keirstarmer.substack.com/p/passing-on... As we celebrate Keir's leadership but lament what has happened, I'm taking myself away from Bluesky. I don't have it in me to keep campaigning for Labour. I'll keep my account open but for now it is better for me mentally to focus on other things 1/2

This Parliament is forecast to be better for living standards than the last. Unfortunately for Andy Burnham, most of the forecast growth will have already taken place by the time he's expected to take office. What other challenges face the new PM? Find out ⤵️ buff.ly/vTEZMib

No food standard can correct or justify the absurd cruelty of all factory farming and the Organic badge is falsely applied to the factory farming of Salmon - it’s rife with chemicals. www.greenbritainfoundation.co.uk/updates/orga...

More than a million of you watched our films and now know what "organic" salmon farming looks like. The Soil Association felt the need to respond -  twice in a week.

Keir Starmer, 'I didn’t enter politics to be Prime Minister'. But Andy Burnham did. He's just proved he did by ambushing Keir Starmer in such an appalling manner. A debacle so distasteful that some of us no longer feel we can support Labour.

labour.org.uk/two-years-of... 2 years of amazing progressive policies under Keir's leadership, a world away from 14 years of decline and austerity, and Labour MPs have tossed him aside like he was worth nothing to them. Click the link to learn. I can't help but agree with Jane's post below.

🚨 Labour won the 2024 general election two years ago today

Starmer warns Burnham will have to spend time on global affairs, in first interview since quitting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We don't need "placating" @pippacrerar.bsky.social . We want him to talk us through why shafting a sitting PM 2 years into a 5 year term actually helps the country. Can you interview him and get him to be specific?

A new petition we all need to sign. Labour MPs should not go unaccountable. They need to justify to members and the voting public why they jumped right into the media's agenda. This isn't democracy. It is a coup.

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Lisa Nandy announces plan to quit X over fear it pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

Reform UK is the party of ordinary working people. The sort of ordinary working people who get £5 million gifts from billionaires and earn £22,500 an hour for promoting gold bullion.

Farage earns £22,000 an hour for selling gold bullion. Is he really the man of people? #NigelFarage

Labour MPs: Let me again ask you: listening to Starmer's apology on behalf of the state for forced adoptions, why are you getting rid of him again? I fear you are making a gigantic mistake.

This is the brutal reality of Brexit. As the EU builds protectionist walls to shield its industries from China, the UK gets caught in the crossfire as an outsider. Severing single market access leaves British car manufacturing entirely at the mercy of decisions made in Brussels. 🛑👇

420,000 people have come off NHS waiting lists in England since Keir Starmer was elected. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The end of resident doctors strikes will only accelerate this trend. The thought of a Deform UK government is horrendous.

So let me get this right. Cameron inflicted a referendum on us that NOBODY WANTED. He did it save the Tory Party. Farage then took advantage and lied to the nation But when the people WANT something that would benefit us all on so many levels, we are shut down. Remind me again how democracy works?

"Brexit is the biggest act of self harm any country has ever inflicted upon itself!" via We Demand UK

John Major talking more sense than majority of serving MPs. It's essential we rejoin before we slide any further into being a parochial backwater dominated by malignant narcissists like Farage doing the bidding of big oil et al. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.

Politically homeless again & considering whether @libdems.org.uk membership would be a solution I thought I'd always be Labour but not after the shunning of members like me Thing is, I need @eddavey.libdems.org.uk to finally admit austerity on his watch was wrong news.sky.com/story/lib-de...

This is remarkable.

Venezuela needs our help now! In solidarity! gofund.me/f30749e4f

This is fantastic news Angela Rayner👏

Nigel Farage's tip for Brits stuck in post-Brexit airport queues? 'Just go by dinghy, it's much easier!' So here’s a reminder of how his Brexit led to the small boats crisis. If UK news shows won’t call his bull**** out let’s do it ourselves youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...

