Being only slightly less hated than an extremely unpopular PM does not scream "general election victory" to me.

I don't have anything profound to say about the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Brexit was always going to be shit, was shit, and now continues to be shit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Not to be "it's all Cameron's fault" but even Brexit aside, he chose a tax position that necessitated large cuts, spending departments recognised those were largely unachievable, and so cut infrastructure and capital spending, and now, a decade and a half on, we've lost expertise and nothing works.

HMMM

So James here has found that Kerry-Anne Mendoza, the ousted founder of The Canary, is now working for... ...an AI consultancy

remember one of the things I found most disgusting ten years ago was Farage talking about the referendum having been won “without a single bullet being fired”, a week after Jo Cox was shot (and stabbed) to death by a far-right assailant

A decade+ since I was inadvertently invited to a Downing Street room with Facebook/Google/etc and Cameron walked in and asked everyone what they'd do to boost youth referendum turnout and a grand woman shouted "WE NEED GRIME ARTISTES, DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY GRIME ARTISTES" and I began to doubt Remain.

I reckon at Cabinet they've just wheeled a telly in and put on a film

You can really tell why he doesn't want to talk about this stuff.

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

I wasn't actually mad at him for means testing the winter fuel allowance lol, I generally prefer universal welfare programmes but I dunno as these things go this wasn't the worst compromise. I also kinda think we should break the power of old people in our politics they should take an L sometime.

Yes. The structural explanation is that all the evidence we have is that Burnham is committed to a bad set of policies that has already made Labour unpopular. Because we do actually pay attention to British politics

I've had 2 journalists today asking if Miliband as Chancellor would be a "Liz Truss moment" and find it difficult not to just respond "are you on crack?".

i think, if I tried to boil it down to a sentence, it'd be: "All politicians are hated by their opponents - but Starmer went out of his way to be hated by his supporters too."

Burnham making his big announcement on X, the everything app, does not fill me with confidence for his premiership.

Hands up. I thought Burnham was off his tits thinking he could waltz into a seat and then become PM but that’s exactly what he’s done.

Always going to be the case. Glad we don't have a lame duck govt for 3 months but still not great we have one until late July.

I think it's really simple. Labour refused to accept who actually voted for them and spent their time in office chasing after imaginary voters and driving off the real ones.

I’d probably still put Starmer above Sunak purely for not making a couple of last minute unnecessary and seriously destructive decisions purely to salt the earth for Burnham, I guess

Truly hope the music has stopped because the Police have kicked in Steve Bray’s speakers.

Sorry but any functioning nation would have jailed Steve Bray years ago.

Feel as though they should have gotten better at stopping people blaring music into No 10 after Rishi's GE announcement.

Won't lie a big part of me wants to see Starmer fully Jordan Belfont this for the lolz.

When ranking PMs in my mind, I have two categories. 1. What happened under their watch 2. How good were they at *being* Prime Minister. David Cameron for example scores highly in catagory 2 but v poorly in 1. Not sure where Starmer will end up in 1 (not great), but certainly near the bottom of 2.

Booooooooo

Sorry, Cape Verde. I love you but your lad pulled up about 5 mins ago. Plenty of opportunity to stop play and get him subbed off.

Whooooooooo! Here we fucking go! #capeverde

*Cameron.

This has made me realise that I gave Starmer the benefit of the doubt for longer than I should because so many of the people who hated him from day 1 1. Focussed on really irrelevant things and 2. Were really *really* annoying

Disgusting behaviour. No one deserves abuse like this, when posting about their own late father, on father's day. People who behave like this should be ashamed of themselves.

The ferret looks haunted like it was made to kill the rats against its will.

The highway between the Russian-occupied cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol in Ukraine has become a shooting gallery for Ukrainian drones, decimating Russian logistics and strangling the Russian occupation across Ukraine‘s occupied south.

There are actual Labour MPs out there who think this is bang to rights and each and every one of them is wrong.

The last thing the country needs is an extended transition to a new PM. A lame duck PM (even more) unable to make decisions for two or three months is in no one’s interest.

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

I want him as chancellor even more now.

Are you fucking kidding me, The Burnham Camp? You have had literally forever to plan this out.

What the fuck is this September business? Starmer resigns. Burnham challenges. Nobody else challenges because they aren’t insane. Burnham is PM by Wednesday. How is that not the timeline?

Wonder why they don’t like Zia Yusuf?

If you’re Moroccan I’d say the ref.

Ukraine launched TrophyLab, a platform giving global partners open access to captured Russian weapons tech, Defense Minister Fedorov says. Companies, research centers and governments can study Russian missiles to develop faster countermeasures. trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

Don’t think I’ve wanted Australia to win a sporting event so much or indeed ever.

In a vacuum I think Starmer would be a good foreign secretary but Burnham isn’t deposing him for a laugh. He needs to be as far away from the government as possible. Wouldn’t surprise me if he stood down as an MP this year.

The weekend should give him time to get to acceptance.

Will you? Aye?

It’s not just that Reform have lost 6 by-elections in a row, but that they’ve lost 6 by-elections in a row *whilst leading in the national polls*.

“He says he has not been able to recover any of his money and now wants to warn others about how easy it is to be scammed.” That’s because it isn’t money.

Labour aren’t going to have an actual contest are they? That would be fucking mental and very Labour.