmer hasn't announced him as the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Beelzebub — the continuity choice #ukpol

Wes #Streeting, the #PrincelingOfDarkness (loyal pal of #Mandelson), has resigned from the UK government. But he has NOT made a leadership challenge. Which he wouod have dine, if he had the numbers. Now he is trying to save some face by posing as a sort of fair […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

#Glinner is like a #dup politician: he gets out of bed in the morning with the sole intention that in the course of the day, he will find something to be offended by. And if he's lucky, he will be outraged by it. #fatherted #eurovision2026 #eurovision

Wes"s terriers are snarling. Angie has escaped the taxman. In the bunker, #starmer is planning his last stand against the #princelingofdarkness and the redhead. #ukpol, with thanks to Jacques-Louis David

Will nobody think of #Streeting, the #princelingofdarkness? #matt in Thursday's ##torygraph #ukpol

The morning's fancy dress event is over. Writers of the #UKpolitics show have changed tack. The on/off/on/off leadership challenge by the #PrincelingOfDarkness (aka #WesStreeting) is rumoured to be on again tomorrow. This is a great storyline, because the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The writers of the #UKpolitics show continue to create first-rate entertainment. Lesser dramatists might have an experienced a creative crisis when the early lead characters failed. Catherine the stalking donkey was returned to her paddock. The Princeling Of […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

It’s the middle of LGBT History Month so a good moment to remind everyone that my book, Trans Britain — a modern history fashioned from the observations of generations of contributors — is still going strong in paperback and eBook form in its ninth year. It’s […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

#matt, in Wednesday's #torygraph #ukpol

#matt, in Wednesday's #torygraph #ukpol

In South Korea, supermarkets often offer bananas at varying levels of ripeness so customers can eat them over several days and reduce food waste.

Massive thanks to the UK's #LabourParty for continuing to create such cracking political comedy. 😅 As #Starmer's rotten party implodes, and factions form openly, the most hated pretender of them all is on manoeuvres. His allies are resigning rapidly. Teenager […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

JAMES CONNOLLY 110th ANNIVERSARY In the early hours of May 12th 1916, #JamesConnolly, was taken by stretcher from Dublin Castle to the stonebreakers yard in #Kilmainham Jail, strapped to a wooden chair, and executed by a #BritishArmy firing squad. James […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

I want to like #ClivLewis MP more than I can manage. Somehow, he always disapoints as more cautious than I expect. But I did hugely enjoy his description of #Starmer’s "reset" speech. Vogon Poetry is the 3rd-worst poetry in the world, which is roughly where […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

#TheGuardian's #MarinaHyde is the UK's queen of political snark. Today, she generously sprays well-calibrated snark over S#tarmer and all his wannabe successors. https://archive.is/9uy3X I particularly enjoyed her reminder of the deep flaws of #AndyBurnham. A […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

I do enjoy this now-traditional bunker phase of a British Prime Minister"s career. 😈 Dignified exits are an ancient memory. Post-Brexit, the demise is one big, camp, self-parodying Hitler "Downfall" meme. Camera crews on 24/7 vigil in Downing Street. . Client […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

I never understood the cult of John Smith, who died 32 years ago. He was decent & honest, a welcome contrast to most at the top of politics. But he was a cautious, small-c conservative with no inclination to reverse the neoliberalism which had already wrecked […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

That aged well 🤣

Live from Downing Street 😅🤣

#larrythecat has spoken #larry #ukpol

The UK seems to be about to get its 6th Prime Minister in 7 years. So they might as well sell the PM's office chair. Nobody is there long enough to sit down

Congrats to podcasting's most successful war criminal for this hilariously weak defence of the doomed #starmer, by reproaching his assassins. Great comedy, #alistaircampbell. 😅🤣 #ukpol

RTÉ’s boycott of this year’s #eurovision is complete. RTÉ will not broadcast any of this week’s shows. The decision comes as RTÉ continues its boycott of the contest over Israel’s participation. Instead RTÉ2 will broadcast the classic #fatherted episode A Song for Europe during the usual […]

I am really disappointed to see that 69 Labour MPs have now called for #starmer to resign. There seems to be another one every few minutes. Keir Starmer is uniquely placed. Unlike those who seek to replace him, the malignantly mendacious Starmer has a proven ability to completely and utterly […]