If you’re around the National Park this weekend, please 🚌 Travel responsibly - avoid blocking roads, entrances or emergency access routes 🌊 Stay safe around water 🔥 No fires or BBQs, and take all your litter home Respect the land. Respect the community. Respect each other 🙏

I hope every Burnham supporting MP is kept awake tonight by this image of Starmer commanding the respect of world leaders in Berlin today

The constant chatter about private schools reminds me exactly why I do this job. We’re raising more money than expected, school offer days passed smoothly, and we’re injecting money into state schools. My focus remains on the schools attended by the majority of kids in this country.

Folks, I have just written to Starmer's office pleading with him to challenge Burnham. Our democracy is at stake! You can do the same at contact.no10.gov.uk Please - one last push - the more who do this the better. Make your case!

📈 3,008 more teachers in secondaries & special schools 📈1,646 more teachers in colleges 📈Trainee teachers up 13% 📈 Teacher pay up 9.5% 📈 Record investment in schools If standing up for state schools makes me a spiteful class warrior, I’ll wear it with pride. #PMQs

Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too. It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer. I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.

So Darren Jones is not standing. Burnham is already picking his cabinet. He hasn’t told anyone his plan except he’ll borrow wildly, no member was allowed to vote for the the new leader. Everyone happy with democracy dying before your very eyes?

@darrenpjones.bsky.social damn I wish you were standing. The Labour Party is going to lose members because of this coup; I am one of them In other news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Thank you @faisalislam.bsky.social Brexit has always been a lie that we've failed to grapple with

The International Leaders have been unanimous in their praise and support for Keir Starmer. They could see clearly what he was achieving. Whilst Brits could see only the media’s distortion. We are corrupted by billionaires who don’t live here but earn their money here.

10 Years of Brexit 🇬🇧🇪🇺 The Brexit ref was so crooked that if it had been officially "binding" instead of only "advisory, the result would have been annulled. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

This is great. He's getting absolutely hammered on this and every answer he invents is worse than the one which preceded it

Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social and Michelle. With gratitude from the UK for using your God-given voices in the way that you do. youtu.be/EIuU5rBwwEU?...

EU Minister Thomas-Symonds: "In 2014, when Nigel Farage said the European Union was to blame for Putin's aggression against Ukraine, that is not a worldview that serves to protect the British people" "With views like that Nigel Farage is a threat to our national security."

What makes me desperately sick is all these MPs/Cabinet members now making all these supportive statements about Keir Where were you over the weekend???? This whole episode is why I am leaving the party when Keir leaves and I don't think I'm the only one. This was a coup @lucympowell.bsky.social

Burnham and the Resigners are as guilty as the media. I remain so proud to belong to the minority who supported Starmer.

All this in two years. Keir Starmer Feel free to share.

It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years. European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you. Thank you, dear Keir.

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.

It’s a very sad day for British politics 🙁

Well done media. Well done some Labour MPs. You got what you wanted. The day Starmer goes, I will leave the Labour Party.

By enhancing workers and renters rights? Renationalising rail? Massively investing in green energy? These are RW now? 🤔 Perhaps you could point to the RW policies on the following lists?

Is anyone else wondering why @samcoatessky.bsky.social at @news.sky.com is still able to apparently give us fact when he hasn't been held to account over his gov propaganda remark that proven to be false? Another gossip columnist dressed as journalist How are we supposed to trust him? Never will!

@zubirahmed.bsky.social you say it would be the right thing to do for Starmer to set out a departure timetable and resign. WHY is it the right thing? Whatever happened to Labour values in action? Too many Labour MPs are forgetting the Party's values. Starmer has a mandate!

I had no doubt.. ✅ the PM will fight any leadership challenge👇🏻 x.com/kateferguson... @Keir_Starmer is a good PM & a good man. His leadership: ✅ changed Labour ✅ won general election ✅ govt is changing our country - fairer & more prosperous for all He has my 💯% support