Ok I never say it about #bbcqt but this is fucking box office lol.

People going nuts on Twitter, over Iqbal Mohamed telling a Your Party meeting yesterday that he wants them to "take over" the UK. Why is that a weird thing to say? Isn't "taking over" the whole point of going in to politics? Or is this more a case of "scary beard man" racial fear from the right?

A Labour government minister (Mike Tapp) writes. I don't know why on earth Rachael Maskell et al wanted the whip back.

Every egotistical right wing fucking ghoul with a mobile phone in the country is currently either in Birmingham or en route there. Remarkable coincidence.

Ok this is actually ridiculous. Serving British elected politicians (Tower Hamlets councillors), neglecting their duties because they are running for election... In Bangladesh. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Holy neo-liberal cope… what even?! Lmao www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zarah Sultana isn't half getting a lot of free social media exposure from every professional centrist or neoconservative denouncing her to their followers, who probably weren't going to vote for her anyway.

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

“With (Tommy) Robinson’s supporters potentially posing as Maccabi fans on the streets of Birmingham, we concluded that the risk had become unacceptable for innocent fans who just want to watch their team play.” www.jewishnews.co.uk/exclusive-ma...

Decision by Maccabi Tel Aviv not to allow sales of away tickets to their upcoming match against Aston Villa in Birmingham. news.sky.com/story/maccab...

Totally normal football fans, an antisemitic outrage to suggest they'd be a safety hazard in Birmingham latest. news.sky.com/story/tel-av...

We seem, uniquely for British politics, to have seen Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch, Ed Davey, and Tommy Robinson united in their defence of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, against local opposition in Birmingham and the West Midlands Police. The strangest of causes bring people together.

Who is the guy being reported in the Telegraph as "Jewish lawyer arrested for wearing Star of David"?

So, the "honorary President" of the Aston Villa Jewish supporters club who's been interviewed on mainstream TV over the past couple of days isn't Jewish? This is all beginning to look pretty weird.

Tommy Robinson is traveling to Birmingham to support Maccabi Tel Aviv, in the match that Keir Starmer and the entire political class are moving heaven and earth to get him and his fellow totally normal football fans in to.

Oh so there are extra resources to protect a bunch of potentially violent overseas football fans, but not to actually police Birmingham? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It may be horribly cynical, but a bit of me wonders if part of the motivation for that petition on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Birmingham wasn't electoral one upmanship. Ayoub Khan has a very small majority, and one doubtless contingent on Muslim votes.

Does anyone involved in the UK Flag Wars remember back in the day 8 weeks ago, when this wasn't a salient national issue?

There was a demonstration against digital ID in central Birmingham today. Star speaker: crazy ass conspiracy lunatic ex Tory MP Andrew Bridgen. "Satanic paedophiles" blamed for the issue from the platform. Highlight when they started marching: a significant group wearing literal tinfoil hats.

Bridget Phillipson's team think she's losing then.

Is there some kind of weird upper middle class "flag war" going on in York, or am I misunderstanding reports? Like This is England meets Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Robert Jenrick and Wiggy appear to be dominating the airwaves. Good to see the art of ventriloquism getting a bit of a revival.

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here. Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

With the government bringing in new restrictions against immigration, many people assume net immigration will nevertheless remain high. However, the evidence actually suggests that immigration will fall dramatically over the coming years and reach lows not seen for decades (pandemic aside). (1/x)

In normal liberal democracy latest, the Israeli government has invited Tommy Robinson to visit, and he'll be meeting with ministers while he's there.

A lot of the social media buzz from "commentators" about today's appalling terrorist murders in Manchester, is just dreadful. It is clearly a terrorist offence. There's also been no indication of it being linked to Gaza solidarity marches. Both of those things can be true at the same time.

I will go to jail rather than carry a government issued digital ID installed on my phone.

Digital ID is a shitty idea, which won't do a thing about "illegal migration". I didn't support plastic cards (which were supposedly going to "stop terrorism") under Blair, and I don't support this either.

Unite refuses to nominate a candidate for Labour deputy leader. Correct and principled stance, well done @unitesharon.bsky.social.

Your Party⁩ has reopened membership. This'll be interesting.

Some guy on the bus just complimented me for "carrying the flag". It's a fucking M and S paper bag with a union jack on it...

God tier trolling from Polanski.

Keir Starmer has to go. He ran as the clean hands "change" candidate for Prime Minister. Deliberately overlooking your ambassador to the USA's links to celebrity nonce Jeffrey Epstein, and defending him to parliament before caving in and sacking him, does not shout "clean hands". New PM needed.

🚨 BIRMINGHAM BINS | STRIKE EXTENDED Throughout this dispute the govt has denied any involvement. It is now clear that commissioners reporting to Angela Rayner blocked a ball park deal thrashed out at ACAS. 1/2 ⤵️

Read the thread. Extraordinary.

"My hatred for saying things which are true."

Antonia Bance is a Labour MP.

The people who once advocated so hard for the IHRA definition of antisemitism have devalued it. It's become in its implementation the very thing is wasn't supposed to be. I used to support it myself. I don't now.

I've just been to an M and S. I take it there's no controversy over which gender is in the oat cake section?

Is "if you oppose the Online Safety Bill then you love nonces" seriously the official Labour party position?

Glasgow Muvvas and Grandmuvvas march latest: Nick Tenconi of UKIP has just asked the march through a sound system whether any of them are local and if any of them know where the asylum hotel is.

If Diane Abbott publicly resigns from the Labour party and dominates tomorrow morning's headlines I'm gonna laugh sooo hard...

Rachael Maskell has been suspended from the Labour whip, for being right about PIP and Universal Credit cuts.

Rachael Maskell reported to be in the Labour whips' office, following suspension of three other MPs for rebelling on the Welfare Bill. If Keir Starmer suspends her too, that would be a really bad call.

"Oh my, what a surprise, here at Reform UK we're so shocked, James McMurdock seemed such a lovely guy" etc. I think the most surprising thing about all this is that Lee Anderson gets to pose as the guardian of all that's decent.

There has never been a better post 1945 case for general taxation funding anything, than for the abolition of abolishing care charges for recipients of domiciliary or residential care. Overwhelmingly net contributors to the economy who have become ill or disabled. Any decent society would do this.

the fuck is this

My speech today as I voted against the UC&PIP Bill after proposing my reasoned amendment #York #UC #PIP #Welfare

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social @larry-turner.bsky.social @preetkgillmp.bsky.social @tahiralimp.bsky.social @liambyrnemp.bsky.social I think Birmingham MPs should be considering signing this.

The thing with the disabled people of the future is they can't write to their MP by Tuesday. But if this goes through, one day they will